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Two consecutive leaves from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, 14 lines to the page written in kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, verse-endings marked with a gold roundel 138 x 210 mm.(2)Footnotes:TextA. Qur'an, sura XXVI, al-shu'ara, part of verse 132-166.B. Qur'an, sura XXVI, al-shu'ara, part of verse 166-194.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated Hindu religious manuscript in scroll form North India, mid-19th Centurynagari manuscript on paper, in scroll form, ten depictions of Hindu deities within cartouches, in two identical columns alongside each other, below an Islamic-style illuminated headpiece, extensive text written in small nagari script in black ink in two columns between gold and orange margin rules, in maroon leather cylindrical document holder scroll 2 m. 41 cm. x 10.2 cm.; length of holder 13 cm.(2)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection since approximately the late 1950s.The five deities, arranged in two identical parallel rows, are Ganesh, a form of the Devi[?] or a form of Lakshmi[?], Lakshmi, Sarasvati, and Kali.The style of the illumination, the headpiece and the margin rules, are of the type far more associated with Islamic prayer scrolls, as is the polished paper. For an 18th Century Bhagavata Purana scroll, produced in Kashmir, see Sotheby's New York, Important Indian Paintings from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection, 22nd March 2002, lot 30, where further comparison is made with an example in the National Museum, New Delhi: the link with Islamic scroll manuscripts (for the purposes of talismans or amulets) is made, both the format and the use of very small script (ghubari in Arabic manuscripts). See S. P. Gupta (ed.), Masterpiece from the National Museum Collection, New Delhi 1985, p. 91, no. 123.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A manuscript of the Janamsakhi, the life-story of Guru Nanak, with 38 illustrations North India, probably Punjab, late 18th/early 19th Centurygurmukhi manuscript on paper, approximately 419 leaves, 14 lines to the page written in black ink, margins ruled in black and red, 50 paintings in gouache and gold, yellow cloth over leather covers, with flap 185 x 200 mm.Footnotes:Janamsakhi texts were first compiled in the 17th Century, in various different versions. They consist of collections of anecdotes (sakhi), not always in any particular order, and also include quotations from the Adi Granth as well as other apocryphal sayings of the Guru.See P. M. Taylor, S. Dhami (edd.), Sikh Art from the Kapany Collection, Palo Alto 2017, pp. 99-115, for a discussion of the Janamsakhi and the portrayal of Guru Nanak's life. For a variety of paintings portraying Guru Nanak and images from Janamsakhi manuscripts, see P. M. Taylor (ed.), Splendors of Punjab Heritage: Art from the Khanuja Family Collection, 2022, pp. 32-43, esp. p. 43.The illustrations include:Guru Nanak's discourse with a physician.Several paintings depicting Guru Nanak meeting groups of blue-painted sadhus.Guru Nanak taking charge of a granary (modikhana) at Sultanpur.Guru Nanak approached by noble devotees and their attendants.Guru Nanak with Bala and Mardana, in discussion with a group of half-clothed sadhus.Guru Nanak at Mecca, rebuked by two imams.Guru Nanak with Vishnu, Brahma, and an ascetic seated on a tiger skin.Guru Nanak with a blue-painted sadhu standing on one leg.Guru Nanak conversing with Muslim clerics.Guru Nanak travelled throughout India and elsewhere for twenty-four years, spreading his message. In one of the most well-known and distinctive scenes found in the Janamsakhi, the Guru is depicted at Mecca (in the course of a journey through the Middle East made between 1517-22) being rebuked by an imam for lying with his feet facing the Ka'ba. The Guru asked to be moved so that he faced the place where there was no God; at each attempt he found that he was still facing the Ka'ba; thus the story illustrates how God is everywhere.Saleroom notices:Please note that there are 50 paintings in the manuscript, not 38 as stated in the first line of the description. (The number, 50, is correct in the text of the description).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

Two consecutive leaves from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, fifteen lines to the page written in compact kufic script in black ink on vellum with diacritics and vowel points in black, lacking verse-endings 127 x 188 mm.(2)Footnotes:TextA. Qur'an, sura IX, al-tawbah, parts of verses 2-17.B. Qur'an, sura IX, al-tawbah, parts of verses 17-30.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A leaf from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, six lines to the page written in bold kufic script in brown ink, with diacritics in red, large roundel in gold marking the verse 175 x 252 mm. (max.)Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 6th October 2011, lot 22.TextQur'an, sura XXXIII, al-ahzab, The Confederates, parts of verses 40-43.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Timurid or early Ottoman silk and metal-thread brocade panel Persia or Turkey, 15th/ 16th Centuryof rectangular form, woven in cream and silver thread with a repeat design of circle motifs interspersed by bubri motifs, all on a black ground, backed 37.5 x 23.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Swiss collection.This textile panel features a distinctive combination pattern of staggered rows of circles surrounded by short wavy stripes. This pattern finds a close comparative in the famous Ottoman çintamani motif, which usually features three circles arranged in a triangle, positioned above two parallel wavy stripes. The Ottoman çintamani alludes to abstract representations of leopard spots and tiger stripes.However, in this brocade panel, the gold brocade circles and stripes are not arranged in the standardized çintamani order. This textile could be a Timurid or early Ottoman predecessor to the çintamani design. The Ottomans inherited the simplified circle motif from the Timurid dynasty, who were known to use the motif of three circles arranged in a triangle in coinage (Alexandru Gh. Sonoc, 'Some remarks on the leopard and tiger pelts in the Turko-Iranian and Indian imagery and on the origin of the chintamani motif,' Brukenthal. Acta Musei, January 2022, p.468). Timurid manuscript paintings display repeated gold-embroidered dots or circles, an adaptation of Chinese imagery, as a common motif in the representation of clothing. While there are few extant Timurid textiles, evidence from manuscripts suggests that the Timurid courtiers preferred small-scale gold brocade motifs on silk (Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Los Angeles, 1989, p.217). Ruy González de Clavijo's narrative of his ambassadorial visit to Timur's court in the years 805-08/1403-06 also indicate the fashionability of gold-embroidered circles. In his description of the young Timurid prince Pir Muhammad, Clavijo notes that the prince was 'sumptuously attired as is the Tartar custom, he was wearing a robe of blue [Chinese] Zaytuni silk embroidered in gold circles, like small wheels, which back and front covered his chest and shoulders and passed down the material of the sleeves' (Ruy González de Clavijo, Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406, London 1928, p.254).The tiger-stripe or bubri motif is not as commonly found as the circle motif in extant Timurid art and does not usually accompany the circle motif. However, these stripes are often seen in Timurid Shahnama manuscripts in the painted depictions of the heroic Rustam's tiger-pelt clothing.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A calligraphic album page, attributed to Shah Mahmud Nishapuri Persia, mid-16th CenturyPersian manuscript on cream paper, six lines of text written in nasta'liq script in black ink and some gold, laid down on an album page with inner borders decorated in colours and gold, to left and right three cartouches containing nasta'liq text within cloudbands on a gold ground arranged vertically, upper and lower borders with further sections of nasta'liq text within cloudbands arranged diagonally and vertically, wide plain cream outer borders text panel 152 x 78 mm.; album page 465 x 310 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate collection, London.The text in the central panel is probably from the preface to a manuscript of Tuhfat al-Muluk. In the borders are couplets from a ghazal of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi; and above and below are couplets from Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin, and from a ghazal of Sa'di. A label on the backboard has a handwritten note by Mehdi Bayani, attributing the calligraphy to Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, with a second note written by Karimzadeh confirming this opinion: 1. Signed by Mehdi Bayani: 'In my opinion, ninety percent probability, it is one of the illustrious writings of Shah Mahmud Nishaburi, 14 Bahman 1340 (3 February 1962)'.2. Signed by Muhammad 'Ali Karimzadeh: 'Without doubt, it is one of the best and most illustrious writing of the master Shah Mahmud Nishaburi. It is undoubtedly a precious and beautiful piece'. The label also bears a seal impression of Shah Abad, the College of Arts (dar al-sanayi') of Golestan. The picture framing of Tehranian. 1310 (1931).Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, also known as Zarin Qalam ('Golden Pen'), lived and worked in Tabriz for most of his life. He was a royal calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp (d.1574) and was without doubt one of the greatest calligraphers of his time, renowned for his 'perfect nasta'liq'. His recorded work is dated between AH 923/AD 1517 and AH 982/AD 1575. When the Shah lost interest in the Arts, Shah Mahmud moved to Mashhad and worked there under the patronage of Ibrahim Mirza (d.1577) until he died (Norah M. Titley, Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, London 1983, pp.84,103,105, fig.81; and A.J. Arberry (ed.), The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, vol.II, no.179). For further information see Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. I, Tehran 1345 sh, pp.295-304, vol.II, 1346, pp.305-7 and V. Minorsky, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, pp.134-137.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illuminated Qur'an, commissioned by Muhammad Husayn Nizam al-Dawlah (also known as Sadr-e Isfahani), copied by Muhammad Hasan al-Isfahani Qajar Persia, dated Sh'aban 1237/April-May 1822Arabic manuscript on paper, 31 leaves, between 40 and 48 lines to the page written in neat ghubari script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, gold roundels marking the verse-endings, inner margins ruled in gold, sura headings written in gold, the margins with occasional commentary in black ghubari and gold juz', khamsa, 'ashr, nisf and hizb markers, opening illuminated double page with large floral medallions containing prayers in black naskhi script on a gold ground surrounded by a band of scrolling floral vine on a red ground, and further gold and polychrome illumination on a silver ground, loose in contemporary Qajar floral lacquer binding 262 x 182 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including a Private Collection donated to benefit the University of Oxford, Part IV, 10th October 2013, lot 115.Private UK collection.The scribe, Muhammad Hasan al-Isfahani, is known to have copied another three manuscripts, all prayer books, and dated between AH 1237/AD 1821 and AH 1242/AD 1827 (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. 4, Tehran, 1358 sh., pp. 147-48).This Qur'an was copied for Muhammad Husayn Nizam al-Dawlah (also known as Sadr-e Isfahani), whose name - originally given in the colophon in red - appears to have been defaced with a seal impression. He is recorded as one of the richest men in Persia and a high official of Isfahan. He held the post of Finance Minister (mustawfi al-mamalik) and the title Amin al-Dawlah between AH 1221/AD 1806-07 and AH 1228/AD 1813-14, after which he received the title Nizam al-Dawlah and held the post of Prime Minister (sadr a'zam) between AH 1234/AD 1818-19 and AH 1239/AD 1823-24. He was responsible for buildings in Najaf, gold and silver doors for various Shi'a shrines including the shrine of Ma'sumah in Qom, and his gifts to Fath 'Ali Shah include the Sun Throne, at the time of Shah's marriage to Tawus Khanum, after which it was called the Peacock Throne, takht-e tawus (not to be confused with the Mughal Peacock Throne, brought from Delhi by Nadir Shah). See M. Bamdad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, 1700-1900, vol. III, Tehran, 1966, pp. 379-81.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A youth reading a poem in a garden Qajar Persia, 19th Centurypen and ink with some watercolour on paper, laid down within the illuminated borders of a large album page, one line of text written in nasta'liq, above this a rectangular panel containing flowers, wide outer borders with naturalistic floral decoration in gold on a light pink ground drawing 155 x 106 mm.; album page 465 x 303 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate collection, London.Modelled on the paintings of youths produced during the reign of Shah 'Abbas II (reg. 1642-60): for instance, a work by Muhammad Qasim, circa 1650 in the Aga Khan Collection (see S. R. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London 1998, pp. 78-79, no. 52).The line of text in the upper panel is from a manuscript on how to write each letter of the alphabet in nasta'liq when joined to other letters (in this case, parts of the letter ta).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A MANUSCRIPT NAVIGATION WORKBOOK AND JOURNAL, CIRCA 1812kept by one T. Hugill on laid paper, navigation comprising fifty pages filled with diagrams and copperplate text, followed by an eight-page journal for a voyage from the Lizard to Madeira and back, followed by a chart of the route, signed and dated for 31st January 1812, bound in card covers with later owner's name inscribed Wm Warde, Bilsdale.. -- 14 x 8½in. (35.5 x 21.5cm.); together with another manuscript navigational workbook, circa 1811, kept by W.P. Shuckburgh, in a neat copperplate hand on laid paper watermarked for '1810' with flourish section headers, the first 150 pages numbered and including geometric examples and drawings, the second half filled with examples and exercises, vellum boards -- 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.5cm.)(2)

NO RESERVE Decoration and Ornament.- Froissart (Jean) Il faut le temps ainsi prendre qu'il vient, illuminated leaf, 8 lines, manuscript on paper in black ink with decorations in colours and gold, c.250 x 205mm., slight spotting, [?France], [19th century] § Sugden (Alan Victor) & John Ludlam Edmondson. A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914, tipped-in colour frontispiece and colour plates mounted on grey leaves (some with 2 or 3 to a leaf, lacking smaller plates 104, 155, 156 & 175), illustrations, original blue buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, floral patterned dust-jacket, very slightly soiled or frayed at edges, short tear to top edge of upper panel repaired, with original drop-front box (rubbed, splits to joints), New York, [1925]; and a small bundle of others including Part 4 only of Henry Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments with 5 hand-coloured plates, and a loose Audsley chromolithographed plate, v.s. ( a bundle)

Keim (Franz) Die Nibelungen dem Deutschen Volke, colour illustrations by Carl Otto Czeschka, some heightened in gold, original cloth-backed boards, Vienna, 1924 § Ainslie (Kathleen) Catharine Susan's Calendar for 1910, printed in red & black, chromolithographed plates, stained, original pictorial wrappers, foxed, [1909] § Horton (W.T.) The Grig's Book, full-page illustrations by the author, some colour, original cloth-backed boards, 1900 § Lee (Holme) Legends from Fairy Land, decorative title, plates and illustrations by R.L. & H.J.Knowles, original pictorial cloth, gilt, London & Philadelphia, 1906, all a little rubbed; and a small bundle of others including the 2007 charity auction catalogue for the manuscript of J.K.Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard, and some Victorian Christmas cards, v.s. (a bundle)⁂ Carl Otto Czeschka, painter and illustrator, was a co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte and friend of Gustav Klimt. Die Nibelungen is his best-known book.

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, letter Q of 26 illuminated copies, from an edition limited to 526, illuminated title and 6 initials by William Cushing Bamburgh, portrait and plates, 3pp. glossary loosely inserted, original limp vellum with ties, uncut, a little soiled, New York, Grafton Press, 1902; and an illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Kipling's L'Envoi of 1918, 4to (2)

Ingham (Ernest, 1894-1976, printer & founder of the Fanfare Press) Small quantity of material relating to Ingham personally & professionally, including bound manuscript war diary of Ingham's first few months in the R.A.M.C. in 1915 with loosely-inserted additional notes and photographs, medal with ribbon in box awarded to Pte. E. Ingham, bound manuscript travel diary of trip to Germany in 1926 to visit German typefounders, album of mounted pencil drawings of Ingham & others by Wiktorya J.Gorynska dated 1928, various manuscript notes and printed ephemera regarding the Fanfare Press, copies of Eric Gill correspondence deposited at Cambridge, photographs mounted on card leaves etc., loose in 2 cloth drop-back boxes, rubbed, splits to joints, 4to (2)

Dorset, Melbury Osmond.- Charter, gift by Joan, widow of Thomas de Haddon to William de Melepleisch [Melplash], and Joan his wife and John their son of 11 acres of arable and 1 perch of meadow and pasture in the Manor of Melbury Osmond & Gukeford, witnesses: Walter ffoliot, Reginald de Ramsbury, Alice Dae and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 22 lines, in a cursive hand, in brown ink, indent Chirograph at head, lacks seal, one wormhole, a few other very small holes, none affecting legibility, creased, folds, slightly browned, Phillipps no. 35705 on verso, 147 x 200mm., Melbury Osmond, Tuesday after the Feast of Purification, February 1312; and an ALs from Mary, Lady Ilchester to Mr Prideaux, concerning the deed, 1913, v.s., v.d. (2).⁂ Melbury Osmond, seven miles south of Yeovil.

Dorset, Mangerton.- Charter, grant by William Everard and Elisabeth his wife to Hugh de Melplash, parson of Curry Mallet, and Edmund Everard, parson of 'Dychemersh', of all their land in Mangerton, Bowood, Poorton, East Melplash, and Mappowder, witnesses: John Everard, Henry de Stronde, Robert de Bouth and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 8 lines, two waterstains slightly affecting legibility, creased, folds, slightly browned, lacks seals, 82 x 205mm., 7th February 1333.⁂ ⁂ Mangerton is part of the civil parish of Netherbury village and civil parish, 1.5 miles south of Beaminster and 4 miles north of Bridport.

Somerset, Isle Brewers village.- Charter, grant by Thomas de Marleberge [Marlborough], knight, to Sir William de Wyke, parson of Melbury Bubb, John de Haddon and John de Alvington a grant of the Manor of Ilebruere [Isle Brewers], witnesses: Henry de Haddon, Richard Pendel and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12 lines, in light brown ink, text slightly faded in places affecting some legibility, 6 small holes, lacks seal, folds, creased and slightly yellowed, 110 x 245mm., Melbury Bubb, 23rd March 1341.

Dorset, Mangerton.- Quitclaim of Walter of Remmesbury [Ramsbury] for William Everard, knight, Thomas Remmesbury and his wife Margaret, concerning land in Mangerton, Bowood and Porton, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 10 lines, in brown ink, lacks seal, folds, creased and browned, 87 x 260mm., 20th September 1342.

Supporter of Richard Duke of York.- Dorset, Mangerton.- Power of attorney by which John Brooke, armiger, and his brother Edward Brooke, Lord Cobham, and Agnes Moyle, daughter of William Moyle, appointment of Richard Spechisley to receive on their behalf from Walter Norton and John Batiscombe the two manors of Mangerton and East Melplash as well as lands in South Bowood, 'Hochere' and Mappowder, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 7 lines, 2 red wax seals (depicting respectively a crowned "I" for John Brooke and a griffin surrounded by a motto, partially legible), a few closed teatrs, traces of mould, creased and browned, entirely legible, 85 x 300mm., 31st January 1449.⁂ Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham c. 1415-64), lord of the Manor of Cobham; member of parliament for Somerset in 1442; supporter of Richard Duke of York, and fought on the Yorkist side at the First Battle of St Albans on 23 May 1455 and at the Battle of Northampton on 10 July 1460.

German artists.- Graphische Gelegenheitsarbeiten Deutscher Kunstler [A Volume of Occasional Graphic Work by German Artists], 69 items including greeting cards, postcards, birth and moving announcements, invitations, and other ephemera, some etched or engraved, others lithographed or screen-printed, all laid down or tipped onto mounts, some with 2 or more to a page, some window-mounted, a few loose, each mount 300 x 240mm (11 ¾ x 9in), loose in cloth-tied folder, manuscript title to upper cover, [c.1920s-30s].⁂ Includes the work of Bayros, Winkler, Beier, Erst Heigenmoser, E. Heig, and others.

Dorset, Puddletown.- Court Roll of the Manor of Puddletown, entries relating to rents and holdings, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, a few pen and ink calligraphic initials, 1 membrane only, two small holes for stitching at head, 5 other small holes (one affecting a sidenote), small piece of lower corner torn away, creased and browned, folds, later docket on verso, 285 x 250mm, 1459; sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules, this item may not be removed from England & Wales.⁂ Puddletown, 4.5 miles northeast of Dorchester.

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Culpeper (Nicholas) Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London Dispensatory... , "sixt edition", title within typographic border, lacking initial blank and final 5ff. (P2P6-2Q2), closed tear to title (affecting text, no loss), marginal defect *3 (text loss), light damp-staining, later ink manuscript notes to pastedown, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, [Wing C7530], 8vo, Peter Cole, 1659.

17th century prophet.- Sadler (John, political theorist and reformer, 1615-74) A Prophesie related by Mr John Sadlor Warinell [Warmwell] in the County of Dorsett..., manuscript, 1½pp., in light brown ink, folds, browned, watermark of a cross on a shield surmounted by a crown, folio, n.d. [c. 1695].⁂ Sadler was a polymath, at one time master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, town clerk of London and author of the political work, Rights of the Kingdom. "Sadler's religious experience in 1661 when he prophesied the great plague, the fire of London, three Dutch wars, and a dramatic event in 1688.

Legal.- [Survey of the Courts of Justice], manuscript, 136pp., ruled in red throughout, on thick paper, some ff. loose, slightly browned, original calf, extensively rubbed, corners and edges worn, covers detached, 8vo, [c. 1730].

Antoninus Florentius, Saint. Quarta pars totius summe maioris beati Antonini, vol. 4 only (of 4), printer's woodcut device to title, later (possibly eighteenth century) ownership inscription in ink below, 4z8 closed tear to top edge (affecting text, no loss), 4X1 loose, ?lacking final blank (4X10), scattered small amounts of worming, mainly to gutter but a few small holes elsewhere (no losses in meaning), top edge slightly trimmed close to headlines, contemporary vellum, manuscript ink title to spine, small hole to spine, 4to, [Paris], André Bocard for Jean Petit, 1521.

Dorset, Poole.- Allen Skutt's Ghost. A Junto of Sir IW's Vassals or Tenants (about 12 Burgesses of Poole) being met in Secret Combination concerning the Mud Lands. Time 10 o'Clock at night, manuscript, 1½pp., folds, browned, Britannia watermark, 257 x 212mm., [late 18th century].

NO RESERVE Worcester Sermons.- Clarke (Rev Thomas, vicar of St Michael, Bredwardine, Worcester) On the Parable of the Good Samaritan - Pyle Altered and abridged, title and 27pp., 25th January 1782; On the one thing needful - Altered from Dr Brady, 22pp., August 1801, manuscripts, original wrappers, 8vo, v.d.; and 2 others, including an 18th century manuscript unlisted work, "... Weapons agst Temptations", lacks last f., n.d., v.s., v.d. (4).

NO RESERVE Restoration Dean & family.- Turner (Rev Thomas, dean of Canterbury, bap. 1592, d. 1672), his wife Margaret Turner, daughter of Sir Francis Windebank, 1607/8-92, Rev Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, 1637-1700, Richard Goulston, of Wyddiall, Herts., d. 1686 and his wife Margaret Goulston. Letters... copied from the originals preserved in the Bodleian Library, manuscript, title and c. 366pp., original half morocco, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, edges uncut, folio, [c. 1850].⁂ Extracts from the Rawlinson MSS.

England to Australia.- Journal of our Voyage from Liverpool to Australia in the Ship Marco Polo..., manuscript, 63pp., first p. extensively browned, loose in cloth boards, 8vo, 1854.⁂ A voyage on the Marco Polo passenger clipper ship taking emigrants from England to Australia. The Marco Polo was the first vessel to make the round trip from Liverpool in under six months.A threat to the Captain. "Mon Aug 21st. An Irishman half drunk went to the store to purchase drink which he was refused upon which he threw a tin jug at the storekeepers head he was put in irons... he threatened to shoot the Captain as soon as he got his liberty the Captain at once buckled on his sword... broke open his chest and took out a pair of pistols... ."

Dorset, Beaminster.- Collection of papers relating to Beaminster, manuscript and printed, including: manuscript legal case relating to tythings in the Beaminster area and manuscript conditions of sale of The Swan Inn in Beaminster with a printed poster advertising the sale in 1855, v.s., v.d., 1855 - 20th century (sm. qty).

Cotton manufacturers.- Letters Patent awarded to James Shackleton of Halifax and Joseph Pickles Binns engineer for a "Machine or Apparatus for 'tieing-in warps'", lithographed with manuscript insertions, on vellum, Great Seal in metal skippet appended, folds, yellowed, housed in the original morocco box gilt stamped royal coat of arms on lid, rubbed, 515 x 760mm., 1872; and another Victorian Letters Patent, v.d. (2).

NO RESERVE Gladstone (William Ewart, Prime Minister, 1809-98).- Knowles (Sir James Thomas, architect and editor, 1831-1908) Autograph cheque signed "James T Knowles" paid to "The R. Hon. W.E. Gladstone M.P." and endorsed on verso with signature of "WE Gladstone" for the sum of "Eighty pounds" drawn on Messrs Henry S. King & Co, for the "The Nineteenth Century" magazine, 1 page, printed with manuscript insertions and crossed, folds, 136 x 212mm., London, 18th February 1891.

Way to True Happinesse (The), Leading to the Gate of Knowledge, title within typographic border and with woodcut ornament, trimmed close at head, just shaving title border, title with small ink mark and working loose at foot, B2 very small hole within text affecting a couple of words, a few tiny marginal chips or short tears, paper repairs to final leaf obscuring part of headline, lightly browned, some soiling, light water-staining, [STC 25138], Robert Young, [c.1637], bound after The New Testament (1634, extracted from a larger Bible) and John Downame's Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible (1633), together 3 works in 1 vol., near contemporary calf, very worn, upper joint split but holding, lower cover detached; and 5 others, various subjects, including a disbound set of engravings by Jean le Pautre and a ?19th century manuscript copy of the Chronicon Amalphitanum, v.s. (6)

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol., first editions, additional engraved architectural title to vol. 1, titles printed in red & black, 100 engraved plates only by Wenceslaus Hollar (of 120), some reinforced at hinges, occasional contemporary manuscript side-notes, some finger-soiling, modern half calf, corners rubbed, spines gilt with black morocco labels, [Wing D2483-5-6], folio, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1655-61-73; sold not subject to return.⁂ The Monasticon Anglicanum revealed the importance of charters as sources for the study of medieval history, and 'established for the first time since the Reformation the importance of monasteries and the scale of their territorial possessions' (ODNB).

Occulta - Alchemie - - Medicinisch-Chymisch und Alchemistisches Oraculum darinnen man nicht nur alle Zeichen und Abkürzungen welche so wohl in den Recepten und Büchern der Aerzte und Apothecker als auch in den Schrifften der Chemisten und Alchemisten vorkommen findet sondern deme auch ein sehr rares Chymisches Manuscript eines gewissen Reichs*** beygefüget. Mit 2 blattgroßen Holzschnitten und zahlreichen Symbol-Abbildungen. Ulm, Stettin, 1772. 3 Bl., 72 S., 1 Bl. 22 x 13,5 cm. Pappband der Zeit (stärker berieben und bestoßen, Bezugsfehlstellen). Zweite Ausgabe, die erste Ausgabe erschien 1755. - Duveen 440 - Neu 2733 - Ferguson II, 84 (kennt nur die Ausgabe von 1755) - Wellcome IV, 102 . - Wertvolles Verzeichnis alchemistischer Symbole. Als Anhang die Schrift "Geheimniss aller Geheimnisse oder Clavis sapientiae omnium philosophorum et adeptorum in einem guldenen Kleinod und Compendio veritatis philosophico aus einem uralten Manuscript von Anno 1300 mitgetheilet und ans Licht gestellet." (Mit eigenem Titelblatt). - Einer der Holzschnitte mit Abbildung eines Destillierofens. - Bindung gelockert, teils eselsohrig, etwas gebräunt.

Amerika - - Thacher, John Boyd. Christopher Columbus. His life, his work, his remains as revealed by original printed and manuscript records. Together with an essay on Peter Martyr of Anghera and Bartolomé de las Casas, the first historians of America. 6 Bände und Faksimile-Mappe. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen auf Tafeln und im Text. New York und London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1903/04. 29,5 x 20 cm. Original-Halbmaroquinbände mit Rückenvergoldung (Ecken etwas bestoßen, Rücken etwas berieben, an der Mappe stärker).Collector's Edition, eins von 100 nummerierten Exemplaren, mit Exlibris von H. P. Kraus. - Henze I, 623/24 - Howgego C 164. - Die große Columbus-Biographie des Unternehmers, Politikers und Bibliophilen. Mit den vier Faksimiles der ersten Druckberichte von Columbus' Reisen. - Unbeschnitten, frisch.

FOUR INDIAN PAINTINGS, 19TH CENTURY including a manuscript folio, possibly from an edition of the Mahabharata, a visit to a Saivite ascetic and a Jain scene, 35 x 25.5cm and smaller

A GILT-LACQUER MANUSCRIPT IN BOX (KAMAWA-SA), BURMA (MYANMAR), 20TH CENTURY the fourteen folios inscribed with applied brown lacquer in stylised Burmese script on sgraffito decorated gilt on red lacquer ground, each with piercing for binding, enclosed by a pair of lacquered wood covers (kyan) decorated with mythical figures and animals, 16.3 x 60.3cm (each folio)

A fine Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Scarlett, Royal Field Artillery, late Royal Horse Artillery, who kept a terrific record of his experiences in France, Belgium and Salonika, from the very earliest days of the Great War Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt: J. A. Scarlett. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. J. A. Scarlett.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1918, bronze, with bronze star on ribbon, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 23 June 1915. James Alexander Scarlett was born at Rossington, Doncaster, on 16 June 1877. Educated at Aysgarth School and Charterhouse, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1899. Appointed to a commission with 116th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, on 17 February 1900, Scarlett served overseas in South Africa and India before crossing the Channel to France on 17 August 1914. Advanced Major on 30 November 1914, Scarlett was decorated with the D.S.O. and awarded the first of three ‘mentions’ in April 1915, before being posted to Salonika on 1 December 1915. Here, he witnessed the capture of Karajakois and capture of Yenikoi on 4 October 1916. The latter village fell after a 30-minute bombardment and a disastrous Bulgarian counter-attack, where the guns of 3 Brigade R.F.A. created havoc with their deadly shrapnel shells, causing the enemy ranks to break and flee. The War Diary adds: ‘The Bulgars withdrew having given the Brigade dream targets.’ Advanced Acting Lieutenant Colonel on 18 August 1917, Scarlett then transferred to 99th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and took part in the attack on Doiran ‘P’ Ridge on 18 September 1917. This involved two days of wire cutting, which was followed by a creeping barrage moving 100 yards every two minutes, with 100-yard lifts, each gun firing four rounds per minute. Although initially successful, no breakthrough was made and casualties were heavy. Renewed the following morning, the assault again proved a failure - the Gunners becoming exhausted, stricken with fatigue and sickness. Returned to France in April 1918, presumably to replace losses from the Spring Offensive, Scarlett joined 26 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery and witnessed the breakout at the Battle of the Selle in October 1918. Awarded the Croix de Guerre in January 1919, he remained in France post-Armistice, and served with the Army of Occupation until 9 May 1919, followed by spells in Palestine, Syria and India. Placed on half-pay on account of ill health on 27 October 1925, he died at Galphay on 29 December 1925 in consequence of infection, boils, fever, and pneumonia. Sold with a particularly fine typed manuscript, titled ‘Copy of Diary 1914-1917, J. A. Scarlett, Captain R.H.A., Adjutant 3rd Brigade, R.H.A., 2nd Cavalry Division’, 108 pages, professionally bound, detailing the military life of the recipient from 4 August 1914 to 14 February 1917. This unpublished account offers regular and very personal insights, commencing with mobilisation at Newbridge, early experiences in France, and an outstanding record of his location throughout the war, from Remigny (August 1914) to Braisne (September 1914), Vieux Berquin (February 1915), Vlamertynghe and Ypres (May 1915), Givesne (May 1916), Lauana and Mosgoe (June 1916), Mirova (December 1916), and Beshanli (January 1917); a rare firsthand officer’s account, in particular regarding the early engagements: ‘August 24th (1914). Up before it was light and moved, messed about a bit and finally retired, then came into action again to relieve the 5th Division. We got some good targets, but so did the Germans. The 9th got into some wire and got rather potted. We then withdrew through a wood. The Lord defend us from woods. We were shelled and found the road came to an abrupt end. However we got out finally, and marched back to Wargines Le Grand.’ ‘August 25th (1914). Off again in the morning we were covering the Infantry and joined the 1st Cavalry Brigade. I lost my wire cutters much to my annoyance. Our horses were getting done. The roads were strewn with food, and odds and ends of units. It is very easy for men to get lost. We were back and nearly attacked a French Battery, which suddenly appeared from nowhere. Marched on till night more or less among a mob of Infantry, and finally got into Le Cateau but came out again and slept in a field.’

VARIOUS LEATHER BOUND VOLUMES 18th CENTURYand later, including 'Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle', and a manuscript copy of 'Proverbial Morality' etc (many with damage)

A set of Burmese Pali gilt-lacquered palm leaf manuscript leaves and covers, Kammavaca19th centuryComprising seven leaves lacquered and gilt in Pali in Burmese square script, and a pair of covers, all mounted om velvet, framed and glazed.Each leaf 14 cm high x 58 cm wide, overall 186 cm high x 84 cm with frame.Provenance: Purchased in Singapore in 1999.Cf. Kammavaca is a Pali term describing an assemblage of passages from the Tripitaka, the Theravada Buddhist canon, which relate to ordination, the bestowing of robes, and other rituals of monastic life. Kammavaca manuscript, such as the present lot, were highly ornamental works that were commissioned by a community as a social work of merit, to be bestowed upon a monastery when a son enters a monastery as a novice or is a novice who is ordained as a monk. 

Ephemera. An early 20th c friendship album, n.d., enclosing 8 original mixed media illustrations and typically inscribed in manuscript, disbound, oblong 8vo, and approx. 20 postcards, early 20th c, mostly colour, various genres Mixed condition

British India, the Raj and the East India Company. [The Second Sikh War], [Sandford (Ensign Daniel Augustus)], Leaves from the Journal of a Subaltern during the Campaign in the Punjab, Sept. 1848 to March 1849, first edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849, half-title, pp: [2], ii, [2], 227, [4] (publisher's catalogue), later 20th/21st c owner's occasional manuscript annotations, a few odd foxed spots, mostly marginal, split and twisted, with some minor movement but holding, original publisher's cloth by Remnant & Edmonds, their ticket to verso pastedown, some wear, uncut, apricot endpapers, Horner armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, 8vo

A Burmese Kammavaca manuscript, 19th century, With fifteen leaves and two red lacquer and gilded covers, with silvered leaf decoration, 53 x 12.5cm, depth 3.5cm.

A Burmese Kammavaca manuscript, 19th century. With sixteen leaves and two red lacquer and gilded covers, 57 x 13.5cm, depth 3.5cm.

A Burmese Kammavaca manuscript, 19th century, With fourteen leaves and two red lacquer and gilded covers, 54 x 13cm, depth 3cm.

A Burmese Kammavaca manuscript, 19th century. With sixteen leaves and two red lacquer and gilded covers, 59 x 14.5cm, depth 5cm.

Eleven Burmese Kammavaca manuscript leaves, 19th century, 56 x 13cm, depth 1.5cm. (11)

Eleven Burmese Kammavaca manuscript leaves and one cover, 19th century, Includes three inner covers and several matching, cover size 56.5 x 13cm. (12)

A framed Manuscript - Gilbert & Sullivan extract of A Policeman's Lot, signed by Lucy Gilbert, and others, dated 1905

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS OM RA (1817-1904). Portrait of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), quarter-length, oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.Watts painted the sitter on two occasions.The first portrait, dateable to 1859 is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.A second unfinished portrait (believed to be this work) was created c. 1876-1880 and was worked on at intervals within this period. It was never exhibited, remained in the Watts Collection, then that of his widow Mary, at their Compton Home, Limnerslease. In 1938 according to Watts Gallery records it passed to the Watt's ward, Mrs Lillian Chapman. There appears no record of when it left her possession, though she sold or gifted several of the Watts works in her life-time. After her death, her family sold several of the Watts works in her life-time. After her death her family sold paintings through Sotheby's Belgravia Mary Watts documented her husband's completed oil paintings in a manuscript catalogue, extensively illustrated with photographs.The two volumes are hald at the Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey. The secnd Gladstone portrait is catalogued and illustrated in the portraits volume, p69. The dimensions given in that catalogue 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in being identical to this portrait. In her catalogue entry Mary Watts notes 'some twelve years later (than the 1859 portrait) Mr Gladstone again sat to Mr Watts.It may be said roughly during the years 1876-1880, but this at long intervals.The portrait desired for Christchurch, Oxford but abandoned and Sir William Richmond's painting is in th Great Hall. Mr Gladstone often referred to the pleasure conversations with Mr Watts had given him'.There is a more detailed account of the portrait in M.S.Watts 'George Frederick Watts 'The Annals of an Artist's life, Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1912. The account of the painting of the portrait is in vol 1 pp 305-6 (where it seems the disposition of the two to talk was a factor in the delay and ultimate abandonment of the portrait) and a reference to the place of the portrait in the house and Watts tribute on hearing of Gladstone's death in vol 11, p 273

W. G. HERDMAN; 'Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool', subscriber's copy, with black and white lithographic plates, published by the author, 1862, in three-quarter leather and cloth boards, a further copy of 'Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool', published Browns, Barnes and Bell, two volumes bound as one, dated 1878, with various plates throughout, and two hardback books, 'Herdman's Liverpool by W. C. M. Jackson and 'Symphony from the New World Opus 95' by Anton Dvorák, music manuscript, published by Collins (4).

Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), British newspaper proprietor and collector of illuminated manuscripts. Scrapbook, 1860s, compiling naïve field sketches & watercolours produced during travels in Europe & Western Asia (depicting people, customs/culture, landmarks, scenery), as well as several manuscript notes relating to the American Civil War, placing bets and prophecies on the outcome with John Jermyn Cowell. 'HYT bet £2 - even - that the American War will be to all intents & purposes over in 90 days from this time i.e. on June 1st 1865 without the recognition of Southern independence from the North' (dated 3 March 1865, 7 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn); 'JJC bets 5/s that Sherman has lost either a leg or an arm'; 'HYT. I will bet £5 that the Union is restored by the 4th March 1867 or in other words there is no Confederate Govt in America in existence east of the Mississippi' (dated 25 Jan 1865). The more detailed predictions, marked 'prophecies', describe campaigns in Georgia & Virginia, and mention names including Grant, Sherman and Hood. The album also includes a number of documents relating to Henry Yates Thompson being called to the bar, letters relating to the shooting of game, and several contemporary newspaper clippings on various subjects. The album has material on 78 pages (counting pages, not leaves), some mounted at corners, some pasted or tipped-in, some loose. Quarto, green crushed morocco, all edges gilt. Contents generally well-preserved with spotting in places; binding heavily worn as found, boards detached. NB. Henry Yates Thompson was called to the bar, but instead spent time travelling throughout Europe & the United States where he witnessed the Second Battle of Chattanooga. He later gained ownership of the Pall Mall Gazette

[Greatrakes, Valentine]. Wonders No Miracles,; Or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates Gift of Healing Examined, [by David Lloyd], London: Samuel Speed, 1666, pamphlet [attacking Greatrakes], engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. [ii], 46, bound with The Miraculous Conformist: Or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures performed by the stroaking of the Hands of Mr Valentine Greatarick, by Henry Stubbe, Oxford: H. Hall, 1666, pamphlet [defending Greatrakes], pp. [vi], 44, the page numbering jumps from 34 to 39 but all signatures follow on correctly without any loss of text. Small quarto, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, bearing armorial bookplates for Rev. Pierce William Drew [Rector at Youghal, County Cork], plus 5pp. manuscript genealogical notes by the same (one to verso of frontis.). Together with The Handbook for Youghal, [by Samuel Hayman], Youghal: J. W. Lindsay, 1852, bearing owner inscriptions of Rev. Pierce William Drew, featuring a section on Valentine Greatrakes [p. 51], pp. xvi, 96, octavo, publisher's captioned paper covers (2)

A book of manuscript musical notation belonging to Eliza Harriet Dean, Birmingham, 22 June 1840. Containing various scores, including 'Philomelon Waltz' by Strauss, a total of 23 handwritten pages, the remainder of the book unused, J Whatman paper bearing 1836 watermark, oblong octavo (12 x 19cm), bound in attractive gilt red morocco, vibrant blue-green endpapers, all edges gilt, slight damage to spine, otherwise very well-preserved, housed in a marbled slipcase

Manuscript. Studien im Zieglerschen Institut in Wilhelmsdorf, 1878-80, by H. F. Nuppnau. A manuscript workbook from Die Zieglerschen, a diaconal deaf institution and children's rescue centre managed by Johannes Ziegler in Wilhelmsdorf, a municipality in the western district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This immense volume, entirely handwritten and embellished with manuscript maps & diagrams, deals with various subjects including bible studies, languages, essays on miscellaneous topics (one on Benjamin Franklin), geography, physics, botany, zoology, geometry, algebra, and calligraphy. Text in German with some sections in English. The book is filled to the end, approximately 1,500 handwritten pages (on 750 leaves). Small quarto, 21cm, contemporary paper-covered boards. Internally very good, clean & bright, well-preserved, some spotting in a few places, binding heavily worn

Zappata, Francesco. Prediche Quaresimali [Lenten Sermons], Milan: Carlo Giuseppe Quinto, 1691. Square octavo, contemporary vellum with manuscript title at spine, pp. [viii], 262, [viii], plus blanks front & rear, well-preserved, scarce 

Taylor, Alexander [Surveyor]. Manuscript plans of Knockando in Moray, Scotland, surveyed in 1774. Comprising 14 linen-backed, double-page maps, entirely hand-drawn in ink & watercolour on laid/chain-lined paper, each map measuring 54 x 74cm, each signed by Taylor. 1: Plan of the Farm of Clune; 2: Plan of the Farms of Balna Clach & Alt Winny; 3: Plan of the Farms of Knockanagore & The Lyn; 4: Plan of the Glebe Borlum & William Garrow's Improvement; 5: Plan of Milntown, Croften Lone & Knockanreich; 6: Plan of Bogg Chur & Upper Strondow; 7: Plan of the Tulishk Improvement; 8: Plan of the Leggans, Garroline More & Garroline Begg; 9: Plan of Knock Churn, Nether Knockans, Upper Knockans & Lynachurn; 10: unknown, pencil outline only; 11: Plan of the Farms of Upper & Nether Tandow; 12: Plan of Keradow, Cardinach & Nether Borlum; 13: Plan of Drum Divan & the Burntland Improvements; 14: Plan of the Mains of Knockandow; 15: Plan of Tam More. The condition on the maps is varied, some have handling marks, creasing, wear & loss, others are better preserved, all housed in a worn half-calf folio volume, boards detached. A unique record and remarkable piece of Scottish history (14)

Financial & Insurance History. An extensive archive of rare fire insurance certificates, policy documents, proposals and specimen copies dating from 1699 to 1936, most with exquisitely engraved designs, several manuscript examples. To include The Fire Office [the first modern fire insurance company founded by Nicholas Barbon in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London, renamed Phoenix Office in 1705], Policy No. 3176, dated 1699, bearing two wax seals; The Fire Office, Policy No. 9945, dated 1700; Amicable Contributionship / Hand-in-Hand, Policy No. 24586, dated 1719; Amicable / Hand-in-Hand, Policy No. 24585, dated 1719; Sun Fire Office, Policy No. 15563, dated 1719; Sun Fire Office, Policy No. 30489, dated 1724; London Assurance House, Policy No. 611, dated 1768; Bristol Crown Fire Office, Policy No. 7141, dated 1750; a London marine policy for a ship named Elsinore, dated 1773; Sun Fire Office, Policy No. 328519, dated 1773; Westminster, Policy No. 22783, dated 1775; Bath Sun Fire Office, Policy No. 458, dated 1777, and others, 14 dating from 1782-99; 32 from 1800-19; 17 from 1820-29; 28 from 1830-39; 33 from 1840-49; 35 from 1850-59; 16 from 1860-69; 33 from 1870-1899; 21 from 1900-1936, plus a bundle of miscellaneous documents with variations in graphics. A wide variety of firms are represented, often demonstrating the changes to company names over time, including documents from Dundee Assurance; Alliance Marine; Protestant Dissenters; Scottish Union; Asylum Life; Argus Life; Anchor; Law Life; Briton Medical & General; British Empire Mutual; Pelican Life; National Provincial Plate Glass; The Century; Pontefract Mutual, and many others. The documents are individually housed in archival wallets with accompanying research & reference notes, the whole housed in one lidded container. More details available or viewing by request. (Approx. 250) Provenance: From the collection of Raymond Tye, retired business archivist and noted collector

Valentine. A late-Georgian manuscript "puzzle purse", c. 1810, depicting a fashionable young woman holding the hand of a man in shako hat and uniform, decorated with love-hearts and romantic verse, beginning 'You are the first and only maid that has my tender heart betrayed', 32 x 31.5cm, watercolour on wove paper bearing watermark for W. Pickering & Co., restored, conservation framed, glazed recto & verso, i.e. both sides visible