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Low (Rev. George). Fauna Orcadensis: or, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland. By the Rev. George Low, Minister of Birsa and Haray. From a Manuscript in the possession of Wm. Elford Leach, 1st edition, Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company..., 1813, half-title, modern antique-style quarter calf gilt over marbled boards, morocco labels to spine, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Wood, p. 442 'The author was introduced to Thomas Pennant by Sir Joseph Banks, and this sketch of the Natural History of the Orkney Islands was at first designed for Pennant's information. He did for Orkney what Gilbert White did for Selborne.'George Low (1746-1795) was a tutor in Stromness, and later ordained minister of Birsay and Harray in Orkney in 1774. When Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander arrived at Orkney on their return from the last and ill-fated voyage of Captain Cook, Low was asked to accompany them on their excursions around the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Banks introduced him to Thomas Pennant, and it was with Pennant's assistance that Low was able to classify the fauna of the islands. Low died in 1795 and the work was eventually edited and published by William Elford Leach, who provides a note on the circumstances regarding the work's publication.

England & Wales. Lewis (Samuel), A Map of England & Wales Divided into Counties, Parliamentary Divisions and Dioceses, Shewing the Principal Roads, Railways, Rivers & Canals and the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, with the distance of each town from the General Post Office London..., published S. Lewis & Co., 1841, large map engraved by J. Dower with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, in four parts (as published), inset map of the Scilly Isles, calligraphic cartouche, compass rose, table of explanation and large uncoloured engraved vignette of the Post Office in London, slight spotting and offsetting, each sheet approx. 1050 x 850 mm, each section bound in contemporary morocco gilt, worn and frayed, size when folded 225 x 145 mm, together with Cary (John). [Cary's New Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals..., 1794], lacking title, but retaining dedication and the general map of England & Wales with contemporary hand colouring, table of explanation, 77 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring (numbered to 81), tipped in printed addendum of the 'Measured Distances in the Neighbourhood of Plumpton', slight offsetting and dust soiling, 'list of places' and subscriber's list bound at rear, first few leaves detached, some splitting and cracking along the gutter, slight dust soiling and spotting throughout, contemporary half calf, spine partially lacking, upper board detached, heavily rubbed and worn, 4to, with Bartholomew (John). The Imperial Map of England & Wales According to the Ordnance Survey, with the Latest Additions; Shewing clearly every Feature of the Country, Railways and their Stations, Roads, Canals, Rivers, Gentlemen's Seats &c. &c., On a Scale of 4 Miles to an Inch, A. Fullarton & Co., [1866], index and a double-page calligraphic title, sixteen double-page colour lithographic maps, sheet 16 divided into three separate maps, text block detached, contemporary half calf gilt, boards detached, lacking spine, slim folio, plus Bell (James). A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales..., 8 volumes, A. Fullarton & Co. 1837, frontispiece of an 'Extracts of Reviews', title pages with dated contemporary ownership signature to each volume, folding engraved map of England & Wales with contemporary wash colouring and 44 uncoloured engraved county maps by Archibald Fullarton, some spotting throughout, some hinges and joints partially split, publishers green cloth with contrasting paper labels to the spines, bumped, faded and worn, 8vo, together with Cox [Thomas]. Magna Britannia et Hibernia Antiqua & Nova..., volume 3 only, 1724, title page and 3 only (Middlesex, Northamptonshire & Northumberland, lacking Norfolk)) uncoloured engraved folding maps by Robert Morden, each with a triangular mileage table, bookplates of John Basil Tolhurst to the front pastedown and of Prinknash Abbey to the front blank, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to the spine, 8vo, with Capper (Benjamin Pitts). A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom..., Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1829, frontispiece of an uncoloured engraved folding map of the British Isles, title page, introduction and index, 43 uncoloured engraved maps, preliminaries detached, contemporary quarter sheep, lacking spine, upper board detached rear board near detached, heavily rubbed and worn, 8voQTY: (16)

Saxby (Henry L.). The Birds of Shetland with observations on their habits of migration and occasional appearance edited by his brother, Stephen H. Saxby, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1874, 8 tinted lithograph plates, original olive green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together withPeel (C. V. A.). Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides, 1st edition, London: F. E. Robinson & Co., 1901, numerous illustrations mostly after photographs, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, lightly rubbed, plusStoughton Holbourn (Ian B.). The Isle of Foula, a series of articles on Britain's loneliest Isle, 1st edition, Lerwick: Johnson & Greig, 1938, monochrome plates after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, in very good condition, and others on the ornithology and topography of the Scottish Islands, including Malcolm Ferguson, Rambles in Skye, with sketch of a trip to St Kilda, 1885, Norman Heathcote, St. Kilda 1900, John De Vere Loder, Colonsay and Oransay in the Isles of Argyll, their history fauna and topography, 1935, (with dust wrapper), George Seaton, St. Kilda Past and Present, 1878, Malcolm Stewart, Ronay, a description of the Islands of North Rona and Sula Sgeir, 1933, [Thomas S. Muir], Saint Kilda: A Fragment of Travel, [Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1858], a proof copy with manuscript revisions in ink, bound in contemporary red-half morocco, J. M. Cambell, Notes on the natural History of the Bell Rock, 1904, Rev. R. Lawson, Ailsa Craig: Its History and Natural History, 1888, John Morell McWilliam, The Birds of the Island Bute, 1927, David Lansborough, Excursions to Arran Ailsa Craig, and The Two Cumbraes, Edinburgh, 1851 & Arran: Its Topography , Natural History and Antiquities, with Memoir of Rev. D. Lansborough, R. Drossan, 1875, John Morrell McWilliam, The BIrds of the Firth of Clyde, 1936 (with dust wrapper), Douglas G. Hunter, Bird Notes in Angus and in the Far North, 1934, and William Eagle Clake, On the Birds of the South Orkney Islands [extracated from The Ibis, January 1906], mostly origianl cloth, all mianly 8voQTY: (20)

* Indonesian playing cards. Omi cards, probably Celebes: unknown maker, circa 1840, a complete Hombre deck of 40 hand-painted playing cards (local suits), in the style of Toraja (Celebes) art, comprising 4 suits of 10, each with 3 single-figured courts: Rei (sitting on thrones), Jarong (Macassar for 'horse') and Sota, plus pip cards ace-7, aces with dragons, some marks and minor staining (some possibly original to manufacture), turn-over edges, versos plain orange, each card approximately 67 x 42 mm, 20 cards (lightly faded) mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder loosely contained in a plastic box in a bag, the board 55 x 40.5 cm, plus an accompaying sheet of paper with early ink manuscript (faded and browned with some spilts to folds), approximately 76 x 135 mm, contained in a re-sealable plastic bagQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. Previously Sylvia Mann (collection no.3209/80). Exhibited in All Cards on the Table at Leinfelden 5 October 1990-29 September 1991 (#206).Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.206 & #73 (this pack); Mann & Wayland, The Dragons of Portugal, pp.36-38 (it seems this pack is that described on p.38, and illustrated in plate XVI, as then belonging to E. Newman). See also Cary collection, NEI-1 for a more sophisticated version. According to Mann there is a similar deck in the Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania.This extremely rare deck was 'hand-painted in garish colours and presented with almost unbelievable simplicity' (Mann, p.206). Sylvia Mann (see #73) believes that the accompanying manuscript note was written by a Dutch merchant or sailor. It describes the names of some of the cards, which he says were used for the game of omberen. The suits are: Kopadá, Sepada, Bulaeng (Macassar for 'gold'), and Kajoe (Kayu in Malay is 'wood'), and are indicated not only by suit marks but also somewhat by the colouring of the clothing on the court cards. The early playing cards of Sulawesi (formally Celebes), and more generally Indonesia, were heavily influenced by its trading links with Portugal.

Smith (John). Choir Gaur; the grand orrery of the ancient Druids, commonly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Astronomically explained, and mathematically proved to be a temple erected in the earliest ages, for observing the motions of the heavenly bodies ... by Dr. John Smith, inoculator of the small-pox, 1st edition, Salisbury: Printed for the Author, and sold by E. Easton, 1771, vi, 73, [1] pp., 3 folding engraved plates at rear, one printed diagram to text, upper margin of title page inscribed 'Thomas Bryan Richards F.S.A. - May 28, 1808' and '(a present from J. Britton, in his 72nd year, to W. H. Smyth.), 18th June, 1843', occasional marginalia (possibly in the hand of William Smyth, 1788-1865), additional early manuscript pagination to upper outer corners throughout volume, light dust-soiling to title, spotting to margins of last few leaves, 20th-century green morocco, green buckram sides, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott p. 1323-1324.Admiral William Henry Smyth KFM DCL FRS FSA FRAS FRGS (1788-1865) was a Royal Navy officer, astronomer, hydrographer and numismatist.

[Dugdale, William]. A Short View of the Late Troubles in England; Briefly setting forth, their rise, growth and tragical conclusion. As also, some parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the Reign of Henry III. and Henry IV. late Kings of that Realm. To which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at Uxbridge in an. 1644, 1st edition, 2 parts in one, Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Moses Pitt, 1681, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, five pages of advertisements at end, some damp staining to fore-margins, contemporary calf, old manuscript title label, upper joint splitting, lower joint with short split at head, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing D2492; ESTC R18097; Lowndes p.692."The hiatusses in the above collation gave rise to the conjecture that the Licenser had curtailed this work of it 'fair proportion,' but on comparing the printed book with the original manuscript, this supposition was found to be erroneous." (Lowndes). First published anonymously; later reissued under the name of Sir William Dugdale.

Cary (John). Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London to Hampton Court, Ware, Bagshot, Bishops Stortford, Oakingham, Chipping Ongar..., On a Scale of one Inch to a Mile; wherein every Gentleman's Seat, situate on, or seen from the road, (however distant) are laid down, with the name of the Possessor; to which is added, the number of Inns on each Separate Route; also, The different Turnpike Gates shewing the Connection which one Trust has with another, 1st edition, J. Cary, 1st July 1790, engraved title page with faint near-contemporary manuscript ownership signature, page of explanation, folding general map of London and its environs, plan of London depicting the turnpike gates, and 80 strip maps (complete) on 40 sheets, all maps with contemporary outline colouring, slight offsetting, bookplate of John Junius Morgan to front blank, later marbled endpapers, hinges strengthened, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt speckled calf with gilt turn-ins, re-backed, slight wear to extremities, 8voQTY: (1)

* French playing cards. Paris pattern type 3, Paris: Pierre Le Brun, circa 1770, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured block printed playing cards (French suits), named courts each with maker's name at foot (to right edge on jack of clubs), jack of clubs with G.D. Paris and maker's insignia, queen of spades with insignia, fleur de lis watermark to most cards, few scarce foxing spots, jack of spades with single wormhole to upper line border, 3 pip cards with pale brown stain to one end, 2 of hearts with a couple of wormholes to edge, 10 of clubs with small area of surface abrasion (just clipping one suit sign), plain versos which have (as often) contemporary manuscript, in this case Latin grammer in red & black ink, each card 84 x 55 mm, with later handmade box with lift-off lid, label on lid with manuscript 'P. Le Brun ca. 1775 Frönsk' in red & purple ink, and a round label with ink manuscript F.12, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in the box within a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. Previously from the collection of Gudbrander Magnusson of Seydisfjordur (?), Iceland, purchased by Dudley Ollis in 1981 at the sale of his estate. The accompanying box was made by Magnusson, something he apparently did for all his best cards during the long winter night. According to John Berry (The Playing Card vol.XIII, no.1, p.1ff), this pack conforms to his Paris pattern type 3. The design was produced between 1758-1790. Pierre Le Brun was active in Paris between 1749-1771.

Dioscorides (Pedanius). Libri octo graece et latine, Castigationes in eosdem libros, Paris: Benoit Prevost for Pierre Haultin, August 1549, parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut device to title with early ink ownership signature of J.B.L. Chomel beside, woodcut decorative initials, occasional minor marginal damp staining towards front, small early ink spots to some outer edges, few pencilled annotations, [aavii] fore margin somewhat soiled with small loss, front free endpaper with early ink inscription and verso with early ink manuscript table of the numeral values of the Greek alphabet, 18th-century calf, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering piece, rebacked and recornered, preserving original backstrip (some loss at ends), 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams D656; Wellcome collection EPB/B/1779An important edition of this medical work, which includes discussion of herbs, fruits, vegetables, vines, seeds, sea life and minerals. The De Materia Medica describes about 600 plants employed in medicine, and formed the core of the European pharmacopeia until the 19th century. J.B.L. Chomel (1709-65) was the author of Essai Historique sur la Medicine en France.

Dower (John). A New General Atlas of Modern Geography, Comprised in Fifty Maps, Compiled from the Latest and Best Authorities..., Wm. S. Orr, circa 1840, calligraphic title page with mid-20th century manuscript ownership signature, index and 50 (complete as list) engraved maps and a comparison plate, all with contemporary outline colouring, all with paper guards, three maps (South America) creased, index bound at rear, later endpapers, modern quarter morocco on marbled boards with a contemporary title label to the upper siding, 4to, together with Milner (Rev. Thomas). A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy and of Physical and Political Geography..., Wm S. Orr and Co. circa 1850, comparison plate frontispiece, title and preface, 70 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring (including double hemispheres), wood engravings to text throughout, occasional light toning throughout, later endpapers, modern quarter cloth, boards faded and a little rubbed, 4to, with another copy similar, but with detached boards QTY: (3)NOTE:Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Estate Plan. The Map of part of the Lordship of Darrington situate in the County of the West Riding of the County of York, belonging to Wm. Sotheron Esq. Surveyed in the Year 1757 by John Lund, large manuscript estate plan in ink and watercolour on two conjoined sheets of vellum, large floriate cartouche and explanation, large armorial and scale, creased, some dust soiling, small closed tears affecting the image, slight fraying to the lower margin, 1140 x 1290 mm, with another 20, mostly 19th-century maps, building plans, estate plans, engraved portraits and photographs, all relating to the Estcourt family of Estcourt House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, some plans and maps with severe damp and rodent damage causing loss, various sizes and conditionQTY: (21)

* Transformation playing cards. Beatrice, or the Fracas, London: Rudolph Ackermann, January 1819, the complete uncut pack of 52 playing cards, comprising 13 stipple engraved plates on thin card as issued, each depicting four playing cards with classical figures and scenic backgrounds, forming the complete deck of 52 cards (French suits), full-length court cards with contemporary hand-colouring, red suits with stencilled suit signs (a couple lightly smudged, as published), pip cards transformed, light dust- or finger-soiling to some margins, queen of clubs with single spot to lower edge, knave of clubs with very faint background mark, two plates of pip cards with previously repaired closed tears (one with brown mark to 8 of diamonds and single spot to 8 of hearts), plain versos, each card approximately 90 x 63 mm, each plate approximately 19.8 x 14.4 cm, contained together in original portfolio, with stiff front and back covers, worn, one remaining side flap (partly detached), without ribbons, front cover with one of the plates reproduced as a paper label (rubbed and browned), with title at head 'Pictorial Cards', and imprint at foot dated Jany 1 1819, printed price to lower right overwritten in early ink manuscript '10/6', faint ink manuscript centrally, the portfolio 21 x 15 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World [255]; Field 22: `One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs`; Ortiz-Patiño 72. Scarce in this format. The cards were not issued in playable form but were commonly cut up for use, and therefore rarely survive intact in their original uncut plates. When the plates were originally printed for use in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashion etc. they each had the plate and volume number to the upper right corner and the imprint at the foot. Field suggests that this portfolio issue was printed in 1817 before the cards appeared in the magazine, his argument being that the numbers and imprint could not be easily removed from an engraved plate. Also, some of the sheets in his (presumably undated) portfolio copy are watermarked 1817 which supports this (we cannot find any watermarks in this copy). However, we believe it is more likely that these have simply had the numbers and imprint removed for portfolio presentation. The cards appeared in Ackermann’s magazine throughout 1818, with the final sheet being issued in the January 1819 edition, which corresponds with the imprint on this portfolio.

Poland & Northern Europe. A collection of 18 maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved country and regional maps, Polish partition, Prussia, Silesia and Scandinavia, maps of rivers, town plans and manuscript maps of regions and fortified cities, including examples by or after Sotzmann, Pfeffel, Schenk, Kircher, Kühn, De Berey, Van der Aa, Metellus, Engelhardt, Crepy and Schulze, occasional duplicates, various sizes and conditionQTY: (18)

Moffet (Thomas). Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio..., 1st edition, London: Ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Benjam. Allen, in diverticulo, quod Angliè dicitur Popes-head Alley, 1634, [20], 326 [i.e. 316], [4] pp., title with woodcut illustration (leaf trimmed to margin and lined to verso), numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, fraying to margins of several leaves at front and rear, with verso of fore-margins to leaves A2-A4 strengthened, occasional minor damp stains, head of front pastedown with early signature of P.H. Pyesmith, contemporary speckled vellum, 20th-century brown morocco reback with gilt decoration, folio (29 x 193 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Garrison & Morton 288; Nissen ZBI 2852; STC 17993.The first of "the first book about insects published in Britain" (Salmon, Aurelian Legacy, p 95). Compiled in the late 16th century by Moffett, who 'travelled extensively in Europe and kept copious notes of his observations on insects. These he published in the above folio, together with many excellent woodcut illustrations. To date, this was the best work of its kind and it set a new standard of accuracy in the study of the invertebrates. An English translation, Theater of Insects, appeared in 1658' (Garrison & Morton).Moffet is often mistakenly said to have used a microscope in his observations, but in fact made the highly accurate woodcuts with the naked eye. Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne published the work posthumously from the manuscript, which is preserved today in the British Library. The illustration of the American Swallowtail on p 98 is the first printed representation of an American butterfly. There are three variant imprints, but these variants do not indicate a chronology, simply that the edition was shared among booksellers.

Carew (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall, 1st edition, London: S. S. for John Jaggard, 1602, title with woodcut printer's device, errata leaf, 'Table of First Booke' misbound at end, armorial bookplate of Alington to front pastedown, occasional light marginal spotting and toning, preliminary leaves torn and chipped, D4 marginal loss to lower outer corner, B2 with large closed tear, title with closed tear (repaired to verso), a few further leaves with small marginal loss, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, loss to base of spine, lacking ties, small 4to (190 x 140 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S107479. First edition of Carew's pioneering county history, which is "above all a representation of Cornwall as its author saw it, in terms of the landscape and climate, and of the occupations of men and women whose lives these shaped. Such matters as the local tin mines, the fishing industry, and the games people played, including hurling, all come within the compass of his lively pen." (ODNB).

* Danish playing cards. Holmblad pattern A, Copenhagen: L.P. Holmblad, circa 1870, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, jack of clubs with maker's details, ace of diamonds with Danish tax stamp, few minor marks (mainly to pip cards), gilt edges, square corners, versos blue dotted foliate pattern, each card 94 x 59 mm, together with: Holmblad pattern B, L.P. Holmblad, circa 1880, a complete deck of hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, jack of clubs with maker's details, ace of diamonds with Danish tax stamp, ace of clubs very faintly spotted, ace of spades with neat ink manuscript 'Danish Cards 1878' in a calligraphic hand, gilt rounded corners, versos red floral pattern of dots and curves, each card 95 x 59 mm, plus three foreign-printed later decks: Holmblad pattern C with pictorial aces (Jensen 1993, 5-29 &c.), S. Salomon & Co., circa 1905, 52 complete; Holmblad pattern B (Jensen 1993, 5-28), probably Germany: Wüst, for Holmblads Spillekort Forretning, circa 1920?, 52 complete & box; and Holmblad pattern A (Jensen 1993, 5-15), for Holmblads Spillekort Forretning, circa 1975, 52 & 2 jokers complete & box, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 5 display boards, the first two boards encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remaining cards in plastic bags, each board 54.5 x 41 cm and similarQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Jensen (1993), 4-5. Second item: Jensen (1993), 4-7.

* French playing cards. Troubadour patience, Paris: O. Gibert, circa 1858, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended medieval style courts, jack of clubs with maker's details to shields, aces with simple arabesque garlands, dusty, variable spotting, versos plain blue, each card 83 x 55 mm, with original 2-part box, designed to hold two decks, front with king of clubs, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder with box in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Uncommon in this engraved form. The only other decks we have seen are lithographed, for example on the World of Playing Cards website (on the 'O. Gibert' webpage), the World Web Playing Card Museum (WWPCM09505), and a pack offered for auction by Ader (1 July 2019, lot 235). The latter two being chromolithographed and apparently without the maker's details on the jack of clubs (which is also not visible on the World of Playing Cards image although mentioned in the description). The verso of the board on which this Dudley Ollis pack is mounted has adhered 2 copies of a card depicting an example of this engraved version from the 'Collett Collection', one card with a signed ink manuscript inscription from Lorna & Maurice Collett (note: we do not believe that this deck is actually that from the Collett collection).

Lyell (Charles). The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with remarks on theories of the Origin of Species by Variation, London: John Murray, 1863, woodcut plates and illustrations, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, withdrawn library bookplate and manuscript ownership to front endpaper, hinges split, original cloth gilt, joints and extremities lightly frayed, small paper label at foot of spine, 8vo, together with:Lyell (Charles). A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, the Ancient changes of the Earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by Geological Monuments, 5th edition, greatly enlarged, London: John Murray, 1855, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, blind stamp at foot of title, bookplate and ink stamp of Henry Smith to front endpaper with adhesive residue from a removed bookplate to front free endpaper, original cloth, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus three others by Lyell, Elements of Geology, 6th edition, 1865, in original cloth, Principles of Geology, 8th edition, 1850, in later cloth, and Principles of Geology, 9th edition, 1853, transparent plastic tape to pastedowns, in original cloth, worn, with adhesive tape residue to covers, 8voQTY: (5)

Le Sage (Emmanuel, Comte de Las Cases). Historical, Genealogical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas, exhibiting all the Royal Families in Europe..., translated from the last and much improved French Edition, to which have been added, six maps, composed by Madame Coindé and never before published, making it a Complete Universal Atlas..., 1813, calligraphic title, list of subscribers, 17 double-page engraved maps with contemporary wash colouring and 21 double-page chronological historical charts, slight spotting throughout, contemporary half morocco with printed title to the upper siding, heavily worn and frayed, folio, together with Lavoisne (C. V.). Lavoisne's Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas..., 4th edition, revised, collated and considerably enlarged by John Satchell Esq., J. Barfield, 1834, title page, introduction and preface, 26 double-page engraved maps with contemporary wash colouring and 44 chronological historical charts, later endpapers, modern half morocco with a near-contemporary morocco gilt title label to the upper siding, bumped, folio, with Blackie & Son (publishers). The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dublin, 1883, additional half-title with early 20th-century manuscript ownership signature, preface, contents and introduction, 67 colour lithographic maps and 10 colour costume plates, index bound at rear, very occasional spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, bumped and worn, folio, with another two atlases similar by Letts and Spruner, various sizes and conditionQTY: (5)

Bible [English]. The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, [Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, 1587], general title with early marginalia and scribbles, torn to central woodcut and with loss of imprint and lined to verso, New Testament title and Apocrypha present, several woodcut illustrations and without leaf following general title, double-column roman text, blank leaf between Apocrypha and New Testament title with late 16th-early 19th century annotations and genealogical entries, wants f. 49 (G1) and f. 64 (H8) in Old Testament and wants f. 35 (3E3) in New Testament, repaired closed tear to D5 and slight text loss to lower outer corner, lower half of leaf 3I2 torn away and repaired with lost text provided in manuscript, blank leaf at rear with inscription 'William Crick. His Book. April 23 1793, Burry, Suffolk', bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Printed by John Wolfe, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1567, woodcut device to title, final leaf of text (H3) torn to upper outer corner with slight loss to few letters, without H4 (blank), very short worm trail to last few leaves of index table in Bible and initial few leaves of Book of Psalms, dust-soiling, toning and occasional marks throughout, 19th-century marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (rubbed), contemporary calf, rebacked, lower joint cracked and upper joint split and weak, without ties, worn, 4to (20.5 x 15 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 149; Herbert 194; STC 2146.The earliest complete Bible which contains this revised New Testament. After this date the quarto Geneva Bibles printed in roman type as a rule contain Tomson’s revision, while the black-letter quartos give the older version. Tomson's NT also appears in one roman folio (No 235) and in several black-letter folios (Nos 210, 225, 268 and 301). Herbert.

Davis (William J.). The Birds of Kent, 1st edition, Dartford: printed and published by J & W. Davis, 1907, photographic frontispiece, folding map (repaired with sellotape without loss), original dark green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together withSmith (Cecil). The Birds of Guernsey and the neighbouring islands Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; being a small contribution to the ornithology to the Channel Islands, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1879, armorial bookplate of Pershouse to front pastedown, and later bookplate of Owen Wynne below, original green cloth gilt, some marks, plus Steers (J. A.). Scolt Head Island, the story of its origin: the plant and animal life of the dunes and marshes, 1st edition, Cambridge: Norfolk & Norwich Naturalist's Society by W. Heffer & Sons, 1934, folding maps, monochrome plates, original rust brown cloth, lightly rubbed, and other ornithological county histories including O. V. Aplin, The bIrds of Oxfordhsire, 1889, C. Reginal Haines, Notes on the Birds of Rutland, 1907, E. C. Arnold, Birds of Eastbourne, 1936, J. Whitaker, Notes on the bIrds of Nottinghamshire, 1907, Hartert and Jourdain, The Birds of Buckinghamshire and the Tring Reservoirs, 1920 (rebound), 2 copies, including one interleaved with manuscript notes, J. Oliver Wilson, Birds of Westmorland and the Northern Pennines, 1933, Henry Le Marchant Brock, A record of the Birds of Guernsey, 1950, C. A. Norris, Notes on the bIrds of Warwickshire, 1947, M. P. price, Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of Harrow, 1904, M. B. Horan, the Birds and Mammals of Bury, 1949 etc., mostly original cloth, mainly 8voQTY: (16)

Woodhouse (L.G.O., and Henry, G.M.R.). The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 1st edition, Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942, signed by the author (Woodhouse) to front pastedown, colour frontispiece, map, 36 colour and 13 black & white plates, with captioned tissue guards, some pale spotting to plate I and to frontispiece margins, front free endpaper with later ownership signature, loosely inserted ink manuscript letter from Woodhouse, and 2pp. pencilled errata signed by Woodhouse, original cloth gilt, extremities lightly bumped, small mark to front cover fore edge, 4to, together with: Woodhouse (L.G.O.), The Butterfuly Fauna of Ceylon, 2nd (abridged) edition, 1950, colour frontispiece, map printed in black & red, 36 colour and 12 black & white (printed both sides) plates, few light spots to letterpress, endpapers renewed, 20th century quarter calf gilt, lightly rubbed, small mark to front cover, 4toQTY: (2)

Cary (John). Cary's Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles round London..., 1st edition, 1786, engraved calligraphic decorative title, table of explanation, engraved double-page 'general' map of the environs of London and fifty (complete) engraved maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, numerous near-contemporary manuscript annotations to the verso of several of the maps, slight offsetting throughout, three-page manuscript letter from George Cary (John Cary's grandson), dated 1875, bound in after the front blank, late 19th-century manuscript annotations to the front endpapers listing enclosures and commons, later endpapers, 20th-century gilt morocco boards and spine with gilt turn-ins, 8voQTY: (1)

Writing interest ephemera including transcriptions of ancient Cuniform tablets in the British Museum by Jeremy Black, an Oxford Fellow and writer, two 19th or early 20thC Japanese documents including a hand written example, illuminated manuscript and two poems in hand written calligraphy, one marked as being by Rose Madelene Smith

Signed manuscript 'Chorus Line' with autographs including Paul and Linda McCartney

Facsimile copy of the Illuminated Qur’an manuscript, copied by Ibn al-Bawwab, Baghdad dated AH 391/AD 1000-1001 in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library in leather mamluk-style binding 1975 together with L’Unique Manuscrit D’ibn Al-Bawwab A La Chester Beatty Library, by D.S. Rice Traduction De Jacqueline Bernard in French, English & Arabic published Club Du Livre, Paris 1975 in cloth binding, both items in fitted cloth box with leather spine in original card mailing box

THE PIPE MANUSCRIPT OF CORPORAL WALTER G. DUNCAN, 1ST ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS, CIRCA 1883 hand-written whilst Cpl. Duncan was stationed at Camp Wynberg, South Africa, during January and February 1883, comprising fifteen piobaireachd and approximately three-hundred march, strathspeys and reels, almost all signed and datedAdditional images are available.

“A non-commissioned officer’s patrole (sic) of the 14th Light Dragoons and 1st Hussars, from Arevalo, took in Blasco Sancho, on the evening of the 25th., shortly after the King had left the place, 2 officers and 27 of the King’s cavalry, who had been left there to follow his rear guard.” Wellington’s despatch to Earl Bathurst from Olmedo, 28 July 1812 refers. The historic and unique Peninsula awards to Troop Sergeant-Major William Hanley, 14th Light Dragoons, who is the only known instance of an N.C.O. being mentioned by name in Napier’s History of the Peninsula War, for his gallant exploit at Blasco Sancho on 25 July 1812, when his patrol of three men of the 14th Light Dragoons and four men of the 1st Hussars of the King’s German Legion captured a piquet of French cavalrymen numbering two officers, two N.C.O.’s and 27 Dragoons; awarded a special Silver Medal by the Officers of the regiment at a full dress parade to commemorate his exploit, he was present in every engagement fought by the regiment in the Peninsula and in North America, and was afterwards appointed Foreman of Stores at the Tower of London until his death on September 1859 Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (W. Hanley, Troop Serjeant Major, 14th Light Dragoon) last letter of unit obscured by suspension claw; 14th Light Dragoons, unique silver medal for ‘Blasco Sancho 1812’, engraved, 38mm [Ref: Balmer R77], Obverse: within an engraved wreath ‘Fortitudine Blasco Sancho 26 July 1812. Peninsula.’ Reverse: within an engraved wreath ‘William Hanley Corporal 14th Light Dragoons’, with riveted silver clip and hinged straight bar and silver ribbon slide to contemporary original red ribbon with attached ivorine name label, minor edge bruise and very light contact marks, otherwise toned, good very fine (2) £14,000-£18,000 --- Provenance: Fleming Collection 1871; Seaforth (Stewart Mackenzie) Collection 1873; Eaton Collection 1880 (later Lord Cheylesmore) sold Glendining’s, July 1930; Leyland Robinson Collection, principally acquired and added to by F. J. Ridsdale of Johannesburg, and mainly dispersed by Spink & Son in the early to late 1970s; Alan Harrison Collection to present vendor. One officer and 17 other ranks of the 14th Light Dragoons received the maximum 11 clasps earned by the regiment, all with this same combination. (See Dix Noonan Webb, 17 February 2021, for the example to Sergeant George Kinch.)
 This unique pair of medals has not been offered for public sale since the dispersal of Lord Cheylesmore’s Collection at Glendining’s in July 1930 when it is believed they were acquired by Professor A. Leyland Robinson, of Liverpool, who amassed an impressively large collection of Peninsula War medals (over 700 individual lots including many pairs and groups as well as gold awards), some, but not all, of which was consigned to auction through A. H. Baldwin’s at Glendining’s in October 1952 (128 lots) and February 1953 (132 lots). A substantial part of the collection was acquired privately by Francis J. Ridsdale, of Johannesburg, who added further to it, particularly in regard to Officers’ Gold Medals and Crosses. The present cataloguer had the privilege of handling most of this collection when it was consigned to Spink and Son in the early 1970s for private disposal. It is notable, however, that the pair to Hanley were not at that time disposed of, Mr Ridsdale having then recently acquired some original manuscript accounts of the Blasco Sancho affair [sold with Lot] which gave new importance to Hanley’s awards and were the subject of a lengthy article by F. J. Ridsdale published in the Numismatic Circular in April 1974, as follows: ‘SERGEANT-MAJOR HANLEY AND HIS AWARDS By F. J. Ridsdale, Johannesburg. As all collectors know, there were no general awards for gallantry or distinguished conduct in being at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, but on very rare occasions Regimental Colonels or the Regiments themselves awarded or subscribed for individual awards. Times and customs have also changed very considerably, because I think there is only one instance in Napier's History of the Peninsula War where someone, not an officer, is mentioned by name; Vol. IV of Warne's Edition, 1886, at page 279. The man was Sergeant-Major Hanley of the 14th Light Dragoons, who with a small patrol captured 29 Frenchmen at Blasco Sancho on the 25th July, 1812. I have long had in my collection Sergeant-Major Hanley's Military General Service with 11 bars for Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D'Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca,, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivell, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse, which is the full tale of bars to the Regiment, and a Silver Medal presented to him by the Officers of the Regiment at a full dress parade to commemorate his exploit. The obverse has, within a wreath, "Fortitudine Blasco Sancho, 26th July 1812, Peninsula" and the reverse “William Hanley, Corporal, 14 Light Dragoons”. The medals were in the Stewart Mackenzie and Leyland Robinson collections, and the regimental medal is in Tancred at p. 311. Quite by chance I was able to purchase a short time ago, a letter written by the Duke of Wellington on the 5th May 1831 to Major, the Hon. W. F. de Roos which enclosed manuscript accounts, not only of that exploit, but of another which took place near Pamplona in July 1813. These read as follows: May 5th, 1831 My dear de Roos, Some time has elapsed since I ought to have returned you the enclosed papers. The man is a very good one, but I really do not know what I can now do for him. I have not the most distant recollection of the affair or of the Dispatch. The best thing to do would be to find the Dispatch; and then we will see how we can give the Man an authentic copy of it. Believe me ever yours most sincerely, Wellington (ENDORSEMENT) D. of Wellington Serjt Major Hanley Coventry Barracks 10th July, 1828 Honoured Sir, Agreeably to your desire I have the honour to transmit a Statement of the Capture of a Picquet of the Enemies Cavalry, consisting of Two Officers, one Serjeant and Twenty Six mounted Dragoons and one private Servant with Two Mules and Baggage at Blascho Sancho in Spain on the evening of the 25th July, 1812, by a Patrole under my command consisting of Four men 1st German Hussars, and four of the 14th Lt. Dragoons. As soon as the Brigade arrived at Arévola and Picquets posted, I was ordered to proceed with the Patrole as far as Blascho Sancho to ascertain the route of the enemy, my party being small and in an open country it was necessary to move with great precaution. I accordingly sent one Dragoon 200 yards to my right front, another as far to the left, and a third, one hundred yards in advance, ordering them to keep each other in sight as much as possible (and also the patrole) to circle when in sight of the enemy, or fire if suddenly attacked. The Dragoon on my right front (Private Luke Billington 14th Lt. Dn) owing to some accident discharged his Pistol, wounded his horse in the shoulder, and was consequently unfit to proceed. This happened about 7 miles from Blascho Sancho, he was replaced by one of my party and we proceeded until the advanced Dragoon circled; I trotted to the foot of the hill and dismounted the men, I walked to the top and placed myself behind a stone cross where I had a perfect view of a column of Infantry on parade. We waited some time till at length they marched off and disappeared behind an opposite hill. I mounted the Patrole and galloped for that part of the Town they had le...

Nine Generations. A History of the Andrews Family, Millers of Comber. Edited by John Burls from the manuscript of Sydney Andrews. Published by Isaac Andrews & Sons LTD, 1958. Designed and printed by W. S. Cowell LTD, at the Butter Market, Ipswich.

A FINE IRISH MAHOGANY GEORGE III HALL TABLE, C.1740 the moulded top above an apron carved with a mask and flanked by foliate scrollwork on a pounced ground, raised on carved cabriole legs and paw feet. 119cm wide, 58cm deep, 77cm high The great Ballynagarde table from Limerick incorporates similar profiles of the present ‘Green Man’ mask and the similar exaggerated carving of the acanthus scrolls could suggest a similar source for this table. In folklore the representation of a ‘Green Man’ comes from the Gothic styles of architecture but dates back to much earlier Mediterranean culture. Symbolising rebirth, there is a 13th century example in St. Canices Cathedral, Kilkenny. The carver of the present lot must have been aware of these foliage, usually acanthus, framed masks from medieval monasteries or from printed and manuscript sources. Also from Gothic mythology comes the ‘Wild Man of the Forest’, a pagan deity, and later on ‘Wild Man’ or ‘Green Man’ became conflated and this may account for the alarming set of serrated teeth we see on this idiosyncratic table.

CRIMEAN MANUSCRIPT: LIEUT. ERNEST PEAKE NEWMAN- 183 page hand-written Diary in a form of letters written to his sister Mary, mother, etc. from August 25 to November 22,1855, all dated and a few signed. Written from: coast of Barbary; Mediterranean sea; Malta; Constantinople; Bosphorus; Camp Sebastopol; Balaklava; etc. in a contemporary full leather binding; covers detached and contents loose. PLUS: Four small military sketches mounted on one sheet, framed and glazed; believed to be by Lieut. Newman. (2)

Salmon, William: Botanologia - The English Herbal: Or a History of Plants. Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, first edition. Additional engraved title by K. Cyrus after K. Solomon, title in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations. Folio, PP: xxiv, 1296, (xxvii) Index. Later half leather; Front marbled endpaper trimmed; stain to top corners of the first 90 leaves; LACKING 8 LEAVES from the Latin index at the end, and the margins of the last nine pages torn and repaired (with some loss); manuscript notes in the margins of a few pages; the occasional small stain or tear. SOLD WITH ALL FAULTS.

COOKERY MANUSCRIPT: A family recipe book circa 1860 and later, 8vo, with many recipes, cures and house-keeping advice, 45pp plus many loosely inserted pages of recipes.

R.M.Wood (British, 20th Century)List of all the Bishops of Exeter from Leoficus to William Gascoyn CecilCalligraphy with gouache and gold on Vellum.49 x 67 cmSigned 'R.M.Wood ' lower right and dated 'Exon.1914'A manuscript listing the Bishops, their biography and illustrating their coats of Arms.

A 19th Century Photograph/Commonplace Album, including albumen prints of Egypt by Arnoux of Port Said and others, manuscript titled and dated 1886, some titled in negative, each apx. 201mm x 280mm (11), with watercolours, drawings and copies of family ambrotypes, F

Stereoscopic Glass Diapositives, mainly of Switzerland, manuscript titled, mainly good quality amateur, F-G, some binding tapes loose (36)

A mid-19th Century Double Portrait Pair of Quarter-Plate Ambrotypes of a Couple, with coloured and gilt highlights, in Peck geometric Union case, one leaf with manuscript inscription 'Photographed by Edw Webbe, Hobson St, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec 31st 1861' (Edward Francis Webbe listed as dying in 1889 aged 75), G; with early hand-painted magic lantern slide 'Loch Leven, Scotland'; silver print snapshot albums relating to Studley Agricultural College for ladies, circa 1930 (2); and other items

A late 19th Century Chromolitho Floral Carte-de-Visite/Cabinet Album, with manuscript Sunday School presentation caption dated 1886, images family portraits, F-G

Walter Pontin (1875-1956), silver print album with manuscript title 'Wanderings With A Camera', taken with Model 47 Century Grand Senior over 1898-1926 period, whilst guiding wealthy clients on round the world tours, including Burma, Ceylon, China, Hawaii, India, Mount Everest, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, USA and several others, self-portrait in Penang, images apx. 120mm x 90mm, manuscript titled (apx 880 images0

A collection of Neil Diamond LPs to include (1) Velvet Gloves And Spit; (2) Touching Me Touching You; (3) Tap Root Manuscript; (4) Stones; (5) Moods; (6) Serenade; (7) Beautiful Noise; (8) I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight; (9) You Don't Bring Me Flowers; (10) September Morn; (11) On The Way To The Sky; (12) Heartlight; (13)Primitive; (14) The Best Years Of Our Lives; (15) Lovescape; (16) The Jazz Singer; As well as other titles; All conditions vary from Good Plus to Very Good Plus with generally Good Plus to Very Good Plus sleeves. (29)

Miscellaneous Antiquarian Books. D'Anville's Compendium of Ancient Geography, two-volume set, London: Printed for J. Faulder, et al., 1810, half-titles, folding maps, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [Royal Navy] Duncan (Archibald), The Life of [...] Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White [...], London: Printed and Published by James Cundee, & Liverpool: J. Nuttall, 1806, full-page plates, folding plans, contemporary sheep, disbound with wear, 12mo, Nicolas (Paul Harris, Lieut), Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces, two-volume set bound as one, London: Thomas and William Boone, 1845, contemporary quarter-calf, disbound with faults, 8vo, six Eton related works and manuscript, comprising [Blunt (Walter, editor)] & [Praed (Winthrop Mackworth, editor)], The Etonian, three-volume set, third edition, London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1823, contemporary black-stained quarter-calf over marbled boards, rubbed, 12mo, The Eton Calendar for 1842, Eton: E.P. Williams, 1842, steel-engraved frontispiece of the college chapel, some contemporary MS annotation, original publisher's printed and pictorial limp cloth over card, indistinct ownership inscription, 8vo in 4s, A List of Eton College, Taken at Election, 1842. Eton: Printed and Sold by E.P. Williams, n.d., letterpress-printed, some contemporary pencil annotation, original wrappers, the same indistinct ownership inscription as the latter, 8vo in 4s, [&] a late 18th/early 19th c manuscript on biblical history, [42]ff transcript synopsis and verse of J. Fellows' interpretation, ?an Eton beak, some leaves inscribed recto or verso only, contemporary calf gilt, split and rubbed, 8vo, (10)   Provenance: 1st: George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), of Corehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland; his armorial bookplates to each pastedown. 4th: 1) William Hughes, contemporary ink MS ownership inscriptions. 2) Coker Court, [?Somerset], 19th c crested bookplates to each pastedown.

Books. Seven shelves of miscellaneous general stock, early 20th c and later, including an early 20th c manuscript cookery receipt book, dated 1904, partially-inscribed with recipes, printed books, comprising Kipling, Churchill, Penguin Classics paperbacks, devotionals, decorative leather and other bindings, further fiction and non-fiction, etc

Die Savoy Hours. Ms. 390 der Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library der Yale University in New Haven. 20,5 x 15 cm. Überaus reich goldgeprägtes OLeder mit Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung sowie dreiseitigem Goldschnitt in OLeinenkassette in OLederschuber. Luzern, Quaternio, 2017.Die Savoy Hours sind um 1335 in Paris entstanden, Auftraggeberin war Blanche von Burgund, Enkelin König Ludwigs IX. Die heute noch erhaltenen 26 Blätter sind mit 50 Miniaturen ausgestattet. Tragischerweise verbrannte 1904 in Turin das umfangreiche Stundenbuch, bereits im Laufe der Jahrhunderte waren verschiedene Einzelblätter entfernt und die Handschrift stark beschnitten worden. Im Jahre 1910 wurde durch Zufall in der Kathedrale von Portsmouth ein Teil der Handschrift wiederentdeckt. Dieses Fragment überliefert heute noch die Schönheit der Savoy Hours. - Nahezu verlagsfrisch.

-- Paolo Giovio über Mailand und Cassius Dio über Rom - zwei Drucke Estiennes nach Manuskripten in der Bibliothèque du Roi-- Giovio, Paolo. Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum. Ex bibliotheca regia. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1549. (Davorgebunden:) Lucius Cassius Dio. Dionis Nicæi, reru(m) Romanarum a Pompeio Magno, ad Alexandrum Mamææ filium Epitome, Ioanne Xiphilino authore, & Guilielmo Blanco Albiensi interprete. 199 S.; 3 nn. Bl., 280 S., 5 nn. Bl. Mit zusammen 10 Holzschnittporträts sowie 2 Holzschnitt-Druckermarken auf den Titeln und zahlreichen Holzschnitt-Initialien. 26,1 x 16,9 cm. Späterer Kalbslederband (berieben) unter Verwendung des originalen, zeitgenössischen goldgeprägtem RTitel mit reicher Rücken- DVergoldung sowie mit dreiseitgem Goldschnitt. Paris, (Robert Estienne), 1551.Cassius Dio: Adams D 516. STC 136. Mortimer 171 (mit Abb. beider Titelvarianten). Renouard, Estienne 80, 9. Vgl. Schreiber 108 (griechische Ausgabe). Nicht bei Ebert. - Giovio: Adams G 694. Armstrong 56, 145f. und 153. STC 203. Brun 228. Brunet III, 584. Davies, Fairfax Murray, 195 (mit Abb.). Ebert 10972. Graesse III, 490. Mortimer 248 (mit 2 Abb.). Rahir 475. Renouard, Estienne 75, 20. Schreiber 104 (mit Abb.). - Giovio: Erste Ausgabe. "First edition of this biographical history of the Visconti dynasty, illustrated with 10 splendid woodcut portraits of the dukes of Milan. These woodcuts are signed with the Lorraine cross, which, together with their superior quality, led to an attribution to Geoffroy Tory. The present woodcut portraits are reduced copies of illuminated portraits in the original manuscript. This is the last of the only five illustrated books issued by Robert Estienne." (Schreiber).Der ältere Druck des humanistischen Gelehrten, Verlegers und Imprimeur du Roy Robert Estienne (1499/1503 - 1559) enthält zwölf Biografien der Mailänder Familie Visconti. Der Autor Paolo Giovio widmete das Buch ursprünglich Charles, dem Bruder des Dauphins Henri. Charles starb jedoch vor Fertigstellung des Werkes, und Henri konnte seine Ansprüche auf Mailand nicht mehr gegen Kaiser Karl V. durchsetzen. Der Druck basierte auf einer Handschrift der königlichen Bibliothek und wurde mit prächtigen Holzschnittporträts der Visconti-Herzöge illustriert. Der andere Cassio-Druck enthält einen Auszug aus der römischen Geschichte des Cassius Dio durch Johannes Xiphilinus. Estienne veröffentlichte den griechischen Originaltext bereits 1548 und gab ihn später mit einer lateinischen Übersetzung von Guillaume Leblanc heraus. Diese Sammlung von antiken Kaiserbiographien unterstützte ebenfalls den französischen Herrschaftsanspruch und stammte aus der königlichen Bibliothek.Die Drucke dienten Estienne dazu, seine Reputation als königlicher Drucker zu festigen. Nach ihrem Erscheinen verließ er Frankreich und konvertierte zum Calvinismus. - Provenienz: Auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz Bleistiftvermerk "B(ough)t Sotheby 1913", auf dem Spiegel Etikett "Viscount Mersey (/) Bignor Park". Der Titel wurde 1916 für den Richter und Politiker John Bigham, 1. Baron Mersey (1840 - 1929) geschaffen; dieser saß u. a. der Untersuchungskommission zum Untergang der Titanic vor. Bignor Park in Sussex ist bis heute der Familiensitz. - Darunter neueres Etikett mit den Initialen "W R H J", Wynne Rice Hugh Jeudwine, dessen Auktion Bloomsbury 24, London 18.9.1984, Nr. 68 (mit Abb.): £ 715, an Berès. - Dessen Catalogue 77, Nr. 63 (mit 2 Abb.).

Lehmann, Christoph. Chronica der freyen Reichs Stadt Speier, darinnen von dreyerley fürnemlich gehandelt: Erstlich, vom Ursprung, Uffnehmen, Befreyung, Beschaffenheit des Regiments, Freyheiten, Privilegien, Rechten, Gerechtigkeiten, Denckwürdigen Sachen und Geschichten, unterschiedlichen Kriegen und Belägerungen der Stadt Speier. Zum andern, von Anfang und Auffrichtung des Teutschen Reichs, ...um dritten, von Anfang und Beschreibung der Bischoffen zu Speier, und des Speierischen Bisthums. Anjetzo ist diese dritte Edition auffs neue mit Fleiß durchsehen, an vielen Orten verbessert und bey nahe den dritten Theil vermehret. 14 Bl., 971 S., 42 Bl. Titel in Schwarz und Rot. 33,5 x 21 cm. Leder d. Z. (etwas fleckig, berieben und bestoßen, oberes Kapital mit kleinem Einriss, Rückdeckel mit Schabspuren, mit 2 kleinen Papierrückenschildern). Frankfurt, Johann Philipp Andreae für Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1698.VD17 3:300359F. ADB XVIII, 136. Dahlmann-Weitz 1935. Wegele 402. Vgl. Graesse IV, 151. - Dritte, stark vermehrte Auflage der zuerst 1612 erschienenen wichtigen Chronik des Speyerer Stadtschreibers Christoph Lehmann (1568-1638). "Das verbreitetste und anerkannteste Geschichtswerk dieser Landschaft. Die Chronik ist nicht bloß eine Stadt - sondern auch zum guten Teile eine Reichsgeschichte" (Wegele). "Seinen litterarischen Ruf verdankt Lehmann zwei Werken, der 'Chronica der Freyen Reichs Stadt Speyr' und seiner Sprichwörtersammlung 'Florilegium Politicum'. Ganz besonders aber ist es die erstere, zugleich sein frühestes Werk, durch welches er sich nicht nur in Speyer einen Namen begründet hatte, um dessen willen man ihn als den 'berühmten Lehmann', ja den 'deutschen Livius' mit bereitwilligster Hingebung anerkannte, sondern das auch weit über Speyer hinaus (soll doch der Minister Colbert befohlen haben, eine französische Uebersetzung der Chronik anzufertigen) im Gebiete deutscher Städtegeschichte einen bewährten Ruf bis auf den heutigen Tag sich erhalten hat. Bei der Abfassung dieser seiner Chronik beobachtete er gewissenhaft das 'nonum prematur in annum', denn erst nach zehnjähriger Arbeit übergab er das Manuscript vorschriftsmäßig dem Rathe der Reichsstadt zur amtlichen Censur, worauf der Druck, auch äußerlich ein stattliches Opus, in Großfolio zu Frankfurt 1612 in Verlegung Jonas Rosen erschien. Die dreifache Aufgabe, die sich Lehmann setzte und in extenso schon auf dem Titel präcisirte, führt er in sieben Büchern von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf den Regierungsantritt Kaiser Maximilians I. durch" (ADB). - Etwas gebräunt oder braunfleckig, die letzten zwei Blatt mit Nagespuren im weißen Seitenrand, das hintere fl. Vorsatz dort stärker betroffen.

-- "fast jeden Monat Beiträge von mir im Simpl"-- Hesse, Hermann, Dichter, Nobelpreisträger (1877-1962). Konvolut von 18 Autographen und zahlreichen Beilagen. Tinte und Bleistift. Verschied. Formate. 1954-1962.5 Briefe, 12 Postkarten und 1 anderes Schriftstück an den Maler und Philologen Joseph Eschenlohr (1886-1978), der einen Professorentitel führte. Eschenlohr suchte den Kontakt zu Hesse und sandte ihm Bilder, Kalender, Glückwünsche und Grüße, und der Dichter bedankt sich mit maschinenschriftlichen Briefen, eigenhändigen Ansichtskarten, Gedicht-Typoskripten und signierten Sonderdrucken, beginnend 1954: "... mit Vergnügen empfing ich Ihre beiden Tessiner Aquarelle aus der Welt Klingsors. Ich bewundere die Produktivität und Frische, mit der Sie hier an der Arbeit waren. Was Pampambio betrifft, so heisst sein bürgerlicher Name Pambio, es ist winzig und liegt sehr verborgen am Hang unterhalb Gentilino. Zu Pambio gehört aber etwas Schönes: die unten im Tal bei Noranco stehende sehr hübsche kleine Kirche San Pietro di Pambio, wo im Juni am Tag von Peter und Paul ein Kirchenfest stattfindet [Febr. 1954] ... Welch schönes Blatt, das von Sorvieto! Sie haben mir damit grosse Freude gemacht ... Ich stehe noch unter dem Eindruck von Suhrkamps Tod, es ist ein grosser Verlust [19.V.1959] ... Mit Vergnügen empfing ich Ihre freundliche Sendung, Brief, Ausschnitte, Caronamädchen, alles machte mir Freude. Die beiden Abdrucke im Simpl, die Sie noch erwähnen, besitze ich noch. Es waren schöne und harmlose Zeiten, als noch fast jeden Monat Beiträge von mir im Simpl standen und meine Freunde Thoma, Geheeb, Gulbransson, Owlglass noch lebten. Die gelegentlichen gehässigen Artikel über mich berühren mich kaum. Es gab Jahre, in denen ich mich daran gewöhnen musste, die Schmähartikel als tägliches Brot zu betrachten. - Wir haben einen sehr schönen Herbst, und wenn ich auch nicht ernstlich mehr arbeiten kann, habe ich doch noch fast jeden Tag im Weinberg mein Feuer. Aber ringsum wird gebaut, Montagnola ist eine Vorstadt geworden [1959] ... herzlichen Dank für Ihr liebes, schönes Geschenk zum 2. Juli. Ich habe beide Blätter sehr gern, besonders das vom schönen Soglio [April 1960. Auf dem 2. Blatt maschinenschriftlich das Gedicht "Kleiner Knabe", 12 Zeilen, datiert "April 60"] ... Ihr korinthisches Aquarell steht für einige Zeit in der Bibliothek aufgestellt und erfreut unsere Augen, für meine Frau ist es auch eine schöne Erinnerung, da sie oft in Hellas war. Es ist wieder ein kraftvolles, wohltuendes Bild [Juli 1961] ... Danke für das Manuscript Ihres Freundes Spörl, ich habe es mit Teilnahme und Freude gelesen, auch seiner Frau ein Wort des Dankes geschrieben. Sie haben an ihm einen ungewöhnlich edlen, zartsinnigen Freund verloren ... Noch sehe ich Sie unten am Waldrand sitzen und aquarellieren. Es ist schon eine Weile her ..." [undatiert]. Nach seinem 85. Geburtstag sendet Hesse im Mai 1962 einen faksimiliert-handschriftlichen Dank für die Glückwünsche, geschmückt mit einem reproduzierten Aquarell (Sonnenuntergang im Tessin) und dem gedruckten Gedicht "Föhnige Nacht"; im vorliegenden Exemplar handschriftlich mit "Dank! H Hesse" versehen. Die Postkarten zeigen ein Porträt des Dichters (Foto von Fritz Eschen, Berlin 1955), das alte Hesse-Haus in Gaienhofen, das Haus in Montagnola (dazu auch 2 Farb-Dias), das Geburtshaus und den Hermann-Hesse-Brunnen in Calw, die Kirche in Pfäfflingen und anderes.Zahlreiche Beigaben: ein Foto von Hermann und Ninon Hesse in Postkarten-Format; 16 von Hesse eigenhändig adressierte große und kleine Brief-Umschläge; 2 eigh. Postkarten von Ninon Hesse; 3 (1 masch.) Briefe, 6 eigh. Postkarten und 1 beschriftetes Porträtfoto von Heiner Hesse. Dieser schreibt am 30.VIII.1974 an Eschenlohr: "... auch mir kam [Gunter] Böhmers Schreibweise gestelzt vor (Sie nennen es 'geschwollen'). Aber ich weiss andererseits, dass Vaters Interesse an G. B. gross war und kann mir denken, dass auch die offensichtliche Verschiedenartigkeit zwar Spannungen mit sich brachte, aber für Beide fruchtbar gewesen sein könnte. G. B. war ja ausser Ninon der einzige mündliche Umgang in den Kriegsjahren. Und auch der Briefwechsel der beiden ist umfangreich! ...". - Ferner beiliegend einige kleine Drucke.

Gauguin, Paul. Noa Noa. Voyage de Tahiti. (Faksimile des Manuskripts). Herausgegeben von Julius Meier-Graefe. 2 Bl., 204 (recte: 210) S. Mit zahlreichen, meist montierten farbigen Abbildungen nach Aquarellen, Holzschnitten und Fotografien. 31 x 23,5 cm. ORaffiabasteinband mit Deckel- und Rückentitel und illustriertem OSchutzumschlag (dieser etwas fleckig und berieben, mit kleinen Randläsuren). München, R. Piper 1926.45. Druck der Marées-Gesellschaft. Monod 5158. Skira 129. Garvey 115 (mit ganzseitiger Abbildung). - Eines von 320 Exemplaren im Strohbasteinband (Gesamtauflage: 400), hier jedoch ohne Titel und Druckvermerk, lediglich mit dem montierten Impressum-Einkleber auf dem Innenspiegel. Bereits in den Jahren 1897 und 1901, während Gauguins zweitem Tahiti-Aufenthalt, veröffentlichte Charles Morice, der an der Entstehung des Werkes beteiligt war, erste Teile. "Meanwhile, Gauguin recopied and amplified his manuscript, adding watercolors, woodcuts, and an occasional photograph. The later manuscript, now in the Louvre, is the basis for this facsimile" (Eleanor M. Garvey). Die Druckqualität dieser Edition, die von Kurt Wolffs Faksimile von "Avant et aprés" inspiriert wurde, mit ihren prachtvollen und farblich fein differenzierten Reproduktionen und der durch Einklebung der Bilder entstandenen Authentizität, blieb unübertroffen. - Im Schnitt etwas stockfleckig, sonst wohlerhalten. Mit dem seltenen illustrierten Schutzumschlag.

Martin Amis, London Fields, an early photocopy of the manuscript, Jonathan Cape 1989, and London Fields, 1st Edition, Jonathan Cape 1989.Qty: 2

Two framed religious paintings from an illuminated manuscript/missal, one depicting Christ, the other St. Peter, richly decorated with watercolour and burnished gold paint on vellum, both further mounted on vellum and presented behind glass in gilt wood frames as a pair (2)

Manuscript. Letter. Dated 1762, to Charles Strickland from E. Wilson of Dallam Tower, regarding Force Fishery. A single sheet, the paper has split neatly along the folds. (1)

Manuscript and Ephemera. Gordon Bottomley interest. A small selection of hand-written letters, postcards, and printed ephemera relating to Gordon Bottomley, 1874-1948, the poet and dramatist. Several items on headed paper with Bottomley's Silverdale address. Viewing recommended.

Manuscript. Local interest. A hand-written draft of 'The Literary and Philosophical Magazine' published in Kendal by C.L.L. Braithwaite, dated 1828. Comprising 16 sheets of hand-written content, in card covers with hand-written title. (1)

This manuscript is part of Miraah al- Arwaah (____ _______) a famous book about Arabic Grammar, specifically morphology. The manuscript was written by Mustafa ben Mehemet Ibrahim and is dated 1135 AH (1719 AD). The original Merahu'l- Ervah, was written by Ahmed ben Ali ben Mes, who lived until 700 AH.The book has 78 handwritten pages. Some of them are illuminated. It has a new binding.Dimensions are: 16 by 10,5 cm.

A page of a very rare manuscript written in Arabic from the Ottoman era. It explains the method of performing the daily prayer and its rules while traveling, for the common people as well as for the rulers.It is written in black ink and contains a portrait of Sultan Suleiman painted in gold. The page is framed in a frame with double-sided glass.Dimensions: The frame is 27 by 33,5 cm and the page 15 by 22 cm. It is in good condition.

This Egyptian religious manuscript is volume one from eight and relates the founding of the Muslim brothers in Egypt. It is written in Arabic by Mohammed Mukhles Hassan, during the late 19th, early 20th century. The binding is of the ‘burgundy percale period with a gold ornate decoration on the cover.The book contains 42 pages written in black ink, with passages in red ink and golden dots. The text is framed in black, red and gold threads. Six of the pages are illuminated with gold and colors. There are annotations, also in Arabic, in red ink in the margin of the last page.The book is 18 x 26 cm and in very good condition.

This 17th century Ottoman manuscript contains Hadiths, Suras and Praysers, including Yasin, Conquest, Mulk, Nebe, Esmo Allah al-husna and Hadith-i Sharifs. The Sura heads are wonderfully decorated and all pages have a golden ruler. The original leather binding is decorated with goldon medalions.The approxamatly 160 pages of the book are in good condition, the binding is in need of repair.The book is 9.5 by 7 cm.

Ɵ&nbspMedical & Wine.- Butler (Mary) [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, ownership inscription of Butler on one leaf and 59pp. excluding blanks, (30pp. medical, 27pp. of mathematical exercises), 4 recipes copied out on slips and laid down on 2pp., foxed, heavy in places, original vellum, soiled, small hole in upper joint, [1715/6-49] § Cookery, Medical & Household.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 263pp., in several hands, reverse entries, slightly browned, original vellum, soiled, dated in text 1879, 1887 & 1892; and 3 others, manuscripts, v.s. (5). Together with two early 19th century handwritten diaries Circa 1808 and 1820, northeast England pen and ink recording day to day events in the life of an unnamed farmer, the weather, groceries, game gifted and wines purchased- deaths, marriages and events of country life around Ryton 14 by 8.5cm; and a bone handled table brass framed magnifying glass, 14cm long  *** First mentioned medical and wine recipes including: "to Make Eye water"; "A Receipt from Mrs. Mandifield to make Elder Wine July 22d 1723"; "A medicine for a Bruise or Spraine Mrs Huxley's family Salve"; "for Vapours"; "Gascoigns Powder"; "Mrs Wasbun's Receipt for Stoughtons Drops, from Mrs fra Huxley"; "To Cure a Thrush"; "Take of Fuller's Digestive Powder... From Doctr. Cheny at Bath to Mrs. Quilter" etc. Second mentioned recipes including: "Lemon Cheesecakes"; "Mrs Browns Sponge Cake"; "To dress a Bullocks Heart"; "Orange Marmalade... 1879"; "Lemon Cream"; "Soda Cake"; "Apple Ginger"; "Greengage Preserve"; "Bread Sauce"; "Snow Balls"; "Beef Steak Pudding"; "To Cure a Wart"; "Remedy for Diptheria"; "To Clean Childrens Heads"; "Gusset Heel"; "Cholera"; "Whitlows"; "Cable Pattern" etc. 

Ɵ&nbspA GROUP OF MIDDLE EASTERN WORKS Some printed, some manuscript, v.s., v.d Together with a leather paper weight Condition Report: The leather weight in 'Country House' condition, marks and creases, peeling, marks and wear and signs of age and continued use in a domestic setting The books all have wear and tear to the bindings including losses, marks, wear, there is discolouration to the pages, foxing, there are marks, stains, discolouration, some inscriptions, margin notes, pages with tears and losses, creasesPlease the numerous additional images for a visual reference to conditionCondition Report Disclaimer

Y&nbspAN INDIAN HARDWOOD AND IVORY INLAID CABINET GUJERAT OR SINDH, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY The doors enclosing nine drawers, the inlay to five sides, on a walnut notch carved stand in the Cotswold School taste The cabinet 25cm high, 38cm wide, 29cm deep; the stand 75cm high, 38.5cm wide, 30.5cm deep  Provenance:Purchased by George Byng Esq MP (1764-1847) and by descent until sold, Christie's, London, Two Late Regency Collectors: Philip John Miles and George Byng, 9th June 2005, lot 173 where purchased by Robert Kime. Literature: 5 St James's Square, 1847 Inventory: 'BACK DRAWING ROOM a small India Cabinet enclosed by 2 doors and drawers inside.'  Cabinets of this general type, inlaid with flowers in ivory onto a hardwood ground were made in north western India, in the provinces of Gujarat or Sindh, from the late 16th century. A similar cabinet is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, but with a fall front. The use of doors in this example may denote a European commission, reflecting as it does the more usual use of doors on a cabinet (see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115588/cabinet-unknown/ and A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India..., London, 2002, no. 25). The cabinet was bought by George Byng, whose collecting reflected high fashions of the 1820s -1840s, in company with great collectors such as George Watson Taylor, William Beckford and the king, George IV. Byng's manuscript 'List of Furniture, Porcelain, Paintings &C. purchased by George Byng for Wrotham Park, 1816-43', testifies to his avariciousness for superb objects, paintings and furniture. He lived at Wrotham Park, begun by his great-uncle, the unfortunate naval officer executed following the loss of Menorca in 1757, completed by his father George Byng (d. 1789) and extended by his son, the collector, George Byng MP (d. 1847). Saleroom notice:This lot contains elephant ivory and is therefore subject to both CITES regulations and the UK Ivory Act 2018. Goods containing African elephant ivory cannot be imported to the USA, while other countries have in place wide-ranging restrictions on exporting and importing property containing elephant ivory. Prospective buyers are advised to familiarise themselves with the export and import restrictions prior to bidding. We will not be able to cancel your purchase if your lot may not be exported, imported or it is seized for any reason by a government authority. Dreweatts have applied for a de minimis exemption licence for the ivory in this lot (Ref: KCT1C37J) Condition Report: Correction to the original catalogue description - there are seven interior drawers, not nine as stated in the catalogue description, as the top drawer is inlaid to simulate three drawers but is in fact one long drawer.Overall there are some scratches, marks, knocks, cracks and abrasions consistent with age and use.There are some losses, restorations and observations including:The ivory has a light applied staining.Overall there are wood and ivory veneers that are missing.There are some areas, including the lower border of the back that are painted instead of inlaid - this is probably a repaired section, and there are other small areas of repair including some filler.The gilt metal escutcheons and hinges have good engraved detail, as do the ivory flowers which are finely engraved to the front, sides and the interior, though not to the back.The base is missing a section of the border.A notch to the edge of one door and a later lock to the other door, there is no key.There is some evidence of worm.Some drawers are missing handles.There is some later black paint around the edge of the interior.The stand shows few signs of wear.Please see the additional condition report photographs as a visual reference of condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS (ENGLISH 1817-1904) HAYSTACKS (STUDY ON BRIGHTON DOWNS) Oil on canvas 33.5 x 65.5cm (13 x 25¾ in.) Provenance: With the artist 1887 Given by the artist to Frederic, Lord Leighton His sale, Christie's, 14 July 1896 (3rd day), lot 343 Where bought by Sir William Agnew, Bt., for 290 gns Still with Sir William Agnew in 1905 Christie's, London, 11 June 2002, lot 118, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1883, no. 59, as Study on Brighton Downs Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, Fine Art Section, no. 249, as Haystacks, lent by the artist Royal Academy, London, Exhibition of Works by the late George Frederick Watts, R.A., O.M and the late Frederick Sandys, Winter 1905, no. 26, as Landscape, lent by Sir William Agnew City Art Gallery, Manchester, G.F Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905, no. 148, as Landscape, lent by Sir William AgnewLiterature: Times, 30 April, 1883, p.4 Mrs Watts's Manuscript catalogue, vol. I, p.16 as Brighton Downs The present lot was painted in 1882 and exhibited the following year at the Grosvenor Gallery as Study on Brighton Downs, although the name Haystacks was already given to it when it was noticed briefly in a review in the Times, and Watts himself seems to have adopted this title later. No doubt the subject was one he had seen when travelling to or from the town, where he had a winter studio from 1876. Like so many of Watts's landscapes, Haystacks (Study on Brighton Downs) is astonishingly minimal. No other Victorian artist made more daring experiments of this kind; they are one of his work's most original aspects. Haystacks as a subject seem to have been a constant source of wonder and inspiration to Watts. The picture is reminiscent of Evening (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), a small panel of 1864 in which he introduced some examples he had seen in the vicinity of Little Holland House, Kensington. However, unlike the Oxford picture which has overt literary associations; an armed knight is seen riding by, and the picture's alternative title, 'All the air a solemn stillness holds', taken from Thomas Gray's Elegy, this picture focuses attention on the haystacks alone. Characteristically though, Watts still manages to suggest a symbolist dimension. Stark as it is, the image has none of the objectivity of a painting of a haystack by for example, Monet. Watts must have thought highly of the picture to have sent it to the Grosvenor, and it was still in his possession when he lent it to the Royal Jubilee Exhibition at Manchester in 1887. He subsequently gave it to Sir Frederic Leighton, who had, according to Mrs Watts in her manuscript catalogue of her husband's works, 'admired' it. Leighton and Watts were not only close friends but neighbours in the artists' colony which had developed in the Holland Park area since the 1860s. When the picture appeared at Leighton's posthumous sale at Christie's in July 1896 it was bought by the dealer Sir William Agnew, who apparently wanted it for his own collection rather than stock. He still had it nine years later, when he lent it to the first two venues of the memorial exhibition which toured the country following Watts's death in 1904. Condition Report: The canvas has been lined with a new stretcher, but this is providing good supports and the paint layer is stable, and the old exhibition labels have been preserved. There is a diagonal surface scratch (approx. 4cm) to the upper right corner, and a very small spot of paint loss above it. Inspection under UV light reveals no visible signs of retouching, although the glaze layers and discoloured varnish do make it difficult to read under UV.Condition Report Disclaimer