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A 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 83cm curved blade struck with an Ordnance mark at the forte and with balance marks and maker's name DAWES on the back edge, regulation steel stirrup hilt with crude modern replaced grip, contained in its patinated steel scabbard.

AN 1864 PATTERN CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 90.5cm blade by Mole, with various maker and Ordnance marks, regulation steel bowl guard pierced to the face with a Maltese cross and incised with the rack number 47 to the inside, two-piece riveted chequered leather grips, contained in its steel scabbard. Alan Barauskas Collection Bonhams Oxford July 2010.

AN 1856 PATTERN PIONEER'S SIDE ARM, 57.25cm saw backed blade by Mole, etched with a maker's panel and with various Ordnance stamps, regulation brass stirrup hilt with ribbed brass grip, contained in its brass mounted leather scabbard. Scabbard stitching parted.

A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK NEW LAND PATTERN PISTOL, 9inch barrel, stepped and bolted lock stamped with a crown over GR and TOWER across the tail, bolt top sheared, full stocked with Ordnance repair, regulation brass mounts, swivel ramrod.

A CRISP .577 PERCUSSION COAST GUARDS PISTOL, 6inch sighted barrel stamped with various Ordnance marks, border engraved lock stamped 1855 over TOWER and with a crown over VR at the tail, full stocked with regulation brass and steel mounts, the stock stamped HOLLIOAK and TURNER beneath the belt hook, BO stamp to upper right side of grip, the butt with lanyard ring, swivel ramrod.

A collection of various vintage Ordnance Survey maps, used condition but generally good.

A selection of vintage Ordnance Survey maps, used, generally good.

A selection of Ordnance Survey and other maps

A selection of local and other Ordnance Survey maps and a small selection of local interest books

Collection of Victorian and later Ordnance Survey maps, the majority Stokesley, Marton, Ayton, Nunthorpe etc, some tracings including Victorian map of Yorkshire by Edward Waller 1869, Stokesley Lax Maynard Estate etc (qty)

A George V leather clad and brass mounted Ordnance Office Deed Box, width 29cm

Early 20th Century hand drawn plans of criminal cases at the Old Bailey by PC Harry Woodley, to include Plan of Room on first floor of No2 Poole Square, Quaker Street, Spitalfields, showing a room plan with details of a woman's body position, dated 4.7.10, 50.5cm diameter, Rough plan of No 38-50 White Horse Lane dated 21.1.10, Copy of the Ordnance map shewing position of Town Hall Cable Street and a note of a considerable portion of crowd left the band at the junction of Cable Street and Watney Street and went direct to the Town Hall, 43cm diameter and Plan of Portion of Thrawl Street, 61.5cm diameter, (4)

Non Fiction literature comprising mainly Naturalist Themes, Ordnance Survey Maps plus literature on Butterflies / Moths etc

A collection of WWII military books relating to Ordnance, artillery etc.

A carved mahogany crest 'Royal Corps Army Ordnance', 28cm high.

Cruizing against the Owlers.- Bush (Charles, Secretary of the Board of Ordnance) Letter signed to the Ordnance officers of Portsmouth, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, folio, [London], Office of Ordnance, 12th December 1751, an Order to remove "Guns Powder and Gunners Stores" from HMS Seahorse and the sloop Savage for storage during refit, these ships being employed "in cruizing against the Owlers", small hole in both ff., folds, browned.⁂ Owlers were smugglers, originally applied to smugglers of wool into France, and later a general term for smuggling including tobacco, tea and alcohol.

AKEHURST, Richard, The World of Guns (1973), BAILEY, De Witt, Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718 - 1783 (1997), BAILEY, De Witt, British Board of Ordnance Small Arms Contractors 1689 - 1840 (1999), BLACKMORE, Howard L., British Military Firearms 1650 - 1850 (1961), BULL, Stephen, An Historical Guide to Arms and Armour (1994), CAPWELL, Tobias, The Real Fighting Stuff: Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums (2007), DIXON, Norman, Georgian Pistols (1971), EDGE, David & PADDOCK, John Miles, Arms & Armour of the Medieval Knight (1996), GARDNER, J. S., Foreign Armour in England (1898), GEORGE, J. N., English Guns & Rifles (1947), KOVAC, Mario, Rapiers and Salon Swords: From Mortal Game to Fashion (2006), MANN, Sir James, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, Volume I: Armour (1962), MANN, Sir James, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, Volume II: Arms (1962), MAZANSKY, Cyril, British Basket-Hilted Swords (2005), NEUMANN, George C., Battle Weapons of the American Revolution (1998), NORMAN, A.V.B., Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour Supplement (1986), NORMAN, A.V.B., Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows (1996), NORMAN, A.V.B., Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows Supplement (1996), PETERSON, Harold L., The Book of the Gun (1963), Sotheby~s, The Hever Castle Collection: Arms and Armour (1983), Sotheby~s, The Hever Castle Collection: Works of Art (1983), Sotheby~s, The Visser Collection: Fine, Rare and Important Arms, Part I (1990), Sotheby~s, The Visser Collection: Fine, Rare and Important Arms, Part II (1991), Sotheby~s, Die Furstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis (1993), Sotheby~s, Nelson: The Alexander Davison Collection (2002), VALENTINE, Eric, Rapiers (2004), WHITELAW, Charles E., Notes on Swords with Signed Basket Hilts by Glasgow and Stirling Makers (2003), WILKINSON, Frederick, Antique Firearms (1969), WILKINSON, Frederick, Edged Weapons (1970), WILKINSON, Frederick, The World~s Great Guns (1977)

The Property of a Gentleman A RARE FLINTLOCK SEA SERVICE MUSKETOON BY BROOKS, CIRCA 1790 with 58.0 cm; 22 7/8 in steel barrel flared at the muzzle and struck with view, proof and Ordnance marks at the breech, signed border-engraved lock engraved ~Tower~ and with Ordnance mark, figured walnut full stock, the butt with flat-topped comb, brass mounts of regulation type comprising trigger-guard, side-plate, butt-plate and ramrod-pipe, and contemporary brass-tipped wooden ramrod (the tip missing) 99.0 cm; 39in overall Provenance Warwick Castle (inv. no. F084), sold in this room, lot 278, 26th June 2007. Four musketoons of this type from Warwick Castle and with locks by Brooks have been sold in this room: 14th December 2005, lot 145, 26th June 2007, lots 276, 277 and 278. See Blackmore 1961, p. 99.

A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the barrel struck with view, proof and ordnance marks at the breech, the lock engraved with crowned GR and ~Tower~, figured walnut full stock impressed with further marks including the date (partly obscured), and the Ordnance storekeeper~s mark, regulation brass mounts, and steel ramrod 99cm; 39in barrel Provenance Warwick Castle, inv. no. F053, sold in this room 26th June 2007, lot 281

The Property of a Gentleman A FINE PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY JOHN COSENS, CIRCA 1690 with very minor differences, with tapering barrels formed in four stages, moulded girdles, octagonal then polygonal breeches, the forward sections signed ~I.Cosens~ ahead of a chiselled acanthus moulding and with panels of foliage and beadwork, the rear sections with contrasting classical warriors in the centre framed by monsterhead scrolls, struck with the barrelsmith~s mark and London view and proof marks on the left, border-engraved tangs decorated with scrolling foliage inhabited by an exotic bird, border-engraved rounded locks decorated with cupids on the tails, one brandishing a falchion and the other aiming an arrow, decorated beneath the pans with curved slender panels en suite with the breeches and signed beneath a monsterhead scroll, chiselled cocks decorated with monsterhead scrolls, the pans each with a monsterhed on the brim, chiselled steels (the tip of one steel with a small chip, the engraving on one lock refreshed), full figured stocks, perhaps ash or elm, lightly carved with scrolls and swelling about the rear ramrod-pipes, the tangs enclosed by raised mouldings framed by scrolls, silver mounts comprising pierced side-plates decorated with monsterhead terminals centring on a green man mask, spurred pommels with grotesque mask caps, iron trigger-guards with foliate terminals and engraved with strawberry foliage on the bows, a pair of moulded silver ramrod-pipes, moulded iron escutcheons formed as a gaping mask each charged in the centre with the owner~s crest, and original iron-capped ramrods 30.7 cm; 12 1/8 in barrels (2) The crest is that of Philipson. One likely candidate is Christopher Philipson (1646-1709), of Crook Hall, Member of Parliament for Westmoreland in 1679. Philipson served as a Royalist militia officer and assisted Daniel Fleming in breaking up a Quaker meeting at Windermere in 1675. He replaced Sir John Lowther III as the honourable member for Westmorland in the second Exclusion Parliament. For his efforts he was rewarded with a knighthood by Charles II in 1681 as ~a person of known loyalty and affection~, he was foreman of the grand jury which presented a loyal address after the Rye House Plot. John Cosens, said to have leant ~ye arte [of gunmaking] in ye City of Winchester~, was admitted to the Freedom of the Gunmakers~ Company on 14th August 1662. By 1664 he was in business and received payments from the Ordnance board for the manufacture and repair of matchlock and snaphaunce arms during the period 1666-80. In 1670 he took over Harman Barne~s shop in the Strand from his widow and he became Gunmaker in Ordinary to Charles II before 1669. The Wardrobe Account for 1680 shows that he delivered three pairs of pistols and one gun for £29 and in the same year he supplied pistols and one gun |stocked with asshe| for £8 as part of the King~s presents for the Emperor of Morocco. The last reference to him is on 4th August 1698 when he was fined ten shillings for proving a birding barrel belonging to John May who was not entitled to have barrels proved. See Neal and Back 1984, p. 139 and Blackmore 1999, pp. 58-9.

The Property of a Gentleman A PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY LEWIS (1) BARBAR, LONDON, CIRCA 1730 with turn-off cannon barrels, rounded actions engraved with foliage top and bottom, signed beneath the pan, struck with London proof marks and the barrelsmith~s mark (one steel spring replaced), engraved tangs, figured walnut butts carved with foliate mouldings about the tangs, iron trigger-guards, one engraved with a star on the bow (the other with light pitting), silver mounts comprising openwork rococo side-plates involving an issuant demon mask, engraved spurred pommels, and escutcheons with the owner~s crest, perhaps a griffin~s head erased (rubbed) 13.7 cm; 5 3/8 in barrels (2) Lewis (1) Barbar, son of James, emigrated from France to avoid religious persecution in 1688 and is recorded ~in the King~s service circa 1690-7. He became Free of the Gunmakers Company by redemption and his proof piece, ~a very fine piece~ was passed in 1704. He became Master in 1718, was Gentleman Armourer to George I in 1717, George II in 1727 and was also gunsmith to the Dukes of Montague 1710-41. He was Contractor to the Ordnance 1723-40 and died in 1741.

THE 1847 PATTERN OFFICER~S AND DRESS SWORDS OF REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN PARRY JONES-PARRY BY J. GALT, HIGH STREET, PORTSMOUTH the first with slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched with scrolling foliage and the crowned Royal Arms on one face and with further foliage, a fouled anchor and the maker~s details ~J.Galt., High St, Portsmouth~ on the other, solid brass half-basket-hilt with folding side-guard, cast with a fouled anchor on the outside, lionhead pommel in its brass-mounted leather scabbard (now in two pieces), including locket with the maker~s details on a garter enclosing the Royal Arms; the second similar, with etched light-weight blade, in its scabbard the first: 77.7 cm; 30 5/8 in blade (2) Rear-Admiral John Parry Jones-Parry (1829-1920), Lord of the Manor of Thelwall, Cheshire, entered the Navy in 1845, became a mate 17th November 1851 and joined the Excellent (Gunnery school ship) at Portsmouth in June 1852. The following year he was appointed to the Terrible and served in that ship in the Black Sea throughout the war with Russia. He was present at the bombardments of Odessa and Sebastopol. His practical understanding of naval ordnance resulted in his invention of a non-recoil gun-carriage and mantle that protected the crew. He became a captain on 29th December 1871 and rear-admiral on 1st January 1888. After his retirement he became a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire. By family tradition, the dress sword was worn by Jones-Parry at the Duke of Wellington~s funeral 18th November 1852.

FOLDING MAPS: a quantity of folding and other maps, in carton, 19th-20thc British and foreign inc. Ordnance Survey, Collins, G W Bacon, etc. (One box)

FOLDING MAPS: Large quantity in large box, Ordnance Survey/Bartholomews, etc. (Qty)PLEASE NOTE THE STAMPS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM THIS LOT 

Assorted silver-plated wares to include; British Empire 1924 Exhibition Wembley dish, military plate with Ordnance Broad Arrow, etc

Selection of Corps Cap Badges including brass Army Ordnance Corps ... KC brass Military Police ... KC brass Intelligence Corps ... KC bi-metal AVC ... KC darkened General List ... KC brass ADC ... KC bi-metal Army Catering Corps ... KC bi-metal RAPC ... KC brass Pioneer Corps ... KC brass Small Arms School ... QC anodised Small Arms School ... KC bi-metal RAEC ... QC anodised RAVC ... QC anodised RADC ... KC brass National Defence Company. 37 items.

Indian Army Ordnance Corps Officer’s Mess Dress Uniform black mess dress jacket with scarlet faced collar and pointed cuffs. KC bullion, Indian Army Ordnance Corps collar badges. Gilt shoulder buttons. Rank absent ... Black mess waistcoat with gilt buttons ... Black overall trousers with scarlet side lines. Tailor’s label ink named to “Captain C G Hooke. IAOC. Nov 1929”. 3 items.

Selection of Indian Badges consisting KC cast bi-metal 1st Punjab Reg ... KC cast bi-metal 3rd Madras Reg ... Cast white metal 8th Punjab Reg ... KC cast white metal 5th Mahratta Light Inf ... KC blackened 6th Rajputana Rifles ... KC cast brass 7th Rajput Reg ... KC cast brass 9th Jat Reg (brooch fitting) ... Blackened Assam Rifles ... KC cast brass Indian Army General Service ... Cast brass Indian Artillery ... KC cast brass India Military Police ... KC copper Indian Army Ordnance Corps ... KC cast brass Royal Indian Army Service Corps ... Cast brass Pakistan Signal Corps. 15 items.

Martini Henry P1876 Socket Bayonet 21 1/2 inch, triangular form, hollow ground blade. The forte dated “9/85” with various Ordnance stamps. Blued steel socket with swivel locking ring. Contained in its leather scabbard with brass throat and chape. Minor surface rusting to hilt.

Selection of New Zealand Cap Badges including gilt 10th Nelson Mounted Rifles ... KC bi-metal 1st Canterbury Reg ... Bi-metal 2nd South Canterbury Reg ... Brass 4th Otago Rifles ... Brass 5th Wellington Rifles ... KC gilt 15th North Auckland Reg ... KC brass Waikato Reg ... Copper New Zealand Pioneers ... KC brass New Zealand W.A.A.C. ... Brass New Zealand Ordnance. 18 items.

Early 19th Century Brown Bess Socket Bayonet 17 1/4 inch, triangular form blade with hollow ground rear flats. The forte with maker “Hadley” and Ordnance stamps. Steel shoulder leading to the 4 inch socket with angled zig zag slot.

1842 Pattern Lovells Catch Socket Bayonet 17 1/2 inch, triangular form blade with hollow ground rear flats. The forte with maker “G Salter” and Ordnance stamps. Steel shoulder leading to the socket with top Lovells catch. Socket marked “C.49.99”.

1853 Pattern Enfield Socket Bayonet In First Pattern Scabbard 17 1/2 inch, triangular form blade with hollow ground flats. The forte with Ordnance stamps. Blackened steel shoulder leading to the socket with swivel locking ring. Socket marked “857.IC”. Complete in its black leather scabbard with brass chape, throat and separate frog stud.

Imperial German All Steel Trench Knife Bayonet 5 3/4 inch, single edged blade with sharpened back edge point. Forte with Ordnance stamp. Steel, turn up quillon crossguard. Pressed steel, one piece grip and pommel with traces of original green painted finish. Complete in its blackened steel scabbard. Leather belt loop absent.

Small Selection of Various Badges including brass Burma Army Ordnance Corps ... Brass Burma Army Service Corps ... Brass IV Battalion The Burma Regiment ... Silvered South African Military Nursing Service (brooch fitting) ... Brass South African Military Nursing Service (brooch fitting) ... Silvered and gilt West Indies Reg. Together with a small selection of GPO badges and buttons. 14 items + buttons.

* Selvi (Antonio Francesco, 1679-1753). Richard Molesworth (1680-1758, 3rd Viscount Molesworth), 1712, bronze medal, the obverse with bust facing right in armour and ornate helmet, the reverse with Bellona grasping the arm of Fortune, 89mm, extremely fine and very rare, sold with a later composite frame with labels attached, and inscribed with provenanceQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Jack Webb (1923-2019), London; Royal United Services Institute sale, Wallis & Wallis,1964 Vannel & . 133; MI II, 391/245; Eimer 453. A pupil of Massimiliano Soldani, Antonio Selvi is best known as the most prolific Baroque medallist in Florence during the twilight of the Medici. His earliest dated medal is 1711 and more than 109 portrait medals and a series of 111 medals commemorating the Medici dynasty are attributed to him. Selvi's style is indebted to Soldani and he is recorded as having worked in bronze and as a modeller in lead for works in porcelain and in wax for cameos. Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1680-1758) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman. He served with his regiment at the Battle of Blenheim before being appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession. During the Battle of Ramillies in 1706 Molesworth offered Marlborough his own horse after Marlborough fell from the saddle. Molesworth then recovered his commander's charger and slipped away, saving Marlborough's life. Molesworth went on to become Lieutenant of the Ordnance in Ireland, was wounded at the Battle of Preston during the Jacobite rising of 1715, and later became Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Army.Richard Molesworth's older brother (John Molesworth, 2nd Viscount, 1679 - 1725) commissioned medals of himself and his brother Richard from Antonio Selvi while John was Ambassador Extraordinary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Another example of this medal was sold at auction at Morton & Eden (London), Coins, Medals & Banknotes, 27 June 2018, lot 131.

Tower New Land pattern flintlock pistol, plain lock with ' Tower' and GR over crown,barrel bearing Ordnance proof marks, regulation brass mounts, swivel ramrod, trigger guard stamped ' XVII F 19 '

Collection of First and Second World War British army cap badges and shoulder titles, all with sliders and loops removed including, The Grenadier Guards, Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Engineers, Rifle Brigade, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Queens Regiment, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, etc, ( Qty)

Second World War plastic economy cap badge to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, in chocolate brown, two blades to the reverse, maker MMMC, K&K 2270, together with a plastic economy cap badge to the Royal Army Service Corps, in chocolate brown, two blades to the reverse, maker A.Stanley & Sons, Walsall, K&K 2268, and a plastic economy cap badge to the Royal Engineers, in chocolate brown, two blades to the reverse, maker A.Stanley & Sons Walsall, (3)

Collection of cap badges to various Corps of the British army from different periods, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Ordnance Corps, Military Police, Intelligence Corps, Army Service Corps, etc, ( Qty)

Second World War U.S. M1 .30 calibre machine gun ammunition box by Canco, stamped with the US ordnance flaming grenade symbol,box holds 250 rounds in a cloth or linked belt for the M1917A1, M1919A4 and A6 machine guns, together with a British General Civilian Respirator by A B Ltd, dated 1937, (2)

British Army 120 mm L31 High Explosive Squash Head projectile, developed by Royal Ordnance in the early 1960's for the L11 series of 120mm rifled tank guns

Larken (Francis Wyatt Rawson, 1911-1985). Archive of Royal Navy service, c.1928-51, comprising: 1. ‘Journal for the Use of Midshipmen. Mr. Wyatt R. Larken. H.M.S. Valiant … Malaya … Queen Elizabeth … Viceroy … Malaya … Effingham’, 3 volumes, 5 September 1928 – 2 July 1931, approximately 135 + 125 + 55 manuscript leaves, printed title-pages, printed headings and rules throughout, 28 charts and plans and 55 technical drawings in pen-and-ink and watercolour on card, mounted on stubs, nearly all full-page, 27 gelatin silver print photographs mounted on interleaves (many depicting ships at sea; 3 depicting a shark caught at Port Blair, Andaman Islands; 3 of Bombay; several with blind-stamp 'Grand Studio, Malta', of which 2 forming a panorama probably of Valetta), a few other typescript documents bound in, original two-tone cloth bindings, red skiver spine-labels (chipped), printed paper labels with Larken’s ownership inscriptions to front covers, cloth mottled, folio (33 x 20.5 cm) 2. ‘H.M.S. Theseus, Commanders Standing Orders’ [cover-title], 1 March 1951, 223 roneoed typescript leaves (versos blank), signed by Larken in blue ink on first leaf, string-bound in original blue cloth-backed boards, pictorial collotype label mounted to front board (chipped and abraded), folio (33.5 x 18.5 cm), 3. Larken's personal bicorn hat, epaulettes and sword belt, black felt bicorn hat by Gieves Ltd with gilt braid and button, gilt braid epaulettes by Goode's Officers Stores (Portsmouth), leather sword belt with gilt metal buckle, in maroon velvet-lined metal case with Gieve Matthews & Seagrove Ltd brass plaque and a further brass plaque engraved 'F. W. R. Larken', 22 x 46 x 22 cm, 4. Silver cigar case, engraved with names of British soldiers including P. H. Graves-Morris (1907-1991) and one name in ?Chinese, cedar lining, 5 x 19 x 13 cm, 5. [Admiralty]. Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, London: Printed by W. Winchester and Son, 1806, viii 440 [174] pp., folding table removed, contemporary ownership Alexander Milner (active 1795-1812), Royal Navy officer, 'A. Milner, Capt, Swallow' to title-page, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, 4to (26 x 20 cm), and 5 other naval titles including H.M.S. Theseus Goes East, Portsmouth: Acme Printing Co. Ltd, [1951]Qty: (-)NOTESProvenance: By direct descent to the present owner. Wyatt Larken was the son of Admiral Sir Frank Larken (1875-1953). As a young midshipman he cruised the Mediterranean in the Valiant, the Malaya and subsequently the Queen Elizabeth, these logs recording frequent visits to Cyprus and Malta as well as the station’s more unusual reaches. In April 1930 he joined the Hawkins-class cruiser Effingham for its East African cruise, visiting Ceylon and Mauritius before coasting Tanzania and spending a week at Zanzibar, then returning to Ceylon via Mombasa, the Seychelles and Addu Atoll in the Maldives. From 21 October 1930 to 19 January 1931 the Effingham undertook a cruise of the Persian Gulf, visiting Muscat, Sohar, Sur, Khasab and Khor al-Jarama in modern Oman, and Dubai and the island of Sir Abu Nu'ayr in what is now the United Arab Emirates. Wyatt’s log for this section occupies some 100 pages, and his entry for 17 December 1931 is especially noteworthy: 'Proceeded for Dabai on the Trucial coast ... at 1020 the Trucial sheikhs and their followers numbering all some 200 came onboard ... A torpedo was fired - also a full charge round from a gun. This they watched from the bridge ... They brought us gifts of beef and melon jelly ... and they were sent away with Gold Flake cigarettes and chocolate ... The chief ones wore splendid "bournous" of gold work cloth. All were fine upstanding men'. After leaving the Gulf the Effingham embarked on a Burma Cruise which included a visit to the Andaman Islands. The charts and plans include: Salamis Bay; the Brijuni Islands (modern Croatia); Fiume (modern Rijeka, Croatia); the Dardanelles; Istanbul; the Gulf of Aden; the Port of Colombo; Trincomalee; Port Louis (Mauritius); Mafia Island and the Rufiji Delta (modern Tanzania); an exercise near the Suvadiva Atoll (Maldives); ‘Area cover’d by Interests of Anglo-Persian Oil Co’; the Shatt al-Arab; the Andaman Islands; the Royal Navy camp at Diyatawala; and several route charts. Promoted lieutenant in 1933, commander in 1944 and captain in 1950, Larken saw Second World War service on seven different vessels and shore establishments, and during the Korean War commanded the aircraft carrier Theseus (mentioned in despatches) and the minelayer Apollo. From 1952 until his retirement in 1955 he was deputy director of naval ordnance.

Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army, Ordnance and Medical Departments, serving under the Presidency of Fort St. George. With an Index, [Madras]: compiled for the benefit of the male asylum, and printed at the Government Gazette Press, by the boys of the charity, 1821, pp. [2] 200 xviii [8], woodcut arms to title, errata leaf, interleaves throughout most of volume, restoration to pp. 101/2 (the leaf containing blank columns only), closely trimmed at foot, frequent contemporary manuscript additions to text and interleaves, contemporary inscriptions 'Charles Wahab, the first army list in which my name appeared' to initial blank, and 'Nagpore, Received 7th June 1812, J. Cross' to title-page verso, all edges gilt, later 19th-century hard-grain red morocco, 8vo (17.2 x 10.6 cm), together with 24 other army lists, 19th and 20th century, not collated, some evidently defective, crude rebindingsQty: (25)NOTESProvenance: Jack Webb (1923-2019), D-Day veteran and London antiques dealer. Rare early iteration of the army list for the Madras presidency, not on Library Hub or WorldCat.

* Auckland (George Eden, 1st Earl, 1784-1849). Autograph letter signed 'G. Eden' to 'Dear Lemon', Lincoln's Inn, [London], 6 March 1814, on Napoleon's successes probably in the Six Days' Campaign, Wellington's advance through France, and the health of the speaker of the House of Commons and of the Prince of Wales ('The allies appear to be completely beaten ... The report of Lord Wellington’s victorious passage of the Adour is I am willing to believe likely to be verified ... It is said to be the plan to march Bayonne with a Spanish army of 30,000 and to proceed with the others to the Garonne and to occupy Bourdeaux ... . Our speaker has been very ill with an inflammation in his bowels ... after an immense dose of senna ... he took the chair and if any one had been present the nose would have had it ... The prince is reported to be dropsical'), single bifolium, 4 pp., remains of translucent guard to final page, 4to (22.4 x 18.6 cm), Cawdor (John Pryse Campbell, 1st Baron, 1755-1821), Two autograph letters signed to 'Dear General', Portsea Barracks, 31 December 1803 & 14 January 1804, both concerning the late delivery of accoutrements from the Board of Ordnance to the Carmarthenshire regiment, each a single bifolium, 2 pp., 4to (22.5 x 18.5 cm), Coote (Sir Eyre, 1759-1823), Autograph letter signed to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, 2nd Baronet (1759-1832) on HMS Kent, 7 July [1800?], on the articles of convention, single bifolium, 2 pp. damp-stained, seal tear 8vo (19 x 11.5 cm), Napier (Robert Cornelis, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, 1810-1890), Autograph notes on Egypt, Sudan and the Mahdi, c.1885, 3 sheets written on 4 sides, folded in envelope addressed in Napier's hand 'For the Times reporter ... Napier of Magdala', 12.5 x 25 cm), Minto (Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynymound, 2nd Earl of, 1782-1859), Autograph letter signed as first lord of the Admiralty to naval officer Sir W. H. Dillon, 27 November 1835, single sheet, 2 pp., 8vo (17.8 x 11.5 cm), and a similar letter from one John Crozier to 'My Lord', requesting leave to sell his half pay, 'Weston near Norwich', 25 February 1769Qty: (6)NOTESAuckland later served as governor-general of India from 1837 to 1842, overseeing the First Afghan War. As an officer of the Castlemartin yeomanry, John Campbell, Baron Cawdor 'gain[ed] the distinction of being largely responsible for repulsing the attempted French landings in Pembrokeshire in 1797' (ODNB), the last attempted land invasion on British soil.

TWO TRAYS OF COLLECTABLE ITEMS, to include magnifying glass, fan, small ceramic dolls heads (S.F.B.J, Paris stamped to nape of neck on one), Ordnance Survey maps, books, etc

THREE BOXES OF BOOKS, MAPS AND DVD'S, including Rupert Annuals, Ordnance Survey Maps, childrens books etc (the DVD's include The Kings Speech, The Devil Wears Prada etc)

Two boxes of Ordnance Survey maps

A selection of local and similar interest guides and ordnance survey maps

A selection of prints and picture frames including ordnance map and Turner

Daily Mail ' War Atlas ' with 32 Pages of Coloured Maps dated 1940 together with Military Edition Ordnance Survey Edition Map of the Midlands, Motor Cycle Road Tests Magazine and Three Folded Maps

Approximately 24 Folded Ordnance Survey ' New Popular Edition One-Inch Maps ' together with approximately 41 Bartholomews Revised ' Half-Inch Contoured Maps and 7 further Folded Maps

Two boxes of books, two scrap books, LP records including The Beatles and an album of stamps and Ordnance Survey maps **PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR POSTING AND PACKING**

A collection of military and other badges including a silver parachute badge by E & H Simon Inc., Royal Army Ordnance Corps, RFC, RAF, 23rd Hussars by Gaunt, Manchester Regiment and a Fireman badge, also with some uniform buttons

A quantity of maps, including Daily Mail Motor Road of London, 10 Miles Round Lands End and Lizard and Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales, etc.

An India medal Punjab Frontier 1897-98 clasp to 44 Lascar Sadhoo Ordnance Dept

A Victorian hallmarked silver pocket barometer silvered dial named L. Casella Maker to the Admiralty and Ordnance, London, diameter of case 52mm, London 1884, S/D.

A quantity of maps and ephemera to include Ordnance Survey maps

Cartography - a collection of mid-20th century and later maps, including Bartholomew's World Survey Series: The Middle East - Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persian Etc., mounted on cloth, c. 1950; 2 Bartholomew's Motorists and Cyclists Maps, Sheet 6 Wharfdale and Sheet 13 Trent Valley, each coloured, c. 1930, (2); 9 Ordnance Survey Maps, various British geographic regions including the Peak District, various dates from 1930-1960, (9); others later, including further GB, Europe, etc (1 box)

A collection of photographic slides and a quantity of Ordnance Survey maps.