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George IV - Edward VII Maundy odds, and small silver, Four Pences 1727, 1729, 1735, 1829, 1870 and 1901, Britannia Groats 1836 x 2, 1838, 1840, 1841, 1843 and 1855, Three Pences 1760, 1762 x 2, 1763 x 3, 1837, 1875 and 1877, Two Pences 1763, 1827, 1838 x 3, 1901 and 1910, Three Half Pence 1834, 1840, 1843 x 2 and one with worn date, and Penny 1901 (35)
Wilson (Edith Bolling, 1872-1961). Signed head-and-shoulders photographic portrait by Arnold Genthe, circa 1918, gelatin silver print, somewhat silvered but with clear bold ink signature of Edith Bolling Wilson lower left and by the photographer lower right (partly obscured by mat), 23 x 15.5cm, mat mounted in wooden frame, glazed, with brass plaque at foot, 'Portrait of the wife of President Wilson, a lineal descendant of Pocahontas, was presented to this church (Dec 1918) by the colonial Danes of Virginia', overall 48 x 36cm, (Qty: 1)Edith Wilson (née Bolling) was the second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson, and the First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. Following President Wilson's stroke in October 1919, Edith began to screen all matters of state and decided which matters were important enough to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she effectively ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of the president's second term, until March 1921. Through her father, circuit court judge William Holcombe Bolling, Edith was a direct descendant of Mataoka, better known as Pocahontas, the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the Paramount weroance of the Powhatan Confederacy. Mataoka was to marry English settler John Rolfe, and it was his granddaughter, Jane, who married into the Bolling family.
Sandford (Francis). A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, etc., from the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year, 1677, 1st edition, Thomas Newcomb, for the author, 1677, title-page in red and black, 5 engraved folding plates, 57 full-page engravings (including 2 lettered A and B, the rest counted in the pagination) and numerous engraved headpieces and vignettes in the text, large floral woodcut initials, a few leaves with a short slit in lower margin (just encroaching on image at p. 281), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, rubbed overall, joints cracked at ends, corners worn, folio (36.2 x 22 cm), together with: Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldry, the Sixth Edition, improv'd with Large Additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwick [and others], 1724, engraved frontsipiece with the royal arms, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut arms in the text, 16 engraved portrait plates (of 17), 43 engraved plates of arms (of 47), frontispiece and the woodcut arms in the first 190 pages hand-coloured at a later date, intermittent minor worming in gutter, browning to a few sections of text, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, skilful restoration to boards, folio (38.2 x 23.6 cm), and Rous (John). This rol was laburd & finishd by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, 1st edition, William Pickering [-Henry G. Bohn], 1845-59, lithographic title-page, 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened in silver and gold including frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary red quarter sheep, cloth sides, spine sunned and rubbed, 4to (29.9 x 21.9 cm) (Qty: 3)Provenance (Sandford): 'Geo. Raynsford 1680, May 28, e Musaeo Patr. mei[?] ...' (ownership inscription to front pastedown); George Kenyon (1666-1728), of Peel Hall, Lancashire, and influential Lancashire Tory and vice-chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1706-15 (engraved bookplate). ESTC R8565 (Sandford) & T140947 (Guillim); Wing S651 (Sandford). The engravings in Sandford's work, which are by Richard Gaywood, Francis Barlow, and Wenceslaus Hollar, depict seals and funerary monuments, and the elaborate headpieces incorporate medallion portraits. 'A handsome, well-printed folio, a great part of which is taken up with the natural children of royal fathers, which may have been elegant flattery of the reigning monarch' (Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. xlvii). ESTC calls for five plates, as here; some commercial records mention an additional, non-folding plate, which may refer to the engraving at page 234, which has no text verso. The third item (Rous) is one of reputedly 100 copies of this attractive edition of the English (Yorkist) version of the Rous Roll, a 15th-century armorial chronicle held at the British Library (Add MS 48976). One other copy seen at auction in the last 50 years.
MacLeod (Murdo Kennedy, 1895-1979). 'The Subba Immersionists of Iraq: an investigation into their evolution from the Ea cult of Sumeria, Accadia and Babylonia', c.1950, original typescript, rectos only, red margin-rules, [10] + 3 + 9 + 1 + 1 + 481 + 16 + 1 + 105 pp., including typescript title-page (annotated 'No 1. copy' on the mount), manuscript title-page and general contents leaf, separate manuscript title and list of contents to each chapter (extra to our collation), 21 original gelatin silver print photographs (mounted, with manuscript captions), 2 manuscript maps (one on glazed linen, folding, the other on paper, mounted), 3 manuscript tables (of the Subba alphabet and calendar), 2 original pen-and-ink sketches of Assyrian carvings, contemporary blue cloth by Partridge & Cooper Ltd, spine lettered in gilt, housed in contemporary wooden box with typescript address labels and parcel stamps, 4to (28 x 22 cm) (Qty: 1)Unpublished, comprehensive monograph on the Mandaean people of southern Iraq, which notably argues for the antiquity of their immersion rituals, here presented as pre-dating Christian baptism. Macleod (1895-1979) was ordained as a Free Church minister in Glasgow in 1921 and graduated MA from the University of Edinburgh in 1922. He became an RAF chaplain in 1926 and spent several years stationed in Mesopotamia, in 1933 submitting a doctoral thesis on the Yazidi people. He was later principal chaplain of the Royal Air Force.
Ferdinand III (Holy Roman Emperor, 1603-1657). Patent awarding title of Reichsgraf to Ernst Georg von Sparr, 1654 [i.e. 1754], German and French manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 18 leaves of calligraphic text with double frames and rubricated headings, 9 leaves containing 31 coats of arms in pen and ink and watercolour heightened with silver (rectos only), 2 vellum leaves each with a full-page watercolour of the recipient's newly-granted arms, 6 leaves of related German manuscript to rear (rectos only), and several blanks, vellum leaves spotted and one creased, all edges gilt, 18th-century French binding of marbled full calf, spine gilt with flower tools and leaf sprays, covers elaborately panelled in gilt incorporating a broad floral roll, craquelure to spine, joints rubbed, short split at head of front joint, corners worn, 4to (29.2 x 21.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Ernst Georg von Sparr (1596/1602-1666) was appointed Reichsgraf (imperial count) by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III in 1654 following his service in the Thirty Years' War. This copy of the imperial patent, attractively illustrated and with an accompanying French translation, was likely produced to commemorate the centenary of his elevation. A note in French on the initial blank reads: ' Lettres patentes octroyés le 17 fevrier 1754 par sa Majesté l'Empereur Ferdinand III portant concession du titre hereditaire de Comte su Saint Empire en favour d'Ernest Georges de Sparr et de sa posterité '.
Nightingale (Florence, 1820-1910). Autograph letter signed, 'Florence Nightingale', 10 South Street, Park Lane, [London], 9 April 1900, to Sister Agg in thick pencil, 'I send to you all my very best good wishes on your going out to S. Africa. It is a noble mission, if performed, as I know it will be by you, with wisdom and disinterestedness, "preferring one another" in honour. It will be a very great pleasure to me to hear from you, if you have but time to write', two pages on a bifolium, with a third page initialled postscript giving instructions on changing the details on a cheque, a little creased, 8vo, together with a small gelatin silver print photograph of Sister Agg in uniform mounted on card, 7cm diameter, in original postally unused envelope addressed to Sister Agg at St Thomas's Hospital in Nightingale's hand and dated the same day, plus a clipped ink signature of Florence Nightingale, some finger soiling, a closed vertical tear through the 'c' of Florence and light vertical crease affecting surname, 17 x 63mm, previously repaired to verso with a small matching strip of adhesive paper (Qty: 4)Constance Louisa Boycott (née Agg, 1870-1967) entered into the Nightingale Nurse Training School at St Thomas's Hospital, London, on 24 June 1897, and joined the St Thomas's Hospital staff after completing her training the following year. On 6 June 1899 Constance was appointed Sister Florence, and nine months later on 14 April 1900 she went with the Army Nursing Service to South Africa, returning in April 1901. She was sent there by Florence Nightingale to inspect the conditions in the military hospitals. Provenance: By direct family descent.
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