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CRIMEAN WAR. Return of Twenty-Six Horses of the Thirteen Regiment of Light Dragoons, Inspected by Brigadier General Laurenson Ennis Cavy Division and found unfit for further Military Service. Head Quarters at Scutarai this 24th day of April, 1854. Partially printed document with manuscript insertions. Listing the troop letter, troop number, colour, sex, age, size, service and cause of unfitness for each individual horse - e.g. quiltor and mange incurable; bad condition and not fit to carry a Dragoon; lame off back incurable, etc. Signed by the veterinary surgeon Thornton Hart and Commanding Officer, single side, 21 x 33.5cm. Sold with a full typed transcription.

CRIMEAN WAR. Brevet-Major John Baillie Rose, 55th (Westmorland) Regiment. Autograph letter signed to Sir Robert(?), Scutari 3rd June 1854, crested notepaper. Sold together with a further manuscript with a copy of the letter, with an additional personal note about Maj. Rose following his death at the Battle of Alma and a small further note on black-edged mourning paper outlining his service and deeds, 13 sides total. Complete with typed transcriptions. Letter from Scutari, 3rd June 1854 Written shortly after the British Army’s arrival in Scutari, Rose provides a detailed account of the army’s preparation and morale as it awaited further deployment to Varna. He describes the training and organisation of the forces: "Since I wrote, the Light Division of the Army, about 7000 men under Gen. Sir. Geo. Brown, have gone up to Varna whither we expect to follow in time... completing equipment and daily practising field movements, route marching and the same been completed in Minie rifles."Rose notes his command of the Light Companies within the brigade as a mounted officer and reflects on the overall readiness of the British Army: "The 30th are the same and fully clothed and equipped and nothing will I think be left wanting for the efficiency and comfort of the whole force."He describes the review of the army by the Sultan on 1st June: "A more magnificent display of Infantry could not have taken place. Every Regiment was splendid, but were I called upon to award a superiority anywhere I should give it to the Guards tho' in contact with the 2 Highland Corps 93rd and 79th their size and solidity was striking."Rose’s comments on the Sultan’s retinue and the perception of the Turkish forces reflect the sentiments of the British troops: "The Sultan's retinue was poor in the extreme and our soldiers were heard remarking as they marched home, 'Well if them Turks can face the Russians, what will we do with them?'."He concludes with confidence in the British Army’s capabilities: "Indeed my own feeling and conviction is that, judiciously commanded and not exposed to shot and shell, the British force here is invincible."Additional DocumentsPersonal Reminiscence Note: This document commemorates Major Rose following his death at the Battle of Alma, describing him as: "A chivalrous soldier as gentle as he was brave."Black-Edged Mourning Note: This provides further historical details of Rose’s life and service, stating: "Major Rose entered the Army in 1826 and was in active service in India and China. By the gentleness of his manners joined to a zealous discharge of the duties of his profession, he secured the confidence of his superiors, the respect and friendship of his brother officers, and the devoted affection of his men." It also references his status as the head of the ancient family of Kilvarock, whose tenantry erected a memorial in his honour as a testament to his qualities as a landlord. Footnote:Major John Baillie Rose, 55th Regiment, was 'slain in the battle of the Alma'. He received a severe wound about three o'clock in the afternoon and was carried to the rear. Surgeon Blake found that a bullet had penetrated his chest. Kilravock was fully aware of his danger, and awakening after a short sleep, he desired the Surgeon to send word home that the last name on his lips was that of his dear wife. Major Rose died on September 20, 1854, and the regiment lamented him. He was interred side by side with Captain Shaw, another officer of the regiment, who fell the same day. Of Kilravoch Castle, Nairnshire. [Gentleman's Magazine Nov. 1854, p.533] He was the second son of the late Hugh Rose, Esq., and Katherine, daughter of Colonel John Baille, of Dunsin, Invernesshire. He was married to Miss Eileen Patison [Illustrated London News 11/11/1854].

Mary (1542-1567), First period, Testoon, type IIIb, 1558, mm. cross potent on obv., small closed crown on rev., wide low-arched crown, no annulets below m r, reads maria · dei · g · scotor · regina ·, rev. large cross potent with large crosses in angles, 5.77g/10h (cf. SCBI 35, 1016; SCBI 58, 354; cf. B fig. 797, 799; S 5406). Some deep scratches beneath old tone, otherwise very fine, the reverse mintmark very rare £200-£260 --- Provenance: Bt A.D. Hamilton July 1979 According to the Hopetoun manuscript, this issue was discontinued in November 1558 when John Achesoun took over as Mintmaster. and the new ‘Lorraine’ Testoon went into production.

2 manuscripts book of hours, manuscript on parchment illuminated with gold and watercolour c. 1480 and parchment Bruges manuscript c. 15102 manuscripten getijdenboek, handschrift op perkament verlucht met goud en aquarel ca 1480 en perkament Brugs handschrift circa 151012 x 9 cm & 15 x 11 cm

Hand Painted Mogul Manuscript Book Page Framed

19th century West African-style Arabic manuscript, in calf leather case with Morocco ties, leaves unbound with upper board fully detached and lower board missing, Provenance unknown, A/FPOA  https://www.bradleys.ltd/quotation-request-form

G Spawton Callow (British 19th Century); hand-written Golden Wedding Anniversary manuscript, from the Charles Street Chapel, Leicester, illuminated in gilt and decorated with a border of foliage, signed; together with a wooden fretwork panel of the Lord's Prayer and a preaching plan for The Wesleyan Methodist Preachers in the Whitby Circuit, max 69cm x 59cm (3)

John le Carre Single & Single An original pre-publication manuscript of the novel, printed on A4 sheets to rectos only, 'Fax Cover Sheets' from Lady Carol Holland to le Carre, with review and thanks etc, 1998/9.From the estate of Sir Geoffrey and Lady Carol Holland. Being sold on behalf of the arts educational charity, Little Parc Owles Trust.

(Militaria, Illuminated manuscript) An ornate illuminated presentation manuscript, gifted to General Kurt von Briesen, Commanding Officer of the 30th Infantry Division Full brown suede with gilt tooled lettering to front board General von Briesen (and again in Cyrillic), pp.6 of decorative calligraphy and illumination, some wormholes to first leaf and last towards spine edge, done in a naive hand, artist unknown, circa 1940.The first page presents a hand-drawn map of Bulgaria, adorned with a painted Sovereign Arms of Bulgaria highlighted in gold gilt paint, small wormholes to spine edge; Followed by a large Third Reich Eagle, again painted in gilt gold; Third leaf with a medieval style ornament with gilt outline; Two page MS in Bulgarian with a decorative painted broader featuring two crests of The Bulgarian Union of Reserve Officers, signed by members of said union; Final leaf with a German translation of the previous again signed by the same members.The manuscript conveys a formal address from the Association of Former Officers of St. Sofia to General von Briesen, congratulating him on Germany’s conquest of Bulgaria. It reflects sentiments of admiration and gratitude, celebrating his role in what is described as the liberation of Bulgaria from past injustices."The day on which you marched into Neulli at the head of your division will be remembered as a special day in the very long and eventual history of Bulgaria""....Your Excellency, with considerable sacrifice you have loosed the shackles with which millions of human beings were bound by the blindness and hatred of wicked men....''We, the members of the.....are glad that fortune gave you the opportunity to lead your Division into Neuilli and through which action the injustice done to us has been wiped out.'An important artefact, with a singular history.

(Cornwall and WW2) A Remarkable Archive of WWII Letters (1942–1946) Melville Truran, No. 35 (Army Co-operation) Wing RAF This extensive collection of handwritten letters, spanning 1942 to 1946, was authored by Melville Truran, a soldier in the No. 35 (Army Co-operation) Wing of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Addressed primarily to his mother and sisters at Fair View Farm, Chacewater, these letters provide a vivid and deeply personal perspective on the life of a young RAF reconnaissance soldier. Truran's correspondence chronicles his experiences, including training, day-to-day routines, and interactions with fellow servicemen. While not directly involved in the D-Day landings, his letters recount the advance into enemy territory, observations on weather and conditions, and the Second Front’s progression. They trace movements from France, across the Rhine, and into Germany, offering insights into the contrasts between the British and Russian occupation zones.Though security constraints and the familial nature of the letters lend a degree of vagueness, Truran’s adventurous spirit as a 19-to-22-year-old shines through, revealing a life filled with resilience, discovery, and reflection. Between the lines, one can discern the excitement and challenges of his wartime journey, juxtaposed with charming details of farming life in wartime Cornwall.Written in manuscript form, the letters vary in condition but remain largely legible. This archive is a rich resource for historians and collectors, offering an unfiltered window into wartime experiences. Requiring further study and conservation, it presents an extraordinary opportunity to explore the untold stories of No. 35 Wing RAF during World War II.

Brigadier General CROZIER, F.P The Men I Killed A manuscript sent to Arthur Wragg with hand-written letter attached.Frederick Roberts Johnson and Arthur Wragg, two friends who met whilst training to become commercial artists, moved together to Polperro in 1924, staying at 'The House on the Props'. They had somewhat contrasting styles which somehow sometimes overlapped; Wragg's style was likened to David Low and Victor 'Vicky Weisz, sharing within his lifetime the same respect and public interest as the two aforementioned. His work was also regularly compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, though Wragg's own heroes were Cruickshank, Albrecht Durer and William Blake, the latter being someone he was also compared to within his lifetime. Wragg's first book was hugely successful, having to be reprinted three times in one year and it became Book of The Year in America.Frederick Roberts Johnson was a very succesful commercial artist and was often the one who usually went to London in search of commissions for the pair. He often used the name 'Essex' or 'Sax', drawing funnies for Punch, Everyman magazine and Tribune, as well as advertisements for Lyons Tea Shops and producing dustjacket book illustrations for various authors. His style was more varied and experimental, with impressionism, cubism and abstract examples of his work within the sale.

Italian School (20th Century) - An illuminated manuscript, gouache and gilt, signed indistinctly and dated 1995, framed, 51cm x 35cm, frame size 70cm x 53cm, also seven other framed manuscripts. (8)

Richard Freres mahogany cased 'Le Taxiphote' table stereoscope viewer retailed by Negretti & Zambra c.1910raised on plinth base housing three sliding slides each containing six celluloid trays of diapositives with manuscript titles to include Peak District, Actress (Show) Marseilles, Dover, Durham, Marseilles, Monmouth, Wye Valley Actress Display, Aeroplanes, Graf Zeppelin, Cheddar Caves and Family Group, bears ivory retailers label for Negrettti & Zambra London, accompanied by a mahogany containing a further six sliding trays of diapositives relating mainly to African travel to include Lubambashi - river rapids, natives; Chisanga - Tantara Mura, pnadi; Lubambashi - general view of works, smelter, tapping coper; Lubambashi - works, offciers, Star of Congo; Luapula - River nr Kalunga etc., (2)height 49cm., Condition: Good condition commensurate with age. In working order. IMPORTANT NOTEThis item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018. Ivory declaration submission number reference: Z6WQ3FGW

Ephemera, Earley, Berkshire, all relating to the Firmstone family to include a beautifully illustrated 1897 manuscript to Revd. Charles Henry Firmstone, Vicar of Earley upon his retirement giving him a gift of a bag of gold, 3 1870s Royal Commissions for the 2nd Dragons for William Francis Firmstone, a 1901 dated 29 page hand written account of the end of the Siege of Ladysmith (Boer War) documenting horse patrols, picket lines, football etc. written by G. A. Firmstone, Statuary Declaration of death by Henry Onions Firmstone regarding his brother William Charles Firmstone (gen gd)

* Kent documents. A large collection of mostly manuscript paper documents relating to Kent, etc., 18th & 19th century but a few earlier, mostly legal papers and correspondence concerning land and property transactions, etc., various sizesQTY: (2 cartons)

* Animation Archive. A large archive of original animation artwork by the British animator Harold Whitaker (1920-2013), and related ephemera, circa 1950s-80s, the artwork including numerous drawings in pen and ink or pencil, including many long sequences, original cels, manuscript notes and some correspondence, printed ephemera (including publicity brochures, film festival documentation, some photographs), etc.QTY: (3 cartons)NOTE:Harold Jackson Whitaker (1920-2013) was a British animator, whose credits included Animal Farm (1954), the first full-length animated feature to be made in Britain. He spent the majority of his career (around thirty years) as an animator for the well-known animation company Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd., where he was also one of the three directors alongside John Halas and Joy Batchelor. The material in this lot was discovered during the clearance of Whitaker's home in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 2015, following his death two years earlier.The animations include a production cel from the animated film of Animal Farm (1954), comprising three layers of acetate with gouache with a watercolour on paper background, showing a the cows, sheep and horses in the farmyard looking with intent on the lit-up farmhouse at night, (25 x 35 cm), and sequences of original drawings for a number of cartoons,from the early years of television including Parkinson's Law, Donald Duck, as well as advertisements for Caltex, Symington's Soups, etc.

* Foreign Orders of Knighthood. Illuminated manuscript, 19th century, containing 14 illuminated illustrations in gold and colour, of orders including: Order of the Broom Flower (France), Order of Christ (Portugal), Order of the Dove (Spain), Order of the Holy Ghost (France), The Polar Star (Sweden), Dragon Overthrown (Austria), Order of the Elephant (Denmark), etc., 18 leaves, each illustration on vellum, set within wove paper window-mount, with hand written descriptive caption to upper and lower margins in black ink, plus an illustration of Robert Dudley's crest laid onto one page, first page with amorial depicting three horned cows heads monogram SS below, remnants of ribbon, all edges gilt, loosely inserted into maroon morocco covers with gilt tooling surrounding a beaded embroidered inset velvet panel to each board, slight fading to one board and spine, 8voQTY: (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing ye Old and New Testaments, Newly Translated out of ye Original Tongues..., London: printed by John Field, 1655, engraved title torn with loss at foot, cropped to other margins and lined to verso, letterpress New testament title, some running titles to upper margins closed trimmed, few leaves slightly frayed, front flyleaf with 19th-century ownership signature of Elizabeth Davis, N: 6 Sherborn Lane, and with manuscript presentation inscription, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 18th-century gilt decorated red morocco, 12mo (138 x 70 mm), together with:Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Edinburgh: printed by Adrian Watkins, 1756, title with 19th-century inscription, torn at gutter with some loss and lined to verso, few leaves of text repaired, bound with A Companion to the Altar..., Oxford: printed by John Baskett, [1770?], bound with A New Version of the Psalms of David ... by N. Brady and N. Tate, Edinburgh: printed by Alexander Kincaid, 1777, some toning and light scattered spotting throughout volume, modern calf, 8vo,Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Cambridge: printed by John Archdeacon, 1769, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins..., Cambridge: printed by John Archdeacon, 1767, modern calf, 8vo, plus 2 othersQTY: (5)NOTE:1. Darlow and Moule 509; Herbert 648.Darlow, Moule and Herbert suggest the 1655 Bible printed by Field exists in two varieties. This example has a general title bearing the words 'ye Old' which is not present in the other example. It also contains a colophon which they suggest appears in the other example. It is possible therefore that this volume is a variant of the two varieties that Darlow, Moule and Herbert suggest exist (D & M 508 & 509; Herbert 647 & 648). 'Another of Field's editions condemned by Kilburne; in 2 Cor. xiii v. 6 is omitted' (Darlow, Moule and Herbert).

* French science manuscripts. Physica Generali, Ludovici Bourgeois Salinensi [Louis Bourgeois of Salins], & Physica Particulierum, 2 volumes, France, c. 1790, 719, 8 [index] pp. + 6 folding diagrams & 589 pp., both with tables at rear, contemporary half calf over marbled boards with near-matching gilt-decorated spines, rubbed, 8vo, plus another similar manuscript volume in Latin, c. 1780, 21 folding pen and ink diagrams, inscription to front endpaper signed ‘Jirard’ a student of professor Dominus Jeudi, dated 1777 & 1778, a little spotting, inner hinges partly cracked with some leaves sprung, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, some soiling and wear, 4to (19 x 15 cm)QTY: (3)

Manuscript Volume. Translations of Psalms; with Sacred Songs &c by the Rev. John Graham M. A., Lifford; Anno MDCCCXXIII, 1823, 23 leaves of 19th century neat calligraphic manuscript verse (to verso only), later ownership inscription in purple pencil to front pastedown of W. Leeper dated 1923, contemporary calf, corners bumped, joints weakening, 12mo (5 x 9 cm)Marshall (Charles). A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening with Hints on Fish-Ponds, 3rd edition, F. & C. Rivington, 1800, light toning and spotting to a few leaves, ownership inscription of Delicia Hayward to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, rubbed and worn, 12moMawe (Thomas). Every Man his own Gardener, being a new and more complete Gardener's Kalendar than any one hitherto published..., 8th edition, Dublin: H. Whitestone, J. Beatty and R. Burton, 1784, contemporary ownership inscription partially excised from title page, numerous contemporary manuscript notes to front and rear pastedowns, gatherings loose, contemporary boards, rubbed and worn, 12moLocke (John). Some Thoughts concerning Education..., London: Printed for a Society of Stationers and sold by J. Baker at the Black Boy in Paternoster-Row, 1710, ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1816, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached, worn, 12moWilson (John). The Rural Cyclopedia or a General Dictionary of Agriculture and of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice..., John M. Wilson, 3 volumes, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co, 1848, coloured frontispiece to volume 1 and illustrations to all volumes, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate of D. Hughes Charles to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, gilt decoration to spine compartments, 3rd volume in a darker leather, large 8vo, plus a copy of Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay..., Greer, Newry, Curry, Dublin et al...,1946, original cloth, very worn, 12moQTY: (8)

Cary (John). Cary's Traveller's Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales..., 1st January 1790, calligraphic title, advertisement and contents list, 43 engraved maps (complete as list), printed back-to-back, all with contemporary outline colouring, including one folding (Yorkshire), index of market and borough towns bound at rear, near-contemporary ownership signature to the third front blank (dated 1821), old library labels to the front pastedown and the verso of the front blank, contemporary tree calk, re-backed, bumped, rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with Hall (Sydney). Travelling County Atlas with all the Coach and Rail Roads..., London: Chapman & Hall 1842, printed title and index, 46 engraved maps (complete as list) all with contemporary outline colouring, including four folding (Ireland, Scotland, Wales & Yorkshire), all maps with a near-contemporary manuscript annotation to the verso, maps with some offsetting and slight staining, later endpapers, contemporary 'envelope style' gilt green morocco binding, re-backed, 8vo, with Lewis (William). lewis's New Traveller's Guide and Panorama of England and Wales, 1836, title, preface and contents list, 42 (complete as list) uncoloured engraved maps, including one folding (Yorkshire), some staining throughout, text block broken and detached, contemporary cloth with publisher's printed label to the upper siding, re-backed, worn and rubbed, 8vo, with another copy similar lacking the map of RutlandQTY: (4)NOTE:The first item described, Chubb. CCLXXIII

Jones (Owen). The Preacher, the words of the preacher Son of David King of Jerusalem, illuminated by Owen Jones, [London:] Longman & Co, 1849, 17 chromolithograph leaves in colours and gold, in the manner of medieval illumination, early ink manuscript inscription dated 1878 to verso of free front endpaper, Edmonds & Remnants label to rear pastedown, all edges gilt, gilt-decorated edges and turn-ins, original "carved" wooden binding by Edmonds & Remnants, achieved by "burning in the pattern" on to wooden boards, resulting in a high-relief binding, designed by Owen Jones, black morocco spine with embossed lettering, small loss to head of spine (2.8 mm), covers detached, tail of spine frayed, small chip to lower edge of upper cover, tall 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:McLean page 10-11. An Edmonds and Remnants Leak's Patent 'Relievo leather' binding, awarded a Prize Medal at the Great Exhibition in 1851.

Erpe (Thomas van). Grammatica Arabica cum Fabulis Locmanni, etc. Accedunt Excerpta Anthologiae Veterum Arabiae Poetarum Quae Inscribitur Hamasa Abi Temmam..., Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans, 1748, title printed in red & black with engraved vignette and contemporary large ink ownership inscription written vertically to inner margin; 'Ex Lib: Bibl: Scrivar: Sig: Reg:', text in Arabic and Latin, light spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary and 20th-century shelf mark notes to front pastedown, contemporary vellum boards, manuscript title to spine, gilt armorial embossed stamps of The Society of Writers to The Signet to upper and lower boards, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Brunet, II, 1050.

Graves (Algernon & Cronin William V.). A History of the Works of Sir J. Reynolds, 13 volumes, published by Subscription for the Proprietors by Henry Graves and Co. Ltd. 1899, additional half-title, additional contemporary manuscript description, with ink annotations to the index pages, approximately 880 uncoloured mezzotint and gravure plates on India wove, occasional spotting and staining, marbled endpapers, contemporary green half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, folioQTY: (13)NOTES:This is one of only five published sets; this being the publisher's copy.

Wellesley (Dorothy). Jupiter and the Nun, 1st edition, London: printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932, marbled endpapers, original marbled boards, light spotting and toning to boards, spine rubbed, slim 4to (limited edition 63/250 signed by Dorothy Wellesley), [Woolmer 313], together with:Trade Catalogue. Carrington & Co., Court Jewellers, Manufacturing Goldsmiths and Silversmiths, Watch and Clock Makers, Regimental Silversmiths, 130 Regent Street, London, c.1910, numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs, decorative printed endpapers, front free endpaper creased, original green cloth, title to upper board, few marks, slim oblong folio,Hunting Diaries. The Hunting Diary Illustrated for 1912-14, 1916-18, together 4 volumes, London: S. B. Vaughan, [1912-18], printed text and adverts, manuscript entries to sporting diaries at rear written by Alice Holroyd Smyth, husband of Rowland Holroyd Smyth, who owned Ballynatray House, County Waterford, Ireland, some dust-soiling and few marks, original cloth with monochrome pictorial panel to upper covers, slightly rubbed, some fading mostly to spines, 8vo,Almanack. The gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, (as compiled by the late John Watson Stewart,) for the Year of our Lord 1824..., Dublin: printed by Stewart & Hopes, [1824], engraved frontispiece and additional title, light dust-soiling, contemporary red morocco, worn at foot of binding, 8vo, plus other antiquarian and miscellaneous books, including some Ireland interest, some wornQTY: (6 shelves)

* Kent: Archbishop of Canterbury. Patent of assistance for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Westminster, 11 March 1736/7, manuscript on red ruled vellum with engraved decorative boarders and portrait initial of King George II upper left, concerning assistance during the succession if the Archbishop of Canterbury, calligraphic name of Jekyll Bulstrode at foot, somewhat soiled, remains of large wax seal for the Privy Seal appended by silk cords, held in three pieces with some pieces missing, 64 x 76 cm, together with a second vellum deed concerning lease of lands for 21 years for the Archbishop of Canterbury to Richard Master, of East Langdon, 3 December 1661, concerning land at Reculver, Kent, signed ‘W: Cant:’ witnesses Ri: Aldworth and Will: Turner to lower margin, somewhat spotted and soiled, clipped and right half of document excised in cancellation, 36 x 46 cm QTY: (2)NOTE:The first document concerns the succession of John Potter (c.1674-1747), who succeeded William Wake (1657-1737) as Archbishop of Canterbury in January 1737.The autograph at the foot of this clipped document is that of William Juxon (1582-1663), who served as Archbishop of Canterbury 1660-1663.

* Autograph Book. First Class Ticket Autograph Book, March-December 1919, approximately 150 leaves (approximately 1000 signatures), a vast majority with multiple signatures to rectos only, signatures include John Maynard Keynes, Winston Churchill (signed by Thomas Walden), Gertrude Bell, Louis Botha, Ernest M Pollock, Arnold Toynbee, Arthur Balfour, 10 Downing Street Delegation, Thomas Mackenzie etc., contemporary grey paper wrappers, manuscript title to upper cover, small 4to, together with:Photograph Album. An album of photographs and ephemera belonging to Theodora Amber Boisragon, 1919, containing an official pass with a photograph for Miss Boisragon, a typed letter from Marggini Marzohin to Colonel T. G. Heywood, programmes for concerts, a decorative menu cover for the Bastille day meal at the Hotel Majestic, admission ticket for the Versailles treaty signing, a 'confidential' 3 page document relating to 'The Question of Security', gatherings loose, contemporary green cloth, oblong 4to, plus two copies of The Peace Conference in Pictures and a matinee program organized by the Parisian Press SyndicateQTY: (5)NOTE:An interesting and unusual government autograph book for expensing first-class travel as well a comprehensive album, all relating to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

Italian chivalry manuscript. Vero Onore del Cavaliere, probably Italy, c. 1720, 137 leaves, written in a good clear hand, brief title and manuscript lettering on spine, black ink library stamp of a ducal coronet to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to (27.5 x 19 cm)NOTE:There is no evidence as to the authorship of this work, nor whether it is a copy or translation of a known work.

Medical manuscripts. Recettes de differents remedes, probably France, c. 1800, French manuscript in two parts of approximately 150 pp. with several additional paper slips inserted, covering receipts and cures for fevers, chest colds, sore throats, pleurisy, tonsillitis, stomach aches, dropsy, gout, stone, colic, sciatica, nervous diseases, cancers, breast pains following childbirth and other women problems including loss of language, migraine, poor eye sight, inflammation of the eyes, toothache, epilepsy, tape worm, viper bite, rabies, venereal disease, the second part containing receipts for ointments, balms, elixirs, etc., a little dust soiling, slightly later calf-backed marbled boards, some wear, 4to (21.5 x 16.5 cm); plus three other unrelated medical manuscripts, the first on classical medicine in Latin, c. 1750, approx. 300 pp., ownership inscription of Claude Bossus at rear and Crapulon to fore-edge, contemporary sheep, worn and upper joint cracked, small 8vo (13 x 9 cm); a French manuscript with rules concerning barber surgeons, c. 1720s, 74 leaves, later ownership signature of Dr. S. Derocques to front pastedown, old limp boards, soiled and worn, 4to (20 x 15.5 cm); and a small volume of medical extracts in English, c. 1860s, approx. 90 leaves, containing extracts from Moses L. Knapp’s Researches on Primary Pathology (1858) and from Frederick William Headland and Jonathan Tatt on medicine and dentistry, contemporary limp morocco, rubbed and soiled, 16mo (12.5 x 7.5 cm)QTY: (4)

* Pharmacist's Receipt Book. A Manuscript Cheltenham Pharmacist's Notebook, 1877-79, approximately 200 leaves, with black ink notes to both recto and verso, with details of medication and compounds prescribed (often including dosage), with customer's names and addresses, a few leaves at rear dedicated to 'pauper lunatics', including their addresses, a few marked as deceased, contemporary vellum, a little worn and soiled, 4toQTY: (1)

* Scrapbook. A Victorian scrap album, 44 leaves, each page with multiple neatly arranged colour lithographic and chromolithographic prints plus monochrome scissor cuts, some images with contemporary hand colouring, including travel, ethnographic, natural history, military, sport, juvenalia, mythology, Christmas, manuscript inscription in ink 'Proctors Scrap Book / Portsmouth Point' with partial wax seal to back cover, partially disbound, large folio (47 x 33 cm)QTY: (1)

French politics manuscript. La Politique aisée, contenant cinq chapitres, probably France, c.1780, [5], 183 leaves, written in French in a good clear hand, with a title-page and contents list at front, some minor spotting and dust soiling, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, 4to (22.5 x 17 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A longer title, written at the head of the first leaf of the preface. reads: La Politique aisée avec les reflexions nécessaires pour former la prudence d’un gentilhomme et pour luy inspirer de bonnes inclinations. A manuscript with a very similar title of 180 leaves is noted in the Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Biblioghèque St-Pétersbourg (1874 ), p. 79, 20 W.

* Kent Estate Plans & Rentals. A group of approximately 20 manuscript items by and relating to Lee Warly, mostly 18th century, including A rough sketch of Pimphurst Farm in Bethersden, Kent, belonging to Mr Lee Warly, surveyed in 1784..., H. Hogben, surveyor, pen and ink and colour wash on paper with additional manuscript explanation, references, etc., made by Lee Warly (who purchased this farm of William Kennett), laid down on thicker paper by Warly with his endorsement to verso, some spotting and minor wear to left margin, 42.5 x 77 cm, together with 7 other small pen and ink and wash estate plans by and relating to Lee Warly's properties in Kent, including; A map of the Rose and Crown Inn…, Elham, Kent, 1746, 20 x 24.5 cm; Plan of a cottage called Foxes in the Hole, Denton, Elham, Kent, 1746, a copy, 16 x 20 cm; Plan of land called Greenway in the parish of Sutton near Dover… in the occupation of Dan: Warman, 1746, 21 x 20 cm; and similar (one damaged with minor loss); plus 10 other mostly 18th-century manuscript items relating to Lee Warly and family, mostly rentals and related for properties in Kent, including a rental book, 1818-1849, with rents due to George Plomer, George Plomer Jr and George Daniel Plomer, names of tenants include Henry Oxenden, William Fox, Mrs. Fagg, Mr Brasier, Mr Adley, Mr Luckhurst, Mrs Gorely and Miss Larcher, a total of approximately 125 leaves, mostly written to rectos only, contemporary vellum with Lee Warly's name to upper cover and front pastedown, some soiling and wear, 31 × 20.5 cmQTY: (approx. 20)

Levasseur (Victor). Atlas National Illustré des 86 Départements et des Possessions de la France..., Paris: Pelissier, 1859, decorative engraved title page, table of statistics and 102 decorative engraved maps slight spotting throughout, the map of North America showing Texas as independent, loosely inserted are a manuscript map of Martinique and a wood-engraved map of Madagascar, marbled endpapers, contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards with additional gilt title to the upper, siding, heavily worn and rubbed, folioQTY: (1)

* London in the 18th Century. A group of nine various manuscript documents Ward of Farringdon Without, and St. Sepulchre's Church, City of London, 1667-1828, consisting of a vellum indenture for Abraham Spooner, son of Thomas Spooner, shoemaker, to be apprenticed to Gabriell Bonnot, Weaver for a period of nine years, dated 7th August 1667, 26 lines of manuscript text in brown ink, signed by Bonnot and three witnesses (Robert Gale, Rochard Burton, and Thomas Lowe), 19.5 x 27 cm, a portion of a printed bill from Daniel Thompson, scale-maker, at the Justice & Scales behind the conduit on Snow Hill, dated March 1726/7, a printed and handwritten receipt for the purchase of twenty-nine and a half yards of cloth from John Farrer, at the Golden Key and Swan on Snow Hill, London, dated January 28 1743/4, two documents signed by John Wilkes (1725-1797), in his role as Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon Without, both certifing a rate book and dated 28th June 1771, and 8th October 1772, each signed in ink, and with his red seal, 15.5 x 19 cm, a 1796 printed and handwritten receipt for £200 from John Jones, Collector for Smithfield for Land Tax, dated 30 May 1797, a manuscript letter to Lord Mayor and Worshipful Court of Aldermen, dated 4th November 1817, concerning the ruinous condition of the remises over the gateway leaidng to the Manufactury of Mr David Montegue in West Street otherwise Chick Lane, soap boiler, presented by a group of local tradesmen, brown ink on a single sheet of laid paper, 25 x 20.5 cm, and an 1818 handwritten demand for payment from Richard Brewer of Lincoln's Inn to William Harvey, South Mimms, Middlesex, dated 24 October 1818, and a handwritten receipt for payment of 16 shillings for 4 men on duty at a Bawdy House, No. 9 Cock Court, February 23rd to March 1st 1828, with a printed history of St. Sepulchre's Church by G. H. Salter, entitled A Watcher at the City Gate (1956)QTY: (9)NOTE:Provenance: Believed to have been part of the archives in the vestry at St. Sepulchre's Church, Newgate, which was bombed on May 11th 1941.John Wilkes (1725-1797), British radical, journalist, and politician, a supporter of the American Rebels during the American War of Independence, here acting in his role as Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon Without. He was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.

* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Autograph cheque signed, ‘Charles Dickens’, London, 3 February 1870, in favour of Mr. Carlin, for twenty-five pounds on a Messrs Coutts & Compy printed cheque, with Dickens’s manuscript insertions and autograph in blue ink, a little spotting, toning and light creasing, short closed tear near date upper right, ink receipt name stamp of ‘London & County Bank, Hanover Square’ partly obscuring ‘Cha’ at start of signature, payee name of ‘T. B. Carlin’ inscribed in brown ink to verso in another hand, 93 x 190 mm The recipient of the cheque was Mr Carlin of the firm of T. B. Carlin, cigar importers, 189 Regent Street, London. Dickens was a devoted cigar smoker who helped popularise the cigar in England, and the highly regarded cigar merchants T. B. Carlin were his suppliers. Thomas Barnes Carlin (1824-1859) had died before this cheque was drawn so it would have been another Carlin family member with whom Dickens was then dealing. In the conclusion to a letter written to Arthur Helps a month later, (6 March 1870), Dickens says: ‘In the accompanying box is a bundle of those choice little cigars duly dried in the summer heat of Gad’s Hill. If you continue to like them and will impress upon Mr. Carlin that you confide in his supplying you as he supplies me, I think you will rarely get any worse’ (The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 12, 1868-1870, p. 500). Dickens died three months later, following a stroke at his Gads Hill Place home, on 9 June 1870.QTY: (1)

Manuscript volumes. A group of 5 assorted manuscript volumes, 18th & 19th century, one titled ‘Explication de l’ordonnance donnée à Versailles au moys de fevrier 1731’, 420 pp., bookplate of E. S. Pellet, contemporary calf, some wear, 8vo; a volume in German being for the instruction of Christianity for the beginner, Dessau, 22 January 1790, 150 pp., consisting of questions and answers, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, old boards, some loss to spine, small 8vo; a manuscript ‘Encyclopaedia’ in Latin, c. 1720, 549 pp. and index, covering a range of subjects, contemporary vellum, some soiling and wear, 8vo; a French manuscript volume of collected miscellanea, c. 1720, and an English commonplace book, c. 1850s, both 8voQTY: (5)

* Pegge (Samuel, 1704-1796), Vicar of Godmersham, Kent. Manuscript collections of Samuel Pegge, L.L.D., F.S.A., chiefly relating to Kent; Wye near Ashford [so titled in ink on upper cover], mostly mid to late 18th century, a miscellanea of manuscript writings, including: some accounts of old books; lists of church wardens accounts from 1515; the founding of college of Wye and history of church including inscriptions on tombs now gone; a discussion on 'church lights', dedication of the church and several expense accounts for the church candles etc. in the reign of Henry VIII; civil account of Wye including rents and schoolmasters’ pay; a Latin letter about Cardinal Kemp; appendices to Kemps’ life; lists of lands (incomplete); accounts and lists of parishioners; short history of Wye; genealogy of the Kemps with family tree diagrams, heraldic shields; notes on the history of Ashford; a letter on Croyland; notes on the Hebrew Psalms, etc., the majority of writings seemingly in Pegge’s hand, mostly on bifolia, plus some single and stitched sheets, a total of approx. 200 pages, folio, loosely contained in old vellum boards, manuscript notes and armorial bookplate of Leonard R. Hartley to front pastedown, ink title to upper cover and spine, soiled and worn with loss to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Samuel Pegge ‘the Elder’ was an English antiquary and clergyman. Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he was the son of Christopher Pegge and his wife Gertrude, daughter of Francis Stephenson of Unstone, near Chesterfield. Samuel published an important study on the Roman roads of Derbyshire as well as notes which his son, also Samuel, continued on the subject of Derbyshire words and phrases. Pegge became vicar of Godmersham, in Kent, in December 1731, and while living there he developed his antiquarian interests, collecting books and coins, corresponding with like-minded contemporaries, researching, and writing. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1751. ‘To the classical and theological compositions of his youth, beginning in 1727 with the publication of a Latin ode on the death of King George I, he had added a body of predominantly antiquarian writings which increased substantially during his remaining forty-five years. Pegge was said to have been the most prolific of all contributors to the journal Archaeologia with more than fifty published articles and memoirs. His topics were as diverse as Anglo-Saxon jewels, the introduction of the vine into Britain, and the manner of King John's death, as well as more immediately local subjects such as bull-running at Tutbury in Staffordshire’ (ODNB). Pegge’s letters and papers are held in various regional archives, his collections relating to Kent at the Bodleian, Oxford.

Wilde (Oscar). De Profundis. A Facsimile, introduction by Merlin Holland, limited issue, London: The British Library, 2000, portrait frontispiece, facsimile manuscript leaves, original half morocco gilt, slipcase, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 45/95, signed by Merlin Holland and dated 30 November 2000.

Astronomy manuscript. Concerning the Antiquity Excellency of Astronomy, probably England, c. 1720, 284 pp., English manuscript written in a neat hand with running heads and tables, includes sections on Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Peter Gassendi, Roger Bacon, etc., index at rear with further notes appended (ending mid-sentence), some browning and soiling throughout, later ink name stamp of Dav. Lambe to title, contents shaken and loose in contemporary panelled sheep, very worn, covers detached and broken on spine, 4to (20 x 15.5 cm), together with an earlier Latin manuscript on Astronomy and Metaphysics, [?England], c. 1660, 420 pp., but lacking leaves at front and rear, some staining and soiling and occasional worming, mostly marginal, some leaves torn with loss, contemporary boards with loose remains of calf skin cover, indistinctly titled ‘METAPHYS et PHYSICI / M.H.F. / 1660’, 4to (23 x 18 cm)QTY: (2)

SANTINI, Paolo. Atlas universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Venezia, Santini, 17762 vols, Folio, 540 x 395 mm. Engraved title-page to first volume, 2 index plates at the beginning of each volume, 123 maps divided as follows: 60 double-page maps for the first volume, 63 for the second, contemporary watercolor borders, contemporary manuscript title numbering to versos of maps (in very good condition except for the first volume: very small wormhole to inner margin of the first twenty leaves affecting the printing area but not particularly visible, ff. 32-34 and 37 with small waterstain to lower margin; in the second: tear to lower margin of ff. 1, 12 and 13 not affecting engraving). Contemporary interim binding with marbled sides, adorned Venetian paper spine. First edition of the atlas by the brothers Paolo and Francesco Santini, considered one of the most important universal atlases printed in Italy in the 18th century. The editors substantially reproduced, retaining toponyms and inscriptions in French, the Atlas Universel published in Paris in 1757 by Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, but made several changes especially to the maps of the Italian regions. The plates, signed by Paolo Santini and his brother Francesco, are based on the works of the best geographers of the time: d'Anville, Bellin, Bonne, Boscovich, Clarici, De L'Isle, Homan, Jaillot, Janvier, de Vaugondy and Rizzi Zannoni.Tooley, p. 541 e 559; NMM III, 277; Nordenskiold 276; Phillips Atlases 657; Gallo, R. Pp. 153-214.

LOUIS XV. Appointment Second Company Captain for the 'Sieur de Tapffel'.‘Trichard Le Cadet’. Handwritten document with the King's signature.Versailles, 28 June 1748Parchment manuscript. 300x490 mm. Text on front, clear bureaucratic style writing, brown ink. King ‘Louis’ signature at the end. Countersignature by Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson. Traces of wear and tear with no damage to text.Le 'Sieur de Tapffel' is appointed by the King as Second Captain of the Trichard Le Cadet Company, of the 'de La Marck' Infantry Regiment. The La Mark or La Marck regiment is a German infantry regiment of the Kingdom of France created in 1680 with the name of the Konigsmark regiment, renamed 'La Mark' in 1693. The document on parchment bears the signature of Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson, 'Secrétaire d'État de la Guerre' from January 1743 to February 1757.

LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De rerum natura libri sex, ad postremam Oberti Gifanii ic. emendationem accuratissime restituti. Lugduni Batauorum [Leiden], Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 15958vo; 165x110 mm. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Pages [48], 486, 2 blank. Printer's device on the Title page, woodcut ornate Initials, italic, Roman and Greek type. Signs of wear on the binding. Good copy. Rare and important edition of the Rerum Natura, with a part of the text in elegant Greek types. Edition edited by the Rhenish humanist Hubert van Giffen, dedicated to Iohannes Sambucus. The volume includes: the Life of Lucretius, written by the editor, the compendium of Epicurus' De rerum natura, in the version of Lucretius, with the text in Greek, and Thucydides' book on the plague of Athens, with the text in Greek. From page 299 the considerable Index compiled by Hubert van Giffen.TB 3250; Adams L-1671; Gordon (Lucretius) 103°; BM STC, Dutch Books S. 126; Dibdin II, 200.

Manuscript signed in Pencil Mahler, framed and glazed

This fine engraving by Theodor de Bry presents a Native American man standing with a bow and arrow, holding a bundle of arrows. The print features distinctive markings that are associated with the chief men of Virginia, each marking representing the individual’s identity or tribal affiliation. The image is part of De Bry's larger collection documenting the early encounters between European explorers and Native Americans in the Americas. Engraver: Theodor de Bry Published in: Brevis Narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt (Great Voyages, Part II), 1590 Condition Report: Signs of wear consistent with age, manuscript writing at the top of the sheet. Image Size: 31.5 x 24 cm (12.4 x 9.45 inches.) Keywords: Virginia, Native American marks, bow and arrow, Theodor de Bry, Great Voyages, 16th-century engraving, indigenous symbols, Native American chiefs, early American history, cultural documentation, historical engraving, Brevis Narratio, ethnographic illustration, European exploration, travel book, travel atlas, New world, American exploration, Virginia, Virginia map, Travel account, 16th century travel, atlas

Collection of Mainly History Books, including a good selection of academic works, such as Sharpe (James), Instruments of Darkness, Witchcraft in England, 1550-1750, Hamish Hamilton, 1996, dust jacket; Lapidge (Michael and Helmut Gneuss, editors), Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge University Press, 1987; Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, reprint, dust jacket; The Stanbrook Abbey Press, Ninety-Two Years of its History, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1970; and others on manuscript studies, religious history, several volumes of The Making of the English Landscape, etc. (10 boxes)

Collection of History Books, including local history, manuscript studies and other academic works, such as Wood (Diana, editor), Studies in Church History: Christianity and Judaism, Blackwell, 1992, dust jacket; Raine (Angelo), History of St. Peter's School: York, G. Bell and Sons, 1926; Boyle (Leonard E.), Medieval Latin Palaeography, A Bibliographical Introduction, University of Toronto Press, 1986; Bennett (H. S.), Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, Clarendon Press, 1947; and others, including several volumes of the Yorkshire Archaeological Record Society, religious history, European history, etc. (11 boxes)

Elizabeth I (Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603) Exemplification of two messuages and pasture owned in Foxearth, Essex by John Mayer against William Tudman, manuscript in English, on vellum, slightly creased, folds, large remains of Great Seal, 250 x 520mm., Westminster, 24th May 1582.

Reliquary.- Reliquary of 7 Female Saints, being Saints Lucia, Agatha, Agnes, Catherine of Siena, Cecelia, Catherine ?of Bologna and Veronica Giuliani, with small typed labels and set within a decorative fabric arrangement, sealed at the rear with parchment, thread and Cardinal's red wax seal (unbroken), contained within a glass-fronted metal medallion (perhaps brass, or silver plated), detachable in two parts, and accompanied by the original document of authenticity issued by Cardinal Lucido Maria Paroccchi then Vicar General of Rome, in Latin on paper, printed text within border and manuscript additions and signatures in ink and also stamped in blind with the Cardinal's arms, folds, with small manuscript notes to verso, Rome, July 1884.   *** A beautiful personal reliquary of 7 important female saints: all relics of the third degree, being described as either 'ex velis seria in quibus involuta fecerunt ossa' or 'vela imbuta sanguine' (that is fragments, from the veils in which was wrapped the saints' holy bones or blood). 

Cowley (Abraham) The Works... to this Edition are added, Cutter of Coleman-Street [...],  eighth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, divisional titles, 2X1-4 misbound, S2 large closed tear, a couple of leaves missing at end both presumably blank (Y2 & E4), ink manuscript notes in later hand to rear endpaper, occasional light browning and foxing, near contemporary calf, joints cracked but holding, red morocco spine label, spine head worn otherwise a bit rubbed, [Wing C6659], 4to, Henry Herringman, 1693.*** Provenance: from the library of John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon (1703-27) [engraved bookplate]. 

Deed of a Medieval Warwickshire woman.- Isabella Geffrey of Ilmington's manuscript release and quitclaim for land at Ilmington, near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, to Robert de Val, relinquishing her right in a messuage and 1½ acres of land and a farthingdeal of meadow, namely: the messuage which Alice Hebbe long held in the vill and fields of Ilmington, one acre at Holdeforde, half an acre in the four acres and the farthingdeal of meadow lies at Severode, witnesses: Henry Benet of Foxcote, Gilbert Benet of Foxcote, Richard Geffrey of Ilmington, Gilbert Marescall of Ilmington, Gilbert Dyonis of Ilmington, manuscript on vellum, with round white wax seal for Isabella Geffrey, c.95 x 210mm., [c.1300].

West Yorkshire.- Charter, Richard le Watchher of Pontefract confirms to William de ffolby [Foulby], carpenter, and Osanne his wife of a messuage in Foulby, witnesses: Alan de Cogna, Richard Wade and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 8 lines, wax seal with star impression, browned, 1324.

Poetry.- Collection of poetry by various authors, manuscript, 91pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original calf, gilt, rubbed, upper cover detached, gilt spine, lacks head and tail of spine, sm. 4to, dated in text 1821. *** Poems, include: "Pantheon... Abradates... David Hopkins, 1809"; "The Death of Virginia... Hamilton, 1817."

London Grocer and Burton-on-Trent.- John Sherwood Grocer of London and Robert Smithfield Grocer to Robert middelton deed relating to a square built building in Burton-on-Trent, Richard ssleygh on the one part and Richard Goldsmith on the other part, from the gift and grant of John Grene, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 11 lines, 2 red wax seals with fine impressions, folds, 100 x 282mm., 16th August 1457.

Silk-dyeing.- Macquer (Pierre Joseph) Arte de la Tintura de Sedas, translated by Miguel Geronimo Suarez y Nuñez, first Spanish edition, with final blank at end of both preliminary leaves and main work, 6 folding engraved plates, the final four wormed affecting images, with 2 leaves of contents in neat contemporary ink manuscript tipped in after title, a couple of leaves defective at lower outer corner through paper flaw but no loss to text, ex-library copy with printed silk shelf-label to front pastedown and trace of stamp removed from title causing fraying, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, lacking label, 8vo, Madrid, Blas Roman, 1771.*** Scarce treatise on silk-dyeing first published in France in 1763 by a doctor of medicine and professor of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in Paris. Macquer (1718-84) was royal censor and supervisor from 1745 and director of the royal porcelain factory at Sèvres from 1766; the translator, Suarez, was director of the royal silk manufactories in the province of Cadiz from 1764-71. The plates show the different phases and processes of silk-dyeing as well as the tools and vessels required for this.

Lear (Edward) A Book of Nonsense, eighth edition, hand-coloured title and 110 hand-coloured plates only (of 111), additional hand-coloured original illustration and manuscript rhyme bound at end, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary half vellum, a little rubbed, [1863] § Shakespeare (William) The Sonnets, hand-coloured frontispiece, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary calf by Riviere & Son, slight rubbing to spine extremities, 1928 § Kipling (Rudyard) Verse. Inclusive Edition. 1885-1932, portrait frontispiece, bookplate, contemporary half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1936; oblong 8vo & 8vo (3)

World.- Raleigh (Sir Walter) The History of the World, with 'Minde of the Front' f. and engraved title, as well as the 8 double-page engraved maps and plates (1 loose, most silked), preliminaries much mis-bound and multiple ff. lacking [being as follows in sequence: 7C5 (imprint f., mis-bound), 'Minde' f., title, contents a-c6 d2 (mis-bound, but as called for), 7A1-7B2 (mis-bound), then 12ff. of Preface present only (of 20: lacking A1-4 and random others)], thereafter B1-M6 multiple ff. with significant defects and text supplied in manuscript, lacking Q1 and 7C6 (final blank), throughout entirety multiple ff. completely silked especially at start (including 'Minde' f. and title) and many of these trimmed, scattered other defects including with some minor text loss, only occasional instances of staining and generally quite clean apart from the restorations, modern calf, slipcase, [STC 20637], folio, by William Stansby for Walter Burre, 1614 [sold not subject to return]. 

Ephemera.- Trimnell (Charles, auctioneer) [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of all the genuine Household Furniture, about Six Dozen fine old Madeira...of Mrs. Hamilton, dec., 8pp., prices supplied in ink & pencil manuscript, lightly browned, loose as issued, uncut, [Not in ESTC], Bath, Meyler & Son, 1819 § [State-Lottery advertisement] Richardson, Goodluck & Co....Thirty Thousand Pound Prize, No. 12,807, 2pp., variant without catchword "English" on p.1, disbound, [1792]; and a small group of other items including a One Hour Labour note from the Birmingham National Equitable Labour Exchange, v.s. (14)

Irish Rebellion of 1641.- Bacon (Sir Francis, English judge who condemned Irish leader Conor Maguire to death, 1587-1657). Manuscript reckoning relating to charges and debt attaching to the Rectory of Eastriston leased by Sir Francis Bacon to Robert Lambert, "w[it]ch was nowe paide And so all Accounts nowe and at this tyme stande even betweene us." signed "Fran. Bacon" in the hand of Bacon, manuscript on paper, slightly soiled, 150 x 177mm.,  27th September 1645.*** Sir Francis Bacon was the sole judge of the King's Bench at the trial of Conor Maguire, 2nd Baron of Enniskillen (1616-1645) a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. On 10 February 1645, Maguire was tried for High Treason for his role in the attempt to seize Dublin Castle. He was found guilty, and Bacon sentenced him to be hanged, drawn and quartered. That sentence was carried out at Tyburn on 22 February 1645 - the same year Bacon executed the present document.

Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, Richard Caddo of Kirtling concedes and confirms to William ffarewell of Chestford, [Great Chesterford] and Ralph ?rokere of Kirtling of tenements in Kirtling, Lidgate and Cowlinge, witnesses: Robert Lymenge, Henry ffullere of Lidgate and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 9 lines, wax seal with good impression, folds, some light creasing, 96 x 275mm., 1386.