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A group of six medals to J.14622. F.Zanelli, P.O. H.M.S. Blanche, comprising: 1914 - 15 Star, 1914 - 18 British War medal, 1914 - 19 Victory medal, 1939 - 45 Defence medal, 1939 - 45 War medal and a George V coinage head Navy Long Service and Good Conduct medal, mounted on a bar, with a wooden box, with accompanying photographs, station card, letters of reference, photocopy of a certificate for wounds and hurts, qualification in seamanship certificate, etc.

A large pair of gilt letters S and U together with a brass and mesh fire screen

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM; A collection of Victorian autographs and letters in manuscript, with many names from the stage including Ellen Terry, Genevieve Ward and Marie Roze, artists including Harry Furnace (next to a self-cariacature) and Edward Poynter, an ALs from J.W.S. Marr (a scout who sailed with Shackleton to the Antarctic), and Ms bars of music, tipped-in or mounted, some leaves missing, original quarter morocco, folio, c.1850-1922.

STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) The Letters, 2 vols., some spotting, contemporary half calf, 8vo, 1902; together with other leatherbound works, (qty).

A rare firemans helmet with a gilt tansfer depicting a pair of crossed flaming torches, the letters G.F.B. set in trefoil manner all enclosed by a laurel wreath"

Walpole (Horace) - The Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, edited by Peter Cunningham, 9 vols, engraved title and plts, full red calf gilt with raised bands and black tickets by Bickers & Son, 1880; William Cowper - Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple Esq in two volumes, vol I only, fourth edition, later half vellum; John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury - The Apology of The Church of England and an Epistle to One Senor Scipio a Venetian Gentleman Concerning the Council of Trent 1685 and approx 30 others finely bound books (40 approx)

The Tridentine Missal. Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosanti Conciliji Tridentini restitutum Pii v Pont. Max. issu ed., engraved title signed PB and vignettes, woodcut initial letters in red and black throughout, in 18th c calf with raised bands, Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & Joannem Moretum, 1593; Joannes Antonius Vulpius - Albius Tibullus eques romanus et in eum calf, Patavii: Josephus Cominus, 1749 (2)

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) - Byron's Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A Marchand, vols 1-12, cloth dj, John Murray 1973-82 (12)

Lawrence (David Herbert) - Works, The Phoenix Edition of D H Lawrence, uniform scarlet cloth, William Heinemann Ltd, 1957 & c; - The Rainbow, reprinted 1950; - The Letters of D H Lawrence 1932 (15)

(Begin, Ortulus anime - The Garden of the Soule: or the Englisshe Primers newe Corrected and Augmented...), 16mo, blackletter rubricated in red and with woodcut initial letters, cont. blocked calf, Argentine [Antwerp:] M de Keyser, Francis Foxe, 1530, waf

A George IV linen sampler by Mary Roper Penrith 1832, worked in silk on wool with trees and birds below rows of letters and numbers, 15 x 11, contemporary frame

A 19th century Sèvres coffee set gilt with Napoleonic bees and armorials over the letters N and J, comprising: eight coffee cans, eight saucers, milk jug, sucrier, coffee pot and cover (W) (20)

A Victorian sampler by Ellen Christian aged 13 years, worked in black thread with letters, numerals, verse, squirrels and trees, within a dentil border, 10 1/4" x 10 1/2".

Putney (Alfred) - Tour in Holy Land, a hand written diary, written as a series of letters to the author's parents, the first dated March 24th 1878, from the Hotel Burgundy, Paris, the last dated April 19th 1878, form the Hotel Damascus, Jerusalem, with several photographs, views and sketches, dark brown morocco with gilt tooling, raised spine bands.

*** Martin (19th century), A shoemaker at work with other figures, oil on panel, with verse and inscription on label verso, 29.5 x 22cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/2in), sold with a Royal Warrant dated 5th January 1874 and bearing a wax seal 16cm (6 1/4in) in diameter (damaged), granting letters patent to Alfred Christmas Andrews for the invention of machinery to be used in shoe manufacture

Royal Ephemera: two tickets dated June 22nd, 1897, for entrance to Buckingham Palace, access to roof/balcony; two hand-written letters regarding a dress (Lady Greville) for the Duchess of York, one from Marlborough House dated Dec 11th 1914, mentioning Queen Alexandra's thanks; one from York Cottage, Sandringham dated Oct 24th '94; two railway postcards, steam tram on Wisbech to Upwell line, and steam tram from Wisbech; and Official Programme for Diamond Jubilee (Victoria) (the two letters and programme ripped and sellotaped together) (seven)

Max Beerbohm 'And Even Now', published by Heinemann 1920, First Edition; also Evelyn Waugh 'Love Among The Ruins'; Helen Beauclerc 'The Love of the Foolish Angel', illus Dulac; Henry Savage 'Richard Middleton's Letters', signed limited edition; and William Bourdillion 'Gerard and Isobelle', published 1921 (5 volumes)

BOLINGBROKE Henry St. John, Viscount The miscellaneous works ... 4 volumes, contemporary calf, dried and rubbed, 12mo., Edinburgh: Donaldson, 1773. WEST Jane Letters to a young lady ... 4th edition, 3 volumes, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and dried, covers scuffed, 12mo., London: Longman, etc., 1811. BOTTARELLI G. & POLIDORI G. The new Italian, English, and French pocket dictionary: carefully compiled from the dictionaries of La Crusca, Dr. Johnson, the French Academy ... 3 volumes, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, oblong 12mo., London: Wingrave & Collingwood, etc., 1820 and 9 others [19]

BURNS Robert A small collection of editions of Burns or works about him, to include: The poetry; edited by W.E. Henley & T.F. Henderson with etchings by William Hole (The centenary Burns) ... 4 volumes, frontis. to each vol. and other plates, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, stain on upper cover of vol. 4 8vo., Edinburgh: Jack, 1896-97; The poems and songs; edited by James Kinsley ... 3 volumes, frontis. to each vol., plates, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968; Letters; edited J. De Lancey Ferguson ... 2 volumes, frontis. to each vol., plates, original cloth, dustwrappers, initialled at the front in pencil by Sydney Goodsir Smith, 8vo., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931; STORER J. & GREIG. J. Views in North Britain illustrative of the works of Robert Burns ... 1st edition, engraved frontis., engraved titlepage, 18 engraved plates and an engraved vignette, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, some foxing, 8vo.,London: Vernor & Hood, 1805; DAKERS A. Robert Burns: his life and genius ... 1st edition, port. frontis., original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Chapman & Hall, 1923; SMIITH S.G. A choice of Burns's poems and songs ... 1st thus, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1966; DAICHES David. Robert Burns ... 1st edition, facsim. frontis., original cloth, dustwrappers, initialled at the front in pencil by Sydney Goodsir Smith, 8vo., London: Bell, 1952; LINDSAY Maurice. Robert Burns: the man, his work, the legend ... 1st edition, port. frontis., plates, original cloth, dustwrappers, contents leaf sprung, initialled at the front. in pencil by Sydney Goodsir Smith and with numerous pencil annotations by him, 8vo., London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1954 and 27 other related books and pamphlets [41]

BYRON George Gordon Noel, Lord A large collection of works by or concerning Lord Byron, to include: Letters and journals ... with notices of his life by Thomas Moore ... 1st edition, 2 volumes, engraved port. as a frontis. to vol. 2 original cloth, printed paper labels, outer joints of vol. 1 splitting, vol. 2 rebacked, prelims. of vol. 1 foxed, with some other instances of foxing, 4to., London: Murray, 1830; Works ... 3 vols., contemporary diced calf, covers detached, 8vo., London: Murray, 1815; Lara ... 5th ed, modern quarter morocco, marbled boards, 8vo., London: Murray, 1817; TRELAWNY E. J. Records of Shelley, Byron, and the author ... 1st ed, port. frontis. to each vol., 3 other plates, original cloth, heads and tails rubbed, 8vo., London: Pickering, 1878; BLESSINGTON Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. The idler in Italy ... 2nd ed., 3 vols., original cloth, 8vo., London: Colburn, 1839-40; NATHAN I. Fugitive pieces and reminiscences of Lord Byron: containing an entirely new edition of The Hebrew melodies ... also some original poetry, letters and recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb ... 1st ed., modern paper boards, 8vo., London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1829; ORIGO Iris. The last attachment ... 1st ed., port. frontis., original cloth, dustwrapper, annotations by Sydney Goodsir Smith, 8vo., London: Cape, 1949; NICOLSON Harold. Byron: the last journal April 1823-April 1824 ... 1st ed., original cloth, with pencilled ex libris of Sydney Goodsir Smith, 8vo., London: Constable, 1924 and 36 others [50]

COTGRAVE Randle A dictionarie of the French and English tongues ... whereunto is also annexed a most copious dictionarie of the English set before the French by R.S.L. [i.e. Robert Sherwood Londoner] ... 2nd edition, 2 works in 1 volume, woodcut strapwork titlepages to both parts, fldg. table, contemporary calf, worrn, joints split, lower margin of Ggggv in the first work torn with some letters of text affected, similarly Iiiivi (but with no loss), tears to inner margin of the fldg. table, tear in the second work to margins of Diii in 2nd work touching letters of text, also with some outer margins trimmed and touching letters of text in marginal notes, both parts with some water staining and paper discolouration, folio, London: Adam Islip, 1632

MacDIARMID Hugh [i.e GRIEVE Christopher Murray] To cirmcumjack Cencrastus or the curly snake ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, head and tail of wrapper chipped, signed by Sydney Goodsir Smith at the front, 8vo., Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1930. Note: Aitken 17. Described by one critic as sounding like "Homer after he swallowed his false teeth", others hailed it as an extraordinary achievement. Fundamentally, the poem "seeks a coalescence between the Gaelic Idea and MacDiarmid's belief that "The function of art is the extension of human consciousness."" (Bold, p.250) Despite Macdiarmid's unhappiness about the finished product, the reviews in the periodicals which he took seriously were generally favourable. Selected poems ... edited by Oliver Brown ... 1st thus, printed paper wrappers, 8vo., Glasgow: Maclellan for the Scottish Secretariat, 1954. Note: Aitken 50 (a). Inscribed on the titlepage "To Sydney with love from Hugh MacDiarmid" Early lyrics recently discovered among letters to his schoolmaster and friend George Ogilvie .. 1st thus, original printed paper wrappers, 8vo., Preston: Akros, 1968 and 2 others [5] Note: Aitken 84 (a). No 291 of 350 copies

SCOTTISH LITERATURE & POETRY A collection of editions and works on Scottish poets and writers, mostly prior to 1800, many signed or initialled by Sydney Goodsir Smith, some with inscriptions or inserted letters from the editors, to include: IRVING D. The history of Scottish poetry. 1st edition, cloth, 8vo., Edinburgh, 1861; FERGUSSON R. Poems, edited by M.P. McDiarmid (Scottish Text Society 3rd series vols. 21 & 24), quarter roan, cloth boards, 8vo., Edinburgh, 1950-54; GRAHAM Dougal, The collected writings, edited by G. MacGregor, 2 vols., cloth, 8vo., Glasgow, 1883; HECHT H. Songs from David Herd's manuscripts, quarter cloth, paper boards, 8vo., one of 750 copies, Edinburgh, 1904; LAING D. Early popular poetry of Scotland and the Norhern border. 2 vols., cloth, 8vo., London, 1895; SCOTT A. The poems, ed. James Cranston, (Scottish Text Society vol. 36), quarter roan, cloth boards, 8vo., 1896 and 52 others [61]

[TOPHAM Edward] Letters from Edinburgh written in the years 1774 and 1775 containing some observations on the divisions, customs, manners, and laws of the Scotch nation, during a six month residence in Edinburgh ... 1st edition, contemporary calf, spine rubbed, upper cover detached, 2 signatures on the titlepage, some light paper discolouration, 8vo., London: Dodsley, 1776

CURTIS William Flora londinenis: or plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London ... 1st edition, (volume 1 titlepage dated 1777), 3 vols. [only, of 6] in 1 with 223 plates (with 6 uncoloured and 217 hand coloured], with one list of subscribers and indices to vols. 1 to 3 19th century half green morocco, cloth boards, rubbed, repairs to titlepage and to the dedication leaf affecting letters of text, occasional offsetting from the plates, folio, London: by the author [1775-etc.] Issued in 72 parts, the Flora Londinensis is much more comprehensive than its title might suggest, for it extends to most of the English flora, and could be regarded as the first colour-plate national flora

BYNG Admiral The Hon. John The trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng at a court martial as taken by Mr. Charles Fearne, Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet: published by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty at the desire of the court-martial ... 1st edition, 19th century half blue morocco, cloth boards, by Ayling, London: Manby et al., 1757. Note: The sheets of the text are mounted and the work expanded with the addition of about 180 items associated with Byng, the Admiralty, the Seven Years War, the campaigns in which Byng was involved and current events of the day. The material consists of autograph letters and other documents, engraved maps, cartoons, ballads, broadsides, pamphlets, proclamations and numerous engraved portraits of Byng and his contemporaries in the Navy and government. A full list of the contents of the collection is available.

GORDON, C.G., General Letters of General C.G. Gordon to his sister M.A. Gordon ... Revised printer's proof, cloth, with leather labels on the spine and inset into the covers, 8vo., Macmillan, 1888. Note: Proof sheets forwarded by Gordon's sister to Sir Henry Acland, regius professor of medicine and Radcliffe librarian at Oxford, for revision by him. Bound in is a letter from Miss Gordon to him in which she sets out her wishes for the binding and for "cut edges", and notes on the proofs with suggested changes and omissions by him. There are some corrections to the printed text which is marked up for his revision and stamped with the printer's stamp

[HARTLIB Samuel] The reformed common-wealth of bees presented in severall letters and observations to Sammuel Hartlib Esq with the reformed Virginian silk-worm containing many excellent and choice secrets, experiments, and discoveries for attaining of national and private profits and riches ... 1st edition, pp. [iv], 62 [ii], with woodcut and engraved illus., later blind ruled calf, by Lumsden, spine and edges rubbed, titlepage partly stained and remargined, paper a little discoloured throughout, 4to., London: Giles Calvert, 1655.

BANNATYNE CLUB 2 albums of autographs of the members of the Club, which Robert Graham of Redgorton, one of the founding members of the Club, regularly obtained from the Club Secretary David Laing, mostly on sealed election slips, but also including some MS letters or notes. The items are arranged in order of election date and the collection begins with signatures of the original members as at February 1823 commencing with Walter Scott's election slip and cover, both signed by Scott, a further election slip signed "W. Scott", and a short letter to Robert Graham of Redgorton from Scott apparently with reference to the date of a Club dinner, (Scott also appears to have added the words "The Duke of" to The Duke of Buccleuch's election slip ) and including signatures on election slips and correspondence from John Clerk of Eldin, Lord Cockburn, James Maidment, Patrick Fraser Tytler, etc.; four further members were elected on 27 February, 1823 William Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, Sir Samuel Shepherd, Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, the Hon. Lord Bannatyne, and Sir William Arbuthnot, and their signatures follow. The collection continues apparently complete until about 1842 when there are a few gaps in the signatures of members. The collection concludes with a number of printed ephemera, receipts to Robert Graham for his subscription, notices of publications, minutes, etc. [2]

JACOBITE CONSPIRACY The whole proceeding upon the arraignment, tryal, conviction and attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq., for high treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King, in the Court of the King's-Bench at Westminster, in Michaelmas Term .... 1722 ... 1st edition, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints cracking, folio, London: Buckley, 1722. Note: Bound with the above are the following related items: [i] A report [with Appendices] from the Committee appointed by order of the House of Commons to examine Christopher Layer and others ... reported on the first of March, 1722 ... London: Tonson, 1722. [ii] A letter dated London 20 March 1723 directed a Monsieur Monsieur [sic] Gordon, banquier à Bologne, with draughts of two affidavits ... laid before the House of Commons ... London: Tonson, 1723. [iii] Several examinations taken before one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: together with two letters referred to in some of the said examinations laid before the House of Commons ... published by order of the House of Commons ... London: Tonson, 1723. [iv] A report [and Appendix] from the Lords Committees to whom the report and original papers delivered by the House of Commons at several conferences were referred, and who were impowered by the House of Lords to examine Christopher Layer ... Published by order of the House of Lord .... London: Parker, 1723. [v] The speech of Mr. George Kelly spoke at the bar of the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the 2d of May, 1723 in defence against the Bill then depending, for inflicting pains and penalties upon him ... 7th edition, London: Payne, 1723. ....

RAINE The Revd. James The history and antiquities of North Durham, as subdivided into the shires of Norham, Island, and Bedlington ... now united into the County of Northumberland ... 1st edition, port. frontis., map, 10 engraved plates, 2 genealogical tables, contemporary half calf, cloth boards, t.e.g., others uncut, some patches of discolouration and spotting, folio, large paper ?, London: Nichols, 1852. Note: With three letters from the author tipped in at the front acknowledging various points raised by the recipient George Dickson and a folder with various related items.

SPALDING CLUB A collection of works published by the original Spalding Club, to include: GORDON J. History of Scots Affairs from 1637-1661 3 volumes, 1841; The Miscellany of The Spalding Club, 5 vols., 1841-52; Registrum epsicopatus Aberdonensis. 2 vols. frontis. to both vols, 1845; SPALDING J. Memorialls of the trubles in Scotland & in England A.D. 1624-A.D. 1645. 2 vols, 1850-1; ILLUSTRATIONS of the Topography and antiquities of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. 4 vols, 1847-1869; COLLECTIONS for A history of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. 1843; Extracts from the presbytery book of Strathbogie, A.D. 1631-1654 1843; The BOOK of the Thanes of Cawdor, a series of papers selected from the charter room at Cawdor 1236-1742 frontis., 1859; GORDON P. A short abridgement of Britane's distemper from the yeare of God 1639-1649 1844; BLAKHAL G. A breiffe narration of the services done to three noble ladyes, 1844; Letters, illustrative of public affairs in Scotland addressed by contemporary statesmen to George, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, 1681-4; FASTI ABERDONENSES, selections from the records of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1494-1854 frontis., 1854; GORDON J. Abredoniae vtrivsque descriptio, a description of both touns of Aberdeen, frontis., 1842; Extracts from the council register of the burgh of Aberdeen. 2 vols., 1844-8; Notices of the Spalding Club, with the annual reports, list of members and works printed for the club, 1839-71 frontis., 1871; Selections from the records of the kirk session, presbytery and synod of Aberdeen., 1846; The DIARY of Alexander Brodie of Brodie 1652-80 and of his son, James Brodie of Brodie, 1680-5., 1863; INNES T. The civil and ecclesiastical history of Scotland A.D. 80-818 1853. All are bound in the Spalding Club cloth bindings, 4to. [30]

JUSTINIAN Ist, Emperor of the East Trium digestorum seu pandectarum liber in ordine secundus qui infortiatum dicitur summa cum vigilantia emendatum crebrisque laboribus tum impressoris tum notabilum in iure cesareo professorum egregiis additamentis ordine congruo margini insertis ... Titlepage printed in red and black with the large printer's device of Louis Martin, ff. 276 printed in red and black throughout, in two columns surrounded by scholia, large woodcut on the verso of a2 of the Emperor seated on his throne with bishops and men of high rank, contemporary oak boards, rebacked, lacking clasps, titlepage remargined, stained and with damage chiefly to the outer margin (but no loss of text), similar damage to the subsequent two leaves (not affecting text), some further patches of staining throughout and occasional marginal damage to other leaves, a few leaves with parts of the lower margin cut out, f. 275 with repair to piece removed from the lower part of the outer margin just touching a few letters of text, lacking q1 and apparently lacking the last signature N, folio, Lyons: Louis Martin, 1514.

SCOTLAND. Estates The acts and orders of the meeting of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland holden and begun at Edinburgh, the 14th day of March 1689 ... [bound with] The laws & acts made in the first parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigns, William & Mary ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, June 5 1689 ... [bound with] The laws & acts made in the second session ... holden at Edinburgh, April 25 1690 ... [bound with] ... The third session ... holden at Edinburgh, the third day of September, 1690 ... [bound with] .... The fourth session ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, April 18 1693 ... [bound with] ... The fifth session ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, May 9 1965 ... [bound with] ... The sixth session ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, September 8 1696 ... [Bound with] ... The seventh session ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, July 19 1698 ... [bound with] ... The eighth and ninth sessions ... holden at Edinburgh the 21 day of May and thereafter adjourned to the 29 day of October 1700 ... [Bound with] The laws and acts of parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraign Anne ... holden and begun at Edinburgh the ninth day of June 1702 ... [bound with] ...The laws and acts of parliament ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, the sixth day of May 1703 ... [bound with] ... the second session of the first parliament ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, the sixth day of July 1704 ... [bound with] ... the third session ... holden and begun at Edinburgh the twenty eighth day of June 1705 ... [bound with] ... of parliament ... holden and begun at Edinburgh, the third day of October 1706 ... [bound with] Her Majesty's most gracious letter to the Parliament of Scotland ... Edinburgh, 1706 ... [bound with] Minutes of the proceedings in Parliament, Thursday 3 October 1706 Nos. 1 - 89 Tuesday 25 March 1707 ... Original calf, spine worn, joints cracked, some paper discolouration, the outer margin of minute no 81 torn (affecting some words of text), one or two of the fldg. voting sheets in the minutes damaged, occasional words or signature letters cropped in the lower margins, folio, Edinburgh: by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1690 [etc.] and another [2]

SCOTT Sir Walter Abbotsford: the personal relics and antiquarian treasures of Sir Walter Scott described by the Hon. Mary Monica Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford and illustrated by William Gibb ... 1st edition, col. frontis., illus., col. plates, original cloth, t.e.g., 4to., London: Black, 1893. The letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers 1821-45 : with original memoranda ... from manuscripts in the possession of C.E.S. Chambers .... 1st edition, port. frontis., original cloth, fore-edges uncut, with a presentation inscription from the editor, 8vo., Edinburgh: Chambers, 1904 and 2 others [4]

ANDERSON James Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry, chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries of Scotland in a series of letters to a friend ... 1st edition, pp. [ii], xli, [i] of errata, [ii], 534 including the half-title and addenda, contemporary tree calf, spine rubbed, joints a little worn, occasional light spotting, 4to., Edinburgh: for Thomas Cadell, London; and Charles Ellliot, Edinburgh, 1777.

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [Laud's Liturgy] The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments: and other parts of divine service for the use of the Church of Scotland ... [with] The psalter ... pointed as they shall be said or sung throughout all the churches of Scotland ... 2 parts in 1 volume, the titles to both parts within borders of typographical ornaments, woodcut initials and tailpieces, Black Letter, without kk 7-8 "Certaine Godly Prayers", printed in red and black, contemporary calf, rubbed, titlepage dusty and lacking upper right hand corner, one or two marginal tears, tear to the inner margin of kk6 lacking some paper discolouration throughout, upper margin trimmed and touching some letters of the running titles, 4to., Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1637-36.

COTTON Sir Robert Cottoni posthumas: divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton preserved from the injury of time ... by FH. ... [bound with] A short view of the long life and reign of Henry the Third King of England ... 2 works in 1 volume, 1st edition of the the first title, later marbled boards, half sheep, worn, lower cover almost detached, 8vo., London: by Francis Leach for Henry Steile, 1651 [the second work: London: by William Bentley for William Shears, 1651] Note: Wing C 6485 & 6500. JONES D. The secret history of White-Hall from the restoration of Charles II. down to the abdication of the late K. James ... 1st edition, contemporary sprinkled calf, 8vo., London: Baldwin, 1697. Note: Wing J 934. WELWOOD James Memoirs of the most material transactions in England for the last hundred years, preceeding the revolution in 1688 ... 2nd edition, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo., London: Goodwin, 1700. Note: Wing W 1306. SADLER Sir Ralph Letters and negotiations ... Contemporary panelled calf, 8vo., Edinburgh: McEuen, 1720. [4]

SLAVERY Original ms. warrant of appraisement of the goods of Jane Southwell of Pensacola (Florida, USA) 19 November, 1776 with the original inventory of her negroes, etc. ... 1 folded bifolium, written on 2 pages and with a seal, granting letters of administration to two named executors and signed by Peter Chester, Captain General and Governor General of West Florida as Probate Judge, and 1 folded bifolium listing on 2 pages in ms. the goods and chattels of the deceased Jane Southwell, including her furniture, silver, glass, and 5 negro slaves (by name), the latter listed between some old chairs, a whip, 5 hens and a grey gelding. The deceased also possessed 900 acres of land on Buffaloe Creek as well as properties in Charlotte Street, etc. Contained in a morocco backed folder.

BATE John The mysteries of nature and art conteined in foure severall treatises of water workes, the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engraving, the fourth of diverse experiments ... 1st edition, engraved titlepage, pp. [vii], verso blank, 192 (i.e. 196 with 8 pages unnumbered and p. 146 misnumbered 150), with 1 separate woodcut plate and numerous wood illustrations (several of which are full page), contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, lower edge of engraved title just cropped and touching a few letters, first few leaves with small water stain to outer margin, some pages a little discoloured, small 4to., London: Ralph Mab, 1634.

WILLIAMS J.F. Lake An historical account of inventions and discoveries in those arts and sciences which are of utility or ornament to man ... 1st edition, 2 volumes, engraved frontis. to vol. 1 illus., contemporary light tan calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, spines a little rubbed, 8vo., London: Allman, 1820. MUIRHEAD James Patrick The life of James Watt, with selections from his correspondence ... 2nd edition, port. frontis., woodcut illus., original cloth, spine faded, lower boards, stained, 8vo., London: Murray, 1859. JONES Bence The life and letters of Faraday ... 2nd edition, frontis. to each vol., contemporary light tan calf with the arms of the University of Aberdeen in gilt on both covers, 8vo., London: Longmans, 1870 and 6 others [11]

[SETON Sir William] The interest of Scotland in three essays: viz I. Of the true original and indifferency of Church-government II. Of the union of Scotland and England into one monarchy III. Of the present state of Scotland ... 1st edition, contemporary sheep, 8vo., [London]: n.p., 1700. Note: Kress 2267; Wing S 2650 [Bound with] A discourse upon the uniting Scotland and England containing the general advantage of such an union to both kingdoms ... with divers original papers deliver'd by the Commissioners of both nations to one another about an union in 1677 ... 8vo., lower margins cropped, touching some letters of text, London: James Knapton, 1702 [Bound with] ASGILL John An essay on a registry, for titles of lands ... 8vo., titlepage and other pages discoloured, London: Astwood, 1698 Note: Wing A 3298 [Bound with] A discourse of government with relation to militia's ... 8vo., Edinburgh: n.p., 1698. Aldis 3747; Wing F 1295

Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy., by a Lady, 4th ed., 1751, p.289 with some loss of margin and few letters and p.295 torn and repaired with adhesive tape, recent endpapers, contemp. sheep with recent reback and corner repairs, 8vo (1)

Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy., 8th ed., 1763, upper margin of title torn with loss of letters to first word of title, modern marbled boards with morocco label, 8vo. Oxford p.76-77. (1)

Weather Bird Press. Home Cooking, an excerpt from a letter to Eleanor Friede, December, 1970, from M. F. K. Fisher, Passadena, Weather Bird Press, 2000, orig. etched frontis. by Vance Gerry (signed in pencil), 12 pp. in all, incl. front blank, untrimmed, orig. patterned cloth stiff wrappers, printed in a limited edition of 50 copies, slim 4to, together with Hearty Fare, A Gentlemen's Cookery Book by Bunston Quayles, Weather Bird Press, 1990, b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth backed boards, in d.j., small 8vo, printed in an edition of 150 copies, plus De Gustibus series, pub. Weather Bird Press, nos. 1-8, 1998-2003, each bound in orig. patterned wrappers, slim 8vo, printed in editions of 100 copies each, and Pringle (John), A Collection of 19th century Jamaican Cookery and Herbal Recipes, privately printed, 1984, orig. half-cloth gilt, in slipcase, 4to, limited edition 53/100, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, plus Old School Press. The Fruits of Jane Austen, an anthology of references to fruit from the novels and letters of Jane Austen, with wood-engs. by Simon Brett, 1994, b&w wood-eng. illusts. to text, orig. qtr. cloth, small folio, limited ed. 67/135, signed by the artist, and four other modern private press booklets, etc., similar (16)

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). A scrap book compiled by Mr. and Mrs. Claud Epps of Chichester, relating to Churchill's 80th Birthday Presentation Fund, 1954, the album includes a pasted in TLS from Winston Churchill to Mr. Epps, dated 2nd March 1957, in which Churchill sends his best wishes for recovery from ill health and concludes 'Lady Churchill and I cannot forget the notable part which you and your Wife played in the inauguration of my 80th Birthday Presentation Fund', sl. browned, plus a TLS to Mrs. Epps thanking her for the Birthday Fund efforts, also sl. browned, plus approx. 30 pp. related newscuttings, typed letters (one from Mr. Joynson-Hicks, MP for Chichester), photographs, etc., at the rear a birthday greetings telegram from Winston Churchill to Mrs. Epps on her 80th birthday, col. dec. border, some loose related ephemera tucked in at rear, orig. stiff wrappers with brown paper cover, sl. soiling and wear, folio (1)

Marlborough (John Churchill, 1st Duke, 1650-1722). A twelve-page manuscript accounts receipt book, c. 1687-1704, incl. details of monies lent to Sir John Miller to pay a mortgage of lands in Hampshire for ,000, also Henry and George Hilleyard, Sir John Parsons, Thomas Hall, Robert Chaplin, all for mortgages and on separate leaves, each with notes of interest paid, one or more times each year on lines beneath, more than one hand noted, but including seventeen specimens of Marlborugh's signature and three specimens of his wife's signature (S: Marlborough), some spotting and soiling, approx. 19 x 15 cm, together with three autograph letters to the Duke or Duchess of Marlborough concerning money loans, one for the Lord Sunderland (5th October 1717), signed James Craggs, one for Mr. Parsons (3rd May 1718), signed B. Swete and one for Lord Cadogan (24th February 1722), signed George Clifford, the first two, two pages with integral blank, the last 4 pp., all 4to, plus a noteslip detailing interest received in 1717-1719 for South Sea shares against a stock value of £30,960, the money received from Mr. Hodges and Mr. Edward Northy, one page, 8vo, plus a later document (May 1765), signed by Purbeck Langham (6)

Politicians and Peers 18th to 20th c., including an ALS from each of Henry Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Carrington, Bishop of Ripon, Wentworth Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Howick, John Montague, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, plus fragments of letters from 1st Baron Raglan, Prince George of Cambridge, Richard Ryder, 2nd Viscount Melville, plus some portraits and signatures, etc. (approx. 40)

Ariosto (Lodovico). Orlando Furioso, trans. William Huggins, 2 vols., 1757, woodcut head-pieces and initial letters, contemp. eng. monogram pasted to front pastedowns, hinges split, contemp. calf, rubbed, 4to (1)

[Charpentier, Francois]. A Treatise Touching the East-Indian Trade: A Discourse (turned out of French into English) Concerning the Establishment of a French Company for the Commons of the East-Indies. To Which are Annexed the Articles, and Conditions Whereupon the Said Company for the Commerce of the East-Indies is Established, Edinburgh, re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695, 52 pp., title soiled and upper corner torn, just touching letters, recent marbled wrappers, small 4to (1)

Music. Manuscript antiphonal leaf on vellum, 16th century, double-sided, each side with seven five-line staves in red ink with notation and Latin lyrics in black ink, two initial letters decorated in red and blue ink, approx. 455 x 335 mm (1)

[Stephens, John]. An Historical Discourse, Briefly Setting Forth the Nature of Procurations, and How They were Antiently Paid, with the Reason of Their Payment; and Somewhat Also of Synodals and Pentecostals: With an Appendix in Answer to an Opposer, 1661, imprimatur leaf present, some minor marginal dampstains, contemp. calf, worn, small 4to, together with Townson (Thomas), Discourses on the Four Gospels... To Which is Added, an Enquiry Concerning the Hours of St. John, of the Romans, and of Some Other Nations of Antiquity, pub. Oxford, 1778, contemp. calf, some minor wear to extrems., 4to, plus Bacon (Sir Francis, Baron Verulam), Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon... Written During the Reign of King James the First. Now Collected, and Augmented with Several Letters and Memoires... , 1st ed., 1702, presentation inscription from the editor, Robert Stephens, on flyleaf, ex-lib. copy with ink stamps to title and following leaf, later quarter morocco gilt, small 4to, and four others (7)

Trimmer (Mrs. Sara). Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer, with orig. letters and meditations and prayers, selected from her journal, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1814, stipple eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, sl. browned and offset to title, half-title to both vols., 4 pp., pubs. ads. at rear of vol. 2, some browning to upper margins of final leaves of vol. 1, contemp. tree calf gilt, joints cracked, 8vo (2)

Walpole (Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole). An Answer to the Latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History, by the Late Lord Walpole of Woolterton, in a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord, Parts 1 & 2 bound as one, 1st ed., 1762, errata leaf at rear, eng. vign. title inscribed 'from Lord Walpole' [the author's son, Horatio, 1723-1809], lacks halftitle?, contemp. calf gilt, lower joints cracked, upper cover det., 4to (1)

Yorke (James, blacksmith). The Union of Honour, Containing the Armes, Matches and Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses and Earles of England from the Conquest, Untill this Present Yeere, 1640, with the Armes of the English Viscounts and Barons now being, and of the Gentry of Lincolnshire..., Edward Griffin for William Leake, 1640, addn. eng. title (small tear to lower margin), numerous woodcut armorials to text, some light dampstaining to lower margins at front of volume, worm trail to foredge margins at end with occasional loss of one or two letters, contemp. calf, crudely rebacked, small folio. STC 26103. (1)

Darwin (Charles). The Life and Letters...Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Edited by His Son, Francis Darwin, 3 vols., 5th thousand revised, 1887, port. frontis. to each, light foxing to endpapers, pubs. orig. green cloth gilt, slight rubbing to extrems., 8vo (3)

Hamilton (Sir William). Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos: in a Series of Letters, Addressed to the Royal Society, 1st ed., 1772, five eng. plts. and one folding eng. map, plates offset to text, uncut, orig. boards, old paper reback, some soiling and wear, 8vo (1)

Mclean (Ruari). Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, 2nd revised ed., 1972, b&w and some col. illusts. throughout, upper hinges broken, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and soiled d.j., together with Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Cloth and Leather, 1st ed., 1974, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, some small pencil marks by Nigel Temple throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., plus Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper, 1st ed., 1983, num. col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards in sl. chipped glassine d.j., both folio, all three inscribed from the author to Nigel Temple, plus some loose related letters from McLean to Temple, etc., plus other bookbinding and design interest (10)

Austen (Jane). The Novels, the Text based on Collation of the Early Editions, by R.W. Chapman, 5 vols., Oxford University Press, 1923, col. frontis. to each vol., some b & w plts., two folding plans, endpapers lightly foxed, untrimmed, orig. qtr. cloth, paper labels to spines, with spare labels present, 8vo, (large paper edition limited to 1,000 sets), together with Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra and others, collected and ed. R.W. Chapman, 2 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932, b & w plts., vol.1 with folding plan, folding double-page facsimile letter as frontis to vol. 2, free endpapers partially browned, untrimmed, orig. qtr. cloth, paper spine labels, d.j.s somewhat browned, 8vo, with one other all 8vo. (8)

Wesker (Arnold). As Much As I Dare, an autobiography (1932-1959), 1st ed., 1994, b&w plts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., together with Thomas (Leslie), My World of Islands, new ed., 1993, some col. plts. from photos., plus Davies (Russell, ed.), The Kenneth Williams Letters, 1st ed., 1994, all signed presentation copies to John Russell [Classic FM Radio presenter], orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, VG, plus twenty-four further hardbacks and eleven paperbacks from the Library of John Russell, all signed by the authors, plus some misc. childrens books and pop ephemera, etc (2 shelves)