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Golding family of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex.- A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes..., concernyng chiefly the messages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584, title and 58ff., manuscript on paper in a neat secretary hand, final f. (59) torn away along with two following blanks, 11 blank ff., some light damp-staining to lower margin, the odd spot, morocco book label of William Foyle, original vellum, remains of tie, "Essex" in manuscript to upper cover, portion excised from head of lower cover, preserved in morocco chemise, folio, 1584.*** An extensive 16th-century record, in a fine legal hand, of deeds in Latin and English dating from 1297 to 1586 relating to Belchamp St Paul in Braintree, Essex. The Golding family feature prominently; William Golding (d.1587) was the brother of Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (1526-68) who would marry John deVere at the church in Belchamp St Paul in 1548, giving birth to the poet and courtier Edward deVere (the subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship) in 1550.Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was the half-brother of William and best-known as a translator, especially for his translation of Ovid a book much-prized, and used, by Shakespeare. 

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes, largely printed in black letter and double column, title within fine woodcut border, engraved portrait, woodcut divisional titles, full-page arms, illustration at head of Knight's Tale and numerous initials, foxed and browned, sig.3R misbound, 2 leaves in sig 4A duplicated, old manuscript notes on front free endpaper, lacking final leaf (?blank), small hole in c5, later calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked, [Pforzheimer 177; STC 5079], folio, Geor. Bishop, 1598.*** A handsome copy of the first Speight edition which was also the first to include a portrait of Chaucer. Speight's glossary is the first printed glossary of Middle English.Provenance: James Bindley (armorial bookplate).

Corso (Gregory) Autograph Manuscript notes on Vestal Lady, Gasoline and others, signed on first page "Gregory Corso on Books & Poetry through the years" c.40pp. pen and ink on lined notepad, some creasing, large, 8vo, [1950s and later].*** A remarkable early manuscript of Corso poems, essays and thoughts with significant portions of both published and unpublished works. Accompanying the lot is a letter of provenance from the poet and author Lee Ballentine, stating that he acquired the manuscript through the dealer Roger Richards, with whom a penniless Corso was then staying, in 1991. 

Book of Hours, unidentified use, illuminated manuscript in gothic textura script, in Latin, on vellum, 13 lines on each page, ruled in red throughout, numerous one- and two-line initials, and large illuminated initials decorated with flowers and floral borders in gold, blue and red, (ff. 1r, 52r, 56v, 61r, 70r, 143v); , i + 155 + i leaves only, with catchwords, lacks calendar and other leaves with illumination, including miniatures, some leaves misbound, part of f. 96 excised, some smudging, vellum generally slightly cockled and marked, a few small holes and stains from rusted paper clips, a few leaves becoming loose, decorated gilt endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey on front pastedown, 16th-century red velvet, covers with gilt metal corner- and centre-pieces (upper cover in the shape of a cross) and clasp, spine with pierced metal panel, velvet worn and faded, metal tarnished, sm. 8vo (108 × 78mm), [France, Angers], [c. 1460s]. *** Hours of the Virgin (f. 1r), Lauds followed by suffrages to Sts Michael, Peter & Paul, Sebastian, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, and Catherine; Hours of the Cross (f. 47r) and of the Spirit intermixed; Seven Penitential Psalms (f. 78r); Litany (f. 92v); Office of the Dead (f. 101r); Obsecro te (f. 143v); the usual extract from St John’s Gospel (f. 148v); prayers (f. 151r), including one mentioning Angers saints, one to St Barbara in rhyming verse, and another to St Martin. Provenance: The Library of the late Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, lot 8, 27 September 2023, Dominic Winter Auctioneers.

Insects.- Mc A (J., circa 1810s) Album containing 75 original watercolour studies of moths, butterflies, caterpillars and other insects, brush and ink, watercolour, bodycolour, some heightened with gum arabic, one or two heightened with gold, on various Whatman wove papers, one watermarked '1811', every sheet with pen and brown ink manuscript description on laid paper tab affixed onto sheet, each album leaf approx. 355 x 250 mm (14 x 9 3/4 in), some sheets with even toning and browning, occasional minor spotting and surface dirt, light blue morocco, spine gilt with compartments, stamped initials 'J. Mc A' to lower section spine, sun exposure and fading visible, lightly worn, folio, [circa 1810s]

America.- Jefferson (Thomas) Notes on the State of Virginia, first English edition, folding engraved map frontispiece, hand-coloured in outline and laid down (Washington marked in ink manuscript, few short tears and very small portions of loss, slight wear to some folds, some light browning), woodcut cave plan to C8v, folding table, lacking final blank, light surface soiling and neat repairs to title, E2 with repaired tear affecting few letters, central fold of table repaired at foot, few other marginal repairs, few later marginal pencil annotations, the odd spot or stain, some light soiling, ex-library copy with small ink-stamp to title, modern half morocco, library label to upper cover, [Sabin 35895], 8vo, for John Stockdale, 1787. *** The only full-length book by Jefferson to be published during his lifetime. The first English edition followed a privately printed, extremely rare first edition (Paris, 1782 [but 1785]) and a French translation (Paris, 1786). Written in the form of answers to questions about Virginia, Jefferson gives a comprehensive account and analysis of the state, its natural resources and economy, and his prescription for the improvement of both state and country.

Herbal.- Parkinson (John) Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, an Herball of a Large Extent..., first edition, additional engraved title, over 2000 woodcut botanical illustrations, lacking initial blank and final errata f., additional title with short tear and few very small portions of loss supplied in manuscript, printed title with partially erased ownership inscription to foot, both titles trimmed to border and laid down, first few ff. with some small marginal repairs and reinforcement to gutter, R3-S3 small gash within text, 2N2, 5K2 & 6S2 short tear into text, Table at end with some fraying to edges affecting few letters, very occasional early ink correction or annotation, few very small rust-holes within text, the odd small marginal defect, occasional very light spotting, some light browning, some staining, mainly to margins at beginning and end, overall good, ex-library copy with bookplate and small ink-stamp to both titles, modern half morocco, [Blanche Henrey 286; STC 19302], folio, Tho. Cotes, 1640.

Warwickshire, Coventry.- Gibbs (Joseph) [History of Coventry] Miscellaneous Warwickshire Scraps [title from spine], 2 vol., William Reader's copy with his ink inscription and date, autograph manuscript signed, c. 630pp., mostly written on rectos with a few pieces of text in vol. I on versos, engraved maps of Warwickshire and Coventry, ruled in red throughout, browned, some slight foxing, original half calf, extensively rubbed, 4to (290 x 230mm.), [1820's and dated by William Reader 1830]. *** A chronological history of Coventry supplemented with extracts from documents and letters. Other items include Shakespeare's will, Dugdale's Correspondence, the Harleian Miscellany, Humphrey Wanley and Ayscough manuscripts. Also includes the poem Guy of Warwick and "Poem on erecting a Monument to the memory of Shakespeare".  Provenance: William Reader (1782-1852), newspaper proprietor, topographer and historian of Coventry.   

Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott, Royal Engineers, V.C., 1847-97).- Address to John Chard V.C., from "the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Taunton", for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift, manuscript on vellum, signed by Meyer Jacobs, Mayor of Taunton, and the town clerk, with the Common Seal of the Borough of Taunton in red wax, old folds, 365 x 285mm., 3rd October 1879.

Antoninius Florentinus (Saint) Summa Theologica, 2 parts only (of 5) comprising Tabula nuper diligenter correcta and Prima Pars, woodcut illustration on each title and woodcut device beneath on first title, Prima Pars with inserted bifolium between a4 and a5 printed in roman type containing preface and laudatory verses praising both St. Anthony and Suardi by the Dominican Alberti Porletiensis, woodcut initials, a few leaves browned, some foxing and soiling, a few marginal repairs, old limp vellum of manuscript antiphnonal, new endpapers, 4to, Venice, Lazarus de Soardis, 1503.*** Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 2003.

Cromwell (Richard, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1626-1712) Letters Patent of common recovery by William Mayle and Thomas Pendred against John Smith and Edward Pente one messuage and two gardens in Wootton, Northamptonshire, D.s. "Robinson", manuscript in English, on vellum, in chancery hand, calligraphic "R" and decorated with flowers, some slight wear to decoration, folds, slightly creased in places, a little yellowed, half of the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, 470 x 690mm., 29th November 1658. *** Documents from the brief reign of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector are rare. Sir Thomas Robinson (1618-83) was prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas.

Cornwall.- Archive relating to Tregavethan, near Truro, including: Common recovery grant to Stephen Lagharn and Thomas Trafusys against Thomas Newerk and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Copeland of the Manor of Tregamadon alias Tregavethan of six messuages, one mill, two hundred acres, three vineyards, three hundred acres of pasture [etc], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, chancery hand, 22 lines, chancery seal (slightly smoothed and edges chipped, largely intact), blank space for initial H at beginning, document slightly yellowed and creased, 320 x 470mm., 12th February 1536; and 7 other indentures and documents relating to Cornwall (another relating to Stephen Lagharn), mostly relating to Tregavethan, from the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, all but one with good wax seals and fine impressions, v.s., v.d. (8 pieces).

Hamilton (Sir William) Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases Mostly of Pure Greek Workmanship..., 3 vol. only (of 4, as usual), first edition, engraved frontispiece to vol. 1, 195 engraved plates on 192 sheets, errata f. at end vol. 1, engraved titles and parallel text in English and French, vol. 1 2E1 with marginal tears and paper repair, vol. 3 plate 9 trimmed within image, few other plates trimmed into border, vol. 2 titles and plates numbered in early ink manuscript, occasional damp-staining or very light spotting, some surface soiling and light browning, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to lower margin English titles, later half calf, small library sticker to foot of spines, corners worn, rubbed, [Blackmer 778], folio, Naples, Wm. Tischbein, 1791-95.  *** A lavishly illustrated work recording Hamilton's second collection, particularly valuable because the ship transporting it to England sank off the Isles of Scilly, losing one third of the collection. An undated supplementary fourth volume was published later, containing plates but no text, but is rarely found with the set. Sets of varying numbers of previously unpublished proof impressions continued to circulate in the 19th century, sometimes referred to as a ‘fifth volume'.

Cornwall.- Carew (Richard) The Survey of Cornwall, first edition, Peter Le Neve, Andrew Coltée Ducarel and John Howard's copy with their ink signatures, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and headpieces, initial blank, errata f. and Contents ff. at end, L2 small tear with loss in margin, slightly browned, some ink notes and coats of arms in margins by ?William Burton in a 17th century hand and other notes in a 19th century hand, 3pp. manuscript index at end, ink signature on title and ink signatures and inscriptions on A1, bookplates of Ducarel on front pastedown and of Treverbyn Vean (Cocks family of Cornwall) on front free endpaper, 19th century half calf, gilt, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label, [STC 4615], sm. 4to, by S. S. for Iohn Iaggard, and are to bee sold neere Temple-barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre, 1602. *** Carew's history, which is "above all a representation of Cornwall as its author saw it, in terms of the landscape and climate, and of the occupations of men and women whose lives these shaped. Such matters as the local tin mines, the fishing industry, and the games people played, including hurling, all come within the compass of his lively pen." - Oxford DNB. Provenance: A good copy with an impressive series of owners: (1). Peter Le Neve, (1661-1729), herald and antiquary; "Liber Petri Le Neve Rouge Crois [Pursuivant] 1693"; (2). Andrew  Coltée Ducarel (1713-1785), librarian and antiquary; "A Ducarel 1770"; (3). John Howard (1726?-1790), philanthropist; "John Howard 1787"; (4). Also 19th century ink inscription on A1: ?William Burton (1575-1645), antiquary; "The coates of Armes  in this book were trick'd by William Burton of Lindley Esq in 1602. See Thom: Rawlinson's English Topographer p. 29."

Bible, Latin. [Langton (Stephen, attributed to, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1150-1228) Single leaf from the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum [Interpretations of the Hebrew names], manuscript in Latin, on thin vellum, in black ink, in a small regular Gothic bookhand, double column, one two-line initial in red and blue and numerous one-line initials in red and blue, framed and glazed, 170 x 113mm., [Paris], [c. 1250]; and 5 other medieval leaves, all framed and glazed, v.s., v.d. (5 pieces). *** First mentioned, a list, mostly in alphabetical order, of Hebrew names found in the Bible, attributed to Stephen Langton.

Middle East.- Chesney (Lieut.-Colonel Francis Rawdon) The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, 3 vol. (maps bound separately), first edition, 49 tinted lithographed plates, illustrations, a few marginal tears, occasional water- or damp-staining, mainly marginal but sometimes affecting plates, occasional surface soiling, some spotting and very light browning, map vol. with 14 linen-backed maps (some short tears at folds, slight offsetting), ex-library copies with bookplates, ink-stamp to titles, plates, maps and illustrations, text vol. modern royal blue half cloth, map vol. 19th century half morocco, map vol. with library sticker to spine, wear to spine and extremities, [Atabey 234; Blackmer 337], 8vo, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. *** "Only 2 of the four volumes were published, since half of the manuscript was lost when Chesney was sent to China; this also explains the random numbering of the plates" (Atabey).

House of Commons.- Callendar or Abstract of the Journals of the House of Commons from the year 1660 to the Year 1710, manuscript, title and 351pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, some slight spotting, engraved bookplates of John Bowes 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Sir Lucius O'Brien on front endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt, slightly marked, gilt faded, rebacked in later calf, folio, [18th century]. *** John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1737-76), Scottish nobleman and ancestor of Elizabeth II. Sir Lucius O'Brien (1731-95), Irish politician.

Birds.- Edwards (George) A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol.1 only (of 4), hand-coloured etched frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, 52 etched plates, brightly hand-coloured "by the author... from prints revers'd", duplicate of plate no.32, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing and offsetting, bookplate, contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, double red morocco spine label, rebacked preserving original backstrip, a few stains to covers, slightly rubbed, [Anker 124], folio, Printed for the author, 1743. *** The contemporary ink inscription states: "This very extraordinary set of Edwards's birds etc. was color'd by the author, at the special request of a late-celebrated naturalist, for whom it was finished with the greatest care & accuracy. As a proof of the superior excellence of this copy it may be necessary to observe that all the plates in the first volume are done from prints revers'd - the advantage of which is pointed out in page 17 of the Preface, & the difference may be satisfactorily ascertain'd by examining the plates No.32 - (there being one of each sort) & all the plates in the remaining 3 volumes are marked with manuscript numbers, the reason of which may be seen at page 124 of the 2nd volume. The gleanings also are uncommonly fine so that upon the whole it may be pronounced, an extraordinary copy of a very valuable work." Another modern pencil inscription reinforces that this is a 'special copy with the plates coloured by the author".This is therefore the first volume of an "extraordinary" set of an already "very valuable work", with exceptionally rare counterproofs and allegedly the author's personal hand-colouring. A counterproof results from a costly and time-consuming process whereby a print is taken directly from another that has just been printed. While the ink is still wet, a print is passed through a rolling press again with a clean sheet of paper to get a second copy. In 1765, Edwards wrote to the Earl of Bute, a patron of natural history, to describe how counter proofs from the prints he etched for "History of Uncommon Birds" fooled some viewers who mistook them for drawings: “In the course of My Labours I have taken of reversed Prints of my history of birds on Sett as a Curiosity and have Colourd them higer than ordinary to make them appear Somtings like Drawings, they have deceive som[sic] people in that respect they having no marks of the copper Plates.” Counterproofs produced a subtle and softer image resembling a drawing that could be hand-coloured to better display the nuance of plumage, colour, and anatomy of specimens without the boldness of an engraved line.The second volume with counterproofs is held by The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. 

Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson (177-1863): a manuscript memorial book, initial leaf dedicated 'To James Osborne from Miss Barbara Johnson in memory of her late father, Wytham Hall 1863: includes pencil and watercolour sketches of the family home, Wytham Hall, Lincolnshire and environs, some albumen-print photographs of family members tipped-in (some with pen and ink or watercolour decorative surrounds): also with family tree and tribute to his son Robert William, Captain in the Royal South Lincoln militia (d.1855): plus misc. loose printed and manuscript ephemera inserted, contained in plum half morocco album of the period, some sunning and marking, small 8vo. (1)

An 18th century Portuguese manuscript volume 'Works of the Abad de S Bado (Manoel de Sousa Moreira)' 112 folios 1-86, 89-114, Continuous text, black ink in a fine right sloping long hand. Original full calf with red title, owners signature (215 x 65mm) binding with losses

A 15th century German historiated initial 'H' cut from a manuscript and mounted on card (60mm x 42mm)

Cunynghame (General Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow, GCB FRGS 1812-1884)A collection of c80 manuscript letters from notable personages of the period c1850-1880 Note:- Cunyngham was a distinguished British Army Commander and served in the First Opium War, Crimea (a letter from the Field of the Battle of Alma is included), the Ottoman Empire, Ireland, India and South Africa. The correspondence covers most of his serving life, c80 in a canvas wallet. Canvas wallet, in perfectly reasonable condition considering age, some staining. Letters various paper types, few with tears, rough edges, many without tears.

Album 3. 'Brooksby' Leicestershire. Villiers family home 1900-1903 and Melton Hall. An incomplete oblong album 7pp with photographs and signatures including Charles Villiers, Consuelo Manchester, et al. full calf. inscribed 'Brooksby, My Treasures are My Friends' Constantius, 270 x 385mm plus a presentation manuscript, 'Lady Sarah and Captain Gordon Wilson'. 'We the Parishioners of Brooksby beg to offer your our hearty congratulations upon your safe return from from South Africa...' signed and dated July 1900, finely bound in red leather by Cross and Beckwith, Leicester, 310 x 270mm (2)

Eliot (Thomas Stearns) b. St Louis, Missouri, U.S. 1888 d. London 1965. Poet and Playwright.A manuscript two sided letter dated 29.V.36 on Faber and Faber Ltd. 24 Russell Square, London, W.C1. note paper, transcribes as follows:- Dear Mrs StewartI enclose my bad snapshots - I wish that I had taken advantage of the strong sun on Monday to take you and Dr Stewart then; as the one I took on Tuesday morning wasn't good enough to print. The others will serve for me, however, as a re-minder of a very me-morable day in my life, and of your and Dr Stewarts hospi-tality.Yours very sincerely, T.S. Eliot. enclosures four 70 x 45mm black and white photographs of St John's Church, Little Gidding plus one St. Mary's Leighton Bromswold plus a typed letter on Faber and Faber note paper dated 3 January 1941 addressed to 'My dear Stewart' in which Eliot expresses the importance of his visit to Little Gidding. (see illustration). signed in blue/black ink. plus 'Little Gidding'. 1st Edition. Faber and Faber 1942 pamphlet with stitched faded pink wrappers 220 x 145mm - some staining. notes:- 1.Hugh Fraser Stewart 1863-1948British Academic. Dean of St John's College from 1907 and from 1918 Dean and Praelector of Trinity College, Cambridge. On the 23rd May 1936 Hugh and Jessie Stewart took Eliot to Little Gidding. ref. correspondence. 2.'Little Gidding' is the last of 'Four Quartets' first published by Harcourt New York in 1943. (3 including 5 photographs).

Manuscript Correspondence:-Ingram-Seymour-Conway (Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford 1759-1834 Mistress of King George IV)A three side letter to a Col. Wilson relating to a recent duel in which he was injured, dated Nov 13th 1821 plus a further two sided note to a 'Mr Peacock' dated 22 July 1819, plus an invitation to 'Croker' from the 3rd Marquess of Hertford c1830 plus two manuscript letters from Lord Ellenborough dated 1806? and 1817 plus a single side note to an unknown correspondent from Thomas Moore, Sloperton Cottage (Bromham Wiltshire) January 22 1832

Institutiones Juris Civilis:- An 18th century manuscript volume c 200pp black ink in a fine sloping longhand; sunburst logo to end paper, full old vellum (220 x 160mm)

Conybeare John Josias. Editor. 'The Romance of Octavian, Emperor of Rome abridged from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library' printed by Collingwood Oxford 1809. 12mo. 1/4 red morocco and marbled boards, b/p for Charles Schefer (1820-1898) French bibliophile and orientalist. Old catalogue description pasted on title, m/s notes throughout possibly those of James Orchard Halliwell. Bumped and rubbed end papers loose

A collection of approximately 150 manuscript 17thc (?) Culinary and Apothecary Recipes. Black ink on paper in 2 or 3 hands. c.39pp. loosely bound, the fragmentary cover dated 30th day of.....1640 G.B. The number of the first listed recipe is 52. From 52 to 71, page over 73 (missing 72) then consecutively until number 85. The writing style then changes.  Numbers begin again from 102 consecutively to 161.  Then from 183 to 186.  Then numbers start at 312 to 315. Then a change of writing and numbering.  Numbers start from 58 to 71, then 74 to 88. Then last page. 

HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, 1967 Christmas card with two gilt cyphers to front, tipped-in colour print of the Royal Family standing under an archway in Buckingham Palace, signed Elizabeth R and Philip with manuscript date 1967

* Early English manuscript leaves. Two leaves on vellum from a Latin Missal, England, circa 1150-1200, two columns of 25-26 lines to each column in a fine Romanesque hand in dark brown ink, with English neumes on four-line red staves, initials supplied in red and green, rubrics in red, several old annotations and pen-trials in brown ink (probably 17th century), prickings on inner margins, with consequent soiling and cockling, upper margins close-trimmed, upper outer blank corner of one leaf cut away, 275 x 210 mm, loosely contained in modern black cloth chemise, with paper label of the Schøyen Collection (marked MS 2059), spine lettered in giltQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: James Tomlinson (pen-trial, probably 17th century); Anthony Birdsall (1877-1972) Bookbinder of Birdsall and Son, Northampton; Bernard Quaritch, London, September 1995; Schøyen Collection, MS 2029; Christie's, London, The History of Western Music: manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection, 8 November 2023.The text from the Temporal, contains the Mass for the Easter Vigil, from the Paschal proclamation '[Ille, qui regressus ab inferis] humano generi' to the first reading ending 'Creavitque Deus ce[te grandia]' and, on the second leaf, from '[vinea enim] domini Sabaoth domus Israel est. Deus qui nobis and celebranddum paschale sacramentum [...]' to 'in quo non est iniquitas: justus et sanctus Dominus'.Rare survival from an early English Romanesque missal, with musical notation (or neumes), indicating the shape and sequence of the musical pitches of the liturgical chant.

Cruchley (G. F.). Cruchley's County Atlas of England & Wales..., circa 1870, calligraphic title with a near-contemporary manuscript signature, index, a general map of England & Wales and 46 double-page lithographic maps (complete as list), all with contemporary outline colouring, the map of Gloucestershire backed with near-contemporary linen, contemporary manuscript county names to the verso of each map, marbled endpapers, contemporary black morocco by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square, gilt title to spine, bumped and rubbed at extremities, 8vo, together with Leigh (M. A.). Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England & Wales..., 1833, frontispiece of the price of posting, preface, additional decorative half-title, 55 (complete) uncoloured engraved maps, folding engraved map of England & Wales with contemporary outline colouring, index and publisher's advertisement bound at rear, near-contemporary pencil annotations to the pastedowns and endpapers, contemporary green morocco with gilt title to the upper cover, rebacked, 12mo, with Heywood (John). The Travelling Atlas of England & Wales with all the Railways & Coach Roads, Cities, Towns, Parks & Gentlemen's Seats, circa 1858, title page and index, folding lithographic map of England & Wales and 44 uncoloured double-page lithographic county maps, each with a near contemporary pencil annotation of the county name on the verso, bookseller's blindstamp to the front endpaper, near contemporary ink ownership signature and annotations to the front and rear endpaper and the rear pastedown, hinges cracked and weak, later half calf, worn and frayed, 8vo, plus Johnston (W. & A. K. publisher). The Modern County Atlas of England & Wales..., 1889, frontispiece of a lithographic map of England and Wales and 57 single and double page county maps, index of place names bound at rear, loosely inserted are a map of the railway from Preston to Blackpool and Fleetwood and a small map of the environs of Epsom, hinges cracked, publishers black and gilt red cloth spine faded and chipped, 4toQTY: (4)

* Illuminated leaf. A manuscript leaf believed to be from a copy of Manipulus Florum, originally by Thomas of Ireland, 14th century(?), single vellum leaf with 38-line double-column text in dark brown ink with initials highlighted in red and blue, with one larger 3-line initial in red and blue with margin tendril decoration in red, leaf size 28.2 x 19.8 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas of Ireland (fl. 1295 - before 1338), also known as Thomas Hibernicus, a Fellow of the College of Sorbonne and Master of Arts by 1295, was the compiler of the Manipulus Florum ('A Handful of Flowers') a collection of authoritative quotations, comprising a collection of extracts from early Christian theologians and classical authors, arranged with innovative alphabetical subject indices and cross-references. The Manipulus Florum survives in over one hundred and ninety manuscripts and was first printed in 1483.

Order of the Bath. Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, reprinted 1787, viii, 72pp., final blank with attached embossed paper seal on silk ribbon of Francis Townsend, Deputy Bath King of Arms and with manuscript signature, all edges gilt, contemporary crimson velvet, silk ties with silk & gold thread tassel ends, small slim 4to, contained in book box with gilt-lettered red morocco labels to spine and upper coverQTY: (1)

* Illuminated Leaf. A single manuscript leaf on vellum from an illuminated Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Paris (?), circa 1490-1500, single vellum leaf with 16 lines of single-column manuscript text in Latin to each side in black & red ink, fine illuminated miniature of St. Peter & St. Paul heightened in gold and colours with floral borders to three margins illuminated in red, green, blue and gold, small decorative initial to each side of leaf heightened in gold, sheet size 180 x 130 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The text begins 'inter ceteros magis dilectus. V. Valde honorandus est beatus johannes. R. Qui supra pectus domini i[n] cena retubuit'. In English: [a virgin, was chosen by the Lord and] more beloved by others. Versicle: Loudly praised is the blessed John to be. Response: He who [at the Last Supper laid on the breast of the Lord, from the Office of St. John the Evangelist, and continues with the prayer to Saints Peter and Paul: Petrus apostolus et Paulus doctor gentium ipsi nos docuerunt legem tuam domine (Peter the Apostle, and Paul the teacher of the Gentiles, these have taught us your law o Lord...).

London. A collection of approximately 40 maps and plans, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps of London, its regions and wards, including examples by or after J. Stow, G. W. Bacon, J. B. Homann, W. Schmollinger, J. Rapkin, E. Weller, T. Lediard and Banks & Co., occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition, together with an early 18th-century manuscript vellum document relating to London, with a portrait of George I but lacking the great seal, 620 x 767 mmQTY: (approx.40)

Bible [English]. The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages..., Imprinted at London [i.e. Amsterdam]: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 [i.e. circa 1599-1640], general title and New Testament title with woodcut border (imprint dated 1599), additional letterpress general title, few woodcut illustrations to text and decorative initials, double-column roman type, colophon at end of Tables dated 1599, bound without Apocrypha (as often), initial six leaves frayed to margins and repaired, manuscript notes to verso of final leaf of Prophets, verso of New Testament title with inscriptions 'Alexander Inglis was born October 11 1719, John Inglis dyed December 29 1733..., William Robertson Aught This Bible July 2th 1761', bound with at rear The Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., final leaf of tables at rear repaired to margins, rear blank flyleaf with inscription 'William Robertson & Janet Lang was married on July 1766', some light dust-soiling, occasional light damp-staining, spotting and few marks, modern calf preserving 18th-century calf covered lower board, blind initial J.M. to upper board, maroon morocco title label to spine, 4to (22.1 x 17.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 251; Darlow & Moule 190; STC 2176. Geneva version; with Thomson's NT, but with Junius' Revelation. With Esther i:1 '...seven and / twenty provinces'. Headline Ee3b corrected to 'Proverbes'. Many of the previous errors are corrected. This example also omitting line in Eccles. iv.9 as the previous 3 issues of the same version, Two are better [than one: for they have better] wages for their labour.These Bibles were printed probably in Amsterdam and Dort and adopted by Barker, for the use of English Puritans in the Low Countries. There are many editions bearing this date, which while agreeing closely are yet distinct. No doubt a certain number of copies were originally issued in a mixed state. The nominal date, 1599, is probably untrue in almost every case.

Tansur (William). The Royal Psalmodist Compleat: or, The New Universal Harmony, London: printed for the authors, 1753, approximately 105 leaves of score, some period ink annotations, lacking original endpapers, small tear & some minor loss to the title page, some light toning throughout, modern quarter calf to cloth boards, oblong 4to, together with:Hogarth (George), Memoirs of The Musical Drama, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, engraved frontispieces, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning, light spotting & offsetting, original uniform embossed green cloth, boards & spines slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plusSmith (Laura Alexandrine), The Music of the Waters, a collection of the sailors' chanties,..., 1st edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888, some minor toning, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, small mark to the centre of the rear board, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th Century music & opera reference, including Massenet, by Louis Schneider, Paris: L. Carteret, 1908, publishers gilt decorated red full calf, folio, & some manuscript & facsimile scores, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

* Illuminated leaf. An illuminated leaf from a Latin Bible, French, [possibly Paris?], late 13th century, manuscript in dark brown ink on single vellum leaf, 50 lines in double-column, text from Eccesiasticus chapters 33-36, with four double-line decorative initials in red and blue with tendril flourishes to each, head-line in red and blue, 148 x 98 mmQTY: (1)

Ackermann (Rudolph publisher), A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings, 2 volumes, 1814, additional half-titles to each volume, portrait frontispiece of Lord Greenville, introduction and list of plates and subscribers, 64 aquatint plates after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall, Nash, and others, 17 stipple-engraved costume plates and 25 portraits of the founders, all with contemporary hand-colouring, (a few watermarked J. Whatman 1812), indexes to the rear of both volumes, some offsetting from the plates to the text, later manuscript ownership signature to the second front blank, later endpapers, bookplate of Sterling Edwin Edmunds, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, late 19th-century half morocco with gilt decorated spines, skillfully rebacked retaining the original spines, large 4to (355 x 300 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Abbey Scenery number 280. R. V. Tooley. English Books with Coloured Plates, number 5.

Estate Plan. A Map of Tho: Estcourt Esqr. Lands in the Parish of Shipton Moyn in the County of Gloucester, Surveyed by Thomas Smith of Shrivenham, Berks, 1770, a large manuscript estate plan of ink and watercolour on vellum, title cartouche, scale of distance surmounted by dividers, tables of reference and explanation, torn and frayed with loss, heavily spotted and stained, occasional small holes, 1000 x 1235 mmQTY: (1)

Estate Plan. A Map of the Manor of Newnton in the County of Wilts. Belonging to Edmn. Estcourt of Shipton Moyne in the County of Gloucester Esqr. Surveyed by Stephen Jefferys of Minchinhampton Gloucestershire, 1748, a very large manuscript estate plan of ink and watercolour on vellum, calligraphic title and cartouche, heraldic crest, table of explanation, compass rose, a scale of distance surmounted by dividers, and a portrait of the surveyor stating that he was aged 68, the margins decorated with a 'freize' of an etched floriate design with contemporary hand-colouring laid on to the vellum, slight fraying to the foliate border, some dust soiling and slight creasing, one small hole in the margins, with a stained early 20th-century wooden batten attached to the upper margin, 1980 x 1650 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:An unusually large and highly decorative estate plan.It has been noted that the above items may contain manorial documents, which are subject to the Manorial Documents Rules 1959, 1963 and 1967, administered by The Historical Manuscripts Commission at The National Archives on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. Accordingly, the purchasers of the documents must notify the Secretary of the Commission of their acquisition and provide details of where they will be kept. They may in no circumstances be removed from England and Wales without the prior consent of the Master of the Rolls. Every change of ownership must be reported.

Bentham (Jeremy). Rationale of Judicial Evidence, specially applied to English Practice from the Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, Esq., 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hunt & Clarke, 1827, half-titles (bound after main title in volume 4), final blank with printer’s imprint present at rear of volume 2 only, ink ownership stamp of Lewis D. Stubbs to front free endpapers, a little spotting and marginal browning at front and rear of each volume, mostly from previous turn-ins, modern green morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt-titled contrasting morocco spine labels, spines faded, 8vo (214 x 132 mm)QTY: (5)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Uncommon first edition of this landmark in the field of legal philosophy. It was edited from Bentham’s manuscript, with a preface, by John Stuart Mill.

Stow (John). The Abridgement of the English Chronicle... and continued with matters forreigne and domesticall, unto the end of the yeare 1610. By E. H. Gentleman, London: Company of Stationers, 1611, title within decorative woodcut border (with two small wormholes), lacking final two leaves at rear (2M2 & 2M3) and front and rear blanks (A1 & 2M4), a few early annotations and marginal scoring, later endpapers, front hinge reinforced, contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript, lacking ties, some dust-soiling and stains, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 23331. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Chaucer (Geoffrey). [The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed with dyuers workes whych were never in print before: As in the table more playnly doth appere. Cum priuilegio, 3rd edition of the William Thynne translation, London: Richard Kele, circa 1551], lacking 28 leaves (A1-A8, B1-B5, Nnn1, Nnn6, Ppp1-Ppp6, Qqq1-Qqq6 and final blank) which are replaced in facsimile, additional title page in 17th-century manuscript with the ownership inscription of W. Rameson dated 1666, woodcut portrait illustration of the Squire and several woodcut initials throughout, several areas of contemporary annotation and marginalia, verso of X4 with 16th-18th-century ownership signatures including the names; Edw. Ameridith (?) dated 1625, Mary Grenfeld, Bennet Hunt, and Jonas Staw, verso and recto of title for Romaut of the Rose with several 16th-18th-century ownership signatures including; George Lathan, Emanuel Snelling, John Conant, Thomas T. and Bennett Hunt, Ooo1 torn with loss to outer upper corner and replaced in facsimile, some old paper repairs (not affecting text) to B6, D4, D5, L2, Pp6, Ooo2, occasional light staining or spotting, recent front free endpaper, rear free endpaper reattached, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf with modern reback, corners repaired, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Pforzheimer 174.This work differs from the 2nd edition in having The Plowman's Tale placed before The Parson's Tale. It was jointly published by four booksellers: William Bonham, Thomas Petit, Robert Toye, and Richard Kele. Copies were probably divided equally between them and were issued with any one of their names and addresses on the colophon. 'We have traced no less than six nor more than nine copies of any state... various dates from 1545 to 1555 have been suggested for this edition and it has even been said to antedate the 1542 edition. From the state of the blocks, however, it appears to have been printed about 1550, and furthermore Bonham's address as given in his colophon is one which he is known to have had in 1551... roughly this is a reprint of the 1542 edition' (Pforzheimer).

* Mica Paintings. A collection of 15 paintings, mid-19th-century, gouache on mica of Indian servants and street vendors, each tipped onto contemporary paper with a manuscript title below the image, a few images creased and cracked, each image approximately 140 x 105 mmQTY: (15)NOTE:The paintings show a Cook, Stool Maker, Sweetmeat Maker, Making Butter, Bearer carrying Boxes, Cooling Wine, Water Bearer, Hookah Seller, Grass Cutter, Table Servant, Shoe Cleaner, Sweeper, Groom, Fruit Seller and a Chaprasi.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised: By his Majesties Special Commandement, Appointed to be read in Churches, Printed at London: by Robert Barker, 1632, general title and New Testament title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut armorial to verso of title-page, John Tissies? in brown ink to upper margin, bound without Apocrypha, two previous ownership inscriptions to verso of free front endpaper, C7 with three small brown spots, K1-2 small stain to upper edge, O4-5, P1-3 & Q3 with manuscript notes to margins in brown ink, Fff5 with closed tear to lower edge with minor loss, marbled endpapers, all edge gilt (dust soiled), 19th century brown calf with gilt letters J. T. and decoration to upper and rear boards, worn, spine with gilt decoration, worn, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 360, Herbert 467 (1st edition of 3), STC 2302.

Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem, 1st edition, 1st issue, Venice: Aldus the Elder, October, 1502, printer's woodcut anchor device to title [*1] and colophon leaf cc8, early underscoring and marginal notes in brown ink, manuscript page numbers to upper outer corners, all edges gilt (with evidence of gauffering), 19th-century olive green morocco by 'Canape R. D.' with gilt embossed Aldus anchor device to upper board, spine evenly faded to brown, 8vo (16.4 x 9 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V82; Renouard 36:10.An uncommon first issue. In later issues, the initial gathering contained additional leaves of content.

Voragine (Jacobus de). [Legenda Aurea: that is to saye in Englysshe the Golden legende. For lyke as golde passeth all other metalles, so this boke excedeth all other bokes, wherein ben conteyned all the hygh and grete feestes of our lorde, the feestes of our blyssed lady, lyves, passyons, and myracles of many other sayntes hystoryes and actes, as all alonge here afore is made mencyon. Which werke hath ben dilige[n]tly amended in divers places where as grete nede was, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 August 1527], black letter text in double-column, a portion only of the published work: 149 leaves, being folios 233-382 (dd-xx8, yy6), lacking only folios 383-384 (yy7-8) now supplied in careful facsimile, bound in at front of volume are an additional six leaves in facsimile, being the first four leaves (A1-4), and the table to part two, leaves 53-54, folio 233 (dd1) with small tear repaired, slightly affecting legibility, folio 306 (nn2) with the outer column of text supplied in careful facsimile, folio 381 (yy5) with upper outer corner replaced in facsimile, torn with loss of a few words, folio 382 (yy6) with outer blank margins strengthened with modern paper, 19 woodcut illustrations to text, contemporary underlining and marginal annotations in brown ink throughout, some water stains and soiling mostly to margins, occasional minor losses to extreme blank edges or outer corners, modern endpapers, with ownership inscription to front endpaper 'E. Libris Gladwyn M. R. Turbutt. June 11th 1903' and two-page manuscript Life of Wynkyn de Worde in ink by Turbutt to verso of front endpaper and following blank leaf, late 19th century or very early 20th century dark brown half morocco, spine lettered in gilt and with armorial at head of bare raised arm with trident, a few minor marks, folio (sheet size 292 x 193 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Gladwyn Maurice Revell Turbutt (1883-1914), of Ogston Hall, Brackenfield, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, Lieutenant, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry who was killed during the Battle of Langemarck on the 21st October 1914. The Turbutt family owned a copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, given to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and now known as the Turbutt Shakespeare. A printed account of this copy was published in 1905 with an account of the history of the volume by Francis Maddan, and a description of the volume by G. M. R. Turbutt.First translated and published by William Caxton, this English version of Voragine's famous collection of legends for the feasts of saints and other days of the year, the Legende Aurea was one of the most popular and influential books in late medieval literature. Caxton's translation was based on the French version by Jean de Vignay, as well as the Latin original and an earlier English translation entitled The Gilt Legende. Caxton's successor Wynkyn de Worde first printed the work in 1493, followed by further editions in 1498, 1507, 1512, 1521 and 1527 (as here).

Obicini (Tommaso). Thesaurus Arabico-Syro-Latinus, [edited by Dominicus Germanus], Rome: Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1636, [8], 447, [48] pp., woodcut printer’s device to title, Syriac, Arabic and Latin text throughout, first and final two leaves blank, browning throughout, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine, minor marks, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Brill, Philologia Orientalis, II, 223; British Library, Catalogue of Arabic Books, II, 506, 448; See Graf IV 175; Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica, pp. 38-39.First edition of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary arranged according to subjects, originally compiled in the 11th century by Elias bar Shinaya, Metropolitan of Nisibis, edited with a Latin translation by Obicini. It was published by Obicini’s pupil Germanus de Silesia, author of an Arabic Grammar and an Italian-Arabic dictionary. It is dedicated by Achilles Venerius to Cardinal Barbarini. The Syriac types are the 20pt Maronite types and the Arabic types Granjon’s arabe du kitãb al-Bustãn.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Authorised and appointed to be read in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1602], lacking general title, New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border, Apocrypha present (verso of final leaf with old paper slip pasted over to obscure words 'Chalgrave Church Bible'), Kalendar and Almanacke in red and black (verso of leaf B1 with early ownership signature to upper margin Thomas Phillips), double-column text in black letter, few woodcut illustrations and maps, woodcut decorative initials, head and tailpieces, final leaf of Revelation with 18th-century manuscript to lower margin of recto and ownership names of members of the Goodson family to verso, light damp-staining mostly to margins of first and last few leaves and also with few leaves at front and rear strengthened to gutter margins, one or two repaired short marginal repairs, bound with a later Genealogies by John Speed at front of volume (King James issue instead of Bishops' version), dust-soiling, damp-staining and several repairs to genealogies, 18th-century front flyleaf with genealogical entries for members of the Gwillim family including 'Thomas Gwillim March 15th 1712 born, John Gwillim born Dec 20th 1743 and Henry Gwillim born Oct 10th 1777', modern endpapers, 18th-century panelled calf, modern reback with blind decorative motif to compartments, board corners worn, folio (38 x 25 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 206; Herbert 271; STC 2188.The last edition of the Bishops' Bible. This edition of the Bishops' Bible was presumably used by Kong James' translators as the basis of their new version. (Herbert, Darlow and Moule)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, Oxford: John Baskett, 1717/1716, additional engraved general title by Du-Bose representing Moses writing the first words of Genesis (torn with image loss and lined to verso), general letterpress title and calendar printed in red and black, general title with engraved illustration by G. Vander Gucht depicting view of Oxford (torn to lower outer blank corners and lined to verso), engraved vignette to New Testament depicting the Annunciation (imprint dated 1716), with numerous engraved head & tail-pieces and initials after Thornhill, Cheron, Laguere and others, generally illustrating incidents from the Bible, Apocrypha present, occasional toning, few leaves repaired to margins mostly at front and rear of volume, front flyleaf with pasted-in manuscript note 'The Bible of the Parish Church of Ardleigh begun to be used Feb 12th 1726. ... Ralph Creffeild & ... Wm. Lugar, Churchwards', marbled endpapers, front pastedown with red morocco ownership label with 'St. Mary, Ardleigh, 1847' in gilt within decorative gilt border, contemporary blind panelled reversed calf, brass corner pieces and central boss to both boards, rebacked preserving original spine and morocco title label, folio (49.5 x 30.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 736; Herbert 943.This edition is commonly known as the 'Vinegar Bible'. Unfortunately the book contained many misprints, and earned the nickname A Baskett-ful of Errors. From the misprint The parable of the vinegar (for vineyard) in the headline above Luke XX. (Herbert).

Cheyne (George). The Natural Method of Cureing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body, 4th edition (printed in the same year as the 1st edition), London: printed for George Strahan and John and Paul Knapton, 1762, some light spotting, manuscript subject list bound at front, modern tan calf gilt, 8vo, together with Hibbert (Samuel). Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, an attempt to trace such illusions to their physical causes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1824, folding table (with tear along one fold), occasional light spotting, old Worcester Library book[plate with shelf number, contemporary half vellum, modern reback (covers a little rubbed), 8vo, plus Rogers (Timothy). A Discourse on Trouble of Mind, and the Disease of Melancholy; with a preface containing several advices to the relations and friends of melancholy people, 3rd edition, to which is prefixed A Life of the Author, London: Richard Edwards for Maxwell and Wilson and others, 1808, head of title partly excised, a little minor spotting, original boards, rebacked, a few stains, 8vo, together with 5 others related including On the Preservation of the Health of Body and Mind, by Forbes Winslow, 1st edition, 1842, Mesmerism and its Opponents, by George Sandby, 2nd edition, 1848, Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings, by Henry Maudsley, 1st edition, 1886, and Psycho-Therapeutics; or, Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion, by C. Lloyd Tuckey, 2nd edition, 1890QTY: (8)

Camden (William). Guilielmi Camdeni Viri Clarissimi Britannia sive Florentissimorum Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae & Insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio..., published Amsterdam: G. Jansson, 1617, engraved title with slight water staining, folding map of the British Isles and 44 (lacking the map of Suffolk) uncoloured engraved maps by Pieter Van den Keere including 1 folding (Yorkshire), index and errata bound at rear, occasional library stamps to the margins (affecting the border of the map of Cornwall), page 128 torn with slight loss, lacking pages 279 - 282, front endpaper with old library stamp and later manuscript ownership signature, loosely inserted double-page title from a later English edition of the same atlas, later endpapers, modern calf with contrasting label to the spine, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Chubb X.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement, Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, 1613, general title and New Testament titles present (imprint to NT dated 1614), each with decorative woodcut borders, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, colophon dated 1614, first leaf of Genesis torn at foot with text loss and repaired, verso of titles and final leaf of Prophets with early manuscript inscriptions and entries mentioning the names William, Thomas and Elizabeth Dutton, few other manuscript annotations including to final leaf of Revelation, some running titles to upper margins cropped, bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., by J[ohn]. S[peed], title and following leaf (bearing woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve) torn with loss and repaired, with double-page woodcut map present with early manuscript to margins and repair to upper blank margin, bound with an incomplete Common Prayer at front and Psalms at rear, with some repairs, toning, light dust-soiling and few marks throughout, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, modern reback with morocco title label, 4to (20.4 x 16 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 257; Herbert 331; STC 2230.Both titles omit the words Appointed... The text ends on Sss8a. Ruth iii. 15 she, Isaiah xxxviii. 9 beasts for breasts. This copy is without an edition of the Concordance which is sometimes bound in.

Essex - Wanstead House. A Catalogue of the Magnificent and Costly Furniture of the Princely Mansion, Wanstead House..., a valuable Collection of Fine Paintings and Sculpture..., Library of Ancient and Modern Books..., The choice fine-flavoured Old Wines..., and a Variety of other Articles, The whole forming an Assemblage of the most valuable Property ever offered to the Public: which, by order of the Trustees, will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Robins, (of Warwick House, Regent Street,) on the Premises, Wanstead House, on Monday, 10th June, 1822, and 31 following Days, Saturdays and Sundays excepted, at eleven o'clock, 3 parts in one, [London]: printed by J. Brettell, [1822], [5], 6-136; [5], 138-158; [5], 260-400 pp., red-ruled borders to each page and with columns to right margin with manuscript results for each lot, with 2 page manuscript 'Abstract of the Proceeding Sale' bound in at front listing the hammer results for each day and total (£32395-6-6), some offsetting and show-through, inscription to front blank 'Family Book. Joseph J. Green, Tunbridge Wells, 31 Oct. 1906. Bull Arcade..., Poor Miss Tylney who married the profligate and spendthrift William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley later 4th Earl of Mornington and nephew of the great Duke of Wellington, was a lineal descendant of my Wilmer ancestors through the families of Darby, Charlton, Bernard, Child etc., Miss Tylney was the newly ordained(?) heiress of the Earl's Tylney, with a rent roll of some 80,000l a year, and ten years after her marriage, her wretched husband had not only squandered his splendid fortune but was over head & ears in debt', marbled endpapers with neatly repaired hinges, modern dark brown half morocco, retaining contemporary marbled boards, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:This volume provides a detailed and fascinating listing of the items offered for sale at the auction of the contents of Wanstead House, Essex. It is of particular interest to have the prices realised written in manuscript for each lot. The manuscript inscription to the front blank appears to indicate the volume had passed through the family of Catherine Tylney-Long (1789-1825) who married William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (1788-1857). Catherine Tylney-Long was known in fashionable London society as "The Wiltshire Heiress", and at the time believed to have been the richest commoner in England having inherited vast estates gathered by the 7th Baronet in Essex, Hampshire and Wiltshire, with financial investments in hand worth £300,000. One of her suitors included the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV who was keen to pay off his great debts, but she married William in 1812. Their marriage was unhappy partly due to William's extravagance and unpleasant manner. William amassed vast debts, but gained an appointment as Gentleman Usher to George IV in 1822 (rendering him immune to arrest for debt) and left Britain to escape his creditors around 1823. As part of Catherine's inheritance, she inherited Wanstead House, Essex, a vast Neo-Palladian style mansion designed by the architect Colen Campbell. To secure a debt of £250,000, William mortgaged their marriage settlement trust, which owned Wanstead House and contents, to his creditors. As a result in June 1822 the trustees auctioned off the house's contents in an auction lasting 32 days to settle some of William's debts. The house failed to be rented out and in 1825 the trustees demolished the house for building materials. Catherine died at age 35 in Richmond, Surrey. William had only a life interest in Catherine's property, he unsuccessfully tried to gain custody of their eldest child William, on whom Catherine's fortune had devolved. In 1828 he married Helena Paterson Bligh (d. 1869) and for a time lived in Brussels to avoid his creditors. Towards the final years of his life, he lived on a small pension of £10 a week (provided by his cousin Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington). He died of heart disease in 1857 whilst residing in lodgings in London.

River Thames. Jefferys (Thomas), A Profile of the River Thames from Boulters Lock to Mortlake Surveyed by Order of the City of London in 1770 by James Brindley Engineer, London: T. Jefferys, 14th January 1771, large hand-coloured engraved profile on three conjoined sheets, old folds, large margins, contemporary manuscript annotation to the verso, 325 x 2070 mmQTY: (1)

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites & Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form & Manner of Making, Ordaining & Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, London: printed by His Ma:ties Printers, 1669, engraved title within architectural border by P. Williamson, with manuscript signature to upper margin C. Coliner and two other scribbled out signatures, separate letterpress title to Psalter with imprint 'In the Savoy, printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Anno Dom. 1669', woodcut decoration to initials, head and tailpieces, black letter text, red-ruled titles and borders throughout volume, occasional early annotations and markings, general title and following five leaves with short worm trail to fore-margin, some light scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885) to upper pastedown, endpapers with cloth hinges, gilt gauffered edges, 19th-century gilt panelled and elaborately decorated morocco, fading to spine and boards, joints rubbed, folio (34.3 x 22 cm), with loosely inserted folded folio sheet with 19th-century manuscript genealogical entries relating to the Feilden family QTY: (1)NOTE:Griffiths 1669.1 (page 118); Wing B3635.The second folio edition after the restoration and 1662 prayer book.Provenance: George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885). George Blomfield was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the youngest son of Charles Blomfield, schoolmaster, and Hester Pawsey.George was educated at Bury and later studied at Cambridge obtaining his B.A. in 1824 and was ordained deacon for the diocese of Chester. His older brother Charles was also appointed Bishop of Chester in the same year. In 1827 he married Frances Maria Massie, by whom he had seven children. She died in 1837 and in 1847 he married Mary Anson, daughter of the Dean of Chester. She died in 1852 and in 1854 he married Elizabeth Feilden of Mollington Hall, near Chester. After his ordination, Blomfield was appointed curate and then rector to a number of parishes in the diocese. From 1827 he was a canon of Chester Cathedral, a position he held until his death in 1885. He was also rector of Stevenage, Hertfordshire from 1834 until 1874. Blomfield published several sermons including three series adapted to country congregations. He collected early printed books and fine bindings, primarily bibles and theology-related. After the death of his widow, Elizabeth, in 1897, Mollington Hall and its library reverted to members of the Feilden family, where on the instructions of Guy Feilden, Blomfield’s collection was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in 1906.

Embroidered binding. Etrennes Mignonnes pour l'an bissexil de N.S. MDCCLXXXIV..., Liege: chez la veuve J. Dessain, [1784], few woodcut illustrations, initial two gatherings of text interleaved with blank leaves, contemporary annotation to upper pastedown and manuscript label, all edges gilt, contemporary embroidered binding in gilt and white metal thread on linen backing, inset pen, ink and was pictorial panels on prepared ground silk to each board, pictorial panel to upper board with caption at foot 'Premiere declaration difficile' and to lower board 'En amour point de compagnon', pictorial panels rubbed and a little worn, some wear mostly to board edges, embroidered cover to lower board detached at edges, 12mo in 12s (9.3 x 5 cm)QTY: (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Tho. and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, [1629], engraved general title by Jo. Payn (short closed tear to gutter margin), letterpress New Testament title with woodcut device (imprint date 1629), few woodcut initials, Apocrypha present, verso of New Testament title with early 18th-century manuscript entries 'Ann ye wife of Tho: Birch departed her life October ye 30 day 1725 aged 44 years' and 'Thomas Birch married Eliz. Pamer(?) July ye 11th 1726', woodcut device above colophon and dated 1629, lacking final blank leaf 4B4, bound with at rear The Whole book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title, lacking final 3 leaves, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title (closed tear to lower margin), lacks 6 leaves (B2-B5, F3 & F4), titles and borders red-ruled throughout volume, occasional scattered spotting, front flyleaf with early 19th-century genealogical entries for Philip Beddall and Elizabeth (née Toller, married on June 25th 1821 at Southill Church, Bedfordshire) and their children and verso of leaf with 20th-century bookplate of Ranulph Brocas Hunter (1880-1954), all edges gilt, hinges split with old cloth repair to upper hinge split, early 19th-century calf with raised and recessed borders to boards, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, gilt and blind decorated turn-ins, folio (28.5 x 19.3 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 324; Herbert 424; STC 2285.Book of Common Prayer - Griffiths 1629.2 (page 93). The first edition of the King James' version of the Bible printed at Cambridge. Cambridge began to print the Bible in the Geneva version in 1588 under a charter granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the charter was ratified by Charles I in 1628 and this edition if the first production of the new charter. Though the issue was resisted by the King's printers the accuracy of the text gained general support. Lea Wilson (p. 104) says: 'For this beautiful edition the text appears to have undergone a complete revision, although I can find no record of such having been done by authority. Yet the errors in the first and intermediate editions are here corrected, and considerable care appears to have been exercised as to the words printed in italics, punctuation, etc.' This seems to be the earliest edition in which occurs the error: 1 Tim. iv. 16, Take heed unto thyself and unto thy doctrine (for ... the doctrine). (Herbert, Darlow and Moule)

Husbandry. Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce invitation to award William Wallis Mason a medal for a method of stabbing hoven cattle into the stomach to discharge the rarified air from thence, after being overfed with moist clover, May 23rd, 1808, single sheet with wood-engraved vignette at head, signed at foot Charles Taylor MD sec., folded with wax seal applied and manuscript note to verso 'Mr Birkett has informed me that you cannot attend personally & that he will receive the medal for you', small folio, together with Broadside. A broadside advertisement entitled 'A Catalogue of the Truly Valuable Live & Dead Stock, Implements of Husbandry, Dairy Utensils, &c. of W. W. Mason, Esq. at Goodrest Lodge, near Warwick, which will be Sold by Auction, (on the premises,) by John Margetts, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 20th and 21st of April, 1808, and on Wednesday, the 27th Instant, all the Modern Household Furniture...', single sheet with old folds and some wear, folio, with Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Transactions of the Society..., volume 26, London: printed by R. Wilks, 1808, engraved portrait frontispiece and several plates, pages 128-131 relate to William Wallis Mason's trochar and canular instrument for relieving hoven cattle of gas, and with engraved plate of the relevant instruments, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary half sheep, joints cracked and light wear, 8vo, and Evans (William). An English-Welsh Dictionary..., 2nd edition, Carmarthen: printed and sold by John Evans, 1812, contemporary half calf, joints splitting, worn, 8vo; Mortimer (John). The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of Managing and Improving Land, volume 2 only, 5th edition, London: R. Robinson and C. Mortlock, 1721, toning and spotting, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo; Johnson (Thomas Burgeland). The Sportsman's Cyclopedia..., London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1831, modern cloth, 8vo, plus a pencil and watercolour on board half-length portrait of a schoolboy captioned in pencil 'J. G. S. 1816, An Old School fellow, Newark upon Trent', portrait dimensions approximately 7.5 x 5 cm, board dimensions 17.5 x 11 cmQTY: (7)