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Chinese Fabric & Paper Mtd. Manuscript Cover The rectangular open-ended sleeve, covered in a gilt trellis decorated fabric, the front with vertical rectangular center recess, set with a gilt paper plate with a character inscription in black ink, now in a glazed giltwood box frame Overall Size: 13 x 20 1/2 in. Sight Size: 11 x 18 1/2 in.

Ottoman Empire, or Northern India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A religious manuscript of duas or prayers. Illuminated, some pages have roundels with prayers contained and one mentioning the four rightly guided Caliphs. Bound in dark tooled leather, some details of former gold decoration remain.Size: L:164mm / W:110mm ; 130gProvenance: Private UK collection, formed since the 1990s on the UK and International Art market.

Royal Military College Sandhurst parade uniform with peaked cap and two-piece mess dress, all bearing historic manuscript labels for J.E.A. Baldwin, possibly Air Marshal Sir John Eustace Arthur Baldwin (1892-1975) who served in the British Army 1910-18 & 1944-58 and in the RAF 1918-44.Condition Report:Condition is reasonably good consistent with age and use and a little grubby from age and storage.Minor moth damage and signs of wear to elbows.Lacking one button to tunic and no belt.

Three WW2 edition RAF quarter inch to one mile linen backed Ordnance Survey maps of England titled Midlands (N), Eastern Counties (S) and one with text removed showing NE England largest 62 x 81cm; and German O.S. map of East Yorkshire dated 1941 with manuscript Junkers 88 A-5 crew members details verso.Condition Report:Condition is consistent with being well used and folded with some damage to creases.One RAF map of N. E. England has had top and bottom text details removed.

Swiss leather ammunition belt with six pouches containing empty clips; another leather ammunition belt with five pouches; WW2 1942 dated webbing belt hung with holster, water bottle, gaiters in pouch, ammunition pouches etc; HMAS Sydney pennant; four Royal Navy cap bands; and pair of gogglesCondition Report:All in reasonably good condition.Pennant appears to have been stuck to a wall and has manuscript alteration.

Brass bound and studded polished steel breast and back plates with leather lining and articulated brass securing shoulder straps marked RHG (?Royal Horse Guards); in canvas carrying bag marked 'CN/AA 0760' with various other marks including broad arrow; and two additional shoulder strapsCondition Report:Generally in reasonably good condition with obvious signs of use and minor wear to felt edging.Two scuff marks to back plate.Carry bag lacking fixing buttons.Various impressed numbers to straps and indistinct manuscript name.Manuscript initials on leather lining SQMC

WW1 Canadian Ross Rifle Co. 1907 Model Mk.II bayonet with 25.5cm steel blade; dated 11/15; in leather scabbard with owner's manuscript service number verso; and leather frog L42cm overall; and Yugoslavian Model 1924/30 bayonet in steel scabbard, both numbered 1190 (2)Condition Report:Both in reasonably good condition consistent with age and use.Both spring actions work.

Five late 19th century photographs of sporting interest - two rowing, one titled 'Moss's Island Reading Aug.6th 1896', the other Clare College Cambridge team with manuscript details; West Kent Harriers Season 1896-7; Goldsmith's Institute Sports 600yds runners; and another indistinctly titled of tennis interest; all framed (5)Condition Report:Grubby from age and storage but generally OK.Tennis photo details very faded but could say The Hornets May ?????? 1889.

An album of postal history with correspondence (62 covers) from Norway to England 1879-1887 20 ore rate with several Hull ship letters, London ship letter in red, Newcastle-upon-Tyne boxed ship letter, manuscript Evanger, Cape of Good Hope 1871 1 shilling green to London, 1930s Tanganyika Airmails, 1d reds (mixed condition).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

Local Interest, Breweriana - T.L. Bradley, Midland Brewery, New Basford, Nottingham - three manuscript volumes of their accounts, comprising the Nominal Ledger, inscribed from October 1930 to April 1941, (1); the Wages Book/Steam Motor Drivers, No. 1, 1914-1919, (1); another, miscellaneous, including expenditure of the Loscoe officer, Derbyshire, (1), mixed contemporary part-leather bindings, folios, [3]

Antiquarian Books - Education and Teaching in Early-Mid 20th Century Greater London - R. Harold Morris, a master at Upper Hornsey Road L.C.C. Senior Boys' School and later deputy headmaster of Archway County Secondary School for Boys, Hornsey Rise, comprising the Programmes and Guides of the Second, Third and Fourth Annual Upper Hornsey Road School Journeys, Isle of Wight (Ryde) June & July 1929 & 1930, then Hastings July 1931, each account lithograph-printed and illustrated with b/w and sepia snapshots of the schoolboys and their masters, activities, and British topography, original cloth, 8vo, (3); Binding, The Archway County Secondary School Boys, Presented to R. H. Morris, Deputy Headmaster on his Retirement, Dec. 1956, the 'book bound in leather by Mr. K. Kenmare (of the Archway staff), and bearing the school badge and title. The book contained copies of the school magazine and the signatures of all the boys and staff of the school’, taken from a clipping of the Hornsey Journal (4.1.57) tipped-in the presentation volume with some further ephemera, inscribed in manuscript ink throughout, contemporary citron morocco, the covers blocked in gilt with the school arms, gilt-lettered onlays, blue-stained edges, 8vo, (1), [4]

States of Guernsey, 10 Shillings, 2 April 1925, serial number A/Q 3928, manuscript O.P.Breton signature at low left, printed W. Le Page signature at right, black and white with red reverse, stain low left otherwise good fine, and extremely rare Pick 10 £5,000-£7,000

Banco Rosario de Santa-Fe, 1 Peso (4), 1 October 1869, one black serial number 15467, manuscript signature, and three red serial numbers, printed signatures, very good to about fine (4 notes) Pick S1854a, S1854b £100-£150

Ulster Bank Limited, £10, 1 May 1936, serial number 32048, manuscript Lester signature, one 5mm tear in top margin, otherwise an original good fine and a very scarce type PMI UB 55, Pick 314 £240-£300

Provincial Bank of Ireland Ltd, £1, 1 July 1921, serial number A83268, manuscript signature, pinholes, about fine, scarce and the second of only two possible dates PMI PR 74, Pick 346a £260-£320

St. Saviours Bank, Jersey, £1, 17 October 1837, serial number 100, signature manuscript cross cancelled, also a Town Vingtaine of St. Helier, unissued £1, a presentable very good, the second note extremely fine (2 notes) McCammon JN1, JN233 £80-£120

States of Guernsey, £1, 15 October 1918, serial number D/G 2830, two manuscript signatures, one stain at top centre, small tear in margin at top left, but a superb original good very fine example of an exceptionally rare note, and a lovely Perkins Bacon design Pick 7 (this date unlisted) £6,000-£8,000

Sterling Banking Company, 1 Guinea, 1 January 1816, serial number 87/595, two manuscript signatures, cross cancelled, original paper with body, a pleasing fine and rare in this grade PMS ST 4 £500-£700

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £20, 3 January 1923, serial number D.2776, manuscript Keith signature, original paper, fine and the very scarce first date with black signature PMI BB 77, Pick 129a £200-£260

Ulster Bank Limited, £1, 1 February 1938, serial number 1662722, manuscript Robinson signature, original about extremely fine, quite scare in this grade PMI UB 53b, Pick 312 £80-£120

Mosenthal Brothers, £5, 12 November 1857, serial number 180, printed Rowe, Kentish & Co. London, manuscript signature of Adolph Mosenthal at right, backed on card but watermark clearly visible in places, overall very good and exceptionally rare, the only other record of sale being at DNW in 2010, which was serial number 189, only 9 away from this example! Pick unlisted, Hern 253 £2,000-£2,600 --- The Mosenthal Brothers were Joseph, Adolph and Julius, three German Jews who emigrated to Cape Town in around 1839. They were highly successful businessmen who operated throughout the 19th Century, and whose business outlived them well into the 20th. These notes were issued for a very short time, from 1854 until 1860, and are some of the earliest of all known South African notes.

Ulster Bank Limited, £50, 1 June 1929, serial number 751, manuscript Lester signature, a few pairs of staple holes, nice original paper, scarce in this grade PMI UB 51, Pick 310 £260-£320

States of Guernsey, £1, 1 March 1921, serial number E/O 2188, printed signature of de Jersey at right, manuscript signature at left, fine and rare Pick 11 £1,000-£1,400

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £5, 3 May 1923, serial number B/N 9425, manuscript Keith signature, one pair of staple holes, otherwise a very attractive very fine example, thus scarce PMI BB 67 £150-£200

Ulster Bank Limited, £5, 1 August 1929, serial number 105402, manuscript Gore signature, also £10, 1 January 1948, serial number 159275, both with significant rust stains, first original very fine, second with remarkable paper quality and no major folds, thus about uncirculated (2 notes) PMI UB 48a, 58, Pick 307, 317 £150-£200

Provincial Bank of Ireland Ltd, £1, 1 December 1899, serial number A/Z 25147, manuscript signature, split and rejoined, original fine, scarce PMI PR 58, Pick 331a £100-£150

Dundee Commercial Bank, £1, 5 November 1832, serial number 210/ 441, black print, blue central security panel, manuscript signatures, fine and scarce PMS DC 1b £700-£900

Ulster Bank Limited, £100, 1 January 1941, serial number 2593, manuscript Niblock signature, a few small margin tears, good fine to about very fine, scarce PMI UB 61, Pick 320 £220-£280

Ulster Bank Limited, £50, 1 January 1943, serial number 5115, manuscript Williams signature, one tiny hole and one small element of graffiti on reverse, nice original paper, good fine but a much nicer note that this might suggest PMI UB 60, Pick 319 £160-£220

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £100, 3 February 1943, serial number A.6408, manuscript Smyth signature, fresh and original paper, good extremely fine and and very scarce, with only 500 notes issued with this date PMI BB 89, Pick 131c £1,000-£1,500

The National Bank Limited, £1, 1 June 1918, serial number B93284, manuscript signature, original paper, no tears and only a few pinholes, about fine and rare PMI NA 55, Pick 215 £1,000-£1,500

British Linen Bank, £5, 3 January 1910, serial number E/3 17/203, two manuscript signatures, a lovely presentable about fine example PMS BL 55a, Pick 147 £400-£500

Royal Bank of Scotland, 20 Shillings or £1, 4 November 1823, serial number 760/603, two manuscript signatures, annotation on reverse, few small holes along hard central fold, a fresh and original very good, very rare
PMS RB 30b £400-£500

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £5, 7 September 1927, serial number B/T 6449, manuscript Keith signature, very good to about fine and a scarce single date type PMI BB 68 £50-£70

Belfast Banking Company Limited, £5, 3 January 1923, serial number B/L 6789, manuscript Keith signature, about fine, scarce and the first date of issue for this design PMI BB 67 £80-£120

Ulster Bank Limited, £5, 1 January 1942, serial number 674580, manuscript signature, in ICG holder number 30, very fine PMI UB 57b, Pick 316a £100-£150

St. Lawrence’s Marsh or Common, £1, 12 March 1835, serial number 108, five manuscript signatures at low left, very good, rare McCammon JN218 £600-£700

La Provincia de Buenos Ayres, 20 Pesos, 1 January 1869, serial number 81814, manuscript signature, green underprint, about fine and very scarce Pick S486 £100-£150

Northern Banking Company Limited, £1, 1 May 1919, red serial number D25920, 69 branches, unclear manuscript signature, very good, rare PMI NR 47, Pick 256b £400-£500

La Provincia de Buenos Ayres, a small group comprising 1 Peso, 1867, 1 Peso (5), 1869, one with manuscript signature and four with printed signature, two of which have consecutive numbers, 5 Pesos, printed signatures and 10 Pesos, manuscript signature, 20 Pesos, green and orange underprint with manuscript signature, also 50 Pesos, 1869, last note backed and very stained, fair, the 20 Pesos tape repairs, fine, a few of the 1 Pesos good very fine, others very good (10 notes) Pick S471, S481a, S481b, S483b, S485a, S487a, S488 £200-£260

Ulster Bank Limited, £1, 1 January 1940, serial number A164652, manuscript Lockheed signature, central fold and some other handling, original extremely fine and quite scarce in higher grades PMI UB 56, Pick 315a £100-£150

MANUSCRIPT: The MANOR OF TERRINGTON: A complete survey of all the lands in the parishes or villages of Terrington St. Clement’s & St. John’s, including the Marshes, setting forth distinctly all the rents belonging to several Manors & also those particular service rents, Harvest Reeve, Laith Reeve Pindarship.. Taken from the best & most correct copies, 1750, with 118 numbered pages, ruled in red & black, and very neat writing. Cont. full reverse calf; rubbed and with few cuts. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection.IMPORTANT NOTEIt has been noted that this lot 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.Further information about the rules can be found at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/legislation/manorial-documents.htm.The Secretary of the Commission can be contacted by e-mail at: mdr@nationalarchives.gov.uk,or by post to: Head of Archive Sector Development, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.

MANUSCRIPT: St. PETER, Parish of West Lynn, Norfolk: Vicarage account book (Samuel Smith), March 1770 to June 1773. Including a list of Tithe payers. 170pp. Original vellum, and the purchase receipt for the auction house.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

MANUSCRIPT: Sedgeford, Norfolk. 170 numbered pages of copyhold & allotments. Swaffham, Norfolk July 1795 to Jan 1797, Act dividing, allotting & enclosing the whole year, lands within the Parish of Sedgeford, Norfolk. Cont. full vellum & leather label to upper cover, includes c150 blank pages.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

MANUSCRIPT: The Honourable East India Co. Ship: 'Duchess of Atholl''- Journal kept 1821-23 on her maiden voyage from England to Bengal & back kept by the second officer Charles Steward, with a list of the ship's company, passengers, dimensions of the ship, etc. Plus press cuttings about the death of Charles Steward when assisting the Navy in cold attacking pirates in Borneo in 1844, loosely inserted; Plus two prints of water sports.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

MANUSCRIPT- Exercises in drawing: Plans & Maps, including 25 hand drawn maps of many foreign lands: India, Australia, British America, etc.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

MSS/Wisbech- Working Men’s club: Six manuscript volumes, 1877-98, meetings, minutes & accounts; Plus: One vol. Boys & girls receipts & expenditure sick & funeral funds 1880-1904; Plus One vol. Friendly Union Shepherdesses Friendly Society: receipt book 1888-1901. (8)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 1593: Survey of the estate of Thomas HUNSTON of Walpole: made Oct. 1593, in Wisbech. PP: (i) with a shield at the bottom, (ii) blank, 66, (ii). 4to. Interleaved throughout. Full speckled calf, with later spine, gilt decoration and lettering: 'Wisbech Survey'Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

UNIQUE COPY: Rowlandson, Thomas; Combe (Wm.): The English Dance of Death, 2 volumes. R Ackermann, 1815-16, 1st. Edns. With 70 inimitable coloured plates by Rowlandson, brilliant impressions. Interleaved set with manuscript translation into French, of the two title pages, advert leaf and the description of the subject of each coloured plate, throughout the two volumes. Royal 8vo. Cont. French binding of full red leather with gilt tooling and lettering to spines, wholly uncut. [Although the bindings do not bear any crest or armorial, this copy was originally in the library of Marie Louise (1791-1847) wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. On the abdication of the emperor in 1814 she retired to Vienna and in 1816 the allied powers gave her the duchy of Parma. No doubt the French description of the plates were written at her request, or perhaps a translation of the whole was contemplated but not proceeded with]. Also, loosely inserted: the catalogue listing (used above) priced at £75, and a signed letter from the sellers: Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd, Oct. 26, 1962 to R J Rickett, Esq. c/o Messrs. Sotheby's, with full details and history of the work. (2)Condition ReportPlease see image of letter regarding provenance.

HOWELL (James): Dendrologia, Dodona's Grove, or the vocall forrest, H. Mosley, 1640, Frontis, large engraved vignette Plus two plates. 4to. PP: (ix), (I)b, (iii) Manuscript key, added c1650, 219, (I)b. Near cont. full leather; rubbed. The armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Hopkins, Bart. to front pastedown. A Very Good Plus/Fine copy.Condition ReportSee images for condition. Creasing to many pages

QUAKERS: Clarkson, T: 1- Portraiture of Quakerism, 3 Vols. 1806, 1st. edns. Cont. half leather, rubbed; vol.1 has 4 pages with manuscript notes & corrections; scattered spotting; 2- Memoirs of the private & public life of William Penn, 2 Vols. 1813, 1st. edns. Vol. 1 inscribed: “to Thomas Bland, this work is presented, first as a mark of gratitude… by the Author”. Half leather; rubbed; 3- ANOTHER SET. 1st. edns. rebound with new endpapers; Woolman, J: Serious considerations on various subjects of importance. 1773, 1st. edn. Covers rubbed & hinges cracked; PLUS 2 others. (10)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

SCIENCE- Perry, W: the Man of Business & Gentleman's assistant... Edinburgh, 1777. Cont. full calf; rubbed & some worm damage; Owen's Conspectus or students Remembrancer... British Pharmacopia 1867. Longman 1868, Filled in by William Bur of Wisbech, Jan 1869. Full of his manuscript notes, remedies & paper cuttings; Crocker: Elements of land surveying. 1817, with a hand coloured folding frontis & 12 of 13 plates? (3)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

SCIENCE: EUCLIDIS Elementorum Libri XV. Frankfurt, N Hoffmann 1607; 671pp; Bound with: Euclidis Posteriores Libri IX. As above, 1607, 680pp. Cont. full blindstamped vellum; rubbed & lacking ties; Geometry Manuscript, John Lynn. 1856. Consisting of exercises and problem setting & solving; c103pp, written in neat hand, 4to. Half leather; Smith, CH: Natural History of the Human Species. Edinburgh, 1848, 464pp plus 34 plates, mostly hand coloured. Plus 2 others. (6)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

EARLY PRINTING: [FERNE, John]: The blazon of Gentrie: divided into two parts. Lacking title page and supplied in manuscript, London, PP: Part 1: (xii), 1-32, 33-36, 37-44, (iii) (in manuscript), 47-256, (iv) (in manuscript), 259-341, (ii) blank, (i) Manuscript; Part 2: 1-128 (only?), (iv). With numerous woodcuts of shields, some full page manuscripts in cont. hand. The first manuscript page reads: Testimonies concerning this author “John Ferne”: the author was of the honourable Society of the inner temple… Full panelled calf over wood; covers detached; SOLD A/F NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts CollectionCondition ReportThe book is not in manuscript. The title page was lost and someone re wrote the title page.

SIGNED: Ebenezer ELLIOTT, The Corn-Law Rhymer Poetical Works, in 3 vols. B Steill, 1844. PP: 284, 280, 297. With a Manuscript poem: “Closed Footpath” at the end of vol. 3, written in ink and Signed: “Ebenezer Elliott, UpperThorpe, near Sheffield”. Original blindstamped boards, rubbed & head & foot of the spine frayed; Plus 4 others: Osborne, Mrs. D: tales of the sea and land. 1851, 1st. edn. With copper plates; Nicolas, NH: literary remains of Lady Jane Grey. 1825, 1st. edn. Frontis & folding table; Etc. (7)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

SWAN MARK REGISTERS OF OWNERS (Two volumes): The first volume is for marks used by the proprietors of lands in the “Hundred of Wisbech'', Isle of Ely (Cambridgeshire), and dated 1566. It contains over 600 marks, followed by 19 pages of manuscript notes concerning the “Laws and Ordinances regarding swans”. The marks are made up of swans’ heads drawn in black, with most of the beaks painted in red, a swan's foot to the right of each and in many cases the name of the mark's owner above it. The names start with the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, on to the Bishop of Ely and the Dean of York and finishing with the wealthy landowners. The manuscript notes are dated 1577, signed: George Carlton and go on to say: "it is desired and ordered that all books and swannmarks be reformed, corrected, amended and made uniform into one book and that remains in the keeping of the swanner, or his deputy…” A Beautiful volume of an early record of swan ownership, bound in near contemporary full leather with blind stamps to covers and later spine. The second volume is dated 1834 and with the ownership name of Alan H Whitman? PP: (4) manuscript notes on swan marks, etc, followed by 84 pages of swan marks, 12 to the page, making a total of c900 marks, mostly with the owner's name, followed by an index of owners (A-E only). Plus: a loosely inserted vellum sheet with Lord Walpole's swan mark, drawn from an old document. The volume is bound in contemporary full calf, with one of two clasps. [The last time a similar item to the first volume above appeared for sale, was sold by Christies, London, June 2nd. 1999 reaching £32,200 (including commission)]. That one was dated c1500“The swan has been deemed a royal bird from the Middle Ages, and although the privilege of owning a 'game' of swans was granted by the crown to individuals or institutions, all such birds had to be marked and pinioned. Only the monarch could claim unmarked mute swans. Swan marks are used to identify the birds’ rightful owners or licence holders and to assist in any dispute over ownership, or to use at swan upping, when the Swan-Master oversees the marking of the new cygnets” (2)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

Florentine Gradual 1584. 1584 Illuminated Manuscript on Paper: Florentine GRADUAL. Hand written and illuminated by a nun of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, Florence, 1584. With over 800 illuminated letters, 69 large (90 x 90mm), and 733 smaller ones (50 x 45mm), painted in gold, red, blue, green & black. 241 leaves, 1-226 + 15 not numbered (482pp), each measuring 425 x 300mm. Musical notes & liturgical text in black, with 4 line staves in red and seven lines to a page. c16/early c17 full leather over wooden boards stamped in blind, the spine has been replaced. 5 brass bosses to each cover, plus 2 brass clasps. A couple of pages with ink-burn, causing small tears. Plus a modern folder, containing transcript for leaves 1-60, i.e. 120 pages.Condition ReportPlease see images for condition. No period provenance within the book. See image for only reference to the nun.The book was purchased in Sienna in the early 1970's.

MANUSCRIPT: C1733, some 300 pages of mixed contents. Cont. full panelled calf, rubbed and covers detached.

MANUSCRIPT: Veterinary recipes. C1859. Upwell, near Wisbech, Norfolk. A Vet’s notebook with neatly written recipes, medications, alternative medicines, prescriptions, Etc. Some 175 pages. Cont. full leather, lacking the clasps.Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection

LAW MANUSCRIPT, Etc: Johnson, Rev. Walter: Cases in civil law and in the canon law.. Collected at Cambridge. by the rev. W.J rector of Red Marshall in the diocese of Durham during attending the lectures of the learned Dr. Francis Dickens, the Law professor at Cambridge, with others by Maurice Johnson .. (1744). 228 numbered leaves with Mss on 57 pages, the rest blank. Cont. full vellum; A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746.. Oxford, 1762. Folio. Cont. full calf; rubbed; 1814; AN abridgement of the case & claim of the vicar of Wisbech; containing references..Wisbech, FB Wright, 1806, 47pp; Bound with: Jobson, A: The claim of the vicar of Wisbech to tithes.. Nd, (1804); 62pp. Plus 2 others. (6)Provenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts Collection