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2342	TAUTPHOEUS, JEMIMA, Baroness. Quite; A Novel, 3 vols., First Edition, 1857. 8vo., cont. half calf, spines gilt, by Morrell. Bookplates of Henry Lloyd Gibbs. (3) Born Jemima Montgomery in Donegal, the novelist was a cousin of Maria Edgeworth. Estimate: 80-100	Nil	110
2343	THACKERAY, W.M. The Adventures of Philip..., First Edition, 3 vols., 1862. Cont. half calf, spines gilt. Bookplates of Henry Lloyd Gibbs. With 10 othes by the same, 8vo., leather bound. (13) Estimate: 100-120	Nil	80
2344	THACKERAY, W.M. Works, 13 vols., 8vo., cont. half blue calf (spines faded), 1892 - 91. Frontispieces. (13) Estimate: 30-50	Nil
2345	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Orley Farm, 2 vols., First Edition in book form, 1862; The Small House at Allington, 2 vols., Second Edition, 1864; The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vols., First Edition in book form, 1867. Uniformly bound in half brown morocco gilt by Morrell. (vol. 1 of Last Chronicle with slight wear to spine). Plates. With another title by the same. All 8vo. Bookplates of Henry Lloyd Gibbs. (7) Estimate: 180-250	Nil
2346	VICTORIA, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands...More Leaves, 1868 - 84. First Editions, Portraits and plates (some spotting) -- SOUVENIR OF SCOTLAND. 1896. Frontispiece and 120 chromolithographic views. All 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. (3) Estimate: 100-150	Nil
2347	VOLTAIRE, F.M.A. de. The Age of Lewis XIV. Translated from the French (by John Lockman). Second Edition, 2 vols., Printed for R. Dodsley, 1752. 8vo., cont. calf (heads and tails of spines chipped, joints cracking, signature of G. Earle on titles). Engraved frontispieces. (2) Estimate: 60-80	Nil	60
2348	WALKER, Sir EDWARD. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions. Two parts in one, 1705. Folio, cont. calf (worn, upper cover detached). Folding engraved frontispiece, portrait (shaved at outer edge), large vignette on dedication, and other ornaments. Signature "G. Vertue" on title. and 2 signatures of Sir Arthur Hodgson on flyleaf and verso of frontis. Sold with a defective 17th c. bible. Sir Arthur Hodgson owned the Clopton estate near Stratford on Avon, and the author's dedication is to his grandchild Edw. Clopton of Clopton Esq. (2) Estimate: 100-150	Nil	300
2349	[THE HOLY BIBLE] Robert Barker and by the Assigns of John Bill, 1642 [colophon]. Black letter, 8vo., old panelled calf (worn, lacks O.T. and N.T. titles, and Apocrypha). Comprising: To the Reader, 3pp., verso Names and Order..., O.T. Ai-Oo3, N.T. Zzi-L114b., 1 Tim.iv.16,thy. (U2 small defect at lower outer corner, marginal defects to Dd4, Kk2 and Mm2, Gg2 torn. Mm2 & 3 with defect at top outer corner). 18th c. signatures of the Pitt family. Herbert 561 but 8vo. not 4to. Sold not subject to return. Estimate: 60-80	Nil	150
2351	ALBUM/COMMONPLACE BOOK of Ellen Cox, 1833. 4to., half maroon morocco gilt. Containing approx. 37 original watercolours and pencil drawings, signed with initials, various sizes botanical subjects, portraits, views, etc., and about the same number of prints, some hand coloured, interspersed with manuscript poetry, some original. See illustration. Estimate: 300-500	Nil	300
2352	ALBUM OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and SIGNATURES. Folio. cont. half maroon morocco gilt, mis - late 19th c. The letters are mostly addressed to Col. Sir William Owen Lanyon (1842 - 87, administrator of the Transvaal from 1879 - 81 who also served in the Anglo Egyptian War) and Sir John Hollams (1820 - 1910, lawyer), and include two from the Duke of Wellington, with 3 printed cards, 1838, inviting Sir John to meet Princess Sophia Matilda; four A.LS.s. to Owen Lanyon from Garnet Wolseley, 1884 - 86; Sir Johannes Brand (President of the Orange Free State), 1879, Sir Redvers Buller, Anthony Trollope, 1877 and others of South African interest; Ferdinand de Lesseps, Ls., 1882; the Sultan of Egypt [Tewfik], Ls., 1882; Sir Richard Burton, Damascus, 1870, A.L.S. (about the non arrival of a box); J.A. Froude, Mrs. Hemans, Stanley Weyman, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J.R. Planche, Sir Henry Irving and others connected with the theatre; royalty including the Duke of Cambridge, 1887, the Prince of Teck, 1887, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, H.H. Asquith, A.J. Balfour, Sir Robert Ball (Irish astronomer), Harry Furniss, with illustration, 1896, and many others, judges, lawyers, churchmen, noblemen etc. (approx. 160) With signatures of William IV, George, Prince of Wales, King Kamehameha & Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands, document, signed and dated Honolulu 5th June 1863, Leopold McClintock, H.M. Stanley, Edwin Arnold, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Hope and others. Estimate: 800-1000	Nil	1600
2353	ALBUM, 19th c., folio, cont. half black morocco gilt (spine worn), containing document signed by Queen Victoria appointing William George Aston as Consul in Nagasaki, 1882, also signed by Earl Granville (blank piece cut away); photographic card with list of the Reception Committee at Kobe 8th March 1906, signed by Prince Arthur of Connaught and Admiral Togo (the prince went to Japan to visit the Emperor and present him with the order of the Garter as a consequence of the Anglo-Japanese alliance); approx. 60 A.Ls.S. including Stanley Baldwin, Charles Kingsley, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Henry Newbolt (incomplete), and Samuel Baker; and approx. 60 signatures or part letters including Dean Farrer, Samuel Reynolds Hole, Frederick Treves, Joseph Paxton, Joseph Chamberlain, and sportsmen W.G. Grace, C.B. Fry, A.E. Stoddart, and Anthony F. Wilding. With a further loose collection of approx. 50 other letters and signatures, some relating to India, including J. Lockwood Kipling. Estimate: 250-450	Nil	700
2354	ALBUM, manuscript account by E.W. Yeatherd of Elm Lodge School, Streatham Common, Surrey, of a visit to North Wales and another to the Lake District, 1863 & 1864, illustrated with pen and ink sketches, 12pp. 4to., half cont. black leather. Estimate: 20-40	Nil	30
2355	CANADA. Typescript copy of the diary, 1848 - 51, kept by Charlotte Owen Harris 91828 - 54) of Eldon House, London, Ontario. Folio, early 20th c. red morocco, approx. 244pp. With further typescript loosely inserted, a key to the people referred to in the diary, by her brother, Edward Harris, dated 1913; and a few photographs including two of portraits of Charlotte and one of a watercolour of Eldon House (built 1835). The writer was the daughter of John Harris, formerly a naval officer, who held a number of legal appointments in London, Ontario. Charlotte married Edward Lewis Knight in 1851 and drowned with her two children when the steamer "Ercolano" sank off Villafranca in April 1854 (typescript copy of contemporary newspaper accounts included). Sir Robert Peel was one of the survivors. The diary, which provides a fascinating glimpse into the social and domestic life of a well connected family in mid 19th century provincial Canada, was published by the Champlain Society in 1994. Eldon House is now a museum. Estimate: 100-150	Nil	130
2356	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Pen and ink sketch of an old man; pencil and watercolour sketches of a lady etc., both signed; an ALS relating to a rough sketch, 1852, and a signature with an engraved illustration. Individually overmounted, together in one glazed frame. With 7 loose illustrated fragments by the same. See illustration. Estimate: 200-250	Nil	320
2357	DRAKE FAMILY PAPERS. 1523 - 1797. 4 vols. of typescripts of original documents, n.d. 4to., cont. half blue morocco gilt (2 vols. with soiled sides). The earliest volume states that these papers are "extracted from the lay subsidy rolls by R.C.G. Kirk, Record Agent"; the final volume which is illustrated with portraits and an original engraving of Hillington, Middx. states that the original letters are "in the possession of Count de Salis". (4) Estimate: 40-50	Nil	50
2358	EDWARD VIII. Typed letter signed "Edward RI", Buckingham Palace, to Lieutenant W.M. Fox, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, I wish to place on record my gratitude to you for the part which you took in the vigil over my Father in Westminster Hall, from the 23rd to 28th January, 1936". With contemporary photograph of the same officer. Both framed and glazed. With 2 other photographs of British royalty. (4) See illustration. Estimate: 200-400	Nil	380
2359	FEARON, PERCY "Poy". 1874 - 1948, cartoonist. Album compiled by the Misses Cunningham of Axminster, Devon, containing Christmas cards from Poy, approx 35, c. 1905 - 47, most with autograph greeting on printed card, including 5 original drawings, and an eleven verse autograph nonsense poem, 3pp., folio, beginning "There was a good lady of Sector" [the Cunningham family's home]. 4to., orig. cloth. See illustration. Estimate: 200-300	Nil
2360	GRANT OF ARMS in favour of Sir John St. Vigor Fox of Girsby Manor in the parish of Burgh-on-Bain, Lincolnshire, 24th August 1939, signed by Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter King of Arms, and Sir Arthur...Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms. Manuscript, single rolled vellum sheet, with 4 hand painted coats-of-arms, heightened in gold, and 2 wax seals in metal containers, within original red cloth box, gilt, with cyphers of George VI. Girsby Manor was demolished in the 1950's / 60's. Estimate: 100-150	Nil	90
2362	LINCOLN, S.W. Army Crest Album 1893. Oblong 4to., orig. black cloth, bookplate of R.G. Hollies Smith. Containing watercolour title and 23 illustrations of military uniforms and battle scenes, British and Indian regiments including Bombay Lancers, The King's Royal Hussars, Highland Regiments, Bombay Rifles, Native Cavalry, Bengal Infantry, Baluchistan Infantry, Goorkhas, Sikhs etc. With numerous cut and pasted printed crests. See illustration. Estimate: 200-300	Nil	1500
2363	ILLUMINATED TESTIMONIAL presented to Sir John Hollams "By the Members of the Bar & Bench attending a Dinner given in his honour in the Inner Temple Hall on Friday 6th March 1903". Folio, cont. red morocco gilt with gilt metal onlays. Hand painted calligraphic title, table plans with signatures of all those present including Lord Halsbury, H.H. Asquith, Alfred Lyttelton, Edward Carson, Lord James of Hereford and many other distinguished lawyers. With ALS from Lord James presenting the volume, and a copy of Sir John Hollams' autobiography, Jottings of an Old Solicitor, 1906. (2) Estimate: 150-250	Nil	100
2364	JERSEY, MARGARAET ELIZABETH CHILD, Countess of. political hostess and philanthropist. ALS to General Ludlow, 4pp., 8vo., Montagu Square W.1. The letter accompanies a copy of The Daffodil Poetry Book by Ethel L. Fowler (1924), which Lady Jersey has inscribed to Mr. William Ledbrook, the former stationmaster at Somerton (apparently near her childhood home, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire). (2) Estimate: 20-30	Nil
2365	MATRICULATION OF ARMS. Relating to Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing, Esquire, formerly Captain in the 3rd Battalion, Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders..., 7th August 1893. Manuscript, single sheet, on vellum, with hand painted arms, wax seal in tin box with ties, in similar metal tube, with crown and V.R. With Scottish masonic document, 1896 loosely inserted. (2) Estimate: 100-150	Nil
2366	MILLS, CLIFFORD, author of Where the Rainbow Ends, (1861 - 1933). The archive of Emilie Clifford (nee Bennet, married Harold Mills Clifford in 1889) who used a variant of her husband's name in order to get her work published. Contained in a large trunk, comprising: Where the Rainbow Ends, the original manuscript, c. 1911, approx. 130 pp. in ink including rough stage sketches; 2 typescripts of the same, one with ms. alterations and stage instructions; typescript of the book, published by Hodder & Stoughton; typescript of the revised edition by her daughter Evelyn Shillington, 1972; file of correspondence, contracts, press cuttings, poster, periodicals etc.; photographs including signed photograph of Anton Dolin (real name Patrick Kay, a famous St. George); Evelyn Shillington's autograph album with signatures, and drawings including four watercolours of Red Indian head-dresses, signed photographs etc. of actors and others relating to performances of the play which was first produced on 21st December 1911, including two signatures of Noel Coward (William the page boy), Reginald Owen (St. George), Charles Hawtrey, (producer), Roger Quilter, (composer, with line of musical notation), John Gilpin, Valentine Dyall, Italia Conti and Alicia Markova. The original manuscript of The Basker, [1916] with typescript; The Luck of the Navy [1919], various typescripts, including screen adaptation by Evelyn Shillington, programme for the film, and printed version. Typescripts of seven further plays including Dr. Johnson at Home and The Dream Ship (2 of them incomplete). The original manuscripts of two short stories: The Departure of the Subaltern and God's Sparrows, with typescripts of the same; typescripts of 6 further short stories, and a bundle of the periodicals in which they were published. Three printed copies of Dear Mr. Ghost, A Christmas Story, Dean & Son,n.d. (2 of them lacking a wrapper). Also included are typescripts of seventeen fairy stories by Evelyn Shillington, and two bundles of typescript diaries, 1931 - 47, with accounts of travels in Japan and China in 1934, and time spent in Italy after the war with her husband Brig. Rex Shillington, including an eye witness account of the trial of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in Venice. The play Where the Rainbow Ends was phenomenally successful. It became an annual Christmas event, a rival to Peter Pan, and was staged every year until the early 1950's. See illustrations. Estimate: 1000-2000	Nil	900
2367	PEMBROKE DOCK, 1914 - 1915. Thompson, Lieut. A.A.C. Headquarters Alphabet Milford Haven Garrison. Small oblong 4to., brown morocco gilt (upper cover stained). Album containing 22 mounted watercolour portrait sketches by Thompson of the various military personnel, with manuscript rhyming captions and list of the officers under Brig. Gen. C.P. Triscott. Estimate: 100-150	Nil	140
2368	PIUS IX, Pope. [Papal War of 1860]. Manuscript petition in French for an apostolic blessing and plenary indulgence by Eugene J. O'Brien McSwiney of Cork for himself and his family signed and endorsed by Pius IX, 8th November 1860; manuscript document in Latin appointing McSwiney as a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, signed by Cardinal de Genga, Rome 7th December 1860, with papal stamp, both on vellum; printed document in Italian, on paper (torn at folds), completed in manuscript for the same awarding him the Pro Petri Sede medal, "Presente a Ancona", 8 December 1860, and another relating to the same. (4) Eugene McSwiney was evidently one of the Pope's Irish battalion who fought in the war against the Sardinian invaders. Estimate: 100-150	Nil	80
2369	PORTEUS, BEILBY, Bp. "Occasional memorandums & Reflexions on several subjects chiefly Religious...& Literary". Autograph Manuscript in ink., small 4to., orig. green vellum, 1781 - 86. Approx. 92pp. with many corrections and excisions. Containing much interesting information concerning his involvement with Church politics, slavery etc., referring to his best known sermon, given in 1783 before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. "The subject I chose was the Civilization & conversion of the Negroes in the West Indian Islands - I had for some years past thought much on this Subject, & had corresponded & conversed upon it with several Persons in this Country & with one Gentleman in the West Indies. The result of these Enquiries was that the negro slaves in our Islands were in a most deplorable situation both temporal & spiritual". He also mentions authors and painters such as the Rev. William Mason, "His Garden is laid out with the taste that might be expected from the Author of the English Garden. Several pretty buildings dispersed over it, one to the memory of Mr. Gray." (1783), and "Sir Joshua Reynolds dined with me. I asked him whether it was true (what I had heard) that Dr. Johnson had on his death-bed requested of him that he would not paint on Sundays" (1785). Beilby Porteus (1731 - 1809), Bishop of London, Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist, who seriously challenged the Church's position on slavery. Estimate: 200-300	Nil	2300
2370	POSTCARD ALBUM, 1930's containing approx. 95 window mounted examples, mostly coloured, of trains, but a few of ships, views etc. Estimate: 60-80	Nil
2371	ROYALTY. Framed and glazed document commemorating the Royal Visit to the Mansion House May 14th 1887. Bearing the signatures of Queen Victoria and 11 others including Edward VII (as Prince of Wales), Alexandra, (later Queen), George (later George V), other princesses, and Frederick Crown Prince of Denmark. This visit was made to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. See illustration. Estimate: 100-200	Nil	320
2372	THEATRE, REES, JOAN, actress (1924 - 83). A collection of letters and photographs including: Barrie, J.M. A.L.S. 1p., to Mrs. Fisher White, Adelphi Terrace House, 28 Oct. 1921. "...I had not forgotten tho', and if an opportunity arises I hope you will play in something of mine. The part of P. Pan however was [? disappointingly] arranged for yesterday so in that matter nothing can be done..." -- Coward, Noel. A.L.S., The Central Hotel, Glasgow, 1 1/2pp., 16/12/42 thanking Joan for writing about "In Which We Serve". -- Blanch, Lesley. A.L.S., 2pp., to Joan, undated, Richmond, returning a handkerchief, illustrated with a drawing of Babar the elephant, and a draped couronne on the reverse. With a T.L.S. from Ivor Novello, 1949; a T.L.S. from James Agate to "Gully" (Campbell Gullan) 1937; two signed photographs of Lynn Fontanne and another of her husband Alfred Lunt, signed by Lunt 1933, all inscribed to Joan and Gully. With 6 other items. (15) Joan Rees appeared in a number of films in the 1940's, including "Fanny by Gaslight". She was married to a British actor, Campbell Gullan, known as "Gully", and later to William Cox-Ife, the conductor. See illustration. Estimate: 400-450	Nil	400
2375	ADAMS, ANSEL. Yosemite Falls, 355 x 275 mm.; Half Dome, 274 x 353 mm. Framed and glazed. With Adams' Autobiography, 1985. 4to., orig. cloth, d.w. Illustrated. (3) Estimate: 60-80	Nil	130