Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

CATALOGUE 56 

CLIVE FARAHAR & SOPHIE DUPRÉ 

AGOLDEN JUBILEE COLLECTION OF 

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, 

&SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS: 

BOOKS & OTHER CURIOSITIES ON 

VOYAGES & TRAVELS: 

CONTENTS 

The British Royal Family Page 1 Signatures & Fragments Page 67 

Autograph Letters & Manuscripts Page 19 Travel Books etc Page 73 

Unsigned Vintage Photographs Page 59 Coronation Chairs Page 111 

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Front Cover Illustrations:- 

Item 55: Elizabeth II & Philip Item 91: “Us Four” 

Item 92: George VI & Elizabeth Item 93: George VI & Elizabeth 

Inside Front Cover Illustrations:- 

Item 5: Alexandra Item 6: Queen Alexandra Item 12: Alice 

Item 15: Princess Anne Items 40: Edward VII Item 46: Edward VIII 

Item 65: Prince George Item 82: George V & Mary Item 100: Prince Henry 

Item 133: Queen Victoria 

Inside Back Cover Illustrations:- 

Items 1175, 1176, 1178,1180 & 1182: Coronation and Investiture Chairs 

Back Cover Illustration:- Item 734: Chinese Shrine Hanging 

CLIVE FARAHAR & SOPHIE DUPRÉ 

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1 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY 

THE FOLLOWING IS A SELECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS AND 

PRESENTATION PHOTOS FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY 

INCLUDING AN EXCEPTIONAL IMAGE OF “US FOUR” 

PRINCE ALBERT’S ARTISTIC MENTOR 

LBERT (1819-1861, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 

ALS, in French with translation, to Monsignor Medici Spada, trusting in “our old acquaintance ... to recommend 

... an artist of great talent, Herr Gruner ... the work he has published on medieval decoration in Italy shows that 

his time has been well spent”, and requesting permission for him “to see a small Cabinet at the Vatican, 

generally inaccessible to the public, but ... of great interest for the history of fine art”, crowned embossed VR at head, 2 

sides 4to. black-edged, Windsor Castle, 19th January 1845, conjugate blank neatly detached [SD50236]£425 

The engraver and art-historian Ludwig Gruner (of Dresden, 1801-1882), shared his admiration for Raphael with Albert, and 

accompanied him on his tour to Italy in 1838. Cubitt, Gruner and the Prince were inseparable in planning Osborne, and most recently 

Gruner had designed decorations for the Garden Pavilion at Buckingham Palace. Later he engraved the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton 

Court. 

2. [(ALEXANDER) JOHN (Charles Albert, b. & d. 1871, Infant son of Edward VII & Alexandra)] 

Rare printed Ceremonial for the funeral of their third son who lived only one day, 1 side 4to., on black edged paper, 

Sandringham, 11th April 1871, slight tears on folds [11837]£175 

An exceptionally rare piece of royal ephemera 

3. ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, Queen of Edward VII) 

Fine cabinet photo by Downey signed showing the Princess full length, standing with her elbow resting on a large piece 

of furniture, with her other hand in her pocket, 6” x 4” in fine frame covered in embroidery, which is said to have been 

made by the Princess, with a note on the verso by W. Stirling that the picture was “Given to me by Queen Alexandra 

when Iwas a little girl. Queen Victoria would not allow it to be published as the Princess (as she then was) has her hand 

in her pocket and the Queen considered this vulgar, so the photograph could only be given privately, to friends”, n.p., n.d. 

the image is slightly faded [SD22842]£575 


Fine Autograph note signed “In loving Memory of my beloved friend Mary Hardinge whom I shall ever regret. God 

gives His beloved Peace from Alexandra”, on one side mourning card with black edge, with a note underneath that it had 

been on a wreath sent to her Grandmother’s funeral, n.p., n.d. [SD26112]£145 


Fine large photo signed showing her full length leaning on the back of a chair and holding a fan, in original silver 

presentation frame ,withher crown at the head, 11” x 7” in mount 14” x 9”, frame 16.5” x 11”, n.p., n.d., c. 1914 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration [SD26413]£2,500 

CORONATION OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA IN BOULE PRESENTATION FRAME 


Superb large photo signed and dated showing her full length in her Coronation robes, leaning on the back of a chair, 13” 

x8½” in sensational Boule Presentation Frame made of tortoiseshell, brass and enamel with her monogram in the 

shield at the head, 16½” x 10½”, n.p., 9th August 1902 [SD26604]£4,750 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration 

7. ALEXANDRA (b. 1936, Princess, daughter of George, Duke of Kent and Marina) 

Fine presentation photo signed on the mount, showing her head and shoulders, full face, 6” x 4”, in mount 8” x 6” with 

her crowned monogram at the head, in original red leather presentation frame with gilt decoration, n.p., n.d. 

[SD26434]£125 

8. ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria, Admiral of the 

Fleet, General of the Prussian Army) 

Fine photo signed and dated, showing him three quarters length in uniform, in original blue morocco presentation 

frame with gilt crown at head, 5” x 3½”, n.p., 1887 [SD26432]£575

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9. ALICE (Princess, Countess of Athlone, 1883-1981, Daughter of Leopold, Duke of Albany, Grand-daughter of 

Queen Victoria) 

ALS to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), saying that she has “been very generous to give me the lion’s 

share”, £300, “your dear little nephew made a marvellous salesman of programmes ... May we come and have a humble 

game of tennis ... in the summer but it must be only very humble!”, 2 sides 4to., Kensington Palace headed mourning 

paper, 1st November 1936 [SD19432]£75 

Lady Crosfield was the wife of Sir Arthur Henry, M.P. and 1st Baronet, (1865-1938), first Chairman of the National Playing Fields 

Association, which she too supported along with many musical activities. 



ALS to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), thanking her and saying she “will gladly pull my weight, you 

know”, 1side 4to., Brantridge Park headed mourning paper, 16th April 1936 [SD24147]£45 

Lady Crosfield was the wife of Sir Arthur Henry, M.P. and 1st Baronet, (1865-1938), first Chairman of the National Playing Fields 

Association, which she too supported along with many musical activities. 



Fine presentation photo, signed and dated on the mount, next to the photographers signature, showing her head and 

shoulders in profile, 10½” x 7½”, in original presentation leather frame, Christmas 1946, frame slightly scratched 

[SD25879]£250 

12. ALICE (Princess, Countess of Athlone, 1883-1981, Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria) & HELEN (of Waldeck- 

Pyrmont, 1861-1922, Princess, wife of Leopold, Duke of Albany, Alice’s Mother) 

Exceptional pair of photos by W. S. Stuart, Richmond, each signed by the subjects, the first showing Alice on the 

occasion of the christening of her son, Rupert (1907-1928), the Princess is seated, dressed in white, holding the baby on 

her lap, with her daughter May (b. 1906) standing beside her, also in white. Alice has signed and dated the photo, and 

also signed on behalf of the children. The second photo shows her mother, Helen, on the same occasion, also holding the 

baby, and is signed, and inscribed “Rupert of Teck, 6 weeks old, With best wishes for Xmas a souvenir of Claremont, 

Sept. 1907”, each 6” x 4” in mount 8½” x 6½”, both are in their original presentation solid silver frames, surmounted 

with enamelled crowns ,9”x7”, Claremont, September 1907, slight scratching on the photo of Alice [SD26420]£750 


13. ALICE (Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse 

&mother of Alexandra Feodorovna) 

Fine ALS to Mrs Tyler, taking the “first quiet moment to thank you most sincerely for your very kind & charming present 

and beg you also to thankyour mother most sincerely in my name. This kind attention from you both has touched and 

pleased me ... particularly as it shows that I have still a share in your kind remembrance ...”, 2 sides 8vo., with crowned 

monogram at the head, 11th March 1863 [SD26005]£500 

Letters by this Princess are rare due to her early death. She nursed Prince Albert in his last illness, the soldiers in Germany in the wars 

of 1866 and 1870, and her own husband and daughters in 1878 before succumbing to diphtheria. 

14. ALICE (Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse 

&mother of Alexandra Feodorovna) 

Fine ALS ‘Yr affte Aunt Alice’ to ‘Dearest Charlotte’ (1860-1919, Princess, eldest daughter of Frederick III, Emperor of 

Prussia, grandchild of Queen Victoria) saying how pleasant it will be “if your dear Mama can come in April ...”, (her 

sister the Empress Frederick), hoping “she will carry out her plan - Did you not get my letter after your engagement? or 

Willie my telegram for his birthday? I should be so sorry if they had not reached you for I thought of you both so much 

...”, expressing her disappointment that she “cannot come for your confirmation ... perhaps for another joyful event I shall 

be able to ... The Cousins - who being at lessons send you their love - they are so sorry that they know their Prussian 

Cousins so little - it has been unfortunate that of late years you have been able to see so little of each other. Give your 

dear parents my most affectionate love. We shall be looking forward impatiently to the pleasure of seeing them again 

...”, 4 sides 8vo., Neufs Palais, Darmstadt headed paper with crowned monogram, 1st March 1877 [SD26053]£675 

She nursed Prince Albert in his last illness, the soldiers in Germany in the wars of 1866 and 1870, and her own husband and daughters 

in 1878 before succumbing to diphtheria. She was the first of Queen Victoria’s children to die. 

15. ANNE (b. 1950, Princess Royal, Daughter of Elizabeth II) & Capt Mark PHILLIPS (b. 1948, her ex-husband) 

Fine presentation photo signed by both and dated by the Princess, showing the couple head and shoulders, she is wearing 

afine tiara and matchin necklace and he is wearing uniform, 6” x 5½” in mount, 7½” x 6”, in original blue morocco 

presentation frame with domed top and gilt monogram “MA” at the head, 10” x 8”, n.p., 1977 [SD26430]£750 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration


16. ANNE (b. 1950, Princess Royal, Daughter of Elizabeth II) 

Fine presentation photo signed and dated showing her full face looking straight at the camera, 6” x 5” in mount, 7½” x 

6”, in original blue morocco presentation frame with domed top and gilt monogram crowned “A” at the head, 10” x 

8”, n.p., 1970 [SD26431]£650 

17. ANDREW (of Greece, 1882-1944, Father of Prince Philip) 

Fine large photo of a portrait signed “André” and dated, showing him three quarters length in uniform, with his hands on 

his sword hilt, 10.5” x 6.5”, in mount 14.5” x 10.5”, in fine painted blue and gilt frame, n.p., 1914 [SD26439]£675 

It is very unusual to find signed photos of Prince Philip’s father. 

18. ARTHUR (Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942, Son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada) 

Fine photo by Downey, signed and inscribed, “Duke of Connaught” with the date, showing him three quarters length in 

uniform with jodphurs, 8” x 6” in mount 11½” x 9½”, n.p., 1917 [SD26056]£225 

TABLEAUX VIVANT 

EATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria) & Prince 

Henry Maurice of BATTENBERG (1858-1896, Colonel, Her Husband) 

Superb pair of Cabinet photos by Hughes & Mullins, both signed, showing the couple in Mediaeval costume, 6” x 

4¼” n.p., n.d. c. 1890 [SD15699]£500 

The practice of the Household performing tableaux vivants over the New Year was revived some time after the death of the Prince 

Consort. There were normally several scenes, each representing a letter or word, followed by a final scene depicting the entire word. 

The Tableaux often reproduced paintings - a particularly successful one being ‘La Rixe’ (The Brawl) after the painting by E. 

Meissonier which had been given to the Prince Consort in 1856. The scene was a quarrel in a tavern which Queen Victoria considered 

‘a truthful presentation of the picture’. They were not always so well received - a biblical tableau of Naomi and Ruth in 1888 was 

described by the Queen as ‘not quite so successful as it might have been, owing to the ladies getting the giggles and shaking’. The 

Tableaux Vivant photo is an unusual form of photography, which Queen Victoria had a passion for from the 1850s. This is one of the 

later ones which are more difficult to find as the majority of them have remained in Royal Collections. 

Princesses Helena Victoria and Marie Louise spent much of their year revolved around the Queen, which dates the picture to 1889 as 

the Princess Marie Louise was married to a German Prince the following year. The marriage did not prove happy and the Queen sent 

her anopentelegram ordering her ‘home to me’. 

20. BEATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria) 

Fine Christmas card signed & inscribed “To dear Mary”. and dated, on the front of the card which has a design of a front 

door, when you open the door there is a delightful picture of a small boy and opposite another of a little girl curtseying, so 

the card opens up to show them together, 4½” x 3”, n.p., Xmas 1895, laid down [SD26015]£95 

PRINCESS BEATRICE’S COPY OF HER BIRTHDAY BOOK 

21. BEATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria) 

Superb copy of the “Birthday Book designed by Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice” signed and inscribed on the 

front free endpaper to “Capt Walter James Stopford from Beatrice” with the date and an original photo pasted in 

showing her half length seated, the books has been signed on their birthdays -on17th February “Helen Pss of 

Waldeck & Pyrmont, Windsor Castle, February 23rd 1882” (1861-1922, Princess, wife of Leopold, Duke of 

Albany), on 25th February “Alice. 1902” (Alice Mary Victoria, 1883-1981, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and 

Countess of Athlone), on 18th March “Louise, 11th March /82” (Louise Caroline Alberta, 1848-1939, Princess of 

Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Argyll), on 7th April “Leopold, Windsor Febry 23/82”, (Duke of Albany 1853- 

1884, fourth and youngest son of Queen Victoria) on 1st May “Arthur, Windsor Castle, March 11th /82” (Duke of 

Connaught, 1850-1942, Son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada), QUEEN VICTORIA “Victoria R.I. 

Winsdor Castle, Nov. 30 1881”, on 19th July “Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1902”, (1884-1954), 

on 25th July “Louise Margaret, Windsor Castle, March 11th 1882” (Alexandra Victoria, 1860-1917, Daughter of 

Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Wife of Arthur, Duke of Connaught), including two other non-royal signature on 9th 

June Anne Isabella Thackeray ,(Lady Ritchie 1837-1919, daughter of William Makepeace) & on 1st November 

“Emma Albani Gye” (1852-1930, Canadian Operatic Soprano), 4to., in fine cream cloth with gilt decoration, London 

1881 [SD22283]£975 

22. BEATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria, wife of 

Henry of Battenberg) 

Fine photo signed, showing her full length standing, wearing a fur coat, 6½” x 3”, n.p., n.d., trimmed without affecting 

the image, traces of mounting on the verso [SD26041]£125


23. BUCKINGHAM PALACE PROGRAMME 

Beautiful programme for an evening concert at the Palace, printed in light purple, listing the pieces to be played and the 

performers who will sing, Miss Ella Russell, M. Maurel, Edward Lloyd, Madlle Trebelli, Made Albani & Made 

Scalchi , atthe head is a superb raised lion & unicorn crest in gold, red and blue and the whole is printed within an 

impressed lacey border with a design of roses and leaves, 1 side 4to., with conjugate blank, Buckingham Palace, 30th 

June 1886 [SD26022]£60 

HARLES (Philip Arthur George, b. 1948, Prince of Wales) & Princess DIANA (1961-1997, his ex-wife) 

Superb presentation photo in original green morocco frame, withgilt monogram at the head, the image shows 

the couple standing together arm in arm, 5” x 4” in frame 9½” x 7”, n.p., 1990, with original cardboard box 

[SD25618]£6,000 

25. CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain) 

Fine Document signed at the head as King addressed to John Webbe of Odstock, Wiltshire, granting him license “to 

travell goe and stay out of the Compasse of five miles from the place of his dwelling or aboade at his will and pleasure 

for and during the natural life of the said John Webbe ...” despite the fact that he was a Recusant Convict and therefore 

confined by the Act of Queen Elizabeth, 1 side folio, n.p., 3rd January 1627/8 [SD26562]£1,750 

Charles succeeded to the throne on 27 March 1625. As a conciliatory move at thebeginning of his reign he announced his intention of 

putting the laws against recusants into execution, thereby abandoning his promise to the king of France. It is therefore surprising to 

find this license to a convicted Recusant 

PRINCE CHARLES PAYS FOR WORKS AT RICHMOND PARK 


Fine Document signed as “Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewall and Yorke and Earle of Chester To our trustie and 

welbeloved Sr Adam NEWTON ...” (d. 1630, Dean of Durham, Tutor to Prince Charles, 1612) concerning payments to 

John NORDEN (1548-1625?, Topographer, Surveyor to the Duchy of Cornwall) and James Martin for “trees and 

settinge and plantinge ... and for diverse other works done about our Parke of Richmond ... the some of twenty nyne 

pounds nyneteene shillings ...” 1 side oblong folio on vellum, Court at Greenwich, 23rd June 1622 [SD15700]£2,250 

DOMINION OF THE SEAS 


Fine Silver Medallion Commemorating the Launch of HMS “Sovereign of the Seas,” with a portrait bust of Charles I on 

the obverse“CAROLUS.I.D.G.MAG.BRITANN.FRAN.ET.HIB.REX .”onthereversetheshipinfullsail 

“NEC .META . MIHI . QVE . TERMINUS . ORBIT .” - My boundaries are the ends of the earth, 2¼ inches cast in 

silver by the Royal Mint 1638 [SD21968]£1,750 

HMS “Sovereign of the Seas” later “Sovereign” and “Royal Sovereign”, in service from 1638 until 1696, was the greatest, most 

powerful and extravagent warship of the 17th century. A 40 gun fighting ship in that age cost about £6000, the “Sovereign of the Seas” 

was reputed to have cost £60,000. It was conceived by Charles himself, who ignoring the opposition from Trinity House, appointed 

Phineas Pett, Master Builder to the Navy, to build the ship according to his ideas. Richard Hough in Fighting Ships, opines that this 

most modern and magnificent vessel was “criminal extravagence” and one of the reasons Charles I lost his head ! Pett designed this 

revolutionary vessel which was built at Woolwich under the supervision of his son Peter, between 1635 & 1637. It boasted a fire 

power of 104 guns, Pett wrote in his journal “She hath three flush deckes and a forecastle, an halfe decke, a quarter-decke, and a round 

house. Here lower tyre hath thirty ports, which are furnished with demi-cannon and whole cannon.” Such power gave her the 

supremecy of the English Channel. The King had long wanted an advantage over the Dutch, who had been troublesome over a 

number of years. The clear passage gave English Merchant Ships a chance to compete in the trade with East Africa and the East 

Indies. 

It was rebuilt during the Commonwealth when it was renamed “Sovereign” and again in 1660 when it was renamed “Royal 

Sovereign”, commemorating the Restoration of the Monarchy. 

Theship took part in many battles with the Dutch and French and remained undefeated. Sadly she came to an ignominious end in 1696 

at Chatham, when a careless sailor left a candle unchecked in his cabin, and she was destroyed by fire. Had she survived, she would 

not have been obsolete in terms of fire power and size, at the Battle of the Nile over a century later. 

At the launch of “The Sovereign of the Seas” King Charles ordered the Master of the Royal Mint to produce a commemorative medal 

to be known as “The Dominion of the Seas Medal”. A few were first struck in silver but because of its size technical problems caused 

the rest, like this one, to be cast. 

28. CHARLOTTE (Queen, 1744-1818, née Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of George III) 

ALS to her Lord Chamberlain, the 16th Earl of Morton, (1761-1827), asking him to send two letters “to Monsieur Nagel 

the Dutch Minister”, 1 side 8vo and conjugate blank, Windsor Castle, 28th December 1792 [SD50242]£175 

29. CHARLES II (1630-1685, King of Great Britain) 

Letter Signed, addressed at the foot to Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster-general of the land forces, ordering the payment of £8 

to Dr John Troutbeck, surgeon to the Queen’s Troop of Guards, for medicaments for one year, signed on verso 

byTroutbeck on receipt, 1 side folio with endorsed leaf, Whitehall, 6 April 1670/1 [SD26634]£1,250


DANGEROUS PAPIST CONSPIRACY - PRIVY COUNCIL OF CHARLES II 

30. CHARLES II (1630-1685, King of Great Britain) 

Important warrant addressed to Viscount Camden, then Lord Lieutenant of Rutland, ordering Camden to search “all the 

Habitations of the Papists ... or those who are reputed Papists” for arms, and to seize them pending further orders. The 

signatories to the document include Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682); Arthur Annesley ,Earlof 

Anglesey (1614-1686, later dismised for adverse criticism of the King’s government); Sir Thomas Osborne ,Earlof 

Danby (1631-1712, impeached later the same year for attempting to conceal the Popish Plot); John Grenville ,Earlof 

Bath (1628-1701); Richard Maitland ,Earl of Lauderdale (1653-1695); Richard Vaughan ,Earl of Carbery (1600?- 

1686); George Berkeley ,Viscount Dursley and Earl of Berkeley (1628-1698); Sir George Carteret (d. 1680, 

Governor of Jersey); Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702); and Henry Coventry (1619-1686),1 side folio with integral 

address-leaf, Whitehall, 30 September 1678 [SD26635]£2,750 

The alleged discovery of Oates’s Popish Plot had taken place in August of this year. The King involved himself as little as possible 

with the condemnation of the five Jesuits and distanced himself from other atrocities resulting from the public panic, being aware that 

the frenzy was fired by a desire on the part of Shaftesbury and his cohorts to exclude the Duke of York from succession. 

31. CHARLOTTE (Queen, 1744-1818, née Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of George III) 

ALS to her Lord Chamberlain, the 16th Earl of Morton, (1761-1827), saying “According to my promise ... there will be 

no Drawingroom untill Our return from Weymouth”, hoping the fine weather now will benefit “the Health of those you 

live with at Porters my good wishes attend that Amiable Family everywhere”, hoping for “a better account of dear Lady 

Howe”, she will write soon but meanwhile sends her Compliments to her and Lady Altamont, “believe me likewise ... 

sincerely interested in your welfare”, 1 side 8vo., Windsor, 19th July 1800 [SD50245]£400 

Lord Morton had been engaged to Lady Mary Juliana Howe, daughter of the late Admiral, with the wedding apparently planned for 

March, but she became ill and died on 9th April 1800. Porter’s Lodge at Shenley in Hertfordshire was the home of the Howes, his 

fiancée’s sister, Louisa Catherine, and her husband the Earl of Altamont, shortly to become 1st Marquis of Sligo. 

With heavy water-mark lines to guide the pen. 

32. CONNAUGHT (Patricia, 1886-1974, ‘Patsy’, daughter of Arthur Duke of Connaught, later Lady Patricia Ramsay) 

Fine large photo signed and dated on the mount, showing her in her Coronation Robes, full length with her train spread 

out in front of her, 10” x 6”, in original blue morocco frame 10.5” x 7”, n.p., “Coronation Day” 1937 [SD26437]£275 

BAPTISM OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR 

33. [CHRISTIAN VICTOR (Albert Louis Ernest Anthony, 1867-1900, Prince of Schleswig Holstein, son of Prince & 

Princess Christian, Killed at Pretoria)] 

Exceptional printed hymn sheet for the Prince’s baptism, with the text in blue, an exceptional Lion & Unicorn crest at the 

head in gold, silver, red and blue and intertwined initials in red and in gold and white, the two hymns start “In life’s gay 

morn, ere sprightly youth” and “Offering here obedience willing”, 1 side 4to with conjugate blank, the whole is printed 

within an impressed lacey border with a design of roses and leaves, Windsor Castle, 21st May 1867 [SD26021]£125 

Having survived the Ashanti campaign in South Africa the prince succumbed to fever in October 1900. 

DWARD (Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, 4th Son of George III, Queen Victoria’s Father) 

Fine LS to Sir James Cockburn, thanking him for his letter “inclosing Mr Amyotts answer upon the subject of my 

wishes in favour of Mr Thompson, & altho circumstances have unavoidably prevented the fulfillment of my 

views ... Mr Amyott may rely upon my punctual & particular attention to his caution of Silence as to the actual 

appointment ... At present I have no further call to trespass upon your kindness or your proceeding to Bermuda ...”, 4 

sides 8o., Kensington Palace, 5th April 1814 [SD26026]£125 

35. EDWARD (Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Field Marshal, father of Queen Victoria) 

Letter in the third person, in his secretary’s hand, to Sir James Cockburn, 1771-1847, 9th Bt. of Langton, newly 

appointed Governor of Curaçao, inviting him before setting out to meet General William Villettes, 1754-1808, at 

Castle Hill Lodge, the Duke’s property in Ealing, when the Duke will also repeat his own thanks “for the many acts of 

kindness” rendered when Cockburn was Under Secretary of State for War in Grenville’s ministry, 1806-1807, and his 

hopes for Cockburn’s career, with two contemporary extracts from letters of the Duke to Villettes and another, copied to 

Cockburn by John Robertson on 5 sides 8vo., the first letter 2 sides 4to., Kensington Palace, 7th February 1808, old neat 

strengthening with muslin of fold in first letter [SD20134]£125 

Villettes had been the Duke’s Comptroller, and had served with great distinction in the Mediterranean, governing Malta 1801-1807. 

He too was shortly leaving, to govern Jamaica. In the first extract (addressee unnamed) the Duke repeats his indebtedness to Cockburn 

and his chief, William Windham, when “in Office: their retirement from which, had been an evil of such serious moment, to myself as 

well as the Country” (12th February, 1808). In the second, he commends Cockburn to Villettes’ attention in the strongest terms and 

“as a mark of personal friendship ... the more so as I ... first brought you together”, thanking him too for “your ... present of a Sabre” 

and “the ... affectionate manner, in which you were so good as to express yourself” (14th February 1808).


36. EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) & ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen) 

Exceptional early cabinet photo signed by both and dated by the Prince of Wales, showing them standing together leaning 

against a wall, Alexandra is holding her husband’s arm, 6½” x 4”, Cowes, August 1872, framed and glazed 

[SD16204]£1,500 

37. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Superb damask tablecloth woven with Royal Cyphers in the corners, the Royal Emblem with the lion and unicorn on 

either side in the centre flanked by the Garter Star & Bath triple crown,70” x 40”, n.p., n.d., Slightly worn 

[SD22989]£975 

This linen was specifically made for the Royal Household as the insignia is actually woven into the cloth. 

EDWARD VII SIGNED AS KING 

38. EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) 

Unusual ALS ‘Edward R’ as King to ‘My dear Alix’ (Lady Colebrooke), on a correspondence card, accepting an 

invitation to dinner, 1 side correspondence card with original autograph envelope, Buckingham Palace headed card, 19th 

May n.y. [SD24645]£395 

In the King’s characteristically illegible hand. It is very unusual to find letters signed as King. 

39. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) & ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen)] 

Fine silk menu with heavy gilt fringe, for the “Reception HRH The Prince of Wales ... The Corporation of the City of 

London Ball in the Guildhall” the menu is printed in the centre of an elaborate coloured border, headed with Prince of 

Wales feathers, and two shields, bordered in cream and fringed, 10” x 8”, London, 19th May 1876 [SD26023]£150 


Superb early presentation photo by G. & L. Vianelli, signed (‘Albert Edward’) with the place and date. showing him half 

length, leaning on the back of a chair smoking a cigar, he is wearing a check coat and has a fine beard, 5” x 3½” oval in 

mount 6” x4”, in lovely original presentation cover with a crimson silk and velvet lining, it closes to a velvet box 

with gilt initials “A.E” on each side and the clasp is gilt Prince of Wales feathers, 7” x 5½”, Sandringham, 3rd February 

1873 [SD26436]£750 


EDWARD VII SIGNED AS KING 


Exceptional photo by J. Langhans, Prague,signed as King ‘Edward R & I’ and dated showing him head and shoulders 

with his chest covered in medals, looking sternly ahead of him, 8” x 5” in photographer’s mount 12” x 9” and fine 

original gilded frame with crown at the head 15” x 11.5”, n.p., (Austria) 1905 [SD26474]£1,250 

It is very unusual to find anything signed as King. 

Edward VII was always enthusiastic about travel, and in August 1905 he visited the ageing emperor of Austria at Gmünden on his way 

out to Marienbad to visit the German Emperor. 

42. EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor) 

Fine ALS as Prince of Wales to “My dear Ranee”. thanking him “for sending me the Rajah’s picture ... I was delighted to 

hear of his GCMG & will you please tell him how much I appreciate his wishing me to see him in all his glory!? I’ve not 

seen him since 1922 ... I wonder how you will like No. 62 Portland Place? I know the house very well ...”, 2 sides 4to., 

Craven Lodge, Melton Mowbray, Monday n.d., slightly soiled [SD6165]£350 


Fine large photo by Vandyk, signed (‘Edward P’), also signed by the photographer on the mount, showing the Prince in a 

group of men standing outside a building, 11½” x 8½”, n.p., n.d., dampstaining to the mount [SD16210]£575 

CHILDREN OF GEORGE V SEND AN ARTICULATED CHRISTMAS CARD 

44. EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, 

King of Great Britain), MARY (Princess Royal, 1897-1965, Countess of Harewood) & HENRY (1900-1974, Duke of 

Gloucester) 

Superb articulated christmas card by Raphael Tuck, signed by all the children, “Albert, Edward, Mary, Henry” on an 

image of a Duck, the neck, legs and tail move and on the neck the Prince of Wales has written Xmas 1907 

[SD24875]£675 


Fine photo by Vandyk, signed (‘Edward P’) on the mount, showing the Prince full length wearing army uniform with 

jodphurs, riding boots, 5½” x 3½” in mount 11” x 8”, n.p., c. 1920 [SD25416]£525



Fine photo by Vandyk, signed (‘Edward P’), and dated, showing the Prince in profile wearing army uniform, 8” x 5½”, 

in original presentation silver frame ,n.p., 1920, dampstaining to the mount [SD25449]£1,750 


47. EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor) & the Duchess of WINDSOR 

(Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, his wife) 

Fine large photo signed by both in red ink “Wallis Duchess of Windsor” and “Edward Duke of Windsor” inscribed by the 

Duke, “To David M. Buckley” and dated, showing the Duchess accepting an award from an unidentified man, with the 

Duke in profile looking at it, in the background is a huge globe, 10” x 8”, n.p., 1964 [SD25960]£1,250 


Vintage photo signed (‘Edward’) in a dark part of the image showing him full length wearing jodphurs and a flat hat 

talkingtotwo menand awoman, smoking a cigarette, 9” x 6½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1930 [SD25987]£500 


Delightful cabinet photo by Downey signed on his behalf by his Mother, Princess Mary ,(of Teck, 1867-1953, Queen 

of George V), showing him three quarters length in a white lacey dress, inscribed in Mary’s hand “Edward” and dated, 

6½” x 4”, June 1895 [SD25993]£225 

EDWARD VIII SIGNED AS KING 


Extraordinarily huge photo signed “Edward R.I., Colonel in Chief, 16.vii.36” showing the king mounted on a fine horse, 

wearing full dress uniform as Colonel and his busby, the background has been removed, to make the picture stand out 

more, possibly for publication, 20” x 16”, n.p., 16th July 1936, the background has been slightly damaged by the 

touching out treatment [SD26138]£5,500 

It is exceptionally rare to find signed photos from the very short reign of this monarch. 

51. ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI) 

Fine presentation photo by Dorothy Wilding signed showing her three quarters length seated, wearing a jewelled dress 

and tiara and holding a fan, in plain original blue leather presentation frame , 12” x 10” overall, n.p., 1954 

[SD20428]£1,200 


Superb portrait photo by Dorothy Wilding signed showing her three quarters length seated, wearing a jewelled dress and 

tiara and holding a matching bag and wearing a net shawl, 10” x 7”, n.p., 1955, framed and glazed [SD23120]£1,400 


Fine photo signed as Queen and dated on the image, she is standing looking at a table which is covered with pocket 

watches and chains, and a gentleman is beside her pointing out individual pieces , 9” x 7”, n.p., 1940, some of the 

signature is in a fairly dark portion of the image [SD26593]£500 


Autograph note sending “much sympathy and my hopes that you will soon be feeling better ...”, 1 side 8vo., Clarence 

House headed paper with crested monogram, n.d. [SD26046]£225 

55. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, her Consort) 

Superb pair of Presentation Portraits, each signed and dated by the subject on the mount, the Queen is standing wearing a 

white dress with orders and a tiara and holding a fan, Prince Philip is standing wearing dress uniform, in original full 

blue morocco Presentation frames by Plante, with gilt monogram at the head, each 12½” x 8½”, frames 14” x 10”, 1954 

See Front Cover Illustration [SD23165]£2,500 

56. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) 

Early photo, signed & dated on the mount showing the young Princess half length, smiling, wearing a white fur coat, 8” x 

7” in mount 11” x 9”, n.p., 1951 [SD21509]£675 

Apparently this photo was given to Enid de Gray when she was working for SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen Family Association) 

as aWelfare officer in Malta while Prince Philip, was serving with the Royal Navy. 

Prince Philip had married his distant cousin Princess Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947. He continued on active 

service with the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate ‘Magpie’, until Elizabeth’s accession on Feb. 6, 1952, from which time he shared 

her official and public life.


57. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, her Consort)) 

Fine photo, signed on the mount by both and dated by the Queen, showing them standing together in Buckingham 

Palace, in full formal dress, the Prince has his hands on his sword, 9” x 7” in mount 11½” x 8½”, 1963, slight staining on 

the mount [SD21506]£750 

58. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) 

Exceptional portrait photo by Dorothy Wilding, signed and dated, showing her half length, seated, holding a fan, 15” x 

12” in mount 17” x 13”, n.p., 1955, very slightly yellowed at the edge of the mount [SD22701]£750 

59. ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, her Consort) 

Fine large pair of portrait photos by Dorothy Wilding & Baron, signed and dated, on the photographer’s mount, showing 

them half length, the Queen wearing a beautiful long dress and tiara and holding a fan, the Duke is in his RAF uniform, 

18” x 14” in mount 26” x 19”, n.p., 1952 & 1953, signatures slightly faded [SD22877]£875 

60. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, b. 1921, her Consort)] 

Fine collection of ephemera from the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 

received by Sir Alan Macleod, includes a printed service paper bordered in gold, headed with a gold crown above silver 

print, inside the pages are printed in black and red, 11”x 8”, a printed ceremonal for the service, 13”x 8”, a printed 

invitation, and a printed letter of thanks from the Queen and Philips, 20th November 1972 [SD25131]£200 

GEORGE VI ATTENDS THE CORONATION OF THE KING & QUEEN OF ROUMANIA 

ERDINAND I (1865-1927, King of Roumania, Prince of Hohenzollern) & his wife MARIE (Alexandra, 1875- 

1938, daughter of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha) with their son Crown Prince CAROL (1893-1953) 

and his second wife HELEN (1896- 1953, eldest daughter of King Constantine I of Greece), their second son, 

NICHOLAS (b. 1903, Head of the Council of Regency for his nephew King Michael I) and daughter ILEANA (1909- 

1991, wife of Archduke Anton of Austria & Dr Stefan Issarescu, later an Orthodox Nun), together with Queen MARIE 

(of Yugoslavia, 1900-1961, wife of Alexander I), Queen ELISABETH (of Greece, 1894-1956, wife of George II) and 

her husband’s siblings Prince PAUL (1901-1964, later King of Greece) and Princess IRENE (1904-1974) & 

GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain, when Duke of York) 

Menu for the Coronation Dinner signed by the above, which took place at the Palais Royal, also signed by Edith Annie 

Mountjoy Dering who collected the signatures, the party ate “Consommé Carmen-Sylva, Esturgeon Venitienne, Jambon à 

la Mascotte, Poularde Regence, Sorbet au Clicqot, Cimier de Marcassin Grand-Veneur ...” and so on for another five 

dishes, 1 side 8vo., with crest at the head, Palais Royal, 16th October 1922, ink rather browned [SD26099]£475 

EORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Son of George V, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & his wife MARINA (Duchess 

of Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of Greece) 

Delightful informal christening photo signed by both, showing them seated together on a large sofa admiring 

their infant son EDWARD (b. 9th October 1935) who is wearing a beautiful lace robe, 5¼” x 3¾”, in mount 9” x 7”, 

n.p., 1935 [SD16071]£195 

63. GEORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & HENRY (Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974, Uncle 

of ELIZABETH II ) 

Excellent typed Document signed by both on behalf of the King, addressed to GEORGE II King of Greece, (1890- 

1947), concerning Sir Sydney Philip Perigal WATERLOW ,Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael & St 

George “who has for some time resided at Your Majesty’s Court in the character of My Envoy Extraordinary ...” 

informing him of “the termination of his Mission in that capacity ...”, 2 sides 4to., with embossed gilt lion & unicorn at 

the head, Buckingham Palace, 15th May 1939 [SD26006]£225 

64. GEORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Son of George V, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & his wife MARINA (Duchess of 

Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of Greece) 

Postcard wedding Photo signed by both and dated by the Duke, with ANS from Marina on the verso “Celia & Fred, with 

all best wishes for Xmas & 1935”, the picture shows the couple in their wedding clothes standing on the steps, 5½” x 

3½”, n.p., 29th November 1934 [SD26058]£225 

65. GEORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & Sir Cecil BEATON (1904-1980, Photographer & 

Designer) 

Exceptional photo by Beaton, signed by the sitter and the photographer in red in, and dated by the Duke, showing him 

head and shoulders in RAF uniform, 10” x 6½” in mount 11” x 8”, in original silver presentation frame with his crest 

at the head ,13” x 10”, n.p., 1942 [SD26419]£850 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration


66. GEORGE I (1660-1727, King of Great Britain & Ireland, Creator of the Cabinet System of Government) 

Handsome Warrant Document in his name, with fine initial letter portrait of the King in Latin, being a transfer of land, 

with an ornate border, 29” x 26” on vellum framed and glazed [SD22366]£275 

67. GEORGE II (1683-1760, King of Great Britain) 

Fine letter signed with autograph subscription, to the King of the Two Sicilies sending his congratulation on the birth of a 

Prince, “you inform me of the happy Increase of your Family by the Birth of a Prince. I congratulate you on this joyful 

event ...”, 1 side 4to., with integral direction leaf with seals, St James’s, 14th February 1751 [SD15713]£1,250 

The King of Naples & Sicily, FERDINANDO IV was born on 18th January 1751, 3rd son of Carlos III ,King of Spain (1716- 

1788). 

CROWN LEASE OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN’S HOUSE, HAMPTON COURT 


Letters Patent, by and with the advice of the Lords of the Treasury, leasing to George Eckersall the house, with gardens, 

stable and coach house, “all late in the occupation and tenure of Sir Christopher Wren ... situate ... near our Palace of 

Hampton Court”, with a frontage of 42 feet to Hampton Court Green, and running 328 feet to the Thames, abutting on the 

East ‘the Mitre’ [inn] and a house belonging to the keeper of the palace, let to Jasper English, on the West the Store 

House, Store House Yard and gardener’s house, for £25 paid and £10 p.a., to run for 22½ years from 1787, fine engraved 

portrait of George II 8¾” x 7¾”, and engraved border on three sides of the document, all elaborately decorated, signed 

also by the Deputy Clerk of the Pells, the Middlesex Auditor, and by Robert Herbert ,Surveyor-General of the King’s 

Works, vellum, 27¼” x 33¾”, Westminster, 13th June 1760, green braid tassel at foot but no Exchequer seal, creased at 

some folds and worn where folds cross obscuring a few words of text (can be supplied from context) [SD17633]£550 

Theleasecontinues that granted to Christopher Wren, junior, 1675-1747, on 21st January 1738 to run for 28½ years from 1758 at £10 

p.a.. No doubt George Eckersall had taken over that lease and wished to secure a long tenure. 

The houses mentioned still form the delightful group opposite the palace gates. Sir Christopher was Surveyor-General, 1669-1718, and 

lived there while constructing Fountain Court and many other works at the palace. 

Named as Lords of the Treasury are the Duke of Newcastle, Henry Bilson Legge (Chancellor of the Exchequer), James Grenville, Lord 

North, and James Oswald. 

69. GEORGE III (1738-1820, King of Great Britain) 

Commission Document signed, printed with the details filled in by hand, appointing Alexander Watt to be “First 

Lieutenant ... in the Trinity House Royal Volunteer Artillery ...”, countersigned ‘YORK’ (Frederick Augustus, 1763- 

1827, 2nd Son of George III, Commander in Chief of the Army), 1 side oblong folio on vellum with revenue stamp, 

Court atStJames’s, 19th July 1809, severely discoloured [SD22724]£175 


Fine Royal Licence and Passport Document signed ‘George R’, with a late ‘mad’ signature, printed with the details filled 

in by hand, addressed to the “Commanders of Our Ships of War, and Privateers ... whereas Messrs Greffulhe Brothers 

have humbly represented unto us ... that they are desirous of obtaining Our Royal Licence for permitting four vessels 

sailing under the Prussian or any Neutral Flag to proceed from Port in France to the Port of London with Four Cargoes of 

such goods as are allowed by our order of the 11th of November 1807 to be Imported ... that the Masters be permitted to 

receive their Freights and return with their vessels and crews without Molestation to any Port not Blockaded. This our 

Licence to remain in force for six months ... and at the Expiration of the said Period, or sooner if the Voyage be 

compleated, to be deposited ... with the Commissioners of Our Customs ...”, countersigned ‘Hawkesbury’ by Robert 

Banks Jenkinson, (Baron Hawkesbury, 1770-1828, Prime Minister as 2nd Earl of LIVERPOOL ), 1side folio with 

papered seal and revenue stamp, Court at St. James’s, 19th May 1808 [SD21740]£575 

Afascinating sideline on the famous Blockade (Orders in Council) of 1807 in answer to Napoleon’s of 1806. Both were ‘paper 

blockades’, not permanently maintained by investing forces, but still having a great effect on trade. The present document shows how 

the British could still ship selected goods under ‘neutral’ flags or the flags of France’s allies including Prussia, half of which had been 

annexed by Napoleon. What Napoleon thought of this was a different matter. Meanwhile America was picking up much of Great 

Britain’s carrying trade, a main cause of the war of 1812. 

71. GEORGE IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain) 

Pass Ticket to the Coronation Banquet, which was the last time that the “Presentation of the Champions took place”, 

printed in blue & red, with an embossed edge with GIVR at the head and flowers and leaves around it, 7¼” x 5”, 

Westminster Hall, n.d., 1813 [SD22592]£245 

TheBanquet was the highlight of George IV’s vastly elaborate and expensive Coronation. The Royal Family and 312 guests, all male, 

took part. The womenfolk had to watch from the gallery. Wellington and others paraded on horseback amongst the tables and there 

was a medieval style Challenger in armour. 

Like the Coronation ticket this pass ticket was produced using a very early example of security printing


72. [GEORGE IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain)] 

Fine example of his Coronation Ticket printed in blue, with an embossed edge, admitting the bearer to Westminster 

Abbey, 10” x 9½”, n.d., 1813 [SD26018]£225 

This ticket is a very early example of security printing 


Bulletin on the health of the King just ten days before his death, “The King has passed another good Night and feels 

himself better”, on a small slip of paper, n.p., (Windsor), 16th June 1830 [SD26024]£125 

Presumably in the hand of one of his physicians 

74. GEORGE IV (1762-1830, King of Great Britain) & WELLESLEY (Richard Colley, Marquis, 1760-1842, Lord- 

Lieutenant of Ireland & Governor-General of India, Brother of the Duke of WELLINGTON ) 

Fine letter signed by Wellesley to Sir Robert PEEL (1788-1850, Prime Minister) also signed with initials at the head 

by the King with autograph “appd”, asking Peel to “lay before the King my humble recommendation that His Majesty 

will be graciously pleased to grant to James Earl of Ormonde & Ossory the dignity of a Marquess of this part of His 

Majesty’s United Kingdom ... Ireland, and the Heirs Male of his body lawfully begotten ...” and to raise “a proper letter 

for His Royal Signature accordingly” if his request was approved, 2 sides folio, Dublin Castle, 23rd September 1825 

[SD26028]£325 


Document signed at the head as Prince Regent addressed to the Commissions for auditing the Public Accounts, saying 

that the “Commissioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, have stated ... that the sum of £8614.5s.0d had been 

appropriated to the Current Expenses of the year from the deduction of one shilling in the pound stopped on paymnets to 

Our Pensioners from the 25th December 1810 to 24the December 1811 ... Our said Commissioners of the Treasury have 

recommended unto us to Authorise the said payments under Our Royal Sign Manual ...” ordering the payment to be 

made, countersigned by Nicholas VANSITTART (first Baron Bexley 1766-1851, Chancellor of the Exchequer), 2 

sides folio, Court at Carlton House, 25th June 1812, split on folds, dust stained [SD26582]£175 

76. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953) 

Fine pair of cabinet photos, each signed “Victoria Mary” and “George”, and dated by the Prince, who is wearing dress 

uniform with all his medals, the Princess is wearing a tiara and elaborate pearl choker, both images are full face, 6½” x 

4½”, in original frames made of wood with black ebonised edges ,hingedatthe centre, n.p., 1903, together with an 

ALS from George to “My dear Miss Daisy” sending the photos, he says he was very “pleased to see you & Lady 

Watson today after 12 years ... I am sending you a photograph of myself and also one of the Princess which I thought you 

would like ...”, 1 side 8vo., Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth headed paper, 23rd July 1903, remains of sellotape at the edges 

of the letter, where it had been attached to the back of the frame [SD14232]£650 


Fine large pair of presentation portrait photos by Vandyk, signed “George R.I.” and “Mary R” and dated, showing them 

three quarters length, the king in uniform, with many decorations and his hand on his sword, the queen, wearing a 

jewelled dress, with a tiara, holding a fan, each 16” x 12” in mount 24” x 20”, n.p., 1935, framed & glazed 

[SD16279]£950 

78. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) 

An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of 

Addresses by both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to His Majesty 

King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign, frontis. 

showing the Royal Party on the dais at the western end of William Rufus’s Great Hall, showing the famous oak roof of 

Hugh Herland, Master Carpenter to Richard II, one other plate showing the Royal Party with Gloucester, Wales, the 

King, the Queen, York and Kent, flanked bytheLord Chancellor, & the Speaker, 4to. original blue crushed morocco with 

the portcullis, impaled rose, thistle and shamrock in gilt on the upper cover, cloth wrapper and slip case, together with 

aletter from Sir William Brass ,theinstigator of this memorial, presenting it to “My Dear Gluckstein”, February 11th, 

1936 1935 [SD18237]£200 

This contains both the address and the reply. This rare and limited edition shows with what respect the King was held in the last year 

of his reign. He died on the 20th of January 1936. 


Fine portrait photo by Vandyk boldly signed “George R.I.”, also signed by the photographer, showing him three quarters 

length in uniform, with his hands on his sword hilt, 6” x 4” in mount 10” x 7”, London, n.d. [SD22717]£375



Fine pair of presentation portrait photos by Downey, signed “George R.I.” and “Mary R” and dated, showing them three 

quarter length, the king in full military uniform with his hand on his sword, the queen, in a jewelled dress, with a tiara, 

holding a fan, each 8” x 5”, signed on the mount, in wooden frames 15½” x 11”, n.p., 1918 [SD25742]£750 

These were presented to Brigadier-General H.D. Briggs, Royal Naval Service after the King and Queen visit to Cranwell under his 

guidance 


Superb typed letter signed with autograph subscription to “Sir My Brother and Dear Cousin Your Majesty’s Affectionate 

Brother and Cousin”, GEORGE II (King of the Hellenes, 1890-1947, reigned 1922-1924 and 1935-1947) 

congratulating him on resuming the throne, “by the general wish of the Hellenic People ... I offer ... My most sincere 

congratulations on this happy manifestation of the desire of the Hellenic People for union under Your Majesty’s Sceptre 

...”, 2 sides 4to., together with an unsigned typed copy on separate leaves of black crested mourning paper, with original 

envelope with seal on the verso, Buckingham Palace, 2nd January 1936 [SD26003]£750 

82. GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, his Queen) 

Fine pair of photos signed “Georgie” and “May”, and dated by the Prince showing them both head and shoulders, he is in 

military uniform, she is wearing a bejewelled dress with magnificent tiara & choker, each photo 5½” x 4”, in mounts 7” 

x5” in original Green Morocco Presentation frames by Dreyfus, with gilt decoration, 9” x 7” max, n.p., 1916 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration [SD26427]£975 

83. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) 

Fine large photo by Hugh Cecil signed as King and dated on the mount, also signed by the photographer in pencil on 

the mount, showing him half length in RAF uniform, with decorations & medals, 18” x 15” in mount 20” x 16”, dated 

1949 [SD16184]£500 

84. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain) 

Fine ALS signed ‘Albert’ to Mrs Mackay, the housekeeper at Sandringham, thanking her for her “kind telegram for my 

birthday. I was very sorry not to have seen you while you were here, but I am coming down to the cottage for Xmas ...” 

asking her to tell “Batterby to make me 2 wooden blocks 9ins high. They are to go under the two casters at the foot of 

my bed. It is part of my treatment so will you kindly have this done by the time I arrive ...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original 

autograph envelope signed with initial ‘A’, Buckingham Palace headed paper, 14th December 1915 [SD18214]£250 

Written on his 20th Birthday. The young Prince was dogged by ill-health, and had had his appendix removed early in 1914. Combined 

with his other illnesses, the effect on his constitution was so severe that he remained an invalid for some weeks before he finally 

managed to get passed as fit in December, though only at the Admiralty and it was not until February that he was able to rejoin his ship 

at Portsmouth. For the rest of 1915 he battled with his condition and at the end of the year he acknowledged defeat and was again put 

ashore. 

85. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) & ELIZABETH (1926-2002, Queen of Great Britain) 

Enormous pair of photos by Dorothy Wilding, signed and dated by the subjects under each image and by the 

photographer on the photo showing the Royal couple half length, the Queen is wearing a jewelled dress and holding a fur 

stole, the King is in RAF uniform with a baton under his arm, each 23” x 17” in mount 25” x 18” , dated 1950 

[SD16197]£1,250 

86. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain), ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, his Queen) & 

their daughters ELIZABETH (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & Princess MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, 

Princess, Sister of Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon) 

Superb Coronation Photo by Dorothy Wilding signed by the whole family and dated by the King, also signed by the 

photographer showing them standing on the steps with their robes flowing down in front of them and the young 

Princesses standing between their parents, 11” x 9”, n.p., [SD23244]£6,500 

87. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain) 

Fine photo by Vandyk signed ‘Albert’, and dated on the mount, showing himhalflengthinprofile,wearingNaval 

uniform, with his arms crossed, 5¼” x 3½” on mount, 9½” x 7½”, in brown leather frame with gold border, n.p., 1922 

stand on the back of the frame has come off [SD25744]£250 

88. [GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain)] 

Printed Order of Service for the Burial of His Majesty King George VI, 8 pages 8vo. booklet, together with aleaf 

giving instructions on Dress and Train Times, and General Sir Montagu Stopfort’s admission ticket to the Royal Chapel 

of St George, Windsor, on black edged card with a blind stamp of the Earl Marshal of England, a notice about parking 

facilities and a reply envelope, 4 items, 15th February 1952 [15931]£150



Superb typed letter signed with autograph subscription to “Sir My Brother and Dear Cousin Your Majesty’s Affectionate 

Brother andCousin”, GEORGE II (King of the Hellenes, 1890-1947, reigned 1922-1924 and 1935-1947) announcing 

with “the deepest sorrow ... the decease of My dear Cousin His Royal Highness Prince Arthur Frederick Patrick 

Albert of Connaught ,sonofMydear Great Uncle His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught ... From the proofs of 

friendship which You have manifested towards Me on other occasions I cannot but feel persuaded the Your Majesty will 

fully sympathise in the profound grief which has thus fallen upon my and upon my Royal House ...”, 2 sides 4to., on 

separate leaves of black crested mourning paper, with original envelope with seal on the verso, Buckingham Palace, 20th 

September 1938 [SD26007]£850 

Arthur, 2nd Duke of Connaught, (1883-1938) was Queen Victoria’s 7th Child. He was a Major General. 

90. [GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) & ELIZABETH (1926-2002, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Blank Ticket for the “Coronation of their Majesties” printed in black and white with a decorative border and blind seal, 1 

side oblong 4to., Westminster Abbey, 12th May 1937 [SD26019]£125 

“US FOUR” PRESENTATION PHOTO 

91. GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain), ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, his Queen) & 

their daughters ELIZABETH (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain) & MARGARET (Countess of Snowdon, b. 1930) 

Superb Photo by Dorothy Wilding signed by the whole family showing them grouped together, the Queen is seated on a 

chair with her husband perched on the arm and their daughters are standing and seated on her other side, 9.5” x 7”, in 

mount 12.5” x 11” in original presentation frame in blue morocco with gilt crest at the head, n.p., London, 1937 

See Front Cover Illustration [SD26414]£6,750 


Superb pair of presentation photos by Dorothy Wilding & Bertram Park, signed and dated by the subjects under each 

image and by the photographers, Wilding in capitals in white ink in the negative and Park in pencil on the mount, 

showing the Royal couple head and shoulders, the King in uniform with all his medals and orders and the Queen in a 

jewelled dress with tiara and strings of pearls, each 8” x 6½” in original blue morocco presentation frames with gilt 

crests at the head , 10½” x 9” max, n.p., 1939 [SD26418]£2,750 

See Front Cover Illustration 


Excellent presentation photo by Vandyk, signed by both and dated showing the Royal couple three quarters length, the 

Duke is wearing dress uniform, the Duchess is wearing a marvellous beaded dress, 8” x 6” in original silver 

presentation frame with their crest at the head , 10½” x 7”, n.p., 1927, some soiling on the edges of the photo not 

visible as under the frame [SD26423]£3,750 

TheRoyal Couple went on tour in Australia at this time. It is probable that this photo was prepared as a ceremonial gift. 

See Front Cover Illustration 


Excellent portrait photo by Vandyk, signed dated on the mount, showing the Prince head and shoulders in a suit, 6” x 4”, 

in mount 9½” x 6”, in original red morocco frame with gilt decoration at the corners, 12” x 9”, n.p., 1926 

[SD26421]£500 


Superb Coronation Photo by Dorothy Wilding signed by the King and Queen and dated by the King, on the mount, also 

signed in capitals by the photographer in white ink, showing them standing on the steps with their robes flowing down in 

front of them and the two young Princesses standing between their parents, 10” x 8”, in mount 11¼” x 8¼”, n.p., 1937 

[SD26484]£1,750 

ELENA (Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, wife of Prince Chistian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 3rd Daughter 

of Queen Victoria, founder of the Princess Christian Nursing Home) and her younger sisters Princess LOUISE 

(1848-1939, Duchess of Argyll, Sculptress) & Princess BEATRICE 1857-1944, wife of Prince Henry of 

Battenberg) 

Fine printed letter signed by all three with the details filled in by Helena addressed to Mary Kirkpatrick, “In accordance 

with the Queen’s our beloved Mother’s instructions ...” sending her a souvenir, 1 side 4to on mourning paper with a black 

monogram at the head, Windsor Castle, February 1901 [SD26048]£175 

Sent out only days after the death of Queen Victoria


97. HELENA (Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, wife of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 3rd Daughter 

of Queen Victoria, founder of the Princess Christian Nursing Home) 

Fine photo signed and dated showing her head and shoulders,6” x 4”, in a superb original frame made of brass with a 

decorative top, and a silver fillet around the image, & mount of flowered embroidery, 11” x 8” n.p., 1888 [SD26435]£650 

98. HELENA VICTORIA (Princess, 1870-1948, Elder Daughter of Prince & Princess Christian of Schleswig- 

Holstein, Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria) 

ALS to Mrs Cole, saying “Alas, I shall not be calling at Villefranche ... We go straight to Madeira & then on South ... I 

am much better after a month in bed”, and thanking her, 2 sides 8vo., 78 Pall Mall, 14th December 1936 [SD19848]£45 

99. HENRY (Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974, Officer in the 10th Hussars, Marshall of the RAF, Governor General of 

Australia, Uncle of Elizabeth II) his wife ALICE CHRISTABEL SCOTT (b. 1901, Duchess of Gloucester) & their 

children WILLIAM (1941-1972, killed in an air crash) & RICHARD (b. 1944, Duke of Gloucester) 

Formal presentation photo by Eric Ager of Northampton, signed by all four, showing them grouped together outside, the 

Duchess is seated on steps and the Duke is standing the other side of the two boys, and he has dated the image, in 

original morocco presentation frame with gilt monogram at the head ,8”x6”, n.p., 1955 [SD23125]£425 

100. HENRY (Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974, Officer in the 10th Hussars, Marshall of the RAF, Governor General of 

Australia, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & his wife ALICECHRISTABEL SCOTT (b. 1901, Duchess of Gloucester) 

Fine Presentation photoby Dorothy Wilding signed & dated, showing them three quarters length, the Duke is standing 

behind the Duchess wearing uniform & medals and the Duchess is seated, in a white dress & tiara, 6½” x 5” in mount 8” 

x5½”,in original red morocco presentation frame with monogram at the head ,9½” x7½”, n.p., 1961 

See Inside Front Cover Illustration [SD26422]£375 

101. HENRY BENEDICT (Cardinal York, 1725-1807, Archbishop, last Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain 

as Henry IX, 2nd son of James III, the Old Pretender, brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie ) 

Letter Signed, (‘Errico Card[ina]le Vescovo’) in Italian with translation, to Archpriest Niccolo Seghetti at Frascati, where 

Henry was Bishop (1761-1803), thanking him for the prompt results of the election of Officers at the Cathedral Chapter 

on the 1st January, he is pleased with their choice, but realises that they may have left the post of First Master of 

Ceremonies vacant out of respect to him, and “wishing to see ... in all things ... your Constitutions observed”, he desires 

them to elect one, so that he can grant his approval, and ends with his blessing, 1 side folio and conjugate leaf with title, 

Rome, 7th January 1763 [SD50205]£650 

AMES (Francis Edward Stuart, 1688-1766, Son of James II, Prince of Wales, Chevalier de St George or ‘Old 

Pretender’) 

Fine Letter in French with translation, signed to Leandro Colloredo, (1639-1709, Cardinal from 2nd September 

1686), saying that “the particular satisfaction with which we receive the proofs you give of your continued 

friendship, enjoins us to make clear our appropriate feelings in return”, and praying “God to keep you, My Cousin, in his 

holy and worthy care”, address and seal of the Stuart Arms of Great Britain on conjugate leaf, the letter 1 side folio, St. 

Germain en Laye, 1st March 1708, traces of former guard, seal divided on opening without loss [SD50209]£350 

103. JAMES (Francis Edward Stuart, 1688-1766, Son of James II, Prince of Wales, Chevalier de St George or ‘Old 

Pretender’) 

Letter Signed, in French with translation, to Cardinal Stampa, Archbishop of Milan, thanking him “for your most 

obliging letter of the 2nd of this month”, rejoicing with him “at your happy return to your Church ... I ... preserve 

unceasingly the feelings which you know I have for your person ... I pray God may hold you, My Cousin, in His holy and 

worthy care”, with an Autograph Postscript, “My children”, Charles Edward (aged 20) and Henry (15), “send many 

regards to their good friend Cardinal Stampa, for whom we all feel affection and most sincere esteem”, 1 side folio, 

address and seal in black on conjugate leaf, the seal bears the simple quarterings, England, Scotland, France and Ireland. Rome, 

19th November 1740, garter on seal incomplete but shield clear [SD50210]£375 

104. JAMES II (1633-1701, King of England) 

Autograph letter signed with initial ‘J’ as Duke of York, “For my Neece the Countess of Lichfield”, Charlotte Fitzroy, 

agreeing that she is “in the right to say this country is a very proper place for women to ride in, for I never saw a finer, for 

all feild sports, the Dutchesse and my Daughter have been severall tyms a hare hunting with little beagles and are 

mightily pleased with that sport, I have been but once a stag hunting ... the voyage from Portsmouth having hindred me 

from going oftener ... we went on Wensday by Southamton (where we embarked) and so to Portsmouth ... to see the 

fortifications and ships ... none of the ladys but the Ds of Portsmouth were there ... His Ma: Hawkes every day ...” he 

ends by telling her that he intends to return in a fortnight to London and hopes she will be there, 2 sides 4to., with original 

integral autograph address leaf signed with initial and sealed, Winchester, 8th September n.y., (1683), fore-edge of 

address leaf strengthened with brown paper [SD15730]£1,750


ATHARINE (b. 1961, Duchess of Kent, wife of George) 

Fine presentation photo signed & dated underneath showing her head and shoulders, full face, wearing a pearl 

necklace, 6½” x 4½”, in mount 8” x 6½” with her crowned monogram at the head, in original blue leather 

presentation frame with gilt decoration, n.p., 1985 [SD26433]£125 

EOPOLD (George Albert, 1853-1884, 4th Son of Queen Victoria, Duke of Albany, a haemophiliac, died after an 

accident on 28th March in Cannes) 

Superb presentation signed photo, the head and shoulders image is signed underneath and set in an oval silver 

mount, black pleated fabric surrounds this and the gilt metal crest above and the whole is framed in an ebonised and 

carved inner frame which is finally inclosed in a black lacquer and gilt box frame, the picture is 5½” x 4” and the final 

size is 17½” x 11”, n.p., 1884 [SD22713]£1,950 

In the spring of 1884 his health was poor and so he was sent to the south of France. At first he seemed to benefit from the change, but a 

fall in aclubhouse at Cannes led to an attack of epilepsy, of which he died at the Villa Nevada on 28th March. The funeral took place 

in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on 6th April. He left a daughter & a posthumous son, born in July. 

Queen Victoria assembled several of these mourning gifts but this is the first one I have seen outside a Royal collection. 

107. LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860-1917, Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Wife of 

Arthur, Duke of Connaught) 

Delightful Christmas card to her baby son ARTHUR Frederick (1883-1938, Grandson of Queen Victoria, Governor 

General of South Africa), inscribed “For darling Arthur ... from yr ever loving Mama LM” with the date, on the verso of 

acoloured picture of Cavalry Officers on horseback, 6” x 4”, n.p., 1886, traces of former mounting [SD26035]£75 

108. LOUISE VICTORIA (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867-1931, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, Daughter of Edward VII) 

and her daughter ALEXANDRA (1891-1959) 

Delightful photo by Alice Hughes, signed and dated, also signed “Alexandra” on her daughter’s behalf, showing her three 

quarters length with her baby daughter on her back, 6½” x 4½”, in a beautiful presentation frame of green gilt-decorated 

leather with the mount made out of embroidered fabric, n.p., 1894 [SD15752]£295 

109. LOUISE VICTORIA (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867-1931, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife) and her daughters 

ALEXANDRA (1891-1959, married Prince Arthur of Connaught) & MAUD (1893-1959, married Charles Carnegie, 

11the Earl of Southesk) 

Exceptional Imperial Cabinet photo by W & D Downey, signed by the Duchess and her two young daughters and dated 

by Louise, showing them standing in a garden, the girls in white dresses and hats standing on either side of their mother, 

13” x 7½”, n.p., Christmas 1904 [SD26441]£500 

110. LOUISE VICTORIA (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867-1931, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, Daughter of Edward VII) 

and her daughters ALEXANDRA (1891-1959) & MAUD (1893-1945) 

Fine photo by Lallie Charles, signed by all three on the mount, showing them all head and shoulders, with the daughters 

on either side of their mother, 5½” x 4” in mount 11” x 7½”, n.p., n.d. [SD15733]£375 

ARINA (Duchess of Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of Greece) 

Photo signed andinscribed on the mount “With all best wishes to you both”, the photo shows her in profile 

with her grandchild, 5½” x 4¾” in mount 7” x 5”, n.p., n.d. [SD26057]£75 

112. MARINA (Duchess of Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of Greece) & Sir Cecil BEATON (1904-1980, Photographer & 

Designer) 

Superb formal photo signed and dated, also signed in red ink by Beaton, showing the Princess three quarters length, 

wearing an evening gown, tiara and decorations, against a romantic landscape background, 10” x 8” in mount 13” x 11”, 

n.p., 1940 [SD26417]£750 

113. MARY (ofTeck, 1867-1953, Queen of George V) 

Fine large photo by Hay Wrightson, signed and dated, on the mount, showing her full length, standing holding a fan, 

wearing a heavily jewelled dress and a long necklace with matching tiara, 8” x 12” in mount 17” x 12”, New Bond Street, 

1942 [SD23326]£375 

Given by Queen Mary to one of her dressers. 

114. MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, Queen of George V) & her aunt AUGUSTA CAROLINE (1822-1916, Grand 

Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) 

Fine photo signed by both, “May” and “Augusta Caroline”, showing them standing together, the old lady is dressed in 

black and holding her niece’s arm, the Princess is dressed in white and has her hands clasped in front of her, she has also 

written the place and date, in a superb original gilt frame with swags and flowers at the head, 8” x 6” in frame 11” x 

8.5”, Strelitz, 1910 [SD26426]£750



Delightful postcard photo signed and inscribed “& Little George” LASCELLES (7th Earl of Harewood, b. 1923) and 

dated, showing her in a fur coat and netted hat, holding the baby in her arms in a christening robe & fine lace shawl, 5½” 

x3½”, n.p., 1923 [SD26061]£165 


Fine photo by Hay Wrightson, signed ‘Mary R’ and dated, on the mount, also signed in pencil by the photographer, 

showing her full length, wearing full court dress with her ermine train arranged in front of her, 8.5” x 6” in mount 13” x 

9.5”, London, 1942 [SD26416]£375 

117. MARY (Countess of Harewood, 1897-1965, Princess Royal, Daughter of George V), her husband Sir Henry 

LASCELLES (6th Earl of Harewood, 1882-1947) and their sons GEORGE (7th Earl, b. 1923, Managing Director of 

Sadler’s Wells) & GERALD (David, b. 1924, President Inst. Motor Industry) 

Fine Coronation Day photo by Speaight, signed on the mount by all the sitters and dated by the Princess, under the photo 

of the Princess and her husband in their Garter Robes with their sons standing on either side, 5½” x 4” in mount 7” x 6”, 

n.p., 12th May 1937 [SD26424]£275 

George VI’s Coronation was held in Westminster Abbey on 12th May. 

118. MARY ADELAIDE (Princess, 1833-1897, daughter of the 1st Duke of Cambridge, wife of the 1st Duke of Teck 

and mother ofQueenMary) 

ALS to the Hon. (later Sir) Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, 1824-1915, Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain’s Department 

1857-1901, Bath King of Arms, 1904-1915, saying “This is indeed bad news for us, who are already not overburdened 

with the world’s wealth ... Kensington Palace had always continued to be a Royal, though not a Sovereign’s residence ... I 

must trust to your kindly efforts to do the best for us with the agreeable Parish authorities”, and asking him “to give the 

Treasury Officer your card”, as “During the day we have now only a housemaid”, who since an attempted break in “by 

the area ... would on no account let a stranger in”, 4 sides 8vo. and envelope, White Lodge, Richmond Park, 4th March 

1883, [SD19838]£125 

119. MARY ADELAIDE (Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897, Queen Mary’s Mother) 

Fine ALS to Canon Edgar Sheppard, sub-dean of the Chapels Royal, concerning the confirmation of her children, “You 

have already heard from Lady Geraldine of the change of hours to suit the Prince of Wales and I now ... ask if you will 

arrange for us family to be by the Altar Rails instead of in a pew, and for Princess Victoria and Prince Adolphus to 

have seats & hassocks ( well dusted ... in honor of the white gown!) immediately in front of the Altar, thus avoiding the 

moving from the pew to the Altar which might make them feel more shy. There will be present in addition ... the Grand 

Duke of Mecklenburgh , probably the three young Princesses of Wales ...”, and she continues with further 

arrangements 1885 [SD26047]£125 

Princess May - later Queen Mary, was also confirmed at this time. 

120. MARY OF MODENA (1658-1718, Queen of James II of Great Britain) 

LS to Leandro Colloredo, (1639-1709, Cardinal 2nd September 1686), in French with translation, saying that the 

esteem in which she holds his friendship increases her satisfaction at the “new proofs” of that friendship at festival time, 

“by giving me an agreeable opportunity to mark my gratitude”, address on conjugate leaf bearing two impressions of 

her black seal, with silk fronds, of Great Britain impaling Modena, the letter 1 side 4to., St. Germain en Laye, 8th 

February 1706 [SD50202]£750 

Maria Beatrice d’Este, daughter of Alphonso IV of Modena, was the only Italian princess to be Queen of Great Britain. Her beauty and 

fine manners earned her the respect of Charles II, and she lived on good terms with her step daughters, Anne and Mary. At the 

Revolution she fled to France with her baby son James (‘III’), but, by insisting that James II join her, greatly weakened his cause. 

Louis XIV allowed her a pension of 100,000 crowns, which she spent largely in supporting Jacobite exiles. 

121. MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, Princess, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) 

Fine early ALS (‘Harry’) to her nanny ‘My dear Jonnie’, hoping she will write as she is “longing to get a letter from you. 

We saw EDDY” (Albert Victor, 1864-1892, Duke of Clarence) “& GEORGIE” (George V, 1865-1936) “yesterday & 

they are coming here today ...” with a long postscript “Louise & Victoria send their best love to you. I send my love to 

dear Phillis ... I am very sorry that my letter is so short but I cant help it ...”, 4 sides 8vo., Royal Yacht Osborne headed 

paper with a coloured crest and Prince of Wales feathers, 13th August 1880 [SD24912]£400 

Adelightful letter from the 11 year old princess to her nanny, whose name was Elizabeth Jones. Her elder brothers had become Naval 

cadets in 1877 so this was a family visit to the young boys who had just returned from a cruise of the West Indies in the Bacchante. 

122. MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, Princess, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) 

Small photo signed with an ANS sending this “tiny remembrance with all best wishes for Christmas fr. Maud”, the 

picture shows her head and shoulders inanoval,4”x2½”,inmount6”x4”,inoriginal gilt frame, n.p., n.d. 

[SD15748]£275


TUART (Louise, née Princess of Stolberg-Gedern, 1752-1824, Countess of Albany, wife of Bonnie Prince 

Charlie ) 

ALS, in Italian with translation, to Giuseppe Aquari at Rome, sending “infinite thanks for your prayers for me at 

the start of this new year”, on her part “I ... will not fail to speak with Cardinal Consalvi on an appropriate occasion 

about your son. Do not doubt my urgent desire to help you”, 1 side 4to., autograph address and Florence post mark on 

verso, 9th January n.y., c. 1820, small defect from opening seal without loss [SD50211]£475 

Louise and the Prince were married in 1774 and they lived in Rome, then Florence, but were legally separated in 1784. After the 

Prince’s death she kept court in Florence, accompanied by the poet Alfieri (d. 1803), with nightly receptions for men of science and 

letters in her house on the Lung’arno. 

Consalvi (1757-1824, Pius VII’s ‘Prime Minister’), was an old friend. He attracted the notice of Louise’s brother-in-law, Cardinal 

York, when a pupil at the college founded by him at Frascati. A moderate traditionalist, he helped preserve the Papacy through the 

Napoleonic period, while rooting out many ancient abuses. 

For the signature, cf. BL Add 38283, f.200. 

QUEEN VICTORIA LAMENTS THE DEATH OF JOHN BROWN 

ICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) & John BROWN (1826-1882, her Servant and close friend) 

Extraordinary ALS in the third person to General Sir Michael BIDDULPH (1823-1904) apologising for her 

tardy reply, and telling him about “a slip on the staircase ...” in which she “did not injure any joint, but she can 

after 3 months ... only walk with sticks & very little out of doors - & is still carried up & down stairs. This is 

however nothing to the grief & shock of the loss - so suddenly of her devoted faithful & invaluable Attendant & dear 

friend, whom she never dreamed of surviving & who she misses increasingly ... who no one can ever replace . She is 

terribly depressed tho’ it has never kept her from doing her work ... there are days when such faithful, devoted & 

watchful servants are more than ever needed & one does feel that God’s dealings are inscrutable in removing such a 

person from the poor Queen, at a time when she most needs it ...”, she continues to say how pleased she is that the 

General is well and ends with news of Beatrice and by sending him a “Photograph of her dear Brown ...” ,5 sides 

8vo., onmonogrammed mourning paper, together with the original cabinet photo by Jabez Hughes, Isle of Wight, 

inscribed “Mr J. Brown the Queen’s devoted friend”, 6” x 4”, and the original autograph envelope signed “The Queen”, 

with anote by the recipient that it contains the “Photo of John Brown sent by the Queen herslf, 14th June 1883”,Balmoral 

Castle, 14th June 1883 [SD25997]£3,750 

Thedeath of John Brown on 29th March 1883 was a great blow to the Queen. It was Brown who looked after he at Balmoral, carrying 

her up and down stairs and assisting her in and out of her carriage. She planned to write a memoir of him shortly after his death but it 

was never completed. 

125. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) 

Pair of her cream silk gloves embroidered in gold thread with “VR” and a crown, mounted on black velvet, 20” x 20” 

overall, rather yellowed and soiled, framed and glazed with Museum conservation glass [SD23246]£3,750 

ROYAL LINEN 

126. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Fine damask tablecloth woven with the Royal Cypher in the centre with a decorative border around the edge, 56” x 28”, 

n.p., n.d. slight wear on the cypher [SD23005]£775 

This linen was specifically made for the Royal Household as the insignia is actually woven into the cloth. 

127. [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Fine menu for dinner at Buckingham Palace - “Her Majesty’s Dinner” listing the courses in French - the starters include 

soup or maccaroni, the fish is Turbot or Merlan and the main courses are Russian Rissoles, veal or grouse followed by 

chocolate eclairs with a cheese souffle and a side table of cold meats, 1 side 8vo with a vignette of Buckingham Palace at 

the head with a decorative border around the whole thing, Buckingham Palace, 13th March 1890 [SD24879]£325 

QUEEN VICTORIA WITH HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN 

128. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) & Princess PATRICIA (of Connaught, 1886-1974) 

Superb group photo, titled by the Queen, taken on the lawns of Osborne, showing the Queen surrounded by Princesses 

ALIX & IRENE of Hesse , the Edinburgh Princesses MARIE, VICTORIA MELITA, ALEXANDRA & 

BEATRICE ,andthe Duke of CONNAUGHT ,Princess BEATRICE of Great Britain & the Connaught’s eldest 

daughter, Princess PATRICIA in the arms of his nurse, with two of the Queen’s liveried servants standing behind, the 

party is enjoying outdoor breakfast under a canopy, 10” x 7½”, Osborne, August 1887 [SD23482]£2,750 

With along autograph note in pencil on the verso by Lady Patricia Ramsay, describing the picture, “The Queen at outdoor Breakfast at 

Osborne House. (The date below photo written by her). The D. of C. on her right - her grandchildren (Qu. Marie of Roumania & her 

sisters (Grand Dchss Kyrol of Russia & Pss Beatrice of Edingburgh (Infanta B. of Spain) ... Pss Alexandra of Edinburgh (half hidden) 

... two more grandchildren (Pss Alice of Hesse, Empress Alexandra of Russi (murdered) wife of Emp. Nicholas II) & Princess Irene of 

Hesse. Baby in arms not known ... might be myself aged 1 year.” 

From the collection of Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the Duke of Connaught.


QUEEN VICTORIA SENDS AN IMAGE OF JOHN BROWN 

129. VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) & John BROWN (1826-1882, her Servant and close friend) 

Cabinet photo by G. W. Wilson of Aberdeen, inscribed by the Queen “J. Brown Grandmama’s truest friend”, showing 

her trusted gilly in profile, wearing his usual coat and cap, 6” x 4”, n.p., n.d., c. 1880 [SD25998]£1,750 

John Brown was much more than a servant to the Queen, but it is still very unusual to find such an intimate inscription. 


Fine cabinet photo by Downey, signed and dated underneath, showing the Queen seated at a table reading, with her chin 

resting on her hand, wearing mourning dress and a white veil, 6” x 4½”, in its original wooden frame inscribed on the 

verso “Sent by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria to the Revd H.Beadon Rector of North Stoneham, and 

canon of Wells Cathedral on his attaining his 100th Birthday. His birthday was Decr 6th 1877”, 13|” x 11½”, n.p., 1878 

[SD26415]£1,750 


Superb long ALS in German (with translation) to FREDERICK WILLIAM IV (1795-1861, King of Prussia, 

Godfather to Edward VII) thanking him effusively for his letter and “for the touching way in which you expressed your 

opinions, and please rest assured that I shall continue to reciprocate openly and unchangingly your inestimable friendship. 

Isharedevery moment of your journey to St Petersburg ... and am now longing to know that you are safe ... in the arms 

of your dear Queen .... It may have been the Tempter who reminded me of the dangers and uncertainties of this mortal 

life ... he also gives me through your kindness ... the most visible proofs of your protection and the most wonderful ways 

of attaining comfort and strength. Such a way was also provided by the visit of my brother ERNEST and his young 

wife ...” ( ERNST II ,Duke of Saxe Coburg & Gotha, 1818-1893, Prince Albert’s elder brother), married on 3rd May 

1842, ALEXANDRINE (1820-1904, daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden), “She completely won my heart, and 

no-one can possess a purer, simpler, more loving or more faithful heart than she ... Your Majesty must have felt the same 

pain as I did upon hearing the news of the sudden appalling death of the Duke of ORLEANS ...” (Ferdinand, Duke of 

Orleans, 1810-1842, Prince Royal and eldest son of Louis Philippe I, King of the French, died in a carriage accident on 

13th July), “The letters I have had from Paris testify to the immense anguish and deep distress that fills the whole of the 

Royal family ...”, she then changes the subject and says that “Your Majesties will perceive that my desire to comply with 

your wishes does have its limits: despite your order you have had an answer from me ... The Prince of Wales is doing 

very well, as also his sister and has received the greetings from his royal godfather ...”, she ends by sending greeting from 

herself and her mother, 5 sides 4to, on crested mourning paper, Windsor Castle, 3rd August 1878 [SD26440]£1,250 


Marvellous, very large, sepia photo by Lafayette, signed and dated, showing her full length, in a very ornate gown, with 

trail and white veil and tiara, standing next to a table and with a huge torchere in the background, 11½” x 9½”, n.p., 1889 

[SD25994]£1,500 


Fine cabinet photo by Bassano signed and dated in the top left hand corner, showing her full length in profile seated, 

wearing her usual mourning dress, 5¾” x 4½”, in a fine contemporary red morocco frame with gilt decoration, 7½” x 6”, 

(?) ‘Pahé Bay’, 1887 [SD24863]£1,600 


134. VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of Germany, wife of Frederick III, eldest child of Queen Victoria & 

mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) 

Fine photo signed on the mount, showing her full length standing by a chair, looking at a bunch of flowers, 8” x 6” in 

mount 9” x 6½”, Windsor Castle, n.d., c. 1895, the writing though legible is very faded with loss of some of the signature 

[SD26488]£450 

During her last years sherepeatedly visited England, and on 22 June 1897 she took part in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 

procession. 

135. VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of Germany, wife of Frederick III, eldest child of Queen Victoria & 

mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) 

Autograph Letter signed ‘V. C[rown] P[rince]ss of P[russia]’ to Mr Collins, saying “It was a great comfort ... to hear that 

my dear Brother”, Prince LEOPOLD, (1853-1884), “was not ill - only sad, and that he recovered after the first pang 

of parting ... I wish I could be with him to cheer him and brighten him up. If only you can succeed in the plan you 

mention I am certain ... all morbidness and discontent ... will vanish away, - his elastic spirits and quick imagination will 

feed on new objects & new interests, and other troubles ... will ... not be seen in so vivid a light ... We are happy to think 

Leopold has so kind a friend as you are - near him always”, 3 sides 8vo., Osborne, 22nd August 1871 [SD50234]£375 

(Sir) Robert Hawthorn Collins, 1841-1908, was appointed Leopold’s tutor in August 1867, expecting soon to be dismissed for speaking 

his mind. In fact he stayed with him all his life, and became his Comptroller. For references see Charlotte Zeepvat, ‘Prince Leopold’.


136. VICTORIA (née Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1863-1950, wife of Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st 

Marquess of Milford Haven) 

ANS sending “best thanks for services rendered”, light receipt stamp, 1 side 8vo black-edged, Germains, Chesham, 

Buckinghamshire, 24th June 1910, one corner mended with old transparent tape [SD50235]£75 

The Princess was the daughter of Princess Aliceandmother of Earl Mountbatten. 

137. VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, Princess, Daughter of Edward VII & Alexandra) 

Fine early ALS to her nanny, “My dear Jonnie”, hoping that “you have not disarranged the drawers that I arranged for 

you before we wentaway. Iamverysorrynot to be there to help you to dismantle your room for you. We are amusing 

ourselves very much here and we go wherever dear Mama goes. Papa won the Queen’s Cup ... it is very pretty. We went 

to see GRANDMAMA [Queen Victoria] with dear Mama and then she drove us in the little cart to Osborne peare (?pier) 

were we had tea and then we went home by the sea in a little steam barge which was very nice. That scrap book of mine 

that I saw in your draw[sic] would do very well for Lala’s bazaare instead for Xmas because you can get some other 

things for that time ...” she says that they had been bathing “& we swam beautifully at least I think so ...”, 4 sides 8vo., 

Royal Yacht Osborne headed paper, 6th August 1880 [SD26029]£275 

Thechildren’s nanny was Elizabeth Jones. It is delightful to see life in the Royal family through the eyes of a 12 year old in this way. 

ILLIAM III (1650-1702, King of England) 

Attractive exemplification of a common recovery document with engraved initial letter portrait at the head 

concerning land at North Tuddenham and Elsing, both near Derham in Norfolk, involving Nathaniel Athill 

and Richard Warner together with the fictitious ‘Hugh Hunt’, 1 side oblong folio on vellum, n.p., c. 1698, 

lacking seal [SD16222]£500 

139. WILLIAM IV (1765-1837, King of Great Britain) 

Fine ALS signed “William” as the Duke of Clarence to the Archbishop of Canterbury replying to “your Grace’s letter ... 

Iamtoacknowledge the receipt of the special License which I consider as absolutely requisite to establish legally the 

marriage which will be celebrated next Thursday ... The Dutchess [sic] desires me to thank your Grace in her name for 

the trouble so kindly taken by your Grace in favour of her cousin ...”, 2 sides 4to., with original envelope front signed 

“Clarence” and seal tipped onto the conjugate blank, Admiralty, 16th February 1818 [SJ15873]£225 


Fine Coronation Ticket for Miss Cooke Martin giving her admission to his seat in the South Transept of Westminster 

Abbey, to enter through the door at Poets Corner, printed at the head “The Coronation of Their Most Sacred Majesties. 

W.R. IIII A.R.”, with the blind stamp of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, 10” x 7½”, n.p., n.d., [1831] [SD22591]£200 

141. WILLIAM IV (1756-1837, King of Great Britain) & Sir John BARROW (1764-1848, Secretary of the 

Admiralty) 

Ship’s Passport Document signed by both, addressed to whom it may concern ordering them to “Suffer the Vessel Paul 

Pry ofLondon, British built, John Foster Master, Burthen One hundred nine Tons navigated with six Men and bound to 

Smyrna to pass ... without any Let, Hindrance, Seizure or Molestation ...” for one voyage only, 1 side large folio on 

vellum with blind stamp of the Admiralty and revenue stamp and large engraved vignette at the head showing Britannia 

&Europa standing either side of a picture of a ship, Admiralty Office, 5th July 1827, the top has been indentured and is 

rather soiled [SD16235]£225 


Fine Coronation Summons document signed printed with the details filled in by hand, informing him of the date that is 

“appointed for the Royal Solemnity of Our and the Queen’s Coronation. These are to will and require you (all excuses 

set apart) to make your personal attendance ...”, countersigned by NORFOLK ,(Bernard Edward HOWARD , 12th 

Duke, 1765-1842, Earl Marshal), 1 side folio, Court at St. James, 2nd August 1831 [SD26027]£500 

143. WINDSOR (Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII) 

Photograph boldly signed underneath “Wallis Windsor” showing her full length, standing on steps, wearing a summer 

dress, 5” x 3¾”, n.p., n.d. [SD24688]£425 

144. [WINDSOR (Duchess of, Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986, Wife of Edward VIII)] 

Unsigned photo of the Duke and Duchess, standing outside a house with another man, together with the autograph 

envelope sending it to Major Gray PHILLIPS (1885-1976, Duke of Windsor’s Equerry from 1939) Donnington 

Grove, Newbury, England, 4½” x 3½”, n.p., postmarked Southampton Paquebot, 18th November 1947 [SD26448]£25

19 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS,MANUSCRIPTS &SIGNED PHOTOS 

CLAND (Sir Thomas, 1809-1898, 11th Bart, 

M.P.) 

ALS tothe statistician Dr. William Farr, (1807- 

1883, F.R.S.), thanking him warmly for “so clear 

&condensed [a] statement - it is like Pemmican I feel that I 

cannot digest it at once ... I will send it on to Roby when I 

have studied it a little further. I could not help saying to 

Gladstone about 3 A.M. this morning how you would pull 

to pieces Mr. D’Israeli’s statistics as to the Country 

population. He seems to have forgotten the wives and 

families”, 3 sides 8vo., blind-embossed stamp of The 

Athenæum, 3 Portugal Street, Park Lane, 5th June n.y., c. 

1870 [SD16660]£40 

Like Gladstone, Acland began as a Tory, but by 1865 had become 

aLiberal. Both were at Christchurch and both were Fellows of 

All Souls. Acland took a leading part in establishing the Oxford 

Local Examinations, 1857-1858. He promoted the extension of 

the Bath and West of England Show, edited the Journal of the 

Royal Agricultural Society for 7 years, and was one of the 2 

original trustees of Ruskin’s Guild of St. George, 1871. 

Farr was a pioneer of modern statistics and its applications, a 

commissioner for the Census of 1871, and President of the 

Statistical Society, 1871 and 1872. For many years he wrote the 

Registrar-General’s report on the causes of mortality, and the 

greater part of the reports in the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871. 

Henry John Roby, M.P., b. 1830, author of a famous Latin 

grammar, was professor of jurisprudence at University College, 

London, and from 1872-1895 commissioner of endowed schools. 

145. ADAMS (Joshua, Temporary Surgeon to the East 

India Company at Allahabad) 

Invoice to “The Honourable Company”, signed, in respect 

of “My Salary as Superintendent of Vaccine Inocualation 

[sic] for ... May 1823”, amounting to 260 “Calcutta Sicca 

Rupees”, 1 side 7¾” x 8” ruled in red, Allahabad, 1st June 

1823 small edge tears without loss [SD24303]£55 

146. ALBONI (Marietta, 1826-1894, Italian operatic 

contralto) 

Portrait engraved from a photograph by Mayall, threequarter 

length in a damask dress, signed by her in the 

margin ‘Countess Pepoli’, 11½” x 8¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1880, 

a little light browning just touches engraved background 

[SD24310]£45 

147. ALEXANDER (Grand Duke, 1866-1933, Russian 

Admiral, Brother-in-Law of Nikolai II) 

ALS ‘G.D. Alexander’ in English to the founder and editor 

of the Boston News Bureau, Clarence Walker BARRON, 

(1855-1928, president of Dow, Jones & Co.), thanking him 

“for sending the article, I am very glad that it made an 

impression and that many of your influential men have read 

it” and “for the paper”, 1 side 8vo., with conjugate blank, 

headed paper of Claridge’s Hotel, Paris, 11th June 1913 

[SD26032]£175 

The writer’s father was Grand Duke Mikhail, 1832-1909, fourth 

son of Nikolai I. Alexander married Nikolai II’s sister Xenia, 

1875-1960, who lived for many years at Hampton Court. Barron 

was a great traveller and raconteur, well known in all the 

important financial centres of the world. 

From the Estelle Doheny collection. 

148. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia 

from 1801) 

Fine Letter Signed, in Russian with translation, to 

FERDINANDO IV, (1751-1825, from 1759 King of 

Naples and Sicily), telling him of “the Wedding which was 

solemnized in Our capital this last 22nd July [3rd August in 

Western calendar] between Our beloved Sister Her Imperial 

Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and His 

Highness the Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Saxe- 

Weimar-Eisenach”, with some fifty of Alexander’s titles, 

including, besides the ancient kingdoms, smaller provinces 

and Baltic states, “the Udora, Obdorsk and Konda regions” 

(referring to rivers and mountains beyond the Urals), “and 

all the Northern Regions”, besides the Caucasian peoples 

still under their own rulers, with original envelope made 

from a folded sheet, bearing Alexander’s papered seal, 

3¼ inches diameter, with his arms and title, 2 sides 14¾” x 

9¾” and conjugate leaf, St. Petersburg, 31st July [12th 

August Western], 1804, light narrow water stain on portion 

of central fold touching a few letters [SD50193]£750 

Signed also by the great Polish statesman and patriot Prince 

Adam CZARTORYSKI (1770-1861). Sent to St. Petersburg as 

a hostage in 1795, after the third partition of Poland, he attracted 

the attention of Catherine the Great, who remitted part of the 

family estates. He and Alexander, the future Emperor, became 

firm friends, and by 1804 Czartoryski had the practical control of 

Russian diplomacy. He rendered great service to Russia at the 

Congress of Vienna, and prepared the way for the Congressional 

Duchy of Warsaw. When the Polish insurrection broke out in 

1830, he came out of retirement and in 1831 was elected head of 

the provisional Government. He sacrificed half his fortune to the 

national cause. At the end of the war he emigrated to France, 

where his son Wladislaw married a granddaughter of Louis 

Philippe. 

Prince Czartoryski will first have met Ferdinand IV when he was 

accredited to the King of Sardinia (December 1798). Finding the 

latter without a kingdom, he used the time to study Italian and in a 

pleasant tour through Italy to Naples. 

149. ALEXANDER I (1777-1825, Emperor of Russia 

from 1801) 

Letter Signed, in French with translation, to Joachim 

MURAT, 1767-1815, King of Naples 1808-1815, and 

brother-in-law of Napoleon I, congratulating him on his 

accession, “I pray for the prosperity of Your reign, and will 

take care to maintain the ties of friendship and good 

understandng established between the two States ... Your 

good Brother”, 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, St. 

Petersburg, 22nd October 1808 [SD50194]£750 

By the Peace of Tilsit Alexander Ihad withdrawn his opposition 

to Napoleon. Meanwhile Ferdinand IV still held on in his other 

kingdom of Sicily. 

150. ALEXANDRA IOSSIFOVNA (1830-1911, née 

Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, wif of Admiral Konstantin, 2nd 

sonofEmperor Nicholas I) 

Photograph Signed ‘Aleksandra’ in Russian, by A. Pasetti, 

showing her half-length, seated, wearing two large blue 

brooches set in diamonds, at her waist is a large bow 

bearing an anchor, hand tinted in light and dark blue, 

light brown, red and silver, 9½” x 7”, (St. Petersburg), 1890 

[SD50238]£275


THE PARENTS OF TSAR NICHOLAS II 

151. ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia 

from 1881) & his wife MARIE FEODOROVNA 

(Princess Marie Dagmar, 1847-1928, sister of Queen 

Alexandra of Britain) 

Exceptional Russian cabinet photo signed by both 

“Alexander” and “Dagmar” and dated by the Empress, 

showign them standing together, he is wearing uniform and 

a greatcoat, she is wearing outdooor dress and they are 

leaning on a decorative railing, 6.5” x 4.5” in original 

frame, 10” x 8”, n.p., 1879 [SD26438]£2,750 

Alexander III succeeded his father after his assassination in 1881. 

In 1866 he married Princess Marie Dagmar of Denmark who 

became known as Maria Feodorovna. She had originally been 

engaged to Alexander’s elder brother Nicholas, but changed 

suitors on his death in 1865. The precedent was followed by her 

nephew George V. They ascended to the Imperial throne in 1881. 

152. ALFORD (Henry, 1810-1871, Poet and Editor) 

ALS to‘Dear Sir’, about “Ld Herbert”, suggesting that if he 

“cut off 11 pages” of the 31, “you would not eventually 

suffer asthe chapter would stand entire in your book”, he 

much prefers this to dividing, “I am pledged too largely for 

Novr.”, printed heading about contributors exceeding their 

limits, 2 sides, ‘Contemporary Review’, Deanery, 

Canterbury, 2nd August 1867, spike hole near foot without 

loss, inkblot touching one letter [SD19872]£45 

153. ALWYN (William, 1905-1985, Composer) 

ALS to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham Gramophone 

Society, sending 8 titles of records he would like him to get, 

including Debussy, Stravinsky, Honegger, Chopin and 

Schönberg, “I did warn you I am not a collector myself ... 

Could you borrow a metronome?”, with a pencil note by 

Chipp of record magazines to consult, 2 sides 8vo., 8 North 

Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W.11, 15th 

November 1953, neat filing holes touching a few letters, 

light marks of paper clips [SD18183]£40 

Alwyn’s 1st Symphony was first performed at the Cheltenham 

Festival, 1950, and in London, 1953. His 4th was performed at 

the Proms in 1959. His film music includes ‘Odd Man Out’ 1947, 

‘Swiss Family Robinson’, 1960, and ‘The Running Man’, 1963, 

besides his symphonies, chamber works and song cycles. 

154. ANDREEV (Leonid Nikolaevich, 1871-1919, 

Russian Novelist, Dramatist and Publicist) 

Portrait Postcard photo signed in Russian, showing him 

three-quarter length in fur-lined coat and Astrakhan hat, 

n.p., n.d., c. 1900 [SD50000]£150 

Andreev’s talent was ironic and pessimistic, his writing part 

realist, part symbolic. Attracted at first to Maxim Gorky, he found 

he was on the side of revolution, but not of revolutionaries, and 

protested at their excesses. Inclined to theatricality, he was roused 

to genuine fervour by the 1914 war (“The sorrows of Belgium”), 

and by the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, (“Russia’s call to 

humanity: S.O.S. - an appeal to the Allies”). 

155. AUDEN (W. H., 1907-1973, British born American 

Poet) 

Signature under his programme photo on the souvenir 

booklet for “Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry 

International 1971”, 44 pages A4 with a gold cover, 

London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, 1971 [SD26592]£225 

156. ANSON (George W., 1810-1849, Secretary to Prince 

Albert) 

ALS toMr. R. Ollivier, informing him that “Her Majesty 

has not given permission for the Hibernian Ball, a 

Prospectus of which you have enclosed, to take place under 

Her Majesty’s Patronage”, 1 side 8vo., Osborne, 13th 

March 1847 [SD19994]£40 

Prince Albert inherited the much-liked Anson from Lord 

Melbourne. Anson lived in a house in Eaton Square built by 

Thomas Cubitt, and may well have been instrumental in getting 

Cubitt for Osborne. 

157. ASIMOV (Isaac, 1920-1992, Russian-American 

Biochemist, Sci-Fi Writer) 

Typed Letter Signed ‘Isaac’ to Mel Korshak of Shasta 

Publishers, Chicago, thanking him for “a copy of Mullen’s 

‘Kinsmen of the Dragon’ ”, hoping “you will see fit to send 

me future books put out by Shasta” and that “next time you 

are in this vicinity you will let yourself be heard from” 

(11th December 1951), together with Shasta’s ‘flimsy’ in 

answer, signed by Ted Dikty, as Korshak is away, 

requesting “two copies of all clippings of the book reviews 

... when ... printed”, and announcing the forthcoming 

“Shasta prize novel contest”, not “the one announced in 

Galaxy ,although this is the basis of our revised version ... 

The grand prize will now be $4,000.00” with “secondary 

prizes of approximately $2,500.00 ... Why not slant your 

next novel inthis direction?” (17th December 1951), the 

two letters neatly stapled, 2 sides folio, 265 Lowell Street, 

Waltham 54, Mass., and 5525 South Blackstone, Chicago 

37, 11th - 17th December 1951 [SD14700]£150 

Asimov began contributing stories to science fiction magazines in 

1939 and in 1950 published his first book, ‘Pebble in the Sky’. 

He had taken his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1947, and then joined the 

faculty of Boston University. From 1958 onwards his 

professorship was nominal, without salary or duties, as he devoted 

himself to highly successful and lucid works of popularization and 

science fiction. 

Shasta Publications had reprinted Asimov’s ‘No Connections’ in 

their ‘Best Science-Fiction of 1948’. 

158. ATHOLE ARMS HOTEL (Blair Athole, 

Perthshire) 

‘Tourists’ Guide and Route Map of Blair Athole and 

Vicinity’, with illustrations of the hotel, the local falls, 

Killiecrankie, and Blair Athole, detailed instructions for 

getting to Bynack Lodge and Braemar by Glen Tilt, small 

but excellent map showing the Queen’s View and all the 

local peaks including Schiehallion, 8 sides folding card 

8vo., n.d., c. 1870 [SD19550]£45 

159. ATTLEE (Violet Helen, née Millar, wife of Clement, 

1883-1967, Prime Minister 1945-1951 and 1st Earl) 

ALS to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), 

saying “How sweet of you to send us a Christmas Gift of 

Dances of Greece ... The children did enjoy your party 

...We have been a large family party”, her granddaughter 

Ann is“entrancing”, 2 sides 8vo., 10 Downing Street, 31st 

December 1949 [SD19440]£35


ADEN POWELL (Robert, Lord, 1857-1941, 

Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy 

Scouts) 

Exceptional long ALS to Mrs Vaughan, apologising for not 

having written sooner after leaving Nannau, “but I went 

straight away from Wales to manoeuvres and have been at 

them ever since .... before starting for Scotland. I went to 

see book buyers in accordance with my promise ... I found 

Messrs Stile & Steevens of Great Russell Street ... 

particularly nice to deal with ...” and suggests that she sends 

more details of her library and a list of books so that they 

can decide if they will visit her to assess the value of her 

collection, they would deduct their commission and 

expenses in they succeeded in selling it, “That seems a 

reasonably satisfactory course but until they see the list they 

cannot say whether it would be possible for them to come 

without having their expenses paid ...” but he suggests that 

if there were another library in the neighbourhood they 

could split the costs, or alternatively if she wants to “sell 

them privately I daresay I could arrange it ...” but he needs 

the “dates covered by the book and the names of the chief 

battles in it and 2. About what price you value it at ...”, he 

ends by telling her that he has “just begun my leave here 

and am thoroughly enjoying this imitation of N. Wales 

called Scotland ...”, 10 sides 8vo., with original autograph 

envelope, Farleyer House, Aberfeldy, 27th September 1905 

[SD26563]£650 

161. BADEN POWELL (Robert, Lord, 1857-1941, 

Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) 

Fine photo by Elliott & Fry, signed and dated, showing him 

head and shoulders in profile, in full uniform with medal, 6” 

x4”inmount 11.5” x 8.5”, n.p., September 1905, together 

with a later “Boy Scouts Association” charter with 

stamped signature, authorising “Major General J. Vaughan 

... of Maes-y-bryner, Dolgelly ..”, to act as District 

Commissioner for the Dolgelly District, I side oblong 4to., 

Imperial Headquarters, London, 23rd October 1929, 

certificate worn on lower edge, photograph’s mount 

chipped on the bottom right hand corner. [SD26569]£475 

162. BALLADS 

2on1sheet, ‘The Mantle of Green’ and ‘I’m Seventeen 

Come Sunday’, beginning “As I went a-walking one 

morning in June ... she appeared like a queen ... and a 

mantle of green”, she had lost her lover at Waterloo, whom 

the singer realises was his commanding officer, the second 

begins “As I walked out one May morning”, and ends “Now 

Iamwith my soldier lad ... A drum and fife is my delight, 

And a pint of rum in the morning”, thin ballad paper, 1 side 

10” x 7”, Thomas Yapp’s Cheap Song Warehouse, 82 

Digbeth, Birmingham, date in pen 1863 [SD19547]£30 

163. BATH (Thomas Henry Thynne, 1862-1946, M.P.) 

ALS asLord Weymouth to ‘Dear Sir’, saying “I owe my 

success to the exertions of my friends”, hoping “you will 

express my gratitude” to those “in the polling district of 

Wellow” and that, 2 sides 8vo, Longleat, Warminster, 21st 

January 1886, a little foxed [SD19229]£35 

164. BAIRD (Sir David, 1757-1829, General, 1st Bart., 

Hero of Seringapatam, 1799) and POPHAM (Sir Hume, 

1762-1820, Rear-Admiral) 

DS by both to Marquis CORNWALLIS ,(1738-1805), as 

Governor-General of India, directing payment of “29,410 

Sicca Rupees” or “3,370 Pounds Sterling” to Edward 

Stephenson Dennison, on account of “the Honble the East 

India Company’s Troops saved fom the wreck of their Ship 

the Brittania”, 1 side folio, St. Salvador, West Africa, 23rd 

November 1805, laid down by margin [SD50114]£275 

Baird held many important commands in the Cape and in India. 

He led the Indian force in the expedition of 1801-1802, joining 

Abercromby from the South, that recovered Egypt from the 

French. Back in India in 1802 he was made head of the North 

Madras army, but resigned and went home when it was clear that 

Sir Arthur Wellesley would be in charge of the operations against 

the Mahrattas. 

In 1805 a small force was secretly assembled at Madeira to 

recover the Cape. Baird had transports and East Indiamen with 

5000 troops. Popham had eight ships. They left San Salvador on 

the West Coat of Africa on 26th November 1805. They anchored 

off Table Bay on 4th January 1806 and on the 10th received the 

Dutch capitulation. 

LETTER FROM AMERICA 

165. BAKEWELL (Benjamin, of Pittsburgh) 

ALS to his cousin Mrs Gifford in Southampton, England, 

forwarded to Derbyshire, saying he has just returned from 

St. Louis, he believes his cousin could safely have gone to 

France, “I can hardly believe that the Parisians of 1830 are 

of the same race as those of 1792”, admiring “their courage 

in battle” and “their moderation after Victory”, and 

comparing Louis Philippe I to Washington as “raised up by 

Providence”, he hopes “no popular ... nor Royal faction ... 

will attempt to destroy the beautiful Fabric which the 

friends of order & liberty are endeavouring to rear. I 

observe that the great, the good, & under all vicissitudes, 

the consistent La Fayette, is at the head of the National 

Guards once more”, he turns to British Politics, refers to the 

new Reform Cabinet, “the Sailor King”, and the riots, and 

talks interestingly about Lord Brougham, now Lord 

Chancellor, with whom the family shares a friend in the 

Revd. John Harrison, and finally about visiting his nephews 

and nieces “during my journey in the Western Country”, 4 

sides 4to., the first neatly cross-written, address and 

postmarks including 13th April 1831 and “Ship Letter 

Liverpool” on fourth side, Pittsburgh, 15th January 1831, a 

few light tears in folds, partly mended with old transparent 

paper, a few letters caught by seal on opening 

[SD20131]£125 

The writer and his nephews and nieces were all linked by the Ohio 

steamboat, at Pittsburgh, Wheeling (W. Va.), Cincinnati, 

Louisville and Shippingport (Ky.). Their surnames include 

Anderson, Atterbury, Woodhouse and Berthoud. “Mr Berthoud 

has recently made an engagement with Gordon of Liverpool & is 

going in a few weeks to reside in New York”. The writer asks for 

advice over his granddaughter, who “although in apparent good 

health ... will sometimes fall back in her chair suddenly quite 

asleep. - If spoken to ... she answers, but on coming out ... is quite 

unconscious of what has passed ... Our Physicians do not 

understand the complaint”.


166. BEATTY (David, O.M., 1871-1936, Admiral of the 

Fleet, from 1919 1st Earl) 

Typed letter with stamped signature to John St. Loe 

Strachey, (1901-1963, Labour Politician), enclosing an 

invitation (not present) from the Lord Mayor of London to a 

dinner inaid of the dockland settlements, “The ... King and 

Queen ... take a very keen, practical interest in the work ... 

We feel that those responsible” for the settlements “should 

be relieved of financial worries ... We must raise £10,000 

... His Royal Highness the Duke of York”, later George VI, 

will be present with the Earl of Derby (17th Earl, 1865- 

1948) (17th November 1933), with the second half of a 

similar letter, lacking his correspondent’s name, “in order to 

maintain the work ... and to open a much needed Dockland 

Settlement at Dagenham Docks”, £15,000 is needed, “the 

Duke of York is not only sponsoring the appeal” but 

definitely intends to be present, and suggesting “if unable to 

accept ... a generous contribution towards this special 

appeal”, 1½ sides 4to., the first from 17 Grosvenor Square, 

W., 17th November 1933, transparent strips at top of first 

and left side of second [SD14714]£30 

At the outbreak of World War I, Beatty steamed into Heligoland 

Bight and destroyed three German cruisers. In January 1915 he 

sank the Blücher and on 31st May 1916 fought the Battle of 

Jutland. He succeeded Lord Jellicoe as Commander-in-Fleet, 

1916, and became 1st Sea Lord in 1919. 

Strachey resigned from the Labour Party in 1931 to support 

extremist political organizations. However, in 1945 he became 

Labour Under-Secretary for Air, Minister for Food 1946-1950, 

and SecretaryofState for War 1950-1951. 

167. BEAUFORT (Henry Somerset, 1744-1803, K.G., 

Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte, from 1756 5th 

Duke) 

ALS toMrWilliams, thanking him for his congratulations 

on “the Lieutnancy of ... Brecon”, he has no thought of 

“making any alterations in any part of the Militia” but will 

welcome recommendations, he and the Duchess hope they 

may see him before long “in Glostershire”, adding 

compliments from Doctor Penney who is “at all times the 

Ladies most obedient servant”, 1 side 4to. Badminton, 12th 

June 1787 [SD50239]£275 

Together with on the conjugate leaf a draft letter apparently from 

Williams to the Duke, recommending Henry Allen, a young 

Captain in the Militia, as “King’s Counsel on this circuit”, sent 

8th May 1788. 

168. BENTINCK (Lord William, 1774-1839, Soldier, 

British Ambassador and C-in-C of the British Forces in 

Sicily (1811), first Governor-General of India, 1833) 

ALS toMrBeech of Lukyn & Beech, Long Acre, saying he 

had “begd Captn. Clifford to show you [drawings] of a 

German carriage ... Mine had the advantage of the seat 

being on the carriage”, while the German appears “much 

lighter ... I only request ... no addition to the weight, or any 

diminution of the strength, of the one that I first approved”, 

address on conjugate leaf, 1 side 4to.,, Paris, 22nd 

December 1817, fold a little defective and strengthened 

with old paper [SD50118]£150 

Bentinck was famous for the constitution he gave Sicily on the 

British model in 1812, and his handling of the Bourbon Royal 

family. 

169. BECK-BROICHSITTER (Helmut, Knight’s Cross 

(27th September 1940, as Oberleutnant), Major on the 

German General Staff) 

Photostat Copy of his Portrait Drawing, signed, n.d., c. 

1985 [SD50047]£30 

In WW2 the ‘Iron Cross’ was awarded in three divisions, the 

‘Grosskreuz’ (only to Goering, April 1945), the ‘Ritterkreuz’ 

(Knight’s Cross), and the ‘Eiserne Kreuz I and II Klasse’. Major 

Beck-Broichsitter served with the Panzers at Stalingrad (1943). 

170. BERNHARDT (Sarah, 1844-1923, French Actress) 

Autograph letter signed, in French with translation, to “you 

all”, thanking them “for thinking about an artist of such an 

inferior order to yours ... I will come and grasp your hands 

and tell you that your smile has made me a happy woman 

and a proud artist”, embossed initials and motto ‘Quand 

Même’ below a tragic mask and emblems, 2 sides small 

8vo. grey-edged, n.p., n.d., c. 1880 [SD24347]£225 

171. BEXLEY (Sir Nicholas Vansittart, 1766-1851, 

Lawyer, Diplomat and Chancellor of the Exchequer) 

Document signed ‘N: Vansittart’, on vellum, in favour of 

Henry, Viscount HOOD (1753-1836, son of the 

Admiral), appointing him Receiver of the Property Tax for 

part of Middlesex, namely “the Hundreds of Edmonton and 

Gore the Parishes of Saint Mary le bone, Paddington, Saint 

Pancras and Hampstead”, listing the appropriate Acts of 43 

through to 55 George III, and “Giving ... the said Henry 

Lord Hood full power to do ... all such matters ... necessary 

for His Majesty’s Service in the Premises ... empowering 

him toappoint such ... Persons as he shall think fit to be ... 

his Deputies ... for whose performing and discharging their 

Trusts he is to be answerable”, specifying that “the whole 

Sum to be received ... be paid into the Receipt of His 

Majesty’s Exchequer”, signed also ‘M Paget’ and ‘C 

Grantjean’, 1 side 13¾”x 15½”, Treasury Chambers, 

Whitehall, 30th June 1815, a few light marks of 

discoloration [SD14626]£95 

Sir Nicholas had an amazing head for financial measures, which 

he carried through Parliament whether they were fully understood 

or not, and obtaining support from his opponents to do so. The 

titles of the Acts, seven in all, follow the history of the war with 

France, repealing old duties and substituting new ones, Lord Hood 

being empowered to collect arrears under old duties that are 

replaced. That of 43 Geo. III is “An Act for granting to His 

Majesty until the sixth day of May next after the ratification of a 

definitive Treaty of Peace, a contribution on the profits, arising 

from Property, Professions Trades and Offices”, passed following 

the resumption of war with France in 1803. 

172. [BIRKBECK (Dr. George, 1776-1841, originator of 

Mechanics’ Institutes)] 

Receipt by the Norwich Union Insurance Society for £15 

2s. annual premium, for insuring his life for £499, signed by 

directors F. Noverre and Thos. Day, and Wm. Hacket for 

agent Chas. A. Hacket, elegant printed form 5½” x 8”, 

company’s woodblock device, anti-forgery border in left 

margin complete, 26 Cornhill, London, 4th January 1838 

[SD16741]£55 

In 1799 at Anderson’s College, Glasgow, where he was Professor 

of Natural Philosophy, Birkbeck gave his first free lectures to 

working men. He took a leading part in founding the London 

Mechanics’ Institute, 1824, now Birkbeck College of the 

University of London.


173. BISHOP (Isabella Lucy, née Bird, 1831-1904, 

Traveller & Authoress) 

Autograph Postcard signed toMr.Woolmer,whoisstaying 

at Salen on Mull, saying “As Ito, my Japanese servant truly 

observed, ‘Nothing is worth anything that is not true’”, and 

hastening “to correct my statement concerning Anio boats 

... I find they are practically ‘dug-outs’ but made in two 

halves ... laced together by strong bark fibre twine a high 

‘gunwale’ being laced on finally”, and hoping that he and 

Mr Ross “will find your way over here again”, 1 side 

postcard with printed stamp, The Cottage, Tobermory, 

Mull, 22nd August 1888, faint trace of gum in right margin 

of verso [SD26492]£475 

Isabella suffered from poor health throughout her life, particularly 

from back problems. She found that travel to distant parts 

alleviated her symptoms which is quite extraordinary considering 

the discomfort of nineteenth century travel, but may suggest that 

some of her ailments were psychological. By 1878 she had 

already visited America, Australia, New Zealand and the 

Sandwich Islands and then she spent seven months in Japan. Her 

book of this journey ‘Unbeaten Tracks in Japan’ was published in 

1880 and was remarkable for her descriptions of the Ainu people 

of Hokkaido. She married Dr Bishop in 1881 but started 

travelling again in 1886 after his death. She studied medicine & 

went on to found hospitals in Kashmir, the Punjab and elsewhere 

in memory of her husband and her sister. In 1892 she was elected 

the first lady F.R.G.S. 

Isabella Bird was one of the most liberated and strong minded 

women of the mid nineteenth century and her books remain 

popular. She also published ‘The Englishwoman in America’, 

1856, ‘The Hawaiian Archipelago’, 1875, ‘A Lady’s Life in the 

RockyMountains’, 1879 

174. BLACKIE (Prof. John Stuart, 1809-1895, Scottish 

manofletters) 

ALS asking his publisher to send “a copy of my Selfculture 

to the enclosed address and affix the papers to the 

fly-leaf”, 2 sides 8vo., London (with in pencil ‘22 Arle St. 

Edin.’), 28th January n.y., c. 1875, light traces of old tabs 

on verso [SD16789]£25 

Blackie was professor of Greek at Edinburgh, 1852-1882, and 

founded a Celtic chair there on his retirement. 

175. BOEHM (Sir J. Edgar, R.A., 1834-1890, 1st Bart., 

Austrian-born Sculptor) 

ALS to‘Dear Glaseby’, asking him to send “the Bronze 

group ofthe Arab horse with Selim the negro ... to Mrs 

Hammond ... Have it a little brushed before leaving”, 1 side 

8vo., Highcliff, Christchurch, Hampshire, n.d., c. 1880, 

faint traces of laying down on conjugate blank 

[SD24359]£35 

Boehm exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1862 and soon had 

an extensive portrait practice. He was sculptor in ordinary to 

Queen Victoria and designed her portrait for the silver coinage of 

1887. 

176. BOUGHTON (George Henry, 1833-1905, Painter & 

Illustrator) 

ALS to Frederick HOLLYER (1837-1933, 

Photographer), asking him to “let me have the Burne 

Jones’ photos - with the numbers and list ...”, 1 side 8vo., 

West House, Campden Hill headed paper, 26th March 1886 

[SD5190]£60 

177. BONAMICI (Antonio, Student at the Seminary at 

Frascati) 

Printed Heads of his Disputation ‘On the Mystery of the 

Trinity’, in Latin, to be argued on 3rd September before 

Giovanni Battista Arinio, on the title is the dedication to 

Henry, Cardinal York, (1725-1809, the last Stuart 

pretender), “Bishop of Frascati, most ample patron”, with a 

fine woodblock of the Stuart Arms of Great Britain, 

differenced with a crescent, the Cardinal’s hat above, 

stitched, 8 sides 8vo., Frascati (ancient Tusculum), at the 

Seminary’s Printing Press, 1787, crisp copy, with a little 

very light foxing [SD50195]£125 

Henry was Bishop of Frascati for over forty years, 1761-1803. 

178. BOOSEY (Thomas, c.1795-1871, Music Publisher) 

ALS to the music publisher S. Cocks, 6 New Burlington 

Street, saying he shall be happy “to give Mr Bentley any 

information ... relating to the present position of my two 

Actions on the Sonnambula Copyright ,or... I have no 

doubt my Solicitor Mr Comyn ... who ... has the pleasure of 

knowing Mr Bentley will be happy to satisfy him”, 2 sides 

8vo. and original autograph envelope, 28 Holles Street, 

24th May 1850, envelope neatly attached by flap to blank 

third side [SD16803]£40 

Thomas Boosey began as a foreign book seller in Holles Street, 

Oxford Street. He published the Italian operas of Bellini, 

Donizetti & Verdi down to 1854, when a decision of the House of 

Lords deprived him of all his copyrights. 

179. BOULANGER (Georges, 1837-1891, French 

General and Minister of War) 

ALS to an unnamed correspondent, in French with 

translation, saying he will “put things right for the young 

man from the Conservatoire”, and will recommend “the 

young man who has been a volunteer for a year, and who 

passed his exam on Monday ... you will always find me at 

home between 10 and 11”, 1 side 8vo., Grand Hôtel Du 

Louvre, Paris, ‘Saturday’ n.d., c. 1886 [SD24363]£45 

Boulanger rose on a wave of populism, based on his reforms in 

the army for officers and men alike, and on his policy of revenge 

for the war of 1870. Taken up by the radicals, he was Minister of 

War from January 1886 to May 1887. However, a new 

government found him inconveniently prominent, and was glad 

when he resigned. The Paris mob clamoured for their “brav’ 

général”, who became a familiar figure on his black horse. During 

1888 his personality dominated French politics, and the royalists 

saw in him a chance to defeat the parliamentary Republic. In 

April 1889 he fled Paris, for which he had been elected to the 

Assembly, faced with a warrant for his arrest for treason. In 1891 

he shot himself in Brussels by his mistress’ grave. 

180. BOWLES (Revd. William Lisle, 1762-1850, Divine, 

Poet and Antiquary) 

ALS to‘Dear Merewether’, asking him to “come and dine 

here to day at five o’clock to meet Duncan”, 1 side small 

8vo., n.p., ‘Friday Morn.’, n.d., c. 1820, faint traces of 

laying down at corners of blank verso [SD16811]£45 

A forerunner of the Romantic movement, Bowles’ ‘Fourteen 

Sonnets, written chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey’, 

1789, had Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey among its 

enthusiastic admirers. His edition of Pope, 1806, led to a long 

controversy, 1809-1825, in which Campbell and Byron were his 

chief antagonists.


181. BRAIN (Ernest, Times Correspondent in Holland and 

Berlin) 

ALS to Dr Ferdinand L. Leipnik, 1869-c.1924, the 

Hungarian Journalist andConnoisseur, who acted as an 

intermediary between the Austrian and German 

governments with Great Britain during WWI, saying 

“tomorrow ... morning ... would be the best time for a chat”, 

as in the afternoon, “for the first time ... the National 

Assembly meets in the Reichstag building”, 1 side 4to., The 

Times, In Den Zelten 20, Berlin, N.W.40., 29th September 

1919 [SD19045]£35 

In February 1917 Wickham Steed wrote to Leipnik, then in 

neutral Holland, introducing “our Amsterdam correspondent ... 

remember that he is your and my senior; that he embodies all the 

most sacred and dignified traditions of The Times; and that, under 

asomewhat reserved exterior, he is one of the best fellows on 

earth”. 

182. BROUNCKER (William, 1620-1684, 2nd Viscount), 

Sir Thomas ALLIN ,(1612-1685, Admiral), Sir Richard 

HADDOCK , (1629-1715, Admiral), and Thomas 

HAYTER 

DS as members of the Navy Board “to the Clerke of the 

Checque of his Mats. yard at Woolwich”, following the 

King’s warrant of 1st March appointing John Greene as 

“Boatsn. of his shipp the Windsor Castle”, with the usual 

“allowance of Wages & Victuals for himself and servant”, 

Greene having received “a Coppy of the Instructions ... 

attested by the Clerk of the Acts of his Mats. Navy”, they 

now direct the Clerk of the Cheque “to enter him ... 

Boatswn. of the sd ship”, 1 side folio, Navy Office, 17th 

March 1678 old style, new style 1679, retains neat portion 

of conjugate leaf bearing title [SD50122]£225 

Below is a note of receipt dated 19th March for the present 

document, adding “Tho: Peede is his servants name. The 

Boatswn. hath a Coppy of this”. 

Brouncker, the well-known mathematician and first President of 

the Royal Society, signs as Controller of Treasurer’s Accounts; 

Allin Controller of the Navy Board; Haddock an Extra 

Commissioner, and Hayter Clerk of the Acts. 

183. BROVAL (M. de, Secretary to the Duke of Orléans, 

later Louis Philippe I)) 

ALS to J. Foster, in English, enclosing the answer [not 

present] of “Madame la Comtesse de Genlis ... Mr Foster 

will see ... that she will receive most willingly Miss Croker 

and [Mr Croker] any day, Sundays excepted, from 8 to 9 

o’clock in the evening”, adding that it appears “Mr. Horace 

Vernet ... is not in Paris at present”, 1 side 4to., Palais 

Royal, 19th October n.y. but 1819 [SD50196]£75 

The writer Madame de Genlis (1746-1830) had been governess 

to members of the Orléans family, including Louis Philippe, who 

declared late in life that she had been “the only woman he had 

truly loved”. 

John Wilson Croker , (1780-1857, Secretary to the Admiralty), 

and historian of the French Revolution, wrote on 6th November 

1819 that he was “once more in England, after an absence of 20 

days, 14 of which in Paris. I passed my time between book shops 

and the play-houses” (Croker Papers, 1884, vol. 1 p. 150). Only 

twice in20years did he take so much as three weeks’ leave from 

the Admiralty - the other was in July 1815 to see Paris and 

Waterloo. 

Horace Vernet painted historical scenes, costumes and uniforms, 

and illustrated a Life of Napoleon. 

184. BRUNEL (Sir Marc Isambard, 1769-1849, Engineer, 

Builder of the Thames Tunnel) 

ALS to Mr Miller of the Greenwich Railway, giving a 

reference for “The Bearer Thomas Houlian ... employed at 

the Thame’s [sic] Tunnel work from their commencement 

in 1825 to very lately when a reduction took place ... The 

Bearer is a very industrious orderly and sober man who can 

be depended upon ...”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., 22nd June 1841, 

trimmed on top edge without loss of text [SD26493]£325 

Brunel, a Frenchman, escaped from Paris to the States in 1793 and 

worked as Chief Engineer to New York City. He settled in 

England in 1799 and was knighted in 1841. 

THE BUCCLEUCH ESTATES 

185. BUCCLEUCH (Charles William Henry Montagu 

Scott, 1772-1819, from 1812 4th Duke) 

Document Signed on each page, appointing James Elliot as 

Overseer of Works on his estates in Selkirk, Peebles and 

Roxburgh Shires, to report on their management “to me or 

my Chamberlain” using “Sketches taken from the Surveys 

and plans already made”, he may be asked to collect “small 

rents” (up to £4 p.a.), can prosecute for taking wood 

without written permission, represent the Duke at Heritors’ 

meetings, and is to prepare the twice yearly estate accounts, 

for £150 p.a. to include expenses when in his area, plus the 

House of Goldielands near Hawick and 22 acres “lately 

occupied by Miss Scott and Captain Walter Scott”, 3 sides 

folio, Langholm Lodge, Dumfriesshire, 16th March 1812 

[SD50240]£125 

The Duke wasthefriend of Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated to 

him ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’. 

RAISING VOLUNTEERS, 1803 

186. BULKELEY (Thomas James Warren, 1752-1822, 

General, from 1781 Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire, 7th 

and 1st Baron) 

ALS ‘Warren-Bulkeley’ to Capt. William Coxe, (A.Q.M.G. 

in Liverpool for the North West District), explaining that 

“none of The Corps of Volunteers which I have accepted 

have got into anything like military form or order but the 

Carnarvon”, whose adjutant “assured me he had sent the 

returns ... very regularly since the 27th of Augt. when I 

accepted them”, the writer “shall trouble you to acquaint 

His R. Hss. Prince William”, 1776-1834, from 1805 2nd 

Duke of Gloucester, “that Government have allotted a 1000 

Volunteers” for his county, he is distributing arms “as fast 

as I can” but regrets that the Lleyn “the most exposed part 

... is in a very ill protected & defenceless state, as Mr 

Wardle’s offer was refused by London, and Lord 

Newboroughs is all I have to look for in that quarter”, with 

on side 3 the writer’s list of the numbers for Carnarvon 

(300 in 5 companies), Bangor, Snowdon, Merionydd (80 

each) and Conway (150 in 3 companies), with the numbers 

of officers in each, ending “Loyal Newborough 300 not 

quite settled as yet”, 3 sides 8vo., Baronhill, Anglesey, 21st 

September 1803 [SD20049]£95 

Lord Newborough (1736-1807) raised a corps of Volunteers of 

militia no less than four times, most recently 6 companies, the 

‘Loyal Newboroughs’, in 1799.


187. BRYAN (John, pen-name of Josephine Delves- 

Broughton, b. 1916, Novelist) 

Long TLS toEileen Cond, saying “I am so glad your father 

enjoys The Man Who Came Back ... Julian Symons wrote 

me acharming personal letter”, she is unfortunately “too 

tired and interrupted to do all the research for a historical 

novel. An invalid is like a small child ... (and I am the last 

person to care for the sick) ... Then my ward and her friends 

are down so many weekends ... though it’s fun to have 

anything young and bright ... The Difference To Me had the 

TV rights sold to a small film company ... but my publishers 

seem quite unable to collect the money - due last June! If 

one sued, this wretched little company would probably go 

bankrupt ... I had hoped the money would enable me to put 

my mother in a nursing home”, she longs to get away and 

start “the serious novel forecast a year ago. I’m the wrong 

sex for a writer! Men authors like my cousin Compton 

Mackenzie and H.V. Morton (a dear friend) have adoring 

wives and/or secretaries to cosset them and shelter them 

from daily tiresomeness ... If I were free, I should settle in 

Italy”, 2 sides 8vo., Apple Tree Cottage, Rowledge, 

Farnham, Surrey, 11th November 1958 [SD16832]£30 

Among her other novels are ‘Crown Imperial’, 1949, about 

Elizabeth I. 

188. BURGER (Ludwig, 1825-1884, German War Artist) 

ALS ‘Ludwig Burger, Artist’ in German (with translation) 

to his publishers, saying he would “be happy to undertake 

the 4 - 5 illustrations and the ... cover design ... but must ask 

you to choose the themes for the drawings in good time” 

and to send “precise information as to how the drawings are 

to be delivered”, asking them to make sure they have 

available “engravers who are skilled at doing the shading”, 

1side8vo. with conjugate blank, 15 Trebbiner Str., Berlin, 

29th June 1871 [SD9439]£85 

Burger was a deservedly popular and, as this letter shows, a 

fastidious illustrator. He collaborated with the writer and drama 

critic Theodor Fontane ,(1819-1898), on lavishly illustrated 

histories of the Prussian wars against Denmark of 1864 and 

against Austria and her German allies of 1866, published by R. 

von Decker, to whom Burger was well known. The present letter 

is therefore likely to be to a different publisher. In a note at the 

end ofFontane on the war of 1866, Vol. I, Burger takes great 

pride in the excellence of the Berlin woodcut artists and points out 

that none of the work had been contracted to foreign firms. 

Burger worked in many fields, including stained glass for Cologne 

Cathedral and interior decorations for Bismarck’s and other 

mansions in Berlin. 

189. BURGH OF SELKIRK 

‘Burgess Ticket’ for Augusta Anne, 1748 or 1749-1837, 

née Ayscough, wife of Sir James Cockburn, 1729-1804, 

from 1745 8th Bt. of Langton, “the worthy representative 

for this Burgh in Parliament”, naming the chief officers of 

the Burgh, and admitting her “Burgess Freewoman and 

Guild Sister”, signed by Andrew Henderson, Town Clerk, 

vellum, papered seal on tab, 1 side 8” x 10”, title on verso, 

Selkirk, 4th August 1782, a little browned, oblong piece 

cut from below signature, seal faint [SD20132]£175 

190. BUSTINI (Alessandro, 1876-1970, Italian Pianist 

and Composer) 

Typed letter in Italian with translation, signed to Nathan 

MILSTEIN ,(1904-1992, violinist) saying that “Following 

your election as Honorary Academician of St. Cecilia, at the 

Assembly of 3rd February this year, I am pleased to send 

you -under separate cover - the corresponding diploma and 

badge ofFellow of our Institute” and expressing again “my 

warmest personal pleasure, and that of the whole Academy, 

at your nomination”, 1 side folio, National Academy of St. 

Cecilia, Rome, 6th November 1963, right margin trimmed 

just touching last letter of signature [SD15222]£75 

The St. Cecilia Society, founded by Palestrina in the 16th century, 

became an Academy for promoting Church Music under Pius IX 

in 1847. Bustini studied and spent most of his working life there, 

and continued to teach after his time as president. 

191. BUTE (John, 1744-1814, from 1792 4th Earl, from 

1796 1st Marquess) 

ALS toSir Isaac Heard (1730-1822, from 1784 Garter King 

of Arms), suggesting that “If my Brother General Stuart”, 

(Sir Charles, 1753-1801, M.P., who captured Minorca from 

the Spaniards in 1798), “is to bear Supporters to his arms ... 

you had better write to consult his wishes”, but that “It 

seems natural ... that he should bear exactly the same as I 

do”, 1 side 4to., Hill Street, Mayfair, 3rd March 1799 

[SD14772]£30 

192. BUTE (John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 1847-1900, 3rd 

Marquis, Restorer of Buildings, Linguist & Traveller) 

ALS toJohn Villiers Stuart Townshend (1831-1899, from 

1863 5th Marquis Townshend), asking him if he is 

“inclined to venture sofarNorthasthisinmid-winter? 

Your uncle and my cousin, Mr. Stuart”, (Henry Stuart of 

Montford, Bute, 1808-1880, brother to Townshend’s 

mother), “tells me you are passing the present time at 

Raynham”, the Townshends’ seat in Norfolk, “perhaps it 

would interest you to visit a place where I think you have 

not been before. There is no one here but my wife, & Mr. 

Sneyd, (who writes most of my letters), and ... perhaps two 

excellent clergymen”, including “my old Tutor at Harrow ... 

and a Balliol man, Mr. Tyke, who is more nearly our 

contemporary ... I should be unaffectedly glad if you would 

come” as would “Mr. Stuart (who is a most excellent 

gentleman)”, 4 sides 8vo., Mount Stuart, Rothesay, Isle of 

Bute, 21st December 1872 [SD14782]£30 

Lord Bute rebuilt the wonderful Mount Stuart, with materials and 

craftsmen from South Wales, where he had large estates and was 

Mayor of Cardiff, 1890. He was a munificent benefactor of St. 

Andrews and Glasgow Universities. 

193. BUTLER (Sir William Francis, 1838-1910, British 

general and author) 

ALS toLord Mayor and Lady Treloar, regretting he cannot 

attend “the Conversazione on Thursday June 13th at the 

Mansion House”, 1 side 8vo., Junior United Service Club, 

S.W., 6th June 1907, light traces of laying down on blank 

fourth side [SD16847]£40 

Sir William wrote on his service in the Red River, Ashanti, the 

Sudan and South Africa. His wife Elizabeth, née Thompson 

(1850-1933), was the well-known battle painter.


194. BUXTON (Sir Thomas Fowell, 1786-1845, M.P., 

Reformer, Abolitionist) 

Draft ALS to the Duke of Wellington, with considerable 

original alterations in pencil ,saying that he “received last 

night a letter ... stating that your Grace & Mr Craven” 

desire “to see me upon ... my motion on Slavery”, asking 

for “your Grace’s commands as to the time ... I should be 

much releived if I should be permitted to bring Mr 

Wilberforce with me”, the last part, lightly crossed through, 

asks whether “we shall meet you and Mr Canning together” 

or Mr Canning afterwards, 2 sides 4to., 32 St. James’s 

Place, “Mr Wilberforce’s”, 11th May 1823, scant trace of 

mounting on fourth side [SD19588]£95 

ARLISLE (George William Frederick Howard, 

1802-1864, from 1825 Lord Morpeth, from 1848 

7th Earl) 

ALS to ‘My dear Philipps’, saying that “This I think must 

be about a letter which I sent to you enquiring about our 

disposition to sell our interest in the Chapel”, n.p., 16th 

April 1849 [SD14795]£25 

196. CARVER (Lord Michael, 1915-2001, MC, Chief of 

the General Staff, Field-Marshal) 

ALS to Mr Evans saying that he doesn’t “remember much 

about D-Day itself” as he was sailing from Felixstowe to 

Normandy, but on “D + 1 ... when we came to drive ... onto 

the beach, there was a huge crater immediately in front of 

the bows of the ship”, 1 side 8vo., House of Lords, 13th 

November 1985, together with a photo signed showing 

himhead and shoulders in uniform, taken in 1970 

[SD50033]£75 

Lord Carver commanded an Armoured Brigade at 29. 

197. CATHARINE OF BRAGANZA (1638-1705, 

Queen of Charles II and Regent of Portugal) 

Charter, in Portuguese with transcription and translation, 

signed with her stamp “Rainha” as “Queen of Great Britain 

... Regent of these Kingdoms from the incapacity of the 

King Dom Pedro my brother and as Governor ... of the 

Military Order of Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ”, 

authorizing any professed knight of the Order to arm “Tomé 

de Sousa Coutinho as knight” and to invest him with the 

habit, in either of two named churches in Lisbon, having 

secured two others to assist as sponsors, the Charter to be 

completed by a declaration that the ceremony has been 

performed “in accordance with the constitutions of the 

Order” written on the same document, complete with the 

declaration, and notes of the original request from the 

Queen’s secretary of 7th February 1705, and of its 

registration, 2 sides folio and conjugate blank, Lisbon, 15th 

May 1705 [SD50219]£750 

On side 2 there is the autograph declaration, signed, of 

“Brother Dom Marcos de Noronha e Brito, Count dos Arcos”, that 

he has armed de Sousa as a knight “in this Church of the 

Conception, assisted by the Count of Tarouca and Fernando de 

Sousa Coutinho ... according to the constitutions of the Order of 

Christ of which I am a professed member. Lisbon 24th January 

1706”. The writer, the 4th Conde dos Arcos de Val de Vez (1650- 

1718), was a Councillor of State to João V. 

198. CAROL I (1839-1914, King of Roumania) and his 

wife ELISABETH (1843-1916, Distinguished writer 

under the pseudonym of ‘Carmen Sylva’) 

Unusual pair of cabinet photographs signed, mounted 

together in a red morocco presentation frame ,thelarger 

one shows the Queen three quarters length in profile, 

wearing a heavy velvet dress with a long veil down her 

back, the Kings photo shows him half length wearing 

uniform with many decorations, 8” x 5” and 5½” x 4”, place 

written on the Queen’s photo by illegible, 1885, although 

both signatures are bold the Queen’s writing of the place 

and date are faded [SD20455]£750 

199. CAVENDISH (Lord George Henry, 1810-1880, 

M.P. for Derbyshire, brother of 7th Duke of Devonshire) 

AL in the third person to Dr George Phillips, 1804-1892, 

President of Queens’, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor, 

accepting “his very kind invitation” (for dinner on Monday 

9th June 1862, following the conferring of honorary 

degrees), 1 side 8vo., Devonshire House, n.d. but c. 5th 

June 1862 [SD19241]£25 

The 7th Duke was installed on the 10th June as Chancellor in 

succession to the late Prince Consort. 

200. CHAPLIN (Charles, 1889-1977, Comedian) 

Collection of photos including one signed “Charlie” 

showing him with another man who has inscribed his side 

of the image “To Billie from Alf and”, 6” x 4”, n.p., n.d., 

together with two fine original still pictures from 

Keystone Cops films, 8” x 6” and a superb image of 

Chaplin in costume as the little tramp, 9” x 7½” 1957 the 

signed photo has been torn and repaired, but with some 

damage to the signature [SD26602]£850 

201. CHILDERS (Hugh Culling Eardley, 1827-1896, 

Cabinet Minister) 

ALS toSir George Otto Trevelyan, 1838-1929, O.M., then 

Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, asking for 

information “for use in moving the Army Estimates ... 

When we improved the Naval Retirement in 1870 it was 

said that the increase of charge would continue, in spite of 

the reduction of numbers. I estimated a large decrease in 

25 years time & some in 10 years”, so if Childers can have 

abreakdown for 1869 or 1870 and compare it with 1881 or 

1882, “it will be of great use shewing the probable effect of 

the similar changes in the Army, though our reduction in 

numbers is not so great”, War Office, 4 sides 8vo., 9th 

March 1882 original pencil markings by Trevelyan, pin 

holes in blank margins [SD19606]£30 

202. CHRISTIAN (Prince of Hanover, b. 1919) 

ALS toDomini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), in 

English, signed “Christian Prinz v. Hannover”, warmly 

thanking her for “the tickets for that ... thrilling concert. 

Toscanini’s direction was superb”, 2 sides 8vo., n.p., 27th 

January 1954 [SD19485]£75 

Prince Christian’s parents were Ernst August III and Viktoria, 

only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Their wedding in 1913 was 

the last great gathering of European Royalty before WWI. Ernst 

August received back the title of Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 

(though not of King of Hanover, annexed by Prussia in 1866). In 

1946 Prince Christian’s brother George married Sophia, sister of 

Prince Philip.


203. CHRISTIE (Gabriel, 1722-1799, General and C-in-C 

Canada from 1798) 

Receipt Signed by him and by Lieutenant Richard Flucker, 

of the 2nd Battalion 60th Regiment, for £15 9s Antigua 

currency from Capt. William Gomm, ADQM, for postage 

and stationery from August to Christmas “for his Majesty’s 

Service”, made out in Flucker’s hand, 1 side 8vo., summary 

on verso, Antigua, 23rd December 1780 [SD20055]£45 

204. CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, 

Prime Minister) 

Fine large photo signed, showing him as an old man, 

smoking his trademark cigar, standing with Clementine 

speaking to an elderly gentleman, the signature is on her 

white gloves, 9½” x 7½” in mount 15” x 14”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1960, almost unnoticeable crease across the centre, framed 

and glazed [SD23248]£2,500 

205. CLODD (Edward, 1840-1930, Anthropologist and 

Rationalist) 

ALS to‘Dear Larner’ saying “I have little to spare for any 

Extras, so you might like the within 10/- as a sort of 

widow’s mite, to which Ernest adds 2/6”, 1 side 8vo., 5 

Princes Street, E.C., 6th April 1891 [SD19611]£45 

Among his books are ‘Childhood of the World’ (1873), ‘Myths 

and Dreams’ (1885), and ‘The Story of Creation’ (1888). 

206. CLOSE (Francis, 1797-1882, Dean of Carlisle and 

Writer) 

ALS to J. Robley, saying “You will support a most 

excellent man, if you will kindly fill up this paper in favor 

of Mr. Herbert Page”, 1 side 8vo, Grange over Sands, 

Carnforth, Lancaster, 25th June 1873 [SD16915]£35 

The writer was Rector of Cheltenham, 1826, where he founded 

Dean Close’s School, and Dean of Carlisle 1856-1881. He was a 

most popular evangelical preacher, and wrote over 70 books. 

Herbert William Page, 1845-1926, was an Assistant Surgeon in 

the German Army, 1870-1871, and later a consultant at St. 

Mary’s, Paddington. 

‘PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE’ 

207. COCKS (Frederick Seymour, 1882-1953, Labour 

M.P.) 

ALS toDr. Maurice Ernest (formerly Ernst, 1872-1955), 

saying “My letter in the Times [of 11th May 1948] 

expressed briefly something I have said at greater length in 

two letters in the Manchester Guardian and I notice that the 

Foreign Secretary”, Ernest Bevin, “mentioned my letter 

with approval in his speech at Scarborough”, Cocks is not 

convinced that his suggestions “will fall on deaf ears and 

Stalin has not shown himself adverse to discussing 

differences”, his plan “is an agreement to live and let live ... 

to draw a line between the Western and Eastern spheres of 

influence ... This would ... ease the present tension which 

may otherwise become unbearable”, with a later cutting 

where he argues that “If the Soviet Government can be 

made to realise that the Western World is too strong to be 

attacked then actual aggression may be averted”, the letter 2 

sides 8vo, House of Commons, 21st May 1948 

[SD16923]£55 

208. COLLINS (W. Wilkie, 1824-1889, Novelist, Author 

of ‘the Moonstone’) 

Fine ALS to Benjamin WEBSTER (1797-1882, Actor 

and Dramatist), apologising for missing his call as he had 

“gone to my lawyer with your ... draft of the agreement. It 

requires some alterations in form - which will be 

immediately prepared to suit you. In the meantime, let us 

consider the substance as agreed... let me hear what I can do 

towards helping the piece forward ... I expect to see 

Fechter, here ... and if you have any letter or message for 

him, Iwill take care that he has it ...” with a postscript 

giving his proposed advert “In Preparation, a Drama in 

three Acts, by Wilkie Collins and Charles Fechter ...” 

ending with a note that Webster can put in any details about 

FECHTER (Charles Albert , 1824-1879, Actor and 

Dramatist), 3 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 

90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 3rd March 1869 

conjugate blank removed [SD26110]£675 

Benjamin Webster managed the new Adelphi Theatre, erected on 

the site of the old, from 1853. 

In November 1867 Fechter left the management of the Lyceum, 

and appeared on 26th December at the Adelphi as Obenreizer in 

‘No Thoroughfare,’ by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and he 

continued to act at the Adelphi after that and collaborate with 

Wilkie Collins. until he left England for America. 

209. COLVIN (John Russell, 1807-1857, Lieutenant- 

Governor of the North-West Provinces, Bengal Presidency) 

File Copy of his letter to Captain John Pigott Nixon at 

Bhurtpoor, (Assistant Agent in Rajputana, later Major- 

General), followed by Nixon’s answer, certified by Nixon, 

Colvin is glad to hear he and Captain Munbee are safe, but 

is still “in anxiety about my son and Harvey with his party”, 

hearing of “the defection of the Bhurtpoor sirdars” and not 

knowing what had become of Nixon, he asked Major 

Morrieson to take over as Political Agent, he would like 

Nixon to rejoin him as A.D.C., “I fear there has been a 

rising of some Regiments Eastward ... I hope for rattling 

news about the 10th or 11th ... The scoundrels twice 

attacked Brigadier Wilson’s small advanced posts at 

Ghazeeoodeen Nuggur ... and were well licked”, in answer 

Nixon begs a few days before accepting, to see “if things 

quiet down”, he is distressed that Harvey’s party of 33 is 

missing, “but they looked on my party of Sowars [native 

cavalrymen who provided their own horses] with 

suspicion”, his only fear is that they will “repose confidence 

and lose their arms”, with a P.S. saying the Bhurtpoor 

sirdars are to “visit you and ask forgiveness ... I shall leave 

this with them”, 3 sides folio, Agra, 4th June “1¼ P.M.” 

and Bhurtpoor, 5th June 1857 [SD50006]£325 

Colvin, a career civilian, had till now been occupied with public 

works, education, and the law. He suddenly found himself in a 

perilous situation. On 1st June he disarmed the two native 

regiments at Agra. He organized a corps of volunteer horse to 

protect the neighbourhood, and a foot militia to protect the city. 

He strengthened the fort and arranged for it to receive the entire 

Christian population of the cantonment and the city, before he 

became ill and died on 9th September. 

Bhurtpoor (Bharatpore), 35 miles west of Agra, was the capital of 

aprotected state, on the far side of the Jumna.


210. COMBERMERE (Sir Stapleton Cotton, 6th Bart., 

M.P., 1773-1865, Field Marshal, from 1814 1st Baron, 

from 1827 1st Viscount) 

Signature on piece from the end of a letter, together with 

his portrait and facsimile signature engraved for the 

London Printing and Publishing Company (c. 1830), 8¾” x 

5¾” inmargins 10½” x 7½”, the signature Calcutta, 10th 

September 1827 [SD50136]£95 

Lord Combermere was 2nd in command at Salamanca, leading the 

famous charge of Le Marchant’s and Anson’s Heavy Brigades, but 

was wounded and sent home. His return passage took 28 days 

and so he was 3 days late for the battle of Vitoria. In 1815 

Wellington was annoyed that command of the Cavalry in Belgium 

was given to Lord Uxbridge by the Prince Regent, who thought 

that Combermere had gossiped years before at Brighton about 

Mrs. Fitzherbert. Thus Combermere missed Waterloo, but he 

commanded the whole Allied Cavalry in France 1815-1816 and 

was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland and in India 

211. COTTON (Sir Arthur Thomas, 1803-1899, K.C.S.I., 

Army and River Engineer in India, General) 

ALS to the General Post Office, asking that letters to him at 

11 Wimpole Street be sent to Nailsworth instead of Penge, 

“I conclude this redirection takes place at the General Post 

Office, as ... it is not done at that near Wimpole Street”, 1 

side 8vo., two signed notes on conjugate leaf of attention by 

“the General Post” and “London District Post”, Nailsworth, 

Gloucestershire, 21st September 1855 [SD20062]£45 

Sir developed the water supplies for growing cotton in India. 

212. CRITCHETT (Sir George Anderson, d. 1925, 1st 

Bart., Surgeon Oculist to King Edward VII) 

ALS to Dr. Haig-Brown, saying “Young Mr. Gray has 

evidently caught cold and reproduced his old conjunctivitis. 

Ithink he should use Galt acquatic nitrates ... night and 

morning & bathe the eyes 3 or 4 times daily with a lotion of 

Lapis Divinus ... I have touched the edges of the lids lightly 

with solid stick of nitrate of silver ... and should the mucous 

discharge continue”, he recommends painting the inner 

upper lids with “cocaine and then with a solution of nitrate 

of silver”, giving the quantities in each case, 4 sides 8vo, 21 

Harley Street, Cavendish Square, W., 21st October 1897, 

traces of guard on part of black edging on first side without 

loss [SD16963]£25 

Sir George was consultant eye surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital, 

London. 

THE FERGUSON BEQUEST 

213. CUNNINGHAM (Thomas, of Edinburgh) 

ALS to the Revd. William Cousin, (1812-1883), Free 

Church minister of Irvine, (1850-1859), saying that 

“Though highly approving of this Educational movement, 

so far as it goes ... I have declined to attend the meetings 

both here and at Glasgow upon general grounds ... I am 

very glad you liked the address”, 1 side 8vo., 25th April 

1856 [SD19636]£35 

James Ferguson (1787-1856), of Irvine, left £400,000 for religious 

education in the South of Scotland, and six university 

scholarships. 

214. CURZON (George, Marquis, 1859-1925, Viceroy of 

India &Foreign Minister) 

AN in the third person, saying he regrets “that he cannot 

send alady’s ticket too”, he has refused such for some of 

the Lincoln Archaeological Society “owing to the numbers 

... coming”, with the ticket for the opening of Tattershall 

Castle, Lincolnshire, signed by Curzon for S.A. Gimson 

(1860-1938, engineering manufacturer in Leicester and 

rationalist), the letter 2 sides 8vo., 1 Carlton House Terrace, 

3rd August 1914 [SD19637]£40 

AUDET (Alphonse, 1840-1897, French novelist 

and playwright) 

ALS, in French with translation, to ‘Mon cher 

Child’, saying he is sending “the 1st volume of my new 

publication. I would be most grateful if you could 

announce it in your journals”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., n.d., c. 1895 

[SD19713]£125 

THE MAISON DE FRANCE 

216. [D’ORLÉANS (Jean, 1874-1940, Duc de Guise, 

Pretender to the French Throne as Jean III) and his wife 

ISABELLE (1878-1961, his 1st cousin and daughter of 

Philippe VIII, Comte de Paris)] 

Contemporary Photograph by Alfred Ellis and Walery of 

the Menu for their Wedding Dinner, showing engraved 

Royal Arms and 13 courses ending “Wedding Cake” (this 

in English), opposite is the photograph of the verso with no 

less than 23 signatures of the House of Orléans and their 

near connections, including the bride and groom, their 

parents, the groom’s sister Marie Valdemar, and 

Valdemar’s own sister Queen Alexandra (then Princess 

of Wales), the oldest present is Clémentine, 1817-1907, 

daughter of Louis Philippe I, others include Jean’s brother 

Henri, 1867-1901, the explorer, Isabelle’s sister Hélène, 

Duchess of Aosta, and her grandmother Isabelle, (1843- 

1919, widow of the elder Comte de Paris, Philippe VII), 6” 

x 8” on original cardboard mount 10½” x 13½”, York 

House, Twickenham, 30th October 1899, afew tiny marks 

on the mount and two on the photo of the verso without loss 

to the signatures [SD50198]£125 

217. DALLAS (Isabella, née Gearns, 1823-1889, 

Shakespearean Actress and Reader Isabella Glyn) 

ALS ‘Isabella Dallas Glyn’ to ‘Sir’, asking if he can “spare 

me some dozen of your circulars issued about my 

Readings? And why did you not qote from The Times - 

Daily News -and daily Papers? Have you seen this week’s 

Punch? It is admirable for quoting! I cut it out for you”, 

and asking him to let her know “about Leamington”, 3 sides 

8vo, 6 Hanover Square, London, W., 20th December n.y., 

c. 1867, ten lines of old shorthand in pencil on blank fourth 

side, also faint trace there of laying down by one edge 

[SD17030]£35 

Isabella, who acted under her mother’s maiden name of Glyn, 

made her début at Manchester as ‘Constance’ in ‘King John’ in 

1847, and played ‘Cleopatra’ at the Princess’ Theatre, Oxford 

Street, in 1867. She was married to the journalist and author E.S. 

Dallas, 1828-1879, whom she divorced in 1874.


218. DAVIDSON (Randall Thomas, Baron, 1848-1930, 

Archbishop of Canterbury) 

ALS when Dean of Windsor to (later Canon) Samuel 

Bickersteth, (1857-1937) saying “I am rejoiced at your 

appointment to Belvedere”, between Woolwich and Erith, 

“a post of immense & growing importance”, he regrets he 

has not “a loophole of escape from close & absorbing work 

for months to come ... I should greatly like to see you at 

your post & to give you, if it may be, a helping hand some 

Sunday”, 3 sides 8vo., 44 Grosvenor Road, S.W., 2nd 

February 1887, small mark from clip [SD19645]£25 

219. DAVIES (John Evan Weston, the writer ‘Berkely 

Mather’) 

ALS ‘Jasper Davies (Berkely Mather)’ to Eileen Cond, 

telling her that “One of the pleasanter things about bringing 

out a book is the letter from you, which has now become an 

institution”, he has found hers waiting on “return from Italy 

... I’m off to Nigeria in the next few days to collect material 

for my next one - No mountains in it, I’m afraid”, 1 side 

4to, The Banks, Mountfield, near Robertsbridge, Sussex, 

2nd September 1970 [SD17036]£30 

‘Berkely Mather’ wrote the screen play for MGM’s ‘Genghis 

Khan’ (book form, 1965). Other books include ‘The Break in the 

Line’, 1970, ‘The Terminators’, 1971, and ‘The White Dacoit’. 

220. DE L’ISLE (William Philip Sidney, 1909-1991, 1st 

Viscount, VC (1944), KG, Governor General of Australia) 

TLS with autograph salutation and subscription to Peter 

Evans, saying that he believes “that observers are in a better 

position to comment than actual recipients of the Victoria 

Cross ... in my case there seemed no other course 

available”, 1 side 4to., Penshurst Place, Kent, 20th January 

1989, together with a photo signed on the verso 

showing him head and shoulders in civilian dress, 2¼” x 

2¼” 1989 [SD50039]£75 

221. DESBOROUGH (William Henry Grenfell, K.G., 

1855-1945, 1st and last Baron, Cross Channel Oarsman, 

Swimmer who swam Niagara Falls) 

ALS toRowland Thomas Baring, (1877-1953, from 1917 

2nd Earl of Cromer), saying “I had some correspondence 

with the President of Leander, and at the Committee 

Meeting ... on Friday Prince Henry” of Gloucester, 1900- 

1974, the present Queen’s uncle, “was elected, with 

acclamation as an Hon. Life Member ... or as an ordinary 

member if he preferred it”, and asking “what His Royal 

Highness would prefer ... and then a formal letter will be 

sent from the Club”, 2 sides 8vo, Carlton Club, Pall Mall 

crossed out, Taplow Court, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, 6th 

April 1919, fold rather worn and with ashorttear but 

without loss [SD17058]£35 

‘Willy’ Grenfell was the outstanding sportsman and athlete of his 

generation. He swam twice across Niagara, stroked an eight 

across the channel, and climbed the Matterhorn and neighbouring 

peaks in a record round trip. At one time he was serving on 115 

committees besides his main task as chairman of the Thames 

Conservancy Board, a post he held for 32 years. 

Lord Cromer was Assistant Private Secretary to George V, 1916- 

1920, and Lord Chamberlain 1922-1928. 

222. DEVONSHIRE (Lady Elizabeth Foster, née Hervey, 

1759 or 1760-1824, mistress and from 1809 wife of the 5th 

Duke) 

ALS toher banker, saying she gave Lady Bessborough, 

(Harriet, 1761-1821, sister of the Duke’s first Duchess 

Georgiana), “a draft on you for thirty five guineas”, leaving 

“a hundred & sixty three pounds of the Christmas quarter”, 

which she asks him to send “& an acknowledgement to 

sign”, with a P.S. “pray let it be sealed up, & forty of the 

sum beinten pound notes”, 1 side 8vo., note of receipt on 

conjugate leaf, Devonshire House, Piccadilly, 9th January 

1807, very light water stain in fold [SD20133]£225 

Lady Elizabeth, ‘Dearest Bess’, lived in an affectionate ménage à 

trois with the Duke and his famous Duchess Georgiana, 1757- 

1806. She may have been the mother of the 6th Duke. During her 

first widowhood she received an offer from Gibbon, who said of 

her, ‘If she chose to beckon the Lord Chancellor from his 

woolsack, he could not resist obedience’. 

THE HOME RULE DEBATE & 

COERCION 

223. DILKE (Sir Charles W., 1843-1911, Radical 

Politician) 

ALS to Henry W. Massingham, 1860-1924, the radical 

journalist, who wrote the ‘Parliamentary Letter’ in the Daily 

News, explaining why he is in “a little difficulty” about a 

letter Massingham has forwarded, “You may if you ... can 

trust your correspondent tell him that Randolph Churchill 

and I were at that time good friends with few political 

secrets”, (May 1885), the two had special leave to use the 

room of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Captain Gossett, “earlier 

than 5 p.m.”, for reading or to meet someone in 

confidence, in which case the other would withdraw, “at a 

dinner party ... Randolph Churchill told the Prince of Wales 

and me of the results of his interviews with Parnell on the 

one side [of the Irish question] and Lord Salisbury on the 

other. We neither of us believed what he said about Ld. 

Salisbury ... but ... you will remember that Ld. Salisbury 

afterwards named in a public speech the date at which he 

made up his mind that it was not necessary to have coercion 

... the point on which we were least credulous”, with the 

beginning of a P.S. about Lord Randolph’s unusual secrecy 

from Dilke on this matter, 4 sides 8vo., 76 Sloane Street, 

S.W., 6th December 1898 lacks continuation of P.S. after 

fourth side [SD50079]£125 

Dilke was in Gladstone’s Cabinet, and Lord Randolph leader of 

the progressive Tories, nicknamed ‘the Fourth Party’. The 

Government was defeated on July 8th, and Lord Salisbury’s 

administration inherited ‘The Irish question’. For this incident see 

Dilke’s fascinating biography by Stephen Gwynn and Gertrude 

Tuckwell. 

224. [DOYLE (Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, Novelist, 

Creator of ‘Sherlock Holmes’)] 

Secretarial ALS to ‘Dear Sir’, thanking him for his 

enclosure, “[‘If’ crossed out] When the time comes, I shall 

bear in mind your suggestion”, 1 side 8vo., Undershaw, 

Hindhead, Haslemere, 7th March 1903 [SD19885]£75


225. DULAC (Edmund, 1882-1953, Artist & Illustrator) 

ALS toanunnamed correspondent, probably a newspaper 

editor, sending him “a letter ... about the Children’s Art 

Exhibition in the hope it may help to awaken in the public 

the interest it deserves ...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., 117 

Ladbroke Road, 8th December 1920, traces of mounting on 

the verso [SD26587]£195 

226. DUNDONALD (Louisa Harriet, c.1820-1902, wife 

of Thomas Cochrane, 1814-1885, 11th Earl) 

AL in the third person to Mrs. Percy, saying that “she 

considers Edith Edginton a fair plain Cook general, clean & 

quiet, as far as Lady Dundonald knows - as to her being 

trustworthy, she cannot give a decided opinion, but thinks 

Mrs. Percy may engage her, with care and supervision ”, 

1side 8vo, LaBrea, Buxted, Sussex, 7th April 1900 

[SD17079]£35 

Lady Dundonald was the 2nd daughter of William Alexander 

Mackinnon of Mackinnon, 33rd Chief. 

DWARDES (George, 1852-1915, Originator of the 

‘Gaiety Girls’) 

TLS toLord Mayor Treloar, saying he will “be only 

too pleased to help you in any way that I possibly can”, 1 

side oblong 8vo, Daly’s Theatre Offices, 31 Lisle Street, 

London, W., 22nd January 1907, light traces of laying 

down on verso [SD17093]£35 

Treloar founded the well-known Hospital for Crippled Children at 

Alton. 

Edwardes’ printed heading includes the words “Business Letters 

should not be marked Private” -nodoubt he received numerous 

applications for work so marked. 

228. ELISABETH (Alexandra Louise Alice, 1864-1918, 

Grand Duchess of Russia, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand 

Duke of Hesse, wife of Sergei of Russia, became a nun and 

was murdered by the Bolsheviks) 

Exceptional large photo signed, inscribed, “Grand Duchess 

Serge de Russie, Moscow” and dated, showing her three 

quarters length in profile, wearing a marvellous bejewelled 

dress and veil, looking down at a fan in her hands, 9½” x 

6½”, in a superb presentation frame in the French style 

of the late 1880s, with a gilt mount and floral surround in a 

glassed box frame, Moscow, 1902, slightly damaged but 

beautifully restored [SD15591]£3,250 

The image show Elisabeth in her first year of marriage, wearing 

opulent court dress. This picture was taken in in 1884 and signed 

later. 

229. ELISABETH (1865-1924, née Princess of Saxe- 

Altenburg, wife of Grand Duke Constantine 

Constantinovich, 1858-1915, Russian General and grandson 

of Nicholas I) 

Fine photo by Jaeger of Stockholm, showing her seated 

with her children Princess Vera is on the arm of the chair, 

and Prince George (1903-1938) standing behind them, 

signed ‘Elizabeth 1918-1919’, 6” x 4¼” in margins 8¼” x 

6”, n.p., 1919, [SD26553]£375 

The Grand Duchess brought George and Vera (b. 1906) to 

England. 

With Prince George’s later visiting card, torn and mended, 

inscribed ‘Arbrook Orchard, Esher, Surrey’. 

230. [ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, 

Queen of George VI)] 

AL signed ‘Marion’ from her Lady-in-Waiting, Lady Hyde, 

1900-1970, to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 

1963), saying that the Queen fears “Princess Elizabeth and 

Princess Margaret’s time is so full up with lessons and 

classes that ... it will not be possible for them to come and 

watch the tennis this year”, and that but for “a trifling 

operation” Lady Hyde “would have loved to come”, Royal 

Arms, 2sides 8vo., Buckingham Palace, 28th April 1937, 

pin holes and light mark of clip in blank corner 

[SD19451]£45 

Lady Crosfield, wife of Sir Arthur Henry, 1st Bt., gave famous 

parties at Witanhurst in Highgate for the National Playing Fields 

Association, of which he was the first Chairman. 

231. ELIZAVETA MAVRIKIEVNA (1865-1924, née 

Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, wife of Grand Duke 

Constantine Constantinovich, 1858-1915, Russian General 

and grandson of Nicholas I) 

Long ALS in English to ‘Dearest Mr D!’, S. Denison at 85 

Onslow Gardens, London, saying his letter had touched her 

deeply, and asking about schools for her son Prince George 

(1903-1938), “Would our boy live in the school ?”, does 

one examine more “the boy (character) then his knowledge? 

Rather strange?”, she explains “It was very difficult for the 

boy to get up at seven & be at the parsonage ... at 8 for 

breakfast. He was so tired that he was obliged to ly down 

after lunch. Professor Harpinoky, the doctor for nerves, 

told me that those 2 shildren must sleep till 8, because their 

sleep is the soundest in the morning”, she has “No news 

from the sons” except that she saw twice “Gabriels wife 

after that he was arrested. Now they are in Finland ... I 

shall ask Miss Edgly to buy a little white costume for Easter 

for Vira-child, to go to church ... She is nearly as big as I 

am ... the Crown princess of Sweden” (Princess Margaret of 

Connaught, 1882-1920, wife of Gustav VI Adolf), “could 

bring the dress, when she comes back” after the wedding of 

her sister (Princess Patricia, to the Hon. Arthur Ramsay), 

the Swedes have been very kind, she spent a day with the 

King “at Drottningholm, a lovely place, last week. I was so 

sorry for your Majesties” over the death of Prince John in 

the ’flu epidemic, while in Petrograd “Mr Bailly Compte 

had the French hospital etc to look after ... a herring 40 

roubles. An egg 25 rbls. I am so afraid for Sophy Borff ! 

... Vira ... sends her love to you & Miss E.”, with envelope 

‘Opened by Censor’, 7 sides 8vo black-edged, 

Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 28th January 1919, tiny defect in 

side 3 touching a few letters [SD50221]£275 

In fact her sons Ioann (son in law of Peter I of Yugoslavia), 

Constantin and Igor had all been killed by the Bolsheviks at 

Alapaievsk. The Grand Duchess brought George and Vera (b. 

1906) to England. 

232. ELLIOT (Sir George, 1815-1892, M.P., President of 

the Association of Mining Engineers and Colliery Owner, 

1st Bt. of Penshaw, Co. Durham) 

Cartoon portrait by ‘Spy’ titled ‘Geordie’, standing with 

arms akimbo, bluff manner, in black hat and coat, 29th 

November 1879 [SD20072]£55


233. ELTON (Godfrey, 1892-1973, Historian, 1st Baron) 

ALS toGerald William Bullett, (1893-1958, Writer) saying 

“It does’n’t look as though the Times was going to print 

your letter now. But the Times is extremely cagey about 

letters venturing to criticise Holy Russia”, some one else 

“had sent a letter making almost exactly my point a 

fortnight before I wrote myself, but it was’n’t printed. I am 

told the Times correspondent in Hungary is a Communist 

party member! I don’t believe for a moment that hypnotism 

is impossible ... If you break down a mans will-power by 

prolonged third degree you can eventually hypnotise him ... 

as you please. Nothing they do in Harley Street is likely to 

be an analogy to what goes on in a Communist torture cell”, 

he ends “It seems a long time since we used to meet at the 

B.B.C: I don’t think I have been inside for more than a year 

myself”, 2 sides 8vo, Adderbury, near Banbury, 

Oxfordshire, 13th March 1949 [SD17107]£35 

234. ERNST AUGUST (Duke of Cumberland, 1771- 

1851, King of Hanover, 5th son of George III) 

Remarkable ALS marked ‘Private’ to General 

STEWART ,(Charles, 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, 1778- 

1854, Adjutant General to Wellington, British Minister to 

Prussia) explaining that he had been “hurried off so quickly 

from Poplitz that I had not an opportunity of seeing you 

previous to my departure, for your noble Colleague the 

Ambassador to the Autocrat informed me that he expected 

Tyrrwhit ... I could not attend, I therefore thought it the 

wisest thing to be off ... I saw the King of Prussia with 

whom I had a full Hours conversation ... I am happy to say 

he sees things just as we do ,hespoketomeintermsso 

handsome of England and of the P. that I have written 

most fully to him ... I trust you will not lose an opportunity 

to express to Castlereagh all the excellent qualities of that 

most respectable Monarch ... I had the satisfaction of seeing 

aColumnof Bennigsen’s ... a more acceptable thing I 

never yet saw, a prodigious Increase to the Great Army both 

in Cavalry & Infantry ... it was astonishing to me to see 

how extraordinarily well they all looked ... I had the 

pleasure also of shaking hands with my old Companion in 

Arms Blücher ... Ithought it advisable to write to the 

P.R. of Sweden ... from the specimen I had of the Toplitz, 

our God protect me from ever living there again ... I thought 

it a Duty to call at the E. of R. -but finding him asleep at 

4o’clock in the afternoon I only left my name. Nothing can 

have been more civil to me than the E. of A. and the K. of 

P. and nothing more uncivil than the E. of R. ... I have 

had several visits from Officers from Hanover ... It appears 

ere long that the Object I have had so long in view will be 

accomplished namely my entering Hanover, naturally I shall 

immediately set about levying troops there, & I think .... if I 

give my name to the levy of the Corps it may be of great 

use, will you then allow me to raise a Regt of Cavalry ...”, 3 

sides 4to., Strelitz, 5th October 1813, slightly damaged on 

top edge with the loss of a few words [SD6312]£475 

Ernst became deputy elector of Hanover in 1813. 

235. ERNST AUGUST (Duke of Cumberland, 1771- 


Fine ALS to ‘Dear Duke’ (the Duke of Wellington ) 

saying that he has “understood that through some 

extraordinary oversight or neglect, you never received the 

Field Marshal’s Baton, which you ought to have received at 

the time of your nomination by my late brother George IV 

in the year 1815 ...” explaining that he has had one 

“prepared which I now send over, and ... the translation of 

the Inscription ... such a neglect would not have taken place 

in my time ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Hanover, 9th December 1844, 

previously torn into four pieces, professionally repaired 

leaving minimal damage [SD26025]£175 

Referring to the Field Marshall’s Hanover Baton 

236. EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920, wife of 

Emperor Napoleon III, mother of the Prince Imperial) 

Very rare unsigned carte de visite photo by G. Spingler, 

signed “Impératrice Eugénie”, in purple ink, showing her 

half length, 4” x 2¼”, n.p., n.d. [SD26599]£275 

237. EZEKIEL (Moses Jacob, 1844-1917, American 

Sculptor, Confederate Soldier) 

ALS toMrs Brown, explaining that “it is next to impossible 

... to leave my studio & my work in the afternoons, or it 

would beapleasure to attend your hospitable reception”, 1 

side large 8vo., n.p., n.d., c. 1890 [SD50222]£225 

Ezekiel, born in Richmond, graduated from the Virginia Military 

Institute in 1866, having fought on the Confederate side in the 

war. Among his many works are the Jefferson monument at 

Louisville, Ky., and the Confederate Monument at Arlington 

Cemetery, besides ‘The Martyrs’, ‘Consolation’, and ‘Pan & 

Cupid’. He was also a knight of Germany and of Italy. 

ARADAY (Michael, 1791-1867, Chemist & 

Physicist) 

ALS to S. T. Muirhead, saying he is "honoured by 

your request - but it is utterly out of my power to 

accede to it. I do not think that I shall ever lecture 

anywhere again ...", 1 side 8vo., Royal Institution headed 

paper, 24th February 1862 [SD24903]£575 

239. FARADAY (Michael, 1791-1867, Chemist & 

Physicist) 

Fine ALS to the Rev. Edwin SIDNEY (1798-1872), 

thanking him for his “letter and also your lecture & have 

read both ... it is not my place to talk much of sacred 

matters I think of them and thank you for the lecture - it 

would indeed well bear extending into a book. I am glad 

you like Sch...? better ... I am glad to hear of your unbound 

exertions for the ... Asylum. I find that Dr. Guggenbuhl is 

in town & has left me a couple of pamphlets ...”, 2 sides 

8vo., Royal Institution, 11th April 1856 [SD26573]£525 

240. FAROUK I (King of Egypt, 1920-1965) 

Christmas card signed ‘Farouk Prince of Said’ addressed to 

Miss Rita Moody, the card has a coloured picture on 

carriages in a frosty landscape on the outside and the 

printed message inside, 7” x 5” folded card with original 

envelope postmarked Kingston on Thames, Christmas 1935 

[SD26495]£275


241. FERDINAND IV (1751-1825, King of Naples and 

Sicily from 1759) 

ALS ‘Ferdinando R’ (in Italian with translation), to an 

unnamed correspondent, saying that he quite understands 

“from your letter why you have not written before ... I have 

been fully informed about everything to do with the 

Controller [of the Royal Household]”, adding that he is 

“glad you now have all the Seratti papers by you ... and will 

be able to come here with Falco the day after tomorrow. 

My health keeps up unchanged but tomorrow I end my stay 

in paradise and begin purgatory all over again. Look after 

yourself, enjoy yourself ... ever your devoted Ferdinand R”, 

1½ sides 4to., La Ficuzza (the king’s hunting lodge in 

Sicily, about 30 miles from Palermo), 3rd [of January] 

1813, in pencil, a little faint but legible [SD9165]£225 

Ferdinand spent 1806-1815 in Sicily while Napoleon occupied the 

mainland. On 26th December 1812 he ‘escaped’ to his beloved 

Ficuzza while his Austrian-born Queen MARIA CAROLINA 

(1752-1814) stayed at S. Margherita. Lord William 

BENTINCK, British ambassador and head of the Sicilian armed 

forces, suspected the queen, correctly as is now known, of 

intriguing with Napoleon, and established a regency, refusing to 

treat with the king while the queen was with him. However, she 

was due to join him at La Ficuzza on 4th January. Later in 1813 

Bentinck insisted that she return permanently to Austria. In 1812 

Bentinck had established a constitution for Sicily on British lines. 

Bentinck aimed to pay the king just enough to keep him out of the 

way at La Ficuzza. Franco SERATTI had been Secretary 

(head) of the Council for the Royal Household, 11th December 

1800, then Secretary of State and President of the Council for 

Finance, 14th April 1803, but was dismissed ‘for reasons of 

health’ (incompetence) on 26th July 1803. No doubt Ferdinand 

had asked his present correspondent for information in the battle 

over expenses. 

242. FERDINAND MARIA (1636-1679, Elector of 

Bavaria from 1651) 

Fine letter in Italian with translation, signed ‘Ferdinando 

Maria Elettore’ to Signor Federico Giussano in Milan, 

telling him that he has “received your Lordship’s letter of 

the 10th June with its request for employment in the service 

of this Court as a Page for one of your sons, Giuseppe 

Maria ... but since at present there are no vacant places ... I 

am sorry not to be able to gratify your wish”, promising to 

“keep Your Lordship in mind for other occasions”, 1 side 

folio, address and papered seal of Bavaria on conjugate 

leaf, Munich, 21st July 1652 [SD9965]£160 

An attractive early signature. Ferdinand Maria, who succeeded 

his father at the age of fifteen, set about repairing the ravages of 

the Thirty Years’ War, encouraging agriculture and industry, and 

repairing and building many monasteries and churches. He left 

his country only once, to visit Rome. 

243. FLEMING (Ian, 1908-1964, Author, creator of 

‘James Bond’) 

Autograph postcard signed ‘Ian’ to Mrs Percy Muir, 

regretting that “Alas I shall be in Istanbul on the great night. 

Iwil drink a toast in sherbert! ...” also saying “Hooray for 

No 13. I am only at No 4” with a black and white picture 

on the front of an Oceanic Angler Fish on which he has 

drawn a talk bubble with the message “Love to Percy and 

my god-daughter”, 2 sides postcard, postmarked London, 

29th August 1963, small tear in top edge not affecting the 

text [SD26065]£650 

244. FONDA (Henry, 1905-1982, American Actor) 

Fine signed photo, released by Warner Bros. for the 

production of “There was a Crooked Man” shows top half 

of bearded Fonda in costume for the western, 10”x 8”, n.p., 

n.d. [SD25366]£175 

245. FOSS (Hubert James, F.R.S.A., 1899-1953, Music 

Editor and Critic) 

2 ALS, 3 TLS and 1 postcard to S.W. Jenkins of the 

Cheltenham Gramophone Society, saying “Here is how I 

see itafter the ’phone conversation we had today ... I arrive 

[on 16th February] as near to the scheduled time of 5.56 as 

the Great Western Railway permit ... I appear for your club 

with a lecture ... on the subject of BERLOZ & his Times 

and I will bring ... the records of the Symphonie 

Fantastique”, he adds “I should have to leave at crack of 

dawn next morning & ... I have a rooted objection to putting 

people out, so please put me at a hotel (at my expense) if I 

should cause no offence by going there!” (9th February 

1944), “I find that I have got to be in Bradford [for a 

broadcast] next Thursday morning ... I shall have to catch 

the 10.30 back to London and get what sleep I can in the 

train” (11th February 1944), he lists the records he would 

like provided, his usual fee is 5 guineas plus expenses, and 

says “the programme you send to me is most interesting and 

varied” (12th February 1944), “That is extremely handsome 

of you”, accepting supper “and the luxury of your motor to 

Gloucester ... which will obviate a miserable wait [of 2 

hours] on what I seem to remember was never a lovely 

station” (14th February 1944), sending biographical details 

on a postcard (15th February 1944), suggesting for a further 

visit “some of the out-of-the way composers like Delius, 

Bax, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams” and thanking him “for a 

very pleasant time”, with 2ofJenkins’ carbon copies, 

together 9 sides 4to and 1 postcard, The Society for the 

Advancement of Music in Education, 5 Queen Anne’s Gate, 

9th-23rd February 1944 [SD17167]£45 

Foss founded the Music Department at the Oxford University 

Press in1924 and was its Musical Editor and Manager till 1941. 

He wrote a study of Vaughan Williams, revised Heseltine’s 

‘Delius’, and edited many volumes of Sir Donald Tovey’s writings 

on music. During the war he was on the Music Advisory Council 

of ENSA and afterwards was editor of the Music Lover, 1947. In 

between he composed, accompanied, and conducted choirs and 

opera, and wrote ‘Music in My Time’ and ‘The Heritage of 

Music’. 

246. FOXLEY-NORRIS (Sir Christopher N., b. 1917, 

Fighter Pilot, Air Chief Marshal) 

Signature on part of a magazine article by him about the 

Battle of Britain, c. 1985 [SD50035]£25 

247. FRANZ JOSEF (1861-1924, Prince of Battenberg) 

ALS, in French with translation, to Prince Bititto, saying 

that “Your words of sympathy touch us deeply”, and that 

his wife and he “offer the Princess Bititto and yourself our 

warmest thanks for sharing in our great grief”, 2 sides 8vo 

black-edged, Antibes, 24th March 1923 [SD50223]£75 

Queen Milena, widow of Nikola I of Montenegro, and mother of 

Franz Josef’s wife Anna, had died on 16th March. The prince was 

the younger brother of Prince Louis (Marquess of Milford Haven), 

Prince Henry (son-in-law of Queen Victoria), and of Alexander I 

of Bulgaria.


248. FRASER (Lt. Commander Ian Edward, b. 1920, VC 

(1945), DSC (1943), author of ‘Frogman VC’) 

Signed colour photograph showing him half-length in 

civilian dress with medals, 3½” x 2¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1985 

[SD50027]£45 

249. FREDERIK IX (1899-1972, King of Denmark) 

Fine presentation photo by Eiffell, signed and dated, 

showing him three quarters length, standing on a boat, 

wearing naval uniform, 6” x 4½”, in original blue 

morocco presentation frame with gilt monogram at the 

head ,8”x6½”, n.p., 1954 [SD23814]£675 

250. FREEMAN-THOMAS (Freeman, 1st Marquess of 

Willingdon 1866-1941, Governor General of Canada and 

Viceroy of India) & his wife Marie Adelaide ,fourth 

daughter of Earl Brassey) 

Excellent large signed photo signed by both, “Marie” & 

“Willingdon” on the train of her dress, showing them on the 

occasion of taking the oath as Viceroy, both are full length 

in their ceremonial robes, 10” x 8”, in original Red 

Morocco Presentation frame with gilt crest at the head, 

n.p., n.d. (April 1931) [SD26429]£375 

At the end of 1930 Willingdon was called from Ottawa to succeed 

Lord Irwin as viceroy of India. He was raised to an earldom and 

sworn of the Privy Council (1931). It was in fulfilment of a longcherished 

ambition that he took oath as viceroy in April 1931. 

Although now sixty-five he was fully equal to the great burden of 

responsibility which fell on him at a time of political turmoil and 

during the further elaboration of the federal plan eventually 

authorized under the Government of India Act of 1935. The civil 

disobedience campaign, in abeyance under the Irwin-Gandhi pact 

of March 1931, was revived on the return of Gandhi from the 

second Round Table conference. Applying his straightforward 

logic to the situation the viceroy refused to have discussions with 

law-breakers, so long as the challenge to duly constituted 

authority continued. Under the persistent pressure of the law the 

subversive movement petered out and was ultimately abandoned. 

Of Willingdon's loyalty to the policy of far-reaching political 

reform there was constant evidence. The serious effect on India of 

the world trade slump of the early 'thirties and the occurrence of 

two devastating earthquakes were among the stresses of the time. 

251. FREMANTLE (Sir Thomas Francis, 1765-1819, 

Vice-Admiral) 

ALS to‘My dear Sir’, sending “the letter for the Prince de 

Ligne”, (Karl Joseph, 1735-1814, Austrian Field Marshal), 

and asking him “to enquire if it is not possible for me to 

receive the necklace belonging to Mrs. Fremantle”, if “a 

power of attorney does not arrive in time”, 1 side 8vo., 

Trieste, 2nd February 1814, traces of laying down by 

margin of conjugate leaf [SD50146]£175 

Fremantle served with Hood and Nelson, and captained Neptune 

at Trafalgar. As Commander in the Adriatic, 1812-1814, he 

captured Fiume and Trieste, and was made an Austrian Baron. 

252. FROST (Major-General John Dutton, 1912-1993, 

DSO, MC, Parachute Regiment 1941-1945) 

Photograph signed, showing him seated, full face, in 

uniform, 6” x 4¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1985 [SD50025]£35 

In the battle of 17th - 25th September, Colonel Frost’s 2nd 

Parachute Battalion, the 1st Parachute Brigade, captured the North 

end of the bridge at Arnhem. 

253. [FUAD I (1868-1936, Sultan, 1917-1922, from 1922 

King of Egypt)] 

Medal with Group of Documents and Photographs relating 

to the Royal Yacht ‘Mahroussa’, in particular the Finely 

Penned Bestowal, in Arabic with translation, to Petty 

Officer Thomas Tonkin Bristow, “Chief Carpenter at 

Portsmouth Dockyard”, of the Order of the Nile, Fifth 

Class, “in respect of your personal conduct and ... 

praiseworthy assistance”, and signed by the Chief of the 

Imperial High Office, blind embossed Egyptian Royal 

Arms, and the original Medal, in silver, white enamel and 

blue, with its hinged royal crown, clasp and ribbon, signed 

photographs (6) of the yacht’s officers, British and 

Egyptian, Christmas cards (3), and a letter from Eng. 

Captain George Allan, wishing Bristow a happy retirement 

and giving news of the yacht, also the Admiralty signal 

naming 5 recipients of awards by the Sultan, with the 

printed letter signed by George V’s Secretary, explaining 

when one may wear foreign decorations, (1 side 13” x 8”, 

26th April 1921), the Bestowal 1 side 15¾” x 10” and 

conjugate blank, Imperial Palace of the Faithful, Cairo, 13th 

Jamada II 1339, 23rd February 1921 [SD50248]£500 

Allan writes from the yacht: “One & all agreed you were the one 

who should get it ... Political events are very unsettled. I think 

otherwise we should have been coming to England on an official 

visit. All the British Engineers join ... in congratulations” 

(Alexandria, 9th May 1921). The photos include a group of 11 

officers on the yacht, and several inscribed (Egyptian and British) 

taken in Portsmouth. The Christmas cards show a photo of the 

senior British officer, Philip Streatfeild, an Egyptian vase from 

Allan, and camels from Commodore and Mme. Y. Samy. 

AMBIER (James, 1756-1833, Admiral of the 

Fleet, from 1807 1st Baron) 

ALS to Thomas Harrison, asking to be a subscriber 

“to the Memoirs of the late Mr. G. Sharp”, the anti-slaver, 

with Gambier’s portrait, half length in Admiral’s coat, 

engraved by Bartolozzi after Sir William Beechey, 13¼” 

x9¾”, (published 12th February 1810), the letter 1 side 

8vo., Iver Grove, 22nd May 1818, small defect in blank 

margin of letter from former laying down, a little light 

foxing in the portrait [SD50148]£125 

Gambier was the first to break the enemy’s line at the ‘glorious 

first of June’, 1794, and in 1807 forced the surrender of the 

Danish Fleet. As commander of the Channel Fleet, 1808-1811, he 

blockaded the French Fleet in the Basque Roads, and then 

destroyed it with fire ships. 

255. GEORGE (Duke of Cambridge, 1819-1904, 

Grandson of George III, Commander in Chief of the Army) 

Fine ALS marked ‘Private’ to Mr MONSELL ,(William, 

Baron Emly, 1812-1894, Privy Councillor, Postmaster 

General) saying he had called as he was “very anxious to 

have alittle quiet & friendly talk with you on the subject of 

Competitive Examination for the Artillery & Engineers, and 

of our new Regulations for entry into Sandhurst, upon 

which subject I see you have a notice in the House room 

after Easter ... I hope ... before your notice comes up you 

will give me an opportunity of discussing this matter ... I 

believe there is a great deal of misapprehension in the 

public mind upon this subject ...”, 4 sides 8vo., St James 

Palace headed paper, 6th April 1858 [SD4155]£65


256. GILBERT (Sir Alfred, 1854-1934, Sculptor of 

‘Eros’ in Piccadilly Circus etc) 

ALS to Mrs Watkins, offering her and the Archdeacon 

“thanks ... from my heart ... and your two ‘little ladies’ my 

heart itself” for their hospitality, 3 sides 8vo., 18 Maida 

Vale, W., 21st June 1893 [SD19774]£30 

257. GOSSETT (J.W., of Mark Lane, City of London) 

2ALS to Isaac Bicknell, saying “You will have seen the 

Circular from our committee ... in the mean time the safest 

course for Bondholders is to withold their signatures to 

Documents forwarded to them” (1st May 1868, headed 

‘Italian Irrigation’), “I have sent the Circular (28 Ult.) of the 

New Defence Association. I cannot see any object to be 

obtained in joining it, except that of making yourself liable 

for anindefinite amount ... Our Committee (110 Cannon 

Street) is in constant communication (through the General 

Credit Association) with Paris & Florence ... The agreement 

with the General Agency Compy. is that 1% to be paid out 

of the first coupon is to cover expenses. Mr Creswell ... or 

Mr Rigg ... will give every information in their power”, and 

expecting “a satisfactory conclusion”, in all 6 sides 8vo., 77 

Mark Lane, Tower Hill, 1st May - 3rd June 1868 

[SD14963]£35 

258. GOULD (John, 1804-1881, Ornithologist) 


sending him a “plate ... but I regret to say I have not a 

colour impression ... I have however thrown a little colour 

over a plain one and ... now differs but little from the plate 

issued. They have been sent off by rail and I hope they will 

arrive in time and suit your purpose ... if so pray do me the 

favour to keep them ...”, 2 sides 8vo., 20 Broad Street, 4th 

March 1852, small tear on top edge with some loss of text 

[SD26572]£750 

259. GRENET (Edward, b. 1857, French Illustrator) 

3 Autograph letters signed, in English, to Mr. Lucas, 

thanking him for “such beautiful [stamps], most of which 

were missing in my collection ... The 200 postal cards” he 

has sent “of ‘Mariola’ ”, exhibited by Grenet at the Salon of 

1906, “cost 30 frs ... I expect to finish the head you saw this 

week & will at once go to work at the violet one you liked, 

&intend to make it very fine & worthy of entering Fox 

Hurst Manor” (5th January 1907), “I have been very busy 

painting ... I am now putting the last touches to the one you 

liked & as promised show you it ... before any one else” 

during Lucas’ forthcoming visit, “ ‘Mariola’ joins me in 

sending kindest regards to your daughter ... son and to 

yourself” (26th March 1907), “the head you already liked 

... will be a largely seen & simply painted picture, & 

especially true to natur. I have a picture in the Salon 

entitled L’Artiste (Mariola), with which I hope to have the 

same success as with Mariola ... Violet background & same 

costume ... palet & brushes in her hands ... I ask 2,500 fr.”, 

Mr Lucas may like to take it instead of the one he is 

painting for him, as he can only work on the latter “in the 

morning & by sunny weather I expect to finish it only in the 

first days of May” when he will forward it (12th April 

1907), 7 sides 8vo., n.p. and 32 Rue Vallier, Levallois- 

Perret, France, 5th January - 12th April 1907 

[SD14971]£75 

260. GROTE (George, 1794-1871, M.P. for the City of 

London 1832-1841, Philosophical Radical, Historian and 

Politician) 

ALS toJohn Barrett, telling him that he has decided to “put 

amaninto the farm at Bennington, to manage it for the time 

on my own account. It is plain to me, from the conduct of 

Bland, laming etc that no good tenant will look at it as it 

now stands. If I let it now I shall be driven to accept a bad 

tenant and a poor rent, so that my farm will permanently 

degrade ... This will be vexatious and costly for the 

moment, but it seems to me the only way for saving my 

farm ... I have engaged with a Scotchman named Bower, 

well recommended & of much experience ... I should be 

glad to hear from you how I ought to deal with Mrs Miller. 

Of course I shall be, as the case now stands, not only 

Landlord but also in-coming tenant. It will be necessary for 

me to put Bower in soon upon the land. I cannot wait till 

March 25th ... How stands the law & the custom on this 

point? Is not an outgoing tenant bound to let an incomer 

get upon the land in time for the year’s cultivation? Will 

Mrs Miller be entitled to hinder me from doing this ... Am I 

entitled to have the accommodation of the farm buildings to 

put my implements & horses in? ... How soon shall I be 

entitled to put Bower on the land with means of working it? 

... I have not replied to you about Robert Miller’s wish for 

the meadow, because I reserved that point until I came 

down, and could fully consider whether the other farm 

would beimpaired as an occupancy by the abstraction of 

this meadow ...”, 4 sides 8vo., 12 Saville Row, 25th 

December 1852 [SD18595]£45 

Besides his famous History of Greece, Grote was Vice-Chancellor 

of London University (1862) and President of University College 

London (1868). 

261. GUSTAF ADOLF (Edmund, 1906-1947, Prince of 

Sweden, killed in a flying accident) 

Fine photo by Jaeger, signed “Edmund” and dated, showing 

the young Prince half length in uniform with decorations, 

9½” x 7”, n.p., 1925 [SD23543]£250 

From the collection of Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the 

Duke of Connaught. 

THE NEW INDIAN ARMY 

ALIFAX (Sir Charles Wood, 1800-1885, 

Secretary for India 1859-1866, 1st Viscount) 

Printed Despatch No. 28 to the Governor-General 

of India, Earl Canning, conveying the Government’s 

decision to convert the threesenior European Regiments of 

Infantry in each Presidency to regiments of the Line in the 

British Army (101st - 109th), with transfer of pension and 

service, but allowing those who do not wish to transfer to 

form a continuing local regiment or corps, with similar 

arrangements for the Cavalry (to be the 19th - 21st Light 

Dragoons), and giving reasons for overturning the previous 

plan, many interesting details of the new establishments 

which the Governor-General is to implement, stitched, 5 

sides folio, India Office, 18th January 1861 

[SD50009]£125 

Under the previous plan, the old designations, such as 1st Bengal 

European Infantry, would have been retained, along with existing 

contracts, but new recruits would have served under the terms of a 

Line regiment. This would have meant men in the same regiment 

having different conditions of service.


263. HALLIWELL, later HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS 

(James Orchard, 1820-1889, Shakespearean Scholar) 

ALS toWilliam Shilleto, thanking him and saying that Mrs 

Butler has given him “a very interesting letter from you on 

the popular superstitions of your neighbourhood ... useful ... 

information ... though provincial words are what I am still 

more desirous of obtaining”, 2 sides 8vo., Islip, 

Oxfordshire, 4th September 1844, strip from mount in 

blank margin of verso [SD19899]£45 

Halliwell was an F.S.A. and F.R.S. at 19, and married Sir Thomas 

Phillips’ daughter. 

264. HALLOWES (Odette, née Bailly, 1912-1995, 

French-born Resistance Agent) 

TLS toPeter Evans saying that she will “always tell” young 

people who write “that ... the human race ... is a large 

family ... we are responsible for what happens ... we have to 

give our help as best we can when necessary. It is what I 

have had to explain to my own children, and now to my 

grandchildren”, and thanking him “for your thoughtful 

letter”, 1 side 8vo., Rosedale, Walton on Thames, 5th 

January 1986, together with a colour photo signed and 

inscribed “with best wishes” showing her wearing her 

medals, 5” x 4”, n.p., n.d., c. 1986 [SD50034]£85 

265. HAMILTON (Lord George Francis, 1845-1927, 

M.P., Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for India) 

ALS toDr. Maurice Ernst (later Ernest), 1872-1955, saying 

“Disarmament is much too abstruse ... to discuss offhand. 

Every country in Europe is financially suffering from over 

armament” but Protectionists “make it an excuse for 

maintaining taxation ... personally beneficial to 

themselves”, 2 sides 8vo, 17 Montagu Street, Portman 

Square, 30th April 1907 tiny staple holes [SD17344]£45 

Lord George was (Conservative) Secretary of State for India, 

1895-1903. Ernst was London Correspondent of the ‘Neues 

Wiener Tagblatt’. 

266. HARDWICKE (Charles Philip Yorke, 1799-1873, 

M.P., Admiral, Postmaster General March to December 

1852, from 1834 4th Earl) 

ALS to Admiral Sir John ROSS, Arctic Explorer, 1777- 

1856, saying he “saw the Duke & put your note to me 

before him ... I think from what I saw, you had better give 

up the idea of going ... the probability is - that no more will 

be attempted after this exploration”, with Sir John Ross’s 

autograph note of receipt and reply on conjugate leaf, 2 

sides 8vo., 10 St. James’s Square, 22nd April 1852, light 

traces of laying down on blank margin of fourth side 

[SD50155]£125 

Ross had made an unsuccessful expedition in 1850 to find Sir 

John Franklin. 

267. HAYDON (Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846, Painter) 

ALS to Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1773-1854, the 

topographer, from 1825 librarian at the Russell Institution, 

Coram Street, asking him to “oblige me by admitting for 

four days ... the Rev.d. Dr. Bosworth - he is a friend of 

Hamilton’s who was Ambassador at Naples ... without the 

delay of applying to the Committee”, 1 side 8vo., n.p., n.d., 

c. 1835 [SD19900]£45 

268. HERALDIC DIPLOMA 

Finely Penned Diploma, certifying that George Harrison 

(1740-1821, Bluemantle Pursuivant, later Windsor, Norroy 

and Clarenceux) performed the duties of Esquire to Sir John 

Moore (1718-1779, Admiral, 1st Bart.) at his installation as 

aMilitary Knight of the Bath on 15th June 1772, and that in 

consequence he is entitled to all the rights “that Esquires of 

the Sovereign’s Body, or the Gentlemen of the Privy 

Chamber do lawfully enjoy”, with a very fine Hanoverian 

Arms of Great Britain, with supporters and crest, flanked 

by the arms of the Great Master of the Order (1st Earl 

of Mexborough) and Sir John Moore, each with the 

collar and motto of the Bath, all in full colour, and signed 

by the last two and byWilliam Whitehead (1715-1785, 

Registrar & Secretary, Poet Laureate), on the verso 

Harrison’s qualifications to be an Esquire are attested after 

examination by Ralph Bigland, Somerset, and Isaac Heard, 

Lancaster, at the foot is the papered double-sided seal of the 

Order of the Bath on a crimson ribbon, vellum, 2 sides 

18¼” x 16”, n.p. (College of Heralds), 17th November 

1772, a trifle dusty at folds, papered seal defective but 

retains the three crowns of the Order impaling Great 

Britain [SD50249]£350 

Esquires accompanied the Knights elect from Westminster Hall to 

Henry VII’s chapel, cap in hand, returning with cap donned after 

the ceremony. 

269. HERMANT (Abel, 1862-1950, French writer and 

Academician) 

2ALS in French with translation to Ferdinand L. Leipnik 

(1869-c.1924, Hungarian Journalist, intermediary between 

Austria-Hungary and Great Britain in WWI), saying “You 

have been kind enough to tell me that ... the Neues Pester 

Journal would like to publish the German translation of my 

novel ‘Confession of a Man of Today’, which is going to 

appear from the 15th November next in the Revue ... and 

will then be published by Ollendorff”, suggesting 1500 

francs inclusive for serial and book, and adding that a 

sequel, ‘The World’s Fair’, will soon follow in ‘Le Figaro’, 

“it would be perfectly possible ... to publish them in the 

Neues Pester Journal without a break” (8th November 

1902), since the serial for the first work, starting “today ... 

will be there at the most for four months”, it could appear 

abroad daily from “the 1st February, or even a few days 

before”, he can also send “the extract” from “this morning’s 

Revue” and “proofs of the following issue”, (15th 

November 1902), 50 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, 8th - 15th 

November 1902 [SD19033]£95 

Between 1901 and 1937, Hermant wrote a series of novels “to 

serve as the history of society ... a pitiless and ironic critique of 

the bourgeois environment of the time” (DBF). He was the chief 

contributor to the Academy’s ‘Grammaire Française, 1932’, a 

masterpiece of concise statement. In 1945 Hermant was tried for 

articles he published during the Occupation and deprived of his 

chair atthe Academy. However, in 1948 he was exonerated, and 

the Academy gave him refuge at Chantilly. 

270. HUNT (Sir Rex, b. 1926, Governor and C-I-C of the 

Falklands, High Commissioner British Antarctic Territory) 

Colour photograph signed, 6” x 8”, showing him in his 

studybyamap ofAntarctica, n.d., c. 1985 [SD50043]£35


271. HIDALGO (Elvira, 1892-1980, Spanish Soprano) 

ALS to‘Dear Signora’, in Italian with translation, saying 

that “Mamma and I will be most happy to come and see you 

tomorrow. With a thousand thanks”, 2 sides 8vo., Grand 

Hôtel, 12, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, ‘Monday’ n.d., 

c. 1910 [SD20140]£75 

The singer made her debut at Naples in 1908 as Rosina in ‘Il 

Barbiere’, her most famous role, and was immediately in great 

demand. After 1932 she taught, first in Athens, where Maria 

Callas was her pupil, and later in Ankara. 

272. [HONEGGER (Arthur, 1892-1955, Composer)] 

Unsigned black and white photograph showing Honegger 

happily holding a small railway signal while a friend sits in 

the tender of a fine model locomotive ‘LMS 6100’, 

postcard size, n.d., c. 1930 [SD19180]£35 

Honegger adored locomotives. In 1927 he drove the King’s Cross 

express to Hitchin, averaging over 60 m.p.h. His ‘Pacific 231’ is a 

wonderful ‘mechanical’ piece which ‘arouses the emotions 

without recourse to sentiment’, ‘the rhythm accelerating while the 

metronome beat slows down’ 

273. [HOW TO GROW A HYACINTH IN A TURNIP] 

Delightful pen drawing of “that useful Root the Turnip ...” 

which is “converted into an ornamental suspended 

Reservoir of the Grecian form, for holding the Hyacinth”, 

as found “in the best furnished Rooms in Paris”, the 

hyacinth, hung in a window facing South, “majestically 

shoots its perpendicular blooming stem, while the humble 

nourishing turnip is vegetating downwards forming a 

verdant tassel”, with full instructions opposite the lettered 

diagrams, employing “a hoop of narrow twopenny ribbon ... 

taking care not to let the needle penetrate the ... Turnip”, 3 

sides 4to., n.p., n.d., watermark 1824 [SD50010]£75 

In best tongue-in-cheek style. 

274. HOWARD (Sir Henry, 1843-1921, Diplomat) 

ALS to Evelyn, 1st wife of the historian J.E.C. Bodley, 

saying “I saw your portrait in Bonnat’s Atelier; it is a 

perfect gem ... I regret that circumstances ... prevent this 

combination of English beauty and French Art being 

exhibited this year at the Salon”, with her identification at 

head, 2 sides 8vo., Paris, 21st March 1895 [SD19062]£25 

Sir Henry was Secretary of Embassy at Paris, 1895-1896. L.J.F. 

Bonnat (1833-1922) painted Hugo, Pasteur, Dumas, etc. 

275. HUGHES (Thomas, 1822-1896, Judge, Author of 

‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’) 

Fine ALS toHarwood, saying that he was sorry not to have 

seen him in London, but “heard of you from the Dean. It 

was not I, but Canon Curtis, who threw down the gauntlet 

as to the Burials Bill. It was quite impossible to allow his 

narrow nonsense to go unchallenged. I fear the parsons are 

going back rather than forward - it seems impossible for 

them to realize the true nobleness of the national idea. If 

they cannot rise to it & accept the position of officers 

appointed by the nation to do its highest work I see no 

reason for keeping the ... (I) hope the Dean is right but 

doubt it ... the question could not be tried practically 

without a row, & as the Bill will I take it be carried next 

session ... I shall not be farther north again then 

Birmingham till next year ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Athenaeum 

Club headed paper, 25th October 1871 [SD26581]£175 

276. HUMBOLDT (Alexander, Baron von, 1769-1859, 

Naturalist and Traveller) 

Autograph statement signed, in French which translates as 

“having been informed by my most respectable and kind 

friend Dr. Guggenbuhl that the Rev. Edwin Sidney has 

expressed interest in some of my works ... it is with great 

pleasure that I take the opportunity of expressing my great 

esteem for the gentleman, who through his work in the 

Young Man’s Association and elsewhere, as with his public 

lectures, has nobly sought to link well thought out ideas on 

natural phenomena, to combat public prejudice and to raise 

intellectual awareness specifically to the sophisticated 

concepts of harmony in the natural world ...”, 1 side oblong 

8vo., Berlin, 1856, traces of mounting on the verso 

[SD26574]£275 

Humboldt was one of the greatest scientists of the first half of the 

19th century, and a pioneer in many fields, including the climate 

and ecology. From 1830 he was employed from 1830 by 

Friedrich Wilhelm III as a special envoy to France, frequently 

travelling between Paris and Berlin. 

277. HUNT (William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite 

Painter) 

Fine ALS (with initials) to “My dear old Comrade” telling 

him that he had been “very much of the same mind and 

body too last Thursday ... before on the top of my usual 

malady I had caught a serious attack of bronchitis and it 

was only because I had to get my head for the Grosvenor 

into shape that I was allowed to attend the studio ... I sent 

round the little messengers in the hope of finding you free 

for anhour’s visit and gossip, it was a pain to find that you 

were seriously laid up ... I was inclined to be lugubrious 

enough as I went home for my fortnight’s preliminary 

nursing which now the doctor is enforcing ... I am 

determined to be as careful just now as circumstances will 

allow or I see that I shall not have much opportunity of 

proving how far greater a painter I am than the carping 

and stingy temper of the world has ever allowed me to 

prove myself to be so far - unless it should indeed be in 

superintending rainbows, butterfly’s and humming bird’s 

wings, and such artistic performances conducted either side 

of the cemetery where I shall try to exercise my skill with 

more spirit because I should know for certain that no Royal 

Academy would be present to mislead public taste and 

patronage ... it strikes me how shocked poor SHIELDS 

[?Frederic James, 1833-1911, Painter, intimate of D. G. 

Rossetti] would be at my bantering vein about the future, 

and I feel somewhat of a hypocrite in recognising the fact 

that I should scarcely dare to write to him in such a strain, 

but indeed I do not have less feeling of the solemnity of the 

whole question in speaking lightly of one phase of it ... I see 

the school in which he has studied the faith, and adopted it, 

rightly or wrongly scandalised at bringing every day tests to 

it ...” he then reverts to talk about their ailments and ends 

“go on bravely, and write more poetry, which somehow I 

can’t attempt to rival, altho I have some very fine stanzas 

about somewhere ...”, 4 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, 

Fulham, 30th April 1885 [SD11523]£375


LEANA (1909-1991, Princess of Roumania, Daughter 

of Ferdinand I, wife of Archduke Anton of Austria & 

Dr Stefan Issarescu, later an Orthodox Nun) 

Superb portrait photo by Luffenberger Moriaint, signed, 

inscribed “To Diddo in remembrance of many a day” and 

dated on the photographer’s mount, also signed in pencil by 

the photographer, showing her holding her son Alexandra 

(b. 1935), 12” x 8½”, in mount 18” x 13” in fine original 

red and gilt frame, Sonnberg, 1939 [SD22696]£475 

279. IMPERIAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY 

Fine Certificate, in Russian with translation, saying that 

“Under the Most August Patronage of Her Majesty the 

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna,” wife of Nicholas II, “the 

Board of Trustees of the Imperial Philanthropic Society for 

Collecting Donations for the Education and Placing of Poor 

Children in Trade, hereby award Alexander Vasilievich 

Porogov the right to wear the Silver Medal prescribed by 

the Council ... as a Donor to the aforesaid Trust”, signed by 

the President (R. Shitsisov) and Head of the Medal 

Department (Shcherbakov), printed in red, gold, silver and 

black, fine arms of the Russian Empire including the arms 

of Moscow on the eagle’s breast and of the ancient 

provinces on its wings, elaborate border with shields, one 

bearing “full member 10th May 1893”, red paper seal of the 

Society, chromolithographed by Stadler and Pattinot, 1 side 

16” x 10½”, St. Petersburg, 28th August 1902 

[SD50199]£750 

280. IOANNA (GIOVANNA) (Queen, 1907-2000, 3rd 

daughter of Vittorio Emmanuele III, from 1930 Wife of 

Boris III, 1894-1943, from 1918 King of Bulgaria) 

Autograph Letter signed ‘Ioanna’, in alternate Italian and 

English with translations, to Sir Ronald STORRS (1881- 

1955), Sir Ronald has asked how she is “getting on” with 

his book ‘Orientations’, she explains that during her journey 

back from England she lent it to her father in Rome, now in 

Sofia she is half-way through and finds it “very interesting 

and original ... I very much hope next time you will travel 

that one of your ‘conferenze’ [lectures] will be ‘for’ 

Sophia”, and sends regards from the King and herself, blind 

embossed arms of Bulgaria and Savoy at head, 3 sides 4to., 

Sofia, 21st March 1938 [SD14577]£150 

During the war, King Boris III found himself a most unwilling ally 

of Hitler. Both he and Queen Ioanna were responsible for saving 

Jews, he from the concentration camps, and she in obtaining 

transit visas to escape to Argentina. 

‘Orientations’ is a fascinating autobiography, with invaluable 

insights on Storrs’ time in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and as 

Governor of Jerusalem (1917-1926) and Cyprus (1920-1932). His 

love of the Middle East was shared by Vittorio Emmanuele III, 

who was at Bethlehem when he heard of his own accession in 

1900. 

281. ISABELLE (Marie Amélie, b. 1911, daughter of 

Prince Pedro de Alcántara, wife of Henri VI of France) 

Fine photo signed “Isabelle Comtesse de Paris”, inscribed 

to the “Comte de Larearadoc”(?) and dated, showing her 

half length in profile, looking pensive, with gilt crests 

embossed on the mount, [SD26594]£125 

282. ISMAIL PASHA (1830-1895, Khedive (Viceroy) of 

Egypt 1863-1879) 

LS, inFrench with translation, to ‘Princesse’, thanking her 

for “the pretty little table” that accompanied her letter, 

recalling her “exquisite courtesy ... when I came to seek 

refuge in your beautiful country”, since when “you and the 

Prince have deigned to help me in my search for a 

residence”, her present, “embroidered by your fine and 

skilful hand” is the culmination “of the most refined and 

gracious kindness”, 2 sides 8vo., Naples, 1st August 1879 

[SD50224]£275 

Ismail, son of Ibrahim, and grandson of Mehemet Ali, was 

educated in France at St Cyr. He was of undoubted ability, and 

exercised a great fascination over foreign investors. Having 

pushed Egypt’s credit to its limit, he was forced to sell his shares 

in the Suez Canal in 1875. He was deposed by the Sultan in a 

telegram of 26th June 1879, which referred to him as the ex- 

Khedive and left immediately for Naples. 

AMES (Henry, 1843-1916, American born, British 

Naturalised Novelist) 

ALS toLady Lyttleton, thanking “heaven - & thank 

you -Ihave just (this morning) written him a longish letter 

...”, 1 side 8vo., 34 de Vere Gardens, 27th March n.y., 

slightly foxed [SD25974]£375 

284. JESSE (John Heneage, 1815-1874, Historian) 

ALS to ‘My dear Sir’, asking him “If you send to me today, 

pray send to me before ½ p 3, as I dine at Richmond”, 

1side 8vo, Admiralty, 7th May 1847 trimmed without loss 

and laid down [SD17482]£25 

Jesse wrote a series of lively ‘Memoirs of the Court’, including 

Richard III, the Stuarts, and George I, II and III. 

285. JOHNSON (Jack, 1878-1946, First coloured boxer 

to win the World Heavyweight title, 1908-1915) 

Magazine photo of him with a society lady at a race 

meeting, taken c. 1910, the cutting c. 1950 [SD17586]£45 

286. JOHNSON (Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar 

‘Johnnie’, 1915-2001, DSO, DFC, the RAF’s most 

successful fighter pilot, AOC Middle East, 1963-1965) 

Signature on his article “I first flew a Spitfire ...”, with a 

fine picture of a Spitfire in flight, on verso a picture of the 

historic aircraft assembled at R.A.F. Coningsby, all in full 

colour, 2 sides folio, Coningsby, c. 1987 [SD50042]£45 

287. JOSEPH FRANZ (1895-1957, Archduke of Austria 

and Prince of Hungary) and his wife ANNA (1903-1976, 

youngest daughter of Friedrich August III, King of Saxony) 

Attractive Photograph signed & inscribed on the mount in 

English “Archduchess Anne and Archduke Dr. [of Laws] 

Joseph Francis”, showing them half-length with their three 

girls and two boys, the latter in sailor-suits, in presentation 

frame with gilt crown at head, 6½” x 8¼”, in mount 14" x 

12½", n.p., 24th December 1937 [SD16347]£275 

The Archduke’s father Joseph, 1872-1962, was the son of the last 

Palatine of Hungary and was the grandson of the famous Joseph, 

1776-1847, Palatine from 1795, 7th son of Leopold II. The girls 

are Margit (1925), Ilona (1927) and Anna-Theresia (1928), the 

boys Joseph Árpád (1932) and István (1934). Three more 

children were born later, all eight in Budapest.


288. JUNG (Carl Gustav, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist) 

Fine TLS in English to Mr Evans-Wentz, thanking him for 

his letter and copy of his book, he promises to “first 

carefully plough through it and then I will try what I can do 

about it. I am very glad the you give me the necessary time 

to do the work without too much hurry. As I’m still 

working as a medical man I can only do actual scientific 

work during my vacations ...” but he expects to be able to 

start in December and hopes to finish by the summer, “This 

is at least my pious wish ... I hope that it will not be too late 

... I want to express my special gratitude to you that you 

trust me with such a task, since there would be few scholars 

in the world that would not be heavily prejudiced against a 

psychology which deals with the unconscious mind ...”, 1 

side 4to., Küsnacht-Zurich, 17th November 1938, mounted 

with afine Karsh him head and shoulders portrait with his 

glasses on his forehead, 12” x 9” [SD23113]£1,750 

ARL ALEXANDER (1818-1901, from 1853 

Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) 

LS, inFrench with translation, to Count Potocki 

(Pototski), thanking him “for the good wishes you express 

... on the renewal of the Year” and returning his own, “In 

case you are journeying abroad, I hope you will not fail to 

stop at Weimar ... I will receive you there with pleasure”, 1 

side 4to., Weimar, 19th / 31st December 1859 

[SD50225]£225 

Bismarck called the Grand Duke “Counsel for good relations 

between Berlin and St. Petersburg” - his sister Augusta was the 

wife of Wilhelm I, and his mother Maria the daughter of Paul I. 

Brought up under the eye of Goethe, the Duke furthered the 

literary, musical and scientific eminence of Weimar, founding the 

Art School, the Music School, and the Wartburg, and as active 

patron of the Schiller Institute, the Goethe Society, the 

Shakespeare Society, and the University of Jena. 

290. KEMBLE (Priscilla, née Hopkins, 1756-1845, 

Actress, wife of John Philip Kemble) 

ANS to ‘Gentlemen’, sending “as above a draft for your 

account”, n.p., n.d., c. 1790, lacks top portion (the draft) 

[SD17665]£30 

Priscilla Kemble was the original Maria in ‘The School for 

Scandal’. 

JEROME KERN ON PROHIBITION 

291. KEY (Carl Axel Helmer, 1864-1938, Editor and 

Chairman, Svenska Dagbladet Publishing Co.) 

ALS to Dr Ferdinand L. Leipnik, (1869 - c.1924), the 

Hungarian Journalist and intermediary with Great Britain 

during WWI, saying hewill “hold me freetose[sic]Mr 

Shaw on Wednesday” and inviting him to meet Jerome 

Kern ,“tomorrow at 1.15 Savoy ... his last success at New 

Amsterdam (F. Ziegfeld jr) ‘ Sally ’isperhaps the greatest 

... ever ... in New York ... He writes ... only fine light opera 

music” and quotes Kern ,‘Now when we have prohibition 

the jazz is dead; because only drunk men can love that ’, 

2sides 4to., Savoy Hotel, London, 11th June 1921 

[SD19034]£65 

Leipnik was in neutral Holland during WWI, and besides relaying 

enemy diplomatic documents and peace offers to Great Britain, 

acted as go-between with Bernard Shaw’s translator in Vienna. 

Dr Key was on the board of the Royal Opera Company, 

Stockholm. 

292. KING-HALL (Sir George, 1850-1939, C-in-C 

Australia Station 1910-1913, Admiral) 

ALS to Eileen Cond, sending his autograph and enclosing 

his booklet ‘The High Destiny of Man’ (present), 1 side 

8vo., 3 Tite Street, Chelsea, 13th June 1936 [SD19267]£30 

293. KIRKLINTON, CUMBERLAND 

Final Agreement in the Court of Common Pleas, before 

“Robert Dallas [chief justice], James Allan Park, James 

Burrough and John Richardson [all knights, see DNB]”, 

whereby James Forster pays Joseph & Sarah Irving £60 for 

“2 cottages 25 acres of land 5 acres of meadow & 10 acres 

of moss” in Kirklinton, vellum, typeset in anattractive 

adaptation of Court Hand with manuscript additions, 1 

side 16½” x 8½”, Westminster, “in 8 days of the 

Purification of the Blessed Mary” 3 Geo. IV, 2nd - 9th 

February 1822 [SD20142]£75 

294. KNOLLYS (Sir Francis, 1837-1924, Private 

Secretary, 1870-1913, to King Edward VII & George V, 

from 1911 1st Viscount) 

TLS toDrMaurice Ernst (later Ernest), 1872-1955, marked 

‘Private’, he begs to state “that I never write such a letter as 

you request and I much regret ... I am unable to have the 

pleasure of meeting your wishes ... however ... I believe 

every Englishman has the highest admiration for the 

Emperor of Austria and his Country”, London, 5th April 

1906 [SD17696]£25 

worked constantly to improve Anglo-Austrian relations. In April 

1906 he polled leading politicians and scientists about the 

forthcoming Exhibition at Earl’s Court of Austrian Arts & 

Industries. He returned to medicine in 1909 but kept a lifelong 

interest in international peace initiatives. Till 1914 Great Britain 

had never been at war with Austria. 

Loosely inserted is a cutting about the qualities needed in a royal 

Private Secretary.Dr Ernst, as London Correspondent of the Neues 

Wiener Tagblatt, 

295. KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH (Grand 

Duke, 1858-1915, cousin of Alexander III, Writer, 

President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences) 

ALS inRussian with translation, to ‘Pavel Gavrilovich’, 

thanking him for “the list of works” for “making the revised 

edition of the translation of ‘Hamlet’”, and sending “the 

English version of my ‘King of the Jews’. It would be very 

flattering ... given the present signs of rapprochement 

between Russia and England, if the translation of my drama 

received some circulation in the land of Shakespeare”, blind 

embossed ‘Konstantin’, 3 sides 8vo., Pavlovsk, 1st April 

1915 laid down by blank fourth side [SD50012]£150 

The writer’s translation of Hamlet, with critical commentary, came 

out in 3 vols., 1899-1900, and ‘The King of the Jews’ in 1914. 

He also translated ‘Henry IV’, wrote anart history of Pavlovsk, 

and verses on the martydom of St. Sebastian. See his ‘Selected 

Correspondence’ (in Russian, 1999, with portrait), for many 

references to Shakespeare, including earlier versions of Hamlet in 

other languages (pp. 507-508). 

296. KUBELIK (Jan, 1880-1940, Czech-born Hungarian 

Violinist & Composer) 

Postcard Photograph Signed by him, of him and his wife 

Countess Szell, n.d., c. 1905 [SD19914]£25


EIPNIK (Dr. Ferdinand L., 1869-c.1924, 

Hungarian Journalist & Connoisseur, intermediary 

between Austria-Hungary and Great Britain in 

WWI) 

Important archive of letters addressed to Leipknik, from his 

wide range of contacts in the political, literary and artistic 

world, including letters from Ernest BRAIN of the Times, 

W. Harbutt DAWSON , Count GLEICHEN of the 

Foreign Office (14), Frederic HARRISON , Abel 

HERMANT (2), Helmer KEY , Sir Sidney LEE (4), 

Sir Sidney LOW (5) , Sir Herbert RUSSELL , H. 

Wickham STEED of the Times (27), Sir William 

TYRRELL of the Foreign Office, (27), Prof. Graham 

WALLAS (3), Theodore & Clara WATTS DUNTON 

(27), Louis WEIRTER (2) and over 200 VISITING 

CARDS . [SD23564]£3,750 

Of the political letters, those from Count Gleichen and Sir William 

Tyrrell (1912-1921) chart Leipnik’s very special relations with the 

Foreign Office. Besides the topics already mentioned, they 

contain valuable insights about the possibility of a democratic 

revolution in Germany ,and the impossibility of Austria shaking 

off the German yoke. They can be ‘interleaved’ with the letters 

sent by Leipnik now at the PRO and shed valuable light on 

them. 

Afurther large group (1907-1923) is from H. Wickham Steed, 

Editor of the Times and historian of Central Europe. Steed loves 

Hungary but is a stern critic of the excesses of Magyar 

nationalism. During the war he writes of “a monster treason trial” 

being “worked up in Banjaluka against 156 Bosnian Serbs ... what 

is going on ?”, and after the war gives Leipnik a note for Benes, 

1st Foreign Minister of the new Czechoslovakia, later President. 

Among the literary letters is an apparently unrecorded group 

from Theodore Watts-Dunton (1906-1914, continued to 1921 by 

his widow Clara) about Watts-Dunton’s unpublished novel 

‘Carniola’ . Starting with enquiries about the Hungarian theatre 

and aHungarian ‘Punch & Judy’ show, the letters expand into a 

fascinating literary exchange, Leipnik supplying information 

about the Gypsies in Slovenia, and Watts-Dunton talking of 

Swinburne, his permanent house guest for 30 years, sending 

(1907) a copy of his poems (not present) which Swinburne has 

autographed for Leipnik. 

The collection is rounded by the visiting cards (c. 1905-c. 1922) 

from diplomats, connoisseurs and journalists of over 15 countries. 

They include many diplomats accredited by the Central Powers to 

The Hague, who presumably gave Leipnik some of the 

information he passed on to London. 

Leipnik has till now been largely known for his beautiful history 

of French Etching (1924). The present archive shows him as a 

man with whom it was a pleasure and a profit to correspond, and 

would be invaluable to a prospective biographer. 

As a journalist, Leipnik gathered an immense number of 

contacts, diplomatic, literary, financial and artistic. He edited the 

‘Pester Lloyd’, 1907-1911, joined a short-lived ‘Journal 

International’, and was in London at the outbreak of war. Unable 

to obtain a permit as a friendly enemy alien, he spent most of the 

war inneutral Holland, writing summaries of public opinion in all 

parts of the Austro-Hungarian dominions for the British papers, 

and especially for the Foreign Office, who took note of his 

suggestions for propaganda, and valued the diplomatic papers he 

was able to procure. By 1917 the Austrian embassy at the Hague 

was using him to convey peace feelers to London, (see the papers 

at the PRO, especially class FO371). 

Full details on request. 

298. LAKE (Sir Henry Atwell, 1808-1881, Colonel 

R.E., the ‘hero of Kars’) 

ALS toLord Ingestre, (1830-1877, from 1868 19th Earl of 

Shrewsbury), accepting with “the greatest pleasure” for 

dinner, 2 sides 8vo., Junior United Services Club, 

‘Tuesday’ n.d., c. 1858, on the conjugate leaf is an ALS 

from Lord Ingestre sending this letter to Mr Parke and 

saying “Shrewsbury case went famously yesterday”, 17 

Eccleston Square, 5th May 1858 [SD50161]£125 

Lake had been in charge of irrigation with the E.I.C.. On 

leave in 1854, he volunteered for the British army. He was 

sent to Kars (where a British force supported the Turks), as 

chief engineer and 2 i/c to Colonel Williams. They endured 

a remarkable siege and many attacks from the Russians 

under Count Muraviev, from June to November 1855, when 

the garrison finally capitulated. Lake was showered with 

honours on his return. See his ‘KarsandourCaptivity in 

Russia’ (1856) and ‘Narrative of the Defence of Kars’, 

1857. 

299. LAMBERT (Sir John, 1772-1847, served in the 

Peninsula and at Waterloo, General) 

AL in the third person to Mr Willson, ordering “A Plain 

Saddle, as usual - a light Curb Bridle, for Lady Lambert - A 

General Officers Bridle complete wt. Housing”, and asking 

how many cases are involved, so that Lambert can write 

ahead to the Horse Guards, each case must be sealed there 

at the QMG’s office “previous to your sending it off by the 

Coach from the White Bear, Piccadilly”, and addressed to 

Beaumetz, 2 sides 4to., Beaumetz, near Cambrai 

(Wellington’s HQ), 6th April 1817 [SD50162]£75 

300. LEOPOLD III (1901-1983, King of Belgians) 

Fine Typed Letter Signed, in French with translation, to 

King GEORGE II of theHellenes ,(1890-1947, reigned 

1922-1924 and 1935-1947), saying he has learnt “with 

genuine satisfaction ... that your beloved sister-in-law, Her 

Royal Highness the Princess Frederika Luise [1917-1981], 

born Princess of Brunswick and Luneburg, wife of Your 

Majesty’s beloved Brother, His Royal Highness the 

Hereditary Prince Paul”, King Paul I of Greece, 1901-1964, 

reigned 1947-1964, “has happily given birth on the 2nd 

November 1938, to a Princess who has received at baptism 

the name ofSophie”,thepresent Queen Sophie of Spain, 

and offering “the most sincere wishes for the preservation 

of the child just born”, renewing the assurance of his “high 

esteem and unalterable attachment”, and signing “My 

Brother, Your Majesty’s good brother, Léopold”, royal coat 

of arms in red at head, envelope with royal armorial seal, 1 

side folio and conjugate blank, The Palace, Brussels, 8th 

April 1939, seal rather worn [SD50200]£475 

On 10th May 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands and 

Belgium. King Leopold took command of the armed forces but 

made the decision to surrender on 28th May to save lives, and 

became a prisoner in his Palace in Brussels, later in Austria. 

Although he is credited with having saved 500,000 women and 

children from deportation to work in German munitions factories, 

the Belgian government in exile thought that he should have 

escaped and joined them, and his brother Charles, Count of 

Flanders, was made Regent at the liberation. Leopold abdicated in 

favour of his son Baudouin in 1951.


301. LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish 

Missionary & Explorer) 

The final four sides of a superb ALS to the Rev. Edwin 

SIDNEY (1798-1872), “But after all it is not the false or 

even true philosophers whose sympathies well up to all this 

world of woe. It is the men in whose hearts the love of 

Christ is the controlling motive that feel for all the lost ... of 

our race whether at home and abroad ...”, he continues 

about his plans to “experiment with the tame buffaloes of 

India - they are so like the wild ones of Africa which are not 

killed by the poison of the Tsetse that I have sent over 14 

which I propose to use as beasts of burden - and if they 

withstand the evil effects of the bite of this insect we shall 

confer a greater boon on Africa than you will on England 

by ... At present no beast of burden exists there. I have also 

nine Africans who were recaptured and educated at a 

Government school near Bombay. They are all young, have 

acquired a knowledge of some trade & are Christians. They 

understand that hard work is meant ... I regret that I 

neglected to send you a copy of my last work ...” but he will 

find it in the Library, “My present attempt is to the North ... 

away from all Portuguese ...”, 4 sides 8vo., n.p., n.d. 1866 

[SD26570]£2,750 

Apparently Unpublished. 

Livingstone left London on 13th Aug. 1865 and arrived in 

Bombay on 11th September. Here he sold his boat the Lady 

Nyassa and invested the money in shares in an Indian bank which 

failed a year or two afterwards. He stayed in India until January 

1866. Sir Bartle Frere, governor of Bombay, gave him a passage 

to Zanzibar in the Thule, a government vessel, which was to be 

presented to the sultan of Zanzibar as a gift from the Bombay 

government. He had brought with him from India some boys from 

the Nassick Mission, and thirteen sepoys, as a nucleus for his 

expedition. At Zanzibar he engaged ten Johanna men and four 

natives of Nyasaland, and bought camels, buffaloes, mules, and 

donkeys to experiment on their resistance to the effect of the tsetse 

fly. He arrived off the Rovuma in H.M.S. Penguin on 22nd 

March, but owing to difficulties of entering, landed in Mikindani 

Bay on 4th April. The animals were overloaded and maltreated by 

the sepoys, and bitten by the tsetse fly. 

302. LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish 

Missionary & Explorer) 


thanking him for his “kindness in sending me your life of 

Lord Hill. Unfortunately however it has not yet come to 

hand. I could not call on you for the magnesium wire but it 

can easily be got ...” apologising for his late reply as “I was 

in labour bringing forth a mouse of a speech at the British 

Association here ...” 2 sides 8vo., Bath, 20th September 

1864, together with a fine original carte de visite photo 

by H. N. King of Bath, showing him seated with his legs 

crossed, next to a table with books on it, 4” x 2.5”, laid 

down on conjugate blank, n.d., c. 1864 [SD26571]£1,500 

Apparently Unpublished. 

Livingstone’s Zambesi expedition had ended with his arrival in 

England on 23 July 1864. His wife had died of fever during the 

trip. 

After a week of fêting in London he visited his aged mother and 

his children in Scotland. In September he attended the meeting of 

the British Association at Bath and read a paper on Africa. He 

then went with his daughter Agnes to stay at Newstead Abbey, 

where heremained there for eight months writing ‘The Zambesi 

and its Tributaries’. 

303. LEWIS (C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author 

of ‘The Screwtape Letters’) 

Important unpublished ALS (‘C. S. Lewis’) to the poet Alan 

Rooke, replying to a dissertation on poetry which Rook has sent 

him (typed copy of pages 2 and 3 present), Lewis says that the 

letter he is replying to is “the kind I like best ...” and continues to 

give his opinions of various poets including Auden and 

Wordsworth and his general philosophy on the art of the poet, 

“The difference between Banfield and Richards is not 

terminological but depends on the difference of their philosophies 

which are mutually exclusive. For Banfield the mind is 

immaterial and the pleasure is that of transition to new life, 

closely analogous on the mental plane to sexual pleasure on the 

bodily. For Richard mind means nerves, its pleasures are ... 

physiological ...The suggestion that the young ought to 

understand modern poetry best was really an argumentum ad 

nominem or a calling of the bluff; for I have often heard the 

difficulty of this poetry justified on the ground that it was born of, 

and dealt with, an entirely new situation which no one over a 

certain age could understand. I do not myself accept this ... I 

agree that Auden at first showed poetical genius of the highest 

order, which has been progressively vitiated by nonsense. This is 

one of my chief grievances against modern poetolatry; when we 

do get poets we corrupt them ... The attempt to use words in a 

purely sensuous or emotive sequence is certainly one cause of the 

obscurity ... The private senses are another and quite illegitimate 

cause. Often the key to a passage in modern poetry depends on 

something which only the poets friends can know ... If this goes 

on it will destroy not poetry, but this poetry. Poetry itself, I 

trust, will break out again from some unexpected sources ... I 

don’t think it can be establishes that the poet has supernormal 

‘vision’. Some have this who are not poets - Socrates, St. John of 

the Cross ... Some are poets who have it not - Homer, Horace, 

Dunbar, Pope, Byron, Housman ...I don’t think Wordsworth 

compounded for gold ... I don’t think we know under what 

conditions a man loses genius ... the only kind of poetry his talent 

enabled him to write wasn’t much good for expressing the view he 

now held. My chief suspected disagreement with you might be 

expressed by saying ‘you do not sufficiently think of poetry as an 

art or skill ... I agree that as prose takes over more and more of the 

things once done by verse there will be a likelihood of poet’s 

dealing less and less with anything but their own inner 

experiences ... I don’t think it is the differentia of the poet that he 

is ‘trying to know the unknowable’; that is the differentia of 

Man. The failure is Man’s tragedy. [cf Tolkien on Beowulf. The 

Monsters & the Critics ... the poet’s only business as poet is to 

make poems. Poems about the failure might be quite successful 

poems ... I know you are not really a poetolator, but aren’t you 

infected in so far as you think of the poet as a special kind of man 

instead of a man who can do a special thing ... It all began when 

Wordsworth v. foolishly transferred critical attention from the 

fruitful enquiry, ‘what kind of art is poetry?’ to the silly enquiry 

‘what kind of man is a poet’ - silly, because the only true answer 

(a poet is a man who makes poetry) throws one back on the first 

question ... If Shakespeare’s late plays are bad, there may be 

several simpler reasons than you suggest ...” ending by inviting 

him to continue the discussion if he wishes, 4 sides 4to., n.p., 23rd 

November 1937, lacking top left hand corner of second sheet 

without affecting the text, [SD26072] SOLD 

An extraordinary and revealing letter. Unpublished 

304. LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, 

American Poet) 

ALS toJoseph Grun in England regretting that he does not 

have either “of the autographs you most desire. Insttead I 

send you a few others, which perhaps may have some 

interest for you ...”, 1 side 8vo, with envelope in another 

hand, Cambridge, 28th November 1879 [SD26590]£325


ALMESBURY (James Edward Harris, 1778- 

1841, 2nd Earl, Deputy Secretary for War) 

ALS ‘Malmesbury’ to Laurence Sulivan, (1783- 

1866), saying that Mr. Cooke’s brother “would do very 

well. His family is a most respectable one ... As to 

Learning he must be more than Equal to conducting the 

Education of Boys so young as my nephews ... G. Bowles 

arrived last night - Will Palmerston Draw you down to 

Broadlands? - From what He said to me I expect soon to 

hear of his being there. I wish Count Michel was at Odessa 

again. This, I conclude, he soon will be, as Varna has 

fallen”, 3 sides 8vo., Heron Court, Christchurch, 

Hampshire, 31st October 1828 [SD15101]£45 

The 2nd Earl was a close friend of Palmerston, who was the 1st 

Earl’s ward. Sulivan was Palmerston’s closest friend at 

Cambridge. He was Private Secretary to Palmerston at the War 

Office from 1809, and married his sister Elizabeth (‘Lilly’). 

General Sir George Bowles, 1787-1876, was the second son of 

William Bowles, of Heale House, Wiltshire. Admiral of the Fleet 

William Bowles married Palmerston’s sister Fanny, in 1820. 

306. [MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, Princess, Sister of 

Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon)] 

TLS from the Hon. Iris Peake (the Hon. Mrs Oliver 

Dawnay, b.1923), her Lady-in-Waiting, to Domini, Lady 

Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), about “the Lawn Tennis 

Exhibition Games in aid of your North Islington Infant 

Welfare Centre” at Lady Crosfield’s home in Highgate, 

unfortuately the Princess will be away on both days, Queen 

Mother’s arms at head including Bowes-Lyon, 1 side 4to., 

Clarence House, 31st January 1959 [SD19464]£45 

307. MARIA FEODOROVNA (Empress, 1759-1828, 

wife of Paul I, mother of Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I) 

Autograph letter signed, in French with translation, in her 

tiny hand, to ‘Your Majesty my Sister and Cousin’, saying 

“the remembrance of Your Majesty ... is still more 

precious” at a time when “all Your thoughts cannot but be 

focused on what is happening all around You ... May the 

happiest events mark this year for You, Madame; at last 

divine goodness is making us hope for an end to the 

unhappiness which overwhelms such a great part of the 

world ... Please remember me, Madame, to your amiable 

family ... and believe me for life ... Your Majesty’s most 

devoted Sister and Cousin”, 1 side 8vo and conjugate 

blank, St. Petersburg, 2nd February 1807 [SD50251]£450 

The Empress, born Princess Sophie Dorothea, was the eldest 

daughter of Friedrich Eugen, (1732-1797), Duke of Württemberg. 

After Trafalgar Napoleon had overrun most of Europe, and indeed 

her son Alexander I was soon to agree terms with him at Tilsit. 

308. MARIA GEORGIEVNA (1876-1940, daughter of 

George I of the Hellenes, and wife of Georgi Mikhailovich, 

grandson of Emperor Nicholas I and Lieutenant -General) 

Photograph Signed, by Boissonnas & Eggler, successors to 

A. Pasetti of St. Petersburg, showing her head and 

shoulders, wearing a coronet, a magnificent embroidered 

gown, afur cape, and a necklace with graded pendants, 5½” 

x4”inoriginal mount 8¾” x 6½”, inscribed Tatoi, 1903 

[SD50253]£225 

Maria’s husband was assassinated in 1919. In 1922 she married 

Vice-Admiral Perikles Ioannides of the Greek Navy. 

309. MARIA PAVLOVNA (1854-1920, née Princess of 

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of Grand Duke Vladimir, 

1847-1909, uncle of Nicholas II) 

ALS, in French with translation, to “my dear Prince”, 

saying how sorry she was “not to see you in Berlin when we 

passed through. You should have asked Augustine who 

was up”, but is glad to know “you are far from Odessa and 

its dangers and have gone to your poor wife ... Truly Russia 

is not a good place to live in at this moment” with its 

“succession of killings”, it is just as cold “as in the good old 

days ... The Grand Duke cannot go out ... I go round in a 

covered sledge for charity work, and that is our life. In the 

evenings we play bridge furiously ... It’s a good way to 

make one forget what one cannot change. - We were 

deeply anxious about my daughter after her confinement but 

all is well now. Boris is in Cairo and the Kirills are in 

Coburg expecting a happy family event ... God grant that 

1907 be happier for all”, gilt crowned monogram, 4 sides 

8vo., Tsarskoe Selo (in Russian characters), 4th/17th 

January 1907 [SD50014]£475 

Their only daughter Elena gave birth in Athens on 6th December 

1906 to Marina, later Duchess of Kent. Son Boris was a Major- 

General, and Kirill later head of the Imperial House. His wife 

Victoria Melita was the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 

and was expecting Maria, later Princess of Leiningen. 

310. MARIE (Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, 1818-1907, 

Queen of George V, 1819-1878, Last King of Hanover) 

Letter in German signed ‘Marie K[önigin]’ to Herr von 

Loesecke, at Hettensen by Göttingen, in the former 

kingdom of Hanover, in German, saying “To you and the 

untiring energy of the devoted Companions of Song my 

deep-felt thanks for such delightful wishes for my 

happiness; friendly greetings to you all”, 1 side 8vo., 

Gmunden, Upper Austria, 13 April 1873, lightly mended at 

ends of creases [SD9969]£125 

The blind king George V, who had supported Austria in the war of 

1866, settled in Gmunden with his family after Prussia absorbed 

his kingdom. 

311. MARIE FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847- 

1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ) 

with her sister ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, 

Queen of Edward VII), and her niece Princess 

VICTORIA (1868-1935) 

Superb photo of the two sisters with the young Princess 

signed byall three and dated by Queen Alexandra, showing 

them three quarters length, standing together, the Queen 

stands in the centre with her sister on her left and her 

daughter on her right, they are all similarly dressed in 

beaded dresses each with a flowery corsage and long strings 

of pearls, 7½” x 5½” in decorated mount 11” x 9”, n.p., 

1908 [SD25999]£2,750 

312. MASSENET (Jules, 1842-1912, French Composer) 

Fine portrait photo by H. Manny, signed and inscribed to 

“Madam Dexter Fearjon trés respectueux hommage”, 

showing him half length, looking to one side, 9” x 6”, in 

mount 13” x 10”, n.p., n.d., dated on the verso 1889, 

slightly damaged on the signature [SD11991]£375


313. MARIE HENRIETTE (1836-1902, from 1853 Wife 

of Leopold II of the Belgians, Youngest daughter of 

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776-1847) ) 

Manuscript Letter in French with translation, signed, to 

Luigi Galimberti, (1836-1896, Cardinal from 1893), 

thanking him for “the attention which Your Eminence has 

shown Me in informing Me of your elevation to the rank of 

Cardinal” and offering her “sincere good wishes for the 

high dignity with which the Holy Father has deigned to 

invest You ... I pray, My Cousin, that God may keep you in 

His holy and worthy care”, 1 side 4to., with conjugate 

blank, Brussels,10th February 1893, small light mark at top 

right corner of recto without loss [SD14439]£145 

Leo XIII had made Galimberti his nuncio to the Austro-Hungarian 

Empire on 23rd May 1887. He was created Cardinal on 16th 

January 1893, and received his Red Hat on 15th June. 

314. MARLBOROUGH (Sarah, 1660-1744, née 

Jennings, favourite of Queen Anne, wife of John, 1st Duke) 

Signature on the verso of a part printed treasury order 

concerning duties on “Malt, Mum Cyder and Perry...”, 

ordering payment of “Sarah Dutchess Dowager of 

Marlborough, the Right Honourable Francis Earl of 

Godolphin and the Right Honourable William Lond 

Dundon ...”, all three of whom have signed on the back, 8” 

x 4.5”, n.p., 1736, the bottom part of the document is 

browned and frayed [SD26442]£225 

315. MAURICE (Revd. Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, 

Leader of the Christian Socialists) 

ALS to Mrs Gillum, thanking her and Col. Gillum for 

inviting him and his wife to “your new house”, venturing to 

enquire “whether it will be convenient ... for a few days ... 

this day week ... I am to preach on Sunday at Whitehall & 

the day after we intend to start for the Isle of Wight ... tell 

us exactly how you are situated”, 3 sides 8vo., n.p., 20th 

July [1871] [SD15132]£35 

Maurice was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, 1866- 

1872, and Cambridge Preacher at Whitehall, July 1871. As a 

Professor at King’s London, he had founded in 1848 the Queen’s 

College, the first English college for the higher education of 

women. Most of the professors were friends from King’s. “It was 

founded on the loftiest principles, with no marks, no prizes, and 

no examinations, only sheer education. Among its early students 

were Miss Octavia Hill, Miss Buss and Miss Beale” (S.C. 

Carpenter). 

316. MAZZINI (Giuseppe, 1805-1872, Italian patriot, 

with Cavour & Garibaldi achieved the unification of Italy) 

Important UNPUBLISHED Autograph Letter in Italian 

with text and translation of the whole, in Mazzini’s tiny 

hand, to Filippo DE BONI , (1816-1870, fellow 

conspirator), [in Lausanne], headed by De Boni in Italian 

‘replied the 14th’, the first 4 sides out of 5, the fifth being in 

the Nathan collection, one and one-third sides contain the 

earliest account of Mazzini’s proposals for a new journal 

L’Iniziativa, and form the missing link between letters no. 

2306 and 2307 (see the National Edition Vol. 33, Imola, 

1921), now proved to be parts of the same letter, annotated 

in another hand in Italian ‘From Mazzini to De Boni, 

Arch[ivio] T[riennale] Vol. 1 44331 [?, for 442-3]’, 4 sides 

8vo., with an attractive carte-de-visite photograph of 

Mazzini ca. 1865 by Elliott and Fry, London, n.p. [at S. 

Hamilton Esq., 19 Cropley Street, New North Road, 

London], n.d. [3rd January 1848] [SD9535]£950 

Along, passionate letter written on the eve of the great upheavals 

of 1848. Mazzini chafes at the lack of action, the Pope’s retreat 

from Liberalism, Cavour’s new paper ‘Il Risorgimento’ and its 

attempt at conciliation, and the ‘Arcadian’ tone of another new 

paper. “I saw your name among the collaborators of the 

‘Concordia’ ... Valerio is in grave danger of falling into these 

sentimental politics ... among the neo-Catholics, who forgive 

everything, hope for everything from everybody, embrace king, 

people, federalists, unionists, and expect the resurrection of Italy 

to take place in Arcadia. The very title is Arcadian. ‘Concordia’ ? 

Between whom ?” In the next, unpublished passage ,Mazzini 

proposes a radical new journal, to the left of Cavour’s and 

Valerio’s: “I hate to think of us back in the middle of 1793. If we 

cannot find men of action in Italy, I would prefer you to make for 

Tuscany incharge of a journal that would be really ours, some 

kind of monthly or fortnightly Review, which I would like to call 

’L’Iniziativa’ ,whose mission would be to create an apostolate 

”, Mazzini’s favourite word for his own life’s work, “of true 

Italian principles among intelligent young men ... I would 

collaborate as much as I could, and further I would have the help 

of Giannone and several others with him. We cannot undertake a 

journal that is popular, active and polemical in Italy; our distance 

makes it impossible. But it is very necessary to train the 

nucleus of a National party that can ‘think’ ,andup to now I do 

not see any such nucleus”, Mazzini would provide in each issue 

“one good part devoted to theory for the future”, De Boni the 

practical and editorial, “you could be the one to make it work ... A 

third part ... could be of special interest by collecting opinions on 

our affairs from abroad; ... this would be my task ... Florence 

would be the place ... Some money could be found ... I could 

probably provide as your hard working collaborator Lizabe 

Ruffoni, the editor of ‘Il Conciliatore’ in Paris, who is now 

thinking of moving to Tuscany ... who has made a profound study 

of history and of our principles”, offering to find subscribers, 

“Think a little and let me know ... You are close to a printer’s” 

and could work out “the cost of a fortnightly review ... I would 

extend the Programme ... leaving the way open to whatever 

touches the honour and future existence of the Nation”, and 

hoping they can meet in any event, “I suppose the half-way place 

could be Brussels or Paris”. (For the conclusion see the published 

Letter 2307, and the text and translation accompanying the present 

item). The parts of the letter were no doubt separated when the 

first two and two-thirds sides, of the four present here, were 

printed at Capolago in Switzerland in 1850. They form pp. 442- 

443 of ‘Archivio Triennale’, Vol. I, an account of Italian affairs 

from Pius IX’s accession in 1846 to the recapture by Austria of 

Venice in 1849. The present original reveals a few minor changes 

of wording. Ernesto Nathan, 1845-1921, owned the remaining 

page. His parents had befriended Italian exiles in England, and he 

first met Mazzini about 1859 in Switzerland. Besides being 

Mayor of Rome, 1907-1913, he promoted the National Edition of 

Mazzini’s works, and later gave his collection to the state. Lizabe 

Ruffoni and Pietro Giannone founded ‘Il Conciliatore’ in Paris in 

1847. It lasted a few numbers and in the spring of 1848 they 

returned to Italy where they joined Mazzini; plans for 

‘L’Iniziativa’ were overtaken by the need for action. ‘Young 

Italy’ was replaced by Mazzini’s ‘Associazione Nazionale 

Italiana’, with Ruffoni and Giannone as Secretary and Vice- 

President. 

317. MEAD (Richard, 1673-1754, M.D., Vice-President 

of the Royal Society, Connoisseur and Bibliophile) 

Signature on a part Treasury Order of 4th April 1741, 

assigning his interest in it to John Gore and James Mead, 

with signatures of witnesses and registrar, 2 sides 4¼” x 9”, 

7th January (1741 O.S.), 1742 [SD20143]£30


318. MAXIMILIAN II (1811-1864, from 1848 King of 

Bavaria) 

Fine letter inItalian with translation, signed, to Teodolfo 

Mertel, (1806-1899, Cardinal from 1858), thanking him for 

his good wishes “on the return of the Holy Feast of the 

Nativity”, wishing him in return “the most complete 

prosperity”, and asking him to be persuaded of his “perfect 

esteem”, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Munich, 31st 

January 1864 [SD14433]£325 

While still crown prince, Maximilian rebuilt Schloss 

Hohenschwangau in the mountains and made it a centre for artists 

and men of learning. Coming to the throne in the eventful year of 

1848, he sought a middle way for Germany between the rivalry of 

Austria and Prussia, and granted Bavaria a constitution in 1859. 

He continued to invite scientists such as Liebig to Munich, 

regardless of their religious views, in spite of criticism from the 

ultramontane party. This letter was signed a few weeks before he 

died on 10th March. 

Cardinal Mertel, born at Allumiere, Civitavecchia, was vicechancellor 

(the highest legal post) of the Roman Church, from 

1884. 

319. MICHAEL (Grand Duke, 1878-1918, Tsar 28th-29th 

March 1917, Youngest Brother of Nicholas II, Tsar 1894- 

1917) 

ALS ‘Misha’ to his brother Grand Duke GEORGE , 

1871-1899, in Russian with translation, hoping that “we 

shall see each other very soon. I am very very glad you are 

recovered ... here in Gatchino everything is starting to turn 

green. On the 6th May I was given a marvellous kayak like 

Nikin’s, I went shooting twice and killed only 9 grouse”, he 

is “sending you a prehistoric axe I made myself, nobody 

helped me, I thought of it all on my own”, ruled in pencil, at 

the end is asketch ofasailing boat ,figures on the shore 

and cliff top are shouting “Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!”, 4 

sides 8vo., red crowned monogram ‘M[ikhail] 

A[lexandrovich]’, Gatchino, n.d., c. 1890 [SD19426]£675 

Michael enjoyed country life and his animals; he was a good shot, 

proud and obstinate. George had started in the Navy but went 

down with tuberculosis. He spent summers at Abas Tuman in the 

Caucasus, opposite the Crimea, and went to Algeria in the winter. 

Michael became heir to the throne after George died in 1899, till 

the Tsesarevich Alexei was born in 1904. Nicholas II abdicated 

for himself and his son on 28th March 1917, but Michael refused 

to ascend the throne without the will of the people and himself 

renounced the throne on 29th March. He was killed by the 

Bolsheviks at Perm about 28th July 1918. 

320. MICHAEL MIKHAILOVITCH (Grand Duke, 

1832-1909, Field Marshal, son of Tsar Nicholas I, brother 

of Tsar Alexander II) 

Fantastic original cabinet photo by Ch. Bergamasco in St 

Petersbourg, signed and dated, showing him head and 

shoulders, in original Imperial presentation frame , in an 

opulent design of pillars and arches, made out of an ivory 

style material, 10” x 7½”, 1893 [SD22215]£1,500 

These magnificent presentation frames superceded the ivory ones 

used 50 years before, when Alexander III came to the throne and 

decided that presentation frames should not be as expensive as 

they had been before. These are very early examples. 

321. METHUEN (Paul Sanford, 1845-1932, Field 

Marshal, Commander in Chief in South Africa, 3rd Baron) 

ALS to‘My dear Ralph’ telling him that he is “now signing 

the District Order to say you retire - goodbye, old chap, it 

hasbeen a long, and on the whole, a happy 19 years, that we 

have had and I dont know a dearer pal than you have been 

to me, or I would not write this note”, 1 side 8vo., Horse 

Guards, Whitehall, S.W., 20th June 1883 [SD15118]£45 

322. MILITZA (MILICA) (1880-1946, née Duchess 

Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of Danilo II, Crown 

Prince and, for 6 days, King-in-Exile of Montenegro) 

ALS inEnglish to Mrs. Carminati, saying that “the Prince 

has just come back from Bordighera where he went to see 

Queen Margherita”, mother of Vittorio Emmanuele III, and 

San Remo “to inquire if there any parcels for us” without 

success, including “the box with music belonging to M. 

Gnechi”, she writes so that M. Gnechi “can make inquiries 

at the station”, they are looking forward to hearing Mlle. 

Amstedt sing at MonteCarloinJanuary, at the moment “not 

feeling well” from winter ailments she writes “in haste” 

with “best love”, crowned ‘M’ in heading, 3 sides 8vo., Cap 

Martin, 19th December 1920 [SD50255]£125 

The Princess’ father-in-law, Nikola I, was deposed on 26th 

November 1918 and the following year the elected government 

chose to unite Montenegro with the new Yugoslavia. With his 

German wife, Danilo had felt uncomfortable about opposing 

Austria during the War, and shortly after Nikola I’s death in 1921 

abdicated his rights to his nephew Michael. 

323. MONTGOMERY (Viscount of Alamein, Bernard 

Law, 1887-1976, Field Marshal) 

Printed pamphlet, “Conferment of the Honorary Freedom of 

the Borough of Douglas upon Field Marshal the Viscount 

Montgomery ...”, signed on the front, with a biography and 

photo of the Field Marshal and the Order of Ceremony, 5 

pages 8vo., Douglas, 13th May 1948 [SD26578]£125 

324. MOORE (Maj.-Gen. Sir J. Jeremy, b. 1928, MC, 

Commander of Land Forces in the Falklands, May-July 

1982, Colonel Commandant RM) 

ALS toPeter Evans, talking about the war in the South 

Atlantic, “I am not a historian ... I suspect we are too close 

to the event”, but “there are principles for which it is right - 

indeed essential - that we stand up and, if necessary, fight ... 

The main memory ... is that it was, as always, squalid, 

bloody and awful, but that good men are capable of rising 

above this”, together with his photograph signed ,5½”x 

4”, and a magazine copy of Robert Taylor’s print ‘South 

Atlantic Task Force’, 2 sides folio, Wiltshire, 9th December 

1985 [SD50041]£75 

325. MORLEY (John, 1838-1923, O.M., Journalist and 

Radical Politician, Secretary for India 1905-1910, from 

1908 1st Viscount) 

ALS to‘My dear Sir’, saying “I am much obliged to you for 

consenting to take this extra trouble ... as Xmas hurries us 

... No, I can’t tell you who printed the things you speak of. 

Ld. Houghton gave them to me as something curious”, 1 

side 8vo., n.p., 14th December 1873, a little foxed at fold 

[SD19277]£30


326. MOUNTBATTEN (Earl Louis, of Burma, 1900- 

1979, Admiral of the Fleet, Victoria’s Great Grandson) & 

his wife EDWINA (Countess, 1901-1960, Chairman of 

the Red Cross) 

Superb presentation photo by Baron signed by both 

(“Dickie” & “Edwina”) in white and also by the 

photographer, showing them standing together wearing their 

State Robes and holding their coronets, 10” x 8” in original 

blue presentation frame with gilt monogram at the head, 

12½” x 9½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1948 [SD23105]£1,250 

While Viceroy of India 

327. MULGRAVE (3rd Earl, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 

John Sheffield, 1648-1721, Patron of Dryden & Friend of 

Pope, Lord Chamberlain) 

Fine Warrant signed as Lord Chamberlain of the Household 

to James II addressed to Richard GRAHAM, Viscount 

Preston (1648-1695, Jacobite, Lord President of the 

Council) as “Master of the Greate Wardrobe” ordering him 

to deliver “unto James Graham Esq, A Bare hide and two 

travelling Trunks, as he is His Majst privy purse, And a 

Waggon Cloth to cover the Waggon that carries the Dogs, 

as he is Master of His Majst Buckhounds ...”, 1 side folio, 

n.p., 10th March 1688 [SD2333]£150 

In March 1685 Colonel James GRAHAM (1649-1730) was 

made Master of the Buckhounds and Harthounds and at the same 

time he was admitted as Keeper of the Privy Purse. After the 

encouragement of Catholicism hunting was probably James II’s 

main priority. 

328. MUNTHE (Axel, 1857-1949, Swedish Born Author 

of ‘The Story of San Michele') 

APCS to Lady Berkeley, on the back of a picture postcard 

of Capri, telling her that “Nannina (?) is since 2 years with a 

73 year old german lady to whom I have lent a little house 

here, she is a jewess and very helpless ... Sorry, I told you 

you would regret having sent her away. I am coming to 

Ville Svezno about Xmas time ...”, 1 side postcard, n.p., 

n.d. (Capri) [SD2337]£75 

329. MUSSOLINI (Benito, 1883-1945, ‘Il Duce’, Italian 

Dictator & Prime Minister, Founder of the Fascist Party) 

Telegram in Italian with translation, to Marchese Camillo 

CUSANI VISCONTI at Chignolo Po, on the death of the 

latter’s father Admiral Lorenzo CUSANI VISCONTI , 

1864-1925, deputy chief to the king at supreme command 

during the first world war, commander-in-chief, lower 

Adriatic, 1918-1919, saying that “The Royal Navy which 

saw him rise to the highest ranks ... turns its thoughts in the 

hour of sadness to the admiral who has left us and with 

martial pride salutes him”, complete telegram form, Rome, 

19th July (received 20th) 1925 [SD9313]£75 

330. MUSSOLINI (Benito, 1883-1945, ‘Il Duce’, Italian 

Dictator & Prime Minister, Founder of the Fascist Party) 

Fine photograph signed with the place and date, on the 

mount, showing him head and shoulders looking down, 8” x 

5”, in mount 11.5” x 7.5”, in fine original leather frame 

Rome, 9th March 1932 - X [SD26428]£500 

APIER (Sir Charles, 1786-1860, Admiral & M.P.) 

AL in the third person to Miss Hay, “he has great 

pleasure in complying with her request” for an 

autograph, 1 side 8vo., n.p., 24th May 1842, laid 

down on stiff paper [SD15141]£25 

Sir Charles commanded the Portuguese Fleet for Queen Maria II 

in the civil war with Don Miguel, 1833, and was made a 

Portuguese peer for his victory off Cape St. Vincent. At Beirut 

(1840) he disobeyed orders to retire with the land forces under his 

command, fought and won, then signed a convention with 

Mohammed Ali without authority. The convention was 

repudiated but made the basis of subsequent negotiations, and 

Napier was knighted on his return. 

332. NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Last Emperor of Russia 

from 1894, assassinated after the revolution) 

Fine Document in Russian with translation, signed with 

autograph subscription ‘and in gratitude Nicholas’, to 

Alexei Nikolaevich KUROPATKIN, (1848-1925, 

Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Russo-Japanese 

War 1904-1905, Governor of Turkestan 1916-1917), 

written on his fiftieth anniversary of joining the army, with 

an interesting citation of his Army career in Turkestan, the 

Turkish war, and Trans-Caspia, saying “Your brilliant 

fighting ascomrade-in-arms of our national hero Adjutant- 

General Skobelev, was recognized by ... the Order of St. 

George ... 4th and 3rd Class ... You putyour experience 

gained in the field to great use in your writings on ... tactical 

positions ... appointed Governor of the Province of Trans- 

Caspia and its Military Commander...”, Nicholas adds, 

“valuing both your fighting experience and your especial 

industry and persistence in the field of administration, I 

appointed you in 1898 ... Minister of War, to fulfil a 

number of reforms ... Your painstaking work” to put the 

armed forces in readiness was “suddenly interrupted by ... 

the war against Japan ... From the beginning of the present 

unparalleled war, impudently declared on Us by Germany, 

you remained eager for active service and ... willingly 

assumed command of the Corps of Grenadiers. 

Appreciating your ... selfless yearning to serve Me and the 

Motherland to the end, I, in February this year, appointed 

you Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Northern 

Front ...”, but now Nicholas calls on his special experience 

to make him Governor of Turkestan, (which was becoming 

a centre of unrest), marking his anniversary with “Our 

Imperial Order of St. Vladimir, Apostle and Prince, 1st 

Class, the insignia of which I send herewith, commanding 

you towear and diplay them according to statute”, 4 sides 

4to. in a fine copperplate hand, Imperial Staff [St. 

Petersburg], 8 August 1916 [SD26033]£1,400 

Kuropatkin was recognized in his thirties as one of Europe’s finest 

soldiers, but his reputation suffered badly at the Russian defeat at 

Mukden in 1905. The Russian forces, nearly 300,000 men, were 

extended over a 90-mile front and overtaken by the Japanese 

thrust before they could concentrate. This was largely due to 

Kuropatkin's subjection to Nicholas’ Viceroy in the Far East, 

Admiral Alexeev, and partly to friction among the generals. 

Kuropatkin wrote the classic history of the Turkish war of 1877- 

1878, but the last of his four volumes on the Japanese war, in 

which he freely admits his mistakes, was banned in Russia and 

had to be published in Germany. In 1917 he retired to his former 

estate and taught in a secondary school and at an agricultural 

college he had founded.


333. [NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Emperor of Russia) and 

his wife ALEXANDRA (1872-1918)] 

Official Printed Volume, in French, of the Orders of 

Ceremonies at their Coronation and Sacring, issued by 

the Master of the Household, Count Voronzov-Dashkov, in 

splendid and at times touching detail, the largest sections 

are of the immense Procession from the Petrovsky Palace to 

the Kremlin, stopping at Churches on the way, and the 

Coronation ceremony itself in the Throne Room, finally 

Nicholas places the crown on his own head, removes it and 

touches the Empress’ forehead with it, before replacing it, 

then himself performs Alexandra’s own coronation, no 

detail is omitted, bound in olive-green velvet, the front 

cover with brass onlays of a crowned cipher, and four 

elegant corner pieces of a double lily ,together 72 sides 

folio, Moscow, for 14th May 1896, afewbrown spots on 

top cover and light impressions in the velvet 

[SD50203]£1,500 

Thevolume contains: 

1. The Foreign Sovereigns and Princes, (48 in all). 

2. Their Suites. 

3. The visiting Diplomatic Corps. 

4. The Ambassadors Extraordinary. 

5. The Order of the Procession of the Diplomatic Corps. 

6. The Solemn Entry into Moscow. 

7. The Translation of the Imperial Emblems. 

8. The Coronation and Sacring. 

9. The Solemn Proclamation of the Day of the Coronation. 

334. NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, from 1894 Emperor of 

Russia) 

Finely written Letter Signed, in Russian with translation, to 

Umberto I of Italy, saying that “it has pleased the Almighty 

to visit Our House with profound grief. The beloved cousin 

of my father, His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Alexei 

Michaelovich, son of Our Beloved Great-Uncle ... Grand 

Duke Michael Nikolaevich, passed away after a protracted 

and grave illness at San Remo, on the 18th February last, in 

the 20th year of his age”, and that he is convinced that the 

King “shares sincerely in the grief that has overtaken Us ... 

Your Majesty’s Good Brother and Friend”, with original 

envelope and papered seal, 2 sides folio black-edged, St. 

Petersburg, 9th March “in the 1st year of Our reign” 1895, 

short split in one fold without loss, two small holes in 

envelope including seal, corresponding holes in document 

carefully mended but with miscorrection to last four letters 

of one word in titlesl [SD50229]£1,500 

Signed also by Prince Lobánov-Rostovski (1824-1896), the 

new Minister for Foreign Affairs. With a long list of over 50 of 

the Emperor’s titles. The heading (in capitals, varied each line) 

and the titles are lithographed. The letter then continues in an 

almost indistinguishable ‘copperplate’ hand. 

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 

335. NAPOLEON (Louis Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856- 

1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a reconnoitring 

party at Ulundi, Zululand) 

Exceptionally rare carte de visite photo by Downey, signed 

“Louis Napoleon” with the place and dated, showing the 

boy half length, seated, 4¼” x 2½”, Chislehurst, August 

1871 [SD26596]£975 

336. NEGRETE (Pedro R., Guatemalan Ambassador in 

London) 

Part Bill of Exchange, drawn by Benito & Co. against 

Baring Brothers of London’s letter of credit to C. Adolphe 

Low&Co. ofSan Francisco (dated New York 15th January 

1877), for £800 to Manuel Enriquez, receiver of taxes for 

the republic, endorsed by him to Martin Barrundia, Minister 

of War, and by him to Negrete, with the latter’s signature, 

Guatemala, 19th March 1877 [SD20144]£45 

337. NICHOLAS (Grand Duke, 1859-1919, Historian, 

Son of Grand Duke Michael, Grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, 

executed in 1919) 

Fantastic original cabinet photo by Ch. Bergamasco in St 

Petersbourg, signed and dated, showing him head and 

shoulders, in original Imperial presentation frame , in an 

opulent design of pillars and arches, made out of an ivory 

style material, 10” x 7½”, 1893 [SD22216]£1,500 

The Grand Duke’s family nickname was ‘Bimbo’! Maxim Gorky, 

friend of Lenin, tried to prevent his execution, but Lenin said that 

“The Revolution doesn’t need Historians”. 

These magnificent presentation frames superceded the ivory ones 

used 50 years before, when Alexander III came to the throne and 

decided that presentation frames should not be as expensive as 

they had been before. These are very early examples. 

338. NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH (1831-1891, 3rd son of 

Emperor Nicholas I, Russian Field Marshal) 

Exceptional imperial cabinet photograph by Messy, signed, 

showing him full length in military uniform, 8¼” x 5¼”, 

Nice, n.d., c. 1890 [SD50259]£325 

Grand Duke Nikolai was a General of Engineers, and at 

Sebastopol under Todleben directed the fortifications to the North 

and East. In 1877, as the Tsar’s brother, he commanded the Army 

of the South, facing the Turkish Army across the Danube. 

339. NOVARRO (Ramón, b.1899 at Durango, Mexico, 

stage name of Ramon Gil Samanriegos) 

TLS ‘Ramón Novarro’ to James Coneys, thanking him 

warmly “for your remembrance of me at Christmas and 

New Year”, with three photographs of Novarro, one on a 

postcard showing him in Durango market, the letter 1 side 

8vo., n.p., 19th March 1955 [SD13031]£75 

Novarro starred inthe films ‘Rupert of Hentzau’ (1923), ‘Ben 

Hur’ (1926), ‘The Student Prince’ (1928), and many others. 

LEG KONSTANTINOVICH (Grand Duke, 

1892-1914, great-grandson of Nicholas I) 

Photograph, by P. Zhukov of St. Petersburg, 

showing him three-quarter length in military uniform with 

decorations, inscribed in French and signed by his mother 

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna (1865-1924, née 

Princess of Saxe-Altenburg), “In memory of my Oleg”, 6” x 

3¼” on mount 8¾” x 6½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1914, mount 

trimmed touching end of signature [SD50230]£375 

Grand Duke Oleg died of wounds received in action on 12th 

October 1914. 

341. OLIVIER (Lord Laurence, 1907-1989, Actor) 

Black & White photo signed showing him head and 

shoulders in “A Little Romance”, 6½” x 4½”, n.p., 1978 

[SD15909]£85


342. ONSLOW (Arthur, 1691-1768, Speaker 1728-1761), 

and WALTON (Sir George, 1665-1739, Admiral) 

DS to Charles Lockyer, Accountant to the South Sea 

Company, praying him to pay “Ph. Booth £6 p. Ct principal 

mony on the Sum of £500 being all the Stock standing in 

our joint names ... which wee acknowledge to be in ... 

annihilation of so much of our said Stock”, with an 

engraved portait of Onslow, head and shoulders in 

Speaker’s wig and gown, by Ravenet, 4¼” x 4” in margins 

6½” x 4¾”, c. 1780, the document 1 side 6¾” x 6”, n.p., 

31st August 1730, laid down by margin of verso 

[SD50091]£225 

Signed also by John Jacob and J. Wainwright. Sir George is 

credited with the laconic phrase, “the number as per margin”, in 

reporting the Spanish squadron he captured off Sicily. 

343. OTRANTE (Theresa Catherine, d. 1901, née Stedint, 

Lady of the Bedchamber to Alexandra Princess of Wales, 

wife of the Duc d’Otrante) 

ALS toMrs. Williams, who has sent a card saying that her 

sister Mrs. G. Jones, nanny with the Princess of Wales, has 

died, “next to yourself I don’t think anybody can feel her 

death deeper than we do here ... I feel I have lost a real true 

friend ever since I knew her first in 67 ... Poor Fina is in 

despair ... pray give us every detail you possibly can”, 4 

sides 8vo., Elghammar, Björnlunda, Sweden, 27th July 

1881 [SD18662]£35 

The writer, daughter of a Swedish Major-General, was formerly 

the wife of the Hon. William George Grey, 1819-1865, 8th son of 

the Prime Minister. Dr Greane attended the Princess’ children, 

and Mrs Walkley was also in the household. 

344. OTTO I (1848-1916, from 1886-1913 King of 

Bavaria) 

ALS, in French with translation, to ‘My dear Count’, Count 

Boleslas Potocki (Pototski), thanking him for his letter 

about his recent tour of the East, Otto recalls his own tour, 

and the feeling “when for the first time one is able to say 

one’s prayers at all these places made sacred by the story of 

Our Lord Jesus Christ !”, he talks of Bethlehem and 

Jerusalem where the Bishop “made me a knight of the order 

founded by Godfrey of Bouillon”, and of Egypt, “You have 

chosen a very interesting moment for your stay in Rome; 

how itwould interest me ... to be present at the ceremonial 

acts of the Council !”, he has just met at family dinner the 

Queen of Württemberg (Olga, 1822-1892, daughter of 

Nicholas I), hopes any reports of the Tsar’s illness are 

exaggerated, and says that the King and he are looking 

forward to Potocki’s visit, blue and white crowned 

monogram, 4 sides 8vo., Munich, 26th December 1869, a 

trifle marked, three short marginal tears without loss 

[SD50231]£275 

Otto, like his brother Ludwig II, became mentally deranged and 

ruled entirely under the regencies of his uncle Prince Luitpold and 

his cousin Prince Ludwig (III). 

The Vatican Council of 1869-1870 was hotly debated in Bavaria. 

In Munich Professor Döllinger opposed the doctrine of Papal 

Infallibility, and became the leader of the Old Catholics, to whom 

the King gave moral and practical support. 

From a group of letters addressed to Potocki. 

345. ORFORD (Edward Russell, 1652-1727, Admiral, 

victor of La Hougue, 1st Earl) 

Portrait engraved by S. Boyce, showing him head and 

shoulders in full wig and cravat, with a naval battle below 

the oval frame, 14¾” x 8¾”, n.d., c. 1775, laid down by 

side margins [SD50167]£110 

Russell was one of the seven who in June 1688 signed the 

invitation to the Prince of Orange to become King. For the Battle 

of Barfleur and St. Vaast-la-Hougue (1692), in which Russell 

defeated the last great fleet to attempt an invasion of England, to 

replace James II on the throne, see e.g. Nigel Calder, ‘The English 

Channel’, pp. 102-105. 

346. OUIDA (Louise de la Ramee, 1839-1908, Author) 

ALS toVera telling her that her “friend has begun making 

the drawings of my villa, he is an accomplished 

draughtsman & a good master of perspective used to 

drawing for engravers ...”, 4 sides 8vo, n.p., 3rd October 

1883, repaired on central fold, dustmarked [SD2483]£25 

‘Ouida’ was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and 

French father, who encouraged her in reading history, liberal 

politics, Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote ‘Held in Bondage’, 

1863, ‘Under Two Flags’, 1867, melodramatic tales of love and 

intrigue, and novels such as ‘Moths’, 1880, and ‘A Village 

Commune’, 1881, on social questions. From 1871 she lived in 

her beloved Florence. 

ANDIT (Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-1990, 

President of the UN Assembly 1953-1954, sister of 

Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minster of India 1947- 

1964) 

ALS to Domini, Lady Crosfield (née Elliadi, d. 1963), 

thanking her for “a most enjoyable evening” and for 

sending “the address of the Oriental Stores in such a nice 

way”, 1side 8vo., 9 Kensington Palace Gardens, W.8., 8th 

April 1955, pin holes in blank corner [SD19478]£55 

348. PARKINSON (John Allen, 1870-1941, M.P.) 

Fine portrait photograph by Swaine of Bond Street, signed, 

showing him half length seated, oblong 4½” x 7¾” on 

mount 6” x 9¼”, n.p., dated on verso 18th March 1924 

[SD15180]£25 

Parkinson was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1929-1931, 

and Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, 1931. 

349. PAUER (Ernst, 1825-1905, Austrian Pianist, Teacher 

and Composer) 

ALS, in German with translation, to Edward Dannreuther, 

(1844-1905, pianist), requesting his “Place, year and date of 

birth, name of teacher and place of study, a short, concise 

description of artistic career, titles of works for piano and 

any thing that you have written directly about the piano. 

Also ... any marks of honour”, 2 sides 8vo., 3 Onslow 

Houses, S.W., 25th April 1893 [SD16775]£50 

Pauer wrote ‘Musical Form’ for Novello, 1878, and ‘Dictionary of 

Pianists and Composers for the Piano’, 1895. He studied as a 

young man with Mozart’s son, F. X. W. Mozart. From 1876 he 

taught at the National Training School of Music, which became 

the Royal College in 1883, till his retirement in 1896. Before the 

age ofrecordings he made many valuable piano transcriptions of 

orchestral works for students. 

Dannreuther introduced the piano concertos of Liszt, Grieg and 

Tchaikovsky to London and founded the London Wagner Society 

in 1872.


350. PAUL (Karageorgevic, 1893-1976, Prince Regent of 

Yugoslavia, 1934-1941, during the minority of Peter II) 

Fine Manuscript Document in French (with translation), 

signed with autograph subscription ‘In the name of His 

Majesty King Peter II Paul’ to King George II of the 

Hellenes ,informing him that he has “decided to call to 

another position Monsieur Miodrag Lazarevic, who till now 

was fulfilling the functions of My Envoy Extraordinary and 

Minister Plenipotentiary with Your Majesty, I have had to 

bring to an end the important mission entrusted to him ... 

certain that ... Monsieur Lazarevic will have acquitted 

himself with success ... and that he will have attained the 

full and entire confidence of Your Majesty”, and assuring 

the King of his “high esteem and unalterable friendship”, in 

an elegant italic hand 1 side folio gilt edged paper with 

conjugate blank and accompanying envelope, both with 

large embossed paper seal of Yugoslavia, The Palace, 

Belgrade, 14th June 1939 [SD26036]£275 

When Alexander I was assassinated in 1934, his cousin Paul 

became regent for Alexander’s young son Peter II, (1923-1970). 

Paul had married Princess Olga, a cousin of King George’s, in 

1923, and created a ‘Greater Croatia’, including Bosnia and 

Herzegovina and Dubrovnik, to try to avoid a rupture between 

Serbs and Croats. Relations between the two countries in this 

document were put severely to the test in the War. Paul was 

forced into an alliance with Hitler on 5th March 1941 but a 

popular rising on 27th March forced him to hand over power to 

Peter II and go into exile. Peter reigned in exile 1941-1945 and 

was deposed in November 1945. 

351. PAUL I (1754-1801, from 1796 Emperor of Russia) 

Letter Signed to Captain (Sir) Alexander John BALL, 

1759-1809, friend of Nelson and Governor of Malta, 1801- 

1809, saying that following “the brilliant services which 

you have rendered the Sovereign Order of St. John of 

Jerusalem since the Island of Malta ... fell into the hands of 

the French ... We have decided ... to create you Honorary 

Commander of this Order” and sending “the Commander’s 

Cross for you to wear as a Decoration”, 1 side 4to., St. 

Petersburg, 21st December 1799, tiny defects at folds and a 

few short tears strengthened with old transparent paper 

[SD50204]£650 

When the French captured Malta, a key stage on the way to Egypt, 

Russia retaliated by founding new chapters of the Order. After the 

Battle of the Nile, Ball besieged Malta from 1798 to 1800. He 

committed the blockade to his lieutenant and himself led the 

marines and local militia on the land side. His care for his men 

laid the foundations of his popularity with the Maltese which 

lasted till his death. 

352. PETAR (1889-1932, third son of Nikola I of 

Montenegro) 

ALS, in French with translation, to ‘My dear Friend’, 

“authorizing you to approach ... the Minister of the 

Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who ... would 

... confirm that to this day I have not received from the 

Yugoslav Government the share due to me by Article 316 

of the Finance Law, 1927/1928”, gold crown in heading, 2 

sides 8vo., Rome, 14th December 1927 [SD50260]£150 

In 1922 the Conference of Ambassadors at Paris recognized the 

incorporation of Montenegro into the new Kingdom of 

Yugoslavia. Petar married Violet Emily Wegner, from Hackney, 

London. 

353. PHILIP V (1683-1746, Duke of Anjou, King of 

Spain from 1700, founder of the present Bourbon Dynasty, 

Grandson of Louis XIV of France) & Antonio UBILLA Y 

MEDINA (1643-1726, Secretary of State, Marques de 

Rivasfrom 1703) 

Fine Document in Spanish, with translation, signed by both, 

by the King as ‘Yo el Rey’, being a printed citation with the 

details filled in by hand, adding an Escudo to the salary of 

Captain Nicholas Splugar as reward for his service in 

suppressing the insurrection in Naples - “For the renowned 

constancy and valour shown by the Officials and Soldiers 

on the occasion of the tumult in this city on the 23rd of 

September of the past year [1701], and as proof of the 

gratitude ... I grant you an increase of one Escudo to 

whatever their Salary may be ...”, 1½ sides folio, Naples, 

1st June 1702 [SD2589]£250 

Philip succeeded to the Spanish throne through the will of Charles 

II, but the prospect of a French Prince ruling Spain caused 

widespread alarm throughout Europe & started the War of the 

Spanish Succession (1701-1713). This document refers to an 

early incident in that War. 

Philip reached Madrid on 28th January 1701, the first Bourbon 

King of Spain. Leopold of Austria attempted to stir up trouble in 

Italy, particularly Naples as recorded by this document. 

Ubilla accompanied Philip, the first Spanish King to visit his 

Italian Dominions in 150 years, to Naples and Milan. Philip was a 

weak king, ruled by his wife Isabella Farnese of Parma. 

354. PHILIPPE (VII) (Comte de Paris, 1838-1894, 

Prince Royal after the death of his father Ferdinand in 1848 

from a carriage accident and King of the French after his 

Grandfather’s abdication in 1848) 

Fine cabinet photo by Chalot, Paris, signed, “Philippe 

Comte de Paris” inscribed to “Monsieur de Montelle” with 

the place and date, showing him three quarters length, 

wearing an overcoat, 6¼” x 4¼”, in original brass and 

glass frame with a slight easel style back and a heavy 

bevilled glass, Vevey, May 1887 [SD26595]£375 

355. PRINGLE (Major General James, 1746 or 1747 - 

1810, Bengal Army) 

ALS tohis wife Sholto Charlotte (1773 or 1774 - 1853, d. 

of Sir John Halkett, 4th Bt.), in Exmouth, saying he has 

“offered my services to go out to India, should the Court of 

Directors think necessary”, he has an appointment with 

“Lord Cornwallis at eleven ... tomorrow. The news from 

India I fear is very bad ... The account of Lord Lake’s 

defeat ... is too true”, he will write tomorrow, “nothing 

grieves me but the necessity there appears, at present, of my 

leaving you, and my children ... May God Bless you my 

dearest Charlotte”, with a P.S., “they are in the greatest 

want of officers - so much for false economy”, black seal in 

Persian script divided on opening, 2 sides 4to., Gordons 

Hotel, Albemarle Street, 28th March 1805 [SD50015]£75 

Although Marquis Wellesley had broken the power of the French 

in India, the Court considered his reforms too advanced, and Lord 

Cornwallis went out to replace him later in 1805. 

With a certified contemporary copy from St. Cuthbert’s, 

Edinburgh, of the births of his daughters Mary (1801), Charlotte 

(1802) and Elizabeth (1806).


356. PRINGLE (Mary, b. 4th February 1801, later 

Beague, eldest daughter of Maj.-Gen. James Pringle, 1746 

or 1747-1810, Bengal Army) 

3 entertaining volumes of her Travel Journal on the 

Continent, in post-1815 Europe, from Le Havre to Paris, 

Switzerland and Italy, returning by Germany, the Rhine, 

Brussels and Rotterdam, 56 + 22 + 31 pp. text plus a few 

blanks, 8vo., stitched, marbled covers to 1st volume, 31st 

July 1819 - 28th August 1820, and 1st August 1821 - 8th 

October 1821 [SD50016]£375 

Mary travelled with her mother Charlotte (née Halkett, 1773 or 

1774-1853), her stepfather Stewart Boone Inglis (m. 1818), and 

sister Charlotte (b. 16th August 1806). Besides art and 

architecture she takes great interest in manufacturing processes, 

such as the silvering of plate glass at Paris, the Gobelins, and the 

great water tower shaped like an elephant and castle in the Place 

de la Bastille. She visits the Deaf and Dumb school in Paris, 

Pestalozzi in Switzerland, the agricultural school near Berne, and 

the military school in Milan, describing their methods (Pestalozzi 

gives the pupils examples, they deduce the rules for themselves). 

She admires the roads built by Napoleon, especially the Simplon, 

sees the statue of ‘Jupiter’ in Milan done with the head of 

Napoleon, and is even given at dinner there a lock of the 

Emperor’s hair. She admires too the grace with which ordinary 

French people dance for an evening’s relaxation at the Tivoli 

Gardens, gets invited to join a wedding party, and haggles with 

shopkeepers for the local price. When the party change horses, 

there is no stopping her and her mother clambering up for a fine 

view - her description of the successive heights at Milan Cathedral 

is particularly evocative. 

The party spend a month at Paris, where ‘restaurants’ are still 

comparatively new. They then hire a boy and four mules to go in 

eight days toGeneva. The famous sudden view of Mont Blanc, at 

sunset and cloudless, is “like magic”. They find themselves in the 

footsteps of Rousseau, Voltaire and Byron, whose name they see 

carved at Chillon. They stay long in Milan (October 1819 - 

August 1820), then take a house on Lake Como, visiting all the 

nobility’s gardens by boat. The story resumes in August 1821 in 

“Baden en Baden”. All roads, it seems, lead to the Frankfurt 

Autumn fair. The longest stop on the way home is at Brussels (10 

days), where they see the Duke of Wellington in the Park, along 

with Lord Castlereagh, ambassador Clancarty, and Lady Jersey. 

They find that the King of the Netherlands is expected, along with 

George IV, whom they have never seen in England, and who 

“astonished us by his immense size”. 

With many other vignette descriptions, of clothing, road travel, 

seeing Louis XVIII dine in public, and shrewd comments on 

actors and singers, fellow travellers and local notables. 

With sketches of the Great Tun at Heidelberg, and of the 

monument at Breda to Count Engelbrecht of Nassau. 

357. PRINGLE (Mary, b. 4th February 1801, later 

Beague, eldest daughter of Maj.-Gen. James Pringle, 1746 

or 1747-1810, Bengal Army) 

Sketch Book of 7 finished and 6 unfinished drawings, the 

finished include 2 of “Mr Egerton’s Cottage” with thatched 

roof and rustic portico, 2 of a 66-gun man-of-war, and 

studies of twigs (all pencil), with, in colour, 2 vignettes of 

country scenes, the figures in bright colours, the unfinished 

ones show farms, the coast, and looking out to sea, original 

marbled limp covers, 12 leaves 10½” x 8”, Teignmouth and 

n.p., n.d. and September 1823 - March 1824, old minor blot 

on front cover [SD50017]£350 

Slipped in are (native Indian) coloured drawings of an Indian 

gentleman writing at his table, a Grass Cutter and Smoking a 

Hookah, and two Indians bricklaying. 

358. PULSZKY (Therese, Wife of the Hungarian 

Politician and Author Ferencz Pulsky 1814-1897) 

ALS toMiss (Sabilla) Novello at Genoa, “You will have 

heard the joyful tidings about Garibaldi’s state of health”, 

alongside whom her husband had fought in 1862, with wry 

comments on doctor’s bills and “Dr. Partridge’s pleasure 

trips to Spezia which have been but too freely remunerated 

by the British public!!”, adding “Mr [J. Alfred] Novello”, 

1810-1896, “will have seen with pleasure Cobden’s speech 

at Rochdale [?November 1864]”, “none but Louis 

Napoleon can rejoice if the two great nations stand opposed 

to each other”, delivered by hand by her husband, 2 sides 

8vo., Turin, 3rd November n.y., c. 1864 [SD13115]£75 

359. PUSEY (Dr. Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882, Anglican 

High Church Leader) 

ALS to ‘My dear Wynter’, about a half-measure which 

“comes too late now ... I will not put my hand to any such 

measure, it goes on no principle, we have no objection to G. 

except that he is inferior to W[illiams]”, (Isaac Williams, 

1802-1865, who stood unsuccessfully for the Professorship 

of Poetry at Oxford), 1 side 8vo., 116 Marine Parade, 

“Oct[ave] of Xtmas, Thursday Ev.” (30th December) 1841, 

guard strip on blank verso [SD13118]£40 

Dr. Philip Wynter, 1793-1871, was President of St. John’s, 

Oxford from 1828 and Vice-Chancellor 1840-1844. 

ENNELL (Sir James Rennell Rodd, 1858-1941, 

Diplomat and Writer, from 1933 1st Baron) 

Fine ALS ‘RR’ to his mother, telling her that he 

has “got back safely yesterday after a pretty good tossing in 

the small P & O from Brindisi ... Little Wingate”, (General 

Sir F. Reginald WINGATE , 1861-1953), “has had a 

tremendous success. The news was too much for Lady 

Wingate who there and then presented her absent husband 

with a daughter ... He is very much pleased. I wished things 

looked as bright in the Transvaal. I suppose we cant hope 

always to be able to make war with a minimum of anxiety & 

the Khalifa died game. There was something very fine in 

the end of amanwhoIbelieve had been from our point of 

view a master of cruelty. He was sitting with all his emirs 

round them in the order of their rank riddled with bullets. 

Men with not an idea of surrender ... the game was up and 

had gone against him, so he waited on death with a stoicism 

which one must admit was magnificent ... One dreads to 

get the news of the next few days from Natal and from the 

other side too for the matter of that”, 4 sides 8vo., Cairo, 

7th December 1899 [SD13173]£150 

Abdullah et Taaisha, (1846-1899), was principal khalifa or 

vicegerent to the Mahdi, and empowered to act in his name. The 

Mahdi named him his successor on his deathbed in 1885 and for 

thirteen years Abdullah ruled over what had been the Egyptian 

Sudan. He moved his capital to Omdurman and there Kitchener in 

1898 almost annihilated his army. Abdullah fled to Kordofan 

with the remnant of his host, and finally gave battle to Wingate at 

Om Debreikat as described in the letter. 

The Boers had invaded Natal on the outbreak of war, 11th 

October 1899. By the time of this letter, Ladysmith (to where the 

British forces in Natal had fallen back), Mafeking and Kimberley 

were all under siege. Signs of hope did not appear till Field 

Marshal Lord Roberts was placed in supreme command, with 

Kitchener as his chief of staff, in January 1900.


361. REWAH (REWÁ) (Majhlee, wife of Maharaja 

Raghuraj Singh, ruler 1834-1880, Maharani) 

ALS in English, signed also in Hindi, to Mrs Robertson, 

saying she has had “no pleasure to learn anything of you - I 

hope you reached England safely”, and requesting her “to 

let me know soon of your Major Robertson and other 

family members’ welfare. Everything is all right here”, 

Sutna (Satna), Bagelkhand, Central India, 19th March 

1891, several marginal tears (repaired) without loss 

[SD20145]£70 

The Maharani’s husband abolished suttee in 1847 and, for his 

services during the Mutiny, received again much territory 

previously lost in war. Her son, Sir Venkat Raman Singh, was 

born in 1876, succeeded in 1880, and was made GCSI 1897 for 

work in famine relief. During his minority the administration was 

reformed under the British Political Agent, assisted by a Council 

of Sirdars, members of theMaharaja’s family. 

362. ROACH SMITH (Charles, 1804-1890, F.S.A., 

Archaeologist and Numismatist) 

ALS to‘Dear Sir’ [W. Self Weeks, Conservative agent at 

Clitheroe], saying he needs “no apology for writing”, he 

cannot find the “Glossary ... I must hunt for the 

Gentleman’s Magazine & copy the Poem, with its Notes”, 

he is “just now overworked” supplying his printers “to 

allow me to go with the Brit. Arch. Assocn. to the North in 

July”, and saying he knows his correspondent’s names from 

“early memories” of the Isle of Wight, 3 sides 8vo., Temple 

Place, Strood, Kent, 11th June 1886 [SD18783]£40 

In 1856 Roach Smith sold his fine collection of Roman 

Antiquities to the British Museum for £2000. He was an authority 

on Richborough and Reculver, and received the first medal of the 

London Numismatic Society. 

Enclosed is a printed obituary notice and portrait. 

363. ROBERTSON (Revd. James, Minister of 

Whittinghame, E. Lothian), 

ALS tothe Revd. Mr Morris, glad that the writer’s article in 

‘Good Words’ about Lady Blanche Balfour (A.J.’s mother, 

sister of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury) had stimulated 

further reminiscences about her sons’ Tutors, he recalls the 

Marquess saying, when the writer was unexpectedly called 

upon to propose Lady Blanche’s health at A.J.’s coming of 

age, “it is always difficult to speak about a woman ”, he 

hopes Mr. Morris may come and stay, and wonders if 

Morris might reproduce ‘Folk-Talk’ “as everbody does now 

who can, in the form of Stories”, 8 sides 8vo., 

Whittinghame Manse, Prestonkirk, E. Lothian, 13th April 

1896 [SD18791]£40 

364. ROCHFORD (Frederick Nassau van Zuylestein, 

1683-1738, from 1710 3rd Earl of Rochford) 

Receipt signed ‘Rochford’ to the Duke of Shrewsbury and 

Robert Earl of Oxford, “by the hands of Mr. Velley & Mr. 

Dixin” for £250 “for halfe a years Interest of tenne 

thousand pounds Legacy given my wife by the will of the 

late Earle Rivers”, 1 side oblong 8vo., n.p., 31st August 

1717, lower blank margin a little jagged [SD14617]£65 

Rochford married in 1714, with the consent of her mother Mrs. 

Elizabeth Colleton, Bessie Savage (d.1746), the illegitimate 

daughter of Richard Savage, (c.1654-1712), from 1694 4th Earl 

Rivers. 

365. RHODES (Cecil John, 1853-1902, Prime Minister of 

Cape Colony, Founder of Rhodesia) 

ALS to an unnamed correspondent telling him that the 

“Governor was good enough to give me the enclosed letter 

of introduction ...” and asking to visit him, 1 side 8vo., 16 

Cork Street, London, n.d. [SD26591]£325 

ILLUSTRATED LETTERS 

366. ROYCE (William, Portrait Painter) 

2charming ALS, the first signed with initials, to “C.J.H.” 

(probably Charles John Hare, 1818-1898, M.D. 1847, 

F.R.C.P. 1859), saying he had sent C.J.H.’s portrait to 

Leeds with J.D. Heaton, who had called on hearing of his 

mother’s illness, and sharing his feelings with C.J.H. on her 

loss, “I received a very kind note from your father ... ‘the 

likeness truly admirable’ ”, he turns whimsically to the 

forthcoming wedding of their friend M.B. Beverley at 

Headingley to “the fair Maria”, hoping the groom is not 

reduced to a skeleton by the hot weather, like a horse “she 

ought to see him in good condition before she takes 

possession ... I dare say you are marking the days ... to see 

whether you will pass the Rubicon [his exams] ere you go 

into Yorkshire”, with much cheerful speculation on 

Beverley’s feelings, and a fine pen sketch of the carriages 

approaching the church, crowds cheering, the writer looking 

through a telescope from London, and the ceremony at the 

altar (18th May 1841), in the second Royce has stuck 

Beverley’s envelope wafer to the page, showing Cupid 

taking aim, marked ‘Prenez Garde’, Royce draws a young 

man losing his hat as the arrow pierces him, and gives a 

mock-Shakespearean discourse on “taking care”, as to 

whether it is of the wife, by the wife, or self-preservation, 

and on “the bliss of being mistaken for your shadow ... the 

felicity of being unable to eat - drink - sleep ... to stop at 

home or live on a rail-road ... ‘We come Beverley; we 

come: as fast as our inferior opportunities ... will permit’ ”, 

he repeats an anecdote of Cobbett, then returns to C.J.H.’s 

portrait whose reception was all he could desire, he gives 

his philosophy in fascinating detail, and though he can only 

catch one moment, “there is in almost every countenance ... 

such intense personality, that ... to abate one characteristic, 

is to dilute the decided flavour of a particular wine; is to 

throw away a spark of divinity ... I look with suspicion at 

the mender of nature’s ... work” (7th June 1841), together 8 

sides 4to., 31 Harrison Street, Gray’s Inn Road, London, 

18th May - 7th June 1841 [SD50018]£275 

With two further sketches in the second letter - the writer in his 

study, apparently overcome by emotion, and the postman, about to 

call atafine town house. 

William Royce is not in the usual reference books, but his portrait 

of Samuel Hare (1784-1867, FRCS, of Leeds, later London), 

painted about 1843-1844, was sold at Christies South Kensington, 

11th November 1999, lot 70. Samuel’s son Charles John had a 

distinguished medical career as Professor and consultant at U.C.H. 

(see Boase). John Deacon Heaton (1817-1880, of Leeds) took his 

M.B. in London, 1841, F.R.C.P. 1848, and was appointed senior 

physician in Leeds General Infirmary in 1843 (also in Boase).


367. [RUSSELL (Lord John, 1st Earl, 1792-1878, Prime 

Minister)] 

Passport with engraved signature ‘J Russell’ as Foreign 

Secretary, engraved with MS details, signed by the bearer 

Mrs Marcella Rogers, for her and her two daughters, 

“travelling on the Continent”, with visas from the Austrian 

Embassy, London (apparently to cover N. Italy), France (La 

Forclaz, near Chamonix) and the Papal States (Livorno and 

Rome) 1860-1862, fine engraved arms of Great Britain and 

of Lord John Russell, 1 side folio, 3rd September 1860 

[SD16779]£75 

368. RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF FINANCE, FOREIGN 

OPERATIONS 

Interesting Group of 1 complete and 9 part Bills of 

Exchange, drawn on Baring Brothers, London, endorsed 

mostly by Russian Ambassadors abroad (Italy, Brussels, 

Athens, Lisbon, Rio), most with subsequent endorsements 

as the bills circulate through other accounts before 

clearance, St. Petersburg (9) or Moscow (1), 1869 - 1876, 

the part items generally conserving the signatures 

[SD20146]£175 

The complete item (4th May 1876) shows all the features of the 

Bills. They are printed and made out in English in sterling, and 

signed by the Director and Controller in western characters. The 

endorsements are in French (plus one in Greek), and specify the 

position held by the next payee, such as Minister of the Interior at 

Athens, Russian Consul at Beirut, and so on, or the various 

international bankers and the houses with which they correspond. 

The Greek signature is that of Joasaf, Bishop of Philadelphia and 

Lieutenant to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. On stout banknote 

paper, watermarked with the Russian eagle and ‘Dla Vekseleu’ 

(‘For Exchange’). 

Michael Khristoforovich Reutern, 1820-1890, Russian Minister of 

Finance, 1862-1878, Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1881- 

1887, was responsible for a great extension of the use of Foreign 

Credit. 

Endorsements: 

1. 4/16th February 1869. General Napoleon Berman; Lenker & 

Co., Moscow. 

2. 1869. Count van Osten Sacken; Maquay & Fakenham, 

Florence (provisional capital of Italy). 

3. April 1870. Prince Galitzin, to C. Vanvambeke; C.W. Price & 

Derot, Brussels. 

4. 13th December 1871. P. Sabukov, Amb. atAthens; Greek 

Minister for Religion and Public Instruction; A.G. Durutti; 

Martin & Co. 

5. 1st February 1873. D. von Glinka, (1808-1871, the writer on 

the philosophy of law and sociey), Amb. at Lisbon; Mme. von 

Glinka to Carl Kolb Sohn, Wiesbaden; Deutsche Effecten & 

Wechsel Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; R. Raphael & Sons. 

6. 18th April 1873. Aide-de-Camp Général Prince Vladimir 

Bariatinsky; Baron Nicolas von Derschau; C.F. Brot; 

Continental Union. 

7. 26th November 1874. Russian Consul at Beirut; T. 

Yuselovich, Russian Consul at Jerusalem; Joasaf, Bp. of 

Philadelphia, Lieutenant of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, to 

Azarias Depoton; to Sadoeh Faraggi & Co., Constantinople; 

Martin & Co. 

8. 1875. Baron Rosen; Commercial Bank of Warsaw at St. 

Petersburg; F. Henry Schroeder & Co. 

9. June 1875. Count Koskul, Amb. at Rio de Janeiro to Franklin 

Aloares. 

10. 4th May 1876. P. Sabukov, Amb. at Athens; A.A. 

Contestoulos, Foreign Minister; Interior Minister Alcamoundas; 

Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Greece; N.M. 

Rothschild & Son; Martin & Co. 

369. ROYAL AIR FORCE 

3 Postcards with images taken from the Postage stamps 

bearing fine portraits of “Lord Portal / Mosquito” (signed 

on verso by his daughter Rosemary Ann, 1923-1990, 

WAAF 1942-1946, Countess 2nd in line), “Sir Arthur 

Harris / Lancaster” (signed ‘Lettice Curtis (A.T.A. Pilot)’), 

and “Lord Trenchard / DH 9A” (signed on verso 

“Trenchard. Boom Trenchard’s son. Feb 1987”, each with 

their named aircraft, issued 16th September 1986 

[SD50030]£55 

370. RUNCIE (Lord Robert, 1921-2000, MC (1945), 

Archbishop of Canterbury 1980-1991) 

Photograph signed as Archbishop, inscribed “Best wishes” 

and dated, showing him in Scots Guards uniform being 

decorated by Field-Marshal Montgomery, 7” x 5”, n.p., 

May 1986 [SD50026]£45 

371. RUNCIMAN (Sir Walter, 1870-1949, Historian and 

Liberal Statesman, from 1937 1st Viscount) 

ALS toMrSpender, thanking him for putting “so suitable a 

paragraph in the Westminster [Gazette] about Lord Joicey”, 

(James JOICEY , 1846-1936, from 1905 1st Baron), “I 

hope he appreciates it ... I think we look like winning 

though one can never tell what effect the idea of Irish self 

government may have on a new generation of people”, 2 

facing sides 8vo., Hôtel Métropole, London, 14th December 

1909 [SD13203]£30 

372. RUTHERFORD (William, 1839-1899, FRS, 

Physiology Professor at King’s College and at Edinburgh) 

ALS to Charles Dixon, thanking him for his work “The 

Migration of Birds ... You have done it admirably and I am 

sure that every reader who like myself had little idea of the 

marvels of avian migration and of the profound problems 

that are involved in it will thank you for much 

enlightenment ... I have already surprised many of my 

friends by the discussion of its Valuable contents”, 4 sides 

8vo., 14 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh, 4th October 1893 

[SD13211]£65 

THE HERO OF JALALABAD 

ALE (Sir Robert Henry, 1782-1845, Major-General) 

Signature on piece, written for the artist George 

Clint, 1770-1854, when Sir Robert was sitting to him 

for his portrait, near-contemporary mount and 

identification, Queen Anne Street, London, 27th November 

1844 [SD50094]£175 

Sale served in India under Baird against Tippoo Sahib (1798) and 

under Wellesley. In the Afghan War of 1838 he commanded the 

1st Bengal Brigade, which reached Kandahar in April 1839. He 

led the storming party at Ghazni in person and marched on to 

Kabul, where he was left with the army of occupation and was 

joined by his wife and daughter. When the Indian government 

stopped the subsidy to the frontier tribes, Sale was ordered to clear 

the route back to Peshawar, and during the campaign sustained a 

memorable siege at Jalalabad, November 1841- April 1842. The 

relieving force found that he had already broken out and routed 

Akbar’s lines. Sale received the thanks of Parliament, a medal 

was struck for all ranks, and Sale returned to Kabul. Lady Sale, 

while Akbar’s prisoner, had managed to save her diary, which was 

published in 1843.


374. SANDERS (Eliza, Schoolmistress at Clifton) 

ALS to Mary Pringle, (b. 1801, later Beague), eldest 

daughter of Maj.-Gen. James Pringle (1746 or 1747 - 1810, 

Bengal Army), in Edinburgh, explaining that she has 

written “to dearest Charlotte” (Mary’s sister, b. 1802) 

“three times - but only because she requested it ... You 

know you are more steady ... Still on your first coming 

home” (from over 2 years’ travel with her family in Europe) 

“I ought to have written ... You cannot lament yr sister’s 

leaving me more than I do”, (Elizabeth, the youngest, b. 

1806), “Can you let me know the reason ... It must be 

dissatisfaction of some kind or other or she wd not be sent 

to another school”, she has had no answer from Mary’s 

mother, she adds “though we take only 14 or 15 now - yet 

with those who have left me employing me so much in 

writing and with the dear girls we have being almost all 

girls from 15 to 18 - we find our time constantly occupied”, 

ending with some spiritual advice, 4 sides 4to., crosswritten 

but clear, Clifton, 2nd February 1822[SD50019]£60 

Miss Sanders ends “yr. attached and fond mother” by way of 

affection: the girls’ mother was Sholto Charlotte (1773 or 1774 - 

1853, d. of Sir John Halkett, 4th Bt.), 

375. SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH (Grand Duke, 1869- 

1918, killed by the Bolsheviks at Alapaievsk, Cousin of 

Tsar Alexander III) 

Fine Photograph signed & inscribed in Russian ‘Sergei to 

my dear godson Slavushka’, Vecheslav Kschessinsky or 

Astafiev, (d. 17th February 1976 at Ambleside, Cumbria, 

known as ‘Slava’), showing him head and shoulders in a 

circle with the photographers name in Russian, and a silver 

crest at the top, 7” x 5¾”, n.p., n.d., c. 1905, remains of 

former mounting on the verso [SD26044]£1,750 

Slava was the son of the actor Joseph Kschessinsky (1868-1942), 

brother of prima ballerina assoluta Matilda Kschessinska, (1872- 

1971). Slava’s mother was Joseph’s first wife Serafima 

Alexandrovna Astafieva (1876-13th September 1934), known as 

‘Sima’. Sima was with Diaghilev 1909-1911, then left Russia 

and set up her ballet school at 152 Kings Road, Chelsea in 1916, 

the first Russian to do so in England. Slava married Margot Luck 

(d. 9th April 1976), one of his mother’s pupils. Other pupils 

included Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and Margot Fonteyn. 

Sergei Mikhailovich and his brothers were close in age to the 

young Nikolai II (1868-1918). When Nikolai, in view of his 

impending engagement to Alix of Hesse, gave up seeing his 

mistress Matilda Kschessinska, he asked Sergei Mikhailovich to 

take care of her. Nikolai bought her the town house on English 

Prospekt where they had been used to give supper parties, and 

later Sergei bought her her dacha on the coast at Strelna. In 1920 

some of Sergei’s belongings recovered from Alapaievsk, including 

a miniature of Matilda, were returned to her in Paris. See 

Matilda’s memoirs, ‘Dancing in Petersburg’, translated by Arnold 

Haskell, 1960. 

376. SOAMES (Mary, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, 

wife of Christopher, M.P. and Life Baron) 

Photograph signed and dated showing her in uniform 

walking with her father, signed ‘Mary Churchill 1942 now 

Soames 1986’, with aTLStoPeter Evans, thanking him 

for sending “the very jolly photograph ... taken when he 

visited me at Chaseside Gun Site at Enfield ... I remember 

the occasion well”, 1 side 8vo., 7 St. Albans Mansions, 

Kensington Court Place, 14th May 1986 [SD50040]£75 

377. SERINGE (Nicolas Charles, 1776-1858, Professor of 

Botany and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Lyon) 

Autograph letter signed, in French with translation, to 

Matthew Henry Marsh, (1810-1881, English botanist) 

sending “some of the things I have written” and enclosing 

“some second copies for your friend Mr. Macleay [sic], 

Professor of Botany at Sydney, and Director of the Botanic 

Gardens ... If your friend could provide some of the 

Australian grains, and dried specimens of Mimosa, of 

Epacris, [and] of rare or common Cereals, he would give 

me great pleasure” and offering to send “what you and he 

may like to choose” in exchange, 1 side folio, addressed to 

Marsh in Lyon on conjugate leaf, Lyon, 17th March 1856 

[SD16757]£275 

Seringe was a born plant exchanger, and as a young man teaching 

in Bern published a list of all the varieties of dried Roses he would 

exchange for plants, botanical books, or coin at 15 batzen (45 

sous). He did important work on Swiss cereals, their use in 

commerce, and their diseases. When he moved in 1830 to the 

Botanic Gardens at Lyon, the great centre of the silk industry, he 

did the same for mulberry trees, and published a ‘Flore du 

pharmacien’, 1851. He contributed many specialist sections to 

Candolle’s famous ‘Prodromus’ of a universal classification. 

Marsh trained as a barrister, then in 1840 went to New South 

Wales. He farmed sheep for 14 years, and was a member of the 

legislative council 1851-1854. Returning to England, he was 

M.P. for Salisbury 1867-1868. 

At the time of this letter, Charles Moore (c.1820-1896), was in 

fact Director of the [Royal] Botanical Gardens, Sydney 1848- 

1896. (His brother David was director at Glasnevin, Dublin). He 

first gave lectures, to medical students, in 1851, in a shed at the 

Gardens, but in fact there was no Science Faculty at Sydney till 

1882 and no school of Botany at the University till 1913. Moore 

opened a Public Botanical Library in 1852 and by June 1856 the 

public had free access 3 days week. 

Macleay is probably William Sharp Macleay, 1792-1865, 

possibly (Sir) George, 1809-1891. Their father Alexander, 1767- 

1848, born in Wick, ‘the father of Australian Zoology’, and 

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1843- 

1846, was closely connected with founding the Australian 

Museum. His garden at Elizabeth Bay became famous for its 

valuable and rare plants. William Sharp Macleay, eldest of 

Alexander’s 17 children, took over the garden. Moore regularly 

exchanged plants with both brothers. William, a committee man, 

then a trustee of the Australian Museum from 1841 to 1862, was 

in touch with all those genuinely interested in science in Sydney, 

and visiting scientists made a point of meeting him. Both brothers 

had been on the Botanical Gardens Committee, wound up in 1851, 

and weremembers of the Legislative Assembly. 

378. SMITH (Sir Harry George Wakelyn, 1787-1860, 

General, founder of Ladysmith, 1st Bt.) 

AN signed ‘Hy Smith’ to ‘My Dear Children’, thanking 

them “for the beautiful violets”, with afine contemporary 

portrait of Sir Harry in full uniform, seated three-quarter 

length, engraved by D.J. Pound after a photograph by John 

Eastham of Manchester, 13” x8¾”,the note 1 side 8vo., 

n.p., 24th October 1857, old mark touching one letter of the 

note and traces of laying down on verso [SD50177]£125 

Sir Harry is renowned for his bravery and humanity. He fought in 

the Peninsular, at Waterloo, and in the Sikh Wars, and was 

Governor of the Cape 1847-1852. Ladysmith is named after 

Juana, his ‘Spanish Bride’, (d. 1872), who accompanied him 

throughout the Peninsular, and in South Africa.


379. SHAW (George Bernard, 1856-1950, Writer) 

Autograph letter signed with initials on the bottom of a TLS 

to Shaw from Arthur Moss, editor of ‘Gargoyle’, in which 

he says that “In Paris we hear that Mr H. G. Wells has been 

released from his job on the Daily Mail. I am much 

impressed by the foresight shown in your first article on the 

Disarmament Conference in the London Nation. I wonder 

what will be your next ingenious reason for not visiting the 

United States. The only time I have had my faith in you 

severely jolted, was when you picked Carpentier to whip 

Dempsey ...”, sending him a copy of ‘Gargoyle’. Shaw 

replies by thanking him for the magazine which has not yet 

arrived, and saying that he “did not pick Carpentier to whip 

Dempsey, whom I had never seen. I expressly warned you 

not toput that construction on my preliminary article on 

the betting . Don’t blame me if you disregarded the 

warning. Did you read my article on the fight? ...”, 1 side 

4to., with the magazine’s letterhead of a figure with a goat’s 

head, Paris XIVth, 3rd December 1928 [SD22845]£495 

380. ST. JOHN-MILDMAY (Arthur George, 1824-1883, 

Lieutenant, 3rd Bombay European Infantry, late Assistant 

to the Governor General for Central India) 

Draft letter to Lord Stanley as Commissioner for India, 

(1826-1893, 15th E. of Derby), aware that Stanley is “remodelling 

the secretariat for India”, offering his services, 

and describing his military and political experience in India 

from 1844 and 1851 repectively, naming his testimonials 

from Sir Robert Hamilton, Sir Henry, General George, and 

Sir John Lawrence, and General Van Cortlandt, mentioning 

the Governor-General’s thanks “for my services against the 

mutineers in Hurriana”, and service in Sindh and Poona, 2 

sides folio, endorsed on conjugate leaf, 2 Wilton Crescent, 

London, 20th July 1858 [SD50020]£85 

General Van Cortlandt, then in civilian employ, raised the 

‘Hurriana Field Force’ from loyal Punjabis in 1857, and defeated 

the mutineers within a few miles of Delhi. 

381. STEED (Henry Wickham, 1871-1956, Editor of the 

Times 1919-1922, Historian of Central Europe) 

Very interesting archive of letters addressed to Dr 

Ferdinand L. Leipnik, (1869-c.1924), the Hungarian 

journalist and connoisseur, discussing Central European 

politics and articles for The Times, beginning with 

Magyar nationalism ,talking of Stephen Bernát and “the 

crusade to which you refer”, Steed says “I hardly know 

which is more contemptible, - it or the conduct of those who 

are engaged in it”, he hopes that “Hungary will perceive the 

real causes of the withdrawal of foreign sympathy” and 

return to its former “solid liberalism” (9th October 1907). 

Steed introduces Basil Williams, 1867-1950, “a writer of 

good leaders ... a man after your own heart ... Introduce him 

to anybody who is likely to tell him the truth” (1st May 

1908), discusses an anonymous pamphlet sent by Leipnik 

and has ordered 12 copies, “I have never entirely lost [the 

hope] of seeing the Magyars turn from the error of their 

ways ... and lead this Monarchy towards ... tolerance and 

sincerity” (2nd June 1908), and asks Leipnik to tell 

Wilhelm Singer [editor of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt], that 

“as Ihad taken no notice of the accusations against Mr 

Kossuth, I could not take notice of the latter’s defence” and 

suggests the extreme Nationalist Coalition publish “an exact 

account of what was done with the Tulipán funds”. He will 

find out how Leipnik might write for the London press 

outside the main Agencies, asks for an article on the Church 

in Hungary and how far it is fulfilling its mission (30th 

January 1909). After the outbreak of WWI he repeatedly 

accepts or commissions articles for The Times, “Your 

information as to the reason for Berchtold’s dismissal is 

new” (Count Leopold, Austrian Foreign Minister 1912 - 

13th January 1915, letter 30th January 1915), Austria can 

only become a vassal of Germany if victorious (“which God 

forbid!”) or be dismembered if defeated (24th August 

1915), “I gather that amonster treason trial is being 

worked up in Banjaluka against 156 Bosnian Serbs ... 

an enlarged edition of the Agram [Zagreb] high treason trial 

... what is going on?” (14th December 1915), the Morning 

Post prints “regular letters dated from Budapest ... I believe 

fabricated in England or Holland, by a man named 

Szébenyei ... often wide of the mark”, so can Leipnik 

supply a little article on the Magyar or German Budapest 

papers “say once a week or three times a month?” (1st 

February 1916). Steed has “just been in France for three 

weeks, giving lectures and ... visiting Verdun during the 

battle ... The French Army is beyond praise” (28th March 

1916). “The most valid sanction of the future reign of law”, 

on which Leipnik proposes action to codify, “is the proof 

which the Somme battle has afforded that England ... can 

form of her raw human material an army that can thrash the 

best troops of the German law-breaker” (10th November 

1916), after the war Steed’s commissions turn to 

“restoration of the currency in Central Europe” (22nd 

January 1920), however money begins to get tighter and 

“the paper situation is absolutely prohibitive” (18th 

February 1920), Leipnik visits him in London, later Steed 

gives him “a note for Benes”, the first Foreign Minister of 

Czechoslovakia, later President, and asks Leipnik to note 

his “impressions of Prague ... and ... of the real inwardness 

of the Horthy regime” established in November in Budapest 

(7th April 1920), he is very glad to know “you have found a 

good journalistic job & hope the enclosed may help you ... 

till your ship comes home” (9th October 1920), Steed will 

now have to live up to his “beautiful but over-generous 

article in the Graphic” (14th December 1922), together 45 

sides, The Times Offices at 9 Schwindgasse, Vienna and 

Printing House Square, 7 Lansdowne House, Holland Park 

and Kyle House, Skye, 9th October 1907 - 21st August 

1923 [SD19039]£475 

Steed joined the Times in 1896, was its correspondent in Vienna 

1902-1913, culminating in his book ‘The Hapsburg Monarchy’, 

and took an immense interest in Hungary and the Balkan 

dominions. During WWI he was Foreign Editor and directed 

much Allied propaganda. 

Leipnik was Budapest correspondent of the London liberal daily 

‘The Tribune’, which ran from 1906 to 1908, and from 1907-1911 

edited the financial, political and literary ‘Pester Lloyd’. A move 

to the new ‘Journal International’ in Paris (1911) was short-lived 

when the paper folded. However he had built up a network of 

diplomatic contacts, and spent most of WWI in neutral Holland, 

obtaining diplomatic papers from Austria-Hungary and Germany 

for the British Foreign Office, and acting as a go-between in peace 

feelers, especially from Austria. He also visited the U.S.A. in 

1917 to assess the movement for peace there, and his summaries 

of public opinion in Central European countries and the Balkans 

were much used by the Foreign Office. See e.g. the letters in the 

Public Record Office, especially in class FO371.

53 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL 

382. SOUSA (John Philip, 1854-1932, American 

Composer) 

Fine postcard photo by J. Beagles, signed and dated with 

an autograph musical quotation from “Hands across the 

Sea”, showing him ¾ length in dress coat with embroidered 

collar and cuffs, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., 1903 [SD26494]£575 

383. STEPHENSON (Robert 1803-1859, civil engineer, 

only son of George Stephenson) 

Autograph admission ticket signed, as MP for Whitby, 

allowing Mr Malin admission to the “Gallery of the House 

of Commons ...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., 28th February 1850, 

slightly soiled at the edges, neatly mounted [SD26560]£225 

384. STEPHENSON (George Robert, 1781-1848, 

Inventor, founder of Railways, builder of the ‘Rocket’) 

Excellent ALS to Robert Crossland of the Union Foundry in 

Bradford giving his favourable “opinion as to the character 

of your railway carriage wheels. In reply, I have to state 

that I like your wheels better than any others we have had. I 

believe we have not had one of them to fail and several of 

those from other Firms have given way by becoming loose 

in the arms. I now give you an order for another Turn plate 

similar to the one I paid you for the other day ...” asking 

him tosend it “direct to the Tapton Colliery ”, 3 sides 8vo., 

Tapton House, 13th September 1845 [SD26561]£1,450 

Stephenson took a lease of Tapton House, near Chesterfield, 

during the construction of the Midland line and lived there till his 

death. 

In 1844 he used his influence to try and check the railway mania 

which was sweeping the country with mad schemes. The 

development of railways in the fourteen years since the Rainhill 

competition was remarkable. He travelled from London to 

Newcastle in 1844 to attend a railway banquet in only nine hours. 

His last great parliamentary struggle was in 1845 in the battle 

between the supporters of the locomotive and the upholders of the 

atmospheric railway system, led by Brunel, which arose in 

connection with the extension of the railway from Newcastle to 

Berwick. The board of trade was inclined to support Brunel but 

Stephenson's party won a great parliamentary victory, and settled 

the matter for ever. This was the final attempt to dispute the 

supremacy of the locomotive. 

385. STOKES (Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903, 

Mathematician and Physicist, from 1849 Lucasian Professor 

of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1st Bt.) 

ALS toMrs Phillips, wife of Dr George Phillips, 1804- 

1892, from 1857 President of Queens’, Cambridge, saying 

that “Something in the appearance of Polly’s feathers which 

you kindly gave the children led me to examine them for 

fluorescence and I found that the yellow ... was rather 

highly fluorescent. This is the first instance Ihavefound 

of fluorescence in the colouring matter of birds’ feathers”, 

he then tried a canary but it was not fluorescent, and begs, 

“as this isthe moulting season or near it ... a few of Polly’s 

feathers expressly taken from the crest, which are I believe 

the yellowest”, with a P.S. “See Philosophical Transactions 

for 1852, p. 515” (his classic memoir), 3 sides 8vo., 

Lensfield Cottage, 12th January 1870 [SD50082]£175 

Stokes coined the term ‘fluorescence’, to avoid the older terms 

which suggested a mere dispersion. For an excellent summary of 

his many experiments in this field, see e.g. Enc. Brit. 11th edition. 

386. STIRLING (David, 1915-1990, Lieutenant-Colonel, 

Creator of the Special Air Service) 

Black and white photograph signed, showing him head and 

shoulders in civilian dress, with a printed article about him 

and the SAS, and a compliments slip from his ‘Television 

International Enterprises’, 8” x 5½”, 24th February 1986 

[SD50029]£65 

387. STRATHMORE (Cecilia, 1862-1938, mother of 

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Wife of Claude 

George, 1855-1944, from 1904 14th Earl of) 

TLS to Alice Verne BREDT , (1868-1958, pianist and 

violinist), thanking her “for your very kind letter about my 

daughter. I wish your dear sister”, Mathilde VERNE , 

(1865-1936, pianist), “was still here to see her pupil 

become Queen of England . I cannot thank you enough 

for all your good wishes ... forgive a very short typewritten 

note ... as I have so many letters to write just now”, 1 side 

8vo., 38 Cumberland Mansions, Bryanston Square, W.1, 

1936 [SD14622]£125 

George VI had become King on his brother’s abdication, 11th 

December 1936. 

ABORI (Paul, b. 1908, Hungarian-born Journalist, 

Broadcaster, Scriptwriter and Novelist, ‘Peter 

Stafford’ and ‘Christopher Stevens’) 

APS toEileen Cond, explaining he has “been abroad the 

last four months ... I’ll be delighted to sign all three” and is 

“happy indeed to have found such a faithful reader”, 1 side 

card, 14 Stafford Terrace, W.8., 31st January 1946, light 

crease mark [SD19091]£25 

389. TENNYSON (Hallam, 1852-1928, from 1892 2nd 

Baron) 

ALS toLouisa, née Donkin, wife of Horace, (1833-1907, 

from 1894 1st Baron Davey), saying “It is most kind in you 

to ask us for Friday”, but “My father” (Alfred, 1809-1892, 

Poet Laureate, from 1884 1st Baron), “and I go up by 

express to join the Gladstones in a cruise on board a Donald 

Currie ship. This cruise must be kept private till you see it 

in the papers”, 1 side 8vo., Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, 

5th September 1883, light traces of old transparent strip in 

three blank margins [SD16407]£30 

Hallam was named after his father’s Cambridge friend, the subject 

of ‘In Memoriam’. Sir Donald Currie, 1825-1909, the founder of 

the shipping line, was Liberal M.P. for Perthshire, 1880-1885. 

The Daveys married in 1862 and were near neighbours at 

Aldworth. Horace was made a Q.C. in 1875, Liberal M.P. 1880- 

1885, Solicitor-General and knighted 1886, and an Appeal Judge 

1893. 

390. THACKERAY (William Makepeace, 1811-1863, 

Novelist) 

ALS in his sloping hand to an unnamed correspondent, 

accepting an invitation to dinner, 1 side 8vo., 27 Jermyn 

Street, 9th August n.y., (1844) mounted with a photo 

[SD16205]£175 

Thackeray’s wife became ill after the birth of their third child and 

eventually the family house had to be given up in 1843, after 

which he rented this address and returned to a bachelor life, his 

children were looked after by their grandparents.


391. THOMSON (Sir Charles Wyville, 1830-1882, FRS, 

Scottish chief Naturalist on the Challenger ) 

ALS to the Secretary of the Palaeontographical Society, 

saying that he and Dr. Carpenter (W.B., 1813-1885) have 

been working on papers for the Philosophical Transactions 

of the Royal Society, his own “will form the basis of the 

Natural History introduction to the Monog: of the 

Crinoids”, which has delayed him giving a firm date, he 

now thinks Marsupites belong to the Palaeozoic group, not 

Comatula, but will “complete my study of your specimens 

and bring them ... to London ... early in Summer”, he details 

the contents of the monograph’s three parts, “Comatulae ... 

Apiocrines &c. ... and Marsupites”, he may have to get 

another artist for the plates, as to his subscription, “A friend 

made me apresent of the whole series up to last year and I 

cannot afford ... a second, my foreign book account is 

necessarily so large”, but discusses back numbers for the 

College and himself, he himself would like to start with “the 

first part of Salter’s Trilobites”, (J.W., 1820-1869, whose 

monograph appeared in the Pal. Soc.’s journal 1864-1867), 

7sides 8vo., Strandtown, Belfast, 17th March n.y., c. 1870, 

joined at pages 4-5 by old transparent strip, small defect on 

side 7 from former laying down [SD50183]£750 

Thomson greatly enlarged the knowledge of the ocean floor, 

finding living creatures in abundance down to 650 fathoms, many 

of which were previously thought extinct, and that deep-sea 

temperatures were not so constant as supposed, indicating an 

oceanic circulation. His researches were incidentally of great 

importance for cable-laying. 

See Thomson’s ‘The Depths of the Sea’ (1873) for the dredging 

voyages of Lightning (1868) and Porcupine (1869, 1870). 

The Challenger Expedition was sent out to make a series of 

soundings and dredgings in the three great ocean basins, to 

ascertain the temperature and character of the water, to collect 

specimens of the fauna and flora on the surface and from all 

possible depths, and to study as far as possible certain rarely 

visited oceanic islands. The Challenger was a corvette of 2,306 

tons, specially fitted up and placed under command of Captain Sir 

George Nares, with a naval surveying staff. Thomson, who had 

been granted leave of absence by his university, was appointed 

chief of the civilian scientific staff (six in number). They left 

Sheerness on 7 Dec. 1872, crossed the Atlantic from the Canary 

Isles to the West Indies, when after skirting its American side as 

far north as Halifax they recrossed to Madeira by the Azores. Then 

they sailed southward of the Cape de Verde Islands and St. Paul's 

Rocks toFernando Noronha and the Brazil coast, crossing the 

southern Atlantic by way of Tristan da Cunha to the Cape of Good 

Hope. From this they made for the Antarctic Ocean by way of the 

Crozets and Kerguelen land, and reached the ice-pack a little 

south of the Antarctic circle, beyond which it was unsafe to 

venture in an ordinary vessel. From there they proceeded to 

Australia, and after touching at Melbourne and Sydney, sailed for 

Fiji. A devious course took them through the Australasian islands, 

and then they visited Japan and the Sandwich Islands. After 

sailing due south to the tropic of Capricorn, they took an easterly 

course to Valparaiso, and made their way into the southern 

Atlantic through the Magellan Strait. After calling at Montevideo 

they visited the Canaries, and returned to England by a variation 

of their former route, arriving at Spithead on 24 May 1876, having 

travelled in this remarkable voyage 68,890 nautical miles, and 

having made observations by soundings at 362 stations. An 

enormous mass of material had been obtained for study, and 

Thomson (who was knighted on his return) was appointed director 

of the Challenger expedition commission to superintend the 

arrangement of the collections and the publication of the results at 

the public expense. He also resumed his university duties, 

delivered the Rede lecture at Cambridge in 1877, and the 

combination of all this work was too much for him and he became 

ill and he died at his house, Bonsyde, near Linlithgow, on 10 

March 1882. 

392. THORNHILL (Cudbert Bensley, d. 1868, Secretary 

to the Governor, North West Provinces, during the siege of 

Agra, 1857, Commissioner of Allahabad, 1861) 

Signed Copy Letter to (Sir) George St. Patrick Lawrence, 

1804-1884, Chief Agent (Resident) and Brigadier-General 

Commanding in Rajputana, saying that he has seen the 

letter of 7th August from Lieutenant (Arthur St. John) 

Mildmay, 1823-1884, detailing the assistance given by the 

Maharajah of Bikanir and the forces under his personal 

command in reoccupying Sersal and Hissar, and enclosing 

“a Khureelah expressive of the Lieutt. Governor’s 

acknowledgment of the Services of the Maharajah”, to be 

forwarded to the latter unless “subsequent circumstances” 

dictate otherwise, 1 side folio, Fort Agra, 4th September 

1857, afewlight grease marks [SD50021]£75 

The letter gives no hint of the current anxiety at Fort Agra, where 

the Lieutenant-Governor, John Russell Colvin, 1807-1857, had 

gathered all the Christian population of the cantonments and the 

city, and, though dangerously ill, had succeeded in preserving 

calm. 

For Sir George Lawrence’s remarkable services in Afghanistan, 

see DNB. 

393. TREMATON (Rupert, 1907-1928, Elder Son of 

Alexander, Earl of Athlone, 1874-1957, Viscount) 

Very fine large photograph, signed ‘Trematon’, showing 

him three-quarter length seated, 11” x 9”, n.p., n.d. 1927 

[SD14624]£150 

Viscount Trematon and his father were Princes of Teck, titles 

exchanged for British ones in 1917. His mother, Princess Alice 

daughter of Prince Leopold, was the last surviving granddaughter 

of Queen Victoria. He died in a road accident in France in 1928. 

394. TROLLOPE (Anthony, 1815-1882, Novelist) 

Fine unpublished ALS to Charles Banning aying he has 

received an "invitation to meet C. Dickens at a dinner to 

be given for him at Liverpool ... which I have accepted. I 

want to take my son with me ..." and asking if he can secure 

a ticket for his son as he feels he cannot ask himself as he is 

a guest, 3sides 8vo., address removed, 13th March n.y., 

[1869], the top left hand corner has been torn off with the 

loss of the address but no text, professionally repaired 

[SD26558]£895 

This meeting of the two great novelists is not mentioned in any of 

the major biographies of Trollope. The dinner was held in 

Dickens' honour on the 10th April 1869 and is briefly noted in R. 

C. Terry's 'Trollope Chronology' but seems to have been otherwise 

unnoticed by Trollope scholars. It is rare to find letters of 

Trollope mentioning Dickens: less than twenty are known. Letters 

of Trollope to Banning, a post office colleague, are even rarer: 

only one other survives. Trollope at this time was anxious about 

his sons making their way in the world. Although both sons were 

around -- Fred had just returned from Australia but was intending 

to leave England again in late April -- it is more likely it was 

Harry whom he wished to introduce to society, perhaps with the 

hope that the boy's job prospects would improve as a result. A 

few months following this dinner, Harry did indeed secure 

employment -- with Chapman & Hall, Dickens' publishers, whose 

high-ranking staff would almost certainly have been present at this 

dinner.


395. TOMBS (Sir Henry, 1824-1874, V.C. in the Indian 

Mutiny, General) 

ALS to‘My dear Mackenzie’, saying he would have helped 

but that “the appts. to Shoebury do not in the least depend 

on interest but on the exigencies of the Service - thus if 

you can be spared from your Brigade, if there are not 

already too many officers of that Bde. away at Shoebury or 

elsewhere ... you will have no difficulty ... Your ... only way 

is to go to the Dy.A.G.’s Office at the Horse Guards and see 

Col. Middleton or Col. Traill”, and hoping “you are 

enjoying your visit to England after the tropical China you 

have been in so long”, 3 sides 8vo., Dolgelly, N. Wales, 4th 

July n.y., c. 1860 [SD50101]£175 

396. TYRRELL (Sir William G., 1858-1968, Head of 

Political Intelligence at the Foreign Office during WWI, 

Ambassador to France 1928-1934) and his deputy 

MONTGOMERY (Sir Charles Hubert, 1876-1942) 

Remarkable Group of 10 ALS, 1 telegram, and 16 TLS to 

Dr Ferdinand L. Leipnik, 1869-c.1924, the Hungarian 

Journalist and Connoisseur, most of the TLS bear their 

Foreign Office file numbers, they concern Leipnik’s help 

while in neutral Holland in procuring enemy diplomatic 

papers ,gauging public opinion in the Austro-Hungarian 

dominions, relaying enemy overtures for peace ,and 

making suggestions for propaganda, the letters contain 

telling insights as to the possibility of a democratic 

revolution in Germany ,andon Germany’s economic 

hold on her allies ,theycan be related to and shed light on 

the letters sent by Leipnik now at the Public Record 

Office ,and show how Leipnik and Tyrrell established their 

rapport, together 44 sides, Foreign Office, London, 1st July 

1912 - 1921 some neat filing holes [SD19040]£775 

Tyrrell writes “A summary of Hungarian and Croatian press news 

would be much appreciated here” (14th July 1916), also particular 

books by Andrassy and Tisza, and “any copies of official 

diplomatic correspondence issued by the Austrian, Russian, 

Roumanian, or Serbian Governments at any time between 1900 

and 1914 ... we have all those issued since the war began” (18th 

September 1916), Leipnik has been talking with Louis P. Lochner 

[General Secretary, Neutral Conference for Continuous 

Mediation], Tyrrell agrees with Leipnik’s explanation to Lochner 

of Henry Ford’s peace scheme so far (12th October 1916), “the 

official [Austrian] correspondence is just what [our people] have 

been trying to get for some months” (23rd October 1916, second 

letter), Leipnik has proposed a conference for the “reconstruction 

of International Law” but “H.M. Government” could not 

countenance one (4th December 1916, [Lord Grey said this was 

for neutrals so long as the war lasted]), Leipnik returns from the 

U.S.A. via the U.K. [by special permit as an enemy alien, see FO 

papers] and Tyrrell asks him “if you have nothing better to do to 

lunch at the St. James’s Club tomorrow” (8th February 1917), he 

asks for “names of some neutral writers” to write in the “English 

papers” (12th July 1917), “Germany is the last country at present 

to indulge in a democratic revolution ... The Junkers like the 

Bourbons of old are alone capable of provoking a revolution; 

there does seem an off chance of Hindenberg & Ludendorff 

bringing that off, if given enough rope ... It is almost a physical 

impossibility for [Austria-Hungary] to emancipate herself from the 

German yoke. Please do write again” (23rd July 1917), Germany 

will not allow Austria the “increased prestige” of concluding a 

separate peace, nor contemplate it herself “until she has securely 

fettered her allies economically”, he agrees “Kuhlmann [German 

Foreign Minister, whom Leipnik met in The Hague] is sincere” 

but the “surface moderation” of his terms may be “deceptive on 

examination” (15th September 1917). The correspondence 

continues after the war about the Paris Peace conference and the 

League of Nations, “as regards Pesth ... I feel sure you could do 

good among those people who want above all good advice and 

prompting” (14th August 1919, during Béla Kun’s communist 

interregnum, swept away by Admiral Horthy in November 1919), 

“I shall be only too pleased if I can help to explode sane 

[“forsooth”] the ex-Emperor’s fiction” (4th October 1922, 

referring to Charles of Austria-Hungary, 1887-1922, reigned 

1916-1918). 

For the interlocking papers at the PRO, see the headings in the FO 

Card Index of Correspondence, 1914-1919, under ‘Leipnik’, and 

especially class FO371. On 6th October 1917 the British 

Ambassador at The Hague wrote asking for instructions, the 

Austrian Minister had asked Leipnik to find out “if, in the event of 

his happening to meet me at Leipnik’s house [in Scheveningen], I 

would report to you any conversation that might ensue”, 

mentioning some possible territorial changes as peace terms, 

adding “I should be in a position to give an immediate ‘Yes’ or 

‘No’ without appearing to have received instructions” (File 

134202 f 58). 

Before the war Leipnik was editor of the ‘Pester Lloyd’, but 

resigned in 1911. He first contacted Tyrrell in 1912. He was in 

London when war broke out, and tried to get a Home Office pass 

as afriendly enemy alien (see Tyrrell’s telegram, 23rd October 

1914), with a view to naturalization after four years’ residence, 

but this never happened. 

MBERTO II (1904-1989, Duke of Savoy, King of 

Italy) 

Excellent portrait photo by Alfredo Pesce, Napoli, 

signed “Umberto di Savoia” and inscribed to 

“Maggiore Francesco Faraore”, showing him head and 

shoulders in uniform, wearing many medals and 

decorations, 10” x 7½”, in mount 15” x 11” n.p. (Naples), 

1935, framed and glazed [SD21345]£325 

ICTOR EMMANUEL III (1869-1947, King of 

Italy, Abdicated 1946 in favour of his son 

Umberto) & his son UMBERTO II (1904-1989, 

Duke of Savoy, King of Italy) 

Fine pair of e xcellent reproduction oval portraits, 

Umberto’s by Massagli, Turin, both signed and dated, 

showing them both head and shoulders in uniform, wearing 

many medals and decorations, 11” x 13”, overall 18” x 13” 

n.p. 1921 & 1926 [SD26412]£575 

399. VIEUXTEMPS (Henri, 1820-1881, Belgian 

Violinist and Composer) 

ALS to ‘Dear Sir’, in English, apologising that he had 

found it “utterly impossible to answer not knowing myself, 

how business would turn”, but that he will now “remain 

here till 24th July”, and can start lessons from 1st April 

“what days you please”, to help “perfection such a 

promising talent”, 1 side 8vo., 4 Maddox Street, Regent 

Street, 23rd March 1846 [SD50023]£125 

Vieuxtemps had just accepted the post of solo violinist to the 

Tsar, 1846-1852, and professor at St. Petersburg. His staccato 

was famous all over the world, and his tone exceptionally rich and 

full.

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 56 

400. VAN CORTLANDT (Henry Charles, 1815-1888, 

General intheSikh Army) 

Manuscript “Memorandum of the Services of General Van 

Cortlandt”, possibly in his hand, in particular describing the 

Punjab anarchy in 1844-1846, when his knowledge of the 

Sikh army and its chiefs was invaluable to the British, and 

as General under Duleep Singh, when he reorganised the 

army, and was governor of “perhaps the most difficult 

provinces ... of the whole Seikh territory ... subject to 

continual inroads from the neighbouring Mountaineers”, Lt. 

(later Sir H.B.) Edwardes being attached as Political 

Officer, on the outbreak at Multan in 1848 he marched 

“with the whole of his Troops accompanied by Lieutenant 

Edwardes ... defeated the enemy in two hotly contested 

engagements”, and joined the siege of Multan for three 

months, however on the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, 

although all the Sikh regiments were taken over by the 

E.I.C., Van Cortlandt “was entirely passed over ... in 

manifest violation ... of the promises ... honourably fulfilled 

to the other officers and men of his service”, becoming a 

civil Deputy Commissioner, however, on the outbreak of 

the Mutiny inMay 1857 Van Cortlandt raised two Punjab 

regiments forestalled “the tide of Insurrection flowing 

towards the Punjab”, and restored order “to ... entire 

districts ... to within a few miles of Delhi itself”, 8 sides 

8vo., n.p., n.d., c. 1857 [SD50022]£250 

Clearly, votes of thanks, even medals, did not satisfy Van 

Cortlandt - he wanted employment as a soldier. Having joined the 

Sikh army at 18, he served under Ranjit Singh (reigned 1799- 

1839) and Shere Singh (1839-1844), rising to Colonel. He fought 

against Dost Mohammed of Afghanistan in 1837 at Peshawar, and 

commanded the Sikh troops with the British Afghan expedition in 

1841. See the Times notice of 17th March 1888, which the 

present manuscript complements in many valuable details. Van 

Cortlandt became Commissioner in Multan, retiring in 1868 

(Buckland, Dict. of Indian Biography, 1906). 

401. VIVIENNE (Professional name of Florence 

Entwistle, Photographer) 

Fine photograph of Sarah Churchill as Peter Pan 

thoughtfully holding her pipes against her cheek, titled and 

inscribed “With very loving thoughts from Ernest & 

Vivienne” in the latter’s hand, also titled in her hand, 

folding8vo. card, London, n.d., c. 1958 [SD19102]£65 

Sarah Churchill (b. 1914) played Peter Pan at The Scala, 

TottenhamCourt Road, in December 1958. 

ATTS (George Frederic, 1817-1904, O.M., 

R.A., Painter and Sculptor) 

ALS ‘Signor’ to C.E. Hallé, director of the New 

Gallery, Regent Street, saying “We shall be running up to 

town for the R.A. varnishing days”, probably staying 

Wednesday to “early on Saturday morning”, but otherwise 

probably “not ... till the end of May”, so “perhaps we may 

be permitted a peep at the New Gallery one of the days I 

have mentioned! ... I fancy Dorothy Drew will be sufficient 

to make the exhibition”, and mentioning Lady Compton and 

Lady Ashburton, 3 sides 16mo., Limnerslease, near 

Guildford, 19th April 1894 [SD19296]£35 

Watts is famous for his portraits, vast canvases and designs for 

murals in the Houses of Parliament, and symbolic pictures such as 

‘Hope’. 

403. WALKER (Hugh, 1855-1939, Professor at St. 

David’s College, Lampeter) 

ALS to the Revd. (Sir) James Marchant, 1867-1956, 

thanking him “most cordially” for “your kind letter about 

my article on Oscar Wilde . I did not know Wilde, & ... 

should be the more pleased to think that those who did ... 

agreed in substance with the view I have taken ... in the 

Hibbert [Journal] ... I consider the two books”, De 

Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol ,“amongthe 

most profoundly interesting & instructive of this 

generation”, he will try to procure Sherard’s sketch, hoping 

“it may not be boycotted too strictly”, Knockside, Dalry, 

Ayrshire, 19th July 1905 [SD50083]£225 

Walker’s article in the Hibbert for July 1905, ‘The Birth of a 

Soul’, treats in depth of Wilde’s view, (shared, it seems 

unwittingly, with Hegel and Browning), of the apparent 

‘necessity’ of evil in order to produce the highest good. And ‘in 

one respect, Wilde is unique. He not only taught this doctrine, but 

he affords in his own person the most striking illustration of it’. 

R.H. Sherard’s book, “Oscar Wilde: The story of an unhappy 

friendship”, was privately printed in 1902, and had just appeared 

for general sale. He talks in it of the “Artist, kindest of friends”, 

and of his “delicacy of taste, always concealing the madness that 

afflicted him. Let the pathologists decide”. 

With a photocopy of Walker’s article. 

404. WALLACE (Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, Naturalist, 

originally credited by the Linnean Society in July 1858, 

along with Charles DARWIN ,asco-developer of the 

Theory of Evolution) 

LS to the Revd. (Sir) James Marchant, 1867-1956, asking 

after the two copies of “ ‘Environment & Progress’ ... for 

which I will pay the usual Author’s price”, in a long 

initialled P.S. he writes that the only fault of “your 

memorandum for the Committee of the decline of Birthrate” 

is “its extreme comprehensiveness ... An old 

physician, a friend of mine, is convinced that the one cause 

which surpasses all others” are the “mechanical and 

chemical restraints ... introduced ... in the book published 

by Mrs. Besant and C. Bradlaugh for which they were I 

believe punished by ... imprisonment”, 4 sides 8vo., Old 

Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, 22nd June 1913 

[SD20170]£275 

Signature firm at 90 but with a small original smudge. The text is 

in the hand of his son W.G. Wallace. Wallace joined the concept 

of evolution to ideas of social justice in powerful books on behalf 

of the poor, such as ‘The Revolt of Democracy’ (1913). In the 

latter, Marchant supplied ‘The Life Story of the Author’, with a 

very interesting account of their friendship and collaboration. In 

1916 Marchant published Wallace’s biography. 

Marchant was Secretary of the National Birth-Rate Commission, 

1913-1937. In 1876, Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs Besant were 

sentenced to six months’ prison and a £200 fine, but the 

conviction was quashed on appeal. 

405. WELLINGTON (Arthur Charles Wellesley, 1849- 

1934, 4th Duke of) 

ALS to W.A. Menzies, thanking him for “the signed 

conditions under which the Lawrence portrait of the 1st 

Duke of Wellington was allowed to be copied. It was a 

splendid idea of yours to paint them on the back of the 

copy” to prevent them being lost, 2 sides 8vo., Apsley 

House, Piccadilly, W.1, 19th December 1925 

[SD16457]£25


406. WALLAS (Graham, 1858-1932, Professor of 

Political Science University of London an original ‘Fabian’) 

2 ALS and 1 Card to Dr Ferdinand L Leipnik, (1869c.1924, 

Hungarian Journalist, intermediary between 

Austria-Hungary and Great Britain in WWI), Wallas is 

sending “a copy of the second edition of my book” (Human 

Nature and Politics, 1st ed. 1908), another book “will not ... 

be completed for some years ... a systematic treatise on the 

psychology of industry and politics ... When your 

translation is in type I should like to see it and to write a 

short preface in German ... You and I have no other purpose 

except to help mankind to think a little more clearly and 

therefore to live with somewhat less suffering and confusion 

... Have you read ... ‘The Great Illusion’ by Norman 

Angell” (1910, on the economic futility of war even for the 

winners) (4th April 1910), saying “I am extremely glad to 

hear the translation is nearly finished and that Herr 

Bernstein will write an introduction. I knew him ... in 

England and liked him extremely” (n.d., c. April 1911), “I 

published ‘The Great Society’ last June. When the war is 

over I may be able to sell a few copies” and hoping “some 

day for a peaceful Europe” (11th September 1914), together 

10 sides 8vo., 58 Southwood Lane, Highgate, London, N., 

4th April 1911 - 11th September 1912 [SD19041]£125 

407. WALSINGHAM (Sir Francis, c. 1530-1590, 

Diplomat and Spy Master, from 1573 Secretary of State to 

Elizabeth I) 

Memorandum signed, attesting that “Sr Henry Cobham 

knight latelie sent into Spayne in the Q: ma.ties affayers at 

his returne ... came to hir ma.ie at Windsorre the tenth day 

of January 1575”, 1 side 2” x 6½”, n.p., 10th January, 

modern reckoning 1576 (Transcription) Sr Henry Cobham 

knight latelie sent into Spayne in the Q: ma[jes]ties 

affayers at his returne owt of the same Countrie came to hir 

ma[jest]ie at Windsorre the tenth day of January 1575. 

[Signed] Fra: Walsingham [SD50212]£1,500 

Walsingham is best known for his network of spies at foreign 

courts as far afield as Turkey, and for his detection of the 

Babington plot to put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne. He 

pressed Elizabeth constantly to support the protestants on the 

Continent, but the Queen was too wary to sanction active 

engagement there. 

Sir Henry Cobham, (1538-c.1605), son of the 6th Lord Cobham, 

had been to Spain twice before. On this occasion, in the autumn 

of 1575, he sought religious toleration for English subjects 

resident and travelling in Spain, and to offer to mediate between 

Philip II and the Netherlands. Philip was immovable, but the 

Duke of Alva was sufficiently alarmed at the threat of a rupture 

beween the two countries to secure some relaxation for English 

residents. On his return, Cobham was immediately dispatched to 

Brussels, again to threaten war if the governor continued his 

coercive measures. 

408. WELLS (H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist) 

ALS to A. H. Wilkinson, saying that he is “not in need of 

secretarial help at present, but if I am you might be the sort 

of helper for me ...”, 1 side 8vo., Spade House, Sandgate, 

17th January 1902, mounted with a photo 

[SD16191]£275 

409. WEIRTER (Louis, 1873-1932, member, Royal 

Society of British Artists) 

2 ALS to Ferdinand L. Leipnik (1869- c.1924), the 

Hungarian journalist and connoisseur, saying “I will never 

forget my short stay in your beautiful city, it will form my 

subject for next years Academy ... I am busy at the water 

colour drawings for [Walter] Jerrolds book but the three 

colour process does hamper one so .. thanking you for your 

very great kindness to us in Budapest”, wondering if he 

would see him “during the Coronation festivities here” and 

if so “manage time to lunch with me one day ... I am going 

off tonight to Carnavon to start a picture of the investiture 

of the Prince of Wales”, 4 sides 8vo., North Cottage, 

Baldock, Hertfordshire, c. 1910 and 4th July 1911 

[SD19043]£75 

410. WILHELM II (1859-1941, Emperor of Germany 

1888-1918) 

Document signed, in German with transcription and 

translation, with his large bold signature, to the Minister for 

Agriculture, Domains, and Forests, approving the transfer 

of about 10,000 acres of State Forest based on Miele in 

Lüneburg to the General Hanoverian Monastic Property, in 

exchange for four estates from the latter, in Bromberg, 

Posen, Potsdam and Lüneburg, stating the areas of land 

involved, the payments to adjust the values to 1st October 

1904, and the transfer of another forest property in 1906, 2 

sides 4to., Donaueschingen, 7th November 1908 

[SD50213]£275 

Following the war of 1866, Hanover became part of Prussia, 

where monastic property was secularized a few years later. At 

Donaueschingen is the great Furstenburg Palace in the Black 

Forest. 

411. WILLEM I FREDERIK (1772-1848, Sovereign 

Prince and King of the Netherlands 1813-1840) 

LS with his initials ‘G.F.’ and title as Hereditary Prince of 

Orange, in French with translation, to Mr Gray, British 

Chargé d’Affaires at Berlin, saying that he has not had “an 

answer from Count Haugwitz” (1752-1831, the Prussian 

Foreign Minister), “whom I only saw for a moment 

yesterday at dinner with the Queen Dowager”, (Elisabeth of 

Brunswick, widow of Frederick the Great), Haugwitz said 

“he wished to come and talk with me today ... meanwhile ... 

from all appearances ... Herr Haugwitz finds himself in 

difficulties”, the writer asks for “a Copy of the verbal note 

sent a day or two ago by Baron Leuthe to Count Haugwitz, 

concerning the assembly of our Troops in the Electorate of 

Hanover”, and to know “when this note was presented”, 1 

side 8vo., address and armorial seal on conjugate leaf, 

Berlin, 6th October 1795 [SD50214]£375 

After initial success against the French Revolutionary Army, the 

Prince with his father and family had been compelled to retire to 

England. He then moved to his father-in-law’s capital at Berlin, 

where his chief concern was the fate of the Dutch troops who had 

been pursued to Hanover, soon to be annexed by the French. He 

took an active part in the Duke of York’s attempt to recover the 

Netherlands, fought with Austria at Wagram, where he was 

wounded, and was welcomed back by all factions when Holland 

rose in revolt against the French in 1813.


412. WILLIAMS (Sir William Fenwick, 1800-1883, 

M.P., Defender of Kars, Governor of Nova Scotia and of 

Gibraltar) 

ALS toMrs Darby Griffith, explaining that unfortunately he 

is “engaged to go into Hampshire ... or should have had 

great pleasure in joining your party to the Crystal Palace ... 

for, between London and Woolwich I have had not a 

moment for recreation or the society of my friends”, n.p., 

‘Thursday’ n.d., c. 1857, light traces of laying down on 

blank fourth side [SD19113]£125 

Fenwick Williams Pasha, supporting the Turks on the Caucasian 

front, held Kars in a remarkable seige by Count Muraviev, till 

compelled to capitulate on 26th November 1855. In one assault 

the Russians lost 7000 men. After the Crimean War, Williams 

was General-Commandant of Wooolwich Garrison, and Colonel- 

Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1864. 

413. WINGATE (Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Sirdar 

of the Egyptian Army, Governor-General of the Sudan 

1899-1916 and from 1920 1st Baronet) 

ALS ‘RWingate’ to A.R.F. Hyslop, Headmaster of Trinity 

College, Glenalmond, regretting that a previous 

engagement prevents him from attending the 

commemoration, “I am the identical Reggie Wingate of old 

Jersey days ... I remember well the Hyslop family and your 

house not far from Victoria College. May I congatulate you 

also in having attained a first rate position - the Glenalmond 

men Ihave met inlife always give me the impression of 

having been thoroughly well trained”, 4 sides 8vo., Stafford 

House, Dunbar, 25th July 1905, remains of two tabs on 

blank margin of first side, and traces of laying down at top 

of third side, both without loss [SD13526]£65 

414. WRANGEL (Peter Nikolaevich, 1878-1928, Russian 

‘Baltic’ Baron, Cossack General of Division, Commander 

of the anti-Bolshevist forces in South Russia) 

Fine original postcard portrait photograph by Phébus, 

signed, showing him three-quarters length seated in 

uniform, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1920 [SD50263]£225 

On 24th June 1920, Wrangel captured 10,000 Bolshevist 

prisoners. He set up an Administration, confirming the peasants 

in their newly acquired lands, enforcing strict discipline in the 

Army and measures against corruption. On 11th August France 

recognized his government, but the move was denounced by 

British Labour. After the Bolshevists captured Sebastopol in 

November 1920, he effected the escape by sea of 150,000 

refugees. 

See his Memoirs (1929) and the article in the Illustrated London 

News of 21st August 1920. 

ENIA (Grand Duchess, 1875-1960, Sister of 

Nicholas II and Wife of his Cousin Grand Duke 

Alexander) 

Fine Cabinet Photograph by A. Pasetti, signed and dated, 

showing her three quarters length wearing a fur stole and 

hat, 6½” x 4¼”, n.p., (St. Petersburg), 1893 

[SD26004]£2,500 

ATES (Edmund, 1831-1894, Novelist & Founder 

of ‘The World') 

ALS toanunnamed correspondent sending “two 

chapters. Don't post anything to me until Saturday next 

then send copy & proofs ... I'm anxious to see if it all fits 

...”, 1 side 8vo., Post Office headed paper, Sunday night, 

n.d., mounted with a superb contemporary photo 

[SD3909]£75 

417. YEATS (John Butler, 1839-1922, Artist, father of 

William and Jack) 

ALS to PAGET (Henry Mariott, 1856-1936, Painter and 

Illustrator) sympathising with him on his “terrible grief that 

has fallen upon you & all your circle ... I can only hope that 

time may soften matters, & that after a while peace may 

return in some degree ... I have an important portrait on 

hand -aportrait of Mrs Tom Conelly, a grand dame in 

Kildare. I have been staying in her house ... she has the 

biggest house I was ever in - they are descendants of Earl of 

Strafford - & have the portrait of him & his secretary by 

Vandyke ... they have also Strafford’s sword & helmet ... 

they have also a grand chart that belonged to Christopher 

Columbus - his name is cut on it - there is a very fine Pope 

by Velasquez. The house is full of pictures and curious 

things. I very often wish for you and Jaack Powell to come 

&seeit ... After Mrs Connelly I got to Lincolnshire to paint 

arichmanthere,hemay have others of his family painted 

...”, and he continues about his plans, 4 sides 8vo., 20 

Lincoln Place, Dublin, 29thAugust 1891 [SD26577]£175 

Paget was a leading member of the Bedford Park circle of writers 

and artist, a friend of Shaw and William B. Yeats. His brothers 

were artists and his daughter Dorothy was an actress. 

418. YEATS (Jack Butler, 1871-1957, Painter, brother of 

the Poet) 

ALS to Dorothy PAGET (Actress, daughter of Henry 

Mariott, 1856-1936, Painter) saying how he had enjoyed 

meeting her “son and daughter in law. I enjoyed their visit 

here in my studio ... so didi my friend MacGreevy ... he is 

the kind, good and faithful friend who comes in for an hour 

or so, every evening since Cottie died four years ago. We 

had celebrated our golden wedding three years before she 

died...”, he continues about his sisters “Lolly ... died in 

1940. She was running the Press ‘The Cuala Press’ for 

many years, it had moved in to Dublin from Dundrum, 

though Lily and Lolly continued to live in Dundrum where 

Lily died in 1949, so I being the youngest, am the last left 

standing ...”, he ends by saying that he is sure that he has 

“between the leaves of some book of Cotties a programme 

of the Land of Hearts Desire with yourself in it ...”, 2 sides 

oblong 4to., 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, 20th September 

1951, together with a catalogue of a retrospective 

exhibition at the Waddington Gallery in London, 1958 with 

press cuttings added 1951 [SD26585]£225

59 UNSIGNED VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS 

UNSIGNED VINTAGE 

PHOTOGRAPHS 

419. [ALBERT (1819-1861, Prince Consort of Queen 

Victoria)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by E. & H.Anthony, 

showing the Prince at a desk with a quill pen in his hand 

and legs crossed, 4” x 2½” n.p., n.d., 1861 [SD25915]£95 

420. [ALEXANDER II (‘The Liberator’, 1818-1881, 

Emperor of Russia from 1855)] 

Fine original unsigned carte de visite photo by Downey 

showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4” x 2½”, n.p., 

n.d., [SD23220]£95 

THE ROMANOFF FAMILY IN 1892 

421. [ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia 

from 1881) & his wife MARIE FEODOROVNA 

(Princess Marie Dagmar, 1847-1928, sister of Queen 

Alexandra of Britain) with their children and relatives] 

Extraordinary group photo by de Jongh Frères of Paris 

showing twenty five members of the Romanoff family 

standing and seated together, the image shows the Emperor 

and Empress with daughters Grand Duchess XENIA 

(1875-1960), Grand Duchess OLGA (1882-1950) and 

their sons NICHOLAS II (1868-1918) and Grand Duke 

MICHAEL ALEXANDROVITCH (1878-1918), 

together with GRAND DUKES MICHAEL 

NICHOLIEVITCH (1832-1909), PAUL 

ALEXANDROVITCH (1860-1919), CONSTANTIN 

CONSTANTINOVITCH (1858-1915), SERGE 

MIKHAILOVITCH (1869-1918), NICHOLAS 

NICOLAIEVITCH (1856-1929), VLADIMIR 

ALEXANDROVITCH (1847-1909), DIMITRI 

CONSTANTINOVITCH (1860-1919), ALEXIS 

MICHAELOVITCH (1875-1895), ANDRÈ 

VLADIMIROVITCH (1879-1956) and BORIS 

VLADIMIROVITCH (1877-1943) with GRAND 

DUCHESSES MARIE PAVLOVNA (1854-1920), 

HÉLÈNE VLADIMIROVITCH (1882-1957) and 

ALEXANDRA JOSSSIFORNA (1830-1911), with 

DUKES MICHAEL GREGORIVITCH de 

Mecklenburg Strèlitz (1863-1934), GEORGES 

GREGORIVITCH de Mecklenburg (1859-1909) and 

ALEXANDER D’OLDENBURG (1844-1932) together 

with PRINCES PETER D’OLDENBURG (1868-1924) 

& GEORGE ROMANOVSKY (1852-1912) and OLGA 

(1851-1926, Queen of Greece who later married Prince 

Peter D’Oldenburg), the men are standing at the back with 

the women seated with the Emperor and the children are 

seated cross legged on the ground at the front, 9” x 7” in 

original mount 13½” x 11”, Tsarskoe Selo, 1892 

[SD23748]£2,250 

Alexander III succeeded his father after his assassination in 1881. 

In 1866 he married Princess Marie Dagmar of Denmark who 

became known as Maria Feodorovna. She had originally been 

engaged to Alexander’s elder brother Nicholas, but changed 

suitors on his death in 1865. The precedent was followed by her 

nephew George V. They ascended to the Imperial throne in 1881. 

THE FAMILY OF TSAR ALEXANDER III 

422. [ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia 

from 1881), his wife MARIE FEODOROVNA (Princess 

Marie Dagmar (1847-1928), sister of Queen Alexandra 

of Britain) & their children NICHOLAS II (1868-1918), 

GEORGE (1871-1899, Grand Duke, died of 

Tuberculosis), MICHAEL (1878-1918, Grand Duke), 

XENIA (1875-1960, Grand Duchess) & OLGA (1882- 

1960)] 

Exceptional unsigned Russian cabinet photo showing the 

entire family of Alexandra and Marie surrounded by their 

children, 6½” x 4½”, n.p., n.d.,1888, faded [SD23862]£500 

This photo was taken the year of the train disaster, in which the 

family were travelling in the Imperial train and it was derailed for 

some mysterious reason. Alexander III, who was very strong, is 

meant tohave lifted the steel roof of the train so that his family 

could get out. The youngest, who is in her father’s arms in this 

picture, (Olga), is meant to have run down the embankment, 

saying “Now, they’ve come to kill us”. It is most unusual to get 

images of the whole family as Grand Duke George was sent to a 

sanitorium in 1891 for his tuberculosis, and never returned. 

THE FAMILY OF EDWARD VII 

423. [ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his 

Queen), with her children ALBERT VICTOR (Christian 

Edward, Duke of Clarence, 1864-1892, Eldest Son of 

Edward VII), GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great 

Britain), LOUISE (1867-1931, Princess Royal) 

VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, Princess) & 

MAUD (1869-1938, Queen of Norway)] 

Charming unsigned carte de visite photo by George E. 

Hansen showing the children around their mother, 4¼” x 

2½”, n.p., (Copenhagen), n.d., c. 1875 [SD23435]£125 

424. [ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the 

Tsarina of Nicholas II of Russia) 

Fine original unsigned Russian postcard photo showing the 

Tsarina, head and shoulders wearing a lacy dress and 

pearls, with a crown printed in the top left corner, 5½” x 

3½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25399]£150 

425. [ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the 

Tsarina of Nicholas II of Russia) 

Fine original unsigned Cabinet photo of a portrait, showing 

the Tsarina half length, from behind in profile wearing a fur 

coat and a tiara, 6½” x 4½”,n.p., n.d., [SD25490]£325 

426. [ALEXEI, (1904-1918, Grand Duke, Tsarevitch of 

Russia, son of Nicholas II, assassinated with his family)] 

Rare unsigned original photo of the Tsarevitch as an infant, 

sitting on a chair with a white fur hat on, 5¼” x 4”, mounted 

on bordered card page, taken from an Imperial album, 11”x 

8¼”, n.p., n.d., [SD25474]£1,750 

427. [ALEXEI (1904-1918, The Tsarevitch, 

Assassinated with his family after the Revolution)] 

Fine original unsigned Russian postcard photo showing the 

young boy, full length dressed as a Hussar, with a 3/4 

length coat, fur hat and sword, titled underneath, 5½” x 

3½”, n.p., n.d. c. 1910 corners trimmed [SD25552]£125


428. [ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg 

Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria, Admiral of 

the Fleet, General of the Prussian Army) & his wife 

MARIE (1853-1900, Daughter of Alexander II Emperor 

of Russia)] 

Exceptional pair of unsigned cabinet photos by Ch. 

Bergamasco in St Petersbourg, showing them both head and 

shoulders, she is wearing a white dress and pendant at her 

neck, he is wearing military uniform, each 6½” x 4¼” n.p., 

1875 [SD25431]£250 

Taken soon after their marriage in St Petersburg in January 1874 

429. [ALFRED (Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg 

Gotha, 1844-1900, 2nd Son of Queen Victoria)] 

Superb coloured glass photo on opaline, showing the duke 

in hunting clothes, loading his gun, 6” x 4.5”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1880 some crazing [SD26556]£425 

An exceptionally rare form of Victorian photography 

430. [ALICE (Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, 

Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Ludwig IV, Grand 

Duke of Hesse & mother of Alexandra Feodorovna) 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Southwell, showing her 

full length wearing a long dress, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1862 [SD23460]£225 

Photos of Alice are rare due to her tragic early death from 

diptheria, caught while nursing her husband and children. 

431. [ANASTASIA (1901-1918, Youngest Daughter of 

the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia)] 

Charming unsigned postcard photo, showing her seating on 

a sofa in a white lacey dress, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., dated 

underneath, 1911 [SD22878]£325 

432. [ARGYLL (9th Duke, John Campbell, Marquis of 

Lorne, 1845-1914, Husband of Princess Louise, Governor- 

General of Canada)] 

Unsigned cabinet photo by William Luks for Elliott & Fry 

showing him head and shoulders, 6½” x 4¼”, London, n.d., 

c. 1879 [SD22622]£25 

433. [ARTHUR (1883-1938, 2nd Duke of Connaught, 

Major General)] 

Delightful unsigned cabinet photo by Alexander Bassano, 

showing him three quarters length, wearing uniform with a 

sword at his belt, 6½” x 4¼”, n.p., n.p., c. 1886 

[SD23502]£125 

434. [ARTHUR (Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942, Son of 

Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada) his wife 

LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860-1917, 

Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia), their 

daughters MARGARET (1882-1920) & PATRICIA 

(1886-1974) and their son ARTHUR (1883-1938) with 

their son in law GUSTAV VI ADOLF (1882-1973, King 

of Sweden)] 

Excellent unsigned coronation portrait by Downey, showing 

the family seated and standing in all their regalia, 11½” x 

10”, in mount 18” x 14”, n.p., n.d., (22nd June 1911 

[SD23518]£425 

Both the above from the collection of Lady Patricia Ramsay, 

daughter of the Duke of Connaught. 

435. [AUGUSTA VICTORIA (Empress, 1858-1921, 

Wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Gebr. Engelhardt & 

Schiller, showing her head and shoulders, in profile, 4” x 

2½”, n.p., (Berlin), n.d., c. 1890 [SD23417]£95 

436. [BEATRICE (Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, 

Princess, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria)] 

Charming unsigned carte de visite photo by Mayall, 

showing her as a young girl standing, wearing a full skirted 

lacey dress and holding a bunch of flowers, 4¼” x 2½”, 

n.p., n.d., slightly faded [SD23190]£65 

437. [BENSON (Edward White, 1829-1896, first Bishop 

of Truro, Archbishop of Canterbury)] 

Fine woodburytype photo by Walery, showing the 

Archbishop, three quarter length, sitting in a chair with a 

book on his lap, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a 

printed biography, 16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., library stamp in 

top left hand corner [SD25680]£75 

FOUR FIELD MARSHALLS 

438. [BIRDWOOD (Field Marshal William Riddell, 

1865-1951, planned the landing at Gallipoli, Commanderin-Chief 

in India 1925-1930, Master of Peterhouse, 

Cambridge 1930-1938, from 1938 1st Baron)] 

Unsigned press photo showing Birdwood standing 

alongside Field Marshall’s Deverell, Jacob and 

Massingberd, 6½” x 4¼”, G.H.Q., 2nd March 1940 

[SD25887]£60 

439. [BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, Poet, 

wife of Robert Browning)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite copied from a Daguereotype, 

showing head and shoulders in profile, 4” x 2½”, n.p., 4th 

August 1873 [SD25532]£225 

440. [BURTON (Sir Richard F., 1829-1890, Explorer & 

Orientalist)] 

Rare unsigned carte de visite photo by M. Manenizza, 

showing him half length, wearing an open necked shirt, 4” x 

2½”, Trieste, n.d., c. 1880, rather indistinct and faded 

[SD22673]£475 

Trieste was Burton's home from 1872 when he took over the 

Consulship, till his death. 

441. [CHARLOTTE (1860-1919, eldest daughter of 

Emperor Friedrich III, from 1878 wife of Bernhard III, 

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Bangor, showing the 

infant princess leant against a table with some sort of toy in 

her hand, 4½” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25463]£175 

442. [CHRISTIAN (Prince of Schleswig-Holstein- 

Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1831-1917) & his wife 

Princess HELENA (Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, 3rd 

Daughter of Queen Victoria) 

Fine carte de visite photo by Levitsky signed by both 

showing them together, the Prince is seated with the 

Princess standing above him, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., (Paris), n.d., 

c. 1867 [SD23439]£325


FOUR GENERATIONS 

443. [CHRISTIAN IX (1818-1906, King of Denmark) 

and his wife LOUISE (1818-1898) with their daughter 

ALEXANDRA (1844-1925, Queen of Edward VII of 

England)] 

Fine unsigned Cabinet Photo, showing the King and Queen 

of Denmark, with their daughter Alexandra, grand daughter, 

the Duchess of Fife and great grand daughter Lady 

Alexandra Duff sat on the knee of the Queen, 6”x 4”, n.d., 

n.p., [SD25382]£175 

THE FAMILY OF GRAND DUKE 

CONSTANTINE 

444. [CONSTANTINE (1858-1915, Grand Duke, General 

of the Infantry, grandson of Emperor Nicholas I) with his 

wife ELIZABETH (1865-1927) and their children] 

Unsigned Russian postcard photo showing the couple 

surrounded by their eight children, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1909 [SD22649]£125 

Constantine was the last of the Romanoffs to be buried at the 

Fortress ofPeter and Paul. 

Princess Vera, born 1906, and shown here with her family, is the 

only surviving Romanoff. When she was a child she played with 

the Imperial children at Tsarskoe Zeloe. She now lives in 

America. 

445. [DIMITRI PAVLOVNAVITCH (1891-1942, 

Grand Duke of Russia, son of Grand Duke Paul 

Alexandrovitch, in 1916 he was involved in the murder of 

Rasputin)] 

Unsigned Russian postcard photo showing him on a horse 

on the fields outside St Petersburg, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1910 [SD22648]£250 

After 1916 Dimitri never spoke publicly of the murder. Before 

that time he had been viewed as a possible husband for Grand 

Duchess Tatiana. By his banishment to Persia he was saved from 

the Revolution. 

446. [EDEN (Sir Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, 

Prime Minister)] 

Fine unsigned German press photo showing the primeminister 

during his visit to Berlin, 8½” x 6½”, n.d. 

[SD25889]£45 

447. [EDWARD (George Nicholas, b. 1935, 2nd Duke of 

Kent, A.D.C. to the Queen)] 

Fine unsigned portrait photo by Harlip showing him three 

quarters length with his arms folded, 9” x 6½”, n.p., n.d. 

[SD15799]£35 

448. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) 

& ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen), 

their children GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great 

Britain), & his sisters Princesses VICTORIA 

ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, Princess), LOUISE (1867- 

1931) and MAUD (1869-1938) 

Unsigned carte de visite photo showing the family on the 

Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert, 4” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1880 [SD22908]£175 

449. [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Exceptional unsigned cabinet photo by A. & G. Taylor, 

showing him in highland costume standing outside a door, 

6½” x 4½”, Abergeldie, September 1886 [SD23954]£175 

450. [EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, 

Later the Duke of Windsor)] 

Charming early unsigned cabinet photo by W. & D. 

Downey with his mother’s cross-stitching at his side, 6½” x 

4¼”, in a charming leather and mother of pearl frame 

decorated with fleur de lys, London, n.d., c. 1895 

[SD24629]£375 

451. [EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, 

Later the Duke of Windsor)] 

Fine press photo of the Duke playing Golf taken in the 

riviera with Archie Compston, famous golfer and coach to 

the duke, standing on small boat ferrying between holes, 8” 

x6”, 6th January 1939 [SD24960]£100 

452. [ELENA (1873-1952, daughter of Nicholas I of 

Montenegro, wife of King Vittorio Emanuele III of 

Italy)] 

Unsigned postcard photo, showing her head and shoulders 

in profile, wearing a tiara and jewels, titled in Italian at the 

top, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d. [SD25899]£95 

GRANDCHILDREN OF FRANZ JOSEPH I 

OF AUSTRIA 

453. [ELISABETH (1874-1957, elder daughter of Prince 

Leopold {1846-1930} of Bavaria and his wife Gisela 

{1856-1932}) & her sister AUGUSTA (1875-1964)] 

Charming unsigned cabinet photo by Adéle showing the 

two young children snuggled up together in an armchair, 

wearing white dresses with wide sashes, 6¼” x 4¼”, 

Vienna, n.d., c. 1880, bottom edge trimmed not affecting 

the image [SD22671]£95 

CORONATION PICTURES 

454. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Fine unsigned coronation photo of the Crowning Ceremony, 

the picture shows the most solemn moment of the ceremony 

as the Archbishop of Canterbury places the Crown of 

England on the head of Queen Elizabeth, 10” x 8”, 2nd 

June 1953 [SD25005]£40 

455. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Fine unsigned press photo of Elizabeth II on the way to 

Westminster Abbey, showing the Royal procession on its 

journey down the Embankment, 10” x 8”, 2nd June 1953 

[SD25013]£35 

456. [ELIZABETH II (b. 1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Fine unsigned press photo of Elizabeth II on the way back 

from Westminster Abbey after her Coronation, showing the 

Royal procession on its journey back to the Palace 

travelling through Piccadilly Circus, 10” x 8”, 2nd June 

1953 [SD25014]£35




Fine unsigned press photo of the Queen Mother with 

Princess Margaret saying goodbye to Norman Hartnell’s 

former model after 19 years, taken at the Royal fashion 

show, Hamilton House, London, 8” x 6”, 8th December, 

1955 [SD24966]£85 



Fine unsigned press photo of the Duke and Duchess of 

York, infant Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and 

the duke of York seen in profile, taking the salute of the 

4/5th Battalion, Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, at 

Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland, 8” x 6”, 10th August 1935 

[SD25042]£60 

459. [EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920, wife of 

Emperor Napoleon III)] 

Unsigned cabinet photo by W. & D. Downey, showing her 

three quarters length, standing leaning on the back of a 

chair, 6½”x 4” , n.p., n.d. slightly faded [SD25241]£150 

460. [FARRAR (Frederick W., 1831-1903, Dean of 

Canterbury and Author of Boys School Stories)] 

Fine woodburytype photo by Walery, showing him, three 

quarter length, standing with him arm resting on a piece of 

furniture, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a 

printed biography, 16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., 1874, library 

stamp in top left hand corner [SD25679]£55 

461. [FERDINAND I [(Prince Maximilian Karl Leopold 

Maria of Saxe-Coburg, 1861-1948, King of Bulgaria 1908- 

1918, ‘Foxy Ferdinand’)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet portrait by Kapactorhob, showing 

him three quarters length in uniform, with his hand on his 

sword, 8” x 4”, Vienna, n.d., c. 1906 [SD22604]£85 

Ferdinand was an ally of the Kaiser in World War I. 

462. [FRANZ JOSEF I (1830-1916, Emperor of Austria, 

King of Hungary, his attack on Serbia in 1914 started 

World War I)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Charlet & Jacotin, 

showing him half length, dressed in military uniform, 4¼” x 

2½”, n.p., n.d., creased at the bottom [SD25480]£150 

463. [FREDERICK III (1831-1888, Emperor of 

Germany)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo of a picture by F. 

Brandt’s, showing the King in military uniform, 4” x 2½”, 

n.p, taken 11th May 1868 [SD25408]£45 

464. [GEORGE (1869-1957, 2nd son of King George I 

and Queen Olga of Greece, Admiral in the Greek Navy)] 

Fine Greek unsigned cabinet photo by C. Boehringer, 

shoing him half length, seated, wearing uniform, 6½” x 4”, 

n.p., (Athens) n.d., c. 1903 [SD23877]£475 

Prince George caused scandal at the turn of the century by having 

aloveaffairfor the rest of his life, with his uncle, Prince Vladimir 

of Denmark, who was the brother of Queen Alexandra and the 

Dowager Empress. 

465. [GEORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Son of 

George V, Uncle of Elizabeth II)] 

Fine official unsigned photo of George Duke of Kent 

meeting his bride to be at Dover, the picture shows the 

Duke kissing his fiancee, Princess Marina of Greece with a 

kiss as she arrived in the country accompanied by her 

parents in Dover, 10” x 8”, 21st November 1934 

[SD25021]£50 

466. [GEORGE (Duke of Kent, 1902-1942, Son of 

George V, Uncle of Elizabeth II) & his wife MARINA 

(Duchess of Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of Greece)] 

Final unsigned official photo of the Duke and Duchess of 

Kent taken during their visit the the Royal Horticultural 

Society’s flower show in Chelsea, shoeing the two full 

length, the Duke wearing a pin-striped suit, the duchess a 

tight fitting coat and hat, 8” x 6”, 24th May 1938 slight cut 

on bottom left hand corner [SD25035]£50 

467. [GEORGE I (1845-1913, King of Greece)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Southwell, showing him 

full length, wearing naval uniform, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., 

(London), n.d. [SD23437]£75 

468. [GEORGE II (1890-1947, King of Greece)] 

Excellent unsigned portrait photo by Tayer, signed in pencil 

by the photographer, showing him head and shoulders in 

uniform with his arms crossed, 7” x 5” in mount 10½” x 

8½”, in original presentation frame, with crown at the 

head, 12” x 10”, n.p., n.d. [SD22711]£165 

469. [GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & 

MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, his Queen)] 

Fine pair of unsigned cabinet photos by Downey, showing 

them both half length, he is in uniform seated backwards on 

achair, she is simply dressed with pearls at her neck and a 

corsage of roses, the images are titled “His Royal Highness 

the Duke of York” and “Her Serene Highness Princess 

Victoria Mary of Teck”, each photo 6½” x 4¼”, n.p., n.d., 

c. 1893 [SD23773]£225 


Fine collection of unsigned original photos, showing the 

Duke of Cornwall and York full length, full face, in the 

uniform of Colonel in Chief of the Royal Fusiliers , 7½” x 

5½”, on the verso is a photo of the Royal review, both taken 

in Melbourne, 5” x 4¼”, as well as two smaller pictures of 

the illuminations held in Sydney, May 1901 slight 

spotting [SD25510]£150 

471. [HAAKON VII (Prince Christian Charles, 1872- 

1957, 1st King of Norway on its independence from 

Sweden) & his wife Princess MAUD (Charlotte Mary 

Victoria, 1869-1938, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of 

Norway) and their son Olav (b.1903), ] 

Fine unsigned postcard photo, shows the family in three 

seperate ovals, the King and Queen next to each other with 

amuchsmaller oval in the middle of the two, showing the 

young Olav wearing a sailor suit, on a white background, 

5½”x 3½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25387]£45


472. [GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain)] 

Fine unsigned official photo of George VI accompanied by 

Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary inspecting a model of 

“The sovereign of the seven seas” which was built for 

Charles I at deptford after the museum opening. 7” x 5”. 

27th April 1937 [SD24969]£35 

473. [HAILE SELASSIE (1891-1975, Emperor of 

Ethiopia from 1930 to his dethronement in 1974, 'The Lion 

of Judah', formerly known as Ras Tafari)] 

Interesting unsigned group of images put together, with a 

picture of Haille Selassie, above a map of Abyssinia, next 

to a picture of prorok dining with desert Chiefs, with a 

picture of Count Byron de Prorok in an oval,8½”x6½”, 

Abyssinia, c. 1945 [SD25886]£75 

474. [HELENA (Grand Duchess, 1882-1957, wife of 

Prince Nicholas of Greece, 1872-1938)] 

Exceptional unsigned Russian cabinet photo by A. Pasetti, 

showing her head and shoulders with a lacy decolletage, 

6¼” x 4¼”, St Petersbourg, n.d., c. 1900 [SD22890]£350 

Princess Helena was the granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia, 

and mother of Marina, Duchess of Kent. 

475. [HELENA VICTORIA (1870-1948, Princess of 

Schleswig Holstein, daughter of Prince Christian)] 

Unsigned original photo showing her on board the Royal 

Yacht Victoria and Albert with Commander Denison, 5½” 

x3½”, Cowes, August 1898 [SD23450]£175 

476. [HENRY (Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974, Officer in 

the 10th Hussars, Marshall of the RAF, Governor General 

of Australia, Uncle of Elizabeth II)] 

Fine unsigned official photo of the Duke of Gloucesters 

engagement, taken in the grounds of Balmoral, the Duke, 

his fiancee Lady Montague-Douglas-Scott, King George V, 

Queen Mary and the Duchess of Buccleuch are all pictured 

standing for the official photos, 8” x 6”, n.d [SD25017]£75 

477. ISABEL II (1830-1904, Queen of Spain, Abdicated 

at Paris in favour of her son Alphonso XII, 1870) & her 

daughters EULALIA (b. 1864-1958), and MARIA DE 

LA PAZ (b. 1862-1946) 

Lovely unsigned cabinet photo by Valentin, Showing the 

Queen in the middle ofher two daughters with her arms 

around them, 6½” x 4½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25911]£125 

Isabel II abdicated in favour of her son at Paris on the 25th June. 

478. [JOHN (1905-1919, Prince, Son of George V & 

Queen Mary)] 

Unsigned postcard photo by the Rotary Co., showing him 

full length, wearing a sailor suit, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1911 [SD23869]£275 

479. [KYRA (Kirillovna, 1909-1967, daughter of Queen 

Victoria’s granddaughter Victoria Melita by her second 

husband Grand Duke Kyrill Vladimirovitch of Russia)] 

Fine original unsigned postcard photo by Elvira, Munich, 

showing her as a little girl, head and shoulders, 5½” x 3½”, 

n.p., (Munich) n.d., c. 1911 [SD23772]£75 

480. [KYRILLOVITCH (Wladimir, 1917-1992, 

Pretender to the Russian Throne)] 

Postcard photo, signed and dated on his behalf by his father 

Grand Duke KYRIL (1876-1938, Pretender to the 

Russian Throne in 1924, and incurred the wrath of the 

Dowager Empress), the image shows Wladimir as a young 

boy, full length, in a charming pose, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., 1921 

[SD23864]£250 

481. [LEIGHTON (Frederic, Lord, 1830-1896, Artist, 

President of the Royal Academy)] 

Woodburytype photograph by Walery, showing Lord 

Leighton, three quarter length, leaning on a chest, with 

facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed biography, 

16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., library stamp in top left corner, 

slight tear in the top, not affecting photo [SD25666]£75 

482. [LEOPOLD (George Albert, 1853-1884, 4th Son of 

Queen Victoria, Duke of Albany, a haemophiliac, died after 

an accident on 28th March in Cannes)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Bassano, showing him head 

and shoulders in profile, wearing a medal and a sash, 6½” x 

4¼”, n.p., 1884 [SD25898]£125 

483. [LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish 

Missionary & Explorer)] 

Original unsigned carte-de-visite photo by Mayall, showing 

him sitting cross legged on a chair at his desk, 4” x 2½”, 

n.p., n.d., [SD25923]£225 

484. [LOUIS (Grand Duke of Hesse, 1837-1892, Son-in- 

Law ofQueen Victoria, father of Tsarina ALEXANDRA 

of Russia) & his daughters Princess ALICE (1843-1878) 

&Princess VICTORIA (1863-1950)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Southwell Bros., 

showing the Duke standing behind Princess Alice holding 

the baby Elizabeth on her knee, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., May 1964 

[SD25467]£225 

485. [LOUISA (1848-1939, Princess of Great Britain) & 

her sister HELENA (Augusta Victoria, 1846-1923, 3rd 

Daughter of Queen Victoria, founder of the Princess 

Christian Nursing Home)] 

Superb pair of carte de visite photos by Ghémar Fréres, 

each signed, showing them as young women, in identical 

dresses, 4¼” x 2½”, Osborne, January 1863 

[SD23434]£175 

486. [LOUISE CAROLINE (1848-1939, Princess, 

Daughter of Queen Victoria, Duchess of Argyll, 

Sculptress)] 

Charming hand tinted unsigned photo by Hills & Saunders, 

showing the young Princess on her wedding day, looking 

down towards her bouquet, 3½” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., 1871, 

slight damage on the corners not affecting the image 

[SD23510]£125 


Duke of Connaught.


487. [LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860- 

1917, Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Wife of 

Arthur, Duke of Connaught)] 

Fine pair of unsigned cabinet photos by Hills & Saunders, 

Eton, showing the Duchess with her infant son ARTHUR 

in her arms, 6½” x 4¼”, n.p., n.d., c. 1883, slightly spotted 

[SD23492]£85 



488. [LUIS I (1838-1889, from 1861 King of Portugal) & 

his queen MARIA (1847-1911) & their children 

CARLOS I (1863-1908, succeeded his father but was 

assassinated) & ALFONSO (1865-1920)] 

Fine set of four unsigned carte de visite photos by 

F.A.Gomes, showing Maria full length in profile, and the 

King and his two sons are all pictured head and shoulders, 

full face in an oval, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25906]£300 

489. [LYTTON (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1831- 

1891, 1st Earl, Viceroy of India, 1875-1880, during the 

Afghan Wars)] 


quarter length, standing in profile, with facsimile signature, 

accompanied by a printed biography, 16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., 

library stamp in top left hand corner [SD25681]£125 

TABLEAU VIVANT 

490. [MARGARET (1882-1920, Princess of Connaught, 

‘Daisy’, Crown Princess of Sweden)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Hughes & Mullins, showing 

her full length dressed as a choirboy, standing on the altar 

steps, 6½” x 4¼”, n.p., (Osborne), n.d., c. 1917 

[SD23744]£250 

Daisy had been incredibly successful during the first World War 

as an intermediary while her cousins went to war with each other. 

She passed letters backwards and forwards between them. Daisy 

died suddenly in 1920, while expecting her sixth child. 



491. [MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, Princess, Sister of 

Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon)] 

Fine press photo showing Princess Margaret talking with 

Norman Wisdom at the Royal Command Variety 

Performance, held in the Palladium, London, 8” x 6”, 2nd 

November 1954 [SD24979]£75 

492. [MARIA CRISTINA (1858-1929, 2nd wife of 

Alfonso XII of Spain, Queen Regent 1885-1902)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet portrait by Fernando Debas, showing 

her half length, seated, holding her baby the infant 

ALFONSO XIII ,(1886-1941, posthumous son of Alfonso 

XII), 6½” x 4”, Madrid, n.d., c. 1886 [SD22605]£75 

493. [MARIE (Alexandra Victoria, 1875-1938, Daughter 

of Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, wife of Ferdinand I of 

Roumania)] 

Fine original unsigned postcard photograph showing her 

head and shoulders in profile at the time she first became 

Queen, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., (Bucharest), n.d., c. 1915 

[SD23766]£75 

494. [MARIE (1899-1918, Grand Duchess, daughter of 

Nicholas II, assassinated with her family)] 

Fine original unsigned Daily Mail press photo of the Grand 

Duchess standing wearing a white dress and a pearled white 

head piece, with press stamps on the back, marked obituary, 

6” x3¼”, 29thAugust, n.p., 1912 [SD25471]£750 

this would have been one of the photos used by the press when 

publishing the Royal Family’s obituaries after their murders in 

1918, 

495. [MARIE AMÉLIE (1782-1866, wife of Louis 

Philippe I)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo by Neurdein, showing her 

head and shoulders in an oval as an old women, 4” x 2½”, 

n.p., n.d., 1839 [SD25918]£45 


1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ) 

&herson NICHOLAS II 1868-1918, Tsar of Russia 

from 1894, Assassinated after the Revolution)] 

Charming unsigned original photo showing Marie sitting 

down with an infant Nicholas stretched out with his legs on 

achairand his hands on his mothers lap, 5” x 3¼”, n.p., 

1870 [SD25516]£450 

497. [MARINA (Duchess of Kent, 1906-1969, Princess of 

Greece)] 

Fine unsigned press photo of The Duchess of Kent, Princess 

Alexandra and Prince Michael, the picture taken during the 

annual St. Andrew’s Day celebrations held at Eton college 

shows the Duchess in between her two children, her thirteen 

year old son Michael was currently a scholar at the school, 

8” x 6”, 30th November 1955 [SD25030]£40 

498. [MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953, Queen of George V)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by W. & D.Downey, showing 

her head and shoulders in slight profile with a flower in her 

hair, wearing pearls, 6½”x 4”, n.p., 1891 [SD25392]£75 

499. MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, 

Princess, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) 

Fine unsigned postcard photo by Rotary, showing her full 

length, sitting on a horse, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., 

[SD25900]£85 

500. [MILITZA (MILICA) (1880-1946, née Duchess 

Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife (1899) of Danilo II, 

1871-1939, Crown Prince and, for six days in 1921, Kingin-Exile 

of Montenegro)] 

Portrait Photograph with stamped signature and inscription 

in German, as Crown Princess of Montenegro and Duchess 

of Mecklenburg, showing her three-quarter length, wearing 

a coronet and a fine gown with appliqué work on the 

bodice, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1900, reproduction just 

touches two letters (not signature) [SD50254]£55 

The Princess’ father-in-law, Nikola I, was deposed on 26th 

November 1918 and the following year the elected government 

chose to unite Montenegro with the new Yugoslavia. With his 

German wife, Danilo had felt uncomfortable about opposing 

Austria during the War, and shortly after Nikola I’s death in 1921 

abdicated his rights to his nephew Michael.


501. [MICHAEL (Grand Duke, 1878-1918, Tsar 28th- 

29th March 1917, Youngest Brother of Tsar Nikolai II)] 

Fine original unsigned postcard photo showing him half 

length, in uniform, as a young man, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., 

1892 [SD22350]£145 

Michael became heir to the throne after George died in 1899, till 

the Tsesarevich Alexei was born in 1904. Nikolai II abdicated for 

himself and his son on 28th March 1917, but Michael refused to 

ascend the throne without the will of the people and himself 

renounced the throne on 29th March. He was killed by the 

Bolsheviks at Perm about 28th July 1918. 

502. [MURAT (Joachim, 1767-1815, King of Naples, 

Brother-in-Law & Marshal of Napoleon I)] 

Fine unsigned carte de visite by E.& H.T.Anthony, 

showing him head and shoulders, wearing his military dress 

uniform, 4”x 2½”, n.p., n.d., 1810 [SD25202]£75 

Murat was Napoleon’s most dashing cavalry general and married 

his master’s sister Caroline in 1800. Napoleon made him king of 

Naples in 1808 where he completed the abolition of the feudal 

system and the introduction of French law and administration. He 

dreamed of ruling a united kingdom of Italy south of the Po, but 

though he broke with Napoleon could not get the unequivocal 

support of the Allies. He was defeated by Austria and a disastrous 

landing in Calabria where he was captured, tried and shot. 

THE FRENCH IMPERIAL FAMILY 

503. [NAPOLEON III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808- 

1873, Emperor of the French, Nephew of Napoleon I) with 

his wife EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920, wife of 

Emperor Napoleon III) & their son LOUIS (Eugene Jean 

Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a 

reconnoitring party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo showing the Emperor seated 

with his wife and child standing beside him, 4¼” x 2½”, 

n.p., n.d., c. slightly faded [SD23183]£265 

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 

504. [NAPOLEON (Louis Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856- 


party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Fine unsigned carte-de-visite photo, showing him as a 

young man, with amoustache, 4” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1875 

[SD26636]£175 

505. [NAPOLEON (Louis Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856- 


party at Ulundi, Zululand)] 

Fine unsigned oval photo, showing him head and shoulders 

in unifrom, 5½” x 3½”, max n.p., n.d., c. 1877 

[SD26637]£225 

506. [NICHOLAS (1844-1865, eldest son of Alexander II 

& Empress Marie, tsarevitch who never became tsar, 

fiancée of Princess Dagmar, died of tuberculosis in Nice 

and his place was taken by his brother, Alexander III)] 

Unsigned carte de visite photo showing him three quarters 

length leaning on a pillar, 4¼” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1862, 

rather faded [SD23473]£325 

507. [NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 

1894, Assasinated after the Revolution), ALEXANDRA 

FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the Tsarina) with their 

children OLGA (1895-1918), TATIANA (1897-1918), 

MARIA (1899-1918), ANASTASIA (1901-1918) & 

ALEXEI (1904-1918, Tsarevitch)] 

Fine original unsigned group postcard photo by Rotary 

showing the family seated and standing around the Tsar and 

Tsarina, with the infant tsarevitch in his mother’s arms, 5½” 

x3½”, n.p., n.d. c. 1905 [SD23462]£275 

508. [NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 

1894, Assassinated after the Revolution)] 

Fine original unsigned photo, taken from a Russian Royal 

Family album, showing the Tsar three quarter length in 

military uniform, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25511]£125 

509. [OLGA (1895-1918, Grand Duchess of Russia, 

daughter of Tsar Nicholas II) & her sisters TATIANA 

(1897-1918) & MARIA (1899-1918)] 

Fine original unsigned French postcard photo of the 

daughters of the Tsar as small children grouped together, 

5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1899 [SD23677]£225 

510. PASTEUR (Louis, 1822-1895, French chemist, 

developer of pasteurisation) 


quarter length, standing leant against a piece of furniture, 

with facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed 

biography, 16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., library stamp in top left 

hand corner [SD25689]£375 

511. [PAUL (1860-1919, Grand Duke of Russia, youngest 

brother of Alexander III)] 

Unsigned French postcard photo, showing the Duke 

surrounded by his family, his second wife Princess 

PALEY (Olga Pistolkors, 1866-1929), their only son 

VLADIMIR (1897-1918) & their daughters IRINA 

(1903-1990) and NATALIA (1905-1981), 5½” x 3½”, 

n.p., n.d., c. 1916 [SD23866]£500 

This is an extremely rare postcard as Paul was murdered during 

the Revolution and so, more interestingly, was his son Vladimir, 

who died with Grand Duchess Elisabeth ,bybeingthrown 

down a mineshaft. Princess Paley went on to write her memoirs 

and her daughter Irina married Feodor, son of Grand Duchess 

Xenia in 1923. 

512. PINERO (Sir Arthur Wing, 1855-1934, Dramatist) 


quarter length, standing in profile, with facsimile signature, 

accompanied by a printed biography, 16½” x 12”, n.p., n.d., 

library stamp in top left hand corner [SD25682]£75 

513. [SOPHIA (Dorothea Ulrica, 1870-1932, Princess of 

Prussia, daughter of Frederick III Emperor of Prussia, wife 

of King Constantine I of Greece)] 

Unsigned postcard photo, showing the Princess full length 

in profile, wearing an elaborately embroided dress and a 

crown, 5”x 3½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25378]£50


514. [ROOSEVELT (Franklin Delano, 1882-1945, 32nd 

President of the United States during World War II)] 

Fine unsigned press photo of Roosevelt showing the 

president in profile, 7” x 5”, 25th June 1938 [SD25070]£60 

515. [RUDOLF (1858-1889, Crown Prince of Austria 

who shot himself at Meyerling)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Angerer, showing him head 

and shoulders in uniform, 6½” x 4”, Vienna, n.d., c. 1888 

[SD22601]£175 

THE HERO OF JALALABAD 

516. SALE (Major-General Sir Robert Henry, G.C.B., 

1782-1845) 

Fine Engraved Portrait three-quarter length in full uniform 

with sword and decorations, by F. Holl after H. Moseley, 5” 

x4”onpage10½” x 8”, Fisher and Son, London and Paris 

n.d., c. 1845, laid down by side margins [SD50095]£125 

Sale served in India under Baird against Tippoo Sahib (1798) and 

under Wellesley. In the Afghan War of 1838 he commanded the 

1st Bengal Brigade, which reached Kandahar in April 1839. He 

led the storming party at Ghazni in person and marched on to 

Kabul, where he was left with the army of occupation and was 

joined by his wife and daughter. When the Indian government 

stopped the subsidy to the frontier tribes, Sale was ordered to clear 

the route back to Peshawar, and during the campaign sustained a 

memorable siege at Jalalabad, November 1841- April 1842. 

517. [TATIANA (1897-1918, daughter of Nicholas II of 

Russia, assassinated with her family)] 

Fine original unsigned Russian postcard photo showing her 

half length in profile, sitting down wearing a jewelled dress 

and hat, titled in Russian, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1917 

[SD25518]£100 

518. [UMBERTO I (1844-1900, King of Italy) & his wife 

MARGHERITA (1851-1926)] 

Fine pair of unsigned cabinet photos by Kunsthandel, 

Austria & Brogi, Florence, showing them three quarters 

length, he is in uniform and she is in a court dress, 6½” x 

4¼”, n.p., n.d. [SD23882]£175 

519. [UMBERTO II (1844-1900, King of Italy)] 

Unsigned Italian postcard photo, showing him head and 

shoulders in uniform, titled below in Italian, 5¼” x 3½”, 

n.p., n.d., [SD25901]£75 

520. [VICTORIA (1840-1901, Empress Frederick of 

Germany, wife of Frederick III)] 

Attractive unsigned Carte-de-visite photograph by L. Haase 

&Co.,Berlin, showing her full length, in a bonnet, shawl 

and crinolined dress, 4” x 2½”, n.p., n.d., [SD25533]£75 

521. [VICTORIA EUGENIA (1887-1969, 

Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, daughter of Princess 

Beatrice of Battenberg &, Wife of Alfonso XIII of Spain) & 

her father HENRY (1858-1896, Prince of Battenberg)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Jabez Hughes, showing her 

as a child wearing a white dress with neckscarf and bonnet, 

sitting on her fathers knee, 6” x 4½” 1893 [SD25527]£425 

522. [VICTORIA ALEXANDRA (1868-1935, Princess, 

Daughter of Edward VII & Princess MAUD 1869-1938)] 

Fine unsigned origninal photo of the sisters standing 

together, both dressed in white, holding bouquets, 6”x 4”, 

n.p., n.d., [SD25384]£95 

523. [VICTORIA MELITA (1876-1936, wife of Grand 

Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and secondly Grand Duke 

Kirill, granddaughter of Queen Victoria)] 

Original unsigned postcard photo showing her three-quarter 

length in profile, sitting on a chair, 5½” x 3½”, n.p., n.d. 

[SD25894]£125 

524. [WARWICK (Frances Evelyn, 1861-1938, wife of 

the Earl of Warwick, Mistress of Edward VII, ‘Darling 

Daisy’)] 

Unsigned postcard photo showing her driving a car with a 

young Maynard Greville seated next to her, 5½” x 3½”, 

n.p., n.d., c. 1903 [SD23453]£75 

525. [WILHELM I (1797-1888, Emperor of Germany)] 

Unsigned cabinet photo of a painting showing him full 

length, looking out of a window, 6¼” x 4½”, n.p., n.d., c. 

1887 [SD23313]£75 

526. [WILHELM II (1859-1941, German Emperor 1888- 

1918)] 

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Reichard & Lindner, 

showing him in fancy dress from the period of Frederick the 

Great, 6½” x 4¼”, Berlin, n.d., c. 1905 [SD22624]£175 

527. [WILHELM III (Friedrich Viktor August Ernst, 

1882-1951, Son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince of 

Germany & of Prussia, renounced the throne in 1918)] 

Unsigned postcard photo showing him in uniform, 5½” x 

3½”, n.p., n.d., c. 1905 [SD23448]£50 

528. [XENIA (Grand Duchess, 1875-1960, Sister of 

Nicholas II of Russia and Wife of his Cousin Grand Duke 

Alexander) with her sister OLGA (1882-1960, Grand 

Duchess)] 

Unsigned Russian postcard photo showing them half length, 

wearing silk dresses and pearls, seated together on a sofa, 

5½” x 3½”, n.p., (Petrograd), n.d., c. 1915 [SD23751]£475 

It is very rare to find a postcard of the two sisters as Olga’s private 

nickname for Xenia was ‘Monster’. Both sisters retired, one to 

the Crimea, the other to Kiev at the time of the First World War. 

529. [YUSUPOV (Princess Irena, 1895-1970, wife of 

Prince Feliks Feliksovich, 1887-1967, Organized murder 

of Rasputin)] 

Exceptional unsigned Portrait photograph showing her three 

quarters length, wearing typical twenties costume, 9½” x 

6½”, n.p., (Paris) 1926 [SD25982]£475 

One of the great beauties of her age, cousin to the tsar’s children 

and only niece of the tsar. Her husband Yusupov (Youssoupoff), 

afervent monarchist, married her in 1914 with the backing of the 

Dowager Empress but the disapproval of the Tsar and Empress. 

Rasputin was invited to a supper at Yusupov’s palace on 15th 

December 1916, thinking that Irena would be there, but she was in 

the Crimea. He was shot dead, after a strong dose of potassium 

cyanide in his wine had failed to kill him.

67 SIGNATURES &FRAGMENTS 

SIGNATURES & FRAGMENTS 

530. ADAMS (John Quincy, 1767-1848, Sixth President 

of the U.S.A., 1825-1829) 

Signature with part of the date, 23rd June 1826, the date 

has been cut through, but the signature is unaffected 

[SD21406]£275 

531. ADELAIDE (of Saxe-Meiningen, 1792-1849, Queen 

of William IV, Adelaide, Australia is named after her) 

Signature mounted with a contemporary engraving 

[SD21841]£35 

532. ALBANI (Dame Emma, 1852-1930, Canadian 

Operatic Soprano) 

ALS to Mr Boosey, asking him to “send me a copy of ‘Old 

English Songs’ arranged by Lane Wilson - a small volume 

for soprano ...”, 1 side 8vo., 61 Tregunter Road, SW, 12th 

May 1921, mounted with a superb portrait photo 

[SD4495]£75 

533. ANGLESEY (Henry William Paget, 1768-1854, 

M.P., Field Marshal, from 1815 1st Marquess) 

Frank to Lt.-Col. Peel of the Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry, 

9th May 1850, laid down [SD50111]£55 

Lord Anglesey in 1790 raised the 80th Foot or Staffordshire 

Volunteers from his father’s tenantry. By 1801 he was Colonel of 

the 7th Light Dragoons, a post he held till 1842, when he became 

Colonel of the Royal Horseguards. He commanded the cavalry at 

Corunna under Sir John Moore. At Waterloo the Marquis, then 

Lord Uxbridge, commanded the Anglo-Belgian cavalry, 

contributing to the victory but losing his right leg. In a garden 

near the church at Waterloo there is a monument to his leg which 

is buried there. He was Lord High Steward at the Coronation of 

George IV in 1821, and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 

1828 and 1833. He was made Field Marshal in 1846 and at the 

time of his death was the only Field Marshal outside the royal 

family. 

534. ARNOLD (Matthew, 1822-1888, Poet) 

Fine signature and date, 22nd February 1878 laid down on 

card with a postcard portrait [SD21390]£115 

535. ARTHUR (Chester Alan, 1830-1888, 21st President 

of the USA) 

Executive Mansion, Washington card signed 

[SD26482]£275 

536. AUSTIN (Alfred, 1835-1913, Poet Laureate) 

Fine signature on headed notepaper, Swinford Manor, 

Ashford, Kent, 7th January 1902 mounted with a National 

Portrait Gallery photograph of a Spy cartoon by Sir Leslie 

Ward [SD9777]£30 

537. BANCROFT (George, 1800-1891, American 

Historian & Statesman, Secretary of the Navy) 

Signature on bottom portion of a Navy Department 

Document on vellum, Washington, 31st July 1845 

[SD6855]£30 

538. BARKER (Alfred, b.1895, Violionist, Conductor & 

Composer) 

Fine autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed 

“Best wishes from” & dated 1932 [SD9584]£25 

539. BENNETT (Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist) 

Fine signature dated in another hand, 1922 [SD15912]£35 

540. BERNHARD II (1800-1882, Duke of Saxe- 

Meiningen 1803-1866, brother of Queen Adelaide) 

Autograph address panel, unsigned, in German to “Her 

Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the 

German Empire and of Prussia”, VICTORIA, later 

Empress Frederick, identified below in Frederick’s hand 

in pencil, attached is the crowned ‘B’ in gold from the flap, 

n.d., c. 1880 [SD17865]£35 

In his long reign, the much-loved Duke carried through many 

reforms, and lived another 16 years after abdicating in favour of 

his son Georg II. The latter’s son Bernhard married Princess 

Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919, eldest daughter of Friedrich III 

and Victoria) on 18th February 1878. 

541. BOTHA (Louis, 1862-1919, Soldier and Statesman 

who was the first prime minister of the Union of South 

Africa) 

Signature cut from a letter, together with the printed “Prime 

Ministers Office, Pretoria” from the paper [SD21445]£45 

542. BREWSTER (Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, 

Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816) 

Fine signature with the place and date, Allerby, 4th January 

1862, mounted with a National Portrait Gallery Portrait 

[SD21931]£35 

543. BROOKE (Sir James, 1803-1868, Raja of Sarawak) 

Signature from an ALS to Major Rodway [SD21360]£50 

544. CADOGAN (George Sloane, 1783-1864, Admiral, 

from 1833 3rd Earl) 

Frank signed to George Holyoake, Banker at 

Wolverhampton, London, 16th November 1837 

[SD50127]£25 

545. CALLOWAY (Cab, 1907-1994, Black American 

Band Leader and Entertainer) 

Fine signature on album leaf with inscription “Hi Di Ho” 

[SD9581]£55 

546. CARL XV (1826-1872, King of Sweden and Norway 

from 1859) 

Autograph address in French to Emperor Friedrich III as 

Prince Imperial, in Berlin, n.d., c. 1871 [SD17814]£45 

547. CARLYLE (Thomas, 1795-1881, Historian) 

Signature and end of an ALS “sent to me by mistake”, 

Chelsea, 15th December 1870, mounted with a fine 

contemporary carte de visite photo showing him wearing a 

hat [SD23139]£375


548. CANNING (George, 1770-1827, Prime Minister) 

Fine signature, 1819 mounted with a contemporary 

engraving [SD23130]£35 

549. CARNEGIE (Andrew, 1835-1918, Scottish 

Philanthropist & Industrialist, endowed Carnegie institutes 

Worldwide) 

Fine signature and subscription on card addressed on the 

verso in another hand to F. D. Parker, postmarked 1864 

[SD21236]£175 

550. CHAMBERLAIN (Joseph, 1836-1914, Colonial 

Secretary) 

Fine signature on 1 side 8vo., headed notepaper, 40 

Prince’s Gardens, S.W., August 1901 mounted with a 

National Portrait Gallery photograph of a sketch by Phil 

May [SD9786]£35 

551. CLEVELAND (Grover, 1837-1908, 22nd and 24th 

President of the USA) 

Executive Mansion, Washington card signed 

[SD26483]£175 

552. COLLINS (W. Wilkie, 1824-1889, Novelist, Author 

of ‘the Moonstone’) 

Fine signature and end of an ALS with kindest regards to 

Mr Richards, Believe me sincerely yours [SD26443]£95 

553. COMBERMERE (Sir Stapleton Cotton, 6th Bart., 

1773-1865, M.P., Field Marshal, Commander in Chief of 

the Army in India, Baron) 

Address panel signed for free postage to J. Williams in 

Liverpool, Bentinck [Street], 9th October 1836 

[SD22851]£35 

Lord Combermere was 2nd in command at Salamanca, leading the 

famous charge of Le Marchant’s and Anson’s Heavy Brigades, but 

was wounded and sent home. His return passage took 28 days 

and so he was 3 days late for the battle of Vitoria. In 1815 

Wellington was annoyed that command of the Cavalry in Belgium 

was given to Lord Uxbridge by the Prince Regent, who thought 

that Combermere had gossiped at Brighton years before about 

Mrs. Fitzherbert. Thus Combermere missed Waterloo but on the 

very day after Wellington wrote, ‘We must have Lord 

Combermere if he will come’ and he commanded the whole Allied 

Cavalry in France 1815-1816. He was Commander-in-Chief, 

Ireland, 1822-1825 and in India 1825-1830. 

554. CONGREVE (Sir William, 1772-1828, Inventor of 

the Congreve Rocket, 1805, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., 2nd 

Bt.) 

Signature on piece, old neat identification below (written 

twice) as ‘Inventor of his Rockets’, n.d., c. 1815 

[SD50138]£40 

For the signature, see his account of the progress of his rockets 

and ofthe many thousands shipped with expeditions “to annoy the 

coasts of the enemy”, BL Add. 38364, ff. 85-87. A rocket 

equalled “a 10 inch or 13 inch Shell” in explosive power. The 

first friction matches were nicknamed ‘Congreves’ after him. 

555. COOK (Eliza, 1818-1889, Poet) 

Signature and end of ALS, laid down on a contemporary 

engraving with facsimile signature [SD21962]£45 

556. DICKENS (Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist) 

Part Autograph note, in the third person, saying that “The 

Editor of Bentley’s Miscellany presents his compts. to Mr. 

Merewether; and in reply to his note, addressed to the 

Publisher, begs to say that any [...]”, 5 lines on part 1 side 

8vo., n.p., n.d., but 1837 - 1839, mounted with a fine 

contemporary carte de visite photo [SD16866]£375 

Richard Bentley, 1794-1871, met Dickens when the latter was a 

reporter for the ‘Morning Chronicle’. On 22nd August 1836 they 

agreed that Dickens would provide two novels for £1000. In 

October Dickens was offered and accepted £20 a month as Editor 

of the ‘Miscellany’, to appear from January 1837, and ‘Oliver 

Twist’ appeared in it with Cruikshank’s illustrations. So great was 

its success that Bentley raised his terms considerably, paying £750 

for ‘Oliver Twist’, and offering £4000 for the second novel, 

‘Barnaby Rudge’. In January 1839 Dickens withdrew, paying 

Bentley £2250 for the copyright of Oliver Twist and the remaining 

stock, and W.H. Ainsworth took over as editor. 

557. DON (Kaye Ernest, 1891-1981, Car and Speed-Boat 

Racing Driver) 

Signature on blank verso of postcard, with a 

contemporary newspaper article by him ‘A Win by 

Thirteen Seconds’ vividly describing ‘my greatest thrill 

during my racing career’, the Tourist Trophy Race on the 

Ards Circuit, Belfast, “... Sir Malcolm Campbell’s car blew 

up early on and was burnt out ... Refuelling was 

accomplished in a few seconds ... Four hundred and ten 

miles had been covered at an average speed of 64.06 

m.p.h.”, n.p., 2nd September 1947 [SD16564]£35 

Kaye was British Motor Racing Champion, 1928-1929, and on 

Loch Lomond in 1932 reached the world record of 119 m.p.h. 

558. EDEN (Sir Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, Prime 

Minister) 

Fine signature & subscription from an ALS [SD21433]£45 

559. ‘ELIOT (George’, 1819-1880, Pseudonym of 

Marian Lewes, Novelist) 

Signature (‘M. E. Lewes’) with some text from an ALS the 

text on the verso refers to a “precious ticket. We need to be 

on the spot at the earliest time you advise & it will certainly 

be a great privilege for us ...”, unevenly torn from the letter, 

4” x 2”, n.p., n.d. 1864, mounted with a postcard photo 

[SD21400]£185 

560. ELLINGTON (Duke, 1899-1974, American 

Bandleader & Pianist) 

Fine signature and “Best wishes”, in pencil [SD9092]£65 

561. ERNST AUGUSTUS (Duke of Cumberland, 1771- 


Autograph envelope front signed with initials to “His 

Excellency the Right Honble Viscount Ebrington ... The 

Castle, Dublin”, on mourning paper [SD9099]£45 

562. FIELD (Cyrus W., 1819-1892, Financier, Laid the 

Atlantic Cable) 

Fine signature and “very truly your friend”, annotated in 

another hand for Lady Bell, Collingwood, 23rd April 1868 

[SD18370]£60


563. FOX (Henry, Ist Lord Holland, 1705-1774, Secretary 

of State for War, Paymaster General) & George 

LYTTELTON (1st Baron, 1709-1773, Lord of the 

Treasury, Poet) 

Portion of exchequer document signed by both and by R. 

Arundell, 6” x 5”, Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 1745 

[SD14136]£45 

564. FRANCESCO II (1836-1894, last King, 1859-1860, 

of the Two Sicilies) 

Autograph address panel in French, to the “Prince Imperial 

of Germany and Royal of Prussia”, later Friedrich III , 

(1831-1888), with Friedrich’s identification in pencil 

“Francis II Ex King of Naples” and date 1876 

[SD17828]£40 

565. FRANKLIN (Benjamin, 1706-1790, American 

Statesman, Scientist & Philosopher) 

Three words in his handwriting taken from an address 

“Golden Square, London”, annotated in another hand 

“From the direction of a letter from Dr Franklin to David 

Hartley Esq - dated Philadelphia May 6 1775” and similarly 

on the verso but adding, “which letter was presented to me 

by Mr Hartley’s executor”, the second annotation is signed 

J. E. Hock, 6” x 1½”, n.p., double mounted with a 

contemporary engraving [SD7435]£650 

An exceptionally rare autograph. The Hartley is Franklin’s close 

friend David HARTLEY ,(the younger, 1732-1813, Statesman 

&Inventor). He was used by both sides as an unofficial channel 

of communication throughout the war, and signed the Definitive 

Treaty of Peace on behalf of Great Britain in Paris on September 

3rd 1783. Franklin, John Adams and John Jay signed for the U.S. 

After Franklin returned to America on 5th May 1775, after 13 

years ofresidence in London, the first letter he wrote was from 

Philadelphia to David Hartley. 

566. FRITH (William P., 1819-1909, Artist) 

Signature and end of an ALS, mounted with a National 

Portrait Gallery picture [SD21947]£35 

567. FURY (Billy, 1940-1983, stage name of Ronald 

Wycherley, ‘Rockabilly’ Musician) 

Signature on piece, n.d., c. 1970 [SD16581]£45 

Billy Fury is known for ‘Halfway to Paradise’ and 16 other UK 

top thirty hits. 

OPERATIC AUTOGRAPHS 

568. GALEFFI (Carlo, 1882-1961, Italian Baritone), 

John BROWNLEE (1900-1969, Australian-born 

American Baritone), Ildebrando PIZZETTI (1880-1968, 

Italian Composer) & Salvatore BUCCALONI 

Signatures on the flyleaf taken from a book, 1 side 8vo., 

Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, July 1931, left margin a little 

rough [SD16611]£50 

Galeffi, renowned for his leading roles in Verdi, sang at La Scala, 

1912-1938. Brownlee was at the Paris Opéra, 1926-1933, and at 

the ‘Met’ 1937-1956. Thereafter he was Director at the 

Manhattan School of Music, 1956-1958, and its President from 

1958. Pizzetti taught at the Sta. Cecilia Academy, Rome, 1936- 

1958, President 1947-1952. His operas include ‘Fra Gherardo’ 

(1925-1927) and a highly acclaimed version of Eliot’s ‘Murder in 

the Cathedral’ (1958). 

569. GAMBIER (James, 1st Baron, 1756-1833, Admiral 

of the Fleet) & George John SPENCER (2nd Earl, 1758- 

1834, 1st Lord of the Admiralty), 

Signature, mounted with a National Portrait Gallery 

picture [SD15970]£30 

570. GARIBALDI (Giuseppe, 1807-1882, Italian Patriot 

and Soldier, with Cavour and Mazzini one of the Founders 

of the State of Italy) 

Signature, laid down [SD20582]£45 


Fine early signature as King, taken from a document 

concerning a reward of £100, 5” x 5”, n.p., 26th June 1727 

[SD26445]£125 


Fine signature on vellum from a document, 1805 

[SD26559]£100 


Fine signature as Prince Regent [SD22725]£50 


Initial ‘G’ with the word ‘Captain’ in another hand taken 

from some sort of inventory book, c. 1898, mounted with a 

contemporary sepia carte-de-visite photo [SD9043]£50 

575. GIELGUD (Sir John, 1904-2000, Actor) 

Fine signature “to Michael Lane with all good wishes” and 

the date on a headed card, 16 Cowley Street, London SW1, 

1975 [SD7514]£30 

576. GILBERT (Sir William Schwenk, 1836-1911, 

Librettist of Gilbert & Sullivan) 

Fine signature with inscription “Always yours”, mounted 

with National Portrait Gallery photograph of a painting by 

Frank Holl [SD9733]£150 

577. GLUBB PASHA (Sir John, 1897-1986, Commander 

of the Arab Legion 1939-1956) 

Signature on card, with a newspaper obituary, the signature 

24th September 1983 [SD50028]£35 

578. GODERICH (Frederick John Robinson, 1782-1859, 

F.R.S., 1st Viscount, Prime Minister 1827-1828, 1st Earl of 

Ripon) 

Address panel to the Revd. Lamplugh Kind, Bradford, 

signed for free postage, on the back is part of a printed 

subscription list, Ripon, 27th September 1822 

[SD18949]£45 

579. GODOLPHIN (Sidney, Earl of, 1645-1712, Lord 

High Treasurer to Queen Anne), Laurence HYDE (Earl 

of Rochester, 1641-1711, Lord High Treasurer) 

Both signatures with two other treasury officials from an 

exchequer document, Whitehall, 1682, mounted with a 

National Portrait Gallery photograph of a painting of 

Godolphin by G.Kneller [SD9766]£85


580. GREY (Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime 

Minister of the Reform Bill) 

Address panel signed for free postage to Lady Pocock in 

Brighton, Plympton, Devon, 22nd October 1825, address 

lightly crossed out on forwarding [SD16591]£30 

581. GUITRY (Sacha, 1885-1957, French Actor, Artist, 

Playwright, Filmmaker and Novelist) 

Bold large signature with several words of greeting, 1 side 

oblong 8vo., n.p., n.d. [SD21399]£35 

582. HARRISON (Sir Rex, 1908-1990, Actor) 

Fine signature on an album leaf with annotation in another 

hand “No time for Comedy” 5th March 1941 [SD9639]£29 

583. HONEGGER (Arthur, Swiss Composer, 1892-1955) 

Autograph return address from a parcel sent by him, “Exp. 

Honegger, 149 Hegibachstrasse, Zürich”, stiff paper, n.d., c. 

1925 [SD19181]£35 

584. HOWARD (Sir Robert, 1626-1698, Auditor of the 

Exchequer and Dramatist) 

Fine signature on end of exchequer document ordering 

payment, 20th September 1673 [SD9643]£30 

585. HUGO (Victor, 1802-1885, French Writer) 

Fine signature and subscription in his rather shaky hand, 

with accompanying letter from Richard Lesclide sending 

the signature with Hugo’s best wishes, Paris, 24th April 

1882 [SD26480]£195 

586. HUXLEY (Thomas Henry, 1825-1895, Biologist) 

Fine signature from an ALS [SD18408]£30 

587. HYDE (Laurence, Earl of Rochester, 1641-1711, 

Lord High Treasurer) 

Signature and date from a larger document, 17th May 

1680, mounted with a black & white photo of the portrait 

by W. Wissing [SD7721]£40 

At the time he was one of 3 young leading ministers of Charles II 

nicknamed the ‘chits’. 

588. IRETON (Henry 1611-1651, General, Regicide) 

Signature mounted under a contemporary engraving 

[SD22560]£60 

589. KEAN (Charles, 1811-1868, Actor) 

End of ALS with subscription “Believe me dear Madam 

very faithfully yours” [SD20577]£30 

590. KOSSUTH (Lajos, 1802-1894, Hungarian Patriot 

and Statesman) 

Fine signature ‘Lewis Kossuth’, with biographical details in 

alater hand in English, n.p., n.d. [SD11669]£40 

When revolution spread through Europe in 1848, ‘Hungary’s 

purest patriot and greatest orator’ was chosen to be in the first 

government allowed by the Austrians, and was soon its effective 

head, but by August 1849 the Austrians had recovered complete 

power, and Kossuth spent the rest of his years in exile. In 1851 

He was briefly in England and the USA, then in England till 1859, 

in close association with Mazzini, then in Italy where he died at 

Turin 

591. LANG (Andrew, 1844-1912, Folklorist, Poet & 

Scholar) 

Part ALS with some text, on one side saying he does not 

know “Paget, but I think a brother of his married a lady I 

know, who bore the pleasing name of MOKE. It is not easy 

to say anything original on those occasions but I can very 

sincerely congratulate a Paget ...”, and on the other side 

says he is “drowned out fishing. My wife sends her love, 

and is writing I daresay. I always feel rather depressed 

when people I like are engaged, but it wears off! ...”, half of 

2sides 8vo., n.p., n.d. slightly duststained [SD21439]£45 

592. LAWRENCE (Sir Henry Montgomery, 1806-1857, 

Brigadier-General, Chief Commissioner in Oudh) 

Autograph Envelope signed as Assistant to the Governor 

General, addressed to Capt. Munbee, Superintending 

Engineer at Bhurtpoor, n.d., c. 1855 contemporary 

calculations in rupees on verso [SD50163]£45 

Lawrence served with the Artillery in the EIC’s army, but 

gradually took on important political posts as resident in Nepal, 

1843-1846, Lahore 1847, agent for the Punjab, 1849, and in 

Rajputana, 1853. At the outbreak of the mutiny he was given 

control over all troops in Oudh, but was killed while successfully 

holding Lucknow against the mutineers. 

Bhurtpoor (Bharatpore), 35 miles west of Agra, was the capital of 

aprotected state, on the far side of the Jumna. 

593. LAYARD (Sir Austen Henry, 1817-1894, 

Archaeologist & Diplomat, Excavator of Nineveh) 

Fine autograph envelope signed, marked ‘Private’, to Henry 

Reeve at the Council Office, [SD15846]£75 

594. LAYTON AND JOHNSTONE (Turner Layton, 

Clarence Johnstone, American Entertainers in Variety) 

Programme for ‘Varsity Hospital Rag’, also signed by 

Owen Nares, Mark Lister, Claude Hulbert, Leslie 

Henson and others, Thursday 29th October, 1925 slightly 

worn at centre fold [SD11402]£30 

595. LINTON (Eliza, née Lynn, 1822-1898, Journalist 

and Novelist) 

Signature ‘E. Lynn Linton’ on last side of an ALS, 1 side 

8vo, n.d., c. 1870 [SD17746]£30 

Eliza Lynn was on the staff of the Morning Chronicle, 1848-1851, 

and acorrespondent in Paris, 1851-1854. Her ‘Autobiography of 

Christopher Kirkland’, 1885, is largely from her own life. 

596. LLOYD-GEORGE (David, Earl, 1863-1945, Prime 

Minister) 

Signature, laid down on black card [SD11555]£45 

597. LOCKHART (John Gibson, 1794-1854, Biographer 

and Critic, Editor of the Quarterly Review 1825-1853) 

Last page of an ALS to William WORDSWORTH 

(1770-1850, Poet Laureate), asking to be “remembered to 

you &Mrs W,”, 1 side sm. 8vo., Sussex Place, Regents 

Park, 20th April 1836 [SD22236]£45 

598. MacDONALD (George, 1824-1905, Novelist & 

Poet) 

End of autograph letter with fine signature and “Always 

your obliged but hurried friend” [SD18411]£125


599. LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, 

American Poet) 

Fine signature and subscription from an ALS “I remain dear 

sir, Yours truly” with several lines on the verso, 1880, with 

acontemporary c-de-v photo [SD23135]£275 

600. MACDONALD (J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime 

Minister) 

Fine signature from a TLS [SD20585]£30 

601. MARGARET (Rose, 1930-2002, Princess, Sister of 

Queen Elizabeth II, Countess of Snowdon) 

Very fine signature and date, taken from a visitors book, 

mounted with a reproduction of a Cecil Beaton 

photograph 26th November 1958 [SD23155]£375 

602. MARIA CRISTINA (1858-1929, Queen of Alfonso 

XII of Spain) 

Signature ‘Yo la Reina Regente’ on piece from a document, 

as regent (1885-1902) for her son Alfonso XIII, born 

posthumously, 3¾” x 6½”, San Sebastian, 30th September 

n.y., c.1885 [SD17911]£50 


1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II ), 

her sister ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, 

Queen of Edward VII) & VICTORIA EUGENIA (1887- 

1969, daughter of Prince Henry, wife of Alfonso XIII) 

Exceptional collection of the three signatures, together on 

an album leaf, dated by the Tsarina 1907 [SD21425]£500 

604. MAUD (Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869-1938, 

Princess, Daughter of Edward VII, Queen of Norway) & 

Victoria (Alexandra Dagmar, 1867-1931, Princess Royal, 

DuchessofFife, Daughter of Edward VII) 

Exceptional pair of signatures on cards with coloured 

borders, mounted with a NPG photo of a painting of the 

three daughters of Edward V11 [SD9752]£125 

605. MAXIMILIAN II (1811-1864, from 1848 King of 

Bavaria) 

Fine signature with part seal from the end of a printed 

document 1864 laid down [SD20578]£65 

606. MELCOMBE (George Bubb Dodington, 1691-1762, 

1st Baron, Wit and Pamphleteer), SUNDON (William 

Clayton, 1671-1752, 1st Baron), WINNINGTON 

(Thomas, 1696-1746, Paymaster General) 

Signatures (as Lords of the Treasury) on piece, n.d., c. 

1740, laid down [SD18992]£40 

Sundon was an executor of the 1st Duke of Marlborough’s will. 

607. MILNE (Colin, 1743-1815, Divine and Botanist) 

ANS to Mr Nourse sending him “Twelve Copies of 

‘Institutes of Botany’ - price Six shillings in boards”, n.p., 

n.d., c. 1775 [SD13869]£35 

‘Institutes of Botany’ was planned as a translation of Linnaeus’ 

system, but only Milne’s introductory material was published in 

1771-1772, ‘A view of the ancient and present state of botany’ 

and ‘Asynopsis. 

608. MIRANDA (Carmen, Portuguese Singer, the 

‘Brazilian Bombshell’) 

Signature, mounted with a photo of her dancing [22599]£55 

609. MONROE (James, 1758-1831, Fifth President of the 

U.S.A.) 

Signature with “most satisfactory” and the date from an 

ALS, 19th February 1796, slightly soiled [SD21401]£275 

610. MORE (Hannah, 1745-1833, Evangelical Writer) 

Signature, mounted with a National Portrait Gallery 

group picture of “The Nine Living Muses” [SD15964]£45 

611. MORGAN (John Pierpont, 1837-1913, American 

multi-millionaire Banker, Financier and Philanthropist) 

Fine signature and subscription on card addressed on the 

verso to F. D. Parker [SD21237]£275 

612. MURDOCH (Dame Iris, b. 1919, Author) 

Signature and inscription on an album leaf, “with the good 

wishes of”, 1 side, n.p., n.d. [SD21376]£35 

613. NORDENSKJÖLD (Baron Nils Adolf Eric, 1832- 

1901, Swedish Arctic Explorer, accomplished the 

navigation of the North-East Passage) 

End of ALS mounted on an album leaf [SD8207]£75 

614. NORTH (Frederick, Lord, 2nd Earl Guilford, 1732- 

1792, Prime Minister), George ONSLOW (1st Earl, 

1731-1814, Politician), 1st Earl HILLSBOROUGH 

(Wills Hill, 1718-1793, Secretary of State), 4th Earl of 

ROCHFORD (William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 

1717-1781, Secretary of State) & 3rd Viscount 

WEYMOUTH (Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquis of Bath, 

1734-1796, Statesman) 

Signatures collected together on portion of a letter “From 

the Council Chamber ... Your loving Friends”, October 

1770, North’s signature has been removed and 

professionally replaced [SD8214]£75 

615. OWEN (Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and 

zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South 

Kensington and inventor of the name ‘Dinosaur’) 

Fine signature from end of ALS, mounted with a National 

Portrait Gallery picture [SD21952]£45 

616. PALMERSTON (Henry John Temple, 1784-1865, 

Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, 3rd Viscount) 

Autograph envelope front signed marked ‘Private’, 

addressed to “The Honble Wm Grey ... British Embassy 

Paris”, mounted with a postcard photo [SD8272]£30 

617. PARNELL (Charles Stewart, 1846-1991, Irish 

Nationalist Leader, fighter for Home Rule) 

Small signature 1884, [SD26444]£55 

618. PEGG (Arthur John, ‘Bill’, 1906-1978, Chief Test 

Pilot for Bristol Aeroplanes) 

Fine signature on card, with amagazine photo [8316]£30


619. PATTI (Adelina, 1843-1919, Italian Soprano) 

Signature (‘Adelina Patti’) and ANS “In kind remembrance 

of” with the place and date, on 1 side 16mo., with very fine 

crested monogram at the head in gold red and blue, 

mounted with a marvellous large photo by Walery , 

taken in1887 showing her full length surrounded by palms, 

10” x 8”, London, 11th June 1872 slight spotting on the 

photo [SD23149]£75 

620. PEEL (Sir Robert, 1788-1850, Prime Minister) 

Fine signature from the end of an ALS, mounted with a 

National Gallery photograph of a painting by Henry 

Pickersgill [SD21945]£65 

621. PORTLAND (Third Duke of, William H. Cavendish 

Bentinck, 1738-1809, Prime Minister) 

Fine signature with seal from a document, dated 1764 

[SD9457]£30 

622. RANK (J. Arthur, 1888-1972, Film Magnate) 

Signature and inscription “With all good wishes”, 

postmarked 1948 [SD8399]£30 

623. RICHARDSON (Sir John, 1878-1865, Doctor, 

Arctic Explorer and Naturalist) 

Fine signature with the date and place on a piece of 

notepaper, Haslar Hospital, 24th November 1849 

[SD24732]£95 

Richardson was Surgeon and Naturalist on Sir John Franklin’s 

Polar Expedition of 1819 which reached Fort Providence in 1821. 

He also accompanied him on his second Expedition to the mouth 

of the Mackenzie in 1825. He separated from Franklin in 1826 

and explored the coast tot he Coppermine River and the Great 

Slave Lake. He conducted a search for Franking in 1847-49. He 

became physician to the Royal Hospital at Haslar in 1838. 

624. ROBESON (Paul, 1898-1976, American Singer & 

Actor) 

Fine signature & insciption “Kindest wishes” on an album 

leaf [SD9699]£45 

625. RUTHERFORD (Dame Margaret, 1892-1972, 

Character Actor) 

Fine signature and inscription “yours sincerely”, on a 

postcard, postmarked 1950 [SD20570]£75 

626. SHAW (George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & 

Critic) 

Fine signature from an ALS [SD22566]£85 

627. SOULT (Nicolas Jean de Dieu, 1769-1851, 

Napoleon I’s Marshal, Duke of Dalmatia) 

Signature, laid down on an engraving of a picture by 

Bouillard, 10” x 8”, n.p., n.d. 1838 [SD21310]£85 

628. STEAD (William Thomas, 1849-1912, Journalist and 

Author, died on the Titanic) 

Signature and end of a TLS ot Mrs Lynch, hoping “that you 

may be interested in making out a list, and if need be, 

helping me to get the Photographs ...”, 8” x 2” max, n.p., 

n.d., c. 1890 [SD21355]£75 

629. STOKOWSKI (Leopold, 1882-1977, Conductor) 

and his wife 

Signatures together on an album leaf [SD26490]£75 

630. STOWE (Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, Abolitionist 

&Novelist, Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) 

Signature with inscription “Sincerely your True Friend” 

Hartford, 17th October 1883 [SD26481]£350 

631. TOSCANINI (Arturo, 1867-1957, Italian Conductor) 

Fine signature with date, in green ink, 21st September 1941 

mounted with a fine large photo by ‘Dick Whittington’ of 

LosAngeles, 10” x 8” [SD11226]£200 

632. TROLLOPE (Anthony, 1815-1882, Novelist) 

Fine signature on part of a sheet of headed paper, signed 

again on the verso, with asmall contemporary magazine 

image [SD26485]£225 

633. UPHAM (Captain Charles Hazlitt, 1908-1994, 

Volunteer, VC, Crete, 1941) 

Signature on card, as Captain 2nd New Zealand 

Expeditionary Force, n.d., c. 1985 [SD50038]£55 

See his ‘Story’, by Kenneth Sandford. 


Fine large signature from a document mounted with an 

original coloured engraving of the Winterhalter painting 

Queen in Her Robes of State [SD21943]£275 

635. VORONOFF (Serge, 1866-1951, Russian 

Physiologist, Director of Experimental Surgery at the 

Collège de France) 

Fine signature with the place and dated, Via XX Settembre 

54, Firenze, 18th April 1926 [SD11986]£55 

636. WALLACE (Edgar, 1875-1932, Thriller Writer) 

Fine signature mounted on an album leaf [SD15267]£45 

637. WALLACE (Alfred Russel, 1823-1913, F.R.S., 

O.M., Naturalist and Pioneer of Evolutionary Theory) 

Fine signature n.d., c. 1880 [SD19005]£55 

Wallace’s work in the East Indies precipitated and modified 

Darwin’s theories in ‘the Origin of Species’. 

638. WALPOLE (Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676- 

1745, 1st British Prime Minister) 

Signed portion of an Exchequer Document mentioning the 

Civil List, countersigned by William Clayton & Charles 

Turner, examined by Halifax, 1728 [SD21420]£50 


Large signature and papered seal taken from the top of a 

document on vellum, 1829, rather yellowed [SD26113]£75 

640. WORDSWORTH (William, 1770-1850, Poet 

Laureate) 

Fine signature, 1812, mounted with a coloured postcard 

photo [SD15414]£275


BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS 

&OTHER CURIOSITIES ON 

VOYAGES & TRAVELS 

641. ABORIGINES. Report from the Select Committee 

on Aborigines (British Settlements), with the 

Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index 5th 

August 1836, thk. folio, slight wear, REPRINT, 

1968 [CF7537] £50 

The aborigines are not just those of Australia but the 

indigenous population of all the British Settlements. 

ALABAMA WILL 

642. ALABAMA. M’GRAW (Charles) AManuscript 

Will Signed together with Witnesses and notes that it 

has been upheld by the Court, 3 pp. 4to. remains of 

seal, 21 February, 1842 [11156] £150 

M’Graw of Wilcox County Alabama writes a fairly simple 

will, to his sons John & David, to his daughter Eliza and 

to the heirs of his dead daughter Mary, he leaves them 

$10. However to his son Alexander he leaves “the 

resadue of my intire Estate (after payment of all my just 

depts for him tohave and hold for ever - to wit - all my 

land and my negroes, my horse and mule, all my stock of 

every decription myintire crop of cotton, corn and fodder, 

all my household and kitchen funiture, all my farming 

utensals and all money monies owing to me now due or to 

becom due.” 

643. ALEXANDER (Michael) Omai ‘Noble Savage’, 

plates, dw. 1977 [CF10223] £30 

644. ALLENBY. ABrief Record of The Advance of the 

Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command 

of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby July 1917 to 

October 1918 Compiled from Official Sources, 

Second Edition, 55 coloured maps, portrait, key 

plate, sm.4to, printed boards, cloth spine, some 

slight wear, HMSO, 1919 [11159] £130 

The first edition was published by “The Palestine News”. 

Allenby was the last Great British Leader of Cavalry. His 

successful Palestine Campaign during the First World 

War, recorded here, saw the end of the Ottoman 

domination of the Middle East, and the liberation of the 

Holy Land. 

645. ALLIN. Anderson (R.C. ed.) The Journals of Sir 

Thomas Allin, 1600-1678, Vol I 1660-66, Vol II 

1666-78, 2 vols, a little soiled, spines a little faded, 

Navy Records Society, 1939 & 40 [CF7541] £75 

He engaged against the Barbary Pirates, defeated the 

Dutch off the Isle of Wight, and the French of Dungeness. 

He became comptroller of the Navy and was Commander 

in chief of the Narrow Seas against the French. 

646. AMERICANA. Review of the Speech of Harrison 

Gray Otis, Mayor of the City of Boston, deliviered at 

aPublic Meeting of the Friends of the Protecting 

System, in that City, in the support of the 

Nomination of a Friend of that system of a Member 

of Congress, 40 pp. binders cloth, Boston, 1831 

Sabin 70271. [CF4895] £30 

VENETIAN AMBASSADOR TO PERSIA 

647. ALLESSANDRI (Vincenzo degli) Relatione di 

m’Vincenzo degli Alessandri al Ser.mo Principe et 

Ecc. mi Signori di Venetia delle cose da sui 

osservate nel Regno di Persia, manuscript in neat 

scribal hand, 27 pp. some occasional foxing, 

watermark of a lion bearing a fleur de lys, folio, 

modern boards, late sixteenth century 

[CF8208] £3,500 

Allessandri was an envoy from Venice to the court of Shah 

Tahmasp, the rather weak ruler, from 1571-73. He begins 

his account “I have now undertaken to give an account to 

your most illustrious Government of the regions and 

kingdoms which are in Persia, of the produce, of the 

character of the people, of the person of the king, and 

qualities of his mind, the government of the Court, the 

manner and custom of determining the affairs of state, of 

things of importance in the administration of justice, of 

the revenue and expenditure, of the number and quality of 

the Sultans, who are nothing but commanders of the 

soldiery, and in fine of all that may appear to me to be 

worthy of your greatness.” 

Knolles in his History of the Turks, 1603, mentions 

Allessandri and that he was sent to Persia to try to 

persuade the Shah to take up arms against the Turks to 

divert their attention from the lands of the Republic. 

The Hakluyt Society edition of Allessandri in 1873 by 

Charles Grey, appears deficient. Our manuscript 

contains two lengthy passages, one of three pages, not to 

mention several shorter pieces, omitted from Grey’s 

edition. They concern accounts of crimes against foreign 

merchants which went unpunished or were just ignored. 

“As I have said, the King takes no care or thought, and 

from this it comes that throughout the Kingdom the roads 

are unsafe, and great dangers are incurred even in the 

houses, and almost all the judges allow themselves to be 

conquered by the power of money.” 

648. AMIRANASHVILI (Sh.) Gruzinskaya Miniatura 

[Georgian Miniatures], numerous plates, some 

coloured, text in Russian with an English translation, 

slip case Moscow, 1966 [11413] £40 

649. AMUNDSEN. Typescript Poem written in 

Norwegian in the Antarctic [Isbarrieren] on the 

“Fram” headed notepaper, 1 pp. 4to, folded, 2 filing 

holes, February, 1911 [11122] £750 

This is a curious relic of Amundsen’s successful 

Expedition [1910-12] to find the South Pole. The poem is 

evidently addressed to a supply party who had provided 

some luxuries of alcohol and tobacco. Roughly translated 

it reads - 

“To The 14 

Of the presents that you gave us we openly admit 

theaveccen is our favourite, so we ask 

to drink when we see fit ? 

And the Havaneserroken 

our noble 14 friends 

which you were kind to give 

we thankyou sincerely for the memories 

that we can now relive. 

Finally a big hurrah 

we send you with the epigram 

to thankyou for a wonderful day 

from all of us on board the “Fram”


650. ANSON. George (Williams Glyndwr ed.) 

Document’s Relating To Anson’s Voyage Round 

The World, 1740-44, folding maps, frontispiece, 

plates, Navy Records Society, Vol. 109, 1967 

[CF7253] £75 

651. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Statistical, 

Sanitary, and Medical Reports for the Year 1860, 

viii + 488 pp. folding map “North Coast of China 

Gulf of Pecheli Talienwan Bay”, folding plan, 

disbound, 1862 [11157] £125 

Apart from fairly basic reports from the United Kingdom 

and all the colonies, there is a substantial report from Dr. 

Rutherford “A Few Remarks upon the Expedition to the 

North of China in 1860, in reference chiefly to the 

Sanitary Condition of the Troops employed.” 

652. ARNOT (F.S.) Garenganze: West and East, map, 

illusts. sm.8vo, 1902 [11130] £35 

The first edition of this work came out in 1889, however 

this edition has been edited and revised up to date. 

653. AUBERTIN (J.J.) Six Months in Cape Colony and 

Natal, and One Month in Tenerife and Madeira, 

map, 6 plates, cr.8vo, spine faded, 1886 

[CF8076] £55 

654. AUSTRALIA. The Statutes of Western Australia, 

[1831-1882] 2 vols, thk.4to, library buckram, library 

stamps, Melbourne, 1883 [10811] £180 

655. BAGOT (L.Brown) Association of Surveyors of 

H.M. Service, established April, 1899, Foreign 

Station Papers, Mauritius, 1 folding map & 1 folding 

plate, 31 pp. some pencil underlinings and 

annotations, some occasional foxing original printed 

wrappers, creased, spotted and spine strengthened, 

1901 [10602] £75 

Not inToussaint and Adolphe. 

This pamphlet is written with all the Victorian gusto of a 

British Colonialist and is an attempt to warn new 

Surveyors of conditions in the colony. It encompasses 

everything from clothing and servants, to social functions 

and allowances. “The ‘white french’ with a few 

exceptions are notoriously disloyal, and there can be no 

question that so long as the French language is generally 

spoken this disloyalty will continue. The coloured creoles 

are not disloyal at heart, but as their lives are spent aping 

the French, they are slow to take any initiative. The 

Indians are very loyal. Several of the daily newspapers 

ought to be surpressed. They preach in French the 

doctrines of disloyalty, and adopt the tone of the most 

scurrilous of the French gutter press.” 

656. BAILLIE-GROHMAN (W.A.) Fifteen Years’ 

Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western 

America and British Colombia, with a Chapter by 

Mrs Baillie-Grohman, Second Edition, 3 folding 

maps in end-pocket, plates, text illusts, roy. 8vo, 

1907 [10595] £185 

The final chapter by his wife “Yellow and white agony” 

deals with the servant problem on the west coast. 

657. BAIN (J. Arthur) Life of Fridjof Nansen: Scientist 

and Explorer. Including an Account of the 1893- 

1896 Expedition, Second Edition, map, plates, 

original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1897 [11065] £85 

“The only cure for Arctic fever is the discovery of the 

North Pole...” intro. 

658. BAKER (Dwight Condo) T’ai Shan An Account of 

the Sacred Eastern Peak of China, ep folding map, 

frontis. 8 plates, numerous text illusts. Shanghai, 

1925 [11268] £45 

659. BALL (Samuel) An Account of the Cultivation and 

Manufacture of Tea in China: Derived from Personal 

Observation during an Official Residence in that 

Country from 1804 to 1826; and illustrated by the 

best Authorities, Chinese as well as European: with 

Remarks on the Experiments now making for the 

Introduction of the Culture of the Tea Tree in other 

parts of the world, frontis, 2 other plates, small 

blindstamp on title, original spine laid down, 1848 

[11309] £275 

The author describes himself as “Late Inspector of Teas 

to the Hon. United East India Company in China”. 

660. BALLANTINE (Mr Serjeant) The Old World and 

the New being a continuation of his ‘Experiences’, 

woodburytype frontis. 1884 [CF4122] £60 

The majority of the book is taken up with the author’s 

travels in the States, his most interesting critique of 

Charles Dickens Performances there, his meeting with the 

President etc. 

661. BARBADOS. Contemporary Manuscript Copy of 

the Will of Henry Frere of the Parish of Christ 

Church, Barbados, 2 pp. large folio, 30th May, 1792 

[11154] £125 

In Barbados pounds Frere bequeaths to his brother £50, 

to his niece £ 3000 with an extra £1000 if her husband 

predeceases her. To her daughter £2000, but to her other 

daughter, his other grandniece the remains of his estate 

including “ for ever together with the future issue and 

increase of all and every one of my female slaves” 

meanwhile the executors have power “from time to time 

as they judge proper to purchase Negroes or other Slaves 

or Lands or Houses or Cattle and stock of every kind.” 

662. BARGRAVE (Robert) The Travel Diary of Robert 

Bargrave, Levant Merchant (1647-1656), edited by 

Michael G.Brennan, 17 illusts, roy 8vo, dw, Hakluyt 

Society Third Series, Vol 3, 1999 [11443] £45 

663. BARLOW (Roger) ABrief Summe of Geographie 

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E.G.R. 

Taylor, folding map, 3 plates, cloth on upper cover a 

little rubbed, Hakluyt Society Second Series, LXIX 

1932 [10980] £125 

664. BARNS (T. Alexander) An African Eldorado The 

Belgian Congo, 4 maps, 3 folding, numerous plates, 

some occasional faint spotting, 1926 [11384] £45


SEAMAN’S PAPERS 

665. BARTLETT (Thomas) A Collection of Papers 

belonging to Thomas Bartlett, Captains’ Steward on 

the “Duke of Gloucester” and other East Indiaman, 

relating to the Ships, his Chandlers Shop on the 

north side of the church of St. Mary le Strand, 

London, and an account of “Joanna” in the Comores, 

10 items, folio, 4to. sm 8vo, as under 1773-79 

[11133] £1,650 

“Description of the Isle of Joanna [one of the Comores]... 

It is a very pleasant Isld & abounds with everything which 

can afford delight to a Ship after a long Voyage” 

commenting how inexpensive the meat and fruit is, “The 

bullocks are very small some not exceeding 2 cwt. 

Greatly inferior to our English ones, but to recompence 

for their smallness their flesh is exceedingly sweet we took 

with us 50 ones” he then sketches a humpbacked, horned 

cow. He lists the remarkable quantities of goods to be 

had for 1 dollar. “the people are all Blacks like the 

African Negroes and their Religion is Mahometan. They 

are Exceedingly Civil to the English but are of late grown 

Rather Roguish which I attribute to the our first being 

roguish to them - about 10 years ago they did not know 

the use of Money evry thing was sold for Cloth (to cover 

their nakedness for all the poorer sort go naked except a 

bag over those parts which nature bids them hide,” 2 pp. 

sm.4to, conjugate blank torn, c.1750 

“Sundry Stores bought St. Helena” a small chit recording 

among other things “6 Conger eels, 5 casks fine flower, 4 

Firkins Butter, 6 Potts mince meat, 40 Pumkins...”etc. 1 

side 8vo, nd. 

“Second Mates Clearing Stores” on the verso “Clearing 

Stores for 3rd Mate & Doctor & Purser... Fourth & Fifth 

Mates”, the largest list is of the Second Mate which 

mainly consists of crockery but curiously “China Images 

6”, “Clay Images 12”, “Paper prints” and “Fanns 24”, 

were presumably for sale, 2 sides 8vo, nd. 

Printed document, details filled in by hand, Thomas 

Bartlett giving his finacee, Alice Roberts “My True and 

Lawful Attorney”, royal crest flanked by a bust of the king 

and the Arms of the Merchant Service, folio, some wear 

along folds, Dec. 10th. 1769 

Thomas Bartlett’s “Merchant Seaman’s Will”, printed 

with details filled in in manuscript “...belonging to the 

Duke of Gloucester East Indiaman, John Lauder 

Commander,” made in favour of his fiancee Alice Roberts 

“Whole and Sole”, vignette at head, folio, with conjugate 

blank leaf , 14th December, 1769. 

Attractive Printed Trade Handbill “Thomas Rutt, at ye 

Parrott facing Russell Court in Drury Lane London” a 

Cutler and Button Seller, with his bill to Thomas Bartlett 

for various quantities of buttons, links and pocket knives 

totalling “£4. 0 . 2”, fold marks, a little dust soiled, 

margin stain, Dec. 12, 1769. 

“An Inventory of Goods & Fixtures Belonging to Mr. 

Thos. Jones at his Dwelling House in Hollywell Street, 

Shoreditch & Sold by Appraisement to Mr. Thos. 

Bartlett”, this includes Stock in Trade and Goodwill at a 

massive £10 10s. The deductions show Water rates, Poor 

rates and tax for Window Lights, 1½ pp folio, March 25, 

1773. 

AManuscript Memorandum of an agreement by Bartlett 

to let a tenement and shop “on the North side of the 

Church of St. Mary le Strand” for £30 a year, 1 pp. 

sq.8vo, 23 July, 1773 

AMemorandum for the sale of fixtures of Bartlett’s two 

houses in Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, 1 pp. sq.8vo, 1775. 

Aprinted H.E.I.C request form with details filled in by 

hand, by Bartlett describing himself as “Capn. Steward in 

the ship Mount Stuart” an East Indiaman, to pay part of 

his wages to his wife, 1 pp.folio,on the verso she appears 

to have claimed a total of £6, £2 every six months between 

July 1778, and July 1779.79 

666. BARR (Pat) ACurious Life for a Lady, The Story 

of Isabella Bird, 6 maps, plates, 1970 [11421] £35 

667. BARR (William ed.) Searching for Franklin: The 

Land Searching Expedition, James Anderson’s and 

James Stewart’s Expedition via the Back River, 9 

maps, 4illusts. roy 8vo, dw, Hakluyt Society Third 

Series, Vol 1, 1999 [11441] £45 

668. BARR (William) & Glyndwr Williams eds. 

Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage 1741- 

1747, The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741- 

1742 [and] The Voyage of William Moor and 

Francis Smith, numerous maps and plates, 2 vols 

dws, Hakluyt Society Second Series, vols 177 & 

181, 1994-1995 [10912] £60 

669. BARRATT (P.J.H.) Grand Bahama, folding map, 

plates, 1972 [CF4542] £25 

670. BATE (H. Maclear) Report from Formosa, map, 

1952 [CF8111] £20 

671. BAXTER (G.) [“Australia, News from Home” with 

“News from the Diggings”] also known as “The 

Hundred Pound Note”, 2 Baxter Colour Prints, 4¼ 

x 6 ins. each, mounted on paper without 

blindstamped titles, both with a faint crease down 

the center, 1853 [10771] £150 

In 1851 gold was discovered at Summerhill Breek near 

Bathurst. One of the prospectors in “News from Home”, 

is reading a newspaper with an illustration of the Crystal 

Palace that houses the Great Exhibition which opened in 

the same year, 

672. BEALE (J.H.) Picturesque Sketches of American 

Progress. Comprising Descriptions of Great 

American Cities prepared under the Supervision of 

the Authorities of the Respective Cities, showing 

their Origin, Development, Present Condition, 

Commerce and Manufactures. Illustrated Sketches of 

American Scenery, and Celebrated Resorts. With 

Historical Sketches of the Wonderful Achievements 

of Our Country, under the Various Administrations 

frontis. and numerous text illusts. thk.8vo, New 

York, 1889 [CF7309] £50


673. BEASLEY (W.G.) The Basis of Japanese Foreign 

Policy In the Nineteenth Century, 26 pp. original 

printed wrappers, SOAS, 1955 [CF5283] £15 

674. BECHTOLD (Fritz) Nanga Parbat Adventure A 

Himalayan Adventure, trans. from the german by 

H.E.G. Tyndale, 3 maps, numerous plates, roy.8vo, 

1935 [CF7310] £40 

The quality and composition of the photographs is on a 

par with any of Pontings work on Scotts Last Expedition. 

675. BECKINGHAM (C.F.) & G.W.B. Huntingford 

trans. & eds. Some Records of Ethiopia 1593-1646, 

Being Extracts from the History of High Ethiopia or 

Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with 

Bahrey’s History of the Galla, numerous maps, some 

folding, frontis, Hakluyt Society, Second Series 

CVII, 1954 [CF4231] £80 

676. BELINOS (Mrs.S.C.) Twenty Four Plates 

Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in 

Bengal, [with a new introduction by Nisith Ranjan 

Ray,] 24 coloured plates, folio, dw. 1832, REPRINT 

Calcutta, 1979 [10989] £50 

Reprint of one of the rarer Indian Colourplate Books. 

677. BELL (Sir Gawain) An Imperial Twilight, maps, 

plates, Presentation Copy from the Author to “Tish” 

Young 1989 [10525] £20 

The author was the last Governor of Northern Nigeria, 

and in his later years spent time in the Middle East, Aden, 

Oman and Southern Arabia, and South Pacific. 

678. BELLO (Alhaji Sir Ahmadu) My Life, folding 

map, plates, dw. Cambridge, 1962 [11129] £25 

The author became the Premier of the Northern Region of 

Nigeria. Having lived through the whole period of British 

Occupation and finally into Independence and Self 

Government. 

679. BENGAL. Bay of Bengal Pilot, Comprising the 

Southern and Eastern Coasts of Ceylon, the Eastern 

Coast of India, the Coast of East Pakistan, the Coast 

of Burma, and the Western Coast of Thailand from 

Pakchan River to Ko Phuket; also the Andaman and 

Nicobar Islands, ninth edition, folding map, plates, 

HMSO, 1966 [CF7656] £30 

680. BERNAL (Juan Llabrés) Breve Noticia de la 

Labor Científica del Capitán de Navío Don Felipe 

Bauzá y de sus Papeles sobre América 1764-1834 

Publicada con motivo del centenario de su muerte, 

portrait, 76 + 1 pp. sm.8vo, wrapper with printed 

label, edges frayed, on upper cover, Presentation 

Copy Inscribed from the Author on fep, Palma, 

Majorca, 1934 [11386] £50 

Bauza was a native of Palma, but spent most of his life 

abroad. His Library, mostly Americana listed here, 

appears to have been given to the British Library. He 

died in London. 

681. BERNATZIK (Hugo Adolph) Gari-Gari, The Call 

of the African Wilderness, folding map, plates, 

pictorial cloth, faint stain at base of spine, 1936 

[CF7616] £50 

AJourney down the Nile to Khartoum, and from there 

onward to the Kenyan border, the Nuer country. 

682. BESSON (Maurice) The Scourge of the Indies, 

Buccaneers, Corsairs, & Filibusters, from Original 

Texts and Contemporary Engravings, numerous 

maps and plates, some coloured by hand, 4to, 

Limited to960 copies, 1929 [CF4853] £75 

Portraits of Montbars, Peter Legrand, Montauban, 

Chevalier de Grammont, Nau l’Orlonnais, Ravenuau de 

Lussan, Ducasse, Cassard, Dulaien, Thurot, d’Albarade. 

683. BIBLE. Ko Te Kawenata Hou O To Tatou Ariki O 

Te Kai Whakaora O Ihu Karaiti. He Mea 

Whakamaori I Te Reo Kariki, [Maori New 

Testament], small marginal worm holes on title and 

3pages, not affecting text, hf calf, Rana, 1852 

[10762] £120 

684. BISHOP. Roe (Michael ed.) The Journal and 

Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North- 

West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New 

South Wales, large folding map, 5 other, frontis. of a 

page from the Journal, Hakluyt Society Series 2, vol 

CXXI, 1966 [CF3980] £75 

685. BISSOONDOYAL (U.) & S.B.C. Servansing eds. 

Slavery in South West Indian Ocean, Moka, 

Mauritius, 1989 [10795] £30 

686. BLAKE . Powell (J.R. ed.) The Letters Of Robert 

Blake, together with Supplementary Documents, 

portrait, some slight soiling, Navy Records Society, 

[CF7539] £45 

687. BLAND (J.O.P.) & E. Backhouse. China Under 

the Empress Dowager, Being the History of the Life 

and Times of Tzu Hsi, Compiled from State Papers 

and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of Her 

Household, map, numerous plates, thk.roy.8vo, 

spine faded, slight wear 1910 [CF7385] £75 

688. BLOFELD (John) King Maha Mongkut of Siam, 

portrait frontis. plates, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 

1987 [CF6800] £20 

689. BOASE (T.S.R. ed.) A.W. Lawrence et al. The 

Cilician Kingdom of Armenia, ep. maps, numerous 

plates, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1978 

[CF4517] £20 

690. BOLTON (Melvin) Ethiopian Wildlands, map, 

plates, some coloured, dw, 1976 [CF8224] £20 

691. BRANDT (Conrad) Stalin’s Failure in China, 

1824-1927, 1958 [CF4148] £25


PIRATED FRENCH EDITION OF 

COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE. 

692. [BOUGAINVILLE] Voyage autour du monde, par 

la Fregate du Roi La Boudeuse, et La Flute L’Etoile; 

en 1766-1769, [with] [Magra] Supplément Au 

Voyage de M. de Bougainville; ou Journal d’un 

Voyage Autour du Mond, fait par MM. Banks & 

Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771. 

Traduit de l’Anglois, par M. de Fréville, Second 

Enlarged Edition, 20 folding maps, 3 plates, [viii] + 

xliii + 336 pp. lacking hf title [ii] + 453 + [iii] pp. hf 

title + xvi + 362 + iii pp. full contemporary calf, gilt 

spine, some slight wear, some occasional spotting, 

together 3 vols, uniform contemporary speckled calf, 

spines gilt, some slight wear, Paris 1772 

[10465] £1,500 

Beddie 697. Toussaint D.96. 

This Supplement to Bougainville, is the first French 

account of Cooks first voyage, was pirated from the 

unofficial account published by Becket in London a year 

earlier. However this edition does contain two additions 

not in the English editions. The first pp. 251-86, a letter 

by Philibert Commerson who had accompanied 

Bougainville. He was the naturalist who had collected a 

colourful unkown plant and introduced it into Mauritius 

and named it in honor of his Commander, Bougainvillaea. 

He has been called the Father of Mauritian Botany. This 

letter is about Madagscar, Réunion & Mauritius and 

appears never to have been reprinted. The other by “M. 

le B. de G. Au sujet de la possibilité d’un passage de la 

mer duNord ou Océan atlantique, dans la mer du Sud ou 

pacifique, par les mers septentrionales” pp. 287-362. 

Beaglehole in his Textual Introduction to Cook’s First 

Voyage presents from the handful of people who could 

have written this Journal a remarkably tight case for 

James Magra. Of the texts connected with this famous 

first voyage, it is the only one that shows any animosity 

towards Cook. It was recorded by Cook that he suspected 

Magra of being behind an ugly prank on Richard Orton 

the captain’s clerk, who one night in a blind stupor had 

his clothes cut off him and parts of his ears amputated. 

Cook dismissed Magra the Quarter deck “to show my 

immediate resentment against the person on whome the 

suspicion fell least they should not have stopped there.” 

He later reinstated him. 

Another pointer to the authorship is in the text referring to 

New Zealand, mentions that there are “sweet potatoes, 

like those of Carolina.” Magra was an American, born in 

New York. 

The first Becket and de Hondt edition was published in 

London within two months of the return of the Endeavour 

containing a flattering dedication to Banks and Solander, 

but after protests this was withdrawn. The Dublin edition, 

issued a year later, contains this surpressed dedication. 

693. BOYAJIAN (Zabelle C.) In Greece with Pen and 

Palette, ep maps, 15 coloured plates, 1938 

[10788] £25 

694. BOYD (Julia) Hannah Riddell An Englishwoman in 

Japan, With a Foreword by HRH The Princess of 

Wales, maps, plates, dw, Tokyo, 1996 [10870] £15 

Riddell was a missionary to lepers in the first half of the 

20th century 

695. BRADNUM (Frederick) The Long Walks, 

Journeys to the sources of the White Nile, ep. maps, 

dw. 1969 [CF8223] £20 

Burton, Speke, Grant and the Bakers. 

696. BRIDGES (R.C.) & P.E.H. Hair. Compassing the 

Vaste Globe of the Earth Studies in the History of 

the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 With a complete list 

of the Society’s Publications, 30 plates, dw, Hakluyt 

Society Second Series 183, 1996 [11432] £30 

697. BRIDGES (R.C.) & P.E.H. Hair eds. Compassing 

the Vaste Globe of the Earth Studies in the History 

of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 with a complete 

List of the Society’s Publications, maps and plates, 

dw, Hakluyt Society Second Series vol 183, 1996 

[10913] £24 

698. BROADLEY (A.M.) The Last Punic War, Tunis, 

Past and Present, with a Narrative of the French 

Conquest of the Regency, map, 2 plans, portriat, & 

16 plates, 2 vols hf. red morocco, upper joints a little 

tender, slight wear, 1882 [CF8222] £95 

699. BROOMHALL (Marshall) Our Seal Being The 

Witness of the China Inland Mission to the 

Faithfulness of God plates, slight wear, 1933 

[10654] £40 

700. BROTHERS (A.) Photography: Its History, 

Processes, Apparatus, and Materials. Comprising 

Working Details of all the more important methods, 

24 plates, title spotted, stain on spine, 1892 

[10840] £225 

Brothers, the well known Manchester Photographer, was 

one of the pioneers in travel photography. 

701. BROWNE (James Stark) Through South Africa 

with the British Association, numerous plates, some 

faint spotting, spine faded, 1906 [CF7917] 

£35 

702. BRYANS (Robin) The Azores, map, plates, dw. 

1963 [CF8225] £25 

703. BULLEN (Frank T.) The Men of the Merchant 

Service being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine for 

Longshore Readers, FIRST EDITION, 1900 

[10547] £65 

704. BULLEN (Frank T.) Deep Sea Plunderings A 

Collection of Stories of the Sea, third impression, 8 

plates, 1901 [10548] £35 

705. BUNBURY (Selina) Russia After the War. The 

Narrative of a Visit to that Country in 1856, 2 vols, 

small snick on the spine of vol 2, 1857 [3769] £145 

Selina Bunbury was one of the intrepid women to follow 

their husbands to the War in the Crimea. This visit to the 

country of a former enemy came about as her husband 

was escorting a band of Russian prisoners back home.


706. BURLAND (Cottie) Eskimo Art, ep maps, 

numerous illusts, many in colour, name on hf. title, 

4to, 1973 [CF6835] £50 

707. BURTON (Capt. R.F. trans.) The Lands of 

Cazembe, Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798... 

also Journey of the Pombeiros P.J. Baptista and 

Amaro José, across Africa from Angola to Tette on 

the Zambeze, trans by A Beadle; and a Résumé of 

the Journey of MM. Monteiro and Gamitto by Dr. 

C.T. Beke, folding coloured map and title spotted, 

original cloth, spine laid down, 1873 [11165] £220 

708. BURTON (Capt. Sir R.F.) On Lake Tanganyika, 

Ptolemy’s Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile, 15 

pp. article in Journal of the Royal Geographical 

Society, vol 35, original printed wrappers dust 

soiled, papered spine worn and cracked, 12 maps 

including a photographically reproduced 

“Stereoscopic Map”, illustrating other articles, 

1865 [10848] £350 

This volume also contains John Hanning Speke’s 

Obituary 3 pp. Richard Thornton’s Notes on a Journey to 

Kilima-ndjairo 6 pp. John Kirk’s Notes of two Expeditions 

up the River Rovuma, East Africa, 13 pp. Lewis Pelly’s A 

Visit to the Wahabee Capital, Central Arabia, 22 pp. 

James Martin’s Exploration in North-Western Australia, 

52 pp. & J. Petherick’s Land Journey westward of the 

White Nile 12 pp. 

709. BURTON. Casada (James A.) Sir Richard F. 

Burton A Bibliographical Study, portrait frontis. 

1990 [11402] £45 

710. BURTON (Sir R.F.) & F.F. Arbuthnot, trans. The 

Kama Sutra of Vastayana, Edited with a Preface by 

W.G. Archer, introduction by K.M. Panikkar, dw, 

1963 [CF4633] £20 

THE ROXBURGH BURTON 

711. BURTON & SPEKE. The Search for the Source of 

the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard 

Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from 

Burton’s unpublished East African Letter Book; 

together with other related letters and papers in the 

collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. now printed for 

the first time. Edited, with a Biographical 

Commentary, by Donald Young; and with a Preface 

by Quentin Keynes, folding map, tipped in portait 

frontis, tipped in 4 pp. facsimile letter, title in red 

and black, original blind stamped pictorial cloth, 

The Roxburgh Club, 1999 [10971] £125 

712. BUSH (Lewis) Land of the Dragonfly, [Japan] 

maps, plates, 1959 [10498] £15 

An analysis of Japan during the first half of the century. 

713. BUTLER (David Allen) Unsinkable The Full Story 

of RMS Titanic, ep maps, plates, dw, 1998 

[10873] £15 

714. BUTOW (Robert J.C.) Japan’s Decision to 

Surrender, Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer, xi + 

259 pp. Advance Review Copy, original printed 

wrappers, Stanford University Press, 1954 

[CF3754] £25 

715. BUXTON (C.) Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell 

Buxton, Baronet, with selections from his 

correspondence, third edition, portrait frontis. 

spotted, calf, spine a little worn, upper joint cracked, 

1851 [CF3755] £55 

Toussaint D255. 

716. BYRON’S Journal of his Circumnavigation 1764- 

1766, edited by Robert E. Gallagher, folding maps, 

plates, spine a little sunned, Hakluyt Society Second 

Series, CXXII, 1964 [CF3757] £25 

717. CABATON (A.) Java, Sumatra, and Other Islands 

of the Dutch East Indies, translated with a preface by 

Bernard Miall large folding map, numerous plates, 

some occasional faint spotting, thk.8vo, 1911 

[10634] £155 

718. CADAMOSTO. The Voyages of Cadamosto and 

other documents on Western Africa in thesecond 

half of the Fifteenth Century translated and edited by 

G.R. Crone, 3 folding maps, some occasional 

spotting, spine a little soiled, Hakluyt Society 

Second Series, LXXX, 1937 [10978] £125 

719. CAMPBELL (Lord George) Log Letters from 

“The Challenger”, folding coloured map, modern 

hf. calf, 1876 [CF4733] £150 

Inscribed to J.New from the Duchess of Argyll “E. 

Argyll”, mother of the author. 

720. CAMPBELL (R.J.) The Discovery of the South 

Shetland Islands, The Voyage of the Brig Williams, 

1819-1820 and the Journal of Midshipman C.W. 

Poynter, 9 maps, 16 coloured and 6 other plates, roy 

8vo, dw, Hakluyt Society Third Series, Vol 4, 2000 

[11444] £45 

721. CARNOCHAN (F.G.) & H.C. Adamson. Out of 

Africa, plates, 1937 [10786] £30 

The Tanganyikan story of Kalola head of the powerful 

Snake Guild, who was present at the meeting between 

Stanley and Livingstone a Ujiji in 1871. He died in 1933 

722. CARRINGTON (Charles ed.) Untrodden Fields of 

Anthropology Observations on the Esoteric Manners 

and Customs of Semi-Civilized Peoples; being a 

record of Thirty Years’ Experience in Asia, Africa, 

America and Oceania by a French Army-Surgeon, 

Second Edition, 2 vols, original cloth, wrappers 

bound in, Limited to 1000 numbered copies, Paris, 

1898 [10758] £250 

An extraordinary work concerning sexual practises across 

the globe. The bibliography includes many references to 

Sir Richard Burton


723. CARVALHO (S.N.) Incidents of Travel and 

Adventure in the Far West: with Col. Fremont’s Last 

Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including 

Three Months’ Residence in Utah, and a Perilous 

Trip Across the Great American Desert, to the 

Pacific, FIRST EDITION, spine sunned and small 

tear at head of spine, NewYork, 1856 [4026] £225 

724. CHAMBERLAIN (Basil Hall) Things Japanese 

being notes on various subjects connected with 

Japan, FIRST EDITION, large folding map, frontis, 

pictorial cover a little spotted, 1890 [11426] £100 

SHANGHAI PRINTING. 

725. CHINA. [The New Testament], thk. small 8vo, 

printed wrapper, stitched as issued, Mei Wai 

Bookshop, Shanghai, 1889 [CF4296] £65 

726. CHINA. Addresses & Papers Dedication 

Ceremonies and Medical Conference Peking Union 

Medical College September 15-22, 1921, numerous 

plates, title and a few other pages lightly foxed, 

roy.8vo, boards, canvas spine, printed label laid 

down, Peking, 1922 [11166] £85 

The College was founded with the aid ofthe Rockefeller 

Foundation in China. 

CHINESE BLOCK BOOK 

727. CHINA. “Sheng-chi-t’ u” (Sage-footprints-picture) 

Life of Confucius, Chinese Philosopher 551-479 

B.C. large illustrated Block Book with 105 plates, 

12 x 16¼ ins. with descriptions of between 24 and 

120 characters, [iv] + 106 pp. yellow paper covers, 

front with title within border, small tears repaired in 

front and back cover, preserved in a box, 13th year 

of the T’ung-chih Emperor, 1874 [11330] £1,450 

The pictures descend at least from the Ming period, and 

are very likely much older in design, though adapted by 

successive artists to their view of Chinese scenery. 

The anecdotes are chiefly from the Life of Confucius in 

the Shi-chi, (Records of the Great Historian) by Ssu-ma 

Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.) Book 47, supplemented by the Lunyü 

(Analects of Confucius) and the Tso-Chüan 

(Commentary of Tso on the Lü-shih chun-ch’iu, Spring 

and Autumn Annals). 

Page 1 bears portraits of Confucius and his disciple Yen- 

Hui, page 2 shows his mother sacrificing to the hill Ni 

before his birth, and on pages 4 and 6 the appearance of 

the Ch’i-lin, a mythological creature, and other good 

auspices. It then follows the young Confucius playing at 

ritual and studying, his early employment as an overseer, 

and learning to play music. Many illustrations show him 

on his travels. On page 96 the Ch’i-lin appears to have 

been killed by hunters, to Confucius’ great distress. 

Finally on page 102 his disciples are pictured mouring at 

his burial mound, and then the first Han Emperor and the 

first North Sung Emperor paying homage at his shrine. 

For the pictures, compare the much smaller edition of 

1830, with different text and scenery but similar figures, 

BL 15201.b.8 vol 1. For the text, compare the Life from 

the Shi-Chi by Lin Yutang (in The Wisdom of Confuscius) 

or by Richard Wilhelm (in Confucius and Confucianism, 

English Edition 1931. 

728. CARTER (James) In the Wake of the Setting Sun, 

numerous plates, thk.8vo, spine sunned, c.1908 

[CF4023] £55 

Although a trip around the world, the majority of the book 

is on China and Japan 

729. CARTER (Rev. T.T.) A Memoir of John 

Armstrong, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of 

Grahamstown... with an introduction by Samuel, 

Lord Bishop of Oxford, engraved frontis portrait, ink 

inscription and number at head of title, thk.sm.8vo, 

Oxford, 1857 [CF6607] £45 

Not inMendelssohn. 

730. CARTER (T.F.) & L.C. Goodrich. The Invention 

of Printing in China and its spread Westward, 

Second Edition, numerous illusts, dw, 1955 

[11396] £140 

731. CARTERET’S Voyage Round the World 1766- 

1769, edited by Helen Wallis, folding maps and 

plates, 2 vols, spines a little faded Hakluyt Society 

Second Series CXXIV & CXXV, 1965 [CF4024] £45 

732. CHINA. The Annals of the Bamboo Books an 

anonymous manuscript translation of a Chinese text, 

57 pp. verso & 52 pp. recto of accompanying notes 

explaining words in Chinese and their 

pronounciation in roman, sm.4to, boards cloth spine 

notebook, contained in cloth box, leather lable, 

c.1915 [11394] £350 

The Bamboo Records were tablets that were said to have 

been discovered in the tomb of King Siang, of Wei, which 

had been plundered by robbers in AD 279. They 

contained about 100,000 characters, and were deposited 

in the Imperial Library by Wu Ti, the founder of the 

Western Tsin Dynasty. There were 20 different works 

with between 70 and 80 chapters. 

“The Yellow Emperor whose dynastic title was Hsuan 

Yuan. His mother’s name was Fu Pao.” These are the 

opening words of this manuscript relating to the 

“Legendary Period” of Chinese History, and appear to 

relate to the period just before the Shang Dynasty, 

commenced 1766 BC. 

For peaceful emperors Phoenix would fly into their 

palaces to stay, and dragons would fly. A part 

mythological part factual collection of anecdotes about 

the Shang Emperor’s. 

MacGowan. 

733. CHINA. G. Burges. A Presentation Portrait 

Photograph of the Two Chinese High 

Commissioners to the Exposition in Milan, 8½ x 6¼ 

ins. on a blind embossed card mount, inscribed in 

ink with their titles and names on either side, 14 x 11 

ins. glazed with passepartout, the inscription on the 

reverse reads “A Monsieur le Senateur Mangili, 

Président du Comité de l’Exposition International de 

Milan, Tai Hungtse, Tuan Fang, Hauts 

Commissaires de Sa Majesté l’ Empereur de Chine 

Milan, le 13 Juin 1906.” small tear to inscription 

with loss of a few letters, 1906 [11398] £575


734. CHINA. ABoldly Carved Wooden Chinese Shrine 

Hanging with the words which translated “Happy 

70th Birthday” in relief in gilded wood flanked by 

smaller similar phrases also in relief, and in red paint 

on an azure back ground, framed by an elaborately 

carved pantheon of 12 guilded Deities on green lotus 

leaves, 1 on a stork, amongst swirling clouds, 33 x 

63 ins. some dust soiling, signs of water marking, 

but in remarkable order, possibly camphor or 

cedarwood, c.1880 [11453] £1,800 

The Chinese well known reverence for age and wisdom is 

sumptuously demonstrated in this Birthday Tribute. It is 

wonderful token of respect. 

It is a remarkable surival from the cultural revolutions 

that have laid waste so much of China’s heritage in the 

20th Century. 

SeeBack Cover Illustration 

FENG SHUI BURIAL MAP 

735. CHINA. An Attractive Wooden Printing Block of a 

Map showing the Burial Mound of the Wang Family 

and adjacent area round the mound, with the rows of 

hills, the rivers and fields, flights of steps, and a 

ceremonial arch, North at the top, South of the 

mound is the flat terrace where family members 

would meet after the annual family reunion, 11½ x 

7¾ x ½ ins. a fine unworn carving, with some minor 

worming, c. 1850 [11412] £2,500 

The characters in the centre read “Wang”, with “Mu” 

meaning grave below. Underneath are the characters for 

“level ground” “field” and “water”. The Wang site is a 

perfect example of Feng Shui in its original sense of the 

choice of location for a family burial mound. The hills 

are to the North and water to the South. 

736. CHINA. An Exceptionally Fine & Decorative 

Chinese Silver Teapot and Cream Jug for the 

Western Market, each shaped with six sides, with 

figures and animals in high relief, handles moulded 

as serpents, the teapot lid with the head of a dragon, 

makers marks, c. 1920 [11456] £1,750 

737. CHINA. Lobenstine (Rev. E.C.) & Rev. A.L. 

Warnshuis eds. The China Mission Year Book 

1919, (Tenth Annual Issue), Shanghai, 1920 

[11111] £65 

738. CHINA. MacGillivray (Rev. D. ed.) The China 

Mission Year Book being “The Christian Movement 

in China” 1913 (Fourth Year of Issue), folding map, 

folding tables, faint marginal waterstain affecting a 

few pages, neat library stamp on title, Shanghai, 

1913 [11112] £75 

739. CHIROL (Valentine) The Far Eastern Question, 2 

folding maps, plates, cloth a little soiled, 1896 

[CF7835] £55 

Chirol’s visit to China and Japan coincided with the end 

of the war between the two counties. In this work he 

attempts to evaluate what the peace would mean to 

Europe and Britain in particular. 

740. CHOPRA (R.N.) Indigenous Drugs of India Their 

Medical and Economic Aspects, title creased, spine 

laid down, edges a little worn, Calcutta, 1933 

[11408] £55 

TRISTAN DA CUNHA. 

741. CHRISTOPHERSEN (Erling ed.) Results of the 

Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da 

Cunha 1937-38, numerous maps, plans, plates & text 

illusts. 13 reports, deaccession stamps on ep’s, 2 

vols, binders cloth, Oslo, 1946 [CF4040] £185 

742. CHURCH (John Hubbard) ASermon,deliviered 

in the South Parish in Andover, April 5, 1810; being 

the Annual Fast in Massachusetts, 24 pp. stitched 

with wrapper as issued, Sutton, 1810 [CF4042] £20 

Sabin 12988 

743. CHURCHILL (Rhona) White Man’s God, plates, 

dw, 1962 [11427] £20 

Written at the height of apartheid. 

744. CIST (Charles) Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals 

and Future Prospects, frontis and title foxed, 5 other 

plates, sm.8vo, Printed and Published for the 

Author, Cincinnati, 1841 [CF4046] £65 

745. CLARIDGE (G. Cyril) Wild Bush Tribes of 

Tropical Africa An Account of Adventure & Travel 

Amongst Pagan People in Tropical Africa, with a 

Description of their Manners of Life, Customs, 

Heathenish Rites & Ceremonies, Secret Societies, 

Sport & Warfare collected during a Sojourn of 

Twelve Years, folding map, plates, spine sunned, 

1922 [11059] £85 

746. COOPER (Michael ed.) João Rodrigues’s Account 

of Sixteenth-century Japan, 5 maps, 25 illusts. 

roy.8vo, dw, Hakluyt Society Third Series Vol 7, 

2001 [11446] £50


747. CLARK (R.S.) & A. de C. Sowerby. Through 

Shên-Kan, The Account of the Clark Expedition in 

North China 1908-09, large folding map in 

endpocket, frontis map, 6 coloured plates, 58 other 

plates, some occasional spotting, chinese “chop” 

library mark on title, roy.8vo, original buckram, 

slight wear, preserved in cloth slipcase, 1912 

[11303] £550 

748. COLE (S.M.) An Outline of the Geology of Kenya, 

maps, 1 folding, plates, original printed boards, 

Nairobi, 1950 [10884] £12 

749. CORBETT (Julian S. ed.) Papers Relating To The 

Navy During The Spanish War 1585-1587, frontis, 

blind stamp on title, label on spine, slightly soiled, 

Navy Records Society, Vol. XI, 1898 [CF7294] £50 

750. COSTIN (W.C.) Great Britain and China 1833- 

1860, 3 folding maps, Oxford, 1937 [CF4164] £50 

751. COUDREAU (Henri) Voyage entre Tocantins et 

Xingu 3 Avril 1898 - 3 Novembre 1898 15 maps, 12 

folding, numerous photographs in the text, sm.4to, 

modern hf. morocco, original printed wrappers 

bound in, Paris, 1899 [CF4167] £100 

Brazil 

FOURTH VOYAGE OF THE EAST INDIA 

COMPANY. 

752. COVERTE (Robert) Warhafftiger vnd zuvor nie 

erhorter Bericht eines Englishen wecher mit einem 

Schiff die Auffart genandt in Cambia, dem eufferften 

Thiel Aft Indien Schiffbruch gelidden zu Landt 

durch vnbekandte Konigreich gereiset derfelben 

Konigreich Statt Landts und Kauffhandels erzehlung 

Samt einer Glaubwurdigen offenbarung dess 

Grossmachtigen Kenfers der gross Mogoll gernandt 

re unter Capitein Robert Coverte. Durch einen 

Liebhaber der Historien aus dem Englisschen in 

Hochreutsch vbergasekt, First German Edition, 

vignette on title, 75 pp. marginal repairs not 

affecting text, some faint browning, sm.4to, modern 

calf spine, vellum corners, [Hulsius, Hanau], 1617 

[10540] £1,850 

Church, 306. The fifteenth volume of Hulsius’ collection 

of voyages. 

Inspite of the title page assertion that he was a Captain, 

Coverte was a steward on the ship Ascension, together 

with the ship the Union, made up the fourth voyage of the 

East India Company. The other three voyages under 

Lancaster in 1601, Middleton in 1604, and Keeling in 

1607, had all been great successes. The voyage 

commenced in 1608 under Capt. Alex Sharpey and after 

the Union’s loss of mast in a storm of the Cape, she put in 

to the bay of St. Augustine in the south west of 

Madagascar for a refit. In the meantime the Ascension 

went on to Mozambique and the Seychelles and was 

wrecked near Surat. The ships company broke up and 

Coverte took a route overland via Persia to England. 

This was the first journey by an Englishman along this 

route. 

753. COURSE (Capt. A.G.) Pirates of the Eastern Seas, 

plates, dw. 1966 [CF7657] £25 

754. CRAWFORD (O.G.S. ed.) Ethiopian Itineraries 

circa 1400-1524, Including those Collected by 

Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the Years 1519-24, 

map, numerous others in the text, frontis, Hakluyt 

Society Second Series, CIX, 1955 [11438] £55 

755. CRISLER (Lois) Arctic Wild, numerous plates, 

1959 [11420] £25 

The author’s husband was given an assignment of 

photographing wild life in the arctic. He and his wife 

spent 18 months camping in the north west corner of 

Alaska. 

756. CRONIN (Vincent) The Wise ManfromtheWest 

map, coloured frontis, plates, dw 1955 

[CF4664] £30 

The History of the First Christian Mission in China under 

Matteo Ricci. 

757. CROWE (Brig.-Gen. J.H.V.) General Smuts’ 

Campaign in East Africa, with an Introduction by 

Lieut.-Gen the Rt. Hon. J.C.Smuts,4foldingmaps, 

portrait frontis, spine sunned, 1918 [CF7630] £165 

758. CURZON (George Nathaniel) British Government 

in India, the Story of the Viceroys and Government 

Houses, numerous maps, plans and plates, 2 vols, 

4to. 1925 [CF4672] £85 

759. CUSTER (Elizabeth B.) Following the Guidon, 16 

plates, original decorative cloth, slight wear at head 

and tail of spine, NewYork, 1890 [10469] £75 

Tales of life with General Custer on the Washita 

Campaign of 1868-69. 

760. D’OLLONE (Vicomte H.) In Forbidden China The 

D’Ollone Mission 1906-1909 China - Tibet - 

Mongolia, trans. from the French of the second 

edition, Second Impression, folding map, plates, 

1912 [10587] £135 

This expedition set out to find if there was a native 

Chinese other than what appeared as “a slant eyed yellow 

race. First of all, the three independant territories must be 

explored. There would only there be a possibility of 

finding completely unmixed populations which would 

reveal their the appropriate characteristics oftheir race; 

next we should look for these characteristics among the 

half-subjected tribes, and finally among the populations of 

Chinese aspect which dwell in the surrounding 

territories.” 

761. [DANFORD (John) Nigeria in Costume, 48 

coloured plates, 4to, some faint damp staining to 

cover, Shell Company, Nigeria, 1960 [10526] £35 

Produced to record and celebrate the independence of 

Nigeria. 

762. DAVIS (F.Hadland) Myths & Legends of Japan, 

32 coloured plates, by Evelyn Paul, foredges 

spotted, 1919 [CF3487] £30


763. [DAVIS (J.)] The Post-Captain; or, the Wooden 

Walls Well Manned; Comprehending a View of 

Naval Society and Manners, frontis, sm. 8vo, 

original boards, uncut, repapered spine, original 

label, Thomas Tegg, 1815 [CF3488] £60 

According to Sabin, Davis went to America in search of 

literary employment, meeting Colonel Burr and Thomas 

Jefferson among many others. Wooden Walls was first 

published in 1806. 

764. DAWSON (Samuel Edward) The Saint Lawrence 

Basin and its Border-Lands, being the Story of their 

Discovery, Exploration and Occupation, large 

folding map, numerous plates, a little soiling, gilt 

presentation stamp of Christs Hospital on front 

cover, cloth a little buckled, 1905 [CF4577] £35 

765. DE AMICIS (Edmondo) Morocco Its People and 

Places, Revised and Enlarged Edition, 50 plates, 2 

vols original decorative cloth, gilt, Philadelphia, 

1897 [CF4579] £85 

766. DE GARIS (Frederic) We Japanese being 

descriptions of many of the customs, mannners, 

ceremonies, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese 

besides numerous other subjects, numerous text 

illusts, original silk wrappers, label on upper cover, 

sewn with silk cord, contained in a foldover case 

with bone toggles, Fujiya Hotel Ltd. Miyanoshita, 

Hakone, 1936 [CF10351] £65 

767. DE MOURA (I.B.) L’État de Pará (États-Unis du 

Brésil), folding map, folding plan, folding plate and 

22 others, roy.8vo, hf morocco, original wrappers 

bound in, Paris, 1897 [CF8068] £140 

768. DELAVIGNETTER (Robert) Afrique Occidentale 

Français maps, 14 tinted woodcut plates , 4to, 

original printed wrappers, some slight soiling and 

fraying at outer edges, Presentation Copy from the 

Governor General of Senegal Jules Brevie, the 

dedicatee, with a letter from him, Paris 1931 

[10507] £145 

FLORIDA CANNIBALS 

769. DICKENSON (Jonathan) God’s Protecting 

Providence, Man’s Surest Help and Defence in the 

Times of Greatest Difficulty and Most Imminent 

Danger, Evidenced in the remarkable Deliverance of 

Robert Barrow, with divers other Persons, from the 

devouring Waves of the Sea, amongst which they 

suffered Shipwreck; and also from the cruel 

devouring Jaws of the inhuman Cannibals, seventh 

edition, xiv + 135 pp. some occasional soiling, 

disbound, James Phillips, 1790 [CF4603] £150 

Sabin 20014. Who considered the first edition of 1699 of 

the greatest rarity. A second edition and an edition of 

1800 appeared in the Streeter Sale and from which it 

would appear that any edition is rare and desirable. 

770. DE CHAZAL (Malcy) The Medicinal Plants of 

Mauritius, map, 64 coloured plates, folio, 1989 

[10668] £50 

771. DIEZ (F.M.) Post - und Eisenbahn-karte von 

Deutchland und den anliegenden Ländern, 

Herausgegeben von F.M. Diez, unter dessen Leitung 

entworfen u. gezeichnet von J.C. Bær, folding map 

in sections, coloured in outline, small inkmark, some 

faint spotting, 19¾ x 24½ ins. folding into a cloth 

binding 7 x5ins. Gotha bei J. Perthes, 1848 

[11410] £75 

772. DILKE (Sir Charles Wentworth) Problems of 

Greater Britain, 5 folding maps, 2 vols. slight 

soiling, 1890 [CF3786] £65 

In 1865-66 Dilke made a journey around the world 

studying British Colonies. The subsequent work, Greater 

Britain soon became a standard on the subject. After a 

further journey around the world, he tried unsucessfully to 

revise it. Subsequent journeys prompted him to write this 

completely new work. The first volume deals with North 

America, Australasia, & South Africa. Volume two is 

entirely taken up with India. 

773. DIOSY (Arthur) The New Far East, FIRST 

EDITION, 12 plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 

1898 [CF3788] £75 

Diosy was an advocate over many years for the Anglo- 

Japanese Alliance, he founded the Japan Society and was 

its president. He was honoured by the Emperor as a 

Knight Commander of the Rising Sun. 

COOK’S EDITOR. 

774. DOUGLAS (John) Select Works of ... with a 

Biographical Memoir by ... his nephew... William 

Macdonald, portrait, facsimile of handwriting, some 

occasional spotting particularly towards the end, 4to. 

original boards, rebacked, unpressed, uncut, Printed 

for Subscribers, Salisbury, 1820 [CF7660] £450 

Although Bishop of Salisbury, Douglas, it could be said, 

was more occupied in secular than sacred matters. He is 

best known as the editor of Cook’s Third Voyage and 

correspondant. Apart from reprinting the introduction to 

the Third Voyage, there are references in the Biographical 

Memoir to Cook. 

775. DRIVER (G.R.) Aramaic Documents of theFifth 

Century B.C. transcribed and edited with translation 

and notes... halftone plates, folio, Ex Lib., Oxford, 

1954 [CF3801] £30 

776. DU BUISSON (Louis) The White Man Cometh, 

coloured and plain plates, Johannesburg, 1987 

[CF10225] £25 

In 1824, the first white settlers trod the soil of south-east 

Africa, a part of the world that fell in the domain of the 

King Shaka of the Zulus. 

777. DUNSHEATH (Joyce) & Eleanor Baillie. Afghan 

Quest, The Story of the Abinger Afghanistan 

Expedition 1960, map, plates, 1961 [CF4415] £20


778. EGERTON (F. Clement C.) African Majesty A 

Record of Refuge at the Court of the King of 

Banganté in the French Cameroons, 2 maps, 

numerous plates after the author’s photographs, 

1938 [11264] £95 

779. EGGLESTON (George T.) Virgin Islands, revised 

edition, ep maps, numerous plates, small library 

stamp on title and dedication leaf, 1973 [11425] £30 

APositive of the Image 

“KING” OF MADAGASCAR 

780. [ELLIS (William)] An Original Glass Negative 

Portrait of Rainilaiarivony (c.1828-1896) Prime 

Minister of Madagascar from 1864-1895, and 

Consort of three successive Queens of Madagascar, 

8 x6ins, some scratching to the negative, chipping 

to the right-hand edge, loss of a small section from 

the lower right-hand edge not visible on the contact 

print, c.1864 [11370] £1,750 

William Ellis of the London Missionary Society, first 

arrived in Madagascar in 1853, but was not allowed to 

reach the capital. He retired to Mauritius for a while and 

then made a second attempt with the same result. It was 

not until 1856 that he was allowed back but only for a 

month. Soon after this the Queen died and attitudes 

towards Christianity changed. Ellis’s fourth, most 

successful and productive visit began in 1861, not leaving 

until 1865. There are a few images and glass negative 

plates from the early visits, but superstition and hostility 

to the camera made such pieces rare. The majority were 

taken during the 4th visit. 

The image shows Rainilaiarivony, in his late 30’s, seated 

next to a table with a uniform elaborately braided, 

particularly the sleeves, and covered in orders and 

medals, befitting the Consort of a Queen. There is an 

earlier photograph of him illustrated in the exhibition 

catalogue “The Working of Miracles William Ellis 

Photography in Madagascar 1853-1865” text by Simon 

Peers, which shows a younger man, with a single 

decoration, probably from the time he was private 

secretary to the tyrant Queen Rainavalona. She died in 

1861 and was succeeded by her son Radama II. 

Rainilaiarivony was one of the leaders of the coup which 

overthrew and killed the King in 1863. His Queen, 

Rasoherina was placed on the throne and Rainilaiarivony 

married her and her two successors Ranavalona II & III. 

This made him in effect ruler of Madagascar. His policy, 

throughout his long premiership, sought to preserve the 

country from foreign encroachment and to maintain the 

economic and social ascendency of the ruling oligarchy, 

of which his family was a major part. Westernization was 

permitted and Rainilaiarivony and his Queen became 

converts to Christianity in 1869. His reforms included the 

introduction of Cabinet Government whilst still handling 

the most business himself. His personalisation and 

centralisation of power led to difficulties for the Merina 

State under constant pressure from the French. His later 

years were marked with growing popular discontent and 

court intrigues. After the French victory in the 2nd 

Franco-Malagasy War in 1895, Rainilaiarivony was 

exiled to Algiers where he died the following year. 

Eventually his body was returned to Madagascar for 

burial with his family. 

GOLD EXPLORATION IN ALASKA 

781. ELDRIDGE (George E.) AReconnaissance in the 

Sushitna Basin and Adjacent Territory, Alaska, in 

1898, J.E. Spurr, A Reconnaisance in Southwestern 

Alaska in 1898, W.C. Mendenhall, A 

Reconnaissance from Resurrection Bay to the 

Tanana River, Alaska, in 1898, F.C. Schrader, A 

Reconnaissance of a part of Prince William Sound 

and the Copper River District, Alaska, 1898, A.H. 

Books, A Reconnaissance in the White and Tanana 

River Basins, Alaska, in 1898, 25 maps, mostly 

double paged and folding, with 5 large folding maps 

in endpocket, 38 photographs, library stamp on title, 

509 pp. folio, Washington, 1900 [11123] £600 

This forms Part VII of the 20th Annual Report of the 

United States Geological Survey. Following the the great 

Klondyk discovery of Gold in 1896/7, the U.S. 

Government was considerably interested in the region not 

only geologically, but also topographically and 

ethnographically. This was the first major official 

exploration of the region, whose object was to assess the 

strength of the precious mineral findings, but also to 

report on the natives, their way of life, dress, settlements. 

782. ELLIS (Rev William) History of Madagascar 

comprising also the Progress of the Christian 

Mission established in 1818; and an Authentic 

Account of the Persecution and recent Martyrdom of 

the native Christians, folding map, Baxter Print 

frontis, plates, 2 vols, original cloth, spines laid 

down, 1838 [11400] £265 

783. ELTON (J. Frederic) Travels and Researches 

among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & 

Central Africa, from the Journals of the late... edited 

and completed by H.B. Cotterill, 3 folding maps, 14 

plates, numerous text illusts. 1879 [10690] £585 

There is an opening chapter on Africa and the Slave 

Trade by the Assistant Political Agent at Zanzibar Mr. 

Holmwood. Elton was H.B.M. Consul at Mozambique 

and was personally involved in the supression of the slave 

trade. He journeyed from Dar-es-Salam to Kilwa, to Lake 

Nyassa and Ugogo. 

784. FEDDEN (Robin) Syria An Historical 

Appreciation, plates, 1946 [11409] £25


785. EL-EDROOS (Brig. Syed Ali) The Hashemite 

Arab Army 1908-1979, maps and numerous plates, 

thk. roy 8vo, dw, Amman, Jordan, 1980 

[11076]£85 

786. ENGLISHWOMAN (The) In Russia; Impressions 

of the Society and Manners of the Russians at Home 

by a Lady, Ten Years Resident in that Country, 

frontis, spotted, engraved title and 5 other plates, 

spine faded, 1855 [CF5091] £85 

787. FITTON (K.B.) Military Censor markings 1939- 

1945 & related Air Mail services, 74 pp. inc. illusts. 

folio, original printed wrappers, Indian Ocean Study 

Circle, 1993 [CF8249] £20 

MAURITIUS & THE CHINA TRADE. 

788. ENTRECASTEAUX (Joseph-Antoine Bruni d’) 

An Important Clerk Written Letter in French, 

Signed, to Monseigneur concerning his worries 

about trade with China, 2 pp folio, Mauritius, 21 

June, 1789 [CF5092] £1,250 

D’Entrecasteaux, famous for his voyage in search of La 

Pérouse, was made Governor of the Mascarene Islands, 

Bourbon & Isle de France, in February 1787. He was 

particularly concerned to stabilise a highly inflated 

economy and a government described as anarchic. 

Because of the struggle for the China trade, between the 

British and French, there was much anxiety in the Indian 

Ocean. 

“You will see also from the letter that my announcement 

of an English Ambassador being sent to China and my 

guess as to where he was likely to take up residence so as 

to be closer to Peking, is also confirmed in a report made 

by the Company’s Chief Officers. A new factor of this 

importance can only hide all kinds of major schemes in 

the eyes of a country whose inhabitants are so slavishly 

attatched to their traditions and who are frightened by the 

slightest change. There can be no doubt that the British 

intend to ask for major concessions for their trade which 

they can rightly claim as twice as important as that of all 

the other countries put together; further more and more 

significantly, they will ask to be allowed to set up their 

colony somewhere on the coast... The obvious proof of 

what the British have in mind is shown by their actions 

concerning the supplies of tea that they have been 

stockpiling and now have over a years supply: they are 

doubtless aware that their requests may not be very 

popular with the Chinese, and fearing an interruption in 

trade while negociations last, have provided themselves 

with a powerful bargaining position.” Because of great 

difficulties in his administration and his desire to return to 

sea, he was relieved in November, 1789. 

789. ERNST (Earle) The Kabuki Theatre, numerous 

plates, roy.8vo, some sl. wear, 1956 [10240] £35 

The author was Professor of Drama and Theatre at the 

University of Hawaii 

790. FENTON. The Troublesome Voyage of Captain 

Edward Fenton 1582-1583, Narrative & Documents 

edited by E.R.G.Taylor 2 sketch maps, 15 plates, 

Hakluyt Society Second Series CXIII, 1957 

Africa. [11439] £65 

791. FERDINAND of Austria. Decree for the 

Foundation of the Restored Order of St. John of 

Jerusalem in Italy, 4 pp. Douglas, June, 1841 

[10938] £35 

792. FERLET (Réné) & Guy Poulet. Aconcagua: South 

Face, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, text maps, 

plates, dw repaired, 1956 [11002] £35 

First ascent of one of the severest faces in the Andes 

793. FOENANDER (E.C.) Big Game of Malaya, Their 

Typed, Distribution and Habits, ep map, plates, dw, 

1952 [10722] £50 

794. FISHER (Sydney) Le Canada son Histoire ses 

Productions et ses Ressources Naturelles, 5 folding 

maps in endpockets, numerous plates, original cloth, 

small label on spine, slight wear, Ottawa, 1905 

[CF3965] £85 

Prepared for the Exposition Universelle et Internationale 

de Liège. 

795. FLORIS (Peter) His Voyage to the East Indies in 

the Globe 1611-1615, The Contemporary 

Translation of his Journal, edited by W.H. 

Moreland, 3 folding maps, spine a little soiled, 

Hakluyt Society Second Series, LXXIV, 1934 

[10979] £95 

796. FORBES (Archibald), J.A. MacGahan et al.The 

War Correspondence of the “Daily News” 1877, 

with a Connecting Narrative forming the Continuous 

History of the War between Russia and Turkey to 

the Fall of Kars, spine a little soiled, head and tail 

chipped, 1878 [CF4636] £100 

797. FORBES (Rosita) Appointment with Destiny, 2 

maps, plates, 1946 [CF4639] £30 

This was the last volume of autobiography written by this 

most prolific and glamorous of travel writers. 

798. FORBES (Rosita) These are Real People, portrait 

frontis, 1937 [11045] £35 

Sumatra, Central Asia, Persia, the Red Sea, New Guinea, 

Mexico, etc. 

799. FORBES (Rosita) Conflict Angora to Afghanistan, 

with a Foreword by Brig.-Gen. Sir Percy Sykes 

numerous plates, some occasional foxing, lib. stamp 

on fep, Presentation Inscription tipped in “To Sir 

Robert & Lady Clive with so many thanks for so 

many things - all of them nice -including my days in 

aPersian Garden. Rosita Forbes”, 1931 

[11105]£130 

Sir Robert Clive was British Minister in Tehran at the 

time of Rosita Forbes visit. With this is a critical notice 

by Harold Nicholson from the Observer, typed on the 

Tehran Embassy headed paper, “Rosita Forbes is not a 

frivolous traveller... just unobservant.” 

800. FORBES (Rosita) From the Red Sea and the Blue 

Nile, Abyssinian Adventures, folding map, numerous 

plates, dw, thk.8vo, 1925 [11046] £75


801. FOSCO (Maraini) Meeting with Japan, ep maps, 

numerous plates some in colour, text illusts. roy.8vo, 

1959 [CF4642] £25 

802. FRASER (Douglas C.) Impressions - Nigeria 1925, 

folding map, plates, occasional spotting, 1926 

[CF10334] £40 

The author travelled extensively in Nigeria, from Lagos he 

went as far north as Kaduka, and as far east as Yokala. 

He describes the wood trade and the game which he 

inevitably shoots. 

803. FOUNTAIN (Paul) The Great Mountains and 

Forests of South America, second impression, 

portrait frontis. plates, buckram, spine a little faded, 

1904 [CF8073] £50 

804. FRASER (Mary Crawford) ADiplomat’s Wife in 

Japan, Sketches at the Turn of the Century, edited by 

Hugh Cortazzi, portrait frontis. coloured plates, dw, 

1982 [11411] £20 

Sir Hugh Cortazzi, former British Ambassador to Japan, 

has edited this work down to four-fifths of its original 

length. In the preface he says “That the great sprawling 

capital of Japan was once the attractive collection of 

gardens that Mrs. Fraser described is still difficult for me 

to imagine.” 

805. FRASER (Maryna) Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 

1888-1909, Edited by Maryna Fraser, illusts, plates, 

Van Riebeck Society, Second Series No.16, Cape 

Town, 1985 [CF6963] £25 

806. FRASER (Mrs. Hugh) A Diplomatist’s Wife in 

Japan, Letters from Home to Home, fourth edition, 

numerous illusts. pictorial cloth gilt, 1904 

[CF7878] £55 

807. FRIEDMAN (Herbert) Birds Collected by the 

Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya 

Colony, Part 1. Non-Passers,Part2.Passers,text 

maps, 2 coloured frontis’s, plates, text illusts. 

original printed wrappers, vol 1 frayed, Smithsonian 

Institution, Washington, 1930-37 [CF8200] £65 

808. FULLER (Robert H.) South Africa at Home, 

plates, some occasional spotting, c.1910 

[CF10215] £25 

The author was Headmaster of Dale College, King 

Williamstown. 

809. FÜLÖP-MILLER (René) The Mind and Face of 

Bolshevism, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 

numerous plates, some in colour, thk roy 8vo, small 

repairs to upper hinge & head of spine, 1927 

[10896] £125 

Awell illustrated treatment of Bolshevism including art 

and theatre. 

810. FÜRER-HAIMENDORF (Christoph von ed.) 

Caste & Kin in Nepal, India & Ceylon, 

Anthropological Studies in Hindu-Buddhist Contact 

Zones, text maps, plates, dw, 1979 [10887] £20 

ROYAL COPY 

811. GALLI (H.) La Guerre en Extrème-Orient, Russes 

&Japonais, text maps, and numerous illusts. many 

printed in colour, 2 vols thk. roy.8vo, contemporary 

morocco spines, teg, from the Library of Don 

Carlos, King of Portugal, with his monogram and 

crown onspines, Paris, nd [CF3562] £350 

812. GARDINER (Robin) & Dan Van Der Vat. The 

Riddle of the Titanic, numerous plates, dw. 1995 

[10872] £18 

The authors thesis that the Titanic was replaced by her 

sister ship the floored Olympic is tantalizing. 

813. GARRETT (Edmund) The Garrett Papers, Edited 

with an introduction by Gerald Shaw, plates, Van 

Riebeck Society, Second series No.15, Cape Town, 

1984 [CF6966] £25 

814. GAUNT (Mary) Alone in West Africa, ep maps, 

plates, some occasional spotting, small corner 

repaired of the last page, not affecting text. thk.8vo, 

pictorial cloth, gilt, [1912] [11220] £145 

This was the first of Mary Gaunt’s intrepid adventures 

begun at the age of forty. Like Mary Kingsley before her 

she was no great admirer of the Missionary and their 

efforts. Described in Jane Robinson’s Wayward Women 

as “down-to-earth, sympathetic, observant, tenacious and 

adventurous”,- narrative crackles with character & style. 

815. GEDDIE (John) The Lake Regions of Central 

Africa A Record of Modern Discovery, 2 maps, 

numerous plates, cr.8vo, original pictorial cloth, 

1892 [11265] £65 

First published in 1881, this edition, uncut and unedited 

from the first, is in the Nelson’s “Our Boys’ Select 

Library” Series. 

816. GEORGE (Henry) Protection or Free Trade, an 

Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial 

Regard to the Interests of Labour, Second Edition 

[but] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, cr.8vo, 1887 

[CF5052] £30 

George was one of the most influential and carismatic 

Political Econonmists of his period in America. His 

fundamental doctrine was the equal right of all men to use 

the earth. Protection or Free Trade was one of his best 

known and influential works. 

817. GERINI (G.E.) Chulakantamangala The Tonsure 

Ceremony as Performed in Siam, plates, 4to. printed 

wrappers, 1895, The Siam Society Reprint, 

Bangkok, 1976 [CF6806]£25 

818. GILES (Herbert A. trans.) Chuang Tzu, Mystic, 

Moralist, and Social Reformer, Second Edition, 

revised, some slight wear, Bernard Quaritch, 1926 

[10647] £55 

Chuang Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and teacher from 

third and fourth centuries B.C.


819. GIAVER (John) The White Desert The Official 

Account of the Norwegian-British-Swedish 

Antarctic Expedition, maps, plates, 1954 

[11066] £35 

820. GILLMORE (Parker) Leaves from a Sportsman’s 

Diary, Second Edition, portrait, slight wear, 1896 

[CF3642] £30 

Big & Little game, Elephant, Lions, Tiger, Giraffe, India, 

Africa & America. 

821. GILLMORE (Parker) The Great Thirst Land: A 

Ride through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 

and Kalahari Desert, frontis, modern hf. calf, c.1880 

[CF3644] £155 

822. GILMORE. James Gilmore of Mongolia His 

Diaries Letters and Reports edited and arranged by 

Richard Lovett, third edition, 2 maps, portrait, 

plates, 1895 [CF3643] £40 

823. GIQUEL (Prosper) The Foochow Arsenal, and its 

results. From the commencement in 1867, to the end 

of the Foreign Directorate, on the 16th February, 

1874, trans. H. Lang, 38 pp. original printed 

wrappers, Reprinted from the Shanghai Evening 

Courier, Shanghai, 1874 [10616]£120 

Giquel was director of the Foochow Arsenal, which was 

set up by the Chinese with European Officers, to instruct 

them in western methods of Ship building and iron 

foundry. The object being to prepare a Chinese Navy fit 

for war. 

824. GOLDING (William) An Egyptian Journal, FIRST 

EDITION, map and numerous plates, some 

coloured, name of fep. dw, 1985 [CF10218] £38 

825. GOOLD-ADAMS (Richard) Middle East Journey, 

map, plates, 1947 [CF7771] £25 

The author was with the three armies in the Middle East. 

826. GRACE (John) Domestic Slavery in West Africa 

with particular reference to the Sierra Leone 

Protectorate 1896-1927, maps, 1975 [CF4358] £20 

827. GRAHAME (Maj. Iain) Jambo Effendi, Seven 

years with The King’s African Rifles, ep maps, 

coloured frontis and illusts. by Sheila Rogers, 1966 

[CF10256] £25 

828. GRANT DUFF (Mountstuart E.) A Political 

Survey, some slight wear, Inscribed by the Author 

on the title page to Hastings Russell, with his 

bookplate, Edinburgh, 1868 [CF7746] £65 

It was in 1868 that Gladstone appointed Grant Duff 

Under Secretary of State for India. It was this work, 

particularly the section on Asia and Africa, pp. 47-118, 

and his analysis of the states of the nations, led to this 

appointement and later to the Governorship of Madras. 

829. GOLE (Susan) ASeries of Early Printed Maps of 

India in Facsimile collected by Susan Gole, 56 maps, 

some folding, title 6 pp of text, all loose in portfolio 

as issued, some slight wear, Presentation Copy from 

the Author, NewDelhi, 1980 [11423]£75 

830. GREW (Joseph C.) Ten Years in Japan, A 

Contemporary Record drawn from the Diaries and 

Private and Official Papers of Joseph C. Grew 

United States Ambassador to Japan 1932-1942, 

plates, 1944 [CF5193]£25 

Grew was the U.S. Ambassador to Japan for the 10 years 

before the bombing of Pearl Harbour, and gives an 

account of the gradual build up to war. 

831. GRIFFIS (William Elliot) The Mikado’s Empire, 

Book I. History of Japan from 660 B.C. to 1872 

A.D. Book II. Personal Experiences, Observations, 

and Studies in Japan 1870-1874, Tenth Edition with 

six supplementary chapters including history to 

beginning of 1903, map, plates, text illusts. 2 vols, 

hf. red morocco, teg, some slight wear, New York, 

1903 [CF5200] £350 

The author was a professor at the Imperial University in 

Tokyo. 

832. GRUBB (W. Barbrooke) AChurch in the Wilds 

The Remarkable Story of the Establishment of the 

South American Mission amongst the hitherto 

savage and intractable natives of the Paraguayan 

Chaco, maps, plates, some occasional foxing, 

pictorial gilt cloth, 1914 [CF7843]£40 

833. GUPPY (Nicholas) Wai-wai, Through the Forests 

North of the Amazon, map, numerous plates, 1958 

[CF6862] £25 

BOER WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

834. HACKETT (R.G.) South African War Books, An 

illustrated bibliography of English language 

publications relating to the Boer War of 1899-1902, 

numerous illusts. many in colour, folio, Privately 

Printed, 1994 [11389] £125 

835. HAKLUYT (Richard) The Principal Navigations 

Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English 

Nation Made By Sea Or Overland to the Remote 

And Farthest Distant Quarters Of The Earth At Any 

Time Within The Compass 1600 Years... with an 

Introduction by John Masefield, 64 plates of 

drawings by T.Derrick, and numerous reproductions 

of contemporary portraits and engravings, 10 vols, 

the last two in a differing shade of blue cloth, 1927- 

28 [10883] £350 

This illustrated edition uses the same text as the 

Maclehose edition, and has an excellent index. 

836. HAMILTON (Andrew) Sixteen Months in the 

Danish Isles, 2 vols, 1852 [CF4939] £135 

Denmark from the view of a student and dog.


837. [HALIBURTON (Thomas Chandler)] The English 

in America, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, spines 

sunned, 1851 [CF4933] £155 

Born in Nova Scotia, the author, who became a judge in 

1820, was well known for his creation of the Sam Slick 

series of books. In this work he states “My desire is, 

among other objects of this work, to show where and by 

whom republicanism was introduced into this continent.” 

838. HARDING (G. Lankester) The Antiquities of 

Jordan, maps and plans in the text, plates, 1960 

[CF4946] £15 

The author was for 20 years Director of the Department 

of Antiquities in Jordan. 

RED RIVER SETTLEMENT. 

839. HARGRAVE (Joseph James) Red River, xvi + 

506 pp. very faint marginal stain affecting last 

gathering, spine slightly sunned, Printed for the 

Author by John Lovell, Montreal, 1871 

[CF8052]£265 

The author arrived in the settlement in 1861 and gives a 

compehensive account of the settlement from its inception 

by Lord Selkirk in 1811. He was a Scottish landowner 

who made philanthropic efforts to find a place for the 

displaced Scots during the highland clearances. 

Hargrave continues with the history, laws and religion, 

from that time to 1869 when it was “sold” to the 

Dominion of Canada. 

840. HARRISSON (Tom) World Within A Borneo 

Story, ep maps, plates, dw. 1959 [11451] £30 

841. HAY (David) No Through Road A Story of the last 

Assyrian campaign in Kurdistan: the Nation which 

defied the Turkish Empire and became Britain’s 

smallest ally of the 1914-18 war, folding map, 

plates, dw. Presentation inscription on fep. Ipswich, 

1966 [CF10217] £28 

842. HEEREN (A.H.L.) Historical Researches in the 

Politics, vol I Intercourse, and Trade of the 

Carthaginians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians, vol II 

Asiatic Nations, Scythians, Indians, Appendixes, vol 

I Second Edition, revised and corrected, folding 

map, some spotting, vol II First Edition, together 2 

vols bound in matching blindstamped cloth, 1857, 

1854 [CF10348] £160 

843. HELWOOD (H) The Death of General Wolfe at 

Quebec a charming primitive pen and wash drawing 

after the uncoloured mezzotint engraved by Richard 

Houston after Schaak, some small holes and 

abrasions neatly repaired, 12 x 10 ins. c1770 

[10522] £225 

844. HENDERSON (E.P.) AManual for the Guidance 

of Officers of the Public Works Department in Their 

Relations with Contractors, compiled under the 

Orders of the Government of India, revised by C. 

Bevan-Petman some slight wear, Calcutta, 1910 

[CF8114] £25 

845. HENDERSON (Lieut.-Col. G.F.R.) Stonewall 

Jackson and the American Civil War, with an 

Introduction by Field-Marshal the Rt. Hon. Viscount 

Wolseley, new impression, large folding map, 14 

other maps, 2 portraits, 2 vols. some slight wear, 

1911 [10833] £55 

846. HENRY VII . Oppenheim (M.ed.) Naval Accounts 

and Inventories, of the Reign of Henry VII 1485-8 

and 1495-7, label on spine also head chipped, Naval 

Records Society, 1896 [CF7540] £425 

847. HERBERT (Wally) Across the Top of the World 

The British Trans-Arctic Expedition, FIRST 

EDITION, map, numerous plates, dw. 1969 

[11362] £30 

848. HESSELBERG (Erik) Kon-Tiki and I, Illustrations 

with text begun on the Pacific on board the raft 

“Kon-Tiki”, 4to, 1950 [CF4692] £30 

849. HEYERDAHL (Thor) American Indians of the 

Pacific The Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition, 

maps & numerous plates, some coloured, thk.4to, 

1952 [CF4695] £45 

850. HEYERDAHL (Thor) The Art of Easter Island ep 

maps, 366 pp. of photographs including 16 in 

colour, thk.4to, dw, 1976 [CF7733] £150 

“The full story of Heyerdahl’s explorations on Easter 

Island. The dramatic discovery of art treasures in secret 

caves. The mystery of the great stone men explained: why 

and how they were carved, transported and raised. The 

historical and religious meaning of the art of Easter 

Island revealed. New findings on the ancient and later 

history of the island and its people. A worldwide museum 

survey of Easter Island art.” dw. 

851. HILDRETH (R.) Japan As It Was And Is,folding 

map, engraved title, thk.8vo, head and tail of spine 

worn, 2 corners worn, Boston, 1855 [CF4702] £300 

The earliest printed account of Commodore Perry’s two 

expeditions. 

852. HILLARY (Sir William) Suggestions for the 

Christian Occupation of the Holy Land, as a 

Sovereign State, by the Order of St. John of 

Jerusalem, ii + 8 pp. stitched as issued, 1841 

[10937] £85 

Although best known as the founder of the Royal National 

Life Boat Institute, this is a part of his life, about which he 

writes passionately. 

853. HOBSON (Sarah) Family Web, A Story of India, 

plates, dw, 1978 [10885] £15 

Researching for a film, the author spent months with a 

family of 26 in southern India and gives an engrossing 

account of their lives and the pressures of poverty 

854. HOGARTH (D.G.) The Life ofCharles Doughty, 

folding map, plates, roy.8vo, spine sunned, slight 

wear at head and tail of spine, 1928 [10537] £85


855. HILTON (William) A Relation of a Discovery 

made on the Coast of Florida, (From Lat. 31 to 33 

Deg. 45 Min. North-Lat.) by William Hilton 

Commander and Commissioner with Capt. Anthony 

Long and Peter Fabian, in the Ship Adventure, 

which was set Sayl from Spikes Bay Aug. 10. 1663 

and was set forth by several Gentlemen and 

Merchants of the Island of Barbadoes. Giving an 

account of the nature and temperature of the Soyl, 

the manners and disposition of the Natives, and 

whatsoever is remarkable therein. Together with 

Proposals made by the Commissioners of the Lords 

Proprietors, to all such persons as shall become the 

first Settlers on the Rivers, Harbors, and Creeks 

there, ii + 34 pp. 4to. printed wrappers, [REPRINT, 

Hiltonhead, South Carolina, 1994] [CF8113]£50 

856. HÖHNEL (Lieut. Ludwig von) Discovery of Lakes 

Rudolf and Stefanie A Narrative of Count Samuel 

Teleki’s Exploring & Hunting Expedition in Eastern 

Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888, FIRST 

ENGLISH EDITION, 2 folding maps, plates, text 

illusts. 2 vols, original pictorial cloth, gilt, Good 

Copy, 1894 [CF3490] £1,350 

857. HONG KONG Annual Reports for 1896-1905, 

1896, 15 pp. 1897, 8 pp. 1898, 33 pp. 1899, 44 pp. 

1900, 22 pp. 1901, 24, 1902, 22 pp. 1903, 23 pp. 

1904, 23 pp. 1905, 25 pp. together 10 Reports, 

disbound, 1897-1906 [CF6881] £125 

858. HONG KONG. Sir Henry Blake et. al. Bubonic 

Plague. Memorandum on the Treatment of Patients 

in Their Own Homes and in Local Hospitals, 46 pp. 

disbound, 1903 [CF6882] £45 

859. HOOPER (Charles Arthur et al.) Report of the 

Commission of Enquiry into Unrest on Sugar Estates 

in Mauritius, 1937, xxiii + 253 pp. original printed 

wrapper, slight wear, Port Louis, 1938 [11401] £50 

860. HOOPER (Meredith) Doctor Hunger and Captain 

Thirst, Stories of Australian explorers, ep maps, 

illusts. dw 1982 [10880] £20 

Grey, Stokes, Eyre, Leichhardt, Sturt, Mitchell, Kennedy, 

Gregory, Stuart, Burke and Wills, King and Gray, 

McKinlay, Warburton, Forrest, Giles, and Carnegie. 

861. HORDASEVICH (Capt. R.) AVoicefrom Within 

The Walls of Sebastopol: A Narrative of the 

Campaign in the Crimea, and of the Events of the 

Siege, 3 folding map, spine faded, 1856 

[CF3504] £125 

862. HOUSTON (James) Confessions of an Igloo 

Dweller, map, text illusts. dw. 1995 [10875] £15 

Houston, a Canadian Artist, lived with the Inuit from 

1948 to 1962. 

863. HOVNED (A.) Sketches of the Hungarian 

Emigration into Turkey, sm.8vo, ex lib. with small 

stamps, leather spine, 1853 [11192] £65 

864. HOW (F.D.) Bishop John Selwyn A Memoir, 

portrait, 1899 [10605] £20 

Selwyn was Bishop to the Melanesian Mission 

865. HOWELL (Mark) Journey through a forgotten 

Empire, map, plates, 1964 [10474] £20 

The story of a 9 month journey in Peru and Bolivia. 

866. HOWISON (John) Sketches of Upper Canada, 

Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: to which are 

added, Practical Details of the Information of 

Emigrants of Every Class; and some Recollections 

of the United States of America, FIRST EDITION, 

uncut, original boards, papered spine lacking label, 

frayed at head, 1821 [CF3512] £150 

867. HÜBNER (M.Le Baron de) ARamble Round the 

World, 1871, numerous plates, thk.8vo, recased, 

newendpapers, 1878 [CF3514] £65 

Well over two thirds of the book, 16 chapters, are on 

China and Japan. 

868. HUGHES (Rev. Robert Edgar) Two Summer 

Cruises with the Baltic Fleet, In 1854-5. Being the 

Log of the“Pet”Yacht,8Tons,R.T.Y.C,2folding 

maps, 5 tinted lithograph plates, original pictorial 

cloth, gilt, 1855 [CF4062] £135 

869. HUMBOLDT. Anon. The Life and Travels of 

Alexander von Humboldt: with an account of his 

Discoveries, and notices of his scientific fellowlabourers 

and contemporaries, portrait frontis. 6 

plates, sm.8vo, cloth gilt, c.1850 [11418] £35 

870. HUNGERFORD (Edward) The Story of the 

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1827-1927, ep maps, 

numerous plates, 2 vols, Knickerbocker Press, New 

York, 1928 [11385] £90 

871. HUNT (Arthur S.) & John Johnson eds. Two 

Theocritus Papyri, 2 plates, 4to, Ex Lib., Egypt 

Exploration Society, 1930 [CF4063] £15 

ANTARCTIC VIEW 

872. [HURLEY (Frank)] ASilver Gelatine Photograph 

of aPenguin with an Egg among coarse grass, 4½ x 

6ins. c.1917 [11162]£350 

The survival of Hurley’s images is almost as miraculous 

as the crew. The icy conditions, the treacherous open 

boat journey to Elephant island and the conditions there, 

make Ponting’s experiences on Scotts Last Expedition 

seem ideal. 

873. HUSTACK (Alan) Titanic The Canadian Story, 

illusts. folding plate, wrappers, 1998 [10874] £15 

874. HUTTON (Graham) Mexican Images, folding 

map, plates, dw. 1963 [CF6834] £15


875. HUXLEY. T.H.Huxley’s Diary of the Voyage of 

H.M.S. Rattlesnake, edited from the unpublished 

Ms. by Julian Huxley, folding map, coloured frontis. 

12 plates, 1935 [CF7775] £75 

The East Coast of Australia, New Guinea, the Louisiade 

Archipelago. He arrived in Mauritius on May 4th 1847, 

his 22nd. Birthday. He describes Port Louis “The town is 

remarkably clean but not without a certain Rio flavour 

about it.” 

876. HUXLEY (Elspeth) Their Shining Eldorado A 

Journey through Australia, folding map, text maps, 

plates, 1967 [CF7306] £35 

877. HUXLEY (Elspeth) ANewEarthAnExperiement 

in Colonialism folding map, 2 others plates, dw. 

1960 [10564] £25 

Describes a Revolution in the daily lives of six million 

Africans as they forsake their ancient communal 

traditions for a Western Individualism - she tells of the 

remarkable transformation of rural Kenya by carving it 

into tens of thousands of individually owned 

smallholdings. 

878. INDIA. The Spirit of the Press and the Proprietors 

of India Stock, shewn in Extracts from the Leading 

Newspapers and Magazines, and the Debates at the 

India House, relative to the Compensations to be 

granted to the East India Company’s Maritime 

Service; together with Testimonials from the 

Presidents of the Company’s Factory at China; to 

which is prefixed the Dissent of John Forbes, Esq. a 

Memeber of the Court of Directors, iv + 88 pp. 

disbound, 1834 [CF4084] £50 

879. INDIA. Bartholomew’s Contour Motoring Map of 

India Showing the Main Trunk Touring Roads, 

coloured folding map on canvas, 5 x 3ft 8 ins, 

c.1910 [10867] £65 

880. INDIA. Punjab, District Rawalpindi, folding 

coloured map on canvas, 22 x 16 ins. Published 

under the direction of Col. S.G. Burrard, [Calcutta] 

1911 [10868] £20 

881. INDIA. Cuch Behar a chromolithograph print of the 

Maharajah from Vanity Fair, 14 x 8¼ ins. small tear 

in upper right hand corner not affecting image, Dec. 

26th. 1901 [11376] £85 

882. INDIA. “Jodhpore”, a chromolithograph print by 

“Spy” from Vanity Fair, 12½ x 7¼ ins. Aug 27th. 

1887 [11377] £125 

Aswaggering caricature in a yellow jewelled turban. 

883. IRVING (John Treat) & J.F McDermott, ed. 

Indian Sketches taken during an Expedition to the 

Pawnee Tribes [1833], University of Oklahoma, 

Norman, 1955 [CF7787] £25 

GARIBALDI IN NAPLES 

884. JAMES (Edwin) ALS to Oliveira, concerning his 

meeting with Garibaldi 4 pp. 8vo, signs of mounting, 

Naples, Saturday Sept. 8, [1860] [11152] £175 

“Amidst the enthusiasm of the whole population 

Garibaldi entered this city yesterday, I was with him & 

had gone to join him at Eboli... & had two interviews with 

him... No pen can describe the enthusiasm of the people 

her but Ifear excess on the part of the people. We go on 

to Rome at once - a provisional Government will be 

formed at once & the feeling of the people for Annexation 

to Piedmont is strong.” 

Having conquored Sicily, Garibaldi & his Risorgimento 

forces entered Naples on the 7th of September 1860. He 

then declared himself Dictator of the Two Sicilies and 

after a battle on the Volturno, he held a plebiscite which 

enabled him to offer this part of a United Italy to Victor 

Emmanuel II of Piedmont Sardinia. 

Edwin John James (1812-82) barrister and sometime 

actor, engaged for the Palmer poisoning case of 1856 and 

in the trial of Dr. Bernard for conspiring with Orsini to 

assasinate Napoleon III in 1858. In the autumn of 1860 

he visited Garibaldi’s camp and was present at the 

skirmish of Capua, and was a champion of his cause in 

England. 

885. JAMES. Laughton (John Knox ed.) Journal Of 

Rear Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752-1828, 

frontispiece, 3 plates, some faint spotting, Navy 

Records Society, Vol. VI, 1896 [CF7245] £65 

886. JAPAN. The Russo Japanese War, folding maps, 

numerous chromolithograph plates and other illusts. 

10 parts in 3 vols, folio, hf. russia, hinges of vol. 1 

cracked, some other slight rubbing, Tokyo, 1904-05 

[CF3812] £550 

887. JAPAN. Dai Nippon Koku Zenzu [Complete Map 

of Japan] hand coloured in outline, inset map of 

Hakaido, 2 city plans,folded, some small tears 

repaired, 64 x 60 ins. original cloth covered boards, 

Bureau of Geography, Tokyo, Meiji 16, 1883 

[11142] £950 

GEOLOGICAL MAP 

888. JAPAN. Dai Nippon Koku Zenzu [Complete Map 

of Japan] hand coloured Geological Areas, with a 

colour key added in manuscript, with text in 

Japanese and English, inset map of Hakaido & 2 city 

plans, folded, some small tears and worm holes 

repaired, 64 x 60 ins. original cloth covered boards, 

Bureau of Geography, Tokyo, Meiji 16, 1883 

[11143] £1,450 

889. JAPAN. The Industrial Japan: 1957, Special 

Number of the Japan Trade Monthly (No 134), 

numerous illusts. 248 pp. woven silk cover in fine 

unfaded condition,designed by Isao Kondo “Four 

Seasons of Japan”, 4to., made by Tatsumura Artistic 

Textile, Dentsu Advertising Ltd. Tokyo, 1957 

[11399] £50


890. JOBSON (Richard) The Discovery of River 

Gambra, (1623) by Richard Jobson, with additional 

material,by David P. Gamble and P.E.H. Hair, 3 

maps, 2 colour plates, 14 illusts. roy 8vo, dw, 

Hakluyt Society Third Series, Vol 2, 1999 

[11442] £45 

891. JOHNSON (Osa) IMarried Adventure, The Lives 

and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson, plates, 

original “zebra” marked cloth, a little loose, 1940 

[CF6708] £50 

Solomon Islands, Malekula, Borneo, Kenya and Ethiopia. 

892. JUSSERAND (J.J.) English Wayfaring Life XIVth 

Century, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle 

Ages, plates, illusts, 1939 [CF7525] £40 

893. KANE (Joe) Running the Amazon, plates, 1989 

[11428] £20 

A first-hand account of the only expedition ever to travel 

the entire 4200 miles of the Amazon from source to sea. 

894. KEARNS (William H.) & Beverley Britton. The 

Silent Continent, map, plates, 1955 [11067] £25 

A History of expeditions to the Antarctic, with a 

chronolgy. 

895. KENNAN (George) Siberia and the Exile System, 

FIRST EDITION, text maps, 2 frontis. text illusts. 2 

vols decorative cloth, gilt, small nick at base of spine 

of vol 2, 1891 [11383] £500 

In 1881, after the assassination of Alexander II, a large 

number of Revolutionaries were exiled to the mines of 

Trans-Baikál. Coupled with the fact that a large number 

of Revolutionaries or Nihilists of the events of 1878-79 

were also in the region gave Kennan the spur to study the 

Siberia and its imported inhabitants. As he says in his 

preface “to the average American... it was almost as much 

aterra incognita as central Africa or Tibet.” He lived for 

two and a half years there and travelled extensively with a 

letter of authority from the Minister of the Interior without 

which, hinderance from Police and Local Officials would 

have made his investigation impossible. He states that he 

was well disposed towards the Russian State, but from his 

account he has much sympathy with the exiles and their 

oppression. 

896. KENT (Percy Horace) The Passing of the 

Manchus, large folding map, 2 others, plates, some 

occasional foxing, thk.8vo, 1912 [CF10337] £95 

The author was a barrister and Legal Adviser to the 

Taotai of Industries on the province of Chilhi. 

897. KHANNA (Lala Babu Lall) A Guide to 

Agricultural Officers and Subordinates for 

Departmental Examinations, Limited to 500 copies, 

Presentation Copy inscribed from the author, 

Cawnpore, 1926 [CF8115] £25 

898. KING (Col. Sir Edwin) The Knights of St. John in 

the British Empire, Being the Official History of the 

British Order of the Hospital of St. John of 

Jerusalem, numerous plates, 1934 [CF5027] £30 

899. KRAPF (Rev. Dr. J. Lewis) Travels, Researches, 

and Missionary Labors, during an Eighteen Years’ 

Residence in Eastern Africa; together with Journeys 

to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, 

and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz 

to Cape Delgado... with an Appendix respecting the 

Snow-Capped Mountains of Eastern Africa; the 

Sources of the Nile; the Languages and Literature of 

Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc. etc. and a Concise 

Account of Geographical Researches in Eastern 

Africa up to the Discovery of Uyenyesi by Dr. 

Livingstone, in September last, by E.J. Ravenstein, 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, folding map, 

original cloth spine neatly laid down, Boston, 1860 

[CF8275] £350 

900. KRASINSKI (Count Valerian) Montenegro, 

Slavonians of Turkey, ex lib, small stamps, sm.8vo, 

leather spine, 1853 [11193] £65 

901. KUPER (Hilda) Sobhuza II Ngwenyama and King 

of Swaziland, the story of an hereditary ruler and his 

country, maps, plates 1978 [CF8101] £30 

902. LA FLEUR (James D.) Pieter van den Broeck’s 

Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and 

Angola (1605-1612), 7 maps, colour portrait frontis. 

roy 8vo, dw, Hakluyt Society Third Series Vol 5, 

2000 [11445] £45 

903. LAING (Samuel) Observations on the Social and 

Political State of the European People in 1848 and 

1849; being the Second Series of the Notes of a 

Traveller, roy.8vo, 1850 [CF4768] £75 

904. LAING (Samuel) Obsevations on the Social and 

Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of 

Sleswick and Holstein, in 1851: being the Third 

Series of the Notes of a Traveller on the Social and 

Political State of the European People, engraved 

map, 1852 [CF4769] £135 

905. LANCASTER (Osbert) Sailing to Byzantium An 

Architectural Companion, 8 coloured plates, 

numerous text illusts. by the author, frayed dw. 

Inscribed on the title “For Michael [Stewart] from 

hisold brother brush, Osbert L.” 196 [CF8237]£30 

906. LANDER (Richard & John) Journal of an 

Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination 

of the Niger; with a Narrative of a Voyage down that 

river to its termination, 2 maps one folding, 2 

portraits, 5 plates, 3 vols, sm.8vo, hf calf, a little 

worn, 1832 [11058] £550 

907. LANGE (Algot) In the Amazon Jungle, Adventures 

in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, 

Including a Sojourn among Cannibal Indians, 

folding map, coloured frontis, numerous plates, a 

few pages carelessly opened, original cloth, slight 

wear NewYork, 1912 [CF8197] £45


908. LANMAN (Charles) Adventures in the Wilds of 

North America edited by Charles Richard Weld, 

FIRST EDITION, cr.8vo, 1854 [CF4785] £75 

Sabin 38912. 

909. LATORRE (E.C.) Atlas de Mapas Antiguos de 

Colombia siglos XVI a XIX, Second Edition, 60 

plates some in colour, signatures on ep, folio, dw. 

stained, Bogota, 1977 [10939] £75 

910. LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Letters of T.E.Lawrence 

Edited by David Garnett, maps, plates, thk.8vo, 

1938 [CF4227] £25 

911. LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, a 

triumph, FIRST PUBLICLY PRINTED EDITION, 

4 folding maps, numerous portraits and plates, 

sm.4to, small dent on spine, 1935 [CF6983] £75 

This edition is almost a complete reprint of the Private 

Edition of 1926 lacking only the coloured plates. However 

this edition has three extra portraits not in the earlier 

edition. 

912. LAWRENCE (T.E.) Revolt in the Desert, fourth 

impression, map, portrait frontis, and other portrait 

plates, 1927 [11403] £30 

913. LAYMAN (Rear Admiral C.H.) & Jane 

Cameron. The Falklands and the Dwarf, The Cruise 

of H.M.S. Dwarf in the Falkland Islands 1881-1882, 

ep map, illusts. dw. Chippenham, 1995 [11424]£50 

The book is about the Royal Navy’s attempt to enforce a 

conservation regime on brutal and unprincipled sealers, 

through the letters of Commander Sir William Wiseman, 

leader of the expedition. 

914. LEE (Ida) Captain Bligh’s Second Voyage to the 

South Sea, 17 plates and maps, spine faded, signed 

on the hf. title by the author “Ida Marriott”, together 

with aletter presenting this copy of her book to the 

editor of “The Field”, 1920 [11126] £75 

915. LEES (Lady) AFewDays in Belgium and Holland, 

An Idle Book for an Idle Hour, cr.8vo, original 

cloth, a little soiled, 1872 [CF4804] £25 

916. LEETE (F.A.) & G.C. Cheyne. Regulation of 

Rivers Without Embankments as applied in the 

Training Works at the Headwaters of the Rangoon 

River, Burma (locally known as the Myitmaka 

Training Works), 10 maps, 3 folding, 36 plates, 9 

full page diagrams, roy 8vo, some little fading, 

Presentation Copy from Author, 1924 [10855]£85 

The training refers to the consolidation of the rivers in 

flood and allowing logging, the floating of teak logs down 

to the saw mills. 

917. LEICHHARDT. The Letter of F.W. Ludwig 

Leichhardt Collected and Newly Translated by M. 

Aurousseau, 1 folding & 10 other maps, portrait 

frontis, 3 vols, Hakluyt Society, Series II, CXXXIII, 

CXXXIV, CXXXV, 1967-68 [CF4810] £170 

Scientific exploration in Australia. 

918. LESLIE (Alex ed.) The Arctic Voyages of Adolf 

Erik Nordenskiöld 1858-1879, 4 maps, 3 folding, 

numerous woodcuts in the text, prize calf, gilt spine, 

1879 [11078] £120 

919. [LEVER (Charles)] The Confessions of Con 

Cregan: The Irish Gil Blas, 12 plates by H.K. 

Browne, slight wear at hinges, 1856 [CF3453] £50 

920. [LEWIS (J.D.)] Across the Atlantic, 1851 

[CF3461] £95 

Sabin 134. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, 

Baltimore & Washington. 

921. LING (Ling Chien) Selections from the Hung-Sueh 

Sketches, First Series, numerous illusts, vi + 96 pp. 

some occasional spotting, cr.8vo, green silk 

wrappers, upper cover printed in gilt, sewn as issued, 

Shanghai, 1879 [11290] £50 

Photolithographed from the original Chinese Edition with 

brief translations in English by the Tien-Shih-Chai 

Photolithographic Works. 

The author was born in 1791, after graduating, became a 

“civil officer in the Imperial Court”, and in 1843 became 

High Commisioner of the Yellow River. These anecdotes 

range from descriptions of Temples, Libraries and 

Palaces, to his efforts during War with the English. 

922. LINKE (Lilo) The People of the Amazon, map, 

plates, dw. some faint stains at fore-edge, 1963 

[10941] £12 

923. LINSCHOTEN. A Double Paged Copper 

Engraving showing the boats of Chinese Mandarins, 

plates 32 & 33 from J.H. van Linschoten’s Discourse 

of Voyages to the East and West Indies, 10 x 12½ 

ins. some small marginal tears, a little browning, 

1598 [CF10285] £200 

924. LIONNET (Guy) The Seychelles, 3 maps, dw. 

1972 [CF8240] £28 

925. LISTER (R.P.) Marco Polo’s Travels, In Xanadu 

with Kublai Khan, the exciting story of the man who 

discovered a fabulous oriental kingdom of China and 

the court of the great Khan, ep maps, illusts, plates, 

some coloured, roy. 8vo,dw, 1976 [CF6986] £20 

926. LISTOWELL (Judith) The other Livingstone, ep 

maps, illusts, dw. 1974 [CF8072] £30 

The story of four men who played a crucial part in David 

Livingstone’s discoveries which he attempted to surpress. 

927. LITTLE (T. Homer) et al. Maryland Geological 

Survey Anne Arundel County, 4 separate large 

folding maps, 3 text maps, 9 plates, roy. 8vo, John 

Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1917 [10860] £35 

928. LIVINGSTONE David Livingstone Family Letters, 

1841-1856, Edited with an introduction by 

I.Schapera, 2 vols, dw, 1959 [CF6987] £55


THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 

929. LIVINGSTONE (David) Autograph Letter Signed 

to “My dear W”, Horace Waller, who accompanied 

himonthe Zambesi Expedition, and later became his 

biographer, 3 pp. 8vo, [Newstead Abbey] 3rd 

March, 1865 [11073] £2,250 

Concerning his journey and recent book The Zambesi and 

its Tributaries. “I send you a piece of proof which having 

looked over you will return quick & a separate slip saying 

page so & so - line so & so is nonsense or anything you 

like to say.” He refers to the incident on the Expedition 

which led to the withdrawal of funds from the University 

Missions. When attacked by hostile natives, Waller and 

other members of the Expedition had opened fire. Against 

the wishes ofBishop Mackenzie of Natal, the support of 

the University Missions was withdrawn after criticism in 

Oxford by Pusey. “In another part when saying that the 

bishop had the votes of his party I add ‘who had been 

previously as much opposed to hostilities as himself’.” He 

jokes with Waller about his reception by the Manganja 

tribe “How dreadfully you must have stank when the 

Manganja asked if you had no soap Ugh!!”. He mentions 

the reluctance of the Webbs of Newstead Abbey, to let him 

go. 

NEWS OF LIVINGSTONE’S AGNES 

930. [LIVINGSTONE] GUTHRIE (Lord Charles) 

Interesting ALS to Dr. Anderson concerning 

Guthrie’s visit to South Africa, 4 pp. 8vo, signs of 

mounting, R.M.S. “Balmoral Castle” at sea, 3rd. 

October, 1911 [11155] £120 

Guthrie, Scottish Senator of the College of Justice in 

Scotland, is returning the manuscript report “of my 

Lovedale Address... it really required nothing to be done 

to it. It is a most admirable record from memory, and 

wonderful.” He continues “I am re-reading Blaikie’s 

Life of Livingstone which I bought at Lovedale. One is 

struck by the emphasis with which he proclaimed in 

season and out of season, that the Christianization and 

civilization of the African must be achieved by native 

agency, and that that agency must be trained by white 

men and white women.” He continues with news of 

Livingstone’s relatives “We were sorry to hear at Cape 

Town from W. Moffat Livingstone’s brother-in-law, that 

Mrs Livingstone Bruce, his niece, who gave us an 

introduction to him has had a stroke of paralysis which 

has affected her memory. She is the “Agnes” of 

Livingstone’s letters, an able women, with a great look of 

her father.” 

Dr. Robert Anderson, who was assistant Commissioner of 

Police at the time of the Jack the Ripper Murders, was 

presumably engaged with Guthrie on behalf of the 

Glasgow Missionary Society’s Lovedale Training College 

at Alice. 

931. LONG LANCE (Chief Buffalo Child) Long 

Lance, FIRST EDITION, frontis portrait and 7 

other plates of photographs, some slight wear, New 

York, 1928 [11086] £65 

An extraordinary and often reprinted work about the 

Canadian Indians of the North West, it is rare to find the 

First Edition. 

932. LOCKHART (R.H.Bruce) Return to Malaya, ep 

maps, London, 1945 [CF7829] £20 

933. LOEWE (Michael) Records of Han Administration, 

48 plates, 2 vols roy.8vo, Cambridge, 1967 

[CF5272] £75 

934. LOTI (Pierre) Madame Prune, translated from the 

French by S.R.C. Plimsoll, FIRST ENGLISH 

EDITION, 8 coloured plates by Mortimer Menpes, 

some occasional faint spotting, original decorative 

cloth, [1919] [CF4546] £25 

935. [LOUIS XIV] Reglemens et Ordonnances Du Roy 

Pour Les Gens De Guerre, faint marginal stain to 

title and lower margins in vol 1, small marginal 

wormholes in a central gathering in vol 2, 3 vols, 

sm.8vo, speckled calf, rebacked, early library labels, 

inscription on titles “Ex Biblioth. D. presidis de 

Montesquieu cat. inscr.” Paris, 1680, 1681 & 1678 

[11074] £350 

The reign of the “Sun King” from 1643-1715, was one of 

the longest, most glittering and autocratic. It was also 

one of the most tempestuous periods in European History. 

However he did found the “Hôtel des Invalides” in May 

1676. 

936. LUFF (John) The Hidden Years, [Hong Kong 

1941-1945] text maps, portrait, Hong Kong, 1967 

[CF4553] £50 

An account of the Battle of Hong Kong, its occupation, 

and of the Hong Kong Volunteers. 

937. LYSTER (Thomas) With Gordon in China, Letters 

from Thomas Lyster, Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 

edited by E.A. Lyster, portrait frontis, slightly 

spotted, cr.8vo, some slight wear, 1891 

[11013]£125 

938. LYTTON (Edward George Bulwer) Athens Its 

Rise and Fall with Views of the Literature, 

Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People 

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Esq., M.P., A.M. FIRST 

EDITION, with errata slip and hf. titles in vol 1 

only, some occasional spotting at the beginning and 

end of volumes, 2 vols, original cloth, slight wear at 

head and tail of spines, 1837 [11176] £250 

939. MACDONALD (Robert M.) The Great White 

Chief A Story of Adventure in Unknown New 

Guinea, folding map, plates, some little spotting at 

the begining cr.8vo, pictorial cloth, bright, 1908 

[10905] £75 

Although published as a boys adventure book, the author 

whose first book this is, states in the preface “This is a 

story, but the characters are real, and the incidents not 

imaginary”. 

940. MACGOWAN (J.) The Imperial History Of China, 

Being a History of the Empire as compiled by the 

Chinese Historians, thk. 8vo, dw,1973 [CF6990]£25


941. MACKENZIE (Donald A.) Myths of China and 

Japan, coloured frontis, and numerous other plates, 

some spotting affecting a few pages, nd. c.1920 

[CF3444] £50 

942. MACKENZIE (Rev. John) Day-Dawn in Dark 

Places: a Story of Wanderings and Work in 

Bechwanaland, frontis, and numerous text illusts, 

cr.8vo, original decorative cloth, slight wear, 

[1883] [10635] £45 

943. MADAGASCAR Et son premier vicaire 

apostolique. Notice sur Mgr. Dalmond évˆque élu de 

Pella. Précédée d’une introduction et suivie de 

lettres édifiantes et intéressantes sur la grande île 

africaine, large folding map, 2 library stamps on 

title, some foxing, cr.8vo, contemporary leather, 

blind stamped boards, gilt spine, Versailles, 1862 

[CF4182] £135 

944. MAGNUS (Olaus) Historia de Gentibus 

Septentrionalibus Romae 1555 Description of the 

Northern Peoples Rome 1555 translated by Peter 

Fisher and +Humphrey Higgens edited by Peter 

Foote with Annotation derived from the 

Commentary by +John Granlund abridged and 

augmented, 2 maps and 380 woodcut illusts., 3 vols, 

dw’s, Hakluyt Society Second Series 182, 187 & 

188, 1966-1998 [11430] £125 

945. MAKIN (William J.) South of Suez, plates, 

c.1930 [CF7869] £40 

One ofthe first men to cross the Kalahari, in this work the 

author discusses various topics from Diamonds and 

Voodoo, to the African Underworld and the visit of the 

Prince of Wales to South Africa. 

946. MALASPINA. The Malaspina Expedition 1789- 

1794 The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro 

Malaspina Volume 1 Cadiz to Panama edited by 

Andrew David Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos 

Novi, Glyndwr Williams, 9 maps, 15 colour plates, 

24 illusts. roy 8vo, Hakluyt Society Third Series, vol 

8, 2001 [11450] £50 

947. MANN (Anthony) Where God Laughed, The Sudan 

Today, sketch maps, 1954 [10782] £20 

The Daily Telegraph Correspondent in Egypt and the 

Sudan. 

948. MARAINI (Fosco) Secret Tibet, with an 

introductory letter by Bernard Berenson, map, 60 

plates, 1952 [CF10267] £35 

949. MARMO (Vladi) Geology and Mineral Resources 

of the Kangari Hills Schist Belt, 3 large folding 

coloured map in end pocket, numerous text illusts. 

and maps, small corner cut from fep, 4to. 

Geological Survey of Sierra Leone, 1962 

[10858]£28 

950. MARSDEN (Christopher) Palmyra of the North, 

The First Days of St. Petersburg, with a preface by 

Sacheverell Sitwell, plates, 1942 [CF3667] £15 

951. MASSY (Col. P.H.H.) Eastern Mediterranean 

Lands Twenty Years of Life, Sport, and Travel, 5 

maps, plates, 1928 [CF7868] £36 

The author describes Turkey before and after the rise of 

Ataturk, he was also Military Consul in Celicia and 

travelled extensively. 

952. MATHEWS (Cornelius) Poems on Man, In His 

Various Aspects Under the American Republic, 

12mo, papered boards and spine, worn, New York, 

1843 [CF7683] £75 

953. MAUGHAM (R.C.F.) Africa as I have known it, 

Nyasaland - East Africa - Liberia - Sénégal, 2 

folding maps, 1929 [CF7764] £55 

954. MAUGHAM (R.C.F.) Portuguese East Africa The 

History, Scenery, & Great Game of Manica and 

Sofla, frontis and 31 plates, name on title, some 

slight wear, 1906 [10853] £125 

955. MAUNDEVILLE. The Voiage and Travayle of Sir 

John Maundeville Knight Wich Treateth of the Way 

Toward Hierusalem and of Marvayles of Inde with 

Other Ilands and Countreys, Edited, Annotated, and 

Illustrated in Facsimile, text illusts, 1887 

[CF6826]£65 

Turkey, Persia, Tartary, Middle East etc. 

956. MAURICE (Albert) H.M.Stanley: Unpublished 

Letters, by Albert Maurice, with a preface by Denzil 

M.Stanley, maps, illusts, plates, [1962] [6994]£30 

957. MAURITIUS. Copies of all Orders in Council or 

Colonial Ordinances for the Better Regulation and 

Enforcement of the Relative Duties of Masters and 

Employers, and Articled Servants, Tradesmen, and 

Labourers, inthe Colonies of British Guiana and 

Mauritius, and Correspondence relating thereto, (iv) 

+ 138 pp. folio, calf spine, 1838 [CF3580] £175 

Mauritius pp.47-138. 

958. MAURITIUS. ACollection of the 33 Ordinances 

Enacted by the Governor of Mauritius with the 

Advice and Consent of the Council of Government 

211 pp. [with] A Collection of Proclamations and 

Government Notices Published at Mauritius during 

the Year 1876, iv + 49 pp. [with] Index of 

Government Notices of 1876, xxxiii + Government 

Notices + 343 pp. ex lib Law Society, modern hf. 

calf, Port Louis, 1876 [CF10260] £350 

959. MAURITIUS. A Collection of the over 100 

Original Ordinances, issued by the Government of 

Mauritius during the years 1858 - 1866, thk.folio, 

modern calf spine, [Port Louis] 1857-1867 

[10589]£750


960. MAURITIUS. AFine Oil Painting on Copper of 

“Paul et Virginie”, she with her head on his 

shoulder, with a dog seated at their feet, with banana 

and other palms, a small spring gushing out of some 

rocks, 10 x 8 ins. in remarkably fine condition with 

original frame, glazed, c.1820 [11100] £2,450 

Bernadin de Saint-Pierre’s famous work “Paul et 

Virginie”, first published in Paris in 1787, and first 

published in English in 1823, was so popular that it gave 

rise to a lot of popular art depicting the hero and heroine. 

In England Staffordshire figures depicting him giving her 

a birds nest, and paintings, in France series of 

engravings, and small tea plates, depict this romantic & 

tragic Mauritian couple. 

The simple, but sad tale tells of two mothers resorting to 

the Isle de France ( Mauritius) to bring up their 

illegitimate children. The children are brought up 

together in a wonderful paradise, and later fall deeply in 

love. A rich aunt in Paris summons Virginie to see her, 

and Paul pines for her return, and after two years he 

hears of the imminent arrival of her ship the “St. Gerain”. 

On its arrival near the north east coast of the island is 

wrecked. A naked black sailor begs Virginie to strip off 

her clothes and allow herself to be saved. However her 

modesty and newly acquired Parisian mores, make her 

determined to perish with honour. Paul is distraught on 

finding her body on the beach and later dies of grief. 

Such was the effect on the European public that they 

travelled to this Paradise Island to view the graves of the 

legendary couple. It was not until the 19th century that 

the administration of the island realised the importance of 

erecting graves as a focus for the tourists. St.Pierre is 

often credited with being the first to excite tourists to visit 

the island. 

961. MAURITIUS. Glass Carafe Finely Engraved with 

the Arms of Sir David Barclay coupled with those of 

his wife Lise Josephine de Rune, using the arms of 

Rune of Baizieux, Picardy, flanked with two Lions 

Rampant, and the motto “Crux Christie Nostra 

Corona”, triple lipped, 7 ins high, c.1860 

[11367]£750 

Sir David William Barclay, 10th Baronet, (1804-1888), 

married the Mauritian Lise Joseph de Rune in 1829. He 

was A.D.C. to Sir Charles Colville, Governor of 

Mauritius, and later became a member of the Legislative 

Council from 1846-1864. His father, and sons were 

collectors of revenue in Mauritius. 

962. MAURITIUS. Copy of the Report of the 

Commissioners appointed by His Majesty’s Warrant 

on the 21st June 1830, to inquire into the Receipt 

and Expenditure of the Revenue in the Conies and 

Foreign Possessions; (So far as related to the 

Mauritius, folding map, coloured in outline, 57 pp. 

original printed blue wrapper, 26 February, 1831 

[11414] £155 

It includes the dependencies particularly Seychelles. 

963. MCBRIDE (Barrie St. Clair) Amazon Journey 

Seven Thousand Miles through Peru and Brazil, 

map, plates, Presentation Copy signed on the title, 

1965 [11449] £25 

964. MCKENZIE (Frederick A.) From Tokyo to Tiflis 

Uncensored Letters from the War, folding maps, 

plates, original pictorial cloth, 1905 [CF3702]£125 

The author was the “Special Correspondent” of the Daily 

Mail during the Russo-Japanese War. 

965. MEULEN (D. van der) Aden to the Hadhramaut, A 

Journey in Southern Arabia, with a Foreword by Sir 

Bernard Reilly, map, plates, spine a little soiled, 

1947 [CF4313] £40 

966. MIDDLETON (Dorothy) Baker of the Nile, 2 

folding maps, spine faded, Signed by the Author on 

Title, 1949 [10780] £35 

967. MIDDLETON (Dorothy) Victorian Lady 

Travellers, map, plates, dw, 1965 [10972] £35 

Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North, Fanny Bullock 

Workman, May French Sheldon, Annie Taylor, Kate 

Marsden, & the great Mary Kingsley. 

968. MIDDLETON, Moor & Smith. Voyages to 

Hudson Bay in Search of the North West Passage, 

1741-1747 Volume I The Voyage of Christopher 

Middleton 1741-1742, Volume II The Voyage of 

William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747, edited 

by William Barr and Glyndwr Williams, 13 maps, 

19 plates, 2 vols, dw’s, Hakluyt Society Second 

Series 177 & 181, 1994-1995 [11433] £60 

969. MIGOT (André) Tibetan Marches translated from 

the French by Peter Fleming, 2 maps, plates, dw, 

1955 [11447] £35 

970. MILLER (William) Travels And Politics In The 

Near East, large folding map of the Balkan 

Peninsula inend pocket, plates and numerous illusts, 

thkroy. 8vo, spine faded, 1898 [CF7360] £65 

971. MILTON (Viscount) & W.B.Cheadle. The Northwest 

Passage by Land. Being the Narrative of an 

Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

undertaken with the view of Exploring a Route 

across the continent to British Colombia through 

British Territory, by one of the Northern Passes in 

the Rocky Mountains, third edition, 2 folding maps, 

one in an endpocket, plates, original pictorial cloth 

gilt, recased, 1865 [CF4954] £75 

972. MOLTEND. SOLOMAN (V.ed.) Selection From 

The Correspondence Of Percy Alport Molteno 1892- 

1914, plates, Van Riebeck Society, Second Series 

No.12, Cape Town, 1981 [CF6998] £20 

973. MOFFAT (John S.) The Lives of Robert & Mary 

Moffat by their son... sixth edition with Preface and 

Supplementary Chapter, 2 folding maps, 2 

Woodburytype portraits, plates, aeg, decorative gilt 

cloth preserved in slipcase, 1887 [11047] £75 

The father & mother-in-law of David Livingstone, with a 

mission in Bechuanaland.


974. MOFFAT. Wallis (J.P.R. ed.) The Matabele 

Journals of Robert Moffat 1829-1860, 2 folding 

maps, 2portraits, 1 coloured, 4 other plates, 2 vols 

roy.8vo, spines faded, Oppenheimer Series, 1945 

[CF10342] £85 

975. MOHAMMED. Sale (George) The Koran; 

commanly called the Alcoran of Mohammed: 

translated from the original Arabic. With 

Explanatory Notes taken from the most approved 

Commentators. To which is prefixed, a Preliminary 

Discourse 2 vols, contemporary hf. speckled calf, 

gilt spine, slight wear 1812 [11404] £125 

976. MOIR (Fred L.M.) After Livingstone an African 

Romance, folding maps, plates, foredges spotted, 

[1923] [CF7705] £45 

The author was the founder of the African Lakes 

Corporation. 

977. MONTANDRE (M. de) & M. de Roussel. Etat 

Militaire de France, pour l’année 1769, onzieme 

édition Augmentée de différens détails sur la 

Gendarmerie & les Maréchaussées sm.8vo, boards, 

cloth spine, a little worn, Paris, 1769 [10766] £85 

Included are notices on the governments of San Domingo, 

Bourbon (La Réunion), Martinique, St. Lucia, 

Guadeloupe & Gorée. 

978. MOORE (Ellen Whitley Moore) Neo-Babylonian 

Business and Administrative Documents With 

Transliteration, Translation and notes, 4to, Ex Lib., 

Univ. Michigan, 1935 [CF3997] £15 

979. [MORAVIAN CHURCH.] Weekly Accounts from 

the Unity’s Elders’ Conference, - Monthly 

Accounts... [&] Intelligence Relating to the 

Bretheren’s Church, 57 issues, 400 pp approx. some 

occasional dust soiling, 1858-1863 [10845] £150 

The first 13 issues are weekly, the next 11 are monthly, the 

remaining “Intelligence...” are also monthly. They all 

relate to events and expenses of the Moravian Missions 

across the world. 

980. MORAVIAN MISSIONS. London Association in 

Aid ofthe Moravian Missions - Particulars of Recent 

Intelligence respecting the above Missions, 13 

issues,each with a hf. page wood cut illustration of a 

Mission, 208 pp, nos. 84 - 104, lacking 10 issues, 

each stitched as issued, July 1865 - July 1875 

[10844] £150 

The Moravian Church, which has its origins in the 15th 

century Hussite movement in Bohemia and Moravia, came 

to London in 1734 en route to North American Mission 

work. They were associated with John and Charles 

Wesley, but on the foundation of Methodism which 

became a mass movement, they dwindled to 40 

congregations, about 5000 members. Publications about 

their Mission works are rare. These reports are from 

Missions in Antigua, Australia, Jamaica, Labrador, 

Surinam, Kaffraria, Greenland, St. Kitts, Barbados, & 

Lahoul near Tibet. 

981. MORELL (John Reynell) Algeria: The 

Topography and History, Political, Social and 

Natural, of French Africa, large folding map, frontis 

& 10 woodcut plates, text illusts, 1 page badly 

opened, 1854 [CF7664] £150 

982. MORISON (Samuel Eliot) The European 

Discovery of America, The Northern Voyages A.D. 

500-1600, The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1616, 

numerous maps, coloured frontis’s, many 

illustrations, 2 vols thk.8vo, some slight wear, New 

York OUP, 1971-1974 [11417] £70 

983. MORRIS (John) The Phoenix Cup, some notes on 

Japan in 1946, plates, 1946 [CF4011] £20 

The author, with the BBC, records Japan in defeat, after 

an initial apathy set about the work of restoration and 

renewell with a vigour, which he suggests surpasses the of 

Germany. 

984. MOYNE (Lord [Walter Edward Guiness]) 

Atlantic Circle with eighty reproductions of 

Photographs by Lady Broughton, ep maps, some 

spotting to the foredge, 1938 [CF7748] £20 

In his yacht Rosaura, Moyne visited the Eskimo of 

Greenland and the sites of extinct Norse Settlements in the 

south. He then travelled South America to collect 

archaeological and zoological specimens. 

CUP OF HAPPINESS 

985. MOZAMBIQUE. AWooden Goblet decorated in 

geometric designs in the style of the Giryama, 

bearing the name “FELISA NABEIRA” around the 

upper part of cup, 7 ins. high, 4 ins. diameter, made 

from a single piece of wood, rim worn, crack down 

one side, uneven patina, c.1700 [11114] £1,850 

Amost unusual example of native art being used for an 

article of european use. This well worn goblet must have 

been made at the instigation of a Portuguese Trader or 

Merchant for his wife or paramoor, the name around the 

edge of the cup being a rebus, for “Happiness within the 

rim”. The history of the Portuguese in East Africa dates 

back to the visit of Vasco da Gama in 1502. There was a 

period of stagnation when Spain and Portugal had a joint 

sovereign in the 17th century, but there was towards the 

end ofthat century an increase in trade and missionary 

activity from Portugal. 

986. MURPHY (Dervla) Tibetan Foothold, FIRST 

EDITION, map, plates, dw, 1966 [CF10272] £50 

The author’s second book. 

987. MURRAY (Lt. Alexander) Doings in China. Being 

the Personal Narrative of anOfficer Engaged in the 

Late Chinese Expedition, from the Recapture of 

Chusan in 1841, to the Peace of Nankin in 1842, 

lithograph frontis. spotted, modern binders cloth, 

1843 [CF6902] £175 

988. MYHILL (Henry) The Canary Islands, 7maps,, 

numerous plates, 1968 [11266] £15 

Written before the resort had become the fully fledged 

tourist center it is today.


989. NAIPAUL (V.S. intro.) East Indians in the 

Caribbean: Colonialism and the Struggle for 

Identity, Papers presented to a Symposium on East 

Indians in the Caribbean, The University of the West 

Indies June 1975, map, sm4to, 1982 [CF8112]£25 

990. NAQUIN (Susan) Shantung Rebellion, The Wang 

Lun Uprising of 1774, text maps, frontis, Yale UP, 

1981 [CF4277] £30 

991. NARUMIT (Sirichai) Old Bridges of Bangkok, 

map, numerous plates, text in Thai and English, 4to, 

The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1977 [CF6803] £20 

992. NEILL (J.S.) Ten Years in Tonga, Introduction by 

Queen Salote, numerous plates, 1955 [CF7918]£30 

The author was H.B.M’s Agent and Consul in Tonga. He 

accompanied Queen Salote on the trip to the Coronation 

of Queen Elizabeth II. There is also an account of six 

weeks spent on Pitcairn Island. 

993. NEVIUS (Helen S. Coan) The Life of John 

Livingston Nevius For Forty Years a Missionary in 

China, by His Wife... folding map, portrait, plates, 

buckram a little spotted, NewYork, 1895 [7675]£75 

The principle scene of Nevius’s work was Shantung in 

eastern China. 

994. NEW ZEALAND. Latest Information from the 

Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of 

Taranake, New Zealand. Comprising Letters from 

Settlers there; with an account of its General 

Products, Agricultural and Commercial Capabilities, 

&c. frontis. 58 pp. original printed wrapper, some 

slight wear, 1842 [CF4090] £65 

995. NEW ZEALAND. The New Zealand Justices 

Handbook, fourth edition, cr.8vo, Wellington, 1942 

[CF6605] £10 

996. NEW ZEALAND. Needham (J.) Nelson, New- 

Zealand, a tinted lithograph, 11 x 15¾ ins. Day & 

Sons, c.1855 [CF8105] £325 

Nelson was settled by the New Zealand Company in 1842, 

and this shows the early days of the city with a scattering 

of houses. To the right there is the new cathedral on a 

mound, with the harbour to the left. 

997. NICHOLAS (Elizabeth) Madeira and the Canaries, 

2folding maps, plates, dw. 1953 [11061] £20 

998. NOLTE (Vincent) Fifty Years in Both 

Hemispheres; or Reminiscences of a Merchant’s 

Life, small hole affecting margins of 5 pages, 1854 

[CF4831] £95 

The “Hemispheres” referred to are America and Europe. 

He spent alot of time in the Southern States of America 

dealing in Arms and Cotton. In England he was 

connected with Baring Brothers, and had dealings in 

Paris, Mexico, Germany, Trieste and many other centres. 

999. NINEVEH and the Tigris, maps, inscription, 

sm.8vo, RTS, c.1835 [CF4828] £25 

1000.O’BRIEN (Frederick) Atolls of the Sun, map and 

numerous plates, original pictorial cloth, 1922 

[CF4843] £30 

The Tuamotu Archipelago in the Pacific. 

1001.O’CONNOR (Stanley J. intro.) The Archaeology 

of Peninsular Siam, Collected articles from The 

Journal of the Siam Society 1905-1983, folding map, 

plates, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1986 [6804]£20 

1002.O’CONNOR (V.C. Scott) AVision of Morocco 

The Far West of Islam, map and numerous plates, 

signed on the title by the Author. 1923 [10479]£35 

1003.[O’REILLY (A.)] Reminiscences Of An Emigrant 

Milesian. The Irish Abroad and at Home; In the 

Camp; At the Court. With Souvenirs of “The 

Brigade”, 3 vols, spines sunned, 1853 [4389]£125 

1004.OATES. Eton College Chronicle recording the 

Unveiling of the Oates Memorial, 4 pp. half taken 

with a photograph of theMemorialPlaque and the 

speeches of the Provost, and His Serene Highness 

Prince Alexander of Teck who unveiled it, folio, 

signs of folding, small splits at folds, Eton, May 

28th, 1914 [11388] £100 

The Memorial, unveiled on May 23rd. 1914 in the Library 

Cloister of the Memorial Buildings, was designed and 

executed by Lady Scott, consists of a head and shoulder 

portrait medallion with an inscription underneath. Prince 

Alexander of Teck was an Old Etonian and brother of 

Queen Mary. 

1005.OJO (G.F. Afolabi) Yoruba Palaces, A Study of 

Afins of Yorubaland, diags, plates, paper wrappers, 

1966 [CF8043] £20 

1006.[OLDMIXON (John)] The British Empire in 

America, Containing the History of the Discovery, 

Settlement, Progress and State of the British 

Colonies on the Continent and Islands of America... 

being an Account of the Country, Soil, Climate, 

Product and Trade of Newfoundland, New-England, 

New-Scotland, New-York, New-Jersey, Pensylvania, 

Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, Hudson’s- 

Bay, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincents, Dominico, 

Antego, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christophers, 

Barbuda, Anguilia, Jamaica, Bahama, and 

Bermudas, Second Edition, Corrected and Amended, 

8 folding maps, small marginal tears repaired, 2 

vols, speckled calf, rebacked, the Earl of Bute’s 

Copy, with his bookplate on the verso of the titles, 

1741 [11405] £1,250 

John Stuart, third Earl of Bute (1713-1792) was in effect, 

Prime Minister when George the Third came to the 

throne, later becoming First Lord of the Treasury. He 

was also patron of Dr. Johnson. 

1007.OMMANEY (F.D.) South Latitude, ep maps, 

plates, 1938 [11062] £20 

Antarctica in the R.R.S. Discovery.


1008.OMMANNEY (F.D.) The Shoals of Capricorn, ep 

maps, plates, 1952 [CF4387] £20 

Mauritius, Reunion, the Seychelles, Aldabra etc. 

1009.OWEN (Charles) The Maltese Islands, maps, 

plates, NewYork, 1969 [CF4401] £20 

1010.PACIFIC Islands Pilot Vol.1 The western Groups 

Comprising The Territory of Papua including the 

Louisiade Archipelago, the North-East and Noth 

Coasts of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the 

Bismark Archipelago, and the Caroline and 

Marianas Islands, nineth edition, folding charts, 

coast profiles, 1971 [CF7691] £35 

1011.PACIFIC Pilot Vol. II The Central Groups 

Comprising New Caledonia and Iles Loyalty; The 

New Hebrides Group and Santa Cruz Islands; The 

Fiji Islands and the Tonga; Samoa, Ellice, Gilbert, 

Marshall, Phoenix, and Tokelau Islands, nineth 

edition, folding maps, coastal profiles, 1969 

[7692] £30 

1012.PACIFIC Islands Pilot Comprising Eastern Groups, 

Including Iles Australes, the Cook Islands, and Iles 

de la Societe; Archipel des Tuamotu; Isles 

Marquises; the Line Islands and scattered islands 

near the equator; and the Hawaiian Islands, nineth 

edition, folding map, coastal profiles, 1969 

[CF7693] £35 

LIGHT BRIGADE IN EUPATORIA. 

1013.PAGET (Brig. Gen. Lord George) Autograph 

Despatch to “His Excellency the Commander in 

Chief &c. &c. &c. before Sebastopol”, concerning 

the engagements ofthe troops in Eupatoria, 3 pp. 

folio, October 30th, together with an ALS to “The 

Asst. Adj. General, Cavalry Division” informing him 

of the disembarkation at Eupatoria, 1 pp. folio, 21st 

October,together with two “Morning State” forms 

filled in and signed, 2 pp. oblong folio, edges torn 

with a little loss, 20th and 21st October, all with 

signs of mounting, 1855 [10560] £575 

Paget reports of the engagements with the enemy, but due 

to a lack of water they had to abort the mission. This 

particular despatch was published with a little editing in 

Paget’s “The Light Brigade in the Crimea” 1881. 

Paget commanded the third line in the famous Charge of 

the Light Brigade. 

1014.PAINE (Thomas) Miscellaneous Articles by 

Thomas Paine. Consisting of a Letter to the Marquis 

of Lansdowne. A Letter to the Authors of the 

Republican. A Letter to Abbe Syey. Thoughts on 

the Peace, and probable advantages thereof. First 

Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. Letter to Lord 

Onslow. Second Letter to Mr. Dundas. and A Letter 

to the People of France First Edition thus, 33 + 3 

pp of adverts. sm.8vo, disbound, 1792 [11049] £90 

1015.PALLIS (Marco) Peaks and Lamas, third edition 

revised, 3 maps, 1 coloured and 95 plates, 1942 

[10948] £36 

1016.PAMA (C.) Regency Cape Town Daily life in the 

early eighteen-thirties with the hitherto unpublished 

Johannesburg Album of sketches by Sir Charles 

D’Oyley, together with his other Cape Town 

drawings and thos of Frederick Knyvett, plan, 

numerous illusts. 4to dw. Cape Town, 1975 

[CF8186] £35 

WAR ARTISTS 

1017.PARIS. Eaux-Fortes Paris Siège & Commune 1870- 

1871 [comprising] Maxime Lalanne, Souvenirs 

artistiques du Siège de Paris... 12 etchings, P. 

Martial, Paris Pendant le Siege notes et eaux-forts, 

12 etchings, A.P Martial Paris sous La Commune, 

12 etchings, A.P. Martial, Paris Incendé, 12 

etchings, F. Pierdon, St. Cloud Brulé, 12 etchings, L. 

Debrosses, Paris et ses Avant Postes pendant le 

Siege, 12 etchings, Edmond Yon, Autour de Paris 

après la guerre, 12 etchings, general engraved title 

engraved contents list, 7 other engraved titles, 84 

etchings together, engraved surface varying in size, 8 

x5ins. on average, ex lib, stamp affecting ep’s and 

verso of first title only, large folio, original boards, 

cloth spine, some slight wear, Cadart et Luce, 

Paris, 1871 [CF10248] £1,450 

This testament to the deprivations and sufferings of the 

people of Paris and the city itself at this period is in itself 

amiracle. Conceived in the depth of the hostitlities, and 

produced with such verve, quality and style at a time when 

things were far from normal, underline the energy of this 

work. Among the artists, Maxime Lalanne and Edmond 

Yon appear the most famous and successful. 

1018.PARKER (E.H.) The Chinese Puzzle, 6 pp. 

Offprint Asiatic Review, 1917 [CF4999] £8 

1019.PARKER (E.H.) The Psychology of the Chinese, 9 

pp. some spotting, Offprint, 1925 [CF5002] £10 

1020.PARKER (E.H.) Chinese Buddhism, 19 pp. 

Offprint labelled Advance Proof, Asiatic Quarterly 

Review, 1902 [CF5003] £15 

1021.PARKER (E.H.) Some More of Hwai-Nan-Tsz’s 

Ideas, 12 pp. disbound, Offprint New China 

Review, c.1920 [CF5005] £10 

1022.PARKER (E.H.) Some Incidents in 

Confucius’Days, 8 pp. Offprint, New China Review, 

c.1920 [CF5007] £8 

1023.PINEO (H. Ly Tio Fane) Lured Away The Life 

History of Indian Cane Workers in Mauritius,, 

illusts. original paperback,original printed wrapper, 

Moka, Mauritius, 1984 [CF8196] £35


1024.PARKER (E.H.) The Philosopher Sün-Tsz, 33 pp. 

Offprint New China Review, 1922 [CF5006] £15 

1025.PARKER (E.H.) Philological Essay on the Chinese 

Language, original manuscript in ink, 162 pp. 

apparently unpublished, together with notes 50 pp. 

approx, onaspects of the language and brief essays 

on “The Eighteen Provinces”, “The Treaty Ports”, 

“Chinese Love Songs”, “Ancient China”, 4to, 

preserved in cloth portfolio, c.1915 [11387] £750 

Edward Harper Parker, 1849-1926, first contact with 

China was whilst he was working in the Tea and Cotton 

businesses at Liverpool. He later worked as a Student 

Interpreter in the Consular Service, from 1869-1871, later 

becoming a Consul. He retired from the service in 1895, 

a year later he was appointed Reader in Chinese at 

University College, Liverpool, and later Professor of 

Chinese at Victoria University Manchester. His 

knowledge of the Chinese and their language was 

extensive, he wrote extensively, producing books, and 

articles for the Asiatic and China Reviews. 

1026.PATON (Mrs [J.G.] Maggie Whitecross) Letters 

and Sketches from the New Hebrides, Second 

Edition, map, potrait frontis. slightly spotted, 

numerous illusts. pictorial cloth, gilt, 1894 

[CF5018] £40 

1027.PEMBROKE (George Robert Charles Herbert, 

Earl of) & George H. Kingsley. South Sea 

Bubbles. By the Earl and the Doctor, names on title, 

spine dust soiled and a little worn, 1872 

[10830]£165 

George Kingsley, brother of Charles “Waterbabies” 

Kingsley, and father of the redoubtable Mary Kingsley, 

was a compulsive traveller. As a doctor his advice or 

treatment to his rich clients was “a change of air and 

foreign travel” accompanied by their doctor. Kingsley 

had married his housekeeper one month before their first 

child, Mary, was born. His constant travelling kept him 

from home for years on end, sending home epistles which, 

far from quelling his wife and daughters anxieties about 

his safety, added to them. This work is of his travels and 

shipwreck with Lord Pembroke in the Pacific, Tahiti, 

Bora-Bora, Raritonga, & Samoa. 

1028.PENNINGTON (A. Stuart) The Argentine 

Republic Its Physical Features, History, Fauna, 

Flora, Geology, Literature & Commerce, large 

folding map, plates, some slight spotting at the 

begining, bright in original cloth, 1910 

[CF6620]£75 

1029.PENNINK (J.J.) Gedachten en Wenken over de 

Kolonisatie en ter Bevordering van de Cultuur in de 

Nederlandsche West-Indian, 24 pp. original printed 

wrappers, Arnhem, 1845 [CF3879] £45 

Guiana, Surinam. 

1030.PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco) Esmeraldo De Situ 

Orbis, Translated and Edited by George H.T. 

Kimble, 6 folding maps, 3 other plates, some 

occasional spotting, spine a little soiled, Hakluyt 

Society Second Series, LXXIX, 1937 [10977] £125 

1031.PETERS (Wilhelm C.H.) Naturwissenschaftliche 

Reise Nach Mossambique auf befehl Seiner Majestät 

des Königs Freidrich Wilhelm IV in den jahren 1842 

bis 1848 ausgeführt, volume VI Botanik, 61 plates, 

marginal stain affecting 3, title + xxii + 1 - 304 pp. 

title + 305- 584 pp. 2 vols 4to. boards buckram 

spine, together with all the plates from the other 5 

volumes, lacking the text, (that of vol 2 which was 

never issued), comprising Vol I Saugetiere, 47 plates 

including 35 handcoloured, Vol II Vogel, 15 

handcoloured plates, Vol III Amphibien, 33 plates 

including 4 handcoloured, Vol IV Flusfische, 20 

plates including 1 handcoloured, Vol V Insekten, 35 

plates, including 4 handcoloured, in total 211 plates, 

folio, loose, contained in 5 hf. cloth portfolios, 

Berlin, 1852-82 [11075] £6,500 

Because of the length of time taken to issue this work, it is 

rarely found complete. 

1032.PETO (Sir S.Morton) The Resources and Prospects 

of America ascertained during a visit to the States in 

the Autumn of 1865, 2 tinted lithograph plates 

showing Chicago in 1831, and San Francisco in 

1848, hf. calf gilt spine, upper joint weak, 1866 

[CF4460] £75 

1033.PIERRE-ALEXANDRE (Bishop of Babylon) A 

Fine Long ALS in French, to Hyacinthe Guelem, 

Archbishop of Paris, congratulating him on his 

recent elevation, and giving news of the situation he 

found on arrival in Babylon, 4 pp. folio, some 

creases strengthened, a little soiled, Bagdad, 13th 

August, 1823 [10732] £250 

The Bishop on arrival to take up office in Babylon found 

his see usurped by “A Carmelite friar, as a vicar 

apostolic, caused me a lot of trouble as a result of his 

constant quibbling. The good man said he did not 

recognise any kind of authority over his community, that 

he was not called to obey his Superior as a matter of 

course, and that he could stay on in Bagdad if he wanted 

to...” The matter was resolved when the Pasha of Mosul 

invited the turbulent priest to practise medecine there. 

Concerning the war he writes “The unrest which has 

afflicted the Ottoman Empire, and which indeed continues 

to do so, has not reached us. The city of Bagdad is still 

enjoying peace and prosperity. There is a war against 

Persia, but this is going on in the frontier regions some 50 

leagues away from us. Until now the Turks have had the 

advantage.” On spiritual matters he reports that the 

Turks “steal some Christian souls who were so poor that 

they were forced to abjure their faith in order to eat, and 

this is a great source of sorrow to me. As I have hardly 

enough for my self, I am in no position to help them or 

save them from such an appalling fate.” It is interesting 

to note that the Ottomans tolerated a Christian 

Community in their midst 

1034.PINNEY (Roy) Vanishing Tribes, numerous plates, 

dw, 1968 [10890] £25 

The author details 33 fast disappearing tribes, from the 

Ainu of Japan, and the Navaho, to the Watusi and the 

Jivaros.


1035.POLO. Cordier (Henri) Ser Marco Polo Notes and 

Addenda toSir Henry Yule’s Edition, containing the 

results of recent research and discovery, frontis, 

original decorative cloth, 1920 [11393] £120 

This is the separately issued third volume of Yule’s third 

and best 2 volume edition issued in 1903. 

1036.POLO. Yule (Sir Henry) & Henri Cordier. The 

Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian Concerning 

the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Third 

Edition, Revised and Enlarged, numerous maps and 

illusts. 2 vols, thk.8vo, slight wear at head and tail of 

spines, [with] Henri Cordier, Ser Marco Polo Notes 

and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule’s Edition, 

containing Results of Recent Research and 

Discovery, frontis. dw, together 3 vols, New York & 

London, 1903 & 1920 [CF4099] £450 

Although Marco Polo did not go to Japan himself, he 

gives a description of “Chipangu” and of its invasion by 

Kublai Khan. 

1037.PONDER (Maj. S.E.G.) Seven Cantonments, 

plates, c.1920 [CF4100] £20 

Peshawar and the North West Frontier 

1038.PONTING (Herbert G.) The Great White South or 

With Scott in the Antarctic being an account of 

experiences with Captain Scott’s South Pole 

Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic, 

map and numerous plates, some occasional foxing, 

spine sunned, 1926 [11363] £30 

1039.PORTER (George Richardson) The Nature and 

Properties of the Sugar Cane; with Practical 

Directions for the Improvement of its Culture and 

the Manufacture of its products... with an additional 

chapter on the Manufacture of Sugar from Beet- 

Root, Second Edition, 6 plates, 3 folding, 3 text 

illusts. recased with new endpapers, spine laid down, 

1842 [10956] £250 

1040.PORTER (Maj. Whitworth) Life in the Trenches 

before Sebastopol, sm.8vo, spine sunned, 1856 

[CF4106] £95 

1041.POTGEITER (E.F.) The Disappearing Bushmen of 

Lake Chrissie, with notes on the Language by D. 

Ziervogel, vi + 64 pp. folding genealogical chart, 

plates, printed wrappers, Pretoria, 1955 [10627]£30 

1042.PRAGUE. A Concertina Album containing 20 

Woodbury photographs each 4 x 5½ ins. original 

decorative cloth gilt album, K. André, c.1880 

[CF4743] £185 

1043.PRAMOJ (M.R.S.) and M.R.K. Pramoj. AKing 

Speaks, plates, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1987 

[CF6801] £25 

Letters and legislation of Mongkut. 

1044.PRIEST (Harold) The Call of the Bush Wanderings 

of aNature Man on the Murray River, plates, 1932 

[CF8077] £25 

1045.PRIESTLEY (Joseph) A Fine White Medal 

Portrait Medallion Bust Profile right “Josephus 

Priestley” by Phipson, to commemorate his death, on 

the verso “Magnus Christianus Philosphus” around 

the edge, and “Apr. VIII Litora Linquens Columbian 

Advenit Junii IV MDCCXCIV. Natus 13 Mart 

1773, Mort 6 Feb 1804”, 2¼ ins very slight wear, 

1804 [11096] £350 

Priestley died at Northumberland, Pennsylvania on the 

6th of February 1804. One of the great thinkers of the 

18th Century, his work in the fields of philosophy and 

science are particularly noteworthy. He lived here on the 

Green in Calne for seven years during his time as the Earl 

of Shelburne’s Librarian. Here he “discovered” Oxygen, 

and developed his erroneous phlogiston theory. 

1046.PRIESTLEYANA. [Stone (J.H.) et al.] Copies of 

Original Letters Recently Written by Persons in 

Paris to Dr. Priestley in America. Taken on board a 

Neutral Vessel, 36 pp. unbound, 1798 [4749]£175 

Stone, the famous political refugee, advocates the 

overthrow of the British System of Government, a point 

Priestley was at pains to contradict. 

1047.PRUSSIA. The History of Prussia, particularly 

during the reign of the late King Frederick William; 

In which is contained a distinct Account, of the 

Means by which that PRINCE, rendered his 

Dominions so considerable, and himself so 

formidable in Germany, and to all Europe: 

Comprehending also, Many remarkable 

Negociations and Transactions of various kinds, 

relative to other Powers, As well as, Several curious 

Anecdotes, Interspersed throughout With Original 

Papers, Treaties, and Letters of State, of great 

Consequence, towards understanding perfectly, the 

present System, xiv + 525 pp. small hole on title not 

affecting text,contemporary speckled calf, upper 

joint cracked but holding, 1756 [11448] £150 

1048.PURCHAS. Pennington (L.E. ed.) The Purchas 

Handbook: Studies of the Life, Times and Writings 

of Samuel Purchas 1577-1626 with bibliographies of 

his books and of works about him, numerous maps 

and plates, 2 vols, dws. Hakluyt Society Second 

Series vols 185 & 186, 1997 [11434] £80 

JUVENILE CRUSOEADE. 

1049.QUARLL. The Life and Adventures of Philip 

Quarll, the English Hermit; who was Discovered by 

an English Merchant on an Uninhabited Island in the 

South-Sea, where he had lived upwards of fifty years 

without human assistance, frontis. text illusts. sm. 

square 8vo, spine slightly sunned, 1839 [8233]£65


1050.RÉVILLE (Albert) Lectures on the Origin and 

Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native 

Religions of Mexico and Peru, title a little spotted, 

1884 [11014] £50 

1051.ROWE (Newton A.) Voyage to The Amorous 

Islands, The Discovery of Tahiti, plates, 1955 

[11419] £25 

1052.RICHARDSON (Lawrence) Lawrence Richardson 

Selected Correspondance 1902-1903, Edited by 

Arthur M.Davey, folding map, plates, Van Riebeck 

Society, Second Series No.8, Cape Town, 1977 

[CF7019] £35 

Richardson, a quaker, was part of two fact finding 

expeditions to the Boers during the Anglo Boer War. 

1053.RINK (Dr.Henry) Tales and Traditions of the 

Eskimo with a Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, 

Language, and other peculiarities, translated from 

the Danish by the Author, edited by Dr.Robert 

Brown, frontis. and 1 other folding plate, 4 other 

plates and numerous text illusts. drawn and engraved 

by the Eskimo, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine 

sunned, head and tail a little worn, 1875 [4516]£140 

This is the second collection of tales made by Rink. The 

are both rare and have the distinction of having been 

illustrated by the Eskimo. 

1054.ROBINSON LEES (Rev. G.) The Witness of the 

Wilderness The Bedawin of the Desert Their Origin, 

History, Home Life, Strife, Religion, and 

Superstitions, in Their relation to the Bible, plates, 

spine a little dulled, 1909 [CF7876] £30 

The author researched this book over his six year 

residence in Palestine. “Recent events in the Turkish 

Empire, the grant of a new Parliamentary Constitution, 

and the construction of the desert railway from Damascus 

to Medina and Mecca, are factors of supreme interest and 

importance in the wilderness life, which may well bring 

the Bedawin and thier country, the cradle of Islam, more 

prominently before the notice of the Christian world.” 

1055.RODRIGUES. Cooper (Michael ed.) João 

Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan, 

numerous maps and illusts. sm.4to dw, Hakluyt 

Society Third Series no.7, 2001 [11382] £50 

1056.ROONEY (Dawn F.) Thai Pottery and Ceramics, 

Collected articles from The Journal of the Siam 

Society 1922-1980, maps and numerous plates, 

thk.8vo, Limited to 1000 copies, Siam Society, 

Bangkok, 1986 [CF6796] £50 

1057.ROSEBERY. Grant (A.R.C.) & Caroline Combe. 

Lord Rosebery’s North American Journal - 1873, 

plates, dw. 1967 [10606] £18 

This Journal by a future Prime Minister, aged 26, 

describes two months in New York, Salt Lake City, 

Chicago, Ottawa, Montreal, Boston & Washington. 

1058.ROSENTHAL (Eric) African Switzerland 

Basutoland of Today, map, plates, dw. 1948 

[CF8102] £20 

1059.ROSENTHAL (Eric) Victorian South Africa, A 

collection ofone hundred and forty-nine engravings, 

illusts. 4to, dw. Cape Town, 1975 [CF8132] £20 

1060.ROSS (M.J.) Ross in the Antarctic, The Voyages of 

James Clark Ross in Her Majesty’s Ships Erebus and 

Terror 1839-1843, portrait frontis, 8 maps, including 

2folding at end, numerous plates, dw. Whitby, 1982 

[10902] £50 

The author is Ross’s great-grandson. 

1061.RUSSELL (William Howard) ADiary in the East 

During the Tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 

coloured frontis, edges spotted, 5 other coloured 

plates, thk.8vo, 1869 [CF4979] £75 

1062.RUTNIN (Mattani ed.) The Siamese Theatre A 

Collection of Reprints from the Journals of the Siam 

Society, numerous plates, small snag in front free 

endpaper, 4to, original printed wrappers, Siam 

Society, Bangkok, 1975 [CF6797] £20 

TREATISE ON COCHINEAL 

1063.[RUUSSCHER (Melchior de)] Nauerlyke Historie 

van de Couchenille, beweezen met Authentique 

Documenten. Histoire Naturelle de la Cochenille, 

Justifié par des Documens Authentiques, plate, xii + 

175 +errata, title printed in red cochineal ink, text in 

french and dutch, some occasional foxing, 

contemporary calf boards, rebacked, corners 

repaired, Hermanus Uytwerf, Amsterdam, 1729 

[11255] £1,250 

Sabin 74500. 

Cochineal is a natural red dye-stuff made from the female 

insect Dactylopius coccus, a cactus eating insect found in 

Mexico and Peru. It was introduced into Europe by the 

Spanish from Mexico, where it had been used long before 

their conquest by Cortés in 1521. Before this time, reds, 

used in dye and paint had been provided for by the 

Kermes beetle, used by the Egyptians, a colour far inferior 

to Cochineal. The trade in Cochineal proved a 

tremendous asset to the Spanish, and revolutionised 

Artists pallettes across Europe. 

1064.SAFFRONI-MIDDLETON (A.) Tropic Shadows 

Memories of the South Seas, together with 

Reminiscences of the Author’s Sea Meetings with 

Joseph Conrad, plates, some occasional spotting, 

1927 [CF8232] £45 

Borneo, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa. 

1065.SAGARIK (Rapee) Culture and Environment in 

Thailand A Symposium of the Siam Society, text 

illusts. xxxiv + 558 pp. thk.8vo, Siam Society, 

Bangkok, 1989 [CF6795] £25 

1066.SAINSBURY (Ethel Bruce) A Calendar of the 

Court Minutes etc. of the East India Company 1668- 

1670, with an introduction and notes by Sir William 

Foster, Oxford, 1929 [CF6808] £50




1679, with an introduction and notes by 

W.T.Ottewill, Fine in dw. Oxford, 1938 

[CF6809]£55 



1676, with an introduction and notes by 

W.T.Ottewill, Fine in dw. Oxford, 1935 

[CF6811]£60 

1069.SAINT PIERRE (J.H.B. de) AVoyagetotheIsle 

of France, The Isle of Bourbon, and the Cape of 

Good Hope; with observations and reflections upon 

Nature and Mankind... to which is added some 

account of the author, some occasional spotting, 

blind stamp on title, number on spine, upper hinge a 

little tender, some wear at edges, 1800 

[11056]£150 

This is not the same translation as the first English 

translation of 1775. 

Saint Pierre arrived in Mauritius in 1768 with a group of 

Military Engineers en route for Madagascar. Having 

fallen out with his commander, he preferred to stay there. 

He met the ageing Pierre Poivre, Intendant of the Island, 

and his lovely young wife with whom he fell in love. It is 

said that he played Paul to her Virginie. However there 

was the inevitable quarrel and Saint Pierre left the island 

in 1770. The first edition of this work appeared in 1773 

and became a great success bringing the author a hefty 

pension. His tragic, romantic novel about the island 

“Paul et Virginie” was published in 1789. It has been 

said that Saint Pierre with this novel was single handedly 

responsible for the start of the Mauritian Tourist Trade. 

Saint Pierre married in 1793 Félicité Didot, daughter of 

the famous printer and had a son and daughter, Paul and 

Virginie. 

1070.SALMOND (J.B. ed.) The Muster Roll of Angus. 

South African War 1899-1900, numerous illusts, 

sm.4to, original soft buckram covers, faint damp 

marks on endpapers not affecting text, Arbroath, 

1900 [CF4901] £80 

1071.SAMOA. Holmes (Lowell D.) Samoan Islands 

Bibliography, 4to, Wichita, Kansas, 1984 

[11415]£50 

AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSH FICTION 

1072.SARGENT (G.E.) Frank Layton An Australian 

Story, with an introduction by Samuel Mossman, 

frontis. and 5 plates, cr. 8vo, hf. leather, original 

boards, rebacked, [1866] [CF10287] £95 

This story first appeared in serial form in “The Leisure 

Hour”. The Australian Gold Rush of 1851 inspired many 

areas of the Arts from Baxter Prints, Popular Ballads to 

street literature. The idea of getting rich quickly and its 

attendant problems, excercised the mind of Victorian 

Britain. 

1073.SCHALLER (George B.) Stones of Silence 

Journeys in the Himalayas, maps, coloured plates, 

text illusts. dw. 1980 [10724] £25 

1074.SCHAPERA (I.) David Livingstone South African 

Papers 1849-1853, folding map, illusts, Van 

Riebeck Society, Second Series No.5, Cape Town, 

1974 [CF7024] £25 

1075.SCHERER (James A.B.) Young Japan, The Story 

of the Japanese People, and especially their 

Educational Development, coloured frontis, and 

numerous plates, spine soiled, Presentation 

Inscription from the Author on the fep, 1905 

[CF4432] £35 

The author was a teacher in a government school in 

Japan. 

1076.SCHOOLING (Sir William) The Hudson’s Bay 

Company 1670-1920, folding map, coloured plates, 

4to, reversed calf, joints cracking, slight wear, 

Privately Printed, 1920 [CF4437] £50 

1077.SCHUVER. James (Wendy) Gerd Baumann & 

Douglas H. Johnson eds. Juan Maria Schuver’s 

Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883 4 maps, 2 

in colour, plates, dw. Hakluyt Society Second Series 

vol 184, 1996 [10909] £35 

1078.SCOTT (Capt. R.F.) Tragedy and Triumph The 

Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar 

Expedition, ep maps, plates, Facsimile, [1913] 

1993 [10878] £20 

1079.SEABROOK (W.B.) Adventures in Arabia, Among 

the Bedouins Druses, Whirling Dervishes and 

Yezidee Devil-worshippers, folding map, plates, 

1928 [CF5115] £25 

1080.SEAVER (George) The Faith of Edward Wilson of 

the Antarctic, portrait frontis. ii + 48 pp. dw. 1948 

[11125] £25 

This is the third time Seaver returned to the subject of 

Edward Wilson, and is certainly the least seen of the 

three. He calls it a supplement to his original biography, 

and clearly the character and faith of the man quite 

affected him. 

1081.SEMENOV. Thomas (Colin ed.) Petr Petrovich 

Semenov Travels in the Tian’-Shan’ 1856-1857, 

maps, coloured plates, dw, Hakluyt Society Second 

Series vol 189 1998 [11436] £45 

1082.SERGISON. Merriman (R.D. ed) The Sergison 

Papers, selected and edited, portrait, illusts, Navy 

Records Society, 1950 [CF7542] £45 

Sergisson (1654-1732) was a Commissioner of the Navy 

who collected papers on the Navy.


1083.SEYMOUR (H.D.) Russia on the Black Sea and 

Sea of Azof: being a Narrative of Travels in the 

Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with notices of the 

Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of those 

countries, folding map, 3 plans, 2 folding, frontis. & 

1other plates, spine darkened, 1855 [3720]£125 

1084.SHARPE (A.P.) Spotlight on Hawaii, maps, plates, 

1944 [CF8074] £16 

AHistory right up to the Second World War. 

1085.SHINICHIRO (Takakura) The Ainu of Northern 

Japan A Study in Conquest and Accumulation, 

frontis map, 88 pp. 4to, American Phil. Soc. 

Philadelphia, 1960 [CF10230] £60 

1086.SLADEN (Douglas) In Sicily 1896-1898-1900, 

numerous maps, plates and text illusts. teg, 2 vols 

thk. roy.8vo, modern hf. green morocco, 1901 

[CF5155] £375 

A detailed and consistently enthusiastic account of a 

world “unaltered from the days of Dionysius. If you want 

to understand Ancient Greece, go to Sicily.” 

1087.SLATIN (Rudolph C.) A Fine Signed Cabinet 

Photograph Head and Shoulders in Military 

Uniform, Decorations, edges slightly scuffed, 

signed and dated “Rudolph C. Slatin London 10th 

March, 1899” [11452] £750 

Slatin Pasha, the Anglo-Austrian administrator in the 

Sudan, having surrendered to the Mahdi and used to try 

to make Gordon surrender Khartoum, was imprisoned for 

11 years. On the morning of January 26th 1885, hours 

after the fall of Khartoum he was shown the severed head 

of Gordon. It was not until after Sir Reginald Wingate 

enabled his escape in 1895, that he wrote his famous work 

“Fire and Sword in the Sudan” 1896, sub-titled “a 

personal narrative of of fighting and serving the 

dervishes”. He was honoured by Queen Victoria. 

1088.SLEEMAN (Col. Sir James) From Rifle to Camera 

The Reformation of a Big Game Hunter, with an 

introduction by the distinguished Big Game 

Photographer Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore, 

numerousm plates, [1947] [11364] £35 

From first Tiger in 1907 to last Tiger in 1937 and 

subsequent years of shooting with a camera, the author is 

remarkably enthusiastic. 

1089.SMITH (Arthur H.) Village Life in China A Study 

in Sociology, numerous plates, small snag at the base 

of the upper cover, 1900 [CF10213] £30 

The author was a Missionary. 

1090.SNAILHAM (Richard) The Blue Nile Revealed, 

The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition 1968, maps 

&diags, coloured and black and white plates, 1971 

[11131] £30 

This expedition sponsored by the Army, the Royal 

Geographical Society and the Daily Telegraph, explored 

gorges of, and navigated all 500 miles of the Great Abbai, 

part of the Blue Nile that flows from the highlands of 

North-West Ethiopia into the Sudan. 

1091.SOMERVILLE (William) William Somerville’s 

Narrative Of His Journey’s ToTheEastern Cape 

Frontier And To Lattakoe 1799-1802 With a 

Bibliographical Introduction and Map and a 

Historical Introduction and Notes by Edna and Frank 

Bradlow, folding map, plates, Van Riebeck Society, 

Second Series No. 10, Cape Town, 1979 [7037]£30 

BOOK PRINTING AGREEMENT 

1092.SONNERAT (Pierre) and PIERRES (Philippe 

Denys, Printer in Ordinary to Louis XVI) 

Agreement, in French with translation, on the 

printing of Sonnerat's famous "Voyage to the East 

Indies and China", in 4to and8vofromthesame 

setting of type, (the 4to with plates), specifying the 

size of type for text and notes, the quantity of paper 

and cost of printing per copy, Sonnerat is to supply 

the paper, some copies to be on 'papier d'hollande', 

he undertakes "to pay in cash to the said Monsieur 

Pierres every week half the price of each sheet that I 

shall be offered unspoilt; and the remaining half ... 

after the last sheet of the said work is run off, in 

negotiable bills whose term shall not exceed the 

space of 1 year", with 5 autograph requests to 

Pierres by Sonnerat to send consignments of both 

formats to M. Froullé, the binder, and to Mme Canu, 

some for stitching, most for binding, totalling several 

hundred sets, on separate slips 5" x 7½", annotated 

by the printer and dated 7th November 1782 - 20th 

February 1783, the agreement 2 sides folio and 

conjugate blank, Paris, 6th July 1782 [11206]£1,250 

Afascinating document, in an attractive clerk hand, and a 

masterpiece of a concise agreement, down to the cost of 

drying and gathering the sheets when run off. In an 

autograph addition, Sonnerat agrees that Pierres is to 

take 9 extra copies at the subscription price, as well as the 

2allowed him "by the regulations". 

In the first slip Sonnerat asks that 62 quartos on holland 

paper, be given to "the bearer to allow time to have them 

bound", presumably the most expensive of the 

subscription copies. 

1093.SOOTHILL (Lucy) APassport to China Being the 

Tale of Her Long and Friendly Sojourning amongst 

aStrangely Interesting People, with a Foreword by 

Her Daughter Lady Hosie plates, 1931 [7674]£36 

China 1882-1911. 

1094.SOUTH AFRICA. Cape of Good Hope, Cape 

Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Kimberley, etc. 

13 hand tinted photolithograph panoramas 18¼ x 5 

ins. & 52 hand tinted photolithograph plates, 4 to a 

page each 4 x 6¼ ins. some with text on verso, 6 

separate pages of text, cushioned cloth front cover 

with inset photolithograph a little worn, rubbed, 

internally very bright, G. B. & Co, P.O. Box 1018, 

Cape Town, c.1902 [11374] £1,200 

With the conclusion of the Boer War, South Africa was 

keen to attract not just visitors but settlers. This rich and 

elaborate example of the photographers art, shows the 

towns and country at its brightest and most sophisticated.


1095.SHACKLETON (Edward) Nansen The Explorer, 

2maps, plates, dw. faint spotting on title 1959 

[10716] £50 

1096. ST. ANDRÉ (H. Pouget de) La Colonisation de 

Madagascar sous Louis XV d’après la 

Correspondance inédite du Comte de Maudave, 

some occasional foxing, cr.8vo, contemporary hf. 

red morocco, slight wear, Paris, 1886 [8106]£135 

1097. STANDING (Herbert F.) The Children of 

Madagascar, map and numerous plates, sm.8vo, 

original pictorial cloth, c.1880 [7653] £30 

1098.SPARRMAN (Anders) Anders Sparrman Travels 

In The Cape 1772-1776 A Voyage to the Cape Of 

Good Hope towards the Antarctic Polar Circle 

Round the World and to the Country of the 

Hottentots and the Caffres from the year 1772-1776, 

folding map, plates, 2 vols, Van Riebeck Society, 

Second Series No.6, Cape Town, 1975 [7038]£55 

1099.STANLEY (A.P.) Sinai and Palestine in connection 

with their history, new edition, 7 coloured maps, 

some folding, 5 other maps and plans in the text, 

some slight wear, 1889 [CF4116] £35 

1100.STANLEY (Edward) Address Delivered on board 

H.M.S. “Rattlesnake” by Edward Stanley, D.D. late 

Bishop of Norwich. On November 29, 1846, being 

the Sunday before the Departure of H.M.S. 

“Rattlesnake” for Australia and New Guinea, under 

the Command of the Late Captain Owen Stanley 

R.N. 7 pp. stitched as issued, inscribed on the title 

“Chas. Jas. Card HMS “Rattlesnake”,” some slight 

soiling, 1850 [CF6893] £350 

Not in Fergusson or the British Library. Card was on the 

“Rattlesnake” as a Clerk “Unpassed”. The 

“Rattlesnake’s” job was to survey the Torres Straits 

between Cape York and New Guinea. The death of his 

father was the final straw which lead to the death of 

Captain Owen Stanley. The pressure of his work and the 

severity with which he took his responsibilities, refusing to 

delegate, led to his early death at the age of 39 in March 

1850. 

1101.STANLEY (H.M.) The Exploration Diaries of 

H.M.Stanley Now first published from the original 

manuscripts edited by Richard Stanley and Alan 

Neame,ep maps, plates,illusts, dw, 1961 [7040] £30 

1102.STARK (James H.) Stark’s History and Guide to 

Barbados and the Caribbee Islands, containing a 

description of everything on or about these islands of 

which the visitor or resident may desire in formation, 

including thier history, inhabitants, climate, 

agriculture, geology, government and resources, 2 

folding maps, plates, original decorative cloth, 

Boston & London, 1903 [10755] £120 

1103.STEDMAN (Capt. J.G.) Narrative of a Five Years’ 

Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam 

in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from 

the Years 1772 to 1777, [with introduction and notes 

by J.A. van Lier,] folding map, plates, some folding, 

2vols, 4to, buckram spines, preserved in slip cover, 

[1796], REPRINT Imprint Society, Massachusettes, 

1971 [CF7734] £85 

1104.STEPHEN (Sir George) A Third Letter to the 

Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &c. &c. &c. on the 

Plans of the Society for the Civilization of Africa, ii 

+32pp. stitched as issued, [1840] [10559] £35 

CHINA CHOP BOOKS 

1105.STEAD (Alexander) A Collection of over 362 

Printed Samples of Silk Wrappers or “Chop Marks” 

with Manuscript Over Markings, and Romanised 

Translation in Manuscript on the opposite page, 213 

pp. with 15 pp manuscript index, contained in 2 

notebooks 9 x 3½ & 8 x 3 ins. straight grained 

morocco, slight wear, one clasp missing, Shanghai, 

1872 [11235] £1,250 

Stead was an agent for C.J. Skeggs & Co. who advertised 

themselves as “Public Silk Inspectors and Commission 

Agents” operating from Shanghai. The silk industry of 

Shanghai grew up during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) 

when 70 percent of the cultivated acreage was given over 

to the production of silk and cotton. By the middle of the 

18th century there were more than 20,000 people 

employed as Spinners. After 1842 and the Chinese defeat 

by the British, the city was, under the Treaty of Nanking, 

opened up to Foreign Trade. Shanghai soon became 

China’s leading Port. By 1860 it accounted for about 25 

percent of the total Shipping Tonnage entering and 

leaving the country. The average turnover at this time, of 

Chinese Silk was in excess of £15 million. In 1884 

Skegg’s & Co in a circular, estimate that that seasons 

crop would run to 60,000 bales of raw silk. However the 

trade declined towards the end of the century, giving way 

to a more industrial base. 

BROOKLYN INCUNABLE 

1106.STEPHENS (James Wilson) An Historical and 

Geographical Account of Algiers: Containing a 

Circumstantial and Interesting Detail of Events 

relative to The American Captives, taken from their 

own testimony, Second Edition, folding engraved 

frontis, slightly browned and offset on title, some 

occasional spotting, sm.8vo, contemporary sheep, 

neatly rebacked, Brooklyn, 1800 [10621] £350 

Sabin 91535 “One of the first books printed in Brooklyn”. 

The First Edition was printed in Philadelphia in 1797. 

Since the War of Independence, American Merchant Ships 

were left to the mercy of the Algerians without benefit of 

protection from the British Navy. 

1107.STEVENSON (R.L.) Valima Letters, being 

Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis 

Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890- 

October 1894, FIRST EDITION, text maps, an 

original etched frontis. portrait by William Strang, 2 

other plates, buckram, spine sunned, 1885 

[3519] £50


1108.STRUTT (William) Victoria the Golden Scenes, 

Sketches and Jottings from Nature... Melbourne, 

Victoria 1850-1862, with a narrative by Marjorie 

Tipping, numerous colour plates, oblong folio, 

original cloth, Library Committee, Parliament of 

Victoria, 1980 [11416] £55 

Aselection of reproductions of the drawings in 43 folios 

of the original album. Strutt was prolific and a good 

artist. 

1109. STOOKE (G. Beresford) Notes on the Economic 

Situation in Rodrigues, 12 pp. original printed 

wrapper, Port Louis, 1934 [CF3532]£20 

1110. STOCK (Eugene) The History of the Church 

Missionary Society Its Environment, Its Men and Its 

Work, folding maps, plates, some little foxing, 4 vols 

thk.8vo, 1899-1916 [CF3526]£250 

1111.SUTHERLAND (Capt. [David]) ATourUpThe 

Straits From Gibraltar to Constantinople. With The 

Leading Events In The Present War Between The 

Austrians, Russians, And The Turks, To the 

Commencement Of The Year 1789, Second Edition, 

Corrected, xlvii + 372 pp. faint stain on eps. tree 

calf, lacking label, some slight wear, Printed for the 

Author 1790 [10777] £475 

1112.SWELLENGREBEL Briefwisseling Van Hendrik 

Swellengrebel Jr. Oor Kaapse Sake 1778-1792 

Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur 

dr.G.J.Schutte, illusts, Van Reibeck-Vereniging, 

Tweede Reeks Nr.13, Kaapstad, 1982 [7042]£25 

THE GLORY OF SWITZERLAND 

1113.SWITZERLAND. ACollection of 26 handcoloured 

aquatints, 1 uncoloured, 2 wash drawings, 1 

watercolour, 9 uncoloured lithographs, of city and 

country scenery, domestic scenes and of children 

playing, together 38 items, trimmed, with ink 

borders, mounted on thicker paper, titled by hand, 

between 12½ x 9 ins.& 8 x 6¼ ins. some occasional 

spotting affecting the uncoloured prints, contained in 

a magnificent oblong folio crushed red morocco 

album, gilt border of acorns and oak leaves, central 

gilt cartouches, gilt dentelles, preserved in the 

original canvas sack, c.1830 [11381] £14,000 

This is one of the most elaborate and sumptious Souvenir 

Albums of the Grand Tour that we have seen. The 

exquisite watercolour of cows garlanded, with bells, some 

with elaborate headdresses of dolls representing 

milkmaids and cowboys, being led by amourous couples, 

and bringing up the rear is a cart loaded with melons. 

The wash drawings show William Tell and his son about 

to be captured by Gesslers soldiers, and the other, three 

“Der Schweizerband” swearing and oath. The city views 

are of Geneva, Montreux, Lugano and Berne. Every view 

has the brightness and freshness of the day it was made, 

having been protected in an album, not exposed to light or 

dust. Also with the canvas sack the binding has received 

minimal wear and has the brightness it had when it was 

bound. 

1114.SWANN (Alfred) Fighting the Slave-Hunters in 

Central Africa A Record of twenty-six years of 

Travel and Adventure round the Great Lakes, 

Second Edition with new Introduction by Norman R. 

Bennett, folding map, plates, dw, 1969 [10703]£30 

1115.SYMONDS (F.Addington) The Johannesburg 

Story, plates, dw. 1953 [10781] £20 

1116.SZRYMA (Col. Lach ed.) Revelations of Siberia. 

By aBanished Lady, 2 vols, spines faded, 1852 

[CF5108] £145 

1117.TALFOURD (T.N.) Supplement to “Vacation 

Rambles,” consisting of Recollections of a Tour 

through France, to Italy, and Homeward by 

Switzerland, in the Vacation of 1846, sm.8vo, spine 

sunned, 1854 [11407] £50 

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795-1854, was a judge, 

writer and Member of Parliament. 

1118.TALVAS (Georges) Madagascar Depuis 

l’occupation française Journal d’un administrateur, 

cr.8vo, original printed wrappers, Paris, 1939 

[CF8107] £25 

1119.TASMANIA. The Van Dieman’s Land Almanac for 

the Year 1832, engraved title, hand coloured plate 

of signals, sm.8vo, limp binders cloth Hobart Town, 

Edited and Printed by H. Melville, Elizabeth Street, 

with an additional stamp of Smith and Elder, 

London, 1832 [10759] £550 

1120.TAZIEFF (Haroun) South from the Red Sea, 

plates, 1956 [CF7867] £18 

The author went with Jacques Cousteau to explore the 

Red Sea bed, and an attempt to penetrate Arabia. He also 

gives and account of climbing the Volcano Nyiragongo 

and travels between lakes Tanganyika and Rudolf 

1121.THAILAND. AFulland True Relation of the Great 

and Wonderful Revolution That hapned lately in the 

Kingdom of Siam In the East Indies. Giving a 

particular Account of the Seizing and Death of the 

Late King, and of the Setting up of a New One. As 

Also Of the putting to Death of the King’s only 

Daughter, His Adopted Son who was a Christian, his 

two Brothers And of Monsieur Constance, his great 

Minister of State, and Favourer of the French. And 

of the Expulsion of all the Jesuits, Missionary 

Priests, Officers amd Soldiers of the French Nation 

out of that Kingdom, that endeavoured to bringit 

under the French Domination. Being the Substance 

of several Letters writ in Octob. 1688. and Febr. 

1689 From Siam, and the Coast of Coromandel. 

Never before published in any language, and now 

Translated into English, (iv) + viii + 22 pp. title 

margin trimmed at outer edge affecting a few letters, 

sm.4to, wrapper, 1690 [11379] £450 

Wing 2324. 

After the Embassy’s of M. de Chaumont and Father 

Tachard, the anonymous author gives account of further 

letters from Siam about affairs there.


1122.TEMPLE (Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard Carnac) The 

Papers of Thomas Bowrey 1669-1713, discovered in 

1913 by John Humphreys and now in the possession 

of Lieut.Colonel Henry Howard, maps and plates, 

Hakluyt Society, Second Series, LVII, 1925 

India [CF4304] £75 

1123.THOM (Adam) The Claims to the Oregon Territory 

Considered, stitched as issued, 1844 [CF5462]£75 

1124.TEMPLE (Sir Richard) Palestine Illustrated, 4 

maps, 32 chromolithograph plates, 2 lithographs, 

some occasional spotting, thk folio, original cloth, 

spine laid down, edges worn 1888 [CF4307] £100 

1125.THAILAND. Translation of the Civil and 

Commercial Code Book VI B.E. 2478 [Succession], 

errata slip, ii + 64 pp. filing hole, Bangkok, 1935 

[CF10222] £35 

1126.THOMAS (Athol) Forgotten Eden, [The 

Seychelles] maps, dw. Travel Book Club, 1968 

[CF8266] £18 

1127.THOMSON (George Malcolm) The North-West 

Passage, map, plates, dw, 1975 [10877] £20 

Ahistory of the search for the North-West Passage from 

Cabot, Frobisher and Hudson, to Franklin, Parry and 

Amundsen. 

1128.THORNTON. The Zambesi Papers of Richard 

Thornton, Geologist to Livingstone’s Zambesi 

Expedition, edited by Edward C. Tabler, 2 folding 

maps, 3 others, plates, 2 vols. roy 8vo, 1963 

[10488] £60 

1129.TIBET. BON MANUSCRIPT SHEN-RAB (bon 

gshen-rabs mi po ye gshen, 'the Omniscient human 

descendant of Gshen', founder of the Bon sect of 

Buddhism) Manuscript in Tibetan of the 'Chapter 

Explaining the Threefold Teaching of Shen-rab', 

containing five copies of the work, in verses of 7 

syllables, the 1st four sets are in the same hand, the 

5th set is very similar but the characters are slightly 

taller in proportion, in each set the outer sides are 

blank and the first opening is decorated in the right 

and left margins with red and yellow stripes and 

rosettes, written in neat dbu can (formal script, 'with 

heads') in silver ink on black background, serial 

number of the volume (edge-mark) 'ca' (5) 

throughout, buff Tibetan paper, generally crisp, 4½" 

x 18" (14cm x 51cm), text area about 3½" x 17" 

(8½cm x 42cm), 125ff. (of 126), mostly 7-8 lines per 

side, n.p., n.d., c. 19th c. a very few light worm holes 

in a few blank margins, just touching three letters, 

two letters obscured on 87v, a few paper faults (all 

avoided by the scribe), otherwise text excellent 

(Transcriptions of beginning and end, using Wylie's 

convention) 

Begins (taken from the 2nd set): 

(127v-1) gyung-drung lta yi skad du na / 

/mu phya ha ling sangs te spra/ 

/gang-zag mi yi skad du na/ 

/gshen-rab-khyi bstan-pa rnam gsum 

rjes-su bzhag-pa'i (127v-2) le'u 'o/ 

/de'i tshe se'i dus na/ 

/ngan song-gi sgo gcong-pa'i 

mdo bstan-pa'i / e-ma-ho/ Ends (taken from 126r): 

... (126r-1) las kyi 'prel ba'i yon bdag rnams dang / 

nam mkha'i khyab 

pa'i sems can thams cad rnams dang / bdag don du 

bon-sku thob- (126r-2) par 'gyur cig / gzhan don du 

rdzogs sku thob-par 'gyur cig / 'gro don du sprul-sku 

thob-par 'gyur cig /sku gsum dgyer med sangs-rgyas- 

(126r-3) kyi sa la gnas par 'gyur cig /dge pa dar 

zhing rgyas 'phel nas / 'khor ba dong nas spugs par 

shog / sems can (126r-4) thams-cad-kyi sangs-rgyas 

par 'gyur cig / o'ruparima 

ni tha bha wa ye svo' ha' / bsvo o' ru ma ni pra bha 

(126r-5) pa stra ye hu phah [ last letter inverted] ./. 

o' ru rtse ra ma ni pra bha ye sva' ha' / o' ru pa ru ma 

ni pra par sta ye sva'ha'// [11229] £2,000 

The sets are numbered ff. 103-126; 127-151; 152-176 

(152 repeated, 172 not used but text continuous); 177- 

201; and 202-227, but not corresponding page for page, 

the last set bears also secondary numbering 1-26, western 

numbers lightly pencilled in. Lacks opening leaf [f. 102] 

of first set (one side with outer side blank, text can be 

supplied from the other sets). 106v bears only in Tibetan 

"this side intentionally blank". 

The title is given in the opening lines, "gyung-drung lta 

yi skad du na (in the language of the gods) mu phya ha 

ling sangs te spra / gang-zag mi yi skad du na (in the 

language of men) gshen-rab-khyi bstsan-pa rnam gsum 

(the threefold teaching of Shen-rab) rjes-su bzhag-pa'i 

le'u 'o (chapter explaining)". 

The Bon religion of ancient Tibet still exists as a sect with 

its own distinct practices, such as perambulating sacred 

objects counter-clockwise. It retains more shamanistic 

elements from the pre-Bhuddist era, associated with 

spirits, exorcism and demons, but has absorbed much 

from Bhuddism to create a fully-fledged system, often with 

its own alternative philosophical terminology. The 

"language of the gods" is the dialect of Zhang-zhung 

(Shang-shung), an ancient kingdom in Western Tibet, 

where the Bon school originated, and "the language of 

men", classical Tibetan. Mount Kailash is revered as the 

place where Shen-rab alighted from heaven. 

1130. TIBET. MANUSCRIPT - THE PERFECTIONS 

OF KSITIGARBHA 

BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TRADITION Part 

Manuscript in Tibetan of the latter half of one Sutra 

and the beginning of the next, namely ' The various 

perfections of Ksiti-garbha ', 'Dus-pa chen-po-las sa'i 

snying-po'i 'khor-lo bcu-pa shes-bya-ba theg-pa 

chen-po'i mdo, (Sanskrit Dasa-cakra Ksiti-garbha 

nama mahayana sutra ), PTT 905, and ' The wheel 

that does not turn from the path ', 'Phags-pa phyir-mi 

ldog pa'i 'khor-lo shes-bya-ba theg-pa chen-po'i mdo, 

(Sanskrit Aryavaivarta-cakra nama mahayana sutra ), 

PTT 906, respectively ending and beginning at f. 

286r line 4, also 2 leaves apparently from PTT 904, 

9-10 lines per side, dbu can (uchen) script in silver


ink on black background, buff Tibetan paper, 4½" x 

18" (11½cm x 45½cm), text area about 3¾" x 16½" 

(9½cm x 41cm), 82 leaves, n.p., n.d., c. 19th c. light 

worming in margins, occasionally just touches text, 

rarely reaches further with loss of a letter or two, 

scribe has avoided paper faults [11227] £1,850 

A Short Sutra is a condensed saying of the Buddha in 

mnemonic form. A Long Sutra, as here, contains extended 

teaching with perhaps the occasion of the teaching and its 

discussion. 

The Boddhisatva Ksitigarbha is "little more than a name 

in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism" but "in East Asia ... is 

extremely important" with "a sacred mountain ... Chiuhua 

in An-hwei province. According to the [present] 

sutra, almost certainly composed in Central Asia, 

Ksitigarbha was given the particular task of saving 

sentient beings ... between the death of Sakyamuni and the 

coming of Maitreya". In China Ksitigarbha is associated 

with rituals for saving one's relatives from hell, and in 

Japan also with the welfare of children, pregnant women 

and travellers (Paul Williams). 

References: 

Peking Tibetan Tripitaka (reprinted Tokyo-Kyoto, 1955- 

1961) No. 905 in Volume 36; ibid., No. 906. 

sDe-dge Kanjur (reprinted Delhi, 1979), Volume 65 (BL 

19999.k.2/65). 

Léon Feer, 'Analyse du Kandjour et du Tandjour', in 

Annales du Musée Guimet, t. II, 1881, pp. 266-267. 

Paul Williams, 'Mahayana Buddhism: the Doctrinal 

Foundations' (1989), pp. 241-243. 

Present: ff.214-296 (including 231/232, 251/252, 267/268 

which are each one leaf). Secondary numbering on ff. 

275-296 (1-22). 275v bears as text only "do; shod yin" 

("intentionally blank"). Western numbers lightly pencilled 

in. 

Edge-mark: volume number 'zha' (21) throughout. 

Colophon to PTT 905: 286r-2 to 286r-4, with details of 

the translation from the Chinese by the Chinese 

upadhyaya Hwa-shang Zab-mo and the Tibetan ban-de 

Rnam-par-mi-tog. 

(PTT 906 was translated by the Indian upadhyaya 

Jinamitra, Danashila, and Munivarma, and the Tibetan 

ban-de Ye-shes-sde, etc.) 

Also present: 2 leaves of 'zha' numbered 101, 108, 

apparently from the preceding sutra PTT 904, 'Chosyang-dag-par-sdud-pa', 

'Dharma-sangiti' 'Enumeration of 

several virtues' with their advantages, a discussion 

between two Boddhisatvas. 

Apparently in four hands: (A) 101, 108 (B) 214-274 (C) 

275r-286r (D) 286v-296v. 

Correspondence: 

PTT vol. 36 MS sDe-dge vol. 65 

(beginning 2-1 

end 198) 

No. 905 

(beginning 199-1) 

bam-po 7 227r-7 376-7 

bam-po 8 242r-2 403-2 

bam-po 9 255v-2 429-7 

bam-po 10 270r-8 456-6 

colophon 286r-2 

end 286r-4 482-5 

No. 906 

beginning 286r-4 482-5 

bam-po 1 286r-5 482-6 

bam-po 2 295v-8 501-2 

(end 602) 

1131.TIBET. THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM IN 

8000 LINES 

BUDDIST MAHAYANA SCRIPTURE Fine 

Manuscript in Tibetan of Volume 1 (of 2) of 'The 

Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines', the oldest text 

of the Mahayana tradition, on large paper 7¼" x 

22½" (18.5cm x 57cm), the title leaves on blue 

paper (ff. 1 and 2) beautifully presented, f.1a blank 

as usual, f.1b has a quadruple silk curtain revealing 

the opening words "In the Indian language" in gold , 

between seated figures of Shakyamuni (the present 

Buddha) and Maitreya (the future Buddha), in 

orange robes with green haloes, under the right is in 

tiny gold letters "rgyal-ba'i rgyal-tshab byam-pa 

mgon", "Of the most high the would-be most high, 

Jampa [Maitreya] the Protector", all in a mount of 

blue and black strap work edgedingold, the mount 

made of 6 layers of paper (now a little soft and 

beginning to open), f.2a and f.2b have even more 

elaborate borders, the text again flanked by figures 

in colour, on f.2a seated, (that on the right with eyes 

on the palms, soles and forehead), on f.2b standing. 

The text continues in black on buff paper, generally 

8 lines to a side, with either one or two lines in red to 

guide the eye, uchen script in 21 further hands , last 

leaf frayed without loss, signs of use throughout but 

overall a very attractive copy, complete of Volume 

1, probably 18th or early 19th century. 

[11234]£2,000 

The manuscript contains the first 12 (of 24) bam-po 

(roughly equal units of text), corresponding to chapters 1- 

11 and part of 12 (of 32). Leaves numbered [1,2]-248, 

with 1a and 248b blank. Volume edge-mark 'ka' (1). The 

beginnings of bam-po and the ends of chapters are noted 

in the usual way. New hands at ff. 3, 4b line 3, 17, 30, 43, 

56, 67, 68, 79, 81, 94, 109, 123a, 123b, 136, 149, 161, 

162, 175, 190, 204 and 219, usually marked by secondary 

numbering. Those at 190 and 209 are the same, but 

apparently the rest are distinct and all share the merits of 

writing the volume. 

The Sanskrit title reads "A'rya asta sa'ha srika' pradznya' 

pa'ramita' ", the Tibetan title " 'phags-pa shes-rab-kyi 

pha-rol-thu phyin-pa brgyad-stong-pa" (Wylie 

transcriptions). Both mean "The noble approach to the 

other side [Nirvana] of the highest wisdom in 8000 

[lines]". (A line or shloka contains 32 syllables). 

Edward Conze wrote in 1955: "The literature on Perfect 

Wisdom, vast, deep and vital to an understanding of the 

Mahayana, has so far been rather neglected by Western 

students. The literary form ... is alien ... while their 

doctrine conflicts with the assumptions of practical men 

everywhere ... The composition of Prajñaparamita texts 

extended over about 1,000 years ... the oldest text is the 

Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines . Some parts 

probably date back to 100 B.C. ... the whole may have 

taken about two centuries to compose ... In China, Japan 

and Tibet the Prajñaparamita remained the basis of all 

Mahayana teaching, and in those lands it has borne 

wonderful fruit. Among its later developments the 

flowering of Zen is not the least noteworthy ... The 

teachings ... are meant for people who have withdrawn 

from society" with the motivation "to battle hard against 

the falsifications of the intellect, and to baffle, exhaust 

and defeat it", and, while seeking Nirvana, to replace 

Nirvana as "an object of desire". The consideration of 

Emptiness "opens the way ... to the nature of things by


removing all adherence to words which abstract from 

reality instead of disclosing it". 

References: 

Peking Tibetan Tripitaka (PTT) no. 734 (in Vol. 21), 57- 

1-1 to 122-3-3. 1 side of the MS is roughly three quarters 

of a side in thePTT. 

Der-ge (sDe-dge) edition Vol. 33 in the Delhi reprint (BL 

19999.k.2/33), sides 2-296. 

Wellcome Tibetan MS 34 (catalogue item 36). 

Conze (Edward), 'Selected Sayings from the Perfection of 

Wisdom', The Buddhist Society, London, 1955, especially 

the Introduction. 

Conze (Edward), complete translation of the present work 

from the Sanskrit, Bolinas, Four Seasons Foundation, 

1973, revised 1975. 

1132.TIBET. THE SUTRA OF THE GREAT 

LIBERATION 

BUDDHIST MAHAYANA SCRIPTURE Fine 

Manuscript in Tibetan of the 'Mahamoksha Sutra', in 

the elegant hand of the Abbot of gYer-gShong 

(Yershong) Monastery (in Rebkong County, East 

Tibet, founded in 1696) The present copy was taken, 

according to the Colophon, from the copy printed in 

the earth-bird year (of the 60-year cycle, therefore 

perhaps 1729), the 8th month (September), at the 

dGal'-dan Phun-tshogs gLing (Ganden Phuntsoling), 

that is, the Old Parkhang or Printing House to the SE 

of the Potala in Lhasa. The Abbot was sponsored by 

the gelong (bhikshu, fully ordained monk) dGe-'dun 

Chos-grags, by the gift of a white scarf. 

The complete text . The MS lacks only its original 

first leaf, which will have had its outside blank, its 

inside bearing the usual words "In the Indian 

language". These introduce the Sanskrit title on the 

first side present, followed by the Tibetan title. Both 

read "The noble mahayana sutra, entitled: Progress 

towards the Great Liberation, so as to assure oneself 

of full Buddhahood by purification from sin through 

true repentance". 

The Sanskrit Title is flanked by two seated figures 

of monks, painted in orange, red, gold and black , 

against a simple blue and green background, one 

apparently reading from a volume cradled in his arm, 

the other holding his begging bowl. Each has a halo 

which continues down each side, apparently bearing 

fragmentsoftext. 

Beautifully written in uchen script, 5 lines to the 

side, silver on black framed in crimson, the paper 

coloured blue except at the left and right ends. The 

3 opening sides are in fine larger letters so as to use 

2, 3 and 4 lines respectively, and are heightened in 

gold . 

Leaves numbered [2]-130 and 133-146 in Tibetan 

but with no loss of text. Last outer side blank. 

Volume edge-mark 'ka' (1). 

Opening leaf a little rubbed. Last leaf frayed in 

marginswithout loss. 

The Colophon, beginning at f. 144b-2, states that the 

translation was made definite by Abbot Jinamitra of 

India and by the great reviser and translator the 

Venerable Ye-shes-sde. Then follow the details 

(above) which continue the colophon of the block 

print. f. 145a, b is a prayer added by the scribe of 

the manuscript, whose own colophon ends on f.146a 

with the statement about the sponsor. 

With a yellow cloth cover, bearing a bright diamond 

patch of red and gold thread, and an attached tape of 

florets in red, green and gold. 

143 leaves (of 144), 5" x 14¾" (13cm x 50.5cm), 

Yershong Gon, Rebkong County, East Tibet, n.d., 

probably 18th or early 19th c. [11233] £5,000 

The Sanskrit title reads "Arya ganadza' maha' bhritsa 

phulu dkarma abhirna sho dha ya'bhu dhara bhuha 

na'ma maha'yana sutra", and the Tibetan " 'phags-pa 

thar-pa chen-po yongs-su rgyas-pa 'gyod tshangs-kyi sdig 

sbyangs-te sangs-rgyas-su grub-par rnam-par bkod-pa 

zhes-bya-ba theg-pa chen-po'i mdo" (Wylie 

transcriptions). The traditional length of the text is 712 

shlokas (2 bam-po 112 shlokas), but there is no internal 

division into chapters or into bam-po. 

References: 

Peking Tibetan Tripitaka (PTT) 930, 32-1-8 to 56-4-4. 1 

side of the manuscript is roughly two-thirds of a side in 

the PTT. 

Der-ge (sDe-dge) edition Mdo 'a (i.e. 23), in Vol 67 of the 

Delhi reprint (BL OIOC 19999.k.2/67), item 3 sides 419- 

527. 

Tohoku Imperial University, 'A Complete Catalogue of the 

Tibetan Buddhist Canons', (Sendai, 1934, BL OIOC 

W.14), no. 264. 

Schmidt and Boehtlingk, (1848, Bodl. Or. R.R. Z Cat 249) 

mention '5 different block book editions' at St. Petersburg, 

at nos. 233-237. 

VOHD XI:1, ed. Manfred Taube, 1966, pp. 55-56, 

numbers 168A, B and C describes the Peking edition of 

1659. 

Gyurme Dorje, 'Tibet Handbook with Bhutan', Footprint, 

2nd edition, 1999, p.96 (Old Printing House), and p. 571 

(Yershong Monastery). 

We are grateful to Dr Burkhard Quessel of the British 

Library for his help in preparing this note. 

1133.TIBETAN MANUSCRIPT - THE TEXT OF 

SACRED DISCIPLINE 

BUDDHIST HINAYANA (EARLIER) 

TRADITION Part Manuscript in Tibetan of 'The 

Text of Sacred Discipline' , the 'Dul-wa gzhung 

dam-pa, from the Kanjur 'Dul-wa, Volume 'na' (12), 

(Sanskrit Vinaya-uttara-grantha , 'The last text of the 

Vinaya' or collection on Discipline), summarizing 

the rules for consecrated 'ge-long' monks and nuns 

in verse, mostly of 4 lines of 7 syllables, 9-10 lines 

per side, dbu can (uchen) script in silver ink on black 

background, buff Tibetan paper, 4½" x 18" (11½cm 

x 45½cm), text area about 3¾" x 16½" (9½cm x 

41cm), 75 leaves, n.p., n.d., c. 19th c. light marginal 

worming, occasionally just touches text, rarely 

reaches further with loss of a letter or two, scribe has 

avoided paper faults, f.175v a little rubbed, 192r 

soiled atright with loss of a few words, 204-217 a 

little rubbed at end of lines with loss of one or two 

letters, 218 lacks ends of lines, 219 lacks about one 

eighth, 220 about three quarters, otherwise text in 

good condition [11225] £1,500


In this Volume (concluded in Volume 13), Upâli, the 

traditional compiler of the 'Dulwa, puts special cases to 

the Buddha (Sakyamuni), to learn to what class of 

transgression they belong, or whether they are permitted 

by the law. Upâli addresses him as 'btsun-pa', 

'venerable'. Sakya replies, for example, 'nyes-byas', 'a 

wicked action' or 'ltung-pa' 'a moral fall'. 

For an analogous modern handbook, see 'The Buddhist 

Monastic Code' by Thanissaro Bhikku, 1994. 

With a list showing where the writing sections (bam-po) 

start in the MS and in the PTT. 

References: 

Peking Tibetan Tripitaka (PTT) no. 1037 in vol. 45 (repr. 

Tokyo-Kyoto, 1958). Originally translated from the 

Sanskrit and revised by Dor-ma-seng-ge, Byang-chubseng-ge, 

and Tshul-khrims yon-ton. 

sDe-dge (Derge) Tibetan Kanjur, Vol. 12 ('Dulwa) (repr. 

Delhi, 1977, BL19999.k.2/12). [Note: The sDe-dge 

edition prints the whole of 'Dul-wa Vols. 12 and 13 (PTT 

1036 and 1037) under the title of PTT 1036, namely 'Dulwa 

gzhung bla-ma, 'the text of the higher discipline'.] 

Léon Feer, 'Analyse du Kandjour et du Tandjour', in 

Annales du Musée Guimet, t. II, 1881, pp. 197-198. 

Thanissaro Bhikku (Geoffrey DeGraff), tr. and ed., 'The 

Buddhist Monastic Code: the Patimokka Training Rules', 

printed for free distribution 1994, c/o The Abbot, Metta 

Forest Monastery, PO Box 1409, Valley Center CA 

92082. 

Present: 

ff.132-147, 149-184 (including 132/133, 138/139, 

142/143, 149/150 and 152/153 which are each one leaf), 

187, 192, 194-198 (numbered 292, 294-298), 199, 201- 

220. Western numbers lightly pencilled in. 

Secondary numbering on ff.157-165 (1-9), 166-175 (1-12, 

with two numbers each on 73 and 74), 176-197 (1-22), 

201-203 (1-3). 

Edge-mark: volume number 'na' (12) throughout, also 

"'dul-wa" (discipline) on ff.132-156. 

In apparently 6 hands: 

(A) ff.132-156 (B) 157-165 (with thicker strokes in 163) 

and 176-187 (C) 166-175 (D) 192r-198r line 8 (E) 198r 

line 9-199v (F) 201-220. [The hands may be 

distinguished, for example, using the characters 'nyesbyas 

so' and 'ma'.] 

Correspondence: 

Text MS. PTT 1037 

(bam-po 1 37-1-3 (page of 5 sides, side, line) 

bam-po 2 40-2-3 

bam-po 3 44-4-3) 

132r-1 48-2-2/6 characters from end 

bam-po 4 136r-10 49-3-7 

bam-po 5 147v-5 53-2-3 

bam-po 6 161v-4 56-5-7 

bam-po 7 171v-3 61-1-1 

bam-po 8 179v-7 63-5-6 

bam-po 9 --- 66-4-3 

bam-po 10 --- 69-3-2 

201r-1 71-3-4/24 from end 

bam-po 11 204v-2 72-5-7 

bam-po 12 214v-6 76-4-4 

(bam-po 13 80-2-7) 

1134.TIMKOWSKI (George) Travels of the Russian 

Mission through Mongolia to China, and Residence 

in Peking in the Years 1820-1821, with Corrections 

and Notes by Julius Von Klaproth, folding map, 

folding plan of Peking, frontis, large red chinese 

library stamp or chop mark on verso of titles, 2 vols, 

modern hf. calf, 1827 [11313] £750 

1135.TOKUNAGA (Shigeyasu) Natural Science 

Research of the First Scientific Expedition to 

Manchoukuo, folding map, 400 photographs, 4to. 

original printed boards, soiled, Waseda University, 

Tokyo, 1934 [10776] £200 

This is the first volume of reports from this expedition to 

Jehol. Japan considered Manchuria as a protectorate, 

being interested in expanding agriculture in the plains for 

her own benefit. 

1136.TOMLINSON. Bullocke (J.G. ed.) The Tomlinson 

Papers, selected from the Correspondence and 

Pamphlets of Captain Robert Tomlinson, R.N. & 

Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson, folding table, 

frontispiece, spine faded, Naval Records Society, 

Vol.LXXIV, 1935 [CF7298] £45 

1137.TONG (Hollington K.) Chiang Kai-Shek Soldier 

and Statesman, Authorized Biography, numerous 

plates, 2 vols, head and tails of spine a little frayed, 

1938 [10471] £75 

1138.TORREND (J.) A Comparative Grammar of the 

South-African Bantu Languages, Zanzibar, 

Mozambique, the Zambesi, Kafirland, Benguela, 

Angola, the Congo, the Ogowe, the Cameroons, the 

Lake Region, etc. map, roy.8vo, some slight wear, 

label on upper cover, 1891 [CF8042] £125 

The author gives in the introduction a History of the 

Origin of the Bantu, and in the appendicies 

Ethnographical Notes, dictated by natives, in Tonga 

[Matabeleland], On the Rotse and On the Karanga. He 

also devotes a whole section to Specimens of Kafir Folk 

Lore 

1139.TRISTRAM (H.B.) The Land of Israel; A Journal 

of Travels in Palestine, undertaken with special 

reference to its physical character, 2 folding map, 4 

coloured plates, frontis foxed, 8 other plates, 

numerous vignettes, ex library copy, stamp on verso 

of title, spine laid down, white library numerals, 

some wear, 1865 [CF7741] £75 

1140.TUCKER (John T.) Angola The Land of the 

Blacksmith Prince, 2 folding maps, plates, some 

occasional spotting, small tear at head of spine, 

1933 [10709] £25 

Tucker was a Missionary for the United Church of 

Canada. He records the appointment of the first Bantu 

Bishop, the printing of the first Bantu book, the story of 

Queen Nzinga and the growth of an indigenous church in 

San Thomé. 

1141. TWITCHETT (Denis) Printing and Publishing in 

Medieval China, numerous illusts. 94 pp. printed 

wrapper, NewYork, 1983 [11395] £50


1142.TUCKER (Miss) Abbeokuta; Sunrise Within The 

Tropics: an Outline of the Origin and Progress of the 

Yoruba Mission, third edition, 2 folding maps, 

coloured frontis and 1 other coloured plate, 4 

woodcut plates, sm.8vo, cloth a little worn, 1853 

[11071] £135 

1143.TYAN (Prince Ferdinand) The Entente Cordiale in 

Lebanon, frontis, 30 pp. original printed wrapper, 

frayed at top edge, 1916 [10708] £45 

With the invasion by Turkey of Lebanon, the author, 

himself a Maronite, calls for the protection of France and 

Great Britain. With 6000 Maronite Volunteers on the side 

of the Allies in France, the author tries to explain 

Maronite Nationality and not just a Religious Sect. 

1144.WADDINGTON (G.W.) Indian India as seen by a 

Guest in Rajasthan, folding map, frontis, 29 plates 

after drawings by the author, folio, original cloth 

boards, buckram spine, 1933 [CF5435] £45 

1145.WAFER (Lionel) ANew Voyage & Description of 

the Isthmus of America by Lionel Wafer Surgeon on 

Buccaneering Expeditions in Darien, the West 

Indies, and the Pacific from 1680 to 1688, with 

Wafer’s Secret Report (1698) and Davis’s 

Expedition to the Gold Mines (1704) Edited, with 

Introduction Notes and Appendices by L.E. Elliot 

Joyce, 4 folding maps, frontis & 3 other plates, spine 

a little soiled, Hakluyt Society Second Series, 

LXXIII, 1933 [10976] £125 

1146.[WALPOLE (Robert)] Observations upon the 

Treaty between the Crowns of Great-Britain, France 

and Spain, Concluded at Seville on the 9th of Nov 

1729, 29 + (1) + 23 pp. disbound, 1729 [5441] £60 

The Treaty of Seville was a landmark in the history of 

diplomacy. It marked the breakdown of the Austro- 

Spanish Alliance and the beginning of the collapse of the 

Franco-British. It secured for Britain commercial 

priviledges in the New World. 

1147.WARREN (C.V.) Burmese Interlude, map, plates, 

some occasional foxing, 1937 [CF7795] £25 

The author was a Forest Assistant with Messrs. Swan 

Bros. 

1148.WASHINGTON. Savage (Edward) Fine Stipple 

Engraving of “The Washington Family” also in 

French “La Famille Washington”, after the painting 

by Edward Savage, and engraved by him, 19 x 25 

ins. trimmed within the plate mark, on wove paper, 

c.1810 [11051] £1,650 

Edward Savage, 1761-1817, was a native of Princetown 

Massachusettes. His early career was as a Goldsmith. 

He later took up painting portraits, many of which he 

made engravings. This well known portrait shows George 

Washington as President, his wife, children and black 

servant at Mount Vernon. Mrs. Washington points to the 

position of their estate, Mount Vernon, on a map. 

1149.WATERSTON (Jane Elizabeth) The Letters Of 

Jane Elizabeth Waterston 1866-1905, Edited by 

Lucy Bean and Elizabeth van Heyningen with an 

introduction by Elizabeth van Heyningen, maps, 

plates, Van Riebeck Society, Second Series No.14, 

Cape Town, 1983 [CF7047] £20 

1150.WATSON (Gilbert) Three Rolling Stones in Japan, 

plates, fep stained, original pictorial cloth, 1903 

[CF5404] £85 

Written in the manner of J.K. Jerome, however with far 

less fiction. 

1151.WEALE (B. Putnam) The Re-Shaping of the Far 

East, numerous plates, large folding map, 2 vols, 

spines a little sunned, 1905 [CF6865] £150 

Published just as the Russo-Japanese War was ending, 

Weale is very forthright and direct about the need for a 

strong China not manipulated by either the Russians or 

the Japanese. 

1152.WEBSTER. The Diplomatic and Official Papers of 

Daniel Webster, while Secretary of State, folding 

map. portrait, some occasional spotting, 

contemporary calf. gilt spine a little rubbed, New 

York, 1848 [CF5343] £65 

The North Eastern boundary disputes and the Treaty of 

Washington 1842, Suppression of the Slave Trade, 

Relations with Mexico, Trade arrangements with the 

Sandwich Islands and China etc. 

1153.WEEKS (John H.) Among Congo Cannibals 

Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures during 

Thirty Years’ Sojourn amongst the Boloki and other 

Congo Tribes with a description of their Curious 

Habits, Customs, & Laws, folding map, plates, thk. 

8vo, dw, cloth a little spotted 1913 [10841] £95 

1154.WESTON (F.&.M.) Camera Pictures of Malta, 

numerous plates, 4to. [Valetta c. 1927] [5357]£30 

1155.WHEATCROFT (Geoffrey) The Randlords, (The 

Men Who Made South Africa), maps, diags, plates, 

dw. 1985 1985 [CF8100] £25 

Rhodes, Barnato, Beir, Robinson, Wernher, the Joel 

Brother, Ernest and Harry Oppenheimer 

1156.WHEELER. Memoirs Of The Life And Gospel 

Labours, of the Late Daniel Wheeler, a Minister of 

the Society Of Friends, folding map, thk. 8vo, some 

wear at head and tail of spine, stain on rear ep and 

errata slip, 1842 [CF7366] £85 

Wheeler was a Quaker Missionary spending time in 

Australia, Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga and New Zealand. 

1157.WHITTLE (James trans.) AVisit to Belgrade, ex 

lib, small stamps, sm.8vo, leather spine, 1854 

[11194] £65 

1158.WILDES (Harry Emerson) Aliens in the East, A 

New History of Japan’s Foreign Intercourse, 

Philadelphia, 1937 [CF5420] £35


1159.WILLIAMS (L.F. Rushbrook) India in 1922-23 A 

Statement prepared for presentation to Parliament in 

accordance with the requirements of the 26th Section 

of the Government of India Act (5 & 6 Geo. V, Chap 

61, original printed boards faded, canvas spine some 

little wear, Calcutta, 1923 [CF8116] £30 

1160.WILLIAMS (S.Wells) The Middle Kingdom, a 

Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, 

Social Life, Arts and History of the Chinese Empire 

and Its Inhabitants, large folding map in endpocket, 

2 folding frontis. 1 coloured, numerous plates, 2 

vols. thk.roy.8vo, spine of vol.1 neatly laid down, 

1883 [CF5429] £165 

This is the revised and enlarged edition with a new map of 

the Empire. 

1161.WILSON (Andrew) North from Kabul, ep maps, 

dw. 1961 [10641] £20 

1162.WILSON (N.W.) Geology and Mineral Resources 

of part of the Gola Forests South-Eastern Sierra 

Leone, 8 folding maps in end pocket, 4 plates, text 

illusts. 4to, Geological Survey of Sierra Leone, 

1965 [10859] £28 

1163.WILSON (Sir Arnold) The Road toIsfahan, 19 

pp. printed wrapper, offprint Asiatic Review, 1930 

[10881] £10 

1164.WILSON (Sir Arnold) History of the Mission of 

the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, established in 

Persia by The Reverend Father Alexander of 

Rhodes, 32 pp. wrapper, staples rusting, Offprint 

Bulleting School of Oriental Studies, 1925 

[11422]£28 

1165.WOLLASTON (Nicholas) Handles of Chance A 

Journey from the Solomon Islands to Istanbul, map, 

1coloured & many other plates, 1956 [10497] £16 

1166.WOOD-JONES (F.) Coral and Atolls A History 

and Description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with 

an Account of their Fauna and Flora, and a 

Discussion of the Method of Development aand 

Transformation of Coral Structures in general, 

Second Edition, revised and enlarged, folding map, 

portrait, 27 plates, numerous text illusts. 1912 

[10670] £125 

1167.WOOLMAN. The Journal of John Woolman. With 

an Introduction by John G. Whittier, some 

occasional spotting, sm.8vo, bookplate of the Duke 

of Bedford, Glasgow, 1882 [CF7737] £40 

One ofthe best known editions of the Journal of this Anti- 

Slavery Campaigner. 

1168.WORSFOLD (W. Basil) The Redemption of 

Egypt, 4 coloured and numerous other plates, sm. 

4to, original decorative cloth, a little worn, 1899 

[CF5303] £60 

1169.WRIGHT (Eugene) The Great Horn Spoon, with 

an introduction by Rosita Forbes, some very slight 

wear, 1929 [CF8096] £25 

Travels in Borneo through Iran to Baghdad. 

1170.WRIGHT (Stephen) & Otto A. Jäger. Ethiopia 

Illuminated Manuscripts, 32 coloured plates, large 

folio, original boards, canvas spine, a little dust 

soiled, NewYork, 1961 [CF5306] £60 

1171.YOUNG (Egerton Ryerson) By Canoe and Dog- 

Train among the Salteaux Indians, with an 

introduction by Mark Guy Pearse, folding map, 2 

woodburytype portraits, text illusts. original pictorial 

cloth, gilt, 1898 [CF5316] £75 

1172.YOUNG (Rosalind Amelia) Mutiny of the Bounty 

and Story of Pitcairn Island 1790-1894, numerous 

plates, cr. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, slight wear 

Pastor David Nield, Wellington 1924 [10901] £45 

The eighth impression of a work first published in 1894 in 

Oakland California. 

1173.YOUNGHUSBAND (Maj. G.J.) The Philippines 

and Round About with some account of British 

Interests in these waters, folding map, 18 plates, title 

a little spotted, slight wear at head and tail of spine 

1899 [11219] £165 

1174.[ZAID (Abu)] Ancient Accounts of India and China, 

by two Mohammedan Travellers. Who went to 

those Parts in the 9th Century; Translated from the 

Arabic by Eusabius Renadout, FIRST ENGLISH 

EDITION, xxviii + 260 + xii pp. 1 margin repaired, 

2 others trimmed not affecting text, original calf 

boards, rebacked, 1733 [CF7271] £850 

This is an account of the travels of Sulaiman the Merchant 

and Ibn Walib. 

The translator in his preface, says that the manuscript, 

from the Comte de Seignelay’s Library predates Marco 

Polo by 400 years. The second half of this work has a 17 

pp. article “An Inquiry Concerning the Jews Discovered 

in China”. It also has a good index.

111 CHAIRS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CORONATIONS &INVESTITURE 

ACOLLECTION OF CHAIRS FROM THE CORONATIONS OF 

EDWARD VII, GEORGE V, GEORGE VI & THE PRESENT QUEEN 

ALSO AN ORIGINAL INVESTITURE CHAIR DESIGNED AND USED 

WHEN PRINCE CHARLES WAS INVESTED AS PRINCE OF WALES 

See Illustrations Opposite 

1175.[CHARLES (Philip Arthur George, b. 1948, Prince of Wales)] 

Achairdesigned by Lord Snowdon used for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle, simple square 

design in moulded wood with a padded seat, coloured bright red, plain arms and back decorated with gilt Prince of Wales 

feathers on the back, 1969 [SD24885]£1,250 

1176.[EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Rare chair used at the Coronation, mahogany in a Hepplewhite style, under the seat the wood is stamped “EVII R 

(Crown) Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 9th August 1902 [SD26644]£2,250 

1177.[EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain)] 

Stool used at the Coronation, simple style with a caned seat, under the seat the wood is stamped “EVII R (Crown) 

Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 9th August 1902 [SD26645]£250 

1178.[ELIZABETH II (b.1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

Chair used at the Coronation, with a Limed English Oak frame, covered on the seat and back with blue velvet, which 

was specially commissioned for the event, with a fine embroidered “ER II” in gilt thread with a gilt and red crown above 

on the back, under the seat the wood is stamped “ER II (Crown) Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 2nd June 1953, in 

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1179.[ELIZABETH II (b.1926, Queen of Great Britain)] 

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stamped under the seat “ER II Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 12th May 1953 [SD26640]£375 

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1180.[GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953)] 

Rrare chair used at the Coronation, in Chippendale style, under the seat the wood is stamped “GR V (Crown) 

Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 22nd June 1911 the original fabric covering the seat has been replaced 

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1181.[GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953)] 

Stool used at the Coronation, simple style with upholstered seat, under the seat the wood is stamped “GR V (Crown) 

Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 22nd June 1911, the original fabric covering the seat has been replaced 

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1182.[GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain) & ELIZABETH (The Queen Mother, b. 1900, his Queen)] 

Fine chair used at the Coronation, with a Limed English Oak frame, covered on the seat and back with blue velvet, 

which was specially commissioned for the event, with a fine embroidered “GR VI” in gilt thread with a gilt and red 

crown above on the back, under the seat the wood is stamped “GR VI (Crown) Coronation”, Westminster Abbey, 12th 

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[SD26641]£350 

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