Bloomsbury Auctions

196. Naval Engineering.- Lloyd (Charles) te S t S a n d t r i a l S o n
ShipS e n g i n e S, manuscript, 145pp., ruled in red, reverse entries,
pen and ink illustrations, slightly browned, original limp morocco,
gilt edges rubbed, covers splayed, 8vo, dated in text 1889-91.
£100 - £150
*** Includes: “Steam velocities ft. per minute”; “Particulars of airpumps”;
“Particulars of ships & engines”; “Propeller, Ratio of”;
“SS Colchester Further particulars of the same trial”; “SS Lydian
Monarch”; ‘La Normandie’ Propeller” etc.
Lot 197
197. Naval.- Perrean (G.F., midshipman) lo g o f h.m. Sh i p S
“ta m a r”, “hi b e r n i a”, “ed i n b u r g h”, “ro ya l So v e r e i g n” a n d
“haw K e ”, manuscript, title and 225pp., n u m e r o u S wat e r C o l o u r S
a n d p e n a n d i n K m a p S , slightly browned, original red morocco, gilt
lettered title on upper cover, slightly rubbed and soiled, some loss,
joints splitting, upper cover splayed, folio, 1891-93. £200 - £300
*** Spain, Gibraltar and around the UK.
198. New Zealand.- Pirani (Frederick, printer, journalist,
newspaper proprietor and politician, 1858-1926) al b u m r e l at i n g
to pi r a n i, c. 50pp., writ as Member of Parliament, including,
photograph of an open air meeting, printed invitations, newspaper
cuttings, several items excised, laid down, browned, original diced
leather-backed cloth, worn, 4to, 1895. £100 - £150
199. Kipling (Rudyard, author, 1865-1936) au t o g r a p h le t t e r
S i g n e d to mo r g a n Cr o f t o n, 1p. with conjugate blank, 8vo, “The
Vineyard [Hotel]”, Newlands, Cape Town, [South Africa], 12th
April 1898, “We are in the last agonies of packing today but I
hope to have the honour of calling on the General before 12:30
tomorrow. I am most sorry to have missed him this visit,” folds,
slightly browned. £100 - £150
*** Morgan Crofton (1826-1915), mathematician.
200. Crane (Walter, illustrator, designer and painter, 1845-
1915) au t o g r a p h le t t e r S i g n e d to miSS go o d e n o u g h, 1p., 8vo,
13 Holland Street, Kensington, 16th December 1899, accepting
a dinner invitation; and 7 others, including letters from Austen
Chamberlain, Hilaire Belloc, Jesse Collings MP, Edward J. Poynter,
Edmund Gosse, Martin Hume, James Mathews, v.s., v.d. (8).
£200 - £300
201. James (Henry, novelist, 1843-1916) au t o g r a p h letter
S i g n e d to “miSS go o d e n o u g h”, 4pp., 8vo, 34 De Vere Gardens, 19th
January, n.d., declining a dinner invitation, folds. £100 - £150
202. Middlesex Flora.- Benbow (John, botanist, 1821-1908)
th e flo r a o f uxb r i d g e & d i S t r i C t (in midd l e S e x), a u t o g r a p h
m a n u S C r i p t, c. 190pp. excluding blanks, first page repaired
with linen at tail, slightly browned, contemporary alf morocco,
extensively rubbed, upper joint broken, folio, [c. 1900].
£150 - £200
*** An extremely competent and and accurate work based entirely
on his own observations.
Provenance: “This MS. collection of notes upon the Flora of
Middlesex was written upon the blank leaves of an old account
book by my late uncle John Benbow F.L.S, was bought at the sale
of his effects some months after his death in 1908 by my brother
A.C. Bird, and given to me by him. I have since had it rebound. The
notes upon the Musci (ff. 177-185 and 194-7) seem to have been
altogether superseded by later investigation, the results of which
my uncle published in the Journal of Botany. - W.H.B. Bird.”
203. Sargent (John Singer, American painter, 1856-1925)
au t o g r a p h le t t e r S i g n e d to “de a r ma d a m”, 1p. with conjugate
blank, 8vo, Hoteles Washington Irving, Granada, 8th November,
n.d., “Dear Madam, I have pleasure in enclosing a cheque for
£10 towards the ‘After-care’ fund,” folds, slightly creased.
£100 - £150
204. Seals, 2 r e d w a x S e a l S e n C a S e d in d e C o r at e d b r a S S m e ta l
SKippetS, and attached with blue silk tags to a strip of vellum,
inscribed: “William H. Weldon Clarenceux, Seal of King of Arms”
in two separate hands, each 70mm., [c. 1900]. £60 - £80
205. Stanford (Sir Charles Villiers, composer, 1852-1924) 3
au t o g r a p h le t t e r S S i g n e d to ri C h a r d we b S t e r, lo r d alv e r S t o n e,
a S lo r d Ch i e f Ju S t i C e, 5pp., 8vo, 50 Holland Street, Kensington,
27th November 1904 - 16th October 1910, thanking him for
“rescuing the College Opera. I thought it was a matter for the
College authorities to try & arrange this time, for upon my honour
I was ashamed of pleading the same thing 3 times in 6 years”, and
mentioning Hubert Parry, music examinations at Cambridge etc.,
folds. £100 - £150
206. Wallace (Annie, wife of Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist,
evolutionary theorist and social critic, 1823-1913, 1845/6-1914)
au t o g r a p h le t t e r S i g n e d “a wa l l a C e” to mr.S ray n e r, 5pp.,
8vo, The Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, 23rd November 1905, “I
send you a small plant of Eucalyptus... a seedling of the tree you
saw at Parkstone, I raised several hundreds of them about 3 years
ago,” and its future treatment and other botanical matters, small rust
mark, folds; and another, Account of my darling’s death A.W.R., 8vo
(2). £200 - £300
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