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MARX (KARL) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie... Erster Band, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHANN GEORG ECCARIUS, Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1867MARX (KARL) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie... Erster Band, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHANN GEORG ECCARIUS, Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1867. Sold for £218,500 inc. premium
NEWTON (ISAAC) Autograph manuscript, in English, headed "The Question stated about abstaining from blood", complete in itself and comprising two drafts (each ending "Quaere, Whether the law be still in force?") towards a passage in his last work, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, with extensive autograph revisions, deletions and insertions, [c. 1719]NEWTON (ISAAC) Autograph manuscript, in English, headed "The Question stated about abstaining from blood", complete in itself and comprising two drafts (each ending "Quaere, Whether the law be still in force?") towards a passage in his last work, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, with extensive autograph revisions, deletions and insertions, [c. 1719]. Sold for £58,750 inc. premium
CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) Kate Keown [No. 5 Of Series of Twelve Lifesized Heads], [1866]CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) Kate Keown [No. 5 Of Series of Twelve Lifesized Heads], [1866]. Sold for £36,250 inc. premium
WAUGH (EVELYN) Series of forty-two autograph letters and cards signed ("Evelyn Waugh", "Evelyn", "E.W." and "E"), to his fellow novelist Anthony Powell ("Dear Tony") and wife Lady Violet; London, Piers Court, Combe Florey and elsewhere, 1927-1964WAUGH (EVELYN) Series of forty-two autograph letters and cards signed ("Evelyn Waugh", "Evelyn", "E.W." and "E"), to his fellow novelist Anthony Powell ("Dear Tony") and wife Lady Violet; London, Piers Court, Combe Florey and elsewhere, 1927-1964. Sold for £27,500 inc. premium
NIELSEN (KAY) 'Prince Bismarck discovering the soldier', from "In Powder and Crinoline", 1913NIELSEN (KAY) 'Prince Bismarck discovering the soldier', from "In Powder and Crinoline", 1913. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, Holland (perhaps Utrecht) third quarter of the fifteenth century.ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, Holland (perhaps Utrecht) third quarter of the fifteenth century.. Sold for £16,250 inc. premium
SEUTTER (MATTHAUS) and others [Composite atlas], Augsburg, the Author, [c.1740]SEUTTER (MATTHAUS) and others [Composite atlas], Augsburg, the Author, [c.1740]. Sold for £9,375 inc. premium
GREAT BRITAIN - HEPTARCHY AND MIDDLESEX SPEED (JOHN) Britain as it was devided in the Tyme of the Englishe Saxons Especially their Heptarchy, [George Humble, 1627, or later] (2)GREAT BRITAIN - HEPTARCHY AND MIDDLESEX SPEED (JOHN) Britain as it was devided in the Tyme of the Englishe Saxons Especially their Heptarchy, [George Humble, 1627, or later] (2). Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

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MARLBOROUGH – BATTLE OF RAMILLIES Field diary of Dr Samuel Noyes, Chaplain to the Royal Scots Regiment, 1st Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lieutenant-General the Earl of Orkney, serving under the Duke of Marlborough in the Low Countries, kept while on active service between 20 April 1705 and his return home on 2 November 1706, and covering both the campaign of 1705 and the Ramillies campaign the following year; Low Countries, 1705-6
MARX (KARL) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie... Erster Band, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHANN GEORG ECCARIUS, Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1867
MATHEMATICS BOOLE (GEORGE) An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, On Which Are Founded. The Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, FIRST EDITION, Macmillan, 1854
MOORE (JONAS) A New Systeme of the Mathematicks, 8 parts in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681
MUSIC - FRANZ LISZT Autograph letter signed ("F. Liszt"), to Peter Cornelius ("Liebster Cornelius"), in German, telling him that he has just been informed that the full score of his opera, Der Barbier von Bagdad, was not in the local theatre library [no place], 14 July [18]61
BERLIOZ (HECTOR) Autograph letter signed ("H. Berlioz"), to Peter Cornelius ("Mon cher et excellent Cornelius"), in French, writing by chance to see whether he will be in Vienna, BERLIOZ CONDUCTS LA DAMNATION DE FAUST, [no place], 3 December 1866
MUSIC - JOHN OGDON Remaining papers of the pianist and composer John Ogdon and his wife, the pianist Brenda Lucas, comprising autograph manuscripts and notes, letters, photographs, press cuttings and annotated scores
MUSIC [BICKHAM (GEORGE, illustrator)] The Musical Entertainer, 2 vol., Charles Corbett, [c.1740]
MUSIC [ROBERTS (HENRY, publisher)] Clio and Euterpe or British Harmony. A Collection of Celebrated Songs and Cantatas by the Most Approv'd Masters Curiously Engrav'd with the Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord and Transposition for the German Flute. Embelish'd with Designs Adapted to Each Song, vol. 1-2 (of 3), Henry Roberts, [1758]-1759
MUSIC – GAETANO DONIZETTI Autograph letter signed ("il vostra Donizetti"), to his friend Gian Agostino Perotti, in Venice, recommending the bearer of the letter, the famous cellist Maximilian Bohrer ("celeberrimo Violoncell") [Paris], September 1839
MUSIC – RICHARD STRAUSS Collection of autograph letters including Richard Strauss (writing with Paula about hotels in Switzerland in 1947), Clara Schumann, Pietro Mascagni, & others
NAVAL – NAPOLEONIC ERA A series of twenty-four autograph letters from John Brand Umfreville of Northumberland to his sister, Margaret, and two to her husband the Rev. Robert Greenwood, describing his life in the navy, with letters from Admiral Peter Rainier and Captain John Stewart of the Seahorse
NAVAL – ROYAL FAMILY AND TRAINING SHIP BRITANNIA Papers and photographs of Guy Mainwaring, First Lieutenant on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, 1878-1881, in a large ironbound naval trunk
NELSON (HORATIO) The Burial Service, Chant, Evening Service, Dirge, & Anthems, Appointed to be Perform'd at the Funeral of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronti, at St. Pauls Cathedral, on the 9th of January 1806. Composed by Dr. Croft, Heny. Purcell, Esqr. Dr. Greene, Thos. Attwood Esqr. & George Frederick Handel Esqr., Clementi & Co. [December 1805 or early January 1806]
NEWTON (ISAAC) Autograph manuscript, in English, headed "The Question stated about abstaining from blood", complete in itself and comprising two drafts (each ending "Quaere, Whether the law be still in force?") towards a passage in his last work, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, with extensive autograph revisions, deletions and insertions, [c. 1719]
Nobel Prize for discovering isotopes in stable elements, awarded to F.W. Aston in 1922
POPE INNOCENT IV Document (Litterae cum serico) bearing the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Innocent IV, granting privileges to the abbess & Cistercian convent of "Aweria", in diocese of Liege; 16 March 1244
POPE PAUL III Papal brief issued in the Pope's name ("Paulus PP III" at head), to the Archbishop of Turin, Rome, 3 November 1536; AN EXCEPTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE RENAISSANCE DOCUMENT, issued by the Papal Chancery and signed by the scribe, Cesare Accurrius.
RENOIR (PIERRE-AUGUSTE) Autograph letter signed ("Renoir"), to "Cher Ami", in French, expressing his distress that the young girl teaching Coco [his youngest child Claude] to read should be upset, [no place], 29 September [19]09
REPTON (HUMPHRY) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, FIRST EDITION, T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803
ROWLANDSON (THOMAS) [COMBE (WILLIAM)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque; [-Consolation; -a Wife], 3 vol., R. Ackermann, [1812]-1820-1821 (3)
SCIENCE – MORSE, DAVY AND EDISON Autograph letter signed ("Saml. F.B. Morse"), to Chas H. Morse, responding to a query about a man who may have been a former employee, 1862; letter signed by Humphry Davy regarding an election to the Royal Society, 1826; signed photograph and a watercolour of Thomas Edison
SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING – NEWFOUNDLAND, LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL Two manuscript volumes from Liverpool merchants Carson, Dennison & Parry, a firm primarily engaged in the Newfoundland trade, a letterbook and an accounts book, covering the period 1807-1815, with papers from the Bristol shipbuilding firm of Hilhouse.
SLAVERY - DOMINICA AND JAMAICA Collection of letters and papers from the office of Sir John Orde, Bt., Governor of Dominica, and slave registers relating to the estates of Peter Campbell, plantation owner of Jamaica,
SMEATON AND MCADAM Papers relating to the lead mines on Alston Moor, Cumberland, belonging to the Radclyffe family, earls of Derwentwater, and subsequently to Greenwich Hospital, comprising autograph letters by the engineer James Smeaton, autograph letter by John Loudon McAdam regarding road building and other material
SMITH (ADAM) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 2 (of 2), FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776
STORY (ROBERT) Series of some 40 autograph letters signed ("Robert Story"), to William Dickson, discussing publication of The Poetical Works of Robert Story, which the Duke of Northumberland was helping finance, Audit Office, Somerset House, 1856-1858
TAYLOR (JOHN) 'The Water-Poet' Saint Hillaries Teares. Shed upon All Professions from the Judge to the Petty Fogger. From the Spruce Dames of the Exchange, to the Durty Walking Fishmongers. From the Coven-Garden Lady of Iniquity, to the Turnebal-Streete-Trull. And Indeed, from the Tower-Staires to Westminster-Ferry. For Want of a Stirring Midsommer Terme, This Yeare of Disasters, 1642. Written by One of His Secretaries That Had Nothing Else to Do, [s.n.], 1642
TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) A finely bound collection of 48 titles, bound in 104 vol., all but 2 FIRST EDITIONS, , all but 1 full red morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, [1850-1884] (104)
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme en vingt-un chants... nouvelle édition, , WITH SUITE OF EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, 1780; PREVOST. Manon Lescaut, 2 vol., crushed red morocco by Lortic, 1797; and another edition of Pucelle (4)
WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSEL) Letters, books and publications from the collection of the geologist Percy Fry Kendall, comprising four autograph letters signed ("Alfred R. Wallace") to Kendall, nine volumes of works on geology by various authors and twenty-five offprints and pamphlets
WENTWORTH (LADY) A small archive of personal items relating to Lady Wentworth, author of The Authentic Arabian Horse, and her parents, including; a group of 5 portrait plaque roundel portraits of Lady Wentworth, her head in profile with surrounding caption "Judith A.D.B. Lytton 1915", etc. (small quantity)
WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY) A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable, Edmund Burke, FIRST EDITION, J. Johnson, 1790
ARDIZZONE (EDWARD) Original cover design for "The Complete Poems for Children" by James Reeves, [1973]
DULAC (EDMUND) 'Taking her hand he led her to the apartment of the Queen Pirouze', from "The Arabian Nights", 1907
DULAC (EDMUND) 'Ma Lisette', from "Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book", 1913
DULAC (EDMUND) 'The Squire's Tale', from "The Canterbury Tales", [1942]
DULAC (EDMUND) 'Morgiana dancing before the Captain of the Robbers' [or 'Dancing Girl with the Knife'], from "The Arabian Nights", [c.1949-51]
KING (JESSIE M.) 'The Frog Prince', [c.1913]
KING (JESSIE M.) 'Carmelite Chapel - Rue De Vaugirard', Paris, [c.1914]
KING (JESSIE M.) 'The Sunshine of Saint Eulalie', [c.1927]
KING (JESSIE M.) 'As I was Walking All Alane/I heard twa corbies makin' their/Mane...', [c.1933]
MACKENZIE (THOMAS) 'Of all the marvellous Surprises', from Arthur Ransome's version of "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme", [c.1919]
NIELSEN (KAY) 'Prince Bismarck discovering the soldier', from "In Powder and Crinoline", 1913
NIELSEN (KAY) 'The Zephyr in the Grove', used in "In Powder and Crinoline", [1913]
POGANY (WILLY) 'Rumpelstiltskin', from Grimm's "Fairy Tales", [c.1932]
RACKHAM (ARTHUR) 'The Lapp Woman wrote a few Words', from 'Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen', [1932]
JACOBS (HELEN) Two original illustrations for R. Pollard's "Tiff, Taff and Tuff" [festive scene of kittens pulling Christmas crackers; a kitten being reprimanded for dirtying the house with coal], [1934] (2)
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