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DARWIN (CHARLES) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1859. Sold for £150,062.50 inc. premium

VARNHAGEN VON ENSE (KARL AUGUST) Series of some three hundred and fifty autograph letters, mostly signed ("Varnhagen von Ense"), to Charlotte Williams Wynn, 29 September 1836 to 6 September 1858. Sold for £43,812.50 inc. premium

ARDIZZONE (EDWARD) The complete original artwork for "Tim to the Rescue", [c.1949]. Sold for £37,562.50 inc. premium

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH [The Newe Testament of oure Saviour Jesus Christe. Faythfully Translated oute of the Greke], [R. Jugge, 1553]. Sold for £21,312.50 inc. premium

PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948]. Sold for £17,562.50 inc. premium

PICASSO (PABLO) [Poèmes et lithographies], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES, from an overall edition of 52 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO on the justification leaf, [Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, 1954]. Sold for £11,312.50 inc. premium

HEANEY (SEAMUS) Eleven Poems, [1965]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, [1965]--MAHON (DEREK) Twelve Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University; and 5 other "Festival Publications" by Joan Newmann, Philip Hobsbaum, James Simmons, Stewart Parker, and Laurence Lerner (8). Sold for £5,687.50 inc. premium

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ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN'S ORANGUTAN Album containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, including Horatio Nelson (with right hand), T.M. Hardy (with the Master and crew members of the Victory, 1804), Florence Nightingale, Felicia Hemans, Richard Owen, George Everest and others

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ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN'S ORANGUTAN
Album containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, including Horatio Nelson (with right hand), T.M. Hardy (with the Master and crew members of the Victory, 1804), Florence Nightingale, Felicia Hemans, Richard Owen, George Everest and others

Sold for £2,167.50 inc. premium

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT
Official portrait, signed below the image ("U.S. Grant"), [c.1870]

Sold for £1,530 inc. premium

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ROBERT E. LEE Autograph letter signed ("RE Lee"), to Miss Caroline M. Campbell, happily subscribing to The Little Gleaner in order to support the charitable efforts of Miss Faunt Le Roy and "do all in my powers to aid the sister of one who laid down his life in the defense of the Constitutional rights of his Country", White Sulphur Springs, 31 August 1868

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ROBERT E. LEE
Autograph letter signed ("RE Lee"), to Miss Caroline M. Campbell, happily subscribing to The Little Gleaner in order to support the charitable efforts of Miss Faunt Le Roy and "do all in my powers to aid the sister of one who laid down his life in the defense of the Constitutional rights of his Country", White Sulphur Springs, 31 August 1868

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON Journal with a companion volume of watercolour illustrations, kept by Edward Pritchard, recording his service on board the Shannon in the Arctic and during the War of 1812, including her duel with the Chesapeake in Boston Bay,'TACKED IN FOR BOSTON THE CHESAPEAKE HAD MADE SIGNAL FOR SEA... THE ACTION COMMENCED WITH A DREADFULL FIRE OF ROUND AND GRAPE'

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AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON
Journal with a companion volume of watercolour illustrations, kept by Edward Pritchard, recording his service on board the Shannon in the Arctic and during the War of 1812, including her duel with the Chesapeake in Boston Bay,'TACKED IN FOR BOSTON THE CHESAPEAKE HAD MADE SIGNAL FOR SEA... THE ACTION COMMENCED WITH A DREADFULL FIRE OF ROUND AND GRAPE'

Sold for £43,812.50 inc. premium

AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON Printed document with manuscript insertions, signed by Captain Broke of the Shannon and others, certifying to the Directors of the Chest at Greenwich that on 1 June 1813 during the "Engagement with the United States frigate Chesapeake" Alexander McClennan, private marine, first class, was wounded on board His Majesty's "Ship Shannon" by receiving "a severe blow of the head from a splinter or wad producing concussion of the brain, squinting of the Left eye And slight deformity of face"; [Halifax], 30 June 1813

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AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON
Printed document with manuscript insertions, signed by Captain Broke of the Shannon and others, certifying to the Directors of the Chest at Greenwich that on 1 June 1813 during the "Engagement with the United States frigate Chesapeake" Alexander McClennan, private marine, first class, was wounded on board His Majesty's "Ship Shannon" by receiving "a severe blow of the head from a splinter or wad producing concussion of the brain, squinting of the Left eye And slight deformity of face"; [Halifax], 30 June 1813

Sold for £4,812.50 inc. premium

ANGLO-ZULU WAR, RORKE'S DRIFT & CETAWAYO Diary of Major Henry Sparke Stabb, deputy assistant quartermaster-general of the 2nd Division, 32nd (Duke of Cornwall's) light Infantry (later staff officer to Colonel Whitehead), written in pencil in a field notebook, Durban to Fort Victoria, 14 June to 3 September 1879: '6.20. 2 LARGE BODIES OF ZULUS SEEN... 9.40 ZULUS IN FULL RETREAT': An eyewitness account of the battle of Ulundi, an encounter with Cetawayo and a visit to Rorke's Drift six months after the famous defence.

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ANGLO-ZULU WAR, RORKE'S DRIFT & CETAWAYO
Diary of Major Henry Sparke Stabb, deputy assistant quartermaster-general of the 2nd Division, 32nd (Duke of Cornwall's) light Infantry (later staff officer to Colonel Whitehead), written in pencil in a field notebook, Durban to Fort Victoria, 14 June to 3 September 1879: '6.20. 2 LARGE BODIES OF ZULUS SEEN... 9.40 ZULUS IN FULL RETREAT': An eyewitness account of the battle of Ulundi, an encounter with Cetawayo and a visit to Rorke's Drift six months after the famous defence.

Sold for £3,812.50 inc. premium

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ARCHITECTURE - OXFORD
WILLIAMS (WILLIAM, of Llandegai) Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, Oxford, [1732-33]

Amended

Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE BUSBY (CHARLES AUGUSTIN) A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments Suitable to Parlours, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Folding Doors, Chimney Pieces, Varandas, Frizes, &c., Edward Lumley, n.d. [watermarked "J. Whatman, 1833"]

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ARCHITECTURE BUSBY (CHARLES AUGUSTIN)
A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments Suitable to Parlours, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Folding Doors, Chimney Pieces, Varandas, Frizes, &c., Edward Lumley, n.d. [watermarked "J. Whatman, 1833"]

Sold for £765 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE JONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, William Kent, 1727

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ARCHITECTURE JONES (INIGO)
The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, William Kent, 1727

Sold for £1,083.75 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE SMEATON (JOHN) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, by H. Hughes, 1791

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ARCHITECTURE SMEATON (JOHN)
A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, by H. Hughes, 1791

Sold for £484.50 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN) Sketches in Architecture. Containing Plans and Elevations of Cottages, Villas, and Other Useful Buildings with Characteristic Scenery...[with] Six Designs for Improving and Embellishing Grounds. With Sections and Explanations by an Amateur [George Parkyns], 2 parts in 1 vol., Priestley and Weale, 1837 (2)

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ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN)
Sketches in Architecture. Containing Plans and Elevations of Cottages, Villas, and Other Useful Buildings with Characteristic Scenery...[with] Six Designs for Improving and Embellishing Grounds. With Sections and Explanations by an Amateur [George Parkyns], 2 parts in 1 vol., Priestley and Weale, 1837 (2)

Amended

Sold for £2,805 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, J. Taylor, [c.1800, plates dated 1778] (2)

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ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN)
Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, J. Taylor, [c.1800, plates dated 1778] (2)

Sold for £2,805 inc. premium

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ARCHITECTURE STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT.
The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830

Sold for £1,785 inc. premium

ARCHITECTURE TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE) Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Rome, and Other Parts of Italy, During the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796, for the Author, 1799

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ARCHITECTURE TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE)
Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Rome, and Other Parts of Italy, During the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796, for the Author, 1799

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELL
Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661

£20,000 - £40,000

CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIRE The remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, an extensive collection loose and in bundles, contained in seven tin trunks

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CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIRE
The remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, an extensive collection loose and in bundles, contained in seven tin trunks

Sold for £4,812.50 inc. premium

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COSTUME
A large collection of nineteenth century pen, coloured ink and wash drawings of historical costumes, [mid-nineteenth century]

Sold for £765 inc. premium

EROTICA NAFZAWI (UMAR IBN MUHAMMAD). Cheikh Nefzaoui. [The Perfumed Garden] Traduite de l'Arabe par M. le baron R***, capitaine d'etat major, LIMITED TO 35 COPIES, [Algiers, for Auguste Regnault], 1850 [but 1876, dated 22 February 1877 in Arabic on errata]

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EROTICA
NAFZAWI (UMAR IBN MUHAMMAD). Cheikh Nefzaoui. [The Perfumed Garden] Traduite de l'Arabe par M. le baron R***, capitaine d'etat major, LIMITED TO 35 COPIES, [Algiers, for Auguste Regnault], 1850 [but 1876, dated 22 February 1877 in Arabic on errata]

Sold for £10,687.50 inc. premium

GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE) Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to Mr Penman of the Gravesend Ragged School, headed "The day of your School treat", Galatz, 5 March 1872

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GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)
Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to Mr Penman of the Gravesend Ragged School, headed "The day of your School treat", Galatz, 5 March 1872

£600 - £800

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GRANDVILLE (J.J.)
Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 2 vol., Paris, H. Fournier, 1844 (3)

Sold for £1,657.50 inc. premium

HOPPUS (EDWARD) Practical Measuring Now Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, FIRST EDITION, narrow 8vo; and 56 others, Hoppus' Practical Measuring, printed in London, Derby, Manchester, Edinburgh, York, Denbigh (in Welsh, 1816) and elsewhere, ranging from 1803 into the twentieth century (70)

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HOPPUS (EDWARD)
Practical Measuring Now Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, FIRST EDITION, narrow 8vo; and 56 others, Hoppus' Practical Measuring, printed in London, Derby, Manchester, Edinburgh, York, Denbigh (in Welsh, 1816) and elsewhere, ranging from 1803 into the twentieth century (70)

Sold for £956.25 inc. premium

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IRELAND
SMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author, 1750

Sold for £701.25 inc. premium

LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERY Two volumes of social history, comprising a journal of a visit to London, 1849 and an early 19th century recipe book: 'I SAW FOUR VELOCIPEDES GOING UP PARK STREET ONE AFTER ANOTHER'

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LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERY
Two volumes of social history, comprising a journal of a visit to London, 1849 and an early 19th century recipe book: 'I SAW FOUR VELOCIPEDES GOING UP PARK STREET ONE AFTER ANOTHER'

Sold for £2,040 inc. premium

MUSIC PUCCINI (GIACOMO) Autograph musical quotation signed ("Giacomo Puccini"), of the phrase 'Mi chiamano Mimi', three bars on a single stave, Torre de Lago, 10 December 1905

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MUSIC
PUCCINI (GIACOMO) Autograph musical quotation signed ("Giacomo Puccini"), of the phrase 'Mi chiamano Mimi', three bars on a single stave, Torre de Lago, 10 December 1905

Sold for £1,530 inc. premium

MUSIC ROSSINI (GIOACHINO) Autograph manuscript signed ("G. Rossini") of his song 'Mi lagnerò tacendo', the upper stave marked "Canto" and the lower two "Piano Forte", "Paris a 30 Avril 1834"

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MUSIC
ROSSINI (GIOACHINO) Autograph manuscript signed ("G. Rossini") of his song 'Mi lagnerò tacendo', the upper stave marked "Canto" and the lower two "Piano Forte", "Paris a 30 Avril 1834"

£2,000 - £4,000

MUSIC VERDI (GIUSEPPE) Autograph letter signed ("G. Verdi"), to the opera manager Benjamin Lumley ("Caro Lumley"), telling him that he will be with him at three tomorrow afternoon, Paris, 1 February, docketed in another hand 1852; written the day before the premiere of Alexander Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias, the inspiration for La Traviata

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MUSIC VERDI (GIUSEPPE)
Autograph letter signed ("G. Verdi"), to the opera manager Benjamin Lumley ("Caro Lumley"), telling him that he will be with him at three tomorrow afternoon, Paris, 1 February, docketed in another hand 1852; written the day before the premiere of Alexander Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias, the inspiration for La Traviata

Sold for £892.50 inc. premium

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Document signed ("Napoleon"), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, Tuileries, 1 March 1808

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Document signed ("Napoleon"), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, Tuileries, 1 March 1808

£1,000 - £1,500

NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Emma Hamilton ("My Dear Emma"), headed "Just Anchored" [HM Ship Amazon], Deal, 4 October 1801: 'JUST ANCHORED... YOU ARE RIGHT NO CHAMPAGNE TILL WE CAN CRACK A BOTTLE TOGETHER'

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NELSON (HORATIO)
Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Emma Hamilton ("My Dear Emma"), headed "Just Anchored" [HM Ship Amazon], Deal, 4 October 1801: 'JUST ANCHORED... YOU ARE RIGHT NO CHAMPAGNE TILL WE CAN CRACK A BOTTLE TOGETHER'

Sold for £8,187.50 inc. premium

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)] A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation etc., by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore, Farr and others (c.33)

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.

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[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]
A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation etc., by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore, Farr and others (c.33)

Sold for £637.50 inc. premium

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)] Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.

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[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858

Sold for £535.50 inc. premium

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War... Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Printed by Harrison & Sons, 1858

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.

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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War... Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Printed by Harrison & Sons, 1858

Sold for £10,062.50 inc. premium

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, 1860; and 3 other association copies including a book inscribed by Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau's copy of one of her own books (4)

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.

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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, 1860; and 3 other association copies including a book inscribed by Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau's copy of one of her own books (4)

Sold for £3,562.50 inc. premium

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.

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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
HUGHES (AMY) Practical Hints on District Nursing (Burdett Series, No. 1), Scientific Press, [1898]

£400 - £600

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Captain Frederic Brine of the Royal Engineers, thanking him for his "kind recollection of us & the part we were privileged to take in our Country's late glorious calamity" which has touched her "very deeply", 30 Old Burlington Street, 24 November 1856: 'I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN SUCH A BAD MOTHER TO THEM TO COME HOME & LEAVE THEM IN THEIR CRIMEAN GRAVES'.

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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Captain Frederic Brine of the Royal Engineers, thanking him for his "kind recollection of us & the part we were privileged to take in our Country's late glorious calamity" which has touched her "very deeply", 30 Old Burlington Street, 24 November 1856: 'I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN SUCH A BAD MOTHER TO THEM TO COME HOME & LEAVE THEM IN THEIR CRIMEAN GRAVES'.

Sold for £2,167.50 inc. premium

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Dawson W. Turner, London, 4 June 1870: 'A POOR WOMAN OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS & ILLNESS': a harassed Florence Nightingale responds to one of her admirers; with another note about Persian cats

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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Dawson W. Turner, London, 4 June 1870: 'A POOR WOMAN OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS & ILLNESS': a harassed Florence Nightingale responds to one of her admirers; with another note about Persian cats

Sold for £1,211.25 inc. premium

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PANORAMA - SOUTH COAST
HAVELL (ROBERT, Junior) Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, [Robert Havell & Son], March 1823

Sold for £5,687.50 inc. premium

PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, [1860s]

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PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK
Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, [1860s]

Sold for £1,912.50 inc. premium

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SHIPBUILDING - "EMPRESS OF BRITAIN"
Q.S.S. "Empress of Britain" Built by Messrs. John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., [1931]

Sold for £1,530 inc. premium

SMITH (GEORGE) A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, FIRST EDITION, J. Taylor, 1808

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SMITH (GEORGE)
A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, FIRST EDITION, J. Taylor, 1808

Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium

VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR Collection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein

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VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR
Collection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein

Sold for £2,805 inc. premium

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WATSON (JOHN)
Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., 4to (4)

Sold for £1,785 inc. premium

YOUNG (BRIGHAM) Photograph signed and subscribed ("Yours truly/ Brigham Young"), showing him head-and-shoulders turning to his right, [1870-77]; together with a bold presentation signature ("Brigham Young") on a plain visiting card (2)

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YOUNG (BRIGHAM)
Photograph signed and subscribed ("Yours truly/ Brigham Young"), showing him head-and-shoulders turning to his right, [1870-77]; together with a bold presentation signature ("Brigham Young") on a plain visiting card (2)

Sold for £1,275 inc. premium

ASTRONOMY - B.A.S., ECLIPSE 1900, AND THE YERKES TELESCOPE Photograph album containing views relating to the British Astronomical Society expedition to view the total solar eclipse at Wadesborough, North Carolina in 1900, [1900]

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ASTRONOMY - B.A.S., ECLIPSE 1900, AND THE YERKES TELESCOPE
Photograph album containing views relating to the British Astronomical Society expedition to view the total solar eclipse at Wadesborough, North Carolina in 1900, [1900]

Sold for £1,402.50 inc. premium

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BORELLI (GIOVANNI ALFONSO)
De motu animalium, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Rome, A. Bernabo, 1680-1681

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS SMITH (EDWARD DALTON) A watercolour of a pink Camellia, signed in pencil on image "E.D. Smith Delt.", [nineteenth century]; and 2 other nineteenth century watercolours of white Camellias, each approximately 235 x 225mm.; and 2 other watercolours of Camellias (3)

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BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
SMITH (EDWARD DALTON) A watercolour of a pink Camellia, signed in pencil on image "E.D. Smith Delt.", [nineteenth century]; and 2 other nineteenth century watercolours of white Camellias, each approximately 235 x 225mm.; and 2 other watercolours of Camellias (3)

£500 - £700

BRIGGS (HENRY) Logarithmicall Arithmetike. Or Tables of Logarithmes for Absolute Numbers from an Unite to 100000; as Also for Sines, Tangentes and Secantes for Every Minute of a Quadrant, George Miller, 1631

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BRIGGS (HENRY)
Logarithmicall Arithmetike. Or Tables of Logarithmes for Absolute Numbers from an Unite to 100000; as Also for Sines, Tangentes and Secantes for Every Minute of a Quadrant, George Miller, 1631

Sold for £701.25 inc. premium

BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 vol.; Oiseaux, 9 vol.), FIRST EDITION, Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1767 & 1770-1783, sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation of this edition

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BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 vol.; Oiseaux, 9 vol.), FIRST EDITION, Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1767 & 1770-1783, sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation of this edition

Sold for £892.50 inc. premium

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CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)
Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, London, [?William Bowyer], 1733

Sold for £1,275 inc. premium

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2 — AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT Official portrait, signed below the image ("U.S. Grant"), [c.1870]

7• — ARCHITECTURE - OXFORD WILLIAMS (WILLIAM, of Llandegai) Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, Oxford, [1732-33]

8• — ARCHITECTURE BUSBY (CHARLES AUGUSTIN) A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments Suitable to Parlours, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Folding Doors, Chimney Pieces, Varandas, Frizes, &c., Edward Lumley, n.d. [watermarked "J. Whatman, 1833"]

9• — ARCHITECTURE JONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, William Kent, 1727

10• — ARCHITECTURE SMEATON (JOHN) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, by H. Hughes, 1791

12• — ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, J. Taylor, [c.1800, plates dated 1778] (2)

13• — ARCHITECTURE STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830

14• — ARCHITECTURE TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE) Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Rome, and Other Parts of Italy, During the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796, for the Author, 1799

15• — BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELL Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661

16 — CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIRE The remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, an extensive collection loose and in bundles, contained in seven tin trunks

17* — COSTUME A large collection of nineteenth century pen, coloured ink and wash drawings of historical costumes, [mid-nineteenth century]

18• — EROTICA NAFZAWI (UMAR IBN MUHAMMAD). Cheikh Nefzaoui. [The Perfumed Garden] Traduite de l'Arabe par M. le baron R***, capitaine d'etat major, LIMITED TO 35 COPIES, [Algiers, for Auguste Regnault], 1850 [but 1876, dated 22 February 1877 in Arabic on errata]

19 — GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE) Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to Mr Penman of the Gravesend Ragged School, headed "The day of your School treat", Galatz, 5 March 1872

20• — GRANDVILLE (J.J.) Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 2 vol., Paris, H. Fournier, 1844 (3)

22• — IRELAND SMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author, 1750

23• — LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERY Two volumes of social history, comprising a journal of a visit to London, 1849 and an early 19th century recipe book: 'I SAW FOUR VELOCIPEDES GOING UP PARK STREET ONE AFTER ANOTHER'

24 — MUSIC PUCCINI (GIACOMO) Autograph musical quotation signed ("Giacomo Puccini"), of the phrase 'Mi chiamano Mimi', three bars on a single stave, Torre de Lago, 10 December 1905

25 — MUSIC ROSSINI (GIOACHINO) Autograph manuscript signed ("G. Rossini") of his song 'Mi lagnerò tacendo', the upper stave marked "Canto" and the lower two "Piano Forte", "Paris a 30 Avril 1834"

27 — NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Document signed ("Napoleon"), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, Tuileries, 1 March 1808

28 — NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Emma Hamilton ("My Dear Emma"), headed "Just Anchored" [HM Ship Amazon], Deal, 4 October 1801: 'JUST ANCHORED... YOU ARE RIGHT NO CHAMPAGNE TILL WE CAN CRACK A BOTTLE TOGETHER'

29• — [NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)] A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation etc., by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore, Farr and others (c.33)

32• — NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, 1860; and 3 other association copies including a book inscribed by Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau's copy of one of her own books (4)

33• — NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) HUGHES (AMY) Practical Hints on District Nursing (Burdett Series, No. 1), Scientific Press, [1898]

35 — NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Dawson W. Turner, London, 4 June 1870: 'A POOR WOMAN OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS & ILLNESS': a harassed Florence Nightingale responds to one of her admirers; with another note about Persian cats

36 — PANORAMA - SOUTH COAST HAVELL (ROBERT, Junior) Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, [Robert Havell & Son], March 1823

37 — PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, [1860s]

38• — SHIPBUILDING - "EMPRESS OF BRITAIN" Q.S.S. "Empress of Britain" Built by Messrs. John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., [1931]

39• — SMITH (GEORGE) A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, FIRST EDITION, J. Taylor, 1808

40 — VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR Collection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein

41• — WATSON (JOHN) Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., 4to (4)

42 — YOUNG (BRIGHAM) Photograph signed and subscribed ("Yours truly/ Brigham Young"), showing him head-and-shoulders turning to his right, [1870-77]; together with a bold presentation signature ("Brigham Young") on a plain visiting card (2)

43 — ASTRONOMY - B.A.S., ECLIPSE 1900, AND THE YERKES TELESCOPE Photograph album containing views relating to the British Astronomical Society expedition to view the total solar eclipse at Wadesborough, North Carolina in 1900, [1900]

44• — BORELLI (GIOVANNI ALFONSO) De motu animalium, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Rome, A. Bernabo, 1680-1681

45 — BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS SMITH (EDWARD DALTON) A watercolour of a pink Camellia, signed in pencil on image "E.D. Smith Delt.", [nineteenth century]; and 2 other nineteenth century watercolours of white Camellias, each approximately 235 x 225mm.; and 2 other watercolours of Camellias (3)

46• — BRIGGS (HENRY) Logarithmicall Arithmetike. Or Tables of Logarithmes for Absolute Numbers from an Unite to 100000; as Also for Sines, Tangentes and Secantes for Every Minute of a Quadrant, George Miller, 1631

48• — CHESELDEN (WILLIAM) Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, London, [?William Bowyer], 1733

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT
Official portrait, signed below the image ("U.S. Grant"), [c.1870]

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ARCHITECTURE - OXFORD
WILLIAMS (WILLIAM, of Llandegai) Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, Oxford, [1732-33]

8^• —
ARCHITECTURE BUSBY (CHARLES AUGUSTIN)
A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments Suitable to Parlours, Dining & Drawing Rooms, Folding Doors, Chimney Pieces, Varandas, Frizes, &c., Edward Lumley, n.d. [watermarked "J. Whatman, 1833"]

9^• —
ARCHITECTURE JONES (INIGO)
The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, William Kent, 1727

10^• —
ARCHITECTURE SMEATON (JOHN)
A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, by H. Hughes, 1791

12^• —
ARCHITECTURE SOANE (JOHN)
Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, J. Taylor, [c.1800, plates dated 1778] (2)

13^• —
ARCHITECTURE STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT.
The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830

14^• —
ARCHITECTURE TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE)
Etchings, Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture; Drawn from the Originals in Rome, and Other Parts of Italy, During the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796, for the Author, 1799

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BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELL
Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661

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CAMPBELL-ORDE FAMILY OF ARGYLLSHIRE
The remaining estate and personal papers of the Campbell-Orde family of Kilmory House, Argyllshire, dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, an extensive collection loose and in bundles, contained in seven tin trunks

17^* —
COSTUME
A large collection of nineteenth century pen, coloured ink and wash drawings of historical costumes, [mid-nineteenth century]

18^• —
EROTICA
NAFZAWI (UMAR IBN MUHAMMAD). Cheikh Nefzaoui. [The Perfumed Garden] Traduite de l'Arabe par M. le baron R***, capitaine d'etat major, LIMITED TO 35 COPIES, [Algiers, for Auguste Regnault], 1850 [but 1876, dated 22 February 1877 in Arabic on errata]

19 —
GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)
Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to Mr Penman of the Gravesend Ragged School, headed "The day of your School treat", Galatz, 5 March 1872

20^• —
GRANDVILLE (J.J.)
Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 2 vol., Paris, H. Fournier, 1844 (3)

22^• —
IRELAND
SMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author, 1750

23^• —
LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERY
Two volumes of social history, comprising a journal of a visit to London, 1849 and an early 19th century recipe book: 'I SAW FOUR VELOCIPEDES GOING UP PARK STREET ONE AFTER ANOTHER'

24 —
MUSIC
PUCCINI (GIACOMO) Autograph musical quotation signed ("Giacomo Puccini"), of the phrase 'Mi chiamano Mimi', three bars on a single stave, Torre de Lago, 10 December 1905

25 —
MUSIC
ROSSINI (GIOACHINO) Autograph manuscript signed ("G. Rossini") of his song 'Mi lagnerò tacendo', the upper stave marked "Canto" and the lower two "Piano Forte", "Paris a 30 Avril 1834"

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Document signed ("Napoleon"), being a brevet authorizing the pension of 200 francs to be paid to François Bouvier, Tuileries, 1 March 1808

28 —
NELSON (HORATIO)
Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to Emma Hamilton ("My Dear Emma"), headed "Just Anchored" [HM Ship Amazon], Deal, 4 October 1801: 'JUST ANCHORED... YOU ARE RIGHT NO CHAMPAGNE TILL WE CAN CRACK A BOTTLE TOGETHER'

29^• —
[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]
A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation etc., by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore, Farr and others (c.33)

32^• —
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, 1860; and 3 other association copies including a book inscribed by Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau's copy of one of her own books (4)

33^• —
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
HUGHES (AMY) Practical Hints on District Nursing (Burdett Series, No. 1), Scientific Press, [1898]

35 —
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Autograph letter signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to Dawson W. Turner, London, 4 June 1870: 'A POOR WOMAN OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS & ILLNESS': a harassed Florence Nightingale responds to one of her admirers; with another note about Persian cats

36 —
PANORAMA - SOUTH COAST
HAVELL (ROBERT, Junior) Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, [Robert Havell & Son], March 1823

37 —
PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK
Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, [1860s]

38^• —
SHIPBUILDING - "EMPRESS OF BRITAIN"
Q.S.S. "Empress of Britain" Built by Messrs. John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., [1931]

39^• —
SMITH (GEORGE)
A Collection for Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste, FIRST EDITION, J. Taylor, 1808

40 —
VICTORIA & PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR
Collection of letters and photographs assembled by George Wise of the 4th Kings Royal Rifles, manservant to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein

41^• —
WATSON (JOHN)
Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., 4to (4)

42 —
YOUNG (BRIGHAM)
Photograph signed and subscribed ("Yours truly/ Brigham Young"), showing him head-and-shoulders turning to his right, [1870-77]; together with a bold presentation signature ("Brigham Young") on a plain visiting card (2)

43 —
ASTRONOMY - B.A.S., ECLIPSE 1900, AND THE YERKES TELESCOPE
Photograph album containing views relating to the British Astronomical Society expedition to view the total solar eclipse at Wadesborough, North Carolina in 1900, [1900]

44^• —
BORELLI (GIOVANNI ALFONSO)
De motu animalium, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Rome, A. Bernabo, 1680-1681

45 —
BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS
SMITH (EDWARD DALTON) A watercolour of a pink Camellia, signed in pencil on image "E.D. Smith Delt.", [nineteenth century]; and 2 other nineteenth century watercolours of white Camellias, each approximately 235 x 225mm.; and 2 other watercolours of Camellias (3)

46^• —
BRIGGS (HENRY)
Logarithmicall Arithmetike. Or Tables of Logarithmes for Absolute Numbers from an Unite to 100000; as Also for Sines, Tangentes and Secantes for Every Minute of a Quadrant, George Miller, 1631

48^• —
CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)
Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, London, [?William Bowyer], 1733