b'107Books & Ephemera1117Persian poetry manuscript leaf, circa 1600,bearing Leckie Gallery label verso,21.5 x 12.5cm, 41 x 30cm overall$200300 1118FRENCH HISTORICAL INTEREST: A financial contract written on vellum dated October 24th 1648, detailing an annuity of 17 French pounds to be paid to royal accountant Jean Jurain in the city of Dijon, with official stamp of the government of Dijon and later 1692 additional note indicating the cessation of the arrangement. (39 x 26.5cm)$200300 1119FRENCH HISTORICAL INTEREST: A military missive addressed to Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy, dated June 25th 1682, sent from a cousin residing in Landes, southern France. Forced to pursue a military career due to his familys poor fortunes, Louis Thomas was later dismissed from the French army when his wife refused the1122romantic attentions of King Louis XIV. (25 x 37cm)$200250 1120ROBERT SAYER, (1725-1794), 1122The Artists Vade Mecum; being the whole Art of Drawing,HISTORY OF THE JEWS, [Lon. 1829], 1st edition in three taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundredvol. octavo, brown half morocco with marbled boards and gilt folio copper plates; containing great variety of examples inlettering to the spines (3)every branch of that noble art; as parts of the face, heads,$120200hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings,1123landscapes. Collected from the works of the greatest masters. To which is prefixed, an Essay on Drawing: with introductoryCHARLES DICKENS,rules for the use of learners: in which the first principles of thatA CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it maybeing A Ghost Story of Christmas.,be attained in a short time without a master. with illustrations by John Leech,1762; 8pp., 100 numbered copper plates [lacks #46]. Light[London; Chapman & Hall, 1843], 3rd Edition, foxing and browning to the paper throughout, several ink166pp + 2 adverts.;markings, mainly to the title page; Contemporary boardscontemporary cloth binding with gilt title to upper board.but lacks spine; pages mainly in bundles. ContemporaryStave One as the first chapter heading, title-page printed ownership name of Mary Hanbury, June 1738. 4to.; in red and blue, frontispiece & 3 plates by John Leech hand coloured. This was the last edition published in the same [Printed and published according to Act of Parliament: and soldyear as the original issue, which was done on Christmas by R. Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, in Fleet-Street. MDCCLXII]. Eve. According to John Eckel, A Christmas Carol was first Despite its authoritative title, this is not so much a detailedpublished on December 19th, 1843 and sold 6,000 copies on drawing manual as a rare and fascinating cross section of thethe first day. Before the end of the year, eleven days later, it stock of the print seller and publisher Robert Sayer in 1762.was in the third edition, with the combined number of copies The Vade Mecum was first published in 1762, of which justof the second and third editions being estimated at only two to 6 copies - British Library, Getty, Yale Center, DeWint, Statethree thousand copies.Library of Australia, one sold in London in 2015, and this$400600 example are recorded. The second edition is recorded in just two copies (Yale, and University of California). A third edition1124appeared in 1776 (BL, Leeds, Columbia, Yale Center only).$8001,200UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: McCLELLANS Own Story 1887 edition attractively rebound; Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan (2 vols) 1888 edition attractively rebound; 1121 Picturesque America - Centennial Edition in 2 volumes Thomas Dudley FOSBROKE (1770 - 1842), (1974); The Photographic History of The Civil War In Ten Berkeley Manuscripts. Abstracts and Extracts of SmythsVolumes (2006 reprint).Lives of the Berkeleys, illustrative of Ancient Manners and the$200300 Constitution,[London : John Nichols and Son], 1st ed. xii, 242 pages, with1125frontispiece of a view of Berkeley Castle and Church, plus 2THEODORE ROOSEVELT,folding genealogical plates; half calf over marbled boards withThe Winning of the West, volumes 1 - IV, [New York : G.P. 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Binding label of FrankPutnams Sons, 1889 - 1896] 4volumes, first trade edition.Murray, Nottingham.$100150$200300 '