MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and manuscript material, including drawings and watercolours, dating from the 17th- to the 20th-centuries. Please see the detailed listing below. (qty)

MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and manuscript material, including drawings and watercolours, dating from the 17th- to the 20th-centuries, including 1) Joseph Cerbantes Altamirano's Juridico Informe por la Justicia de el B. D. Rafael Ome, Capitan D. Manvel Sarmiento ... En la causa que de oficio se ha contra ellos seguido, Sobre decirse fixaron famosos libelos ... Y la dedica a sus Maestros los M. RR. PP. Rector, Y Cathredaticos de la Universidad Real, que esta erigida en el illustre Collegio de s. Thomas, de que sue alumno ([?]Manila, University of Santo Tomas, 1679, 4to (292 x 217mm), 34-pages, stitched, RARE printed legal report on libels at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, which was founded in 1611, probably printed in Manila); 2) a collection of manuscript documents relating to the investigation into the theft of the Sacred Host and precious stones from the Cathedral of Riombamba, Ecuador, some dated 1777; 3) a collection of 12 original watercolours, [unsigned], including British and German topographical views, contained in a green diced calf album, [19th-century]; 4) an original watercolour by Maria Graham (1785-1842), indistinctly signed and/or inscribed lower right, of the Villa Cenci, Borghese Gardens, Rome [title on mount]; 5) 7 original drawings in a folder, including "a party at Chatsworth sketched by Mrs Nash about 1830", a view of Balaklava (1854), Maria Graham's "Garden from Drawing room Window", and 3 drawings by Alexander Fry of Beacon Hill in Rio de Janeiro, an aqueduct, and the fin of a flying fish respectively; 6) annotations and commentary by Richard Shilleto (1809-76), one of the greatest of English Greek scholars, in a proof copy of Lyttleton's translation of Milton's Samson Agonistes (London, 1867, 8vo, boards), with his copious pencil annotations in the margins of the printed text, and with his ink commentary written on a separate sheet, incorporating a letter by Shilleto to Lyttleton ("... I have had no time to keep a copy of what I send you. It has been written at odds and ends of time but I do not think I have omitted anything ..."), and on 32-pages of further ink annotation; 7) the papers of John Payne (1842-1916, poet and translator, best known for his translations of Boccaccio's "Decameron", "The Arabian Nights" and the Persian lyric poet "Hafez" or "Hafiz", and his association with "The Villon Society"), comprising very substantial autograph manuscripts and corrected proofs, contained in 9 archival boxes; 8) two typed letters, both signed "M. P. Gandhi", addressed to "Mr Erulkar", the first on paper headed "International Chamber of Commerce. Indian National Committee, 153, Canning Street, Calcutta," dated 25th June 1930, on one-page, stating "... The Simon Report has failed to make an impression and the struggle for civil disobedience will have to continue till success is achieved ..."; the other on paper headed "135, Canning Street [Calcutta]", on 2-pages, dated 23rd October 1930, stating, "... Other members of the Committee also stated that you are the proper man to deal with Mr. Balfour and that you could not be brow-beaten and that in fact his words must have hardened your attitude ...", with the Gandhi signatures bearing a resemblance to those of Mahatma Gandhi, but with the middle initial clearly as a "P", not "K"; with various other related typed letters by other correspondents; 9) a one-page [?]mimeographed typescript document on paper, with parallel text in German and Polish, addressed to the Jewish Beth Abraham Institute by Chaim Rumkowski, giving instructions to the Jewish population on how to conduct themselves under the Nazi regime, with the printed facsimile signature of Chaim Rumkowski at the foot, stamped at the head and foot "Der Aelteste der Juden in Lodz", dated 8 December 1939; 10) Desmond FLOWER & A. N. L. MUNBY (editors). English Poetical Autographs. A Collection of Facsimiles of Autograph Poems from Sir Thomas Wyat to Rupert Brooke, London, 1938, folio, plates, original green buckram, limited to 1,500 copies; 11) an illustrated autograph letter by Zwy Milshtein (1934-2020), the Romanian-born French painter, on one side of a large single sheet (340 x 290mm), opening, "Salut Philippe [the recipient unknown], Je t'ecris du Rosebud ...", describing, and illustrating, a colourful night at the famous "Rosebud" night club in Montparnasse, Paris, [undated]; and 12) a collection of "First Day Cover" Israeli stamps printed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on 3 sheets, 1994. The lot sold not subject to return. (qty)