Five Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Local Interest, Methodism in...

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Five Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Local Interest, Methodism in Georgian Nottinghamshire: Joseph Raynor of Mansfield, civil engineer and an ardent Methodist, his commonplace book, dated from October 1804, [53]ff of ink manuscript, mostly transcriptions and thoughts of a religious nature, including references to the Holy Bible, there is however an odd account of the 'Happy Death' of a soldier, John Birks, who died at Mansfield on 3rd October 1804, who, having left his regiment on furlough, drew his pay and spent most of it on the stagecoach to Mansfield, where he was not afraid to die, glad that he saw the face of a Methodist - which he wouldn't have done at the army camp, the verso with some multiplication tables and mathematics, contemporary calf over marbled boards, perished, loosening contents, later 19th century printed yellow book label of his descendant: Thos. Alex. Rayner, 4to; Mathematics: a George III manuscript arithmetic exercise book, Jos. Wood, July 2nd 1796, approx. [55]ff of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, both calculations and some explanatory text, contemporary parchment over boards, some wear and losses, but holding, 4to; Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852): Tennyson (Alfred, Poet Laureate), Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. A New Edition, London: Edward Moxon, 1853, half-title present if detached, original wrappers, 8vo, another copy, disbound, lacking wrappers, 8vo, 1852 Act of Parliament for the day of the Duke's Funeral to be a Bank Holiday, disbound, 8vo, portrait engravings and prints, some further ephemera, etc; a Victorian 'scrap' album of newspaper clippings, mid-19th c, approx. [55]ff, including articles on water-poisoning, cholera, angling and fishing, the philanthropic generosity of Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts, the London poor, discoveries and inventions, Price of Elephants in Assam, A Maori Bird Call.-In New Zealand [...], books published on Our Australian Colonies & British North America, earthquakes, Captain Moody's Floating Forts, further inventions and technology, [the ring and] Auction "Knock-outs", railways, etc., contemporary green quarter-roan over marbled boards, perished spione but holding, marbled edges, green seaweed endpapers, 4to; [&] Medical: Croydon Rural & Merton Joint Hospital Board Wages and Petty Cash Book, dated 1st December, 1910 to 25th January, 1912, [61]ff of manuscript accounts, contemporary red quarter-calf over green moiré silk, gilt-lettered upper-cover, marbled endpapers, foolscap folio (35 x 21.5cm), (5)