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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 53
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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    Bristol
  1. Acland's CENTINEL Quarterly Publication. 'Who Goes There?' 'A Friend' - 'The Word?' 'Reform and Vote by Ballot!' First issue, Feb. 12th 1831. 4to, 4pp. Edges slightly ragged, split at fold. 1831. £8.00
    Note in MS in margin that it was purchased at the office of Publication in Bridgewell lane, 12 Feby. 1831, signed Edward Tew.


  2. Ashmead (Geo. C.), Surveyor PLANS OF PREMISES in and adjoining to the City of Bristol belonging to the Feoffees of Terrill & Foskett's Estate, and the Feoffees of The Bodenham Estate, and Broadmead Meeting House &c. Size 14" x 19", with 6 pages of detailed lithographed plans, including Broadmead Meeting House, King Street Baptist Meeting House, Castle Green, West St., Bedford Place, plus 2pp. of text, 5pp. of Schedules, decorative lithographed title page. Plain wraps, minor tear in back wrap. 1878. £50.00
    Not in Matthews's Bristol Bibiography, or Hyett & Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature.


  3. Blitz on Bristol PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Five black and white prints size 10" x 8", showing: the bombed University Great Hall, with huge pile of twisted tram rails; Dutch House in High St., close up of balcony with figure of 'Crimean Veteran Still Standing Guard'; the Dutch House with side of building crumbling; 'Oldest church in city' in ruins after rain; a bombed 'suburban church in Bristol' not identified, shows altar end of church with wall above in distinctive patterned brickwork.... together with.... half plate photos of bombed 'house in suburbs', with men working to clear rubble, and 'business as usual in Blitzed City of Bristol' with Duke of Kent being presented with string of sausages by a girl; full plate photo of inside of huge workshop with hundreds of men 'being trained for war services' (possibly B.A.C?), and two other uncaptioned photos of workmen training and the militia at target practice. Occasional light brown markings, most photos captioned on verso, stamp of Northcliffe Newspapers Group on verso. 10 items in all. 1940. £50.00

  4. Boiler Explosions Acts OFFICIAL REPORTS on boiler explosions at Pountney Pottery, Fishponds, 1931; Broad Plain Soap Works, 1932; Latham, Currier and Leather Merchant, Redcliff St., 1906. Each sm. folio, one page of text plus one page diagram. 1906-32. £16.00

  5. Bristol Boundaries REPORT UPON THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY of the City of Bristol. 10pp, with 4 hand-coloured plans by R.K. Dawson, on 2 sheets. Scales 4" and 1" to 1 mile. Folio, recent paper boards. 1831. £36.00

  6. Bristol Evening Post VICTORY EDITION May 8th 1945. 8pp., printed in blue, black and red on glossy paper. Numerous photos. 1945. £10.00

  7. Bristol Hippodrome THEATRE PROGRAMME for 'The Sands O'Dee'. 7pp., 4to, Illustration on front wrap in monochrome. Many adverts for local firms.... together with smaller 8vo programme for the same play, with attractive art-nouveau style illustrations on front and back. Dec. 1912. £8.00

  8. Building Society BRISTOL & WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY Leaflet printed in black and red, 4pp. 4to, listing directors, Shares available, sample mortgage repayments, aims, etc. Folds.... together with.... Bristol, West of England & South Wales Permanent Building Society, New Prospectus. 1874. 4pp., 8vo, pink paper. c1880 and 1874. £18.00

  9. Central Unit for Environmental Planning SEVERNSIDE A Summary of the Feasibility Study. 27pp., wraps, spiral binding. 1971. £8.00

  10. City Museum Exhibition TWENTY IDEAS FOR BRISTOL 20 cards, in original special envelope, 8vo, printed text illustrated with line drawings and photographs. Prepared for an exhibition in 1975. Includes 'Tropical Greenhouse at St. James Barton', 'Portway Park' etc. 1975. £7.00

  11. Elder, Dempster & Co. BEAUTY SPOTS IN THE WEST INDIES Six coloured postcards of the West Indies, with perforations, each with an inset oval of an Imperial Direct West India Mail Service ship. Map, time-table of sailings Avonmouth, Bristol - Jamaica, details of fares, etc. Illustration on front wrap. 1907. £16.00

  12. Free French in Bristol TWO ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS size 6" x 8", one showing 'Members of Bristol French Colony lining up to kiss the Standard at the Presentation by General Petit at Bristol', and the other 'General Petit Saluting the Standard after handing it to Lieut. Martin at the Grammar School Bristol, to take to The Free French Troops in England.' First photo has some light brownish marks. With press labels, and 'passed by Censor' on verso. c1940. £15.00
    With stamp of Northcliffe Newspapers on verso.


  13. George's Sons AN ILLUSTRATED LIST OF CHRISTMAS BOOKS Supplied by William George's Sons, The Book Store Bristol. 1895. 16pp., sm. 4to, numerous illustrations.... together with.... Selected Popular Books for Presentation and School Prizes, circa 1900. 23pp., 8vo, illustrated.... together with.... Modern Books.... largely from the Library of the late Sir John Maclean. 1896. 44pp. 8vo, .... A Book-Hunter's Collection.... the library of the late G.B. Grove of Birmingham, Parts 1 and 2, each 24pp., 8vo. Together with 9 other Georges catalogues of similar dates, nos. 169, 171, 198, 206, 248, 312, 331, 333, 334. 14 items in all. 1895 and slightly later. £26.00

  14. Ingram (John) LETTER to Charles Wills, thanking him for a photograph of Chatterton's "supposed birthroom. I will keep it in my private collection of Chattertoniana." He encloses order forms "in case any of your friends care to buy the book." 1 side of a folded 4to sheet. London, July 25th, 1910. £14.00
    Ingram's 'The True Chatterton' was published in 1910.


  15. Long Ashton etc. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXV N.E. & S.E, Scale 6" = 1 mile, size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. 1905. £9.00
    Covers Ashton Court, South West Bristol up to Queens Square.


  16. Peto (Sir S. Morton) LETTER to 'My dear Berkeley' (presumably fellow Liberal candidate, F.H.F. Berkeley M.P.). 4p, 8vo, on headed note-paper addressed Great George St., Westminster. 13th June, 1865. £17.00
    Says a Deputation from Bristol has called, that he has written to them about the matter they raised. 'I am sure you will feel that as a Candidate for the first time presenting myself I am hardly able to treat any subject bought before me in the same way which you, as a Member of 28 years standing, are perfectly entitled to do'


  17. Port of Bristol CENTENARY BOOKLET Royal Portbury Dock 1977 Avonmouth Dock Centenary 1877-1977. Full colour, 18pp., wraps, many illusts, including reproductions of old photographs. 1977. £5.00
    Loosely inserted are instructions for Bristol Jubilee Procession, 11th June, 1977.


  18. Redcliffe Street LEASE FOR A YEAR of a tenement in Redcliffe Street, William Bridges Champion, Gentleman, to Elizabeth Elton, Widow, of Ashley, Gloucestershire. Vellum, size 17" x 23", wax seal. 1770. £17.00

  19. Reid (W) & Son, Pr. THE BRISTOL EVENING NEWS Special Edition. June 28th 1918. With late news on verso printed sideways 'Peace at Last. Treaty Signed To-Day. The Peace Treaty was Signed at Versailles To-Day at 8.32.' 1918. £8.00
    Also contains report of Clifton College v. Old Cliftonians cricket match.


  20. Seamen and Boatmen's Friend Society PLEASANT SATURDAY EVENINGS for the Sailors & The People.... Address by Mrs. W.B. Daddow, Glees, Part Songs and Solos, by the Oxford St. Glee Party.... New Mission Centre Terrett Memorial Hall, Hotwells. Poster, attractively printed in heavy typefaces, size 34" x 11". c1910. £16.00

  21. Shirehampton, Pill ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet Glos LXXL. N.W & S.W. Scale 6" = 1 mile, on thick paper, size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. Outline hand-colouring. c1885. £9.00
    Covers mouth of the Avon, Avonmouth Dock, King's Weston etc.


  22. Sneyd Park PLAN, PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Imposing Residence known as "Netherdown" The Avenue, Sneyd Park.... Half an Acre including Building Plot fronting the Avenue.... for Sale by Auction.... on Wednesday, 24th March, 1971. 4to, card covers, 6pp, including plan. 1971. £10.00

  23. St. Mary Redcliffe GREAT SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING for the Restoration of the Church, with some Notes on the History of the Church... Booklet, 4to, wraps with coloured illustration of church, 23pp., finely printed in red and black, photographic postcard of the clergy loosely inserted. 1933. £14.00

  24. St. Stephen's Church DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT MONUMENT Offprint from Bristol Mirror, May 11th, 1844, 2pp., 4to, blank adjoining leaf, with a single sheet offprint concerning another discovery, June 1st, 1844. Embossed ownership stamp in corner. 1844. £6.00

  25. Stapleton, Gloucester and Stokes-Croft Turnpike Land ELIGIBLE FREEHOLD LAND, Well adapted either for Building or Gardens. To be Sold by Auction, By Mr Williams.... at the Full Moon, in Stokes-Croft, On Wednesday the 20th May inst.... 35 Lots of valuable Ground fronting the Stapleton Turnpike Road.... 22 Lots ditto, fronting the Gloucester Road.... 20 Lots ditto, fronting the Road leading to Rennison's Bath.... Sm folio, 2 sides. (1812) £20.00
    The date has been added later in ink to the top leaf.


  26. Stothert (G.K) & Co. Ltd. BI-MONTHLY RAIL, BUS, AND TIDE TIME TABLE August-September 1916. On stiff card, size 8" x 4", folded, bright red on one side. 1916. £8.00
    Gives times from Avonmouth Dock to Clifton Down, Bristol to Portishead etc. With information about G.K. Stothert's Dry Dock, etc.


  27. Suspension Bridge PRESS CUTTINGS of Clifton Suspension Bridge Centenary, 1964. Folder, containing two actual photographs of Sir Humphrey Brunel Noble at the bridge before the Centenary Dinner; 12 pages of press cuttings; typescripts of 'Today' programme feature, 'Tonight' BBC TV feature, etc. Vinyl folder with gilt lettered title. 1964. £25.00

  28. Wine Merchant's LETTER BOOK of James Evens, of the firm Evens & Sons, Bridge Street, 1880 - 1920, and E.D. Evens, 1928. 280 pages of copies on flimsy paper, mainly handwritten, a few typed, plus many pages of blanks. The letters mainly concern the division of capital between the family, and ensuing arguments: James Evens writes of his older brother "his advice was to decline the offer and go out to Cognac and lay everything before Mr Martell". Some letters refer to accounts of "The Valley Water Mills Colour Co." 4to, rubbed boards and worn morocco spine, a few sheets cut out, some copies rather feint. Indelible ownership stamp inside front board, a few ballpoint notes re. the company on first page. 1880-1928. £50.00

  29. Wood & Hemmons ADVERTISING BROCHURE 4pp., oblong 4to, on glossy paper. Advertises their antique and modern furniture on show at Canynge's House, Redcliff St. 3 photographs of the interior. n.d. 1920 or earlier. £8.00

    Bristol Acts

  30. Boundaries AN ACT for restoring to the City and County of Bristol a Portion of the ancient Boundary of the same. 4pp. 1842. £10.00

  31. Bristol Port AN ACT for defining and consolidating the Undertaking and Mortgage debt of "The Bristol Port Railway and Pier Company".... 6pp. 1865. £8.00

  32. Broad Street AN ACT for widening and rendering commodious a certain Street, called Broad Street.... and for enlarging the Council House and Guild Hall.... Cover leaf + 22pp. 1788. £18.00
    Includes a Schedule which mentions many of the occupants of Broad Street.


  33. Buildings and Walls AN ACT for Regulating the Buildings and Party-walls within the City and County of Bristol, and for widening several Streets within the same. 66pp. 1840. £17.00
    Contains an 8pp schedule of the land and owners or occupiers concerned.


  34. Port Improvements AN ACT for completing the Improvements of the Port of Bristol. 23pp. 1808. £16.00

  35. Riot Compensation AN ACT for more easily providing Compensation for the Damage and Injury committed within the City of Bristol and County of the same City during the late Riots and Disturbances therein. 18pp. 1832. £15.00

  36. Saint Stephen AN ACT for making more commodious Ways and Passages within the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the City of Bristol; and for enlarging the Burying Ground belonging to the said Parish. Black Letter, cover leaf + 40pp., including Schedule listing houses in Marsh St., The Quay etc., with occupiers. Recent plain paper boards. 1774. £22.00

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    Cambridgeshire
  37. Caxton PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Freehold Sporting Villa, Very pleasantly situate amid Luxuriant Plantations, It is only One Mile from the Market Town of Caxton, on the road to Cambridge.... adjoins Lord Delawarr's Preserves, and the Cambridge Hounds hunt this part of the Country. The Domain extends to Fifty Seven Acres..... which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. George Robins.... Thursday, August 2, 1838, at the Auction Mart, London..... 3pp., folio, plus docket title, plus loosely inserted folding plan, with two lithographed views of the house, one at top right, size 3" x 6", showing a sort of 'villa ornee', and one at bottom left, size 3" x 4", showing a thatched Lodge house. Overall size of plan 13" x 17", plus margins. 6" split at spine, traces of four small stab holes in left margin, possibly once bound. 1838. £70.00

  38. Smith (C) A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGE Divided into Hundreds. Hand-coloured, folding map dissected and mounted on linen, overall size of engraved surface approx. 19" x 17", trimmed to margins, contained with original 8vo paper slipcase, with manuscript label on top, slightly damped and cockled. Printed for C. Smith, No 172 Strand. January 6th, 1801. £28.00

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    Cheshire
  39. Bacon's MAP OF CHESHIRE colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale " to 1 mile. c1885. £8.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  40. Frodsham CONVEYANCE of premises at Frodsham, The Birkenhead Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to Joseph Stubs. 3p, folio, inset manuscript plan 4" x 8", large red paper seal of company showing ships in harbour. 1855. £17.00

  41. Frodsham London & N. Western & Great Western Railway AGREEMENT between the joint companies and the Trustees of Edward Wright, of the Castle Park Estate, regarding a boundary. 3 pages, vellum, 4to, with impressed seals (feint) of the companies. Attached is manuscript plan on waxed cotton, size 11" x 28". 1895. £20.00

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    Cornwall
  42. Anon. MAP OF PART OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL including the Hundreds of Kirrier and Penwith Copied from Martin's Survey In 1784. Manuscript map in ink and 4 colours, on Whatman paper backed with linen, size 25" x 32". With coloured border marked off in degrees. Attractive title with calligraphic flourishes. A few minor creases in paper, some dust-spotting lower left corner near title, colour slightly faded. Light dust-marking at edges, one or two small edge tears. n.d. late 18th century. £90.00

  43. Bacon's MAP OF CORNWALL colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale " to 1 mile. Divided into 5 mile squares. c1885. £8.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  44. Bessow, Manor of LEASE OF LOBB'S STAMPS and premises in Kea for 14 years, James Trevenen and others to John Sampson, Mine Agent. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. 1847. £15.00

  45. Bodmin AGREEMENT of Sir Colman Rashleigh, Francis Rodd & others, J.P.'s, concerning the repayment of money advanced by Henry Williams of Wendron for the building of Station Houses and Strong rooms for the confinement of persons taken into custody. 2p. folio, signed with sm. wax seals. 1866. £14.00

  46. Bodmin ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 136. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1938. £8.00
    'Book' type wraps.


  47. British Railways (Western Region) POSTER by 'Bowyer', titled 'Cornwall', size 39" x 50". Depicts a map of Cornwall in bold bright colours, railway lines in red, large decorative title, compass rose bottom left with 'British Railways' across it in black, coats of arms of four main towns, numerous figures of local legend and history depicted in very lively fashion, vignettes with views of places such as St. Michael's Mount, notes on local places. Folds, one small feint brownish mark, about 1" across, near centre, two rust spots in margins. Printed by Jordison & Co. 1950's. £160.00
    Would frame well.


  48. Christopher Consols SECTION ON THE ENGINE LODE Plan, in ink, with a little shading, size 30" x 45", linen backed, showing the engine house and adjacent buildings in elevation, with the engine shaft and other shafts. Some light shading, some rough figures in pencil, cross-course marked. No scale bar or other reference. Rusty stab holes along top edge where one attached to roller, edges rather ragged, dusty overall. c1840. £80.00

  49. Couch & Sons PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW ALBUM OF BOSCASTLE & NEIGHBOURHOOD 16 views by Valentine on pinkish tinged paper, oblong large 8vo, gilt titled boards. c1900. £16.00
    Views include man with donkey in street, Pentargan Cave, Trevenna St.


  50. Cury LEASE of a tenement called Tannangoffe in Cury, occupied by Jane Boaden. John Vivian of Pencalenick and others to John Borlase of Helston. Large vellum sheet, wax seals, small inkstain in top corner. 1833. £14.00

  51. Gwinear RECONVEYANCE of Freehold Estate of Taskus and Reassignment of Leasehold Estate of Trevessa.... Messrs. Rodd and Cornish to Robert Angove Osborne. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. 1878. £12.00

  52. Helston BILLHEAD of R. Michell, Linen & Woollen Draper, to Mrs Tyack. Engraved heading, overall size 5" x 4". Listing a few items such as ribbon. 1828. £5.00
    'A London Foreman kept, and a Suit made to order at a day's notice'


  53. Helston Cordwainers LETTER from J.P. Rogers, Recorder, to Rev. Cannon Jennings, Madron, about a charter of the shoemakers of Helston, recently discovered, asking if he would give it to the borough. Typewritten, with handwritten reply from Jennings, enclosing his paper on the subject, with answer from Rogers. Attached is 11p. oblong 8vo typescript of Jenning's article, which includes a transcript of the 1459 charter. 1935. £10.00

  54. Helston THE CHURCHWARDENS AND OVERSEERS OF THE BOROUGH in acc. with G. Grylls & Co., Helston, on purchase of corn. 2p., sm. 4to, listing money due for 'samples of Barley', 'Capn. Clarks bill for freight', etc. Together with receipt of 1874 for corn ricks purchased by R. Mathews. 1801 and 1874. £12.00

  55. Hocking (J), Linen & Woollen Draper, Helston BILL to the Provident Club, Nov. 8th, 186?, printed heading, lists 13 girls' names, each with sum of 11s 3d, with similar bill to Revd. E. Wills for the Helston Provident Club, attractive printed heading of James Woolcock, Linen Draper etc., Helston, 186-, again listing girls' names.... together with.... bill of A.H. Michell & Sons, Drapers, Penzance, to R. Mathews, Xmas, 1895, for ribbon, roses, cloak, etc. 3 items. 1860-95. £8.00

  56. Jones (Henry) REASONS HUMBLY OFFERED For Building a Mould or Harbour in Whitsand Bay, at the Lands-End, in Cornwall. Single folio sheet, closely printed, size approx. 17" x 12", laid down on card, with a window in the card on verso to reveal an engraved plan on verso of sheet by Frederick de Hauttecourt, 1702. Size of plan approx. 6" x 10", scale 1" to 1 mile, compass rose, soundings, relief crudely indicated, small elevations of 3 churches, 12-line key of letters, showing the Long Ships, the Brisons, etc. Margin trimmed unevenly on left side, some light creasing, area of light staining at right, approx. 5" x 3", not affecting plan. n.d.(1702). £480.00
    RARE. Gives a description of the area 'call'd in Cornish Pullan da', and 12 arguments for building the proposed mold, for want of which 'there hath been, and may be more Ships los (yearly, besides the mens lives) than three times the Value of what would Erect the same. Hence the Leverpoole Marchants have possessed those who trade from London that their Ships might come safer North about Ireland.... rather than run the Hazard of having their Ships taken by the Enemy, or wreckt, by reason of the great Dangers of Scill, the Lands-End, Mount's-Bay,, Lizzard. He mentions 'Sir Cloudesly Shovel's Misfortune at Scill and the loss of the Colchester Man or War in Whitsand-Bay' and the effect on compasses of the 'many Tynn, Copper, Iron and other Mineral-Loads'. de Hauttecourt was one of the Engineers who surveyed the coast with 'Mr. Tuttel, his late Majesty's Hydrographer'.


  57. Julyan (B), Pub. ST. AUSTELL 16 photographic views on glossy paper, oblong sm. 4to, gilt-titled boards. c1910. £14.00
    Includes Porthpean, Mevagissey etc.


  58. Land's End & Lizard ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 146. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. Bottom corners of wraps slightly bumped. 1939. £7.50

  59. Lanhydrock Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Agricultural Estates within the Manors of Boskenwyn and Predannack Wartha, Situate in the Parishes of St. Anthony-in-Meneage, St. Keverne, Grade, Ruan Major, Ruan Minor, Mullion, Sithney, Wendron and the Borough of Helston... extending to about 2,649 acres and comprising Pasture and Arable Farms, Accommodation Lands, Tenements, Cottages, Mill, Yards, Woodlands.... to be Offered by Auction.... at the Angel Hotel, Helston, 13th day of November, 1912. 59pp. folio, numerous schedules, plus 20 large folding coloured plans in pocket and rear. Printed wraps, front wrap faded and slightly foxed, edge of pocket on back wrap ragged due to weight of plans. 1912. £150.00
    Includes Trenevas Farm, The Manse, Old Rocket House, Little Gwenter at St. Keverne; Worvas, Treal, Chiballs, at Ruan; Boderlogan, Date's, Hendra, Trewavas, Trillion, Tremenheere, Trevilges, Grambla, Pollard Mill at Wendron, Christophers Tenement at Gweek, Gweek Mill etc.


  60. Madron PLAN OF ROSE HILL In The Parish of Madron and County of Cornwall, The Property of John Viguers Esq. 1841. Finely drawn manuscript plan in ink and 4 colours, on thick paper, 25" x 25", backed with linen. Scale 2 chains = 1 inch. With title, scale bar, compass rose, and Table of Reference listing 30 features, with State, Quantity. Shows Mansion House, with Pleasure Grounds, Orchards, Walled Garden, Farm, stream, well, etc., different types of trees shown, adjoining owners named. Some minor creasing of paper at top edge, top and bottom slightly dusty. 1841. £180.00
    A very attractive estate plan.


  61. Madron, Mevagissey etc. DEED of Bargain and Sale of properties in Cornwall, previously the property of William Luke, and earlier of Nicholas Vincent, John Knight of Gosfield Hall, Essex, to John Rogers of Penryn. Very large vellum sheet, with smaller one attached, good armorial wax seal. 1732. £25.00
    Refers to Manors of Trelevan, Tregawethan, Pencarrow, tithes of Tywardreath, Mansion house and farm called Trelevan in Mevagissy with Malthouse, mills, etc., property at Clements, part of the Manors of Lamborne, Truro Burrough, Tolcarne (including 'Mines of Tin Lead and Copper').


  62. Manaccan APPOINTMENT of Mary Caddy and James John as Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Manaccan. Large folio printed sheet, with MS inserts, printed in 2 columns with dividing line. Signed by 2 J.P.'s with small wax seals. 1796. £55.00
    Sets out all the duties and responsibilities of the Overseers, for example as regards settlement, 'raising a convenient stock of Hemp, Flax, Wool, Thread, Iron' for setting the Poor to work, etc.


  63. Manaccan PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of Freehold Estates known as Tregonwell, Trelowry, comprising 109 acres.... for Sale by Auction, Helston 24th March 1886. 3p., folio, outside grubby. 1886. £8.00

  64. Manaccan RACK LEASE of Tregonwall Mills and premises in Manaccan, James John to John Gay, Miller. Large paper sheet, some splits at folds, wax seal. 1829. £14.00

  65. Mineral specimens MINERALS AND ORES OF CORNWALL Card folder 5" x 5" with 12 small mineral specimens glued in, brief description and location on facing page. Sketch of Botallack mine on front. 1960's? £16.00
    Labelled 'Educational' on spine.


  66. Moresk Mills, Truro PROSPECTUS of John Lake & Son Ltd. Capital œ60,000. 3pp., folded with docket title. Some splits at fold edges, one rather ragged.... together with.... Two Directors' Reports and Statement of Accounts, 1892 and 93. 3 items. 1891-3. £25.00
    Prospectus describes machinery, water-wheel etc., with a report by M. Simon.


  67. North Cornwall IRONMONGER'S LEDGER recording daily sales, with name of customer, items sold, and price, Dec. 1st 1917 to Sept. 30th, 1919. Tall narrow ledger, half calf, leather spine detached down front hinge. 1917-1919. £60.00
    Location and name of shop not indicated, but would seem to be Wadebridge area. Customers include Molesworth Arms Hotel, Sir Hugh St. Aubyn, Wadebridge Electric Works, County Constabulary, St. Enodoc Golf Club. Items include agricultural necessities such as rabbit and rat traps, lamb feeders, sheep netting.


  68. Penzance ASSIGNMENT of a dwelling house and premises no. 34 in Leskinnick Terrace, Richard Rowe to Esther Curnow. Large vellum sheet, two wax seals. 1858. £10.00
    Refers to the original lease of land known as part of the Jews Burial Ground by Revd. Rogers to Richard Rowe, late in the occupation of Richard Sampson.


  69. Penzance CONVEYANCE AND RELEASE of a messuage, dwelling house, cellars.... near the Key or Pier of Penzance lately known by the sign of the Ship Tavern.... Abraham Denis of Penzance, Mariner, to Francis Symons, Joiner. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1765. £20.00

  70. Penzance Waterworks PENZANCE CORPORATION In Parliament Session 1937-8. Plans and Sections. Booklet of 6 plans showing land in the Parishes of Madron, Paul and the Borough of Penzance, with pipework, site of dam, etc. Original decorative printed wraps, size 22" x 30", morocco spine. Some edge tears. 1938. £45.00

  71. Pool and Illogan WESLEYAN METHODIST SOCIETY CLASS BOOKS Two books of class lists covering the period July 1885 - June 1892. Printed in double page spreads with column for name, whether married or single, residence, weekly attendance over three months, ticket money, manuscript entries. Approx. 45 names, mostly from Illogan, Tuckingmill, Barncoose, Pool. Two books, limp cloth covered wraps, gilt lettered, staining and fraying of cloth on one volume. 1885-92. £76.00
    Some are noted as having gone to America or Australia.


  72. Royal Cornwall Agricultural Associaton ANNUAL MEETING OF 1894 Falmouth, 13th & 14th June. Booklet listing prizes for different classes of cattle, sheep, implements, etc. 15pp., 8vo, vertical fold, staple rusty. 1894. £7.00

  73. Salwey (Jasper) CORNWALL. A SKETCH-BOOK 16 pencil sketches. Sm. 4to, boards, bookplate. Published 1922. £14.00
    Includes Lostwithiel, Newquay, Newlyn, Redruth.


  74. South Helston Highway District SURVEYORS ACCOUNTS for the Parishes of St. Martin, Mullion, Ruan Minor, weeks 3,4,5,6 of 2nd quarter of 1879. 5, 9 and 2 labourer's names entered respectively, on 3 large printed sheets, giving name, rate per yd. for stonebreaking, etc. 1879. £14.00

  75. St. Columb SOLICITOR'S BILL of Jos. Hawkey to John Willyams, size 18" x 7", with blank adjoinng leaf with address panel with address of John Willyams, Trekenning, with small wax seal. 1778. £14.00
    Includes 'Journey to Padstow to draw abstract of the Title to Trekenning.....' and other matters to do with the Lease of Trekenning, drawing up draft 'on four of the largest skins of parchment' etc.


  76. Stoke Climsland, Manor of Manaton Hammett LEASE of part of a tenement at North Norton for Two Lives, Arthur Holdsworth to John Gall. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1779. £18.00

  77. Symons (R), Surveyor PLAN OF THE PARISH OF TOWEDNACK in the County of Cornwall Lithographed hand-coloured plan on thick paper backed with linen, size 35" x 25", scale 8 Chains to an Inch. Decorative title, compass rose, scale bar. Shows buildings, fields (with numbers from Tithe Map), cliffs and 'St. George's Channel' in the North. Slightly dusty at edges. Printed for and Published by R. Symons, Surveyor. Truro: 1848. £170.00
    The lithographers were Frise & Marker, 3 Palace Gate, Exeter.


  78. Trenear Stamps, Wendron CORRESPONDENCE relating to a lease of Trenear Stamps, comprising letter with printed address of Wendron Consols, 23rd, Jan. 1855, to Solicitors confirming acceptance of terms, letter from Frederick Hill, Solicitor, to owner, Thomas Hocker, on behalf of Adventurers, 17th June 1854, 'You are raising your terms and ought to see the state of your Wheels at Trenear. I propose to erect new stamps and lay out œ200 at least - your present Wheel is only fit for a Christmas Fire...'. Together with letter from the owner, accepting offer, and copies of 2 other letters from him to Hill... 4to.... together with.... Agreement for Lease of Stamps and Watercourses, Thomas Hocker to Hill on behalf of Wendron Consols Adventurers. Unsigned copy, 2p. sm. folio, and schedule of deeds relating to Trenear Stamps 1801-77.. 1854-5. £28.00

  79. Truro & St. Austell ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 143. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1939. £8.00

  80. Truro NANKIVELL & CO. Wine & Spirit Merchants, Truro. Seven Billheads, made out to Rev. W. Rogers, for port, sherry, St. Emilion etc. Each receipted over stamp, some slightly frayed at top edge. 1874-78. £7.00
    Inlcudes '14 doz. Cockburn's V.1868 Port.... 1 Octavo Marsala...' etc.


  81. West Wheal Jane, Kea SETT OF GROUND in the Parish of Kea, William Hill of Carwythenack to John Williams of Scorrier House. 2 large vellum sheets, slightly yellowed, wax seal. 1819. £40.00
    Details limits of sett, methods of working etc., for example Hill was to have the right to 'make use of all or any of the ladders, ropes, buckets, kebbles, windlasses, for going down into and coming up from the bottom of the said mine in order to examine dial and measure the same'. Note in pencil under title 'Later West Wheal Jane'.


  82. West Wheal Jane, Kea COUNTERPART SETT OF WEST WHEAL JANE MINE in the Parish of Kean, Cornwall, Edw. D. Browne, Henry Vivian and others to William Jones of Leicester Square, Coppersmith, and others. Three large vellum sheets, wax seals. On verso is small coloured plan, with scale bar (4 chaines to an inch), compass rose. 1855. £45.00

  83. Woolcock, Printer and Publisher, Helston LINES ON THE TURKISH ATROCITIES Broadside, 4to, poem of 16 stanzas, printed in two columns with decorative border, illustration showing men sword-fighting in front of weeping woman. Traces of folds. c1870. £26.00
    Urges England to help Bulgaria against the Turks.


    Cornwall Acts

  84. Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway AN ACT for extending the time for the completion of the Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction Railway.... 2pp... together with.... AN ACT for the abandonment of the Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction Railway 3pp. Edges of pages slightly chipped. 1876. £20.00

  85. Bodmin Jail AN ACT for building an additional Jail, and also a Prison and House of Correction, within the County of Cornwall; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Black Letter. 16pp. plus cover leaf. Recent cloth boards. 1778. £20.00

    MANOR OF CARGOLL

  86. Hawkins (Thomas) Estates of AN ACT for Impowering Trustees.... of the four Sons of Thomas Hawkins, Esquire, deceased, to make Leases of Estates in the County of Cornwall.... 12pp. 1768. £20.00
    Concerns Manor of Cargoll and includes rights to grant Setts.


  87. Cornwall Railway Company AN ACT to repeal and consolidate the several Acts relating to the Cornwall Railway Company, to empower them to make a Deviation Railway, to extend the Time for Completion of Parts of their Railway.... 39pp. 1861. £14.00

  88. Duchy of Cornwall AN ACT to enable His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales to make Leases and Grants of Land and Hereditaments, Parcel of His said Royal Highness' Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same.... 4pp. 1842. £8.00

  89. Sheriffs AN ACT for making further Provisions to enable Persons possessed of Offices at the Demise of His late Majesty to qualify themselves for the enjoyment of such Offices.... and to the continuance of the Sheriffs of the County of Cornwall, and County Palatine of Chester.... 8pp, plus cover leaf, black letter. Recent paper boards 1727. £17.00

  90. Treffry Estates AN ACT enabling Trustees to grant Leases of Part of the Estates of Susanna Ann Treffry Dormer and Jane Treffry Dormer, Infants, and to invest the Monies, arising from the Leases to be granted in Fines, in the Purchase of Real Estates.... 11pp, docket title on verso of last leaf. Recent cloth boards. 1791. £30.00
    Concerns lands at Fowey, Lanteglos, Golant 'all and all Manner of Tin Tolls, Tyn Mines, and Loads and Veins of Tyn, of the said Thomas Treffry arising or to be gotten within the Parishes of Kenwyn and Gwennats....'


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    Cumberland
  91. Fowler (Henry), Surveyor LITHOGRAPHED PLAN OF CARLISLE CITADEL STATION of the line from Carlisle signal box no 1 to no 13. Fully hand-coloured, scale 2 chains to 1", size 21" x 86", plus one section size 15" x 13" covering the line running south towards Maryport. Titled 'Carlisle Citadel Station'. Dissected and mounted on linen, size of sections 21" x 10", folding into marbled endpapers, rubbed calf boards. Shows buildings, streets, goal, reservoir, warehouses, etc., coloured to show lands belonging to various companies (Caledonian, North Eastern, Joint Committee etc.) Front board detached, small light foxing spots throughout. 1881. £170.00

  92. Brampton LEASE of a parcel of land at Brampton with liberty to remove the bind heap and burn bricks, etc. Revd. J. Hall of Stroud to Joseph Ashmore. 3p, folio, with attached manuscript plan, 4to, coloured in outline, on wax cotton. 1899. £16.00
    Shows disused Colliery at Brompton, Old Coal Pit, shafts, etc.


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    Devon
  93. Barnstaple LETTER sent to Mr. Westron from C. Bedford, listing amounts of cloth he bought at auction and sent to W. & R. Reynell at Barnstaple. Foolscap sheet, with list of kersey, 'Rodney's velvett Cord', 'light Beaver' etc., with quantities, amount paid. The writer says he has 'sent them by James for you in 3 trusses. I doubt not but you will say with me that there is a good deal of money to be got by them...' Edges ragged. The verso has later been used for a letter to Westron's sister at Ottery St. Mary. June 29, 1792. £22.00

  94. Barnstaple Turnpike Tolls TORRINGTON BRIDGE GATE. DRAFT AGREEMENT for payment of the rent for the year ending the 8th day of Sepr. 1821. Rent œ230. Agreement between Peter Scamp of Barstaple, Sergeant in the North Devon Militia, and John Shephard of Gt. Torrington, Miller. The letting of the Turnpike Tolls had been offered at Auction in Barnstaple the previous month. The draft sets out details of who should pass free, varying tolls on timber, plank, etc. 3p folio, folded, Pinned to corner are two smaller sheets listing lessees of Sticklepath, Puddlepool, Torrington Lane and other gates, with rents payable. 1820. £24.00

  95. Bideford & Bude ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 127. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1939. £8.00

  96. Bideford VIEW ALBUM 20 photographic views, oblong large 8vo, decorative gilt boards, rubbed at edges. Small edge tear in one plate. c1900. £12.00

  97. Bishops Tawton Pauper CASE submitted to a lawyer regarding Joseph Pile, a Pauper who was settled in Combmartin but hired himself to Charles Priscott of Bishops Tawton for a year, with leave to 'see his Friends at Combmartin Revel'. The Query was whether he gained settlement in the Parish of Bishop's Tawton. With reply from J.P. Coleridge, M.P. at bottom of sheet, concluding that no settlement could be gained. Single sheet, sm. folio, in two hands, integral address panel on verso with circular postmark with a 'K' and the date. 1832. £20.00

  98. Buckerell, Awliscombe and Honiton PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Dwellinghouses, Shop, Cottages.... Lands.... for Sale by Public Auction.... 9th day of March, 1932. 10pp., sm. folio, wraps. 1932. £14.00

  99. Colyton CONVEYANCE and Assignment of the share of Miss Ley in certain property given by the Will of Mr. J. Sampson. 5 vellum sheets, 24" x 30", wax seal, slight browning in parts on some sheets. 10th Jan., 1842. £18.00
    Refers to property at Dalwood, Dorset and houses and closes of land at Colyton.


  100. Combmartin COUNTERPART LEASE of messuage and gardens near the Water of Umber, late in the possession of Thomas Clogg, John Challacombe to Henry Harding, Tailor. Single vellum sheets, small wax seal, printed heading. 1718. £22.00

  101. Combmartin Turnpike GRANT to John Nott of Swymbridge of Turnpike Tolls on the Combmartin to Bratton Down road, on payment of a surety of fifty pounds. Vellum, folio, printed with MS inserts, blue paper tax stamp, three wax seals. 1838. £25.00
    With notes on verso from 1874 - 1880.


  102. Cranford & Son, Pub. VIEWS OF DARTMOUTH AND THE RIVER DART 20 views, some two to a page, in obling 8vo album, gilt title. c1910. £16.00

  103. Devon and Somerset Stores, Pub. SOUVENIR OF EXETER and Neighbourhood. 32 photographic views, most full page. Large oblong 8vo, gilt title. c1910. £17.00
    Includes good view of 'The Cornishman', 'Duchess of Devonshire Paddle Steamer', etc.


  104. Duncannon, River Dart PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Titled 'Journal of Duncannon, March 23rd till April 6th'. 4to album, paper-covered boards, rubbed. 69 amateur photographs, sepia toned, size 3" x 4", of the Dart and villages on it, mounted mainly one to a page on thick leaves, each view numbered and titled, some views rather dark. At the rear are mounted 12 Frith commercial views of Dartmouth and Totnes, 15 postcards of Totnes, Exeter and Dartmouth, and two amateur folding panorama photographs of the Dart. At the beginning are 23 pages of manuscript recounting their sightseeing trips, boating, etc., annotated in margin with nos. of relevant photos. One photograph missing. Some spotting of a few pages. 1907. £45.00
    Views include: Sun Dial, Stoke Gabriel, Church Row, Pucks Beeches, Reflections near Dittisham


  105. Exe Estuary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Sheet XXII. Printed surface area approx. 24" x 35". Scale 1" to 1 mile. Hand-coloured with key in sea area. Tear 3" into map in sea area, brownish mark from old sellotape repair, many small marginal tears, old sellotape along edges on verso. Pub. 1809 by Lt. Col. Mudge. Electrotype, c1870. £45.00

  106. Exeter AN ALBUM OF EXETER VIEWS 15 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into sm. 4to boards, gilt. Advert for Upwards Library and Artistic Printing Works in gilt on verso. c1890. £17.00

  107. Exeter ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 138. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. Edges of wraps slightly rubbed. 1938. £6.00
    'Book' type wraps.


  108. Exmoor ORDNANCE SURVEY TOURIST MAP Scale 1" to 1 Mile. Not cloth backed. Coloured wraps with illustration by Arthur Palmer. 1939. £7.00

  109. Exmouth ALBUM of Views, 16 sepia views tipped onto brown leaves, tissue guards, plain wraps with title, slightly ragged at edges. Overall size 8" x 11". c1910. £16.00
    Includes 'Cockle Woman', 'Littleham Village' etc.


  110. Foster (B), Pr. TAVISTOCK AND DISTRICT 16 views, oblong large 8vo, decorative gilt boards.c1900. c1900. £16.00

  111. Foster (W.H), Lith. and Pub. NEW MAP OF PLYMOUTH Devonport, Stonehouse, and Neighbourhood. To Date. Scale - Six Inches to a Mile. Plan printed in red blue and black, size 18" x 24", linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth wraps with printed label. c1900. £20.00

  112. Frith's Photo-Pictures TEIGNMOUTH, ETC. Eleven photographic views, size 4" x 6", red borders, printed titles with number, printed title page. Album size 9" x 11", cloth covered boards with gilt title, front board detached, spine worn, some spotting of mounts. Pasted to the verso of the card leaves are 16 views of the area, some amateur, some professional, some rather faded. Sold by B.O. May, Teignmouth £90.00
    The Frith views include Powderham Terrace, Holcombe Villas, Teignmouth harbour, Club on the Den. The other (untitled) views include a fine view of the beach; small cove with thatched cottages, bathing machine, figures; water-mill; close-up of ships in harbour.


  113. 'G.F. & S.' 'THE BEST' SIXPENNY VIEW BOOK OF PLYMOUTH And Neighbourhood Containing Photographic Views of All the Most Popular Places of Interest in the Three Towns & District. 19 views on extending strip, oblong 8vo album, faded gilt boards, cloth spine. c1910. £12.00

  114. Hoe Grammar School, Plymouth PROSPECTUS Oblong 8vo, illust. on front wraps, numerous photos. c1910. £9.00

  115. Honiton Manor Estate PARTICULARS WITH PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Outlying Portions of the Honiton Manor Estate, Situate close to the important Market Town of Honiton, comprising:- Hale Farm, Hutgate Lands, Ottery Moor Lands.... Folio, original printed wraps, 11pp, two folding plans in pocket at rear, occasional spotting. 1923. £27.00

  116. Kelley (E), Photographer & Publisher THE NEWTON ABBOT SOUVENIR 12 Permanent Photographs of Newton Abbot. Photographs 2 to a page on folding strip, sm. 4to, decorative gilt boards. c1910. £14.00

  117. Masland (W), Pub. TIVERTON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 20 views by Valentine, oblong sm. 4to, decorative gilt boards, spine chipped. c1910. £16.00
    Includes good view of women workers leaving the lace factory.


  118. Oakhampton PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of An Excellent Freehold Property for Residence and Investment, The Fuidge Estate.... only half a mile removed from the high Falmouth and London Mail Road.... Divided into Two Excellent Farms.... of Nearly 470 Acres, and the Family Residence.... the real value is 450 Guineas A Year.... Poor Rates uncommonly low.... to be sold by Geo. Robins, At the Auction Mart, London, On Thursday, the 2nd of August, 1838. 5pp., folio. Gives schedules with details of lands, names of fields, tenants, revenue, etc. Loosely inserted is a set of auctioneer's notes with rough notes on tithes, Land Tax, etc. 1838. £50.00
    The house obviously needed some renovation 'neglect is visible, and delapidation became an unwilling inmate' but 'A Sporting Man will feel tempted to reside in a country where there is lots of Game and Grouse Shooting, with plenty of Wild Fowl in Dartmoor.... around the Mansion is a large Rookery.... There are also several Packs of Hounds near, and lots of Fishing is to be found in The Excellent Trout Stream....'


  119. Plymouth CHARLES CHURCH, CALENDAR-BLOTTER 1935. 8vo, With list of Vicars, main events, etc., small view on front wrap. Together with Beechams Photo-Folio 24 Views of Plymouth, 12mo. c1910 and 1935. £12.00

  120. Plymstock and Tavistock PARTICULARS of Important and Valuable Freehold Licensed Properties, Comprising among other Properties Eleven Hotels and Inns Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Bedford Occupying capital positions in the Town of Tavistock and in Plymstock and Oreston, For Sale by Auction in Lots, in the Months of June and July, 1911. Sm. folio, wraps, 10pp., loose in wraps. 191l. £18.00
    Includes the 'King's Arms', Oreston; 'The New Market Hotel', Tavistock etc.


  121. Rock & Co. CAVE, WATERMOUTH, DEVON Vignette engraving, engraved surface 3' x 3", hand-coloured, buff mount, gilt line. 1850. £7.00

  122. Seaton LEASE for a Year of land in Cross Close and Clift Close, Thomas Charter of Bishops Lydeard in Somerset to John Head of Seaton. Single vellum sheet, wax seal. 1805. £15.00

  123. Sellar & Grose DEVONSHIRE Engraved map, hand-coloured, size 4" x 6", with description of the county printed below and on verso. Page inset into thick paper mount, some grubby marks. c1780. £25.00

  124. Spreat (W) BERRY POMEROY CHURCH. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. [C. Hulmandel, Printer.] c1842. £22.00
    There is an old lady with a stick, a man sitting down on the grass bank, two men and a boy.


  125. Spreat (W) CADBURY CHURCH. Sketched and Drawn on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 5" x 8", on India paper, large margins. Printed by C. Hulmandel c1842. £22.00
    Shows a woman, holding a basket walking along a path towards the church in the foreground.


  126. Spreat (W) CHRISTOW CHURCH. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 5" x 8", on India paper, large margins. Printed by C. Hulmandel. c1842. £22.00
    Shows a group of four women, 3 of whom are sitting down in the right foreground.


  127. Spreat (W) PAIGNTON CHURCH. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins. Printed by C. Hulmandel. c1842. £22.00
    There is a group of a boy and 3 men, one of whom is holding a stick in the lower right hand corner. Several houses can be seen to the left and right of the church.


  128. Spreat (W) THE OLD CHURCH, HONITON. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. Printed by C. Hulmandel. c1842. £22.00
    There are two men, possibly gravediggers, in the right foreground one of whom is holding a spade.


  129. Spreat (W) TIVERTON CHURCH. Sketched from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. Printed by C. Hulmandel c1842. £22.00
    Shows grave digger at work with another man looking down into hole in the foreground to the right of the church.


  130. Spreat (W) WOODBURY CHURCH CHURCH. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins. [C. Hulmandel, Printer.] c1842. £22.00
    In the left foreground are a young child and a man talking to a woman who is holding a large jar. To the right are two men one of whom is carrying a long length of wood on his shoulder.


  131. Tiverton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 128. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1933. £8.00
    'Book' type wraps.


  132. Townsend (G) & Best (W) SKETCHES OF BYGONE EXETER Second Series. Size 6" x 10", printed wraps. 1909. £12.00

  133. Valentine & Sons PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW ALBUM OF PLYMOUTH 106 Pictures of Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport, with the Rivers, Moors and Coast in their Vicinity. Size 9" x 11", orig. boards, gilt, with picutre of lighthouse, portions missing from spine at top and bottom. One leaf of text at end. c1910. £20.00

  134. Wilkin (W.H), Compiled by FENITON cloth-bound volume, with manuscript material and photographs on the Parish of Finiton, 24p, 8vo, including List of Churchwardens from 1686, Trosse, Skynner pedigrees, Sir George Cary's lease 1598, etc. Also includes 4 early 19th century photographs (Trosse's Cot and the church), sketch map. Loosely inserted is reprint of article on Feniton from Pulman's Weekly News. 1930. £30.00

    Devon Acts

  135. Chudleigh Rebuilding AN ACT for the better and more easy rebuilding of the Town of Chudleigh.... for determining Differences touching Houses demolished by the late Fire there; and for preventing future Danger by Fire. 18pp. 1808. £17.00

  136. Dawlish AN ACT for exonerating the Manor of Dawlish in the County of Devon, from the Claims of the Crown against the Estate of John Inglett Fortescue Esquire. 3pp. 1819. £14.00

  137. Exeter to Crediton Railway AN ACT for the widening of the Exeter and Crediton Railway, and for the laying down of additional lines of rails upon that railway, and the connecting of them with the Bristol and Exeter Railway.... 15pp. 1874. £11.00

  138. South Devon Railway Company AN ACT to enable the South Devon Railway Company to extend the Line of the South Devon Railway to Torquay and to Brixham.... 11pp. 1847. £15.00

  139. Torquay Cemetery AN ACT for constructing a Cemetery near to Torquay.... 7pp. 1852. £14.00

  140. Wolborough Market AN ACT for empowering the Local Board for the District of Wolborough.... to acquire Market and Fair Rights and Tolls and to establish and hold Markets and Fairs.... 18pp. 1868. £12.00

  141. Yarcombe AN ACT for Inclosing Lands in the Manor and Parish of Yarcombe.... 23pp. 1814 £17.00

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    Dorset
  142. Bournemouth & Weymouth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 140. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1939. £8.00

  143. Cruttwell (J), Pr. THE DORCHESTER AND SHERBORNE JOURNAL and West of England Advertiser. Friday, Aprill 22, 1814. 4pp., red tax stamp, folded. 1814. £14.00
    Includes Report of the western Dorset Association for the Presecution of Offences, numerous notices of Auction Sales, including Manor of Galton.


  144. Lyme Regis and Axminster PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICES Axminster - Lyme Regis Branch. 13p. oblong foolscap, cyclostyled, with 'Points Raised' in objection from individuals, Town Clerk etc., on left, and 'Railway Board's Reply' on right. n.d. 1960's. £7.00
    Objections include effect on tourism, fish deliveries, family at Combpyne with 7 children who receive water by train, etc.


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    Durham
  145. Bacon's MAP OF DURHAM colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale " to 1 mile. c1885. £8.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  146. Greenwood (C.G) MAP OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM From An Actual Survey Made in the Years 1818 & 1819 By C. Greenwood, Dedicated to the Nobility, Clergy & Gentry of the County by the Proprietors Greenwood, Pringle & Co.... Engraved map, overall size 40" x 52", scale 1" to 1 mile. With compass rose, large vignette view of Durham looking across city from fields with cows, etc., Explanation, List of polling places. Outline handcolouring, parkland coloured. In 2 sections, upper and lower halves, linen backed, not dissected. Bottom sheet with margin on all four edges, bottom margin of upper sheet trimmed so that it can be placed against bottom sheet. Vertical crease through title, which is cracked in some places, a few other minor creases at edges. Lacks silk binding tape from edges. Reprinted 1st March, 1836. £320.00

  147. Seaham Harbour MORTGAGE of Leasehold premises situate in North Railway Street Seaham Harbour, John Stonehouse to The Trustees of The Londonderry Collieries Permanent Benefit Building Society. 7p, folio. 1893. £14.00

  148. South Shields GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No IV. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size approx. 24" x 36", plus margins, fully hand coloured, key in right-hand margin. Published 1868. Embossed stamp 1873 £40.00
    About half of the map is sea area.


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    Gloucestershire
  149. Ashchurch INVENTORY AND VALUATION of the contents of Ashchurch House, Ashchurch Near Tewkesbury The property of N.P. Milne Esq. Manuscript on 61 pages, written on one side only, in small folio notebook, morocco spine slightly worn at foot, gilt titled on front board and spine, with valuations and total for each page. Taken by John Rainey & Co. Cheltenham. June 1907. £22.00

  150. Blackhorse Farm, Mangotsfield SALE PARTICULARS. Sale of the above Freehold Property known as Blackhorse Farm, containing 53 acres.... for Sale by Auction.... November 15th, 1945. Sm 4to, coloured folding plan, 4pp, few spots, purchaser and prices in pencil. 1945. £15.00

  151. Burrow's POINTER GUIDE MAP of Kingswood and Hanham Fold-out map with street index and brief guide. Adverts. for local businesses. 8vo wraps. 1950's. £5.00

  152. Chipping Sodbury ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXIX.S.W. Scale 6" = 1 mile, size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. 1903. £9.00

  153. Coln St. Dennis PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of a valuable Freehold Estate, Situate in the Parish of Coln St. Dennis, comprising Farm House and very convenient Homestead.... and other Lands, containing 728 a. 2r. 19p. of excellent arable and pasture land; also The Reversionary interest in Winson Mill and lands.... To be Sold By Auction By Messrs. Moore & Hill at the King's Head Hotel, Cirencester, On Monday, the 25th day of July, 1870. Folio, 6pp, large folding map, coloured in outline, loosely inserted. 1870. £25.00

  154. Dawson (T), Compiler PAROCHIAL HAND-BOOK or Alphabetical Reference to the Ordnance Map of the County of Gloucester. 80pp., 5" x 7", cloth boards with gilt title. Printed in columns across double-page spreads, listing parish etc. with Hundred, Railway Station, Value of benefice, name of Incumbent, Lord of Manor, Principal Employers, population in 1861, Letter delivery etc. Part II comprises 'Detailed Account of the Cities and Boroughs, and Works in the Forest of Dean', with Professional and Trade List, Carriers, Public Officers, Churches, Schools etc., for the towns of Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, and two-page list of Collieries, Iron Mines, Quarries etc. in the Forest of Dean, with name of Proprietor, manager etc. 1869-70. £55.00

  155. Dibden Farm, Mangotsfield PLAN, PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Valuable Freehold Property known as Dibden Farm situate at Viny Green, in the Parish of Mangotsfield, Glos. comprising about 134 acres, which Ford, Howes & Williams have received instructions to offer for Sale by Public Auction at Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol On Thursday, July 14th, 1938. Sm 4to, coloured folding plan, 6pp, original wraps. 1938. £24.00

  156. Dodington Estate PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Outlying Portion of the Dodington Estate, comprising Dairy Farms, Cottage Property and Accommodation Lands. 27pp., folio, wraps, small piece nibbled from margin of all pages, lacks maps from pocket at back. With five photographs of farms. 1919. £20.00

  157. Hambrook PARTICULARS WITH PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Attractive and Conveniently Situated Freehold Farm and Lands known as Hambrook Farm also a Freehold Cottage and Garden and several pieces of valuable Accommodation Pasture, and Arable or Market Garden Land. The whole comprising an area of 123a. 3r. 10p. which Geo. Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co have instructions to Sell by Auction at The Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol, on Thursday, March 18th, 1920. Folio, with a coloured folding plan, 8pp, almost loose in original wraps, some prices and purchasers noted in pencil. 1920. £22.00

  158. High Sheriff THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ADDRESS Presented by the "High-Sheriff, Grand Jury, Justices of the Peace, and Others, the Gentlemen of the County of Gloucester" to Queen Anne, assuring her that they will defend her Sacred Perogative and the Protestant Succession against Republicans, Traiterous Factions, etc. Single sheet, sm. folio, printed on one side only. London: 1710. £50.00
    The address was presented by Allen Bathurst, M.P. for Cirencester, at the Assizes. See Hyett and Bazeley Vol I p14.


  159. Home Farm, Almondsbury Hill THE ALMONDSBURY HERD OF DAIRY SHORTHORN CATTLE and Gloucestershire Old Spots Pigs, Also Cart Horses, Implements.... for Sale by Auction.... Monday April 30th, 1923. 14pp, fold, splash stain on outer leaf. 1923. £12.00
    Gives detailed record, pedigree, prizes etc. for each beast.


  160. Iron Acton, Frampton Cotterell & Engine Common Yate PLAN, PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Property comprising Cottage and Garden, Accommodation Pasture and Arable Land with Farm Buildings and Yard.... Pasture Land.... Pasture and Arable Land adjoining the Ladden Brook.... Accommodation Pasture Land at North Road, Yate... containing together an area of 74 Acres, Which Geo. Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co. are instructed to Sell by Auction at the Railway Hotel, Yate, On Tuesday, June 22nd, 1926. Folio, coloured folding plan, 4pp, original wraps, spine strengthened with archival tape, partly creased where once folded. 1926. £26.00

  161. Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge PLANS, PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Agricultural Estates, containing 735 acres, and comprising the Sheep and Corn Farm, known as 'Grighstone Farm' Horton, Mounteney's Farm, Kingswood, Pool Farm, Hawkesbury Upton.... 6pp., folio, stiff wraps with key plan, 3 folding coloured plans. Loose in wraps, wraps stained, some damp staining at edges of some pages and one plan, some repaired tears in plans. 1913. £26.00

  162. Painswick PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Capp Mill House. For sale by Auction at The Church Institute, Stroud, 28th Map, 1948. 6pp, sm. folio, folds, 2 illusts. 1948. £10.00

  163. Pucklechurch PARTICULARS of the level Fertile Dairy and Corn Farm known as Lyde Green Farm..... which Tilley & Culverwell..... will sell by Auction.... 19th October, 1961. 7pp., wraps, 4to. 1961. £9.00

    WOODCUT VIEW OF GLOUCESTER

  164. Raikes (R) Editor THE GLOUCESTER JOURNAL Monday February 1, 1725. Vol. III, Numb. 148. 4pp., 13" x 8", folded, imperfect copy, lacking the last four leaves. With very fine view of Gloucester titled 'S.W. Prospect of Gloucester' showing the Cathedral, city churches, shipping in the river, smoking pottery kiln etc., size 3" x 6". Contains London news (Bill of Mortality etc.), Books published, Parliamentary Report, Boxing Match, etc.) 1725. £30.00
    The Gloucester Journal was one of the earliest provincial newspapers. Austin lists only 6 copies between 1722 and 1727 and all but one are imperfect. The woodcut view appeared at the head of the paper between April 1724 and April 1725 only (See Hyett & Bazeley 'Manual of Gloucestershire Literature' Vol I p. 323.)


  165. Severn & Wye Railway & Canal Co. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE for September 30th to March 31st, 1849. Single quarto sheet, with table of expenses on repairs, surveying, wharfage, tram plates, etc., and Income from tonnage, etc. On verso is address panel with 3 postmarks, addressed to Revd. Bowles at Salisbury.... together with..... Similar account for March 31st - September 30th, 1848, posted to A. Macdonald, Sarum. 2 items. 1848-9. £18.00

  166. South Cerney TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION By Mr Jefferies, At the George Inn, South Cerney, On Saturday, the 29th of June, 1844.... Freehold Property Situate in South Cerney. Poster, printed on one side only, size approx. 17" x 11".' With it are 'Conditions of Sale', 4pp, with manuscript notes and amendments. Two 2" tears in poster, neatly repaired on verso with archival tape. Henry Smith, Printer & Bookseller, Cirencester: 1844. £20.00

  167. Swindon, near Cheltenham AUCTION POSTER. Brockhampton Farm, Swindon, near Cheltenham. John G. Villar To Sell by Auction upon the Premises, On Tuesday next, Sept. 23rd, 1884.... his valuable Horses, Agricultural Implements, Ricks of Corn.... Printed on one side only, size approx. 22" x 17", folded. 1884. £17.00
    Includes a 'Catalogue' printed in the lower portion of the poster, listing 120 items including Horses, Poultry, Harness, Implements, Corn, Potatoes and Fruit.


  168. Winchcombe PLANS, PARTICULARS of an Important Sale of Abbots Leys Farm.... Residential & Business Premises in Winchcombe.... 4to, printed wraps, 2 folding coloured plans. 1907. £17.00

    Gloucestershire Acts

  169. Beverstone AN ACT for Inclosing Lands, in The Parish of Beverstone.... 13pp. 1803. £17.00

  170. Cheltenham College AN ACT to make provisions with respect to the constitution of Cheltenham College. 9pp. 1894. £9.00

  171. Gloucester to Stone Road AN ACT for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act.... for repairing the Road from the City of Gloucester to Stone.... Black Letter. Cover leaf + 12pp. 1746. £14.00

  172. Small family, of Uley AN ACT for sale of an undivided Share of Tythes in the Isle of Wight, settled on John Foyle Small.... and for laying out the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of an Estate in the County of Gloucester.... 7pp, disbound, pages held with small staples, paper slightly chipped at corners. 1753. £16.00

  173. Tewkesbury Roads AN ACT for Repairing the several Roads therein mentioned, leading into the Town of Tewkesbury.... Black Letter. Cover leaf + 19pp. 1726. £15.00

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    Hampshire and Isle of Wight
  174. Bacon's THE ISLE OF WIGHT colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale 3" - 4 miles. c1885. £9.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  175. Bishops Waltham ASSIGNMENT by William Tovery to John Hibbert of certain pieces of Leasehold Land abutting the Gosport Branch of the London and South Western Railway Company at Fairthorn.... Large vellum sheet, wax seals, coloured manuscript plan size 5" x 6" inset. Two light brown stains at folds due to damp. 1840. £20.00

  176. Bishops Waltham CONVEYANCE of land in the parish of Bishops Waltham, London & South Western Railway Company to the Devisees in Trust of the late George Boucher. Large vellum sheet, damaged wax seal of company. Inset in manuscript plan size 6" x 9", with small table of Quantities. One area of text at fold very rubbed with loss of approx. 8 words. 1853. £22.00
    The land had been conveyed by the Company to James Boucher of Shidfield in 1851, as part recompense for damage done to his land by the Railway, but no conveyance had been issued.


  177. Christchurch PARTICULARS of a Valuable Freehold Estate comprising a Marine Residence called Heathercliffe House.... which will be sold by Auction.... 17th of June, 1864.... 2pp., folio, plus folding plan. Folded. 1864. £17.00

    WITH LITHOGRAPHED VIEW

  178. Fareham PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Distinguished Estate, Park, and Demesne of the Late Admiral Sir. P. Halkett, Bart., G.C.H. it Comprehends The Uplands Estate, Mansion, and Prettily Wooded Park, and 150 Acres of Land.... To Be Sold by Auction..... 11th day of June, 1840.... 5pp., folio. Docket title on verso of last leaf. With double page lithographed plan loosely inserted, having a vignette view of the house surrounded by trees, size 5" x 8", at top right-hand corner, and a table of Reference giving acreages and cultivation of different fields etc. Paper professionally reinforced at spine and down right hand edge by a conservator. 1840. £80.00

  179. New Forest ORDNANCE SURVEY TOURIST MAP Scale 1" to 1 Mile. Not cloth backed. Coloured wraps with illustration by Arthur Palmer. 1938. £7.00

  180. Winchester & Basingstoke ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 123. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1933. £8.00
    'Book' type wraps.


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    Herefordshire
  181. Eaton Bishop NOTICE OF SALE BY AUCTION The Valuable Freehold Estate Known as Lower Eaton, with the Gardens, Pleasure Grounds and Fishpool, situate in the Parish of Eaton Bishop, on the Banks of the Beautiful River Wye, Opposite Brenton Ferry, also the Lane Head Farm.... Poster, size 17" x 23", folds. 1854. £22.00

  182. Fownhope, Mordiford, Sollershope PARTICULARS AND PLAN of Freehold Farms called Whittlebury and Linkswell, with Coppice Wood.... to be offered for Sale by Auction.... 23rd June, 1900. Printed on 3p. folio of thick pink paper, large folding coloured map loosely inserted. Folded, with docket title on verso. A few minor edge tears at folds. 1900. £24.00

  183. Hereford, Dorstone, Clodock TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION .... 3d day of November, 1836, by order of the Trustees of the Will of the late Thomas Bird, The Following Valuable Property, Consisting of Wharfs, Coal and Timber Yards, very excellent Meadow Land adjoining the River Wye, sundry Houses forming Norfolk-Terrace.... an Estate called the Drain, in the Parish of Dorstone, The Holly Farm, in the Township of Llanveyno.... Poster, 22" x 18", folds. Lists 29 Lots in 2 columns, with occupiers. Some slight discoloration along part of top edge. 1836. £35.00
    Includes Barkhouse, Brewhouse and Wharf on the Wye, The New Inn in Marden.


  184. Michaelchurch Escley, Clodock PARTICULARS of Freehold and Leasehold Property which will be offered For Sale by Auction.... August 13th, 1890. 3pp., folio, folded, docket title on verso, large folding hand-coloured plan loosely inserted. 1890. £28.00
    Properties include 'The Birches', 'Ballingham Cottage', 'Nantyresk' etc.


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    Huntingdon
  185. Bacon's MAP OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE Colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey, scale " to 1 mile. Divided into 5 mile squares. c1885. £8.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  186. Kimbolton Castle A CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH PERIOD FURNITURE etc. at Kimbolton Castle.... to be sold by Auction.... 18th July.... 1949.... by direction of His Grace the Duke of Manchester. 69pp., 4to, paper wraps, torn at spine, photo pasted to front wrap. Photographic plates. 1949. £20.00
    Lists 1246 Lots, including Catherine of Aragon's coffer, paintings by Canaletto, Titian, Kneller, Opie, etc.


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    Kent
  187. Ashford, Brook ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXV N.W. etc, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps, light browning of linen along one fold, with some slight discoloration of section edges. 1908. £17.00

  188. Atkins (C) Surveyor & Land Agent, Lewisham, Kent PLAN OF A FREEHOLD ESTATE SITUATED AT LEWISHAM Belonging to Mary Edmunds and William Willcox Peete, containing in the Whole 2 acres.... Manuscript plan, hand coloured, on stiff paper backed with linen, scale 4" to 100ft., adjoining owners named, notes as to boundaries etc. signed by parties concerned, decorative title and borders. Browning in top corner left of title due to glue from label on verso, bottom 3" slightly dusty. Dec. 30th, 1865. £45.00
    Shows open piece of land, with trees, and houses fronting onto Exchequer Place and the High Road from Bromley to London.


  189. Bekesbourne, Goodnestone Park ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLVII, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Two small estates outlined in colour, presumably relating to auction sale. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps. 3rd edition 1908. £18.00

  190. Chevening, Biggin Hill ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVIII, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins, linen-backed. Boundaries hand-coloured, (one boundary also marked with small red dots), small piece of paper missing from top margin. First edition 1871. £28.00

  191. Gravesend, Tilbury Docks ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. X N.W. etc, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Three fields colour-shaded, number written in red ink near Gravesend Barracks. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps. Revision of 1931. £15.00

  192. Hop pickers TWO PHOTOGRAPHS each size 6" x 8", mounted together on thick album leaf, one showing group of seven pickers working in a field, with wicker baskets, large black sacks, the other showing a lane with people and two waggons, pickers at left with bare poles. Second photo slightly faded at edges. On verso is a full plate view of Landgate Tower, Rye. c1880. £12.00

  193. Maidstone, Loose ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLII, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Water features and main roads hand-coloured. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps, linen browned along one fold, affecting extreme edges of some sections, 8" split in linen at left and right of same fold. 1st edition 1870. £15.00

  194. Pluckley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LIV S.E. etc., scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps. Surrenden Park outlined in red. 1909. £18.00

  195. Sandwich, Eastry ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLVIII, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Water features and main roads hand-coloured, part of East Kent Railway added in ink, a few fields shaded and outlined in pink. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps. 1st edition 1877. £24.00

  196. Tunbridge, Ashurst ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LX N.E, etc., scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Dissected and folding into 8vo wraps, some areas outlined in colour, a few fields shaded. Edition of 1910. £15.00

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    Lancashire
  197. Bacon's MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF LIVERPOOL colour printed map size approx. 12" x 18", central fold, scale 1" to 1 mile. c1885. £9.00
    From 'Bacon's Atlas of The British Isles'.


  198. Bacon's PLAN OF MANCHESTER Size approx 12" x 18", single fold at centre, printed in 3 colours. Scale 4" to 1 mile. Street index printed down sides. c1885. £12.00

  199. Chadderton CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT for sale of the Bower Colliery and certain Mineral Rights, W. & R. Marland Ltd., and Thomas Heywood and others. 17p., typewritten, section of 6" O.S. map attached, with various areas shaded. 1917. £25.00

  200. Hollinwood COUNTERPART AGREEMENT as to proving the existence of and purchasing Coal Measures under Land at Hollinwood, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Emmott, M.P., with The Chamber Colliery Company of Chadderton.' Printed on vellum, 3pp., with large folded plan on glazed cotton, titled 'Coal under portion of Limegate Estate, Hollinwood. Scale 41.66 feet in an inch.' 1909. £22.00

  201. Lancashire TEN ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Six inches to the mile, size 12" x 18", plus margins, mounted on linen, a few with water areas hand-coloured. Comprising: Sheets CXV.S.W., LXVII.S.E., LXIV.N.W., LXXII.N.W., CII.N.E., CII.N.W., CVIII.S.W., CIX.S.E., CIX.N.E., XCIII.S.E. Editions 1901-1908. £52.00
    Covers Widnes, Chorley, Burnley, Crawshaw Booth, Leigh, Abram and Firs Lane, Clock Face, Rixton with Glazebrook, Newchurch and Holcroft Moss, Goosegreen and Ince in Makerfield.


  202. Liverpool IMPORTANT LECTURE at the Hope Hall, Hope Street.... by Rev. Robert Douglas, entitled Ephraim-England. Four Witnesses that Britain is the Israel of Promise. Handbill, 8vo. 1885. £8.00
    The lecture was organised by the British-Israel Identity Association.


  203. Liverpool LIME STREET STATION Ordnance Survey Map, Scale 1:1250, size 16" x 52", dissected and mounted on linen and folding into cloth boards, size 16" x 12". Area of station outlined in green, Adelphi Hotel and L.M.S.R. Receiving House shaded blue. c1920's. £24.00

  204. Manchester Courier ADVERTISING CARD with two paragraphs soliciting advertising in the newspaper. Size 3" x 4", on verso is list of towns where the paper circulates. c1870. £7.00

  205. Milnrow DUPLICATE AGREEMENT in reference to a supply of water from Pit Shafts at Butterworth Hall, Milnrow, Platt Bros. & Co. and the Corporation of Oldham. 12pp., 4to, in booklet form. Good paper seal of Platt Bros. showing man in front of a factory. 1909. £16.00

  206. Oldham Tunnel GRANT of power to make and use a Tunnel in Werneth within Oldham.... George Green, Iron Founder.... to the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. Two large vellum sheets, two wax seals, one of them being the large seal of the Company, with some small cracks. Manuscript plan referred to in text inset on first sheet, size 10" x 15", fully coloured, showing street, plots of land, buildings, owners. Outside of deed (where titled) dusty. 5th Dec. 1846. £40.00
    The tunnel was 'for the purpose of carrying the Oldham Branch Extension Railway'. The grant was under a lease of 979 years, and allowed the railway to build shafts, lay down a Railway, pass and repass with waggons day and night, etc.


  207. Warrington GARSTON, WARRINGTON & ALTRINCHAM RAILWAY Manchester Ship Canal Deviation No. 3, Warrington (Arpley) - Latchford. Vol. 34. Lithographed hand-coloured plan, scale 2 chains to an inch, size approx 120" x 16", cut into sections, some shaped to follow the line, linen-backed and folding into morocco boards, gilt titled. With table of Reference to Colours, showing Companies Freehold Property, Deed Boundaries, Mines and Minerals Purchased, Easements, etc., several decorative compass roses. The information on owners of lands and other information dating back to 18th century is lithographed, a few later notes in ink. Shows buildings, canal, roads, woodland, boundaries, etc. c1898. £165.00

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    Leicestershire
  208. Ashby-de-la-Zouch POSTER listing Teas, Spices.... etc. to be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Chubb, on the Premises of Mr. H.C. Dewes.... on Wednesday, November 15th, 1854. Third Days's Sale. Poster, size 17" x 11", 1" repaired tear. 4 columns, 190 Lots. 1854. £22.00

  209. Claybrooke, Misterton, etc. SETTLEMENT of a Sum of œ1000 secured on a Debenture of The North Western Railway Company, œ350 on a Debenture of the Great Western Railway Company, William Bream of Leicester and Sarah Ann Nickels of Ullesthorpe Lodge, Claybrook to Messrs. J.G. Nickels and George Bond, both Farmers and Graziers. Two large vellum sheets, small wax seals. Outside dusty. 1865. £16.00
    Refers to the Marriage of William Bream and Sarah Nickels.


  210. Smith (C) A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER Divided into Hundreds. Hand-coloured, folding map dissected and mounted on linen, overall size of engraved surface approx. 17" x 19", trimmed to margins, in original 8vo paper slipcase, with manuscript label on top. Printed for C. Smith, No 172 Strand. January 6th, 1801. £45.00

    Leicestershire Acts

  211. Laughton AN ACT for Establishing an Agreement for discharging the Manor of Laughton.... from the Payment of Tithes.... 17pp., docket title. 1778. £22.00

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    Lincolnshire
  212. Folkingham Estate PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Remaining Portions of the Folkingham Estate comprising Spring Farm 160 Acres Folkingham Lodge Farm 134 Acres.... which Messrs. Norbury-Smith & Co are instructed to Sell.... on Wednesday, July 21st, 1920. Folio, 15pp, large folding plan, original wraps. 1920. £18.00

  213. Orby MORTGAGE of the Manor of Orby and cottages and lands in Orby, Ingolwell, Hoggesthorpe, etc., John Griffin Lord Howard Baron de Walden and Katherine Lady Howard and others to Samuel Prime of Twickenham. 6 large vellum sheets, some dustmarking, wax seals. 1786. £20.00
    Names occupiers.


  214. Stamford PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of 177 Acres of Freehold Land in the common Fields abutting upon the Borough of Stamford One of the most respectable Towns in England.... it will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Geo. Robins..... July the 13th, 1837. 4pp., folio, plus docket title. Folding lithographed plan scale 1" = 15 chains, loosely inserted. There is a schedule of fields giving acreage and number on plan. The progress of bidding has been recorded in manuscript in the margin. 1837. £65.00
    The auctioneer describes the land as deserving of the 'especial attention of those who are Ambitious for a seat in Parliament'. 'The Acts of Parliament for enclosing the common fields.... must necessarily enhance the value of this fine Investment'.


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    London
  215. Dudley & Co. Ltd., Holloway CATALOGUE of display fittings for the Drapery, Outfitting, Chemist, Hairdressing and other trades. List 1820. 83pp., many illustrations, 4to, wraps ragged at spine. n.d. late 1930's? £18.00
    Includes mannequins, umbrella stands, hangers, etc.


  216. Guildhall INVITATION FOR A BANQUET Nov. 9th A.D. 1883. The Rt. Hon. Robert Fowler, M.P, Lord Mayor. Chromolithographed in gold and colours, on card, size 7" x 5", folded horizontally. Design on front shows procession of pastry-cooks etc., with flowers, cot of arms, and on verso design with pineapples, grapes etc. Medieval style decoration on inside. 1883. £20.00

  217. Harrow CONVEYANCE of a piece of land at Harrow in the County of Middlesex, The Metropolitan Railway Comapny to George Long, of Shepherd's Bush. 3pp, on vellum, 'booklet' style with red lines, on half of first page is coloured manuscript plan showing College Road, New Road etc., with plots coloured. Papered seal of Company on tag. 1891. £18.00

  218. London and Newcastle FIVE LETTERS From George Gilroy at Bow to his father John Gilroy of Newcastle (millwright), dated London, 29 March 1841 - 28 July, 1843. Each letter approx. two pages, in a neat hand, with integral address panel on conjoint leaf, with postmarks and wax seals. 1841-3. £90.00
    He complains of the difficult conditions 'trade is very slack here now & has been out for 3,4 & 6 months..... I drew my money out of the Savings Bank thinking these rumours of wars would depress the funds.... would you advise me to speculate in a railway share for I have got about œ85 and I should like to make it work as well as me....' Later letters mention his buying a Great North of England Railway share for œ13.00, enquiring whether the 'Edinburgh Railway is to come by the East coast or West....'. In August 1841 he joins a drawing school '2 guineas a quarter', but in May 1842 is still out of work 'I have had only 5 days work in the last 15 weeks and no prospect of anything doing....' Later he considers going to India as an engineer in the East India Co., quoting the rates of pay, etc.... 'I find the Sierra Lione man has 3 guineas per week... so you see father I have asked less than the 3d class engineers.... my friend advises me as trade is so dull to take a little less....'


  219. Notting Hill P. BAWDEN, MANUFACTURER OF FIRST PRIZE BRICKMAKING MACHINES Advertising sheet, folio, printed in two columns, illustrating four machines. With prices. Slightly discoloured in top and bottom margin. 1891. £15.00

  220. Rum & Brandy Importers BILLS from Eagle & Back, Distillers, Importers of Rum & Brandy, Red Cross Street, Cripplegate, addressed to a Brewer in Gosberton, Lincs, 1825 - 31. 20 bills, 4to, each with engraved heading, with adjoining leaf with letter, integral address panel on verso, postmark, some small holes in paper where wax seal broken. The bills are mainly for puncheons of Jamaica Rum, Brandy, Gin and Port Wine, the letters deal with details of carriage ('forwarded per Hearn's Waggon' etc.), occasional turkeys received, oysters sent, remarks on duty etc. 'Having heard on Monday that as Parliament meet on Tuesday week, one of the first questions to be settled is the new duty on Wine I have lost no time in getting your Hogshead cleared....' 1825-31. £40.00

    London Acts

  221. Picture Gallery AN ACT to enable Peltro Tomkins of New Bond Street.... Engraver to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, to dispose of his Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Engravings.... and the Lease of the Premises called The British Gallery of Pictures, by way of Lottery. 20pp., including 12pp Schedule listing paintings and their owners 'executed under the Sanction of the liberal Possessor'. 1817. £16.00

  222. Saint George, Hanover Square AN ACT for Sale of the Freehold Estate late of Roger Drake Esquire, deceased, and for laying out the Money arising thereby for the Benefit of Roger Drake, and Infant, his eldest Son and Heir at Law. 12pp. 1768. £14.00

  223. Wapping AN ACT for raising Money.... for the Purpose of erecting a Workhouse for the use of the Poor of the Parish of Saint John of Wapping. 12pp., some foxing spots in bottom margins. 1817. £12.00

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    Norfolk
  224. Banningham and Felmingham MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT for the purchase of property in the parishes for the railway under the 'Lym and Fakenham Railway Act', William Postle to The Eastern Midlands Railway Co. 3p, folio, including brief schedules. Attached is plan on waxed cotton 11" x 20" showing land required for the railway coloured red. 1883. £18.00

  225. Diss ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 175. Scale 1" to 1 mile, quarter sheet with borders all round, linen-backed, folding into blue marbled wraps with attractive label of Sefton, Praed & Co., key on verso. c1900. £14.00

  226. William Pope & Sons, Downham Market ADVERTISING SHEET illustrating striped horse rugs. Size 11" x 8", illustrates in colour three horses wearing the rugs, with prices etc. for different types of rugs and horse accessories. A few foxing spots, traces of fold. c1880? £16.00

    Norfolk Acts

  227. Great Yarmouth AN ACT for constructing and maintaining a Pier at Great Yarmouth.... 17pp., including schedules of Tolls etc. Last page loose, secured with staples. 1857. £12.00

  228. Norton AN ACT for inclosing Lands within the Parishes of Norton and Heckingham.... and fordraining certain Lands.... 38pp. 1817. £14.00

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    Somerset
  229. Abbots Leigh THE ABBOTS LEIGH ESTATE A Compact Residential property of upwards of 2,200 Acres, Including Leigh Court Mansion, Five Smaller Residences, the Village of Abbots Leigh, and the Famous Leigh Woods, the whole of the Rental Value of over œ5,000 per annum. For Sale by Auction by Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley.... at the Grand Hotel, Bristol, October 14th, 1915 at Two o'clock precisely. Auction Particulars, 88pp, folio, including completed memorandum. Original printed wraps, 2 large folding coloured plans in pocket, key plan at front. Photographs, including some of interior of Leigh Court. Staples rusty, some foxing on first few pages. 1915. £110.00

  230. Bath County Graphic, Pub. THE COLMERS STORY 12pp., stiff wraps, 4to. Illusts. 1970. £6.00

  231. Bedminster Down, Bishopsworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet VI.S.W. Scale 6" = 1 mile, size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. On stiff paper. A small area in centre is shaded. 1884. £9.00

  232. Carne-Williams (Daisy) HUNTING DIARY for the seasons 1935-6 to 1938-9. 8vo notebook, limp covers, titled 'Hunting' on front cover, 193p, in a neat hand, describing meets of the Taunton Vale Hounds. 5 small photographs pasted in, plus a few newspaper cuttings. Records meets at Hestercombe, Staple Manor, Whitelackington, Hatch Beauchamp, Yarcombe etc. 1935-9 £70.00
    For example the entry for Nov. 16th 1937 begins 'Rode John Peel. Weir Copse, Male's Goyle and Capland Drove were blank. Finding at Folly we hunted the old bob-tailed vixen in a small circle....'. Daisy Carne-Williams was for some years Master of the Hunt.


  233. Cary (John) A NEW MAP OF SOMERSETSHIRE Divided into Hundreds, Exhibiting, Its Roads, Rivers, Parks &c. Folding engraved map, fully hand coloured, mounted on linen, size approx. 19" x 21", folding into sm. 8vo slipcase, rubbed at edges. Some feint browning spots top left in blank area. April 28th, 1811. £55.00

  234. Charlton Mackrell LEASE of Charlton House and shooting over certain estates situate in King Weston and other parishes. Folio, 13p, in MS, with half page sketch map. Includes several clauses relating to game. Outer sheet where folded and titled rather dusty and ragged. Copy, 22nd June 1905. £16.00

  235. Cheddar FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS Frith's Series. Each size 11" x 7", one titled in plate 'Cheddar Pinnacle' showing group of people in middle distance on path below cliffs; one titled 'High Cliffs' with horse-drawn carriage, one of stalagtites and stalagmites in cave, reflected in water; one close-up of stalagtite formation resembling pieces of draped cloth. c1890 or earlier. £36.00

  236. Claverton-Street Brewery, Bath BILL of George Lush, Dealer in Foreign and British Spirits and Wine, for Sherry, Fine Old Crusted Port, etc. 8vo, printed heading. Stab holes. 1847. £5.00

  237. Cotterell (H.F) drawn by MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF THE CITY OF BATH. Folding lithographed map, size 11" x 12", folding onto sm. 8vo board. With key to Public Buildings and Churches. c1874. £25.00

  238. Glastonbury Abbey SOUVENIR OF ROYAL VISIT June 22, 1909. Restoration to the Church of England. Photographs of the Ceremonies, with Portraits and Full Descriptions. 30pp., including 18 views, plus leaf of adverts. Oblong large 8vo, printed wraps. Tully, Glastonbury, 1909. £20.00
    Includes workmen who worked on restoration, fireman's arch, etc.


  239. Glastonbury and Long Sutton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Part of Sheet 296. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 12" x 18", linen backed and folding to square marbled wraps, Stanford label. c1907. £13.00

  240. Hawkridge AUCTION HANDBILL advertising sale of Overland Tenements comprising fee simple of pasture land called West Shercombe, 2 acres of wood on Hawkridge Common, and 40 acres known as Shercombe Allotment. Sm. folio, folded, off-setting. 2p. manuscript conditions of sale attached. 1835. £16.00

  241. Lawrence Bros. ALBUM OF WESTON SUPER MARE VIEWS 12 photographic views on extending strip, folding into sm. 4to boards, decoratively printed in red and black, advert. for Clatworthy's of High Street on back board. c1890. £12.00

  242. Midford PARTICULARS of A most Attractive Small Residential and Agricultural Estate Midford Castle..... Heavily-Timbered Grounds.... Accommodation and Park Land.... For Sale by Auction.... Bath, Thursday 8th May, 1958. 22pp., 4to, photos., stiff wraps with pasted on photo. 1958. £16.00

  243. Rock Bros Ltd Pr. & Pub. NINETY-SIX FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS. BATH AND DISTRICT. 4to, original paperboards, corners of boards bruised, 44pp. c191- £14.00

    ANTI-INVASION PREPARATIONS 1803

  244. Rodden FORM OF AN APPOINTMENT OF AN OVERSEER FOR DRIVING SHEEP Printed sheet, with MS insertions, size 16" x 13", 35 printed lines, in a large typeface, signed by Earl Poulett as Lord Lieutenant of the County, with a good wax seal. The form was to be used to appoint 'An Overseer for Driving Sheep, of the Parish of Rodden (of which the Revd. Bell is Superintendant)....' In case of invasion he was to assemble the drivers at a given rendezvous and drive the sheep along appointed routes to depots. The name of the appointee has not been filled in, presumably the forms were prepared to be actually used only if the invasion threat materialised. 24th Nov. 1803. £25.00
    War with France had resumed in May 1803, and extensive anti-invasion preparations were made during that year, under an Act of Parliament, referred to in the text, 'to enable His Majesty more effectually to provide for the Defence and Security of the Realm during the present War....'


  245. Smith (C.S) A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Divided into Hundreds. Folding coloured map dissected and mounted on linen, contained in original paper slip case with printed label, engraved surface approx. 17" x 20". With Reference to Hundreds. Some slight discolouration due to paste. Corrected to 1827. £42.00

  246. Somerset Central Railway Company DEED OF COVENANT The Somerset Central Railway Company with Messrs. James and John Francis, of Ditcheat, Masons. Relating to a piece of land, part of the close called Lower Hay, in Evercreech, previously granted to the company, and the making of a right of access for J. & F. Francis. Large vellum sheet, with fine wax seal of company, which appears to show Glastonbury Tor, size 2" diameter, with some cracking. On verso is sketch plan in ink, scale 2 chains to an inch, size 7" x 10". 1860. £28.00

  247. Sutton Montis and Corton Denham PARTICULARS of a Freehold estate known as Sutton Farm.... Farm Buildings and Gardens, together with twenty-one closes.... which will be sold by Auction.... 17th of October, 1844.... Folio, folded, 4pp. Lacks plan. 1844. £8.00
    Although plan referred to in Schedules, one is not mentioned in title.


  248. Taunton & Minehead ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP 1" to 1 mile, Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 129. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. 1937. £8.00

  249. Taunton LEASE of a tenement called Stepswater near the turnpike between Taunton & Bishops Hull, T. Ackland, Ironmonger, and James Barnicott, Bookseller, to Capt. F. Dickson.3p, folio, small wax seals. 1853. £12.00

  250. Tellisford RECIPE BOOK of Mrs Charles Baker, Tellisford, 1852. 84 manuscript pages in 4to notebook, marbled boards, rubbed and shaken, lacking spine. Many pages with foxing, mainly around edges. Loosely inserted are two letters to Mrs Baker giving recipe for 'Wound Stone', one being from Julia Rooke at Iford Manor. 1852-72. £40.00
    Includes 'Prince Albert's Pudding', 'To Make a Curry as told me by a Hindoo at Kegford September 1867'.


  251. Tully (W), Pub. GLASTONBURY. THE VISIT OF THE BISHOPS A Memento of August 1897. 17 views, 2 of which are half page. Oblong 8vo, gilt boards, cloth spine. 1897. £16.00

  252. Wellow PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Properties In the Parish of Wellow... All that Attractive and Pleasantly-situate Dwelling-House, Garden, known as Mount Pleasant House.... Messrs Fry and Asprey will offer for Sale.... 20th day of March, 1897. Folio, 4pp, folded. 1897. £12.00

  253. Weston-super-Mare TWO STEEL VIGNETTE ENGRAVINGS hand-coloured and mounted on card. Shows Christ Church, and Kewstoke Church. Engraved surface, each 3" x 4", together with small copper engraving of Hinton chapel near Bath. 3 items. c1860. £12.00

  254. Yatton Parish SURVEY OF THE PARISH OF YATTON in the County of Somerset by Y. & J.P. Sturge, 1821. Two sm 4to notebooks, with a continuous manuscript pagination, details entered over 98 double-pages spreads, some blanks at end of volume 2. Ruled in columns giving details of Proprietors, Occupiers, Names of Fields etc (includes houses, coppices, withy beds, orchards, allotments) Measure, Relative Value, and 2 final columns for total areas and value, there is also a column listing a plan number. The manuscript is in ink. Two vols, recent half calf, marbled boards, original paper labels on top boards:- `Survey of Yatton A-P' and `Survey of Yatton P-Z'. 1821. £195.00

    Somerset Acts

  255. Bath Debts AN ACT for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts within the City of Bath, and the Liberties thereof. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 15pp. 1766. £15.00

  256. Buckland Dinham Estates AN ACT for vesting Part of the settled Estates, in the County of Somerset, of Sir Henry Strachey Baronet, in Trustees upon Trust.... 16pp. 1815. £15.00
    Includes a 6pp schedule of the land/tenants concerned.


  257. Frome and Shepton Mallett AN ACT for Making a Railway from the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, near Frome, to Shepton Mallett.... 14pp. 1856. £20.00

  258. Mear AN ACT for Dividing and Inclosing a certain Common, or Tract of Commonable Land called or known by the Name of Westhay Moor, within the Parish of Mear.... 29pp. 1778. £26.00

  259. Minehead Harbour AN ACT for Prolonging the Term for Payment of certain Duties Granted by an Act made.... Intituled An Act for Recovering, Securing and Keeping in Repair the Harbour of Minehead.... 5pp. plus covering leaf, Black Letter, some off-setting. 1716. £16.00

  260. Portishead Water AN ACT for authorising the Portishead District Water Company to construct additional Works and to purchase additional Lands.... 11pp., stapled. 1883. £10.00

  261. Somerset Railways AN ACT for making several Branches in the County of Somerset from the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and f