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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 117
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
Bristol (Lulsgate) Airport
OFFICIAL OPENING 1st May 1957.
Brochure, size 10" x 8", 12pp., including photographs, plan.
City and Corporation of Bristol 1957.£18.00
Bristol (Lulsgate) Airport
AIR SERVICES GUIDE to 31st March, 1958.
brochure, 4p., narrow 8vo, illustrated, giving flight information, and information on airport facilities... together with... This is Bristol. From Bristol Airport. Brochure with tourist information, hotels, airport history and facilities, shopping etc. 25pp, 4to, illusts. c1970... together with... Bristol Airport Handbook 1969. 40pp., 8vo, and Programme for Airport Open Day, 1978. 23pp. 4 items.
1958-1970.£20.00
Clifton Down Station
AGREEMENT FOR BUILDING AIR RAID SHELTERS for the use of the public, between the G.W.R and L.M.S and The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Bristol.
3pp., small folio, printed with typed inserts. 7 typed paragraphs setting out conditions etc. Affixed is a plan showing the Station Approach and three shelters, shaded in red.
16th April 1940.£18.00
¶ Each shelter could accommodate 150 people.
Clifton
SHIRLEY AND SON LIMITED The Civil and Military Stores, 28 The Mall. Cash Price List. December 1914 - February 1915.
Size 10" x 6", green wraps with embossed gold lettering. 112pp., including 25pp. of adverts at the end. Lists groceries, cleaning products, wine, vintage champagne, etc. The Ironmongery section has many illustrations of chinaware, jelly moulds, brushes, teapots, glasses, etc.
1914.£24.00
¶ At the beginning is a 'Journey List' showing dates of delivery to villages in a wide radius, including Tyntesfield, Bitton, Clevedon, etc.
King Street
WILL of John Potter, formerly of Kidderminster now of the City of Bristol.
2p, folio, plus blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Extracted copy. Folds, a few small edge tears.
1802.£15.00
¶ Leaves his messuage in King Street to his friend Mary Bowen.
Lenthall Bros.
GUARANTEED FURNITURE By Lenthall Bros., The Actual Makers.
Catalogue, 19pp., with sepia-type photographic illustrations on each page, with prices. Black wraps with silver title and decoration. Staples rusty, some sections loose.
1930's.£15.00
¶ Their premises were on Redcliffe Hill and North Street.
Lysaght (John), Limited.
AGRICULTURAL FEEDING APPLIANCES Manufactured by John Lysaght, Limited, Galvanized Iron Works, Bristol.
Catalogue printed on yellow paper, on both sides of sheet 15" x 17", folded to form brochure 5" x 8". Each item illustrated, with prices listed below.
1902.£18.00
¶ Upwards of 50 items illustrated. Includes wheelbarrows, water-carriers, garden tables and chairs, hay-racks, troughs.
Martin (James), Publisher
FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL April 26, 1843.
Broadsheet newspaper, 8p, unopened along top, folds. Advertisements on front page for Packet sailings, auction sales, proposed opening of South Devon Railway line, with vignette woodcuts of locomotives, ships etc.
1843.£15.00
¶ Includes advert. for auction sale of house and brewery at Moorend, Queen's visit on board the 'Great Britain', first exhibition at Bristol Academy of Fine Art, etc.
Phillips & Sons Ltd.
ADVERTISING LEAFLET for James Phillips & Sons Ltd., Union St. 'The House with over 100 Years Reputation'.
4p., 8vo., good photographic view of the shop on front, their removal waggon pulled by road engine on verso., desk and armchair inside. Printed in red and black... together with... a similar leaflet advertising their Indian carpets, with picture of camel and ox train transporting goods. Berger chair shown on front.
c1930?£12.00
Woodworkers
PRICE LIST C. Jennings & Co., General Woodworkers, Timber Merchants, Sawing, Turning & Moulding Mills. 1907.
132pp., size 7" x 5", decorative wraps, which are slightly grubby. Illustrated throughout.
1907.£18.00
¶ Includes various shop fronts, shop front pilasters, porches, bannisters and newel posts, church and chapel furniture such as rostrums, woodblock flooring, bay windows.
Wright & Co., Photographers, Bedminster
BELGIAN REFUGEES Under the Care of The Redcliffe, Southville and Bedminster West Wards.
Photograph, on glossy yellowish paper, size 4" x 7«", plus margins. Printed title. Shows about 50 adults and children against a background of trees.
Chappell & Co., Redcliffe Printing Works. c1915.£16.00
Longdon
LEASE of a house in Longdon with gardens and orchard, closes called Barn Croft, Calves Croft, John Floyer of Lichfield to John Clement of Longdon.
On paper, size 18" x 26", small wax seal... together with... BOND of John Clement to John Floyer. Printed with manuscript inserts, signed and witnessed. 1737, and a Quitclaim of the same date, printed with manuscript inserts. Loosely inserted are two indentures of 1738, John Clement to David Ede, both with the ink badly offset. 5 items.
1737.£34.00
Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway
PLANS AND SECTIONS. SESSOPM 1861-2. Consulting Engineer McLean and Styleman, Westminster.
7 lithographed plans and 6 sections, on separate sheets, size 20" x 33", lithographed on thick paper, plus title page. Original buff wraps with decorative printed title. Sewn at edge but lacking linen of spine. Some slight discoloration at top right edge of sheets due to damp, mainly affecting the last seven sheets. A couple of edge tears in front wrap.
1862.£90.00
¶ Shows buildings, some named (such as 'Salt Works'), woodland, rivers, roads, field boundaries, limit of deviation.
Tamworth
LEASE FOR A YEAR of 'all that farm or tenement or Mease Place whereon a messuage formerly stood' in Wigginton, part of a farm called Buckley's and a cottage in Cumberford, Hugh Annerley of Clifton Campville to Humphrey Woodcock.
Vellum, size 20" x 28", good wax seal showing a bird with a branch in its beak. Some slight yellowing of vellum.
1765.£20.00
Tamworth, Lichfield
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXII N.E.
scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Edges slightly dusty.
O.S. blindstamp 1881.£18.00
Tunstall, Cheadle
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXXII.N.W.
Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in left-hand margin. Slightly dusty.
Railways inserted to 1890, O.S. blindstamp 1901.£28.00
Wetton
PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of Valuable Freehold Farms Which Will be Sold by Auction... At the Light Railway Hotel, Hulme End... 21st day of June, 1906.
2pp., small folio, large folding coloured plan.
1906.£14.00
¶ The farms were known as Cantrills and Leys.
NOTE:
This is an old catalogue and many of these items are probably sold.
Please contact as I may have similar items in stock.
This page shows the range of items I specialise in BUYING and SELLING.