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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 77
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    Bedfordshire
  1. Walker (J) & (C) BEDFORDSHIRE. Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, engraved area approx. 15" x 12", plus margins, folding to sm 8vo, marbled sides. 1842. £18.00

  2. Twyford AN ACT for repairing the Highways from Sunning Land End.... to the Old Bear Inn in Reading. 8pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. Attractive woodcut initial letter. 1736. £14.00

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    Bristol
  3. Arrowsmith, Publisher LETTER from J.W. Arrowsmith to Lewis Way, Ashton Court, on headed paper of Arrowsmith Publishers, Dec. 18 1908, saying he was very interested in the paper on the Smyths Way had read at the Archaeological Society and enquiring if he would be interested in publishing. 2p, 8vo. 1908. £14.00

  4. Avon and Froome Navigation AN ACT for making more effectual an Act.... for the better preserving the Navigation of the Rivers Avon and Froome; and for cleansing, paving, and enlightening the Streets of the City of Bristol.... and for regulating Hackney Coachmen, Hauliers, Draymen, and Carters, and the Markets, and Sellers of Hay and Straw, within the said City and Liberties thereof. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 17pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1749. £12.00

  5. Bristol Wagon Works Company SPECIAL LIST FOR BREWERS, WINE MERCHANTS Aerated Water Trade &c. Leaflet, 4pp., 17" x 11", folded, with illustrations of 26 carts, each with prices for various weights etc, and description. March 1886. £38.00
    Includes 'Brewer's Covered Dray', 'Mineral Water Van' etc.


  6. Cattle Auction CATALOGUE of Pure Bred Jersey Cattle from the herds of Distinguished Breeders For Sale by Auction at Bristol Cattle Market... April 30, 1919. 12pp., 8vo. 1919. £7.00
    Gives detailed pedigrees.


  7. Clifton ABSTRACT OF TITLE S. Morley Esq. and others the Trustees of the London & Provincial Buildings and Investment Society to a Messuage or Dwelling house situate at 1 Victoria Place in the Parish of Clifton. 14p, large folio, folded. 1852. £24.00

  8. Cowlin (William) & Son PROPERTY REGISTER Clifton and Neighbourhood. Lists properties in Clifton for sale and to let. Several photos, adverts. 68pp. Orig. wraps. Spring Issue, 1908. £24.00
    Lists properties, with descriptions, street by street, in Clifton, Leigh Woods, Stoke Bishop, Redland, including 'Sundon House', The Promenade, detached house on the corner of Tyndall's Park Road and Woodland Road, previously occupied by William Sturge, large house with 'covered promenade on roof 51ft. long' in Leigh Woods, etc.


  9. Gardiner, Sons & Co. CATALOGUE NO. 145 Issued February, 1929. 490pp., size 11" x 9", hard covers. Printed on glossy paper, profusely illustrated, with a few plates in being in colour, price shown below each item. With this item are seven 'Monthly Bulletins of Leading Lines', a few pages in each. 1929. £50.00
    Includes fireplaces, weather vanes, wrought iron entrance gates, porticos, signs, ranges, lawnmowers, door furniture, lamps, paintbrushes, tools.


  10. Gardiner, Sons & Co. FIREPLACES IN COLOUR Catalogue 170. March 1935. 18pp., 8vo, wraps. 14 colour plates of fireplaces, plus 2 plates of tiles, and a plate of views inside Beacon House, Queen's Road. 1935. £15.00

  11. Infirmary A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY Founded 1735. King Edward VII Memorial, Opened by His Majesty the King. Accompanied by Her Majesty the Queen. June 28th, 1912. 155pp., 4to, wraps with gilt coat of arms. Illusts. Wraps slightly spotty. 1912. £10.00
    'The historical notes were taken from 'The History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary' by Mr. G. Munro Smith, which is shortly to be published.'


  12. Saint Philip and Jacob and Temple Railway AN ACT for the Construction by the Midland Railway Company of a new Railway in the City of Bristol. 12pp. Disbound, Act of Parliament. 1863. £17.00
    The railway was from the parish of Saint Philip and Jacob and terminated in the parish of Temple.


  13. St. Augustine AGREEMENT for Sale of Reversionary interest, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England with H.G. Willmott. Refers to two houses in Pipe Lane in the occupation of Joseph Taverner and James Tucker. 6pp., folio, attached is manuscript coloured plan of the houses. 1872. £14.00

  14. Warren (Robert Hall) BRAUN'S MAP OF BRISTOL Commonly called Hoefnagle's. Pamphlet reprinted from the Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club. 15pp., 8vo. Wraps faded and slightly worn. 1900. £6.00

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    Buckinghamshire
  15. Aylesbury CATALOGUE of 60 Oxford Down Shearling Rams, the Property of Messrs. J. & S. Treadwell, to be Sold by Auction... August 7th, 1907. 16pp., sm. 8vo. 1907. £10.00
    With detailed pedigrees.


  16. Finmere, near Buckingham USEFUL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, And Effects, Various Agricultural Implements, Stump of Prime Old Hay..... The property of Thomas Dagley, who is leaving, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Jonas & Thos. Paxton, On the premises, on Wednesday, May the 26th, 1858.... Poster, size 20" x 15", one small tear. E. Smith and Company, Printers, Bicester, 1858. £24.00
    Includes an extensive list of the items in the sale.


  17. Finmere, near Buckingham VALUABLE FLOCK OF 300 HALF BRED SHEEP, 8 CART HORSES, NAG MARE, 38 PIGS, 3 Carts, Harness, Ploughs, Harrows, and Miscellaneous Agricultural Implements..... The property of Mr Henry Paxton, who is leaving a Farm at Barton Hartshorn, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Jonas Paxton & Geo. Castle, On Farm Premises opposite the King's Head Inn, Finmere, on Wednesday, April 4, 1866.... Poster, size 20" x 15", few short tears, small portion torn from bottom margin, not affecting the text. E. Smith and Company, Printers, Bicester, 1866. £20.00

  18. Greatmoor Farm, Grendon 127 GOOD HALFBRED SHEEP, 34 HEAD OF DAIRY CATTLE, Working Horses, Nag and Harness Horse, 5 Fat Hogs, 33 Acres of Capital Growing Crops of Wheat, Beans and Oats..... And the whole of the Agricultural Implements..... of the late Thos. Cooper, deceased, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Jonas Paxton & Geo. Castle, On the Premises, at Greatmoor, on Thursday, August, 12th, 1868.... Poster, size 24" x 19", few short tears, and a few small holes where once folded. E. Smith and Son, Printers, Bicester, 1869. £20.00

  19. Ludgershall, near Buckingham 42 ACRES OF GRASS CROP AND KEEPING..... On the Farm late in the Occupation of Mr Gabriel Allen, deceased, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Jonas Paxton & Geo. Castle, At the King's Head Inn, Bicester, on Friday, May the 8th, 1868.... Poster, size 22" x 17". E. Smith and Company, Printers, Bicester, 1868. £20.00

  20. Marsh Gibbon 16 HEAD OF CATTLE, 4 CART HORSES AND COLTS 2 Pigs, 50 Head of Poultry, Wagons, Dung Cart, Agricultural Implements, Dairy Utensils, an Orchard of Apples, 100 Lots of Useful Household Furniture.... The property of the late Mrs Emma Herring and Mr George Phipps, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Paxton & Holiday, On their respective premises, on Monday, October the 29th, 1894.... Poster, size 22" x 17", couple of short tears. T.W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester, 1894. £24.00
    Includes an extensive list of the 187 lots, including contents of the two farmhouses listed room by room.


  21. Marsh Gibbon, near Bicester MODERN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Capital Bedding, Iron-bound Casks And Useful Effects, The Property of Mr Thomas Hawkins, of the Greyhound Inn, Marsh Gibbon, who is leaving, To Be Sold by Auction by Messrs Jonas & Thomas Paxton on the Premises, on Thursday, the 19th day of February, 1857..... Poster, size 15" x 10", small portion torn from lower corner, affecting one word. E. Smith and Company, Printers, Bicester, 1857. £15.00
    Includes an extensive list of the items in the sale.


  22. Thatcham Ponds Farm, near Stowe 5 CART HORSES, NAG HORSE, 19 FAT AND FEEDING PIGS, Poultry, 4 Carts, Harness, Agricultural Implements, Dairy Utensils, Household Furniture.... The property of Mr J.R. Curtoise who is leaving, To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Jonas Paxton & Geo. Castle, On the premises, on Tuesday, November the 14th, 1871.... Poster, size 22" x 17", couple of short tears and two small portions torn from right hand edge, not affecting text. E. Smith and Company, Printers, Bicester, 1871. £20.00

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    Cambridgeshire
  23. Cambridge Roads AN ACT to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act.... intituled "An Act for repairing and widening the Road from the present Turnpike Road at Haverhill to Redcross, in the Parish of Shelford...." Cover leaf + pages numbered 559-563, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1773. £10.00

  24. Chatteris and Doddington Drainage AN ACT for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands.... in the Parishes of Chatteris and Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge. Cover leaf + pages numbered 679-702, disbound, black letter, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1758. £12.00

  25. Sawston, Whittlesford, Stapleford, Hildersham PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Sawston and Hildersham Estates, comprising Superior Dairy, Stock and Corn Farms, Building Sites, Cottage and Shop Property... extending to an Area of about 2,317 Acres... for Sale by Auction... 23rd September, 1922. 31pp., folio, staples rusty hence wraps loose. 2 large folding plans in pocket. With a bundle of correspondence, 1923-4, relating to sales, tithe apportionment, tenants, etc. 1922. £45.00
    Includes Huntington's Farm, Dernford Farm, Cook's Pen Farm, Plumb's Place Farm, Cook's Pen Farm etc.


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    Cheshire
  26. Chitterne Saint Mary AN ACT for Inclosing Lands in the Manor and Parish of Chitterne Saint Mary and Chitterne All Saints.... 11pp. 1810. £15.00

  27. Macclesfield AUCTION PARTICULARS of Desirable Freehold Residence and Land in Macclesfield, to be Sold by Auction 7th March, 1916. Single sheet, 4to, with blank conjoint leaf, describing 3 Lots, in Great King St. 1916. £6.00

  28. Peak Forest Canal LETTER OF ATTORNEY The Company of Proprietors of the Peak Forest Canal to Messrs. David Browne & Maurice Jones, to surrender certain copyhold land in Yeardsley Whaley in the County of Chester. 3p., folio, signed next to fine large papered seal of the Company, 2" diameter.... together with.... Letter of Attorney, Francis Jodrell to Messrs David Browne & Maurice Jones, to receive Admission to certain copyhold land in Yeardsley-Whaley, to appear at the Halmote of the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield. 1p., sm. folio.... together with.... three draft copies of printed document of Admission to Manor and Forest of Macclesfield, manuscript insertions in an untidy hand with many amendments (referring to the above mentioned piece of land and the Letters of Attorney). 1806. £35.00
    The small piece of land concerned had lately been used by the Canal Proprietors 'for part of a wharf or quay at the termination of the branch or cut from and out of the Peak Forest Canal to Whaley Bridge'.


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    Cornwall
  29. Besley (H) VIEWS IN CORNWALL 24 engraved vignette views, engraved surface approx. 4" x 7". Original blind-stamped cloth, oblong 8vo, gilt title. Gilt edges, tissue guards. c1850. £165.00
    Views include: St. Michael's Mount with train in foreground; Penzance from Newlyn Battery; paddle steamer in Mount's Bay, Penzance from Lescudjack, St. Just; Lamorna, with quarry; Mill Bay; Botallack Mine; Cape Cornwall; Hayle; A Tin Mine between Camborne and Redruth; Mullion seen from a cave; Helston; Truro; Falmouth; St. Ives.


  30. Bessow, Manor of COUNTERPART OF TIN AND COPPER SETT Arthur Holdsworth of Clifton Dartmouth, to Martin Stephens of Camborne. Vellum, size 21" x 27", wax seal. 1784. £60.00
    Grants liberty to dig for tin, copper and other metals in an area of ground defined as 'from the Dutchy lands... eastward as unto the Eastern Hedge of the Great Road leading from Helston to Wendron Church town and one hundred fathoms north and sixty fathoms south of Wheal White Cap load... provided it does not reach within twenty fathoms of... Wheal Lower Town Sett...'

    BISHOP COLENSO

  31. Bishop Colenso THE DEPOSITION OF DR. COLENSO A Declaration to the Primate, renouncing Christian Communion with Dr. Colenso, also Memorial to the Upper House of Convocation..... accepting the spiritual validity of the Deposition, Lies Here for Signature. Poster, heading in capitals and 9 lines in a very large type-face, paper size 8" x 11", traces of folds, many small creases. 1864? £40.00
    Bishop Colenso was born in St. Austell. When he was Bishop of Natal, he published 'The Pentateuch Examined', which was censured by his Bishop and a decree of deposition passed. He was publicly excommunicated at Maritzburg cathedral 5th January, 1866 (see Boase: 'Collectanea Cornubiensia'.)


  32. Boslymon Quarries Ltd., Crutched Friars, London OLD CORNISH CROSSES. CORNISH GREY GRANITE. 20pp., 8vo, printed wraps. Illustrates 19 Cornish crosses, for memorials, taken from Langdon's book on Cornish Crosses, but 'The shafts, or dies, have in some cases been modernised and bases added to provide space for an inscription'. n.d. 1920's? £18.00

  33. Brimmell (John) Printer LAUNCESTON WEEKLY NEWS Cornwall and Devon Advertiser. No. 982, Feb. 6, 1875. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp, slight wear at fold on first page, a couple of old sellotape repairs to small tears, one longer unrepaired tear. 1875. £10.00
    Numerous adverts for local firms on front page.


  34. Brynn ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIII.15, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £16.00
    Shows Retire Common, Brynn Mine, Great Brynn, Union and R.D. Railway, Kirriers, Higher Colbiggan.


  35. Bude Bay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 33" x 14", plus margins, borders all round. Sea and land lightly shaded, darker shading along coast. Linen-backed and folding to large 4to, marbled sides. 1875. £12.00
    Shows only a small strip of coast.


  36. Camborne and Helston REMOVAL ORDER for George Wills and Sarah his wife, and their seven (named) children, to be conveyed out of the Borough of Camborne to Helston, their legal place of settlement. Printed with ms. inserts, sm. folio, signed by 2 J.P's. Together with 11 similar items. Traces of folds. 1812-19. £150.00
    Other orders were to remove Charlotte Harrop the natural daughter of Charlotte Harrop to Wimering, Hampshire, Susanna Cargeage to St. Just, Elizabeth Hall, pregnant with a bastard child, to North Bradley, Wilts., Elizabeth Vine to Breage, Alice Tremaine to Budock, etc. Some orders have the imprint of Penaluna, Printer.


  37. Central Cornwall Railway Company MAP size 10" x 13" showing railway network and proposed routes in red, with table comparing mileage on narrow and broad gauge lines. Some edge tears. c1865. £16.00
    Probably from a Prospectus.


  38. Cornish Post SUPPLEMENT to the Cornish Post and Mining News, April 30, 1898. Single large sheet, broadsheet size, being a Paper read at Camborne School of Mines by W. Hopwood 'Modern Winding Appliances'. Printed on one side only, folded. 1898. £6.00

  39. Cornwall Minerals Railway Co. MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A SPECIAL BOARD MEETING 22nd July 1873. Manuscript, 5p. signed by Chairman, size 15" x 9", plain wraps with MS title, horizontal fold, wraps rather grubby. Pasted in at relevant points are 3 notices, one giving notice of first Ordinary General Meeting of the new company, for electing Directors, etc., notice requesting Shareholders submit old shares for new issue under the 1873 Act, and covering letter explaining the conversion to a Parliamentary Company. 1873. £80.00
    'From a personal inspection of the Works on the above Railway made within the last few days, I am satisfied that the Contractor, Sir. S. Peto, has so far advanced the work as to justify me in recommending that the payment which would be due to him under his Contract on the 7th proximo be made.... W.H. Thomas, Engineer'. The railway was revitalised under the speculator W.R. Roebuck 'he formed the Cornwall Minerals Railway, authorized on 21 July 1873' a number of standard gauge mineral lines 'all opened after feverish activity on 1 June 1874'. David St. John Thomas 'West Country Railway History'.


  40. Cury PHOTOGRAPH titled in pencil on verso 'Cury Vicarage 1880'. Albumen print, size 6" x 8", showing five ladies standing on a gravel path in front of the conservatory of a large house, boy standing with horse and carriage in background. Very small piece torn from top corner. 1880. £10.00

  41. Dacum, Wendron LETTER to Mr. Thomas Grylls from a tenant, saying the house is in bad repair. Details (with very eccentric spelling) the repairs needed 'the timber that sestains the Roofe Roten and not fit to put a new tatching on it...' Enclosed is a rough sketch plan showing parts of Dacum occupied by different tenants, with value. 1p., sm. folio. 1801. £8.00

  42. Fursdon ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVIII.15, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1908. £15.00
    Shows Cutkive Wood, Hay Barton, Hattwood Farm, Great Woolston, Hay Barton.


  43. Helston COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN AFFADAVITS for debt, sworn at Helston, stating amount owed, signed by Plaintiff, and the Mayor. 6-10 lines in manuscript on small folio sheets, folded with docket title. Impressed tax stamps. 1739-48. £95.00
    Includes John Cock, Tanner, against Francis Mildren of St. Martyn; William Thomas, Hatmaker against Roger Mitchell, Hatmaker, both of Helston; Elizabeth Passmore against Benjamin Ripper; John Harry of Mullion, Mason, against Richard Williams of Helston, Dyer, etc.


  44. Helston CONVICTION of John Baptist Nocker from Tyrol in Germany who caused 'several boxes containing Toys... fancy articles to be conveyed to the said borough by a Cart or Wain' and exposed them for sale 'in a Room or Shop'. Vellum, size 9" x 13", wax seal. Slight thinning of vellum in blank area at one fold at bottom edge. 1820. £22.00

  45. Illogan PARISH OF ILLOGAN Tithes due Michaelmas 1784. Alphabetical list of 101 names with sums due etc. Large folio sheet, folded. 'Rents of Houses on the Glebe' and 'Seats in the Church' on verso. 1784. £26.00

  46. Launceston REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY AND DIVISION INTO WARDS OF THE BOROUGH. 3pp, with a sheet on which is a plan of town, coloured in outline, scale 4" to 1 mile and a plan of the borough, scale 1" to a mile, by R.K. Dawson. Folio, disbound, some slight off-setting, onto text. 1837. £22.00

  47. Namboll (Manor of) FINE in Latin, 10 lines on vellum, size 5" x 13". Docket title in English on verso 'Bevyll's fine for the Manr. of Namball'. 1534? £40.00
    Refers to James Bevyll, William Shelley, Thomas Willoughby.


  48. North Cornwall Railway Company AN ACT for incorporating the North Cornwall Railway Company and authorising them to make and maintain the North Cornwall Railway... 28pp. 1882. £18.00

  49. North Norton LETTER from Hugh Mallett to Mr. Grylls at Helston concerning Sir John Call's wish to add his sons' names to the lease of part of North Norton, with that of his daughter Philadelphia Call. 9 lines on sm. folio sheet, folded with address on verso. Callington 1795. £8.00

  50. Penhesken ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXV.4, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £12.00
    Shows Trelogossick, Tregongon, Higher Demain, Treswithan.


  51. Polmenna ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXVI.14, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £15.00
    Shows Lametton Mill, Pencrowd, Trethawle, Rosenun, Housey.


  52. Quintrell Downs ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XL.5, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". First edition, reprint 1900. £16.00
    Shows Manuels, Trethiggey, Kestle Mill, Chapel. Bejowan, Quarries.


  53. Restormel INK DRAWING titled in left margin 'Restormel Hall Dec. 11. 1810'. Size 6" x 8", showing house in far distance, among trees, framed by tree in foreground, stream on right. In dark green card mount with gold line. 1811. £22.00

  54. Smuggling ALL PERSONS THAT HAVE OR CLAIM TO HAVE all or any part of twenty four gallons of foreign Brandy and Nine Gallons of foreign Geneva which was seized at Helston... by Mr. John Clapinson Officer of Excise... are hereby to take Notice... Declaration by two Justices that they will hear the matter at the Sign of the Angel Inn in Helston. With statement of Wm. Thomas, Cryer, affirming he proclaimed the matter in the market place of Helston, signed by him. Manuscript, neatly written, 24 lines, 1 side of small folio paper slightly damp-spotted. 24th June 1775. £45.00

  55. St. Cleer PARTICULARS of the manor of Fursnewth, and of Freehold Farms and Lands, and Building Sites, in the Parish of St. Cleer... The Lands of Edward Morshead... For Sale by Auction... at Webb's Hotel, Liskeard... 30th day of August 1853. 12pp., folio, on blue paper, folded with docket title, plus 3 pages of plans. Detailed schedules with names of fields, etc., and quantities. 1853. £65.00
    Includes Venland, Lampretten, South Hendra, Treneath Farms... St. Cleer Well 'Comprising an Ancient Well, and the remains of a beautiful Well Chapel, of the Perpendicular Gothic'. Gives details of mineral on the various lands, for example 'Tretharrop... is intersected by several Mineral Lodes, and comprises the Sett of Wheal Tretherry, now in work, at the usual dues, and is offered subject to the provisions of such Sett. The Tenement... is adjacent to the Site of South Caradon and it is presumed that the Lodes of that celebrated Mine extend into part of the ground, and will be developed in progress of working.'


  56. Stannary Affidavits A BILL to facilitate the taking of Affidavits and Affirmations in the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall. 2pp. 1834. £10.00

  57. Stithians PARTICULAR of Sundry Freehold Lands, of the late Thomas Reed, Esq., to be Sold by Auction, at Trevales in Stithians, on Thursday 30th September, 1813. 6 pages plus leaf with docket title, size 16" 13", held with pink tape at corner, comprising tables with columns for Lot No., Parish, Tenement, Occupants, Names of Lives (usually three lives given) and their Ages in 1813, Heriots, Measure, Observations, all information being printed except entries in the last column which are in ms.... together with... Conditions of Sale as to such Lands in the annexed Particular as were late Part of the Duchy of Cornwall', 3p., folio, together with 'Conditions of Sale' 3p, folio, both in manuscript. Penaluna, Printer, Helston, 1813. £120.00
    Tenements include Penhalvean, Carn Meor, Nancotha, Colvennor, Tregouls.


  58. Stubbs (Revd. Charles) THE TRURO CAROL BOOK Twelve Christmas Carols and the Pre-Christmas Antiphons. 32pp, 4to, wraps, old sellotape marks at bottom, Library stamp. 1911. £8.00
    The carols were composed by the Bishop when he was staying in America.


  59. Tolcarne ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXX.7, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £18.00
    Shows Penmarth, Tolcarne Wartha, Boswin. Balmynheer Mine, Calvadnack Mine, Wendron United Mines, Poligy Mine, British Village, White Alice.


  60. Towednack, Newmill ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Two quarter sheets, nos. LXVIII.N.W., and S.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Folded. Later reprint of 2nd Edition 1907. 2 items. £18.00
    Covers Zennor, Trevega Cliff, Veor Cove, Madron, Gulval, Castle an Dinas, Porthmeor Common.


  61. Trencreek, Trevemper ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX.8, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Repaired 5" tear at left edge. Revision of 1933. £15.00
    Shows Trerice Mill, Trevithick, Tranance Boating Lake, Hendra.


  62. Tuckingmill Creek ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXV.7, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £16.00
    Shows Trenestrall, Treworga, Trelonk, Lambourne, Ardevora, Brick Works.


  63. (Watts, Mark) AN INTERESTING DIALOGUE between Mark and Uncle Tom, On the severity of the Times and the prosperity of the Mines. Broadside poem in four-line stanzas with prose introduction, printed on thin paper, in three columns, two woodcuts at head, each size approx. 4" x 3", one showing a village, the other figures near a cottage. Overall size 15" x 10", laid down on fine Japanese paper, slight chips in edge of paper along 1" on left side. Printed at the 'Hayle Weekly News' Office, c1870. £55.00
    The poem ends on an optimistic note 'May Mellanear, on Foundry-hill/With ores in plenty shine; May many hands be there employ'd/May it be a good mine. To Crenver mine I must refer/A cloak of gloom, she wore/Now her best garment is put on/And long may she endure.' The writer describes how when he became unemployed he travelled around the mines, to Dolcoath, Wheal Seaton, Roskear, etc. selling his publications. There is also a section on the port of Hayle and the vessels 'Bessie' and 'Henry Harvey'.


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    Cumberland
  64. Carlisle railway ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 25" to one mile, size 54" x 81", linen backed, folding into folio cloth covered boards, lettered 'Estate and Rating Dept., Euston'. 6 sections of the map are plain paper, with one section having 'Sales and Purchases' listed in red ink, from 1925 to 1969. Map covers Carlisle and the railway from Stainton to Durranhill Park, railway outlined in green. Linen split along four folds. Revision of 1937. £22.00

  65. Dalston PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold and Copyhold Estates, in the Parish of Dalston, and known as the 'Gill' and 'Greensyke' Estates, containing about 350 Acres, together with the Mansion House, Farm House, Dwelling Houses, Stables, Coach-Houses, Barns.... which will be Sold by Public Auction... 19th July, 1882. 6pp., folio, docket title, very large folding coloured plan. 1882. £32.00
    'The Mansion House stands in a handsomely timbered Park, through which the Gill Beck winds its way, and is most substantially built in the Tudor Style.'


  66. Westward, near Wigton HAZELSPRING FARM The Property of The Right Honble. Lord Leconfield. 1864. Traced from unfinished Ordnance Plans of the Parish Westward. Lightly coloured manuscript plan in brownish tracing paper mounted on paper then on linen, size 28" x 30", folding into 8vo marbled wraps. Scale 25" to 1 mile. Shows buildings at Wallace Lane, Hazelspring, Hilltop, Studholme Rigg Wood, fields with acreage etc., river, streams, roads... together with... HILL TOP FARM The Property of the Right Honble Lord Leconfield. 1864. Similar plan, size 33 " x 55", folding into 8vo marbled wraps. The two plans fit together, with some overlap. The area of Hazelspring Farm is coloured pink and Hill Top Farm green. 2 items. Neat manuscript labels on wraps. Signed W.L.M. 12th March 1864. £80.00

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    Derbyshire
  67. Badmin (S.R) (Painted by) THE SHELL GUIDE TO DERBYSHIRE Poster, size 29" x 20", metal stretchers. Repaired tear at right hand margin going upwards and reaching 2" into plate, repaired on verso. c1960. £18.00
    Shows Haddon Hall, Chatsworth, Chesterfield Church etc., with key.


  68. High Peak AN ACT to define and amend the Mineral Customs of certain Parts of the Hundred of High Peak in the County of Derby, Part of the Possessions of Her Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster; to make Provision for the better Administration of Justice in the Barmote Courts therein; and to improve the Practice and Proceedings of the said Courts. Pages numbered 1021-1064, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre, and William Spottiswoode, 1851. £15.00

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    Devon
  69. Ashburton TO BE SOLD by Public Auction At the Golden Lion Hotel.... 13th June Next.... all That Rich Meadow Called First Meadow.... now occupied by Mr. Mann: and all those Three Dwelling Houses in Heavyhead Lane.... Poster, 17" x 13", 3 small edge tears. Chapple, Printer, Ashburton, 1873. £16.00

  70. Axminster BILL of W. Keech, Chemist, Druggist &c, Oils, Spices, Fish Sauces &c. Size 9" x 7", fine engraved heading with vignette of classical figures symbolising medicine. Lists 26 items over a period of 6 months, including embrocation, eye lotion, ginger lozenges. Folds, a few small edge tears. 1835. £14.00

  71. Axminster BILL of James Reece, Ironmonger and Grocer, Oils and Colours of all Sorts. Size 5" x 4", engraved heading with two vignettes, one showing Chinaman with tea chests, the other a range with coal scuttle, kettle etc around it. Made out for tea pot etc., receipted. Nick in paper in top margin, bottom edge torn across. c1840. £8.00

  72. Barnstaple & Ilfracombe ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Mounted on linen, size approx. 24" x 36", worn silk edging tape. Border on top and left edges. Linen on verso rather stained at edges. c1810. £30.00
    Margary State 2.


  73. Buckerell OBLIGATION BOND of Seamuel Seale of Buckerell, Yeoman, to Patience Humphrey of Honiton, for £25. 1p, sm. folio, in English and Latin, wax seal with monogram. Conjoint leaf with docket title on verso. 1696. £30.00

  74. Buckland Filleigh LEASE of a dwelling house and half an acre adjoining at the higher end of Buckland Wood, with 'liberty for one pig to pasture and feed in the said wood at all times and seasons', Henry Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh to John Serjeant. Vellum, size 6" x 21", witnessed on verso by George Fortescue and John Gilbert. Small wax seal with flower on tag. 1690. £45.00
    Stipulates attendance at the Courts of the Manor of Buckland Filleigh. There is a note on the outside where titled about rent with and without capon.


  75. Chagford ELIGIBLE SMALL FREEHOLD ESTATE FOR SALE Beautifully situate on the Borders of Dartmoor... for Sale by Auction... 8th day of September.... All that Desirable Estate known as 'Yelfords'.... Poster, size 21" x 15", traces of folds, two small tears at fold repaired on verso.... together with manuscript Conditions of Sale, with completed Memorandum, 2p., folio. 1887. £32.00
    'containing one of the prettiest building sites to be found in this far-famed Healthy and Romantic Neighbourhood'.


  76. Churchstanton AN AUCTION WILL BE HELD at the York Inn, in Churchenford... on Friday 11th Day of June next... For Sale of the Lands Hereinafter described... Poster, size 11" x 9", folds, printed in a variety of typefaces, with the word 'Lands' in a particularly decorative large print with white floral decoration in the letters. Described two lots with tenants, etc. Spurway, Columbian Press Office, Honiton. 1841. £22.00

  77. Clyst St. Lawrence THE PARISH OF CLYST ST. LAWRENCE in the County of Devon, manuscript map, so titled, in ink and 6 colours on tissue paper mounted on linen, size 39" x 58". Scale 3 chains to 1". Folding into large 8vo wraps, very rubbed, MS label 'Tithe Map Clyst St. Lawrence'. Tissue paper curled and chipped at folds, with loss of paper in two small areas of map, affecting small area of road and field boundary, some ink blotches. Scale bar, decoratively lettered title. Shows buildings in pink, water features, roads, fields, (with numbers), various areas of land shaded in different colours. Later MS additions in pencil giving change of ownership etc., with rather untidy alterations to colour of some shaded areas by means of diagonal lines of blue watercolour. 28th January, 1848. £65.00
    An almost contemporary copy (the original tithe map dated 1844.)


  78. Dunkeswell COPY OF DEED TO LEAD TO THE USES OF A FINE of five messuages, eight gardens, eighty acres of land, seventeen acres of meadow, twenty acres of furze and heath, common of pasture for cattle, in Dunkeswell, close called Lyme Croft in Luppitt, and other property in Plymouth, together with rights in the Manor of Dunkeswell, Edward Ford of Exeter, Woollendraper to Thomas Lethbridge and Francis Collins of Wiveliscombe. Manuscript on 2 large folio sheets, written on one side only. Attested copy of deed made 1726, copy made 1734. 1734. £25.00

  79. Ermington Batallion, Southern Volunters PRINTED LETTER from the Colonel (named only as 'J.D.B' - Bastard?) to the Lt. Col. of the Regiment of Southern Volunteers, setting out arrangements for the meeting of the Companies on 28th August, ordering them to choose the best men ('500 Men exclusive of Sharp Shooters.... you will select such as appear best fitted for the service.... the Men above 500.... are to be thanked for the spirited manner in which they have come forward and should be requested to hold themselves in readiness for the purpose of being enrolled as Pioneers....'). He asks that the Men be given 'Bread and Cheese and a Quart of Cyder....' Sm. folio sheet, printed on one side only, folds, names and places filled in with pencil. On verso is a rough list of Lt. Colonels and Majors. Haydon, Exeter, Printer, 1803. £40.00

  80. Exeter BILL of T.H. Rowe to Mrs Sandys, Exeter, for carpentry and building work, 1822. 3p., folio. Lists work done Feb. 16 - April 13. 1822. £14.00
    Includes detailed man hours for making dresser, table, plate rack, clothes horse, price for deal, elm etc.


  81. Exeter POSTER advertising the auction sale at the Old London Inn of a Freehold Estate, late the Property of William Guppy, comprising a Cottage and Garden near the Cavalry Barracks, Two Fields called Rock Field and Danes Castle Field adjoining the New Reservoir, Houses in Butcher Row and Paris Street... etc. Printed in large type-faces, size 22" x 17", folded, 5" repaired tear at vertical fold at bottom. 1839. £24.00

  82. Gray (Joseph W.) THE DEVON TOR RANGE an Improved Ventilating Kitchener or Cooking Apparatus.... Sold Exclusively by Joseph W. Gray, Kitchen Fitter & Furnisher & Domestic Engineer, 31 Fleet Street, Torquay, Manufacturer and Erecter. Illustrated Prospectus of ranges, baths, kitchen equipment etc., 12pp., folio, folded, bottom half of last page browned. c1874. £40.00
    Includes list of satisfied customers who had the range installed.


  83. Halberton YEO FARM, HALBERTON Important Sale of about 23 Acres of Luxuriant Grass. Poster, size 17" x 11", fold, advertising the sale on the premises, April 19th, 1920. Lists 4 fields, with measurements etc. One fold. 1920. £12.00

  84. Ilfracombe PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Reversionary Life Interest in Valuable Freehold Property consisting of a Mansion House and Ground, Farms, Cottages &c, at and Near Barnstaple & Ilfracombe.... which will be Sold by Auction... 1st day of June, 1871, at the Guildhall Coffee House, London. 4pp., folio, folded. Includes full page schedule listing 22 properties, fields etc. with tenants etc., in Pilton, Marwood, Goodleigh, etc. Both 1871. £22.00

  85. Lifton FURTHER CHARGE by way of Mortgage of Smalecombe, Overy East, Carligh and Corhellacott in Lifton, Samuel Harris of Smalecombe in Lifton of the one part and Charles Prideaux of Padstow and Benjamin Prideaux of The Temple, London, of the other part. 38 lines, in English, on vellum, size 17" x 23", signed Harris with small wax seal with head of a man. 1798. £30.00
    Refers to the Messuage and Barton of Smalecombe and Over Yeat, Carleigh, and Coshellacott. Charles and Benjamin were entitled to the principal and interest under the will of Edmund Prideaux.


  86. Morchard SOME OCCURENCES from March 11th 1786 to Decr. 8th 1796. Mr. N-. Manuscript Journal so titled on front wrap, 28 pages of entries in a small 8vo notebook, plain wraps. The writer seems to have been a clergyman, in the Exeter area, and at one point mentions 'I was at this time busy about getting a bill passed for changing my name'. He notes mainly comings and goings of himself and his visitors, to Exeter, Bath, Mt. Edgcumbe, Mylor, etc., and a pleasure trip to South Wales. He often refers to his son George, who leaves school, goes to Cambridge, and takes a trip on the Continent for his health, and his daughters Jane and Nan. The latter receives three proposals of marriage: 'Mr Barter proposed to our Nan. She behaved very well but rejected him. He is more than 25 years older than her'. At one time she sets her cap on fire, but is only 'a little hurt'. He mentions going to Morchard 'to look about my new building which was begun a few days since.' A few deaths and births are referred to: 'Mary Batten delivered herself of a Boy... a Bastard of John Fripp's. It died soon'. 1786-1796. £150.00

  87. Musbury PARTICULARS OF LANDS IN MUSBURY in Mortgage to the Revd. Benjamin Weaver and Samuel Domett. Manuscript, 1p, folio, giving list mainly of Drakes' estate with list of fields etc., with acreages. Paper watermarked 1857. £8.00

  88. Plymouth ASSIGNMENT of the remainder of a term of 1000 years of messuage, two cellars, garden, chamber and cellar adjoining a street called 'Haynes his lane' in Plymouth, William Allen of Stourbridge, Dorset, Apothecary to George Hill of Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Vellum, size 17" x 21", two tags, one lacking wax seal. 1676. £30.00

  89. Plymouth CONVEYANCE of three tenements in Pins Lane, John Yonge and others to William Emmett. Two large vellum sheets, engraved heading with coat of arms, signed by seven parties with wax seals. Brief schedule of deeds from 1690. Loosely inserted is 'Lease for a Year' from Richard Deeble to William Emmett, of the same year, smaller vellum sheet, wax seal. 1747. £28.00
    Signatories include Elizabeth Upton, Elizabeth Harris, Catherine Yonge, Richard Doidge.


  90. Plymouth THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY OF THE BOROUGH OF PLYMOUTH to Mrs. Grace Miller. Lease of conduit water in her house in Southside Street for 21 years from September 1793. Large folio sheet, printed on one side only, 22" x 17", printed with ms. inserts. Signed Andrew Hill, Mayor. Large papered seal. 2" split at one fold, outside where titled dusty. 1794. £26.00

  91. Plymouth WILL of Gregory Miller, Sailmaker, of Plymouth. 3 pages, folio, 1777, a later copy, paper watermarked 1806. £16.00
    Leaves sums of money to his relatives, the interest from the sale of his stock in trade to his wife, etc.


  92. Rock & Co. VIEWS & SCENERY OF LYNTON & LYNMOUTH 16 vignette views, cloth boards, gilt title, size 5" x 7", front board faded, spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper, 2 small ink blots in margin of first plate. Inscription on front pastedown. c1860. £60.00

  93. Rowe (G), Pr. and Pub. VALLEY OF THE LYN From Mars Hill. Drawn by Mr. Rowe. Tinted lithograph on thick paper, size 8" x 11", plus margins. Margins grubby, small piece torn from one corner. c1845. £28.00
    A view looking upstream to bridge, houses on hillside.


  94. Sidmouth BILL of Rd. Farrant, Grocer, Tea Dealer, Wine & Spirit Merchant. Genuine Teas, Coffee, Chocolate & Cocoa. Size 6" x 4", fine engraved heading by Reeves and Hoare, with vignette of Chinaman, with palm tree, tea chests, barrel, on the quay with sailing ship. Made out for butter etc. 1837. £12.00

  95. Tavistock BILL of John Pearse, Ironmonger, Brazier & Tin Plate Worker... Watch and Clock Maker. Size 10" x 5", engraved heading with coat of arms, water closet with cistern, two ranges, oven with pig roasting on spit. Lists shower base, tin tub etc. Some creasing and stab hole at top. 1840(?) £15.00

  96. Teign Valley Railway AN ACT for incorporating "The Teign Valley Railway Company," and for authorizing them to make and maintain "The Teign Valley Railway".... 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1863. £14.00

  97. Torquay LEASE of Nos 10 and 11 Braddons Row, Fleet Street, Torquay, R. Cary of Torre Abbey to John Hayward and Thomas Weeks. Two vellum sheets, size 22" x 25", wax seals, good inset coloured plan size 7" x 7", showing Swan St., George St., and Fleet St., with measurement of properties. 1869. £17.00

  98. Totnes MARRIAGE ARTICLES between Timothy Earl of London and Dorothy Trist of Totnes. Refers to dwelling house with three herbgardens in Leechwell Street, and Eastleigh and Westleigh in Harberton. Two large vellum sheets, size 24" x 31", signed by 6 parties concerned with wax seals. Vellum dustmarked on verso, some minor yellowing. 1736. £40.00

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    Dorset
  99. Beale's Fancy Fair, Publisher PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF BOURNEMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Sm. 4to, 42 photolitho views on extending strip (some full page, some 2, 4 or 6 to a page). Gilt title on front board. Map on back endpaper, lacks the back free endpaper with half the map. c1900. £16.00
    Includes two good views of Beale's shop.


  100. Beaminster WILL of Elizabeth Dunning of Beaminster, Spinster. Single side of large folio sheet, signed by Elizabeth Dunning with small wax seal, and by 3 witnesses... together with... Copy Extract from the Register of Burials with details of Elizabeth Dunning's burial. 1822. £18.00

  101. Beaminster, Pulham, West Bay PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Oblong large 4to, half morocco, containing 17 pasted in photographs, c1880, mainly of Beaminster area (Manor House, cottages, Church, school outing at West Bay etc.), and 54 on card loosely inserted throughout, some labelled in pencil on mount, for example. The ones on card are mainly of Dorset churches, including Mappowder, Compton Valence, West Chalborough, Pulham, Hazlebury. c1880-90, some earlier. £80.00
    None of the photographs are titled in the plate, and do not seem to be commercial ones. The photographs of Hazlebury, for example, shows large ruined house and thatched cottage with roof fallen in in front of the church.


  102. Chickerell PHOTOGRAPH of three men in an open-topped car, outside an ivy-covered doorway. Size 4" x 5", on thick card mount. Titled in pencil on verso 'W de C. P. and Stone in front seat. Harris in back seat of the F.N car, taken outside Mr. Bateson's house at Chickerell.' c1910. £8.00

  103. Digby family DEED OF COVENANT between George Wingfield Digby and Frederick Powell. Draft, 4p. folio. 1864. £14.00
    Refers to debts run up by George's brother Kenelm and his partner as merchants in Bordeaux and the need to 'prevent the publicity of the bankruptcy of the said firm of Powell and Wingfield & the imprisonment of the sd. Harper Powell and Kenelm Digby Wingfield...'


  104. Hallet (T), Pub. BEAMINSTER 20 views, 8 being 2 to a page, in oblong 4to album, gilt decorated boards, faded, publishers name on front board painted out in gold paint, staples rusty, inner gathering loose. c1910. £12.00

  105. Marnhull AUCTION CATALOGUE of the Entire Herd of Jersey Cattle, the Property of R.S. Allen, Nash Farm. 15pp. 8vo. 1918. £10.00
    Gives full details of pedigrees.


  106. Newman and Co. TWELVE VIEWS OF WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND Twelve engraved vignette views, oblong 8vo album, blindstamped boards, both detached. Size of engraved surface 3" x 4". Waterstain affecting most of plates, obtruding onto engraved surface. c1850. £40.00
    Includes Chiswell, Portland from the Nothe, Portland Castle and Railway Station, Chesil Beach with quarry working in foreground, Bow and Arrow castle.


  107. Sherborne ABSTRACT of the Title of Wm. Flooks to premises in Half Moon St., next to the King's Arms Inn, agreed to be sold to G.D.W. Digby. 3p. folio, in manuscript, copy deed of covenenant for production of title deeds enclosed, 3p. 1861. £10.00

  108. Studland PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Residence and Premises situate at Studland known as 'Egglestone House' to be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Beer and Hobbs.... December 16, 1887. 2pp., folio, folded. 1887. £12.00
    'The only freehold that has been offered to the Public in Studland for many years past....'


  109. Symondsbury RELEASE of four closes of meadow called Hardy's Mead in Symondsbury, with houses, barns, stables, etc., Richard Churchill of Lyme Regis, Clothier, to Robert Batten of Charmouth. Vellum, size 22" x 27", wax seal on tag. Engraved heading with coat of arms. Enclosed is a deed of bargain and sale for the property, vellum slightly darkened, wax seal on tag. 1733. £30.00
    The occupiers were Thomas Hardy and Walter Scott (!)


  110. Wareham A RATE MADE BY THE ASSESSORS for the borough of Wareham, 1738, for raising £55 1s. Robert Goodwin and Richard Bostland, Collectors. Folio sheet, manuscript on two sides, with two columns of names on each side, with amounts. Upwards of 150 names. Paper damaged and torn at central horizontal fold, with loss, probably of about 6 names. 1738. £50.00
    Names include 'The Widow Ester Brown', 'Edmond Norton Plydwell, North Mills', 'Mrs Rogers or Occupr., for Portland'.


  111. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Harbour AN ACT for reducing the Dues of the Harbour of the Borough and Town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.... and consolidating the Trusts created by the Acts relating to such Harbour and the Bridge of the said Borough.... 20pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1847. £12.00

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    Durham
  112. Haughton MR. LE MESURIER having seen the Letter of Mr. Story, inserted in the Durham Advertiser of this Date, contradicting the Statement made by him of Mr. Story's Conduct on the 6th inst... Handbill, 4to, printed on one side only, some slight darkening of paper at edges, dated Haughton, 25th March, 1820, asserting that the allegations about Mr Story are true 'Mr. Story did not only wave his Hat and shout, but seemed to be directing the Populace when they should wave their Hats and shout'. 25 lines, printed in large type face, also mentioning a 'mistake respecting Mr Witham'. Atkinson's Office, High-Row, Darlington. 1820. £36.00

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    Essex
  113. Birch, Abberton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXXVI. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Roads and water-features coloured, some buildings coloured red, some fields shaded. Linen slightly browned at one fold. 1881. £25.00
    Shows Birch Hall, Abberton House etc.


  114. Rochford, London ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet I. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36", linen-backed, folding to sm 8vo, marbled wraps, in slipcase with label. Some foxing spots in two or three sections. c1864. £32.00

  115. Wendons Ambo PARTICULARS OF SALE With Views and Plan of the Attractive Freehold Residential, Agricultural and Sporting Domain known as Lofts Hall with the Elizabethan Mansion... Three Lodges, Home Farm, Elmdon Bury Old Manor House... Private Residences... 83 Cottages... About 4,180 Acres also The Manors of Elmdon Bury, Duddenhoe Grante, Rockell's and Leebury, The Advowson of Wendon Lofts... Corn Rents.... 17pp., small folio, stiff wraps, 6 pages of photographic views, large folding coloured plan at rear. April, 1922. £45.00
    Includes views of the interior of the Mansion.


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  116. Berkeley ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Mr James Phillips to an Orchard or Close of Land at Westfield in Berkeley. 12p. folio, in manuscript. Details title from 1827 onwards. 1846. £24.00

  117. Bockley CONVEYANCE of lands called Westfield and Four Ridges in Bockley, William Vizard of Dursley, William Joyner, of Bockley, and others, to Robert Norman. 3 vellum sheets, size 28" x 32", signed by 7 parties with wax seals. The last sheet comprises a Schedule of indentures from 1708-94... together with... Lease for a Year, 1794, relating to the same property, single vellum sheet, 2 wax seals. 1794. £27.00

  118. Cheltenham area TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheets XXVII.N.W and S.W., linen-backed and folding into plain buff card covers. Second edition 1903. £19.00
    Shows Lower Noverton, Waterworks, Quarries, Puckham Wood, Westwood House, and Lower and Upper Dowdeswell, Whittington, part of Charlton Kings.


  119. Cheltenham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVI S.E. Scale 6" to 1", linen-backed and folding into plain buff card wraps. Second edition 1903. £15.00
    Covers Leckhampton, Devil's Chimney, Charlton Kings, Ashley Manor, Hatherley Court, Cheltenham College.


  120. Cheltenham Waterworks AN ACT for empowering the Cheltenham Waterworks Company to extend their Works and Limits of Supply.... 8pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1865. £8.00

  121. Crickley Hill, Coberley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIV N.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Linen-backed and folding into plain card wraps. Small label of Norman, Sawyer & Co., Cheltenham in bottom margin. Second edition 1903. £12.00
    Covers Seven Springs, Coberley, Ullenwood, Dryhill.


  122. Forest of Dean Constable AN ACT for vesting the Office of Constable of the Castle of Saint Briavel's in the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings; and for vesting the Office of Keeper of the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester in the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. Pages numbered 9-10, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1836. £16.00

  123. Foxcote, Upper Coberley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXV N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Linen-backed and folding into plain card wraps. Small label of Norman, Sawyer & Co., Cheltenham, in margin. Second edition 1903. £10.00
    Shows Foxcote top right, Round Hill, Hilcot, Chatcombe Wood, Upper Coberley. Numerous quarries shown.


  124. Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry INSPECTION RETURN AND REPORT of the Longtree, Bisley and Witstone Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Henry Burgh, of One Troop as Inspected at Selsley Hill by Lt. Col. Houston, 25th November 1813. Printed sheet, folio, folds. Table showing officers, private men etc., 'Under Arms', 'Sick', 'Absent' etc., completed in ink and signed. Remarks on discipline, etc. not filled in. Wilson, Printer, Stroud. £34.00

  125. Gloucester ANNUAL SALE OF CUB HUNTERS .... At the Spread Eagle Hotel, Gloucester, Saturday the 20th October, 1877... 12 Valuable Young Irish Horses, which were selected with great care by Lord Fitzhardinge in July last for Cub Hunting... 3pp., folio, listing 12 horses chosen by Lord Fitzhardinge and 31 other lots property of other owners, 1-4 horses in each, with brief description of each horse. Folds. 1877. £22.00

  126. Gloucester area FIVE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXIV S.E (Hawkesbury); LV N.E (Whitcliff Park, Ham), XXXIII S.E (Brookthorpe, Upton St. Leonards), XXXIII S.W (Quedgeley), XLVIII N.W (Breadstone). Scale 6" to 1 mile. 1903. £30.00

  127. Gloucester BILLS of Price & Washbourne to Lord Sherborne for timber supplied (including Baltic Lathwood, Red Deals etc.) and hauling from Wasley. Four 4to bills with printed headings.... together with.... Receipt of Cheltenham Gas-Light company for £23 for lighting, paid by Lord Sherborne. 1835 & 1824. £10.00

  128. Gloucester Market AN ACT for establishing a proper Place for holding Markets and Fairs for the Sale of Live Stock in the City of Gloucester, and the Suburbs thereof, and for opening convenient Avenues thereto, and for watching and otherwise improving the said City. 26pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1821. £17.00

  129. Harescombe, near Stroud QUITCLAIM of a messuage with orchard and six acres of pasture in the tenure of Alice Newton, a cottage with a garden orchard and four acres of land in the tenure of William Berry, and one water grist mill in the tenure of Henry Madley, with water courses belonging, all of which are in Harescombe, and a close of meadow in Standish, John Clissold of Churcham to Charles Whichall. Vellum, size 11" x 19", witnessed on verso with three signatures, chipped wax seal on tag, piece of vellum in bottom margin cut away, not affecting text, spotting and some blotching of ink in a section of deed at right hand side, affecting legibility of a few words. 1655. £35.00

  130. Iron Acton CONVEYANCE IN FEE of one acre lately allotted out and awarded to Robert Keepen under an Act of Parliament for dividing and enclosing Acton Common, Marlpit Common and Cockshute, to Matthew Hawkins of Bristol. Vellum, 13" x 23", good wax seal with bust. Some slight yellowing. 1781. £18.00

  131. Iron Acton PARTICULARS WITH PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Property known as "Robins Wood," comprising Substantial House, Building and Pasture Land, containing a Total Area of 18a. 1r. 13p. which Ford, Howes & Williams are instructed to offer for Sale by Auction at the White Lion Hotel, Yate, Glos., On Wednesday, October 18th, 1939. Small 4to, coloured folding plan, 5pp, original wraps. 1939. £16.00

  132. Kings Stanley DEED OF COVENANT for producing title deeds, Henry Burgh to Sir George Onesiphorus Paul. Large vellum sheet, folded, wax seal. 1799. £25.00
    With schedule listing four deeds, from 1739. Refers to a Mansion House called Stanley Park. George Onesiphorus Paul was a prison reformer who built a model prison at Gloucester in 1780.


  133. Lipycat Farm, Awre LEASE FOR FIFTEEN YEARS of lands in the parish of Awre, The Mayor and Burgesses of the City of Gloucester to John Charles of Awre, yeoman. In a neat clear hand on vellum, size 28" x 34", tag, with no trace of having had a wax seal. 1743. £45.00
    The rents of the land were due to the Blue Coat Hospital in Gloucester. Gives a very long list of pasture, meadow and arable lands, listing situation with adjoining lands and occupiers, reserving the Royalty or Gale of fishing in the Severn, and all fruit trees, and the farm house called Lipycat Farm, to the Mayor and Burgesses. Lands named include West Marsh, Clay Piece, Rogers, land in Linch Field Shooting near the Old Wharf Common, the Butts at Stockwell Shooting, etc.


  134. Nibley, Manor of Iron Acton ASSIGNMENT OF A TERM OF 99 YEARS of estate at Nibley, Maurice Edmunds of Olveston to friends in trust for William Thomas. Vellum, size 23" x 27", signed by five parties with five armorial wax seals. 1710. £35.00
    Refers to demise by Sir John Poyntz, deceased, of part of the Manor of Iron Acton to Richard Porter for 99 years.


  135. Painswick, Moreton, Cheltenham etc. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 24" x 29". Dissected and mounted on linen and folding to sm. 4to, in worn cloth slipcase with morocco label. c1850. £34.00

  136. Selsey Hill, Stroud ENCLOSURE OF SELSEY HILL To the Editor of the Stroud Free Press. Handbill, size 11" x 9", traces of folds. Heading and the name of the author, Charles Stanton, in large letters. 26 lines expressing outrage at the projected enclosure. Bucknall & Son, Printers and Stationers, Stroud. c1857. £46.00
    'Stroud will no longer be Stroud if severed from Selsley, Hampton or Rodborough Hills... let us prepare to fight strongly for rights and privileges which time has sanctioned and usage endeared... the sons of toil have few spaces left in this highly cultivated country for exercise or recreation...'


  137. Stroud INVENTORY AND VALUATION of the personal estate of the late Edward Burgh of Cairnscross. 2p, folio, listing furniture, household effects, with total valuation by Davis, Auctioneers, Stroud. 1872. £14.00

  138. Stroud TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF STROUD Satirical election address, size 15" x 10", printed on one wide only, heading in very large typefaces, by 'Fletcher the Grinder'. J.P. Brisley, Stroudwater Printing-Office. (1835). £46.00
    Refers to Mr Hyett's retiring from the Borough, and to Mr Symons. Many jocular references to beer, and the writer being 'the Great Malt Tax Repealer' and the manipulator of a grindstone. 'Were our monarchy elective... I should... Be your King.... I have do doubt in the world of effecting.... such a refinement in the temper and edge of your razors - that, if you put them under your pillows at Night, when you arise in the Morning you will find yourselves shaved.'


  139. Swindon, Bishop's Cleeve ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XIX S.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Linen-backed and folding into plain card wraps with small label of Norman, Sawyer & Co., Cheltenham. Second edition 1903. £12.00

  140. Waterloo, Cirencester AUCTION POSTER advertising the sale of Freehold Dwelling Houses 'To be Sold by Auction by Blackwell & Jones, at the King's Head Hotel, Cirencester on Thursday the 7th of March 1861.' Size 19" x 15", folds. 1861. £18.00

  141. West Gloucestershire Local Millitia APPOINTMENT and Commission of Henry Burgh as First Major of the West Battalion of Royal Gloucestershire Local Militia. Vellum, size 8" x 11". Signed by Earl of Berkeley with wax seal with coat of arms. Folds. 1809. £24.00
    He was ordered 'to take the said Corps into your Care and Charge and duly to exercise as well the Officers as Soldiers thereof in Arms...'


  142. Westley's REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP of the Environs of Cheltenham. Showing all Railways, Stations, Roads &c. from the Ordnance Survey. Size 19" x 24", scale 2 miles to 1 inch, folding into printed paper wraps. c1880. £18.00
    Shows railways open and authorized.


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    Hampshire and Isle of Wight
  143. Bacon BACON'S MAP OF PORTSEA, LANDPORT, SOUTHSEA & GOSPORT. Fully coloured folding plan, mounted on linen, size approx. 23" x 34", including margins, scale 6" to 1 mile, folds to sm 8vo, into the original gilt titled cloth covers, few short splits to plan at folds. There is a hand written ownership name of 'Captain Phillpotts, Royal House Artillery, May 1887,' to verso of top board. Slight waterstain to lower left hand corner, affecting the sea only. Inset plan of 'Environs of Portsmouth'. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 127 Strand, c1887. £35.00

  144. Basingstoke, Midgham, Aldermaston PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of 600 Timber Trees, Comprising 50 Felled Beech Trees, 484 Standing Oak Trees.... to be Sold by Auction... 4pp., folio, folds. 1890. £20.00
    Gives situation of coppice, number of feet etc.


  145. Botley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXVI. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Some fields near Bursledon Common coloured pink. Slight browning of linen along one fold. 1871. £30.00
    Covers Thornhill Park, Shidfield.


  146. Empshott, Newton Valence ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLIII, XLIV etc. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Roads and water-features hand-coloured, Le Court Estate shaded green, possibly relative to sale. 1882. £20.00
    Shows Cranbury Park, Hursley Park, Berry Down etc.


  147. Portsmouth and Hilsea AN ACT to vest in Trustees certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, for extending the present Lines and Works, and for erecting other Works and Buildings at and near Portsmouth and Hilsea, in the County of Southampton. Pages numbered 377-403, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1813. £14.00

  148. Ryde Isle of Wight AUCTION POSTER. Messrs. Wallis, Riddett & Down. Have received instructions to Sell by Auction.... Four Dwelling-Houses known as Nos, 1, 2, 3 & 4, Trinity Terrace. Situated on the East side of Daniel Street, Ryde..... Size approx. 30" x 20". 1893. £14.00

  149. Saint Lawrence Wooton AN ACT for inclosing certain Commonable and Waste Lands in the Parish of St. Lawrence Wootton.... Pages numbered 279-302, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1829. £17.00

  150. Shawford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. L.9. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Water features roads and buildings hand-coloured. Shows Shawford Down, R. Itchen, Showford, Canal. Area to right of R. Itchen blank (approx. two thirds of map). First edition. n.d. c1884. £16.00

  151. South Warnborough Estate FREEHOLD THE IMPORTANT RESIDENTIAL AND SPORTING ESTATE KNOWN AS SOUTH WARNBOROUGH ESTATE of about 1,120 Acres.... consisting of The Historic Manor House, about 155 Acres New Farm, about 370 Acres.... Ford Farm.... Valuable Sites for Houses and Bungalows..... Chalk Pits... Good Shooting, Hunting.... Messrs Daniel Smith, Oakley and Garrard in conjunction with J. Alfred Eggar and Co. Will offer the above for Sale by Auction..... at the Town Hall, Farnham, Surrey, on Friday, the 24th day of June, 1921.... Poster, size 40" x 30", few short tears, a 9" split at one fold, and a couple of small holes. This copy appears to be an uncorrected proof copy as there are a few notes and alterations in ink. Martin, Hood & Larkin, 1921. £18.00

  152. Southampton PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Prominently Situated and Valuable Shop Premises known as 'Foy's Corner', 195-203 Shirley Road.... which Messrs. Nicholas are to offer by public auction.... 10th March, 1954. 7pp., sm. folio, actual photo on front wrap, key plan. 1954. £9.00

  153. Wherwell LEASE of cottage with garden orchard and meade adjoining in Ashwell, and arable lands in Fullerton, John Lord de la Warr to John Goddard of Fullerton. Vellum, size 14" x 21", signed by Goddard with paper-covered wax seal on tag. 1688. £32.00
    Stipulates certain conditions of the lease, such as planting thorn and crab apple in some areas.


  154. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight PROBATE of the Will of John Blackburn, Rector of Yarmouth. Vellum, size 18" x 25", printed certificate attached, large papered seal of Winchester Registry. 1870. £14.00
    Leaves silver and property to son Samuel Blackburn, Principal of St. John's College, Auckland, New Zealand.


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    Herefordshire
  155. Bosbury PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Freehold Farm known as 'Lower Cold Green'... to be offered for Sale by Auction... 22nd May 1912. 3pp., folio, large folding coloured plan. Folded with docket title. 1912. £18.00

  156. Hereford AN OLD SONG IN A NEW DRESS Election broadside, printed on one side only, size 13" x 5", in seven stanzas, in support of Cornewall. T. Davies & Son, Britannia Printing-Office, Hereford. (1818). £28.00
    With various references to cider 'Cider lads are staunch and true', etc. 'In your hats the apples shewing/Rich the nectar they produce/While your hearts with ardour glowing/Lads and lasses taste the juice.'


  157. Hereford FREEHOLDERS It gives me great Satisfaction to find that you have attended to the advice addressed to you in a late poetic Effusion... Election broadside, printed on one side only, in support of the candidates Cotterell and Cornewall. Size 11" x 7", small piece trimmed from bottom corner (possibly where a name written.) Watkins and Wright, Printers, Hereford. April 10th, 1818. £28.00
    Follows an apple metaphor throughout, referring to the 'Free Stocks of the County', 'the Sap runs kindly', 'A Candid Heart is a true Herefordshire Apple and imparts a peculiar & pleasant Flavour to the favourite Beverage of the County'.


  158. Hereford ORAM'S ARBOUR Notice of Motion to be made by Mr Councillor Budden at the Special Meeting of the Council... 27th June 1864... Broadside, printed on one side only setting out the proposals of the council for laying a gravel path with iron railings etc., and Buddens' objections about the carpet beating posts etc. Ms note at bottom 'Carried unanimously'. Size 11" x 9", a few creases. 1864. £16.00

  159. Hereford THE PRIDE OF LADY-LIFT By Philip Lewis. Election poem in support of Price. Size 9" x 4", printed on one side only c1818? £18.00

  160. Hereford TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD Broadside, printed on one side only, four stanzas in support of Cottrell and Cornewall and against Foxley. Size 11" x 7". Traces of folds. Watkins & Wright Printers, Hereford. March 18, 1818. £25.00

  161. Leominster, Kingsland & Eyton PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Accommodation and Grazing Meadowland... to be offered for Sale by Auction... 15th November, 1918. 5pp., folio, folded with docket title. Folding coloured map. Some light brown stains on some leaves. 1918. £20.00

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    Hertfordshire
  162. Braughing (Hundred of) DUPLICATE OF THE ASSESSED TAXES 1824 To the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer and to Adolphus Meetherke Receiver General. Vellum sheet, 21" x 30", ruled in 17 columns, with names of 13 parishes down left hand side, and respective entries for Assessors Name, Collectors, Windows Schedule, Male Servants Schedule, Duties on Carriages, Horses, Dogs, Hair Powder, Armorial Bearings, Game, etc., with totals. Signed by Commissioners with wax seals. Vellum slightly yellowed in places, ink slightly faded in places, but always easily legible. 1824. £70.00

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    Huntingdonshire
  163. Bowen (E) AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON Divided into its Hundreds.... Illustrated with Historical Extracts relating to its Trade, Manufactures, Natural History &c. not extant in any other Map.... Engraved map, coloured in outline, size 28" x 21", dissected and mounted on linen, trimmed to coloured border, manuscript label in French on verso, edges rubbed. Decorative cartouche with title on masonry, winding river in background, men cutting turf and women and children loading it onto a cart. With table bottom right listing villages with columns for map reference, Lord of Manor, Deanery. Geographical and historical information around map. French label on verso. c1790. £155.00
    'Ramsey Meer produces larger Fish and more in quantity than any of the Meers and Pools in the Fenns... here Pikes of a wonderful bigness are caught...'


  164. Pidley SURRENDER at the Manor Court of Somersham, of various tofts and large pieces of Fen Ground and a cottage, at Pidley, in the Manor of Somersham with the Soak, John Cole of Fenton, copyhold tenant. 2p., folio, manuscript, folded. 1780. £18.00

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    Kent
  165. Appledore, Royal Military Canal ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXXX. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Linen backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers, main buildings, water-features, roads, hand-coloured. Some slight browning of linen between folds. 1877. £28.00

  166. Bacon's PLAN OF CHATHAM Coloured plan, size approx 12" x 18", single fold at centre. Scale 6" to 1 mile. c1885. £18.00

  167. Chatham Docks AN ACT to vest certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments in Trustees, for better securing His Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores, at Chatham and for the Use of His Majesty's Ordnance at Warley Common and Woolwich. Pages numbered 737-750, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1804. £14.00

  168. Deptford MORTGAGE for 1000 years of two messuages and a Dye house situate opposite the end of High Street in the parish of St. Paul, James Noble to George Shove Jnr. Large vellum sheet, later indenture on verso. 1826. £15.00

  169. Downe, Knockholt, Halstead ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVIII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Linen backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers, main roads coloured brown. A few small areas shaded. Edition of 1910. £18.00

  170. Hawkhurst, Sandhurst ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXXVIII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Roads railways and water-features coloured, some buildings coloured red. Area around 'Tongs' colour washed. Two small splits in linen at edge of one fold. 1877. £28.00
    Part of map blank, being adjoining county.


  171. Tunbridge ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet L. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins, linen-backed. Some hand colouring of boundaries. Embossed Ordnance stamp 1873. £30.00

  172. Sandwich AN ACT for building a Bridge over the Water or Haven between the Town of Sandwich, and the opposite Shore in the County of Kent. Cover leaf plus pages numbered 851-870, black letter, short tear to cover leaf, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Thomas Baskett, 1755. £20.00

  173. Woolwich AN ACT for Rebuilding the Parish Church of Woolwich.... Cover leaf + pages numbered 83-90, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: John Baskett, 1732. £16.00

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    Lancashire
  174. Cartmel area PLAN OF ESTATES IN THE TOWNSHIPS OF BROUGHTON WOOD, BROUGHTON STAVELY AND UPPER ALITHWAITE Belonging to Thomas Kew Esquire. J. Kelly, Surveyor. 1848. Manuscript plan in ink and full wash colour on paper backed with linen, size 21" x 77", edged with blue silk tape. Scale 3 chains = 1 inch. Scale bar, unusual decorative compass rose. Covers area from Thompson Wood and the Stavely & Windermere Road to Sunny Green and Moss Allotment. Shows fields, shaded in pink, with name and acreage, roads, buildings (including named inns), woodland, chapel, smithy, stiles, ownership of fences. Two tables of Reference to 41 fields etc., numbered on plan, showing value per acre in 1848, Annual Value, Statute Measure and Annual Value & Value per Acre valued for Poor Rate etc. in 1813, with totals. Two fields added later in darker shade of pink, labelled in a different hand. 1848. £240.00
    An unusual feature of this plan is the coloring of the woodland with the trees shown in bold shades of green and brown, and that individual isolated trees are actually identified as 'The Hollie', 'Ash', 'Alderberry'.


  175. Hennett (G) A MAP OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER, Divided into Hundreds and Parishes, From an Actual Survey made in the Years 1828 & 1829. Large engraved map, on four sheets, as issued, each sheet 31" x 23", plus margins, large decorative title, engraved inset view of the New Custom House, Liverpool. Scale three-quarters of an inch to 1 mile. Area of browning on all four sheets, one sheet with piece which has been torn away from margin repaired with paper infilled, another sheet with professionally repaired tear 2" beyond border and along platemark, and some other neatly repaired edge tears. Paper sound, with a good black impression. The sheets have obviously been professionally restored at some time. Published by Henry Teesdale and Co, 302 Holborn, May 1, 1830. £145.00
    A cheaper copy than usual.


  176. Manchester A PLAN OF MANCHESTER AND SALFORD With Their Vicinities. Embracing Every Improvement. From Actual Survey. 1836. Engraved plan, with outline colour, size 15" x 22", trimmed to neatline. Scale approx. 8" to 1 mile. With concentric circles centred on The Exchange. With cartouche top left showing figure of justice, sailing ship in distance, 'Rocket' type locomotive to left. Small 'Explanation' and Key to Districts. Top right corner slightly cropped. Two 1" repaired tears at right edge. Main roads, boundaries, water features and parkland hand-coloured. Paper very slightly darkened at edges. 1836. £110.00
    Covers Cavalry Barracks, Windsor Street in the East, Cheetwood, Chancery Lane in the East.


  177. Much Hoole TO BREEDERS OF DRAUGHT HORSES That Promising Colt 'Magnum Bonum' Rising 6 years old, the property of Mr. John Nightingale, Much Hoole, offered to serve Mares £1.5s.0d each Mare, and 5s the Groom.... Card printed on one side only, with description of colt, and his pedigree, and precise details of his route from Tuesday to Saturday. Size 7" x 5", small piece of paper stuck to verso. Ambler & Son, Printers, Preston. 1881. £16.00

  178. Much Hoole TO BREEDERS OF WAGGON HORSES Farmer's Delight, the property of Mr. R. Hunt at £1 10s each Mare... Card printed on one side only, with description of horse, and his pedigree and prizes won, and precise details of his route over one week. Size 7" x 5", small piece of paper stuck to verso. Date in ink at bottom. Ambler & Son, Printers, Preston. 1881. £16.00

  179. Port of Liverpool AN ACT for allowing the Sale of certain East India Prize Goods in the Port of Liverpool. Pages numbered 685-686, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. £12.00

  180. Ulverstone CERTIFICATE FOR LEGAL FISHING WEIR Special Commissioners for English Fisheries. Owner William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire. River Leven. Vellum document, folio, folded with docket title, the first page printed with manuscript inserts, and on the adjoining leaf a printed plan, scale 3 chains = 1", showing the river with islands, weir, Lowood Inn, Corning House, site of Gunpowder Works etc. Signed by three Commissioners. 1869. £45.00
    The weir is described as 'a fishing weir for catching salmon'.


  181. Wales and Co. A TABLE OF THE RECIPROCAL DISTANCES of the Principal Towns of England, Including all the Market Towns of Lancashire. With an Itinerary of the Principal Coach Routes of Lancashire... Size 17" x 20", folds. c1850. £14.00
    'To Accompany the History, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancashire, Publishing by Wales and Co., Liverpool.'


  182. Wigan, Hendley, Westleigh AN ACT for enabling Leases for Mining, Agricultural and Building Purposes to be made of the Estates of John Walmesley.... 32pp., including 4 pages of schedules. 1856. £14.00

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    Leicestershire
  183. Cattle Feed MILLS' CELEBRATED AND UNIVERSAL HORSE, CATTLE, PIG AND POULTRY FOOD Not to be Surpassed. 3pp., 4to, advertising the products, and giving many testimonials. Folds, a few rust spots. 1880. £10.00

  184. Leicestershire County Council DIETARY TABLES Public Assistance Committee. Printed sheet, size 20" x 24", folded, with tables of meals on a four week rotation, with variations for Children, Infirm etc. n.d. 1940's? £8.00
    'Dripping should replace Butter occasionally when a sufficient amount is available'.


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    Lincolnshire
  185. Church Farm, Horkstow A PRODUCTIVE ARABLE AND STOCK FARM Extending to 200.175 acres. Which H.H. Morris will offer for sale by Public Auction at The Angel Hotel, Brigg, on Thursday, 17th March, 1960. Folding plan loosely inserted, 7pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps. 1960. £12.00

  186. Coleby Estate PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT known as THE COLEBY ESTATE.... Comprising Eighty Highly Productive Arable & Stock Farms.... Houses, Cottages, Shops and Arable Land, Coleby Stone Quarry.... the whole extending to 1,506 Acres.... For Sale by Auction..... 19th April 1963. With 2 coloured folding plans in pocket at rear, 7 photographic illusts, 36pp, folio, original printed wraps slightly dusty. 1963. £20.00

  187. Greetwell Hall Estate PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF THE GREETWELL HALL ESTATE Comprising Greetwell Hall and Lands.... Seven Compact Light Land Farms..... and Sixteen Cottages.... about 3,675 acres.... For Sale by Auction..... by Drivers, Jonas & Co., At the Angel Hotel, Brigg, On Thursday, the 25th September, 1924. Large coloured folding plan in pocket at rear, 35pp, folio, original printed wraps slightly dusty. 1924. £20.00

  188. Lincoln, Gainsborough ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 37", plus margins. Linen-backed, folding into small 4to marbled wraps. Linen stained light pink in some places between folds, slightly affecting corners of sections a a few places. Paper otherwise clean and sound. Printed from an Electrotype in 1878. £24.00

  189. Louth, Alford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 84. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 22", border all round. Linen between some sections stained light pink, not affecting paper. Printed from an Electrotype 1873. £25.00

  190. Nettleton Lodge Estate PARTICULARS OF THE NETTLETON LODGE ESTATE Extending to 179 acres 0 roods 9 perches. For Sale by Auction at the Angel Hotel, Brigg, On Thursday, 22nd September, 1949. Coloured folding plan in pocket at rear, 9pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps slightly spotty. 1949. £12.00

  191. South Holland, Lincolnshire AN ACT for amending and rendering more effectual an Act of His Majesty, for draining in South Holland; and for continuing and amending another Act of His present Majesty, for maintaining and repairing a certain Bank, and the Road thereon. from Spalding High Bridge to Brother House, all in the County of Lincoln. Pages numbered 1693-1728, small folio, occasional foxing, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1817. £11.00

  192. Stamford Road AN ACT for continuing and amending an Act of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Stamford, in the County of Lincoln, through Oakham, to the Great North Road, in the Parish of Greetham, in the County of Rutland. Pages numbered 1105-1115, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. £10.00

  193. Swineshead Fen Houses and Wigtoft Fore Fen, Near Boston, Lincolnshire THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD SMALL FARM. Comprising:- Brick and Tiled Residence, Five Brick and Tiled Labourers' Cottages.... Which will be offered for Sale by Auction.... Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1937. With folding coloured plan in pocket at rear, 10 pages, roy 8vo, original wraps, folded. 1937. £15.00

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    London
  194. Abraham Goldsmid AN ACT to provide for the more complete and effectual Liquidation of a Debt due to His Majesty from the late Abraham Goldsmid, Merchant, and his surviving Partners; and to confirm and establish certain Agreements entered into for that and other Purposes relating thereto. Pages numbered 713-958, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812. £15.00

  195. Baurmeister & Co., Queen Victoria St. PRICE LIST of Doughing, Dividing, Sifting, and Sack Cleaning Machines. 38pp., 8vo., printed in blue, wraps. Numerous illusts. Repair at spine. 1905. £18.00

  196. Brewing BREWING RECORD BOOK Daily record of brewing from Sat. 1st Oct. 1864 to Monday Oct. 23rd 1865, entered in a small folio ledger, calf covered boards, calf missing from spine, and worn on boards. 380p, manuscript, giving details of different types of ale (XX Ale, XXXX Ale, Porter, Stout etc.) brewed, with a double page for each day, with the different operations, and figures which are presumably times of day they were carried out. At the end are an Abstract of Brewing for the Year, Monthly Sales, Stock in Cellar, Account of Hops. 1864-65. £200.00
    Gives details of mashing, number of ullages, temperature of liquor, tap heat, total gallons, etc. A note inside the front board says the Brewer was John Lovibond & Co., Greenwich, but this is not mentioned in the text. John Lovibond started brewing in Greenwich in 1826 (see Richmond and Turton 'The Brewing Industry').


  197. British Museum AN ACT for amending former Acts relative to the British Museum Pages numbered 341-343, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1824. £12.00

  198. Chelsea Hospital AN ACT for rendering more effective the Service of such Out-Pensioners, of Chelsea Hospital as shall be called out to assist in preserving the Public Peace. Pages numbered 965-968, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1843. £10.00

  199. Covent Garden AN ACT for rebuilding the Parish Church of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, within the Liberty of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, and the Vestry Rooms belonging thereto.... Cover leaf + pages numbered 875-895, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1796. £16.00

  200. Fleet Street BILL of Arnold Finchett, Tin-Man, 188, two Doors from St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet St. Fine engraved heading. Manuscript entry 'Repairing A Water Clock... 8s' Signed as paid in full by S. Finchett. Size 7" x 8", traces of folds. 1778. £18.00

  201. Fulham to Hammersmith Roads AN ACT for enlarging the Terms and Powers granted by an Act.... For repairing the Road leading from the Town of Fulham in the County of Middlesex, through Fulham Fields, to the great Road near the Pound at Hammersmith.... Cover leaf + pages numbered 251-252, disbound, Black Letter, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1749. £14.00

  202. Hampstead CATALOGUE of the sale of antique and modern furniture etc. at 26 Rosecroft Avenue. 15pp, 8vo, staples rusty. 1948. £6.00

  203. Henry Doulton & Co., Lambeth PRICE LIST Manufacturers of Glazed Stoneware Drain Pipes, Yard and Street Gullies... Sanitary Goods in Superior Staffordshire Earthenware... 8pp., 4to, fully illustrated, with prices. Each page with decorative border, races of folds. November 1876. £20.00
    Shows pipes, closet pans, sinks etc.


  204. Her Majesty's Theatre SOUVENIR OF NERO Ninth of March, 1906. Presented, With Mr. Tree's Compliments, on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Consecutive Performance of Nero. Booklet with cast list etc., 14 pages of text, plus 10 coloured full-page portraits of the cast, from pastels by Chas. Buchel. Oblong 4to, attractive decorative stiff wraps with picture of charioteer. 1906. £18.00
    Beerbohm Tree played Nero.


  205. Holborn LIST OF PUBLIC WAYS &c Within the Wards of North St. Giles, Central St. Giles, Lincoln's Inn, North Bloomsbury.... 14pp, morocco wraps, worn at spine. Lists Street, Ward, Numbers of Houses. 1901. £14.00

  206. Holborn, Bayswater, Hackney etc. SALE OF FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS Shops, Flats, Cinemas, Offices, Show Rooms and Factory, situated in the West End of London, Hammersmith, Willesden, Richmond Surrey, Hackney, Holborn... 22nd January, 1947. 14pp., small folio, printed wraps, plus 5 photographic plates, 3 plans. 1947. £25.00
    Includes 8 Cavendish Place, W.1, Carlton and Majestic Mansions and Cinemas, Tottenham Court Road, 178 and 182 Portobello Road, a good photograph of Lot 6 'Dome Buildings, Richmond'.


  207. Hutchinson & Son Ltd., Bromley by Bow PORCELAIN ENAMELLED BATHS Catalogue, 4to, 28pp., printed in blue and black, illusts. Stiff wraps. c1930. £18.00
    Includes interesting photos. of the workshops, furnaces etc., as well as the baths.


  208. Islington Lighting AN ACT for lighting such Part of the Town of Islington as lies in the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County of Middlesex; and for establishing a regular Nightly Watch therein. Cover leaf + pages numbered 415-414, small folio, Black Letter, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1772. £15.00

  209. Jeremy Bentham and a Penitentiary House AN ACT for the Erection of a Penitentiary House for the Confinement of Offenders convicted within the London and County of Middlesex; and for making Compensation of Jeremy Bentham Esquire for the Non-performance of an Agreement between the said Jeremy Bentham and the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, respecting the Custody and Maintenance of Convicts. Pages numbered 441-455, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812. £22.00

  210. Jeweller's ORDER BOOK 4to notebook with dates (year not given), names and sometimes addresses of customers and items ordered. Items includes bracelets, match boxes in gold and leather, watches, evening bags, pearls, parures, tortoiseshell combs, cigarette cases. The orders have been crossed through in red and marked paid. 40p., cloth wraps, rubbed. n.d. c1910? £25.00
    For example the Marquis of Londonderry ordered 24 items amounting to £101.10s, including 'pigskin motor bag.... £5.15.6d' and 17 other types of bag.


  211. Kershaw Engraved by THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM First Column erected Aug. 1852 to be opened May 1st 1853. Vignette view, size 3" x 5", on 4to sheet, some slight creasing, 1" tear at margin. 1852. £8.00

  212. London DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP and Assignment of Debts, William Walker of St. Martins in the Field, Woollen Draper, to Joseph Walker of St. James Westin, Middlesex. Paper, size 22" x 18", good wax seal. At the end in a different hand is a list of 39 debtors names with sums owed. A few very minor holes where folds meet. 1730. £34.00
    The Walkers were involved in the 'Trade of Buying Selling and Retailing Woollen Cloth'.


  213. Manor of Hampstead ASSIGNMENT of the George Inn, Hampstead, Robert Patey to Andrew Donnison, 1836.... Together with.... LEASE of 'The George Inn', 1852.... Together with.... ASSIGNMENT of the George Inn, 1853. All documents on 2 large sheets of vellum, with wax seals. 1836-53. £24.00

  214. Marylebone PROBATE copy of the will of Margaret Winder of Portland Place. Vellum, 21" x 26", small printed certificate attached, large papered seal of Perogative Court of Canterbury. 1792. £16.00
    Leaves her two shares in the Waterworks at Richmond to two friends.


  215. Marylebone THE PARTS OF THE PORTMAN ESTATE Lying North of the Marylebone Road. Sale by Auction on 13th, 14th, 15th March, 1951. Folio, 146pp., printed wraps, dusty and frayed at edges, bottom of spine worn. Key plan, two large coloured folding plans, Addenda leaf. 6 photographic plates. Prices realised added in pencil. 1951. £60.00
    Includes properties in Dorset Square, 'The Portman Arms', 'The Lord High Admiral', numerous properties in Edgware Road, Balcombe Street,


  216. Minories PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of Two Valuable Leasehold Dwelling Houses with Shops... Nos. 97 and 100 on the West and Most Eligible Side of the Minories... which will be sold by auction.... 8th June, 1852.... 3pp., folio, folds. 1852. £14.00

  217. Pollard Engineering Co., Faringdon St. CATALOGUE of Pollard Safety Geysers. 16pp., 8vo, illusts. Decorative wraps with attractive illustration of railway signal, slightly worn at one corner. c1930 or earlier. £14.00
    Also includes baths, etc.


  218. Westminster AN ACT for impowering the Commissioners for putting in Execution the sever Acts... for Paving, Cleaning and Lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes within the City of Westminser... to collect certain Tolls on Sundays, upon the several Roads.... 12pp., plus cover leaf. Black letter. 1765. £10.00

  219. Westminster Market AN ACT for establishing a free Market for the Sale of Corn and Grain, within the City or Liberty of Westminster. Cover leaf + pages numbered 811-827, disbound, Black Letter, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1758. £14.00

  220. Whitbread's WHITBREAD'S REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP OF LONDON Coloured folding plan, mounted on linen, 23" x 32", few short splits at folds, folding into small 8vo cloth covers, titled in gilt on top cover, map slightly dusty to verso. Probably lacks Index. Corrected to 1st October 1868, Published by J. Whitbread, Mapseller, 142 Oxford Street, c1885. £60.00

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    Monmouthshire
  221. Abergavenny PROBATE of Lt. Col. Benjamin Orlando Jones, unattached K.T.S. in Her Majesty's Service. Probate copy of Will on vellum, size 19" x 23", smaller printed certificate attached with large papered seal of Registry of Llandaff. 1863. £14.00
    Refers to his house near Abergavenny called 'Hafod'.


  222. Chepstow Gas AN ACT to incorporate a Company for supplying Gas to Chepstow and the Neighbourhood. 14pp, sm. folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1857. £9.00

  223. Jones (M), Monmouth LETTER to his cousin Henry Burgh at Stroud, informing him of the arrangements he has put in place for after his death 'I have left a written direction in one of the drawers in my Beaurow to be opened as soon as I am dead wherein I have sett down how I will be treated untill I am soldierd up in the Ledden Coffin...'. Mentions annuity to be paid to his servant, etc. 2p, 4to, signed, address panel on verso of conjoint leaf. Monmouth, August, 1820. £18.00
    'The receipt for the Jaundice powders which you are to remember is to remain a secret, or perhaps the virtue will fly...'


  224. Monmouth BURGESS CERTIFICATE of Henry Burgh of Stroud. Printed on vellum with ms. inserts. Size 5" x 8", traces of 2 folds. Wax seal of the town, slightly chipped at edges, showing a galleon. 1792. £28.00

  225. Monmouth Roads AN ACT for more effectually repairing several Roads leading to and from the Town of Monmouth, and for making several Lines of Road to communicate therewith, in the Counties of Monmouth, Gloucester, and Hereford. 16pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1856. £10.00

  226. Monmouth WILL of Mary Jones of Monmouth, Widow. 2p, folded. Signed by Mary Jones and 3 witnesses, with wax seal. 1801. £25.00
    Bequeathes her lands at Lydney, her house in Monmouth, farm at Luckington in Wiltshire, and various large sums of money, to various relatives.


  227. Rowe (G), Pr. and Pub. CHEPSTOW CHURCH Vignette lithograph, size 6" 8", overall size of paper 9" x 12". On stiff paper. c1840. £16.00

  228. Trelleck, Penalt, Mitchel-Troy, Cwmcarvan, Landogo, Tintern and Lanishen AN ACT for Inclosing Lands within the Parishes of Trelleck, Penalt, Mitchel-Troy, Cwmcarvan, Landogo, Tintern, and Lanishen, in the County of Monmouth. 26pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1810. £22.00

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    Norfolk
  229. Aldeby PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF A DESIRABLE SMALL FREEHOLD OCCUPATION and Detached Cottage and Gardens, Situate in Aldeby, Norfolk, which James Mobbs is instructed..... to Sell by Auction at the King's Head Hotel, Beccles, on Friday, July 8th, 1898. 3pp, folio, docket title, folded. 1898. £15.00

  230. Ashwelthorpe Estate RENT ACCOUNT Wreningham Farm, etc. Year To Michaelmas 1894. 9 double page spreads, sm. folio, sewn in wraps. Vertical fold. 1894. £16.00
    The landowner was Lady Berners.


  231. Blakeny OBLIGATION BOND binding Robert Athow of Blakeny otherwise Snitterly in Norfolk, Tanner, and William Athow of Brisley, Farmer and owner, to Thomas Athow of Holt, Cooper. 1p., sm. folio, printed with manuscript inserts. Blank conjoint leaf, folds. Two good wax seals of men with hats. Witnessed by John Loxton and Elisha Girdlestone. 1776. £28.00

  232. Bradenham and Scarning Estate PARTICULARS WITH PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Fine Agricultural Property lying in the Parishes of East and West Bradenham and Scarning, and comprising three excellent farms... John Symonds has received instructions from the Trustees of the late Capt. H.S. Adlington, to Sell by Auction, at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, on Saturday, June 7th, 1919. Folding hand coloured plan, 14pp, original wraps, few short splits wher