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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 56
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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Bedminster, Clifton Wood
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP
Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheet, No. LXXV.N.E & S.E, Part of Sheet VI.
Second edition 1905.£8.00
Bristol, Stapleton, Abbots Leigh
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS
Three maps, scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheets LXXII.S.W/part of VI; LXXI.S.E/part of III & VI; Sheet LXXV.N.E/part of VI. On stiff paper, 2 sheets with some colour shading of boundaries etc., some stencilled numbers in bottom left margin.
First edition without contours. 1887.£25.00
¶ Covers area from Floating Harbour to Ashley Down, Fishponds, Central area, Sneyd Park, Queen Square, Long Ashton.
Donne's
NEW AND CORRECT PLAN OF BRISTOL, CLIFTON AND THE HOT WELLS.
Engraved by J. Cary. Engraved surface of plan (not including list of Churches, Public Buildings etc. under it) approx. 9" x 15", plus margins, traces of folds, three small holes at points where old folds meet, Some faded early ink annotations 'By B. Donne 1809' written under title within the title cartouche, Victoria Square and the Paragon added in ink. Some slight browning in margins at extreme edges of paper.
Published as the Act directs June 1st 1809 by B. Donne, Master of the Mathematical Academy in Montague Street, Bristol.£70.00
¶ 'This is a very clear plan and comprises a list of nearly 100 churches, chapels and public buildings. It stretches from the Hotwells to the Feeder Bridge in the Marsh, and takes in Cotham and Kingsdown.... ' See Pritchard's Old Plans and Views of Bristol, Vol 48, 1926 Bristol & Glos. Archae. Soc. Donn advertises his services after the Publisher's imprint: 'N.B. Mr Donne gives private Lessons in Writing, Geography, Use of the Globes, the Mathematics &c'
Fishponds, Montpelier, Temple Meads
TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS
Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheets, No. LXXII.S.W, Part of Sheet VI and Sheet LXXI.S.E, Parts of Sheets III & VL.
1887.£16.00
¶ Covers Abbots Leigh, Clifton, Floating Harbour, Goldenhill.
Kings Weston, Shirehampton
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP
Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheet, No. LXXI. N.W, on stiff paper. Water features hand-coloured, two boundary areas shaded in colour.
1888.£10.00
¶ Covers Shirehampton, Part of Pill.