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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 107
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
Bacon's
PLAN OF BRISTOL
Coloured plan, size approx 12" x 18". Scale 6" to 1 mile. Five light vertical folds.
c1890.£16.00
¶ Covers Ashley Down, Ashton Gate, Stapleton Road station.
Berkeley Square
CATALOGUE of Furniture and Effects at Berkeley Cottage, for sale by Auction by J.E. Pritchard, 24th March, 1949.
10pp., 8vo.
1949.£7.00
Bristol Amateur Operatic Society
PROGRAMME for 'The Rebel Maid', Colston Hall, Feb. 11th - 14th, 1925.
24pp., 8vo, decorative wraps showing colour picture, many illustrated adverts for local firms.
1925.£8.00
Bristol Bridge City Engine
TICKET
Size 3«" x 4", printed on stiff paper, decorative border, small table for waggon weight Gross, Tare and Net. 'William Sayer' bottom right. Not filled in.
T. Lane, Printer, Redcliffe St. 1822.£15.00
Bristol Ratepayers' Association
BRISTOL RATEPAYERS' BROADSHEET
Issued by the Bristol Ratepayers' (non-political) Protection Association. Newspaper, 4pp., folio, folds, some minor browning at folds.
27th Feb. 1909.£12.00
¶ 'Members are also earnestly warned against the insidious movement.... to further dabble in Municipal Trading by acquiring the Tramways....'
BRISTOL FOOTBALL
Bristol South End Football Club
BRISTOL SOUTH END FOOTBALL BAZAAR Bedminster Town Hall. Wednesday & Thursday March 27th & 28th 1895.
Programme for the Bazaar, 5" x 8", 22p., printed blue wraps. Many adverts for local firms, some with illustrations, and a small advert illustrated with footballers showing five forthcoming fixtures at St. John's Lane, including Cardiff and Preston North End. Describes the different stalls, entertainments, etc., with decorative borders to the pages. Staples rusty, hence inner part has come loose from the wraps.
1895.£45.00
¶ A rare survivor from the days before Bristol South End became Bristol City Football Club. Two years after this event they turned professional and changed the name to Bristol City.
Burdock (Mary Ann)
BRISTOL ASSIZES.
Trials of Thomas Stone and Mary Ann Burdock, commenced on Thursday, the 9th of April, 1835. Single sheet, printed on one side only, size approx. 22«" x 16«", folded with a couple of short splits to folds.
No imprint (1835)£45.00
¶ Edited transcript of the trials. Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography or Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature.
Charities
IN THE MATTER OF THE CHARITIES OF ALDERMAN JOHN WHITSON being some of the Municipal Charities of the City of Bristol, together with the Foundation called the Red Maids School....
Order by the Board of Charity Commissioners setting out sums payable yearly. 3pp., folio.
1905.£8.00
¶ Includes money for the poor of Clearwell, in Gloucestershire, Burnett in Somerset, poor widows in Bristol etc.
John Hall Ltd.
TOOL CATALOGUE Autumn 1960.
108pp., 8vo., many illustrations.
1960.£12.00
Lenthall Bros.
GUARANTEED FURNITURE By Lenthall Bros., The Actual Makers.
Catalogue, 19pp., with sepia-type photographic illustrations on each page, with prices. Black wraps with silver title and decoration. Staples rusty, some sections loose.
1930's.£15.00
¶ Their premises were on Redcliffe Hill and North Street.
Midland, Western and Metropolitan Canal Carrying Co.
PROSPECTUS First Issue of Six Per Cent Preference £5 Shares....
4pp., folio, printed in red and black, with loosely inserted coloured plan of Bristol and of Company's Warehouses on the Floating Harbour. Also inserted is Report by F.R. Conder on the properties to be acquired by the Company, 8pp., 4to, and forms for application for shares.
1882.£36.00
BEDMINSTER PUBS
Roe (W.H) Builder & Contractor
CASH BOOK. 1901-1911.
Gives names and payments to employees, and lists materials, usually with a note from whom bought, and costs for each job. Most of the work is for public houses in Bedminster but also includes work for the Co-op at Kingsland Road and Ushers at Avonmouth. Folio, ruled cash book, half reversed calf, marbled endpapers, some spotting to covers, internally sound, with 120 pages entered in manuscript, most being half full... together with... DAY BOOK 1936 - 1939, giving names and payments to employees, listing materials, usually with a note from whom bought and costs for each job. Most of the work is for private clients in Bedminster, but also includes the Electricity Departments, and the Central Stores, Bedminster. 570 pages entered, most half full, plus a 7p. index... together with... similar Day Book, 1938-1939, 560p. Includes work at The Winford Arms, Dundry, Garricks Head, Broad Quay, Masonic Hotel, North Street. Both volumes folio, half reversed calf. Loosely inserted is a printed bill of the company, with their address in Windmill Hill. 3 volumes.
1909-1939.£90.00
¶ Among the pubs they worked on are: Seven Stars, Thomas Street; Railway Hotel, Pensford; Berkeley Castle, Newfoundland Street; Goldney House, Clifton; Prince of Wales, Hotwell Road; Highland Chief, Victoria Street; Highbury Tavern, Cotham; Three Horse Shoes, West Street; The Apple Tree, Bedminster; Carpenters Arms, Horsefair; Black Swan, Bedminster Bridge, and many others.
Stapleton and St. James (Eugene St.)
CASE IN CHANCERY
16p, folio, draft, concerning the disputed will of George Bearpacker of Stapleton.
1784.£16.00
Stokes Croft Grammar School
MATHEMATICAL FAIR COPY BOOK of Reginald Coates.
Size 12" x 9", paper covered boards, with paper with decorative gilt flowers, half calf, calf rubbed at corners and edges. 36 pages of problems, in a very neat hand, with long workings shown, many blanks at end. The first page has an angel in calligraphic drawing with a banner 'Mathematical Questions'. The is a printed title page with a cartouche and calligraphic decoration with the name of the school, the date, the name of the Head Master, John Stone, and the name of Reginald Coates entered in ink in a decorative script.
1863.£45.00
Theatre
AN ACT to enable His Majesty to license a Theatre in the City of Bristol.
Black Letter. Cover leaf + 2pp, disbound, Act of Parliament.
1778.£22.00
Trenchard Street, Bristol
AUCTION POSTER. Messrs. Fargus will sell by Auction at "The Hatchet Inn," Frogmore Street, Bristol; On Thursday. Dec. 21st, 1865.... All that Messuage shop and premises, 3, Trenchard Street, Bristol, Now in the occupation of Mr George Watkins.... All that Freehold Dwelling Place, Trenchard St., Bristol, Now in the Occupation of Mr Francis Webb....
Printed in large type-face, size approx. 18" x 12", folds. Tipped onto the back are the manuscript 'Conditions of Sale' and completed 'Memorandum'. Two small repaired marginal tears.
Pole, Printer, &c., John Street, Bristol. 1865.£30.00
Windey family
AFFIDAVIT of Henry George Windey of Bristol.
Contemporary copy on 1p., small folio, folded. States that he is the brother of James Windey who died intestate and that Nathan Windey, Officer of Customs in Bristol, is his heir.
1825.£8.00
Tamworth
LEASE FOR A YEAR of 'all that farm or tenement or Mease Place whereon a messuage formerly stood' in Wigginton, part of a farm called Buckley's and a cottage in Cumberford, Hugh Annerley of Clifton Campville to Humphrey Woodcock.
Vellum, size 20" x 28", good wax seal showing a bird with a branch in its beak. Some slight yellowing of vellum.
1765.£20.00
Tunstall, Cheadle
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXXII.N.W.
Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in left-hand margin. Slightly dusty.
Railways inserted to 1890, O.S. blindstamp 1901.£28.00