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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 51
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    Bedfordshire
  1. Malting Property at Bedford PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY COMRISING TWO MALTHOUSES situate in the Ashburnum Road.... They steep together about 200 Quarters at a Wetting, The Kilns are lofty.... Will be Sold by Auction.... 10th September, 1888. Single sheet, printed on both sides, 16" x 10", verso partly dusty, signs where once folded. 1888. £15.00

  2. Potton LAND SALE To be Sold by Auction in Seven Lots, by Thomas Hagger, at the Rose and Crown Inn, the 10th day of December, 1814, All Those Several Pieces of Garden Ground, called Byard's Green (Before the Commissioners for the Execution of an Act of Parliament.... entitled 'An Act for inclosing.... Lands in the Parish of Potton'). 3pp., sm. folio, plus docket title. 1814. £45.00
    Lists the Lots with acreage, requirements as to fences. Purchase prices and buyers added neatly in MS.


  3. Smith (C) A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD Divided into Hundreds. Hand-coloured map dissected and mounted on linen, overall size approx. 19" x 17", trimmed to margins, some light spotting in blank areas. In card slip-case. 1801. £30.00

  4. 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

    Bedfordshire Acts

  5. Bolnhurst AN ACT for Dividing and Inclosing certain Open and Common Fields, within the Manor and parish of Bolnhurst, in the County of Bedford.... 23pp. 1778. £22.00

  6. Little Berkford AN ACT for confirming a Division and Inclosure of the Common Fields, Common Meadows.... within the Parish of Little Berkford.... 15pp. A few light foxing spots. 1778. £22.00

  7. Tempsford AN ACT for dividing, Allotting, and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields.... within the Parish of Tempsford.... 22pp. 1777. £22.00

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    Bristol
  8. Ansley (B) & Gawler (H) REPORT ON THE CITY & COUNTY OF BRISTOL 3pp, folio, plus folding lithographed map, coloured in outline, by R.K. Dawson, Scale 2" to 1 mile. Disbound, old staple at top corner. 1837. £18.00

  9. Belmont, Clifton JOHN KINGCOMBE, UNDERTAKER Bill for funeral expenses. Printed heading, 2p. sm. folio. Includes conveying body from Clifton to Glasgow. 1872. £8.00

  10. Builders etc. THREE BILLHEADS 4to, attractive decorative printed headings. Bills for E. Woodward, Plumber, Carpenter; John Wilkins, Plumbers & Lighting Engineers; C.H. Tucker, Auctioneers. 1893 & 1907. £10.00

  11. Cheese Lane Distillery DRAFT BILL OF SALE of Utensils &c connected with the Distillery in Cheese Lane, Bristol, between Lionel Lyde of Lincolns Inn, George Ames of Clifton, Levi and John Ames, Michael Harris, of Bristol, Malt Distillers & Dealers in Spirits. 4p. folio, folded, small waterstain at edge, written with crossings out and amendments. c1830. £25.00
    Included drays, horses, yeast etc. on the premises at 3rd Sept. 1829.


  12. Clark (J.A) Drawn by NEW GUILDHALL, BRISTOL. To the Right Worshipful James Gibbs, Esq., Mayor of Bristol, by whose exertions during his period of office the plan for erecting a new Guildhall was greatly forwarded, and by whom the ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone was performed on the 30th of October 1843. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8" x 12", plus margins, some spotting to margins. Published by George Davey, Broad Street, Bristol, Oct. 30th 1843. £55.00
    Shows several people in the fore-ground.


  13. Clifton Down Hotel ENGRAVED LETTERHEAD with two vignettes showing the Suspension Bridge and the Hotel. Letter from a lawyer dated 10 July 1897. £6.00

  14. Jones (S.C) Drawn by NORTH VIEW OF REDCLIFF CHURCH showing the Restorations. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8" x 11", plus margins, some spotting to margins. Published by T.H. Weston, Broad Street, Bristol: c184-. £55.00
    Shows people in fore-ground including children.


  15. Jones (S.C) Drawn by THE AVON & SEVERN FROM CLIFTON DOWN. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8" x 11", plus margins, some spotting mainly to margins. Published by T.H. Weston, opposite the Exchange, Bristol: c184-. £70.00
    Shows boats on the river, flap-pole in the distance on sea-walls, people sitting on rock, and grazing sheep in the fore-ground.


  16. Newman (J) & Co. Pub. TWELVE VIEWS OF CLIFTON steel engraved vignette views, approx. size of engraved surface 3" x 4", oblong sm. 8vo, original embossed cloth wraps, gilt titled, a few marks on front wrap. J. Newman & Co. c186- £75.00
    Views:- St. Vincents Rocks; Suspension Bridge and St. Vincents Rocks Hotel; Bridge from the Rocks; View of Clifton from the Suspension Bridge; Entrance to the Suspension Bridge; View from the Suspension Bridge looking West; Nightingale Valley; Christ Church; Clifton Down; Clifton from Leigh Woods; Caledonia Place; Vyvyan Terrace.


  17. Routh & Peach, Bridge St., Prs. SARAH FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL Saturday, December 22, 1792. Broadsheet newspaper with large banner title, woodcut of Britannia-type figure holding the City arms. 4pp. 1792. £20.00
    Contains one-column report of the meeting for the making of a canal 'from Bristol, to join the River Severn at Gloucester', Henry Bengough in the Chair. Also contains one column on meeting at Taunton for considering the making of a Canal from Bristol to Taunton, and a report on a meeting at Devizes for a Canal linking Bristol Bath and Salisbury and the interior parts of Wiltshire and Hampshire.


  18. St. Augustine AGREEMENT for Sale of Reversionary interest, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England with H.G. Willmott. 6pp., folio, attached is manuscript coloured plan of houses in Pipe Lane. 1872. £14.00

  19. Syer (J) Drawn by VIEW OF BRISTOL, FROM BRANDON HILL. Tinted lithograph, size approx. 8" x 12", plus margins, some spotting and a 3" tear to margins neatly repaired to verso. Published by I.H. Weston, Broad Street, Bristol: c184-. £85.00
    A fine view across the city showing the many church towers and steeples, from St. Paul's church on the left to the Cathedral and St. Mary Redcliffe on the right, pottery chimneys smoking in distance, people in fore-ground, including a child holding a kite.


  20. Thomas (R.K), Lith. REDCLIFF CHURCH To John Kirle Haberfield, President, and to the Committee of the Canynge Society This North View of Redcliff Church, Shewing the Restorations, is with permission most respectfully dedicated by The Publisher. Tinted Lithograph, 9" x 12", shewing a fine detailed view of the church with groups of figures on the green and the building to the right. Published by T.H. Weston, opposite the Exchange, Bristol c1840. £40.00

  21. Tozer (John) OATH OF A BURGESS Vellum document admitting John Robert Tozer, Accountant, into the Liberties of the City as Freeman. Printed form with details in MS, large coat of arms. 4to, folds, some slight foxing. 1812. £22.00

  22. 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.... Size approx. 18" x 12", folds. Tipped onto the back are the manuscript 'Conditons of Sale' and completed 'Memorandum'. Few small holes to manuscript where folded. Pole, Printer, &c., John Street, Bristol. 1865. £22.00

  23. Weston (T.H), Bristol, Pub. BLAISE HAMLET To John S. Harford Esq. of Blaise Castle Gloucestershire, in whose Grounds these Picturesque and beautiful Dwellings are Erected this Plate is most respectfully inscribed.... Tinted lithograph size approx. 9" x 11", plus margins, on thick paper, showing the nine cottages of the hamlet individually. Some overall light foxing, mainly in the margins. Crease across bottom left corner in margin only, and another crease to right of bottom margin. c1840. £60.00

  24. Wine Street BILL of William Edwards, Hosier Glover & Shirt Maker for 6 pairs of silk gloves. Sm. oblong 8vo, decorative heading. c1880. £4.00

    Bristol Acts

  25. Bristol Boundaries AN ACT To extend the City and County of Bristol.... 49pp. 1904. £12.00

  26. Brokers AN ACT for the Admission and Regulation of Brokers within the City of Bristol. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 5pp. 1730. £20.00

  27. Clifton Suspension Bridge AN ACT for extending the Time for building a Bridge over the River Avon from Clifton to the oposite Side of the River.... 2pp, slightly dusty and ragged to top margin. 1848. £10.00

  28. Hospitals and Workhouses AN ACT for rendering more effectual the several Acts passed for the erecting of Hospitals and Workhouses within the City of Bristol, for the Better employing and maintaining of the Poor thereof. Black Letter, 12pp and cover leaf. 1745. £12.00

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    Buckinghamshire
  29. Astley family, Buckingham PRESENTATION VOLUME recording subscribers to the gift of a Silver Inkstand to H.J. Delaval Astley on the occasion of his Coming of Age, March 3rd 1909, with list of Residents and Tenant Farmers, and for a Silver Cigarette Case, with names of the Cottage Tenants. 4 card leaves, plus blanks, in morocco bound 4to volume. Written in red and blue. 1909. £15.00
    The Ellesborough Golf Club is listed among the first group of Subscribers.


  30. High Wycombe REPORT UPON THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY Sm. folio, disbound, wpp and plan, coloured in outline, scale 4" to 1 mile. Off-setting on last page. 1837. £18.00

  31. Stowe SALE OF THE DUCAL ESTATE & CONTENTS of The Mansion. Sectional Copy for the Trade only of Part 2 (Furniture Section). Section 1. July 5th to 8th inclusive. 46pp, 8vo, wraps. 984 Lots of furniture, carpets etc, described room by room. 1921. £18.00

    Buckinghamshire Acts

  32. Hanslop AN ACT for dividing and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Pastures.... within the Parish of Hanslop.... 36pp. 1778. £22.00

  33. Hardwick AN ACT for dividing and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields.... within the Township and Liberties of Hardwicke.... 25pp. 1778. £24.00

  34. Ludgershall AN ACT for dividing, inclosing assigning and allotting, the Open and Common Field, and Commonable Land, lying within the Liberties, Territories and Precincts of Ludgershall.... 29pp., page edges slightly dusty. 1777. £22.00

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    Cambridgeshire
  35. Bourn, Steeple Morden, Toft, Wimpole Estate etc. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Quarter Sheets, Nos. XLVI S.E. and N.W, XLV S.E, LIII N.W, LII S.E, LVII S.E, S.W, N.W and N.E, LVIII N.W, LXII N.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Sheet showing Wimpole Estate partly colour-washed. 11 items. 1891. £28.00

  36. Haddenham AUCTION POSTER. To be Sold by Auction, by George Legge at the Three-Kings Inn, in Haddenham, On Monday, the 29th day of June, 1846.... The following Valuable Parcels of Land, Copyhold of the Manor of Haddenham.... Printed on one side only, size approx. 17" x 13", few folds, attractive, with various decorative type-faces. Clements. Printers, Ely: 1846. £22.00

  37. Leverington and Wisbech PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of very fine Arable and Pasture Land in Leverington, Leverington Parson Drove, and Wisbech.... Which will be Sold by Auction.... the 29th day of June, 1876.... Folio, 7pp, docket title, few small short splits where folded, contemporary manuscript sums to margins. 1876. £14.00

  38. Tid St. Giles TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION At the Bull Inn, Long Sutton, March 20th, 1868.... All that Freehold Farm.... containing 55 Acres, situate in Tid St. Giles Fen.... Auction notice printed on one side of blue small folio sheet. 1868. £10.00

  39. Wilburton PARTICULARS OF A DESIRABLE ESTATE at Wilburton, in the Isle of Ely, which will be sold by Auction by G. Legge & Son.... 24th day of March instant.... 5pp., folio, folds, first page with title attractively printed with different type-faces. Lists 12 Lots, each lot with approx. 5 different plots, each with acreage, occupier, etc. 1835. £35.00

  40. Wilburton, Ely GROWING CROPS OF CORN With the straw.... to be Sold by Auction at the Chequers in Wilburton.... August the 22nd, 1854.... Poster, sm. 4to, with acreage and Cultivation of 26 plots in New Cut, Flexon Field, etc. Traces of folds. 1854. £16.00

  41. Wisbech St. Mary, and Parson Drove PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of 40a. 3r. 4p. of rich grazing land at Wisbech St. Mary and an excellent Fen Farm.... with cottage and Farm Buildings at Parson Drove.... Which will be offered for Sale by Public Auction.... the 13th day of July, 1895.... Folio, large coloured folding plan, 4pp, docket title, folded, docket title dusty. 1895. £22.00

  42. Witcham AUCTION POSTER. To be Sold by Auction, by Geo. Legge at the Plough, in Witcham, On Tuesday, the 30th day of June, 1846.... The following Valuable Parcels of Land.... Size approx. 17" x 13", few folds, attractive with various decorative type-faces. Clements. Printers, Ely: 1846. £22.00

  43. Wood Ditton LEASE FOR A YEAR of a cottage in Woodditton, William Hatch of Northney in Ely to George Dobito of Kirtling. Vellum, 14" x 21", slight yellowing. Wax seal. 1796. £12.00

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    Cheshire
  44. Appleton AUCTION POSTER. Desirable Freehold Land In Appleton, in the County of Chester. To be Sold by Auction, at the house of Mr Peter Eaton, the sign of the Cat & Lion, in Stretton.... On Monday, the 11th Day of August, 1823.... Size approx. 18" x 13", very slight off-setting, couple of folds. Kent, Printer, Northwich. 1823. £22.00

  45. Guilden Sutton and Christleton PARTICULARS of an Estate at Guilden Sutton and Christleton, near Chester, to be Sold by Auction.... the 2nd September 1852.... 5pp., sm. folio, folding map. 1852. £26.00

  46. Lymm PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD FARMS AND LANDS, In Lymm.... which will be sold by Auction by Mr. R. Winstanley, At Ladyman's Hotel, in Bridge Street, Manchester, On Wednesday, the 25th day of July, 1838. Small folio, 3pp, docket title, folds. Swinnerton, Printer, Knutsford. 1838. £16.00
    Lists details of the acreage and the property in 3 lots.


  47. Shavington-cum-Gresty AUCTION POSTER. Sale of Freehold Property in Shavington-cum-Gresty, Cheshire, on the 31st of July. To be Sold by Mr Fowles, At the House of Mr Higgins, known as the "Royal Hotel," Crewe, On Friday, the 31st of July, 1857.... Size approx. 13" x 8", printed on one side only, few contemporary ink sums, folds. E.H. Griffiths, Printer and Stationer, Nantwich. 1857. £15.00
    Lists the property with acreage.


    Cheshire Acts

  48. Alsager AN ACT for enclosing the Commons and Waste Lands in the Manor and Township of Alsager in the Parish of Barthomley.... 29pp., docket title dusty. 1821. £20.00

  49. New Brighton AN ACT for constructing a Pier at New Brighton.... 14pp. 1864. £12.00

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    Cornwall
  50. Besley's VIEWS IN CORNWALL 12 engraved vignette views, size of engraved surface approx. 4" x 7". Decorative orange wraps, slightly rubbed, cloth spine. Some minor foxing on first view. c1860. £95.00
    Views include: St. Michael's Mount with train in foreground, Mounts Bay, Penzance (3), Lamorna, Logan Rock, Tol-Peden-Penwith, Lands End and Longships, St. Just, Botallack Mine, Gurnards Head.

    AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT

  51. Blight (J.T) PARC-AN-CHAPEL, CAPE CORNWALL. Manuscript, signed, by Blight. With an India paper proof of a wood-engraving of the ruins of the chapel, 3" x 4", pasted under the signature. 4to, 2p, headed 'For Publication', the paper has been folded and is rather creased down one side. Loosely inserted in plain wrappers, with a cutting from an early bookseller's catalogue describing the item, and a MS note of an ancient cross found nearby, taken from Buller's 'Account of the Parish of St. Just'. c1856. £200.00
    The wood-engraved illustration, of which this is a proof copy, appears in Blight's Ancient Crosses and other Antiquities....
    This manuscript was printed in 'Willis's Current Notes,' 1856.


  52. Callington RELEASE IN FEE of share in a house in Callington and a road out of the adjoining field, part of the Manor of Manaton, Peter Hill to John Palmer. 2 large vellum sheets, 2 good armorial wax seals, includes schedule of deeds etc. back to 1682. Vellum dusty and slightly faded, but legible, throughout.... together with.... LEASE FOR A YEAR for the property, single vellum sheet. 1813. £15.00

  53. Cary (C & G) MAP Covering Forrabury, Mawgan Point, Helland. Scale half an inch to one mile, size 19" x 25", plus margins, outline colouring, coloured border to map and inset map, scale bar. With inset of Scilly Isles and Land's End, size 11" x 17". Some edge tears and light browning due to damp. July 1st, 1820. £25.00

  54. Cornwall Boiler Co. ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS Two detailed scale drawings on waxed cotton, in ink, one with some colour, size 22" x 18", showing 'Section through Rivetting Tower', 'Detail of Gate', and larger scale detail of top of rivetting tower, the other size 23" x 34", showing 'South Elevation' and 'West Elevation', of rivetting tower on a long building of two stories with 5 windows on ground floor, eight on the first floor, and a single storey extension, and a separate building with round window. Both signed by architects. Sept. 1892. £60.00

  55. Devon Consols Mine, Stokeclimsland FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION on Thursday the 7th December, 1854, at Twelve O'Clock at Noon, on the Devon Consols West Mine.... The Whole of the Valuable Mine Materials &c Comprising: a 14in Cylinder Steam Pumping Engine, Equal Beam, 6 feet Stroke, with Boiler, Balance Bob; Horse Whim; Winch and Chain; Sheers and Sheaves; about 30fms 3in. Whim Rope.... Poster, size 22" x 17", listing 43 items of mine equipment. Brown off-setting of lettering throughout, as often happens when several posters stored together, small hole in one letter at top, a few edge tears, and some small repaired tears in part of text where paper is slightly brittle. Solicitor's note regarding affadavit of one John Clemo concerning this advertisement. 1854. £90.00

  56. Harris (John), Cornish Poet LETTER dated Killigrew Terrace, Falmouth 26 Oct. 1866, to Rev. S. Rogers, accompanying a copy of 'Shakespere's Shrine', signed John Harris. 8 lines on 1 side of sm. 8vo paper, in a rather untidy hand.... together with.... small postcard dated 13 Nov. 1871, signed J. Harris, addressed to Rev. Saltern Rogers at Gwennap Vicarage acknowledging the receipt of stamps for his 'copy of my new work & I am much obliged for your continued patronage'. 1866 and 1871. £32.00
    Harris published 'Shakespere's Shrine, an Indian story, essays and poems.' in September 1866. The book refered to in the postcard is probably 'Bulo, Reuben Ross'. The Revd. Saltern Rogers later became President of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.


  57. Illogan LEASE of a Plot of Ground at Carn Brea, Rt. Honble John Baron St. Levan, John Tremayne of Heligan and others to William Treloar Phillips, Miner. Vellum, 20" x 27", 3 wax seals, sketch plan 4" x 7" in corner. 1889. £14.00

  58. King Edward Mine SURFACE PLAN Manuscript plan, probably a student survey, on thick cartridge paper in ink and and bright colour wash. Shows Plantation Shaft, Vyvyan Shaft, William's Shaft etc., ditches, hedges, rough ground, various buildings including Fitting Shop, Vanning Shop, Assay Office etc. With 'Legend'. Scale 1:500, size 29" x 52", rolled. 1968. £40.00

  59. Kitchin (Thos) A NEW IMPROVED MAP OF CORNWALL from the Best Surveys and Intelligences Divided into its Hundreds. Shewing the several Roads and true Measured Distances between Town & Town. Also the Rectories and Vicarages the Parks & Seats of the Nobility & Gentry with other useful Particulars Regulated by Astronomical Observations. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, size 21" x 27", with attractive title cartouche, hand-coloured, with figures, mining tools etc., inset of Isles of Scilly, dedication to Lord Edgecumb, list of Earls of Cornwall, brief descriptions of major towns. Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street. (1750). £250.00
    `This map is by far the most impressive and attractive map of Cornwall to appear in a complete atlas of the 18th century....' Quixley. There were several reprints between 1755 and 1794 and Quixley mentions no differences between these later editions.


  60. Langdon (Arthur) TWO LETTERS One to an unknown correspondent in Gwennap who has replied to Langdon's request for information by describing a cross in his garden 'I only get replies to about one letter in ten that I write for facts relating to crosses.... I shall certainly accept your kind invitation to call, and should like if possible to get down to the bottom of your cross as it appears to be buried'. 3p, sm. 8vo, dated Craven Street, Strand, 12 Sept. 90. The other letter is dated 'Portscatho, Sunday' apparently to a vicar, possibly the same correspondent, as he mentions Gwennap, thanking him for information about crosses, and saying he plans to run over to Mawnan that week. 'Excuse my saying so, but as a rule I find it most difficult to get anything out of the Cornish clergy.... e.g. three letters to the S. Erth man (I forget his name) have never been answered....' 1890 and later. £55.00

  61. Lanlivery SWEETSHOUSE Plan showing site of proposed new Cottages. Manuscript plan in ink and colours on cartridge paper, scale 40 feet to an inch. Size 19" x 22". November 1897. £15.00

  62. Le Grice (Rev. C.V) A HYMN for the opening of the rebuilt Church at Morvah on the North West Coast of Cornwall A.D. 1828. Hymn of seven verses printed on one side of single sheet, with decorative border. Size 11" x 5", margins slightly trimmed, to just below imprint. Vigurs, Printer, Penzance, (1828) £28.00

  63. Liskeard REPORT ON THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF LISKEARD. 2pp, with a folding plan by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £18.00

  64. Lowry, Sculpt. PENDENNIS CASTLE IN CORNWALL Copper engraving showing the castle on headland with boats, etc., size 5" x 6". Small tear through title. c1780. £10.00

  65. Ludgvan AN AGREEMENT between John Peverell Rogers of Penrose and Matthew Trewhella of Pigmoor. 3p, folio, with coloured sketch map size 7" x 4" in text, showing the various claypits at Pigmoor. 1883. £18.00
    The agreement was to settle a dispute relating to an original Sett of 1876.


  66. Marazion LEASE of a house garden and stitch of land in the Gew, in the Borough of Marazion late in the occupation of William Jarvis (?), for 4 score and nineteen years, yearly rent of 2s 6d, Richard Pendarves of London, Merchant, to Francis Trounson, of St. Hilary, Tinner. Vellum, 6" x 12", signed Pendarves with fine small wax seal with coat of arms, on tag. 4th September 1676. £32.00
    With memorandum on verso concerning a heriot, signed by 2 witnesses.


  67. Newbridge LEASE of Dwelling House and plot at Newbridge in Sancreed, Right Honourable Lord Robertes to John Nicholas. Large vellum sheet, printed with MS inserts. Small coloured sketch plan on verso. 1874. £15.00
    The plot was bounded by the river and the turnpike road from Penzance to St. Just. Three lives are listed.


  68. Penwith GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No XXXIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Engraved surface approx. 36" x 25" ('Portrait' format), hand coloured, with gold showing mineral veins and stream tin, etc. Key in sea area. Original Geological Survey by Sir H. De La Beche, Additional Lodes by W.W. Smyth, 1866. c1900. £70.00

  69. Penzance LEASE of plot of ground near Taroveor Road, lately leased by John Usticke Scobell, Joseph Perkins to William Williams. Counterpart, vellum 22" x 28", small wax seal. 1867. £10.00

  70. Penzance LEASE of Plot of Land with dwelling house now being erected, at Alverton, Fred. Nicholl and others to H. Geoffroi. Two large vellum sheets, small sketch plan on verso of second sheet. 1880. £14.00

  71. Quiller Couch (Arthur) LETTER to a Mrs Russell, dated Sept. 21st 1899, on 8vo notepaper with the printed heading 'The Haven, Fowey, Cornwall', signed A.T. Quiller Couch. 3 pages in an informal, chatty style, announcing the birth of his little girl 'a plump person, considered not uncomely', and the reaction of her brother 'he has taken to his sister beautifully'. He asks Mrs Russell to tell her husband that 'at last I have written a story with which I am pleased - as yet. In a little while I shall quite probably think it bosh. But he is to look out for it this autumn. And though I hope he'll like it I shall not be hurt if he doesn't - never am, over these things.' He goes on to mention Trebarwith, and his boat 'the Vida'. 1899. £50.00

  72. Quiller Couch (Arthur) LETTER to 'My dear Manson', dated The Haven, Fowey, Dec. 6th, 1896. 2p 8vo. Signed 'Q'. 1896. £50.00
    Written in a very conversational style. Speaks of the weather - 'the barometer with a face in it as if it had been drinking', of a postponed trip to Edinburgh 'in the matter of work I've got to get a quart into a pint pot before Christmas', and his admiration for (Barrie's) 'Margaret Ogilvy' - 'Get a copy of the 1st edition & give it to your eldest child. In years to come he will find it worth many pounds - and he won't sell'.


  73. Redruth LEASE dwellinghouse and premises adjoining the Falmouth Road, Rt. Honble. Charles Rolle Baron Clinton to Jonathan Martin, builder. Large vellum sheet, wax seal, printed with MS inserts. On verso is coloured sketch plan, 7" x 9". 1891. £12.00

  74. Rutger (I.H.), Surveyor A PLAN OF THE PARISH OF SENNEN in the County of Cornwall. 1839. Lithographed map, size 16" x 24", plus wide margins. Scale 10 chains to 1". Compass rose, scale bar. Shows buildings, each field numbered, rocky areas along shore indicated with hachures. 1839. £60.00

  75. St. Columb RELEASE of parts of several houses etc. in Saint Columb Major, Revd. Robt. Hoblyn to Thomas Rawlings of Padstow. 4 large vellum sheets, wax seals, vellum browned. 1810. £12.00
    Refers to shares in Carter's tenement, the building occupied by the town workhouse, blacksmith's shop, malthouse etc.


  76. St. Columb Town COUNTERPART LEASE of half of Carter's or The Town Tenement, John and Samuel Hoblyn to William Drew. Vellum, 19" x 24", good armorial wax seal, engraved heading. In a particularly large and legible hand. 1746. £20.00
    Lists three 'lives', heriot, etc.


  77. St. Ives PARTICULARS AND PLAN of Freehold Lands and House Property in the Borough and Parish of St. Ives, Comprising about 21 Small Holdings, Building Land, 139 Houses, Cottages and the Impropriate Tithe Rent Charge on the parish of St. Ives.... to be Sold by Auction.... Sept. 29th and 30th, 1919. 35pp., large folding coloured plan. Folio, wraps rather dusty, staples rusty, pages dog-eared at bottom corner. 1919. £65.00
    Includes lands and tenements at Hellesvean, Carnello, Little Burthallan, etc., houses in The Warren, The Terrace, The Digey etc.


  78. St. Just LEASE of a plot of ground and dwelling house in St. Just in Penwith, John Usticke Scobell of Montvale House in Somerset to William Hill of St. Just. 1868. £10.00

  79. St. Just LEASE of a plot of a piece of ground of 8 laces part of a close called the Town field, Dwelling House and Premises part of Trigaseal in St. Just for 99 years.... Bryan Lawry, Farmer, to John Nankervis, Mine Agent. Large vellum sheet, two wax seals. 1868. £12.00
    Includes the right of Turbary for fuel on the Commons.


  80. St. Minver LEASE of 'messuage or tenement commonly known by the namej of Easter Cant.... late in the possession of Lady Olimpia Robartes', Henry Earl of Radnor and John Laroche of Westminster to John Lynam of St. Minver. Vellum sheet, closely written, size 13" x 23", signed Laroche with small armorial seal. Some minor spotting of vellum. 1733. £26.00

  81. Stoke Climsland COUNTERPART LEASE of part of Trehill in Stoke Climsland, Arthur Holdsworth to William Rendall. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1765. £16.00

  82. Stoke Climsland LEASE of Trehill in Stokeclimsland, Sampson Hill of Trenethicke to Thomas Reed, yeoman. Vellum, size 18" x 25", wax seal on tag. Small burn hole at top edge of engraved title. Signed by 5 witnesses on verso. 1696. £25.00
    Reed was to keep the house and orchard in good repair. Refers to timber on the tenement, mentioning 'the seven great Oaks, the Elme and the great Ash'.


  83. Stokes (H. Sewell) LETTER on headed notepaper of Clerk of the Peace, Bodmin, dated 23rd Jany. 1871, to a Mr. Wilkinson (apparently a clergyman), 3p, 8vo (52 lines in all). He thanks Mr. Wilkinson for his kind comments on the poems, and goes on to explain how he came to write them. 1871. £35.00
    He says his early verses were 'just as wild as Swinburne's.... I never altered a coarse or impure expression. But educated so peculiarly as I was, removed from School in England at 15, and then placed under Spanish, French & Italian teachers at Gibraltar for 3 years and taking the whole range of Rousseau & others of that school, it was not to be wondered at that I became wild in politics & on more serious matters.' The poems mentioned were presumably 'Rhymes from Cornwall', published in 1871.


  84. Trerice Manor Estate, Nr Newquay IMPORTANT SALE OF FOUR LORDSHIPS AND THE FREEHOLD MANORIAL ESTATE OF TRERICE Excellent Farms, Small Holdings & Cottages, Having an area of about 1,830 Acres. Messrs. J. Hannaford & Son in conjunction with Messrs. John May & Son, are favoured with instructions to Sell by Auction.... at the Victoria Hall, Newquay, Cornwall, On Friday, the 25th day of June 1915.... The Lordships of the manors of Trerice, Tresillian, Degembris and Cragantallan, The Famous Tudor Manor House known as Trerice Manor, with the Home Farm.... The well-known Agricultural Estates of Trenance, Trendrean, Legonna, Degembris, Degembris Minor, Nancemeer, Trewerry Mill, Benny, Accommodation Lands, Small Holdings & Cottages, Situate in the Parishes of St. Columb Minor and Newlyn East. Folio, large coloured folding plan in pocket at rear, 3 photographic illusts, 20pp, original wraps with photo pasted to top wrap. 1915. £50.00

  85. Truro War Memorial WAR MEMORIAL, CITY OF TRURO Design for Proposed War Memorial in Grey Cornish Granite, Figures in Bronze. Scale 1" - 1ft. Front Elevation. Watercolour design, on thick paper size 29" x 20", plus margins, folded, titled as above. Shows monument with buildings behind, several figures to the side, height and width added and note '400 Names'. Name 'Alpha' in bottom right corner, stamp in margin of 'Maile & Son, Craftsmen in Marble, Bronze and Brass'. 1922. £95.00

  86. Watts (Isaac) IN MEMORIAM. Lines on the Death of Elizabeth Watts, written by her affectionate husband Isaac Watts, of Australia, formerly of Hayle. Single 4to sheet, printed on one side only, 24 quatrains in double columns, in a mourning border, with line of typographic ornaments between the columns. J.E. Harris, Printer, &c, Hayle c1870. £25.00
    See Boase & Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis Vol II p. 856.


  87. Wright (Professor J) LETTER to Miss Courtney at Penzance, thanking her for the 'excellent collection of Cornish words which will be most useful.' 2 pages, on printed notepaper of the English Dialect Society, dated Nov. 23, 1874, inserted in original envelope with address and Oxford postmark. 1874. £30.00
    'Dr. Rogers of Plymouth has sent me his father's collection of Cornish words - a splendidly written MSS volume of 800 pages, which must have cost the compiler many many years of patient toil, but as it is a glossary of real Cornish words and not of English dialect words used in Cornwall, it will not be of much, if any, use for the E.D.D.' Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary' was published in 6 volumes between 1898 and 1905.


    Cornwall Acts

  88. Duchy of Cornwall AN ACT for enabling His Majesty to settle an Annuity on His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.... and for repealing so much of an Act.... as direct the annual Payment of Thirteen thousand Pounds out of the Revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. 3pp. 1803. £9.00

  89. Duchy of Cornwall AN ACT to enable Her Majesty to make Leases and Copies of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel of Her Dutchy of Cornwall.... 3pp, plus cover leaf.... together with.... AN ACT to continue an Act, Intituled An Act to Enable Her Majesty to make Leases.... 3pp., plus cover leaf. Recent cloth boards. 1708 and 1714. £18.00

  90. Falmouth Gaol AN ACT to provide for the Discontinuance of a separate Court of Quarter Sessions and a separate Gaol in the Borough of Falmouth. 3pp. 1865. £10.00

  91. Fowey and Newquay Estates AN ACT for better enabling the Trusts of the Will of Joseph Thomas Treffry deceased to be executed.... 59pp. Recent cloth boards, gilt title. 1853. £22.00
    There is a 31 page schedule of the property concerned listing Description, Owner/Occupier and Tenure and Rent.


  92. Helston A BILL To secure the Freedom and Purity of Election in the Borough of Helleston. 3pp. 1813. £10.00

  93. Saint Burian A BILL intituled An Act to provide for the Division of the Deanery of Saint Burian into Three Rectories, and for abolishing the Royal Peculiar of Saint Burian. Title + 5pp. 1850. £14.00

  94. St. Ives Fishery AN ACT for the Encouragement and Improvement of the Pilchard-fishery carried on within the Bay of Saint Ives.... Black Letter. Cover leaf + 26pp., recent paper boards. 1776. £24.00

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    Cumberland
  95. Foulbridge PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Estate at Foulbridge.... comprising a Messuage, Tenement; and Farm Buildings, 6 Cottages & about 55 Acres.... which will be Sold by Public Auction.... 11 day of December, 1860. 3pp., folio, folded, plus docket title, which is dusty. 1860. £16.00

  96. Honor of Penrith and Forest of Inglewood INCLOSURE Notice is Hereby Given, That John Sadler, John Marshall, and John Fryer, the Commissioners appointed.... by an Act of Parliament.... entitled 'An Act for dividing and inclosing the Commons and Waste Lands, within the several Parishes of Penrith, Edenhall, Salkeld.... intend to meet at the George Inn, Penrith.... for the Purpose of reading over and executing their General Award.... this first Day of October, 1819. Poster, size 12" x 8", inviting those interested to attend the meeting. Shaw, Printer, Penrith, 1819. £45.00

  97. Kendal, Keswick ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 102. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Folding into sm. 8vo cloth wraps, edges of sections slightly browned, 3" split in linen at one fold. Electrotype 1878. £25.00

  98. Kirkbride and Wigton PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Freehold Estate situate in and around the Village of Kirkbride... which will be Offered for Sale by Public Auction.... 25th August, 1881. Folio, folds, 4pp., with large folding coloured plan. 1881. £32.00

  99. Kirkland AUCTION POSTER. To Be Sold by Auction, On Thursday, the 15th day of September.... at the Black Swan, in Culgaith the following Closes of Land.... High Kit Moor.... Poster, size approx. 17" x 11", small hole slightly affecting one letter, folded. B.T. Sweeten, Printer, Penrith. c1860. £16.00
    Very attractive printing, with the word 'Land' in letters 2" high, shadowed and filled with an unusual tapestry style blocking.


  100. Longthwaite PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Estate situate at Longthwaite, near Watermillock, in the Parish of Greystoke.... to be Sold By Auction.... 2nd of June, 1885. 3pp., folio, including MS memorandum. 1885. £16.00

  101. Penrith PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Premises at Netherend, which will be sold by Auction.... the 7th day of June, 1855.... 2pp., folio, plus docket title. 1855. £15.00

  102. Steel (James) Pr. THE FARMER'S REAL FRIEND. Copy of a Letter addressed by an influential Landed Proprietor to a Yeoman of "Canny Cumberland." Broadside, in ten paragraphs, printed on one side only, size approx. 20" x 12", couple of small holes where once folded, few short tears with neat repairs with archival tape to verso.. James Steel, Printer, Journal Office, Carlisle. c1840? £55.00
    The letter is a long and detailed argument against the imposition of a fixed scale of duty on imported corn, in place of a sliding scale. 'I am still of the opinion that the most ruinous consequences to the Farmer would result from letting loose upon the consumption large masses of Corn at once.... ' The writer had apprently given evidence before a Commons Select Committee on Agriculture in 1833. He also mentions that he himself had 'sold beef at Manchester, at fourteen pence per lb. to common Weavers, in the year 1815'.


  103. Westward CERTIFICATE OF REDEMPTION OF THE LAND TAX for John Taylor of Stonecarse, Clerk. Printed certificate with coat of Arms, manuscript insertions, size 15" x 17", signed by the two commissioners. Form printed on verso for 16 installments, headed 'Consols' in MS, with last installment completed. Refers to parcel of land in the Township of Blencogo in Bromfield, and and tenement in the Township of Stoneraise in Westward. Fixed to the corner are two certificates for amounts of Land Tax. 1798. £20.00

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    Devon
  104. Ashwater Estates IMPORTANT MANOR OF ASHWATER. A NOTED SPORTING PROPERTY. PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATES Accommodation Lands, Free & Fully Licensed Inn, Coverts, Small Holdings, Cottages, and Undivided Moiety of Cookworthy Moor, All situate in the Parish of Ashwater, comprising in all about 4,035 Acres.... J. Hannaford & Son, F.A.I. Have been favoured with instructions to Sell by Public Auction, at The Town Hall, Holsworthy, On Tuesday, 21st July, 1908. Folio, with 9 coloured plans, 7 of which are folding, and a key plan, 42pp, original wraps, top wrap very spotty, staples rusty, loose. 1908. £75.00

  105. Banfield (J) VIEWS OF NORTH DEVON. 4 steel engraved vignette views, size of engraved surface approx. 4" x 6". Oblong 8vo., original printed wraps with views listed. Some minor light spotting to page edges. c1860. £20.00
    Views are: Lynton & Lynmouth from the Tor; Lynton and Lynmouth from the Summer-House; Waters-Meet; Valley of Rocks.


  106. Barn Pool, Plymouth SEPIA WATERCOLOUR showing a large 3 masted ship and another boat, with a building on a headland, shore in the foreground rocks, man launching row-boat. Size approx. 6" x 8", in ivory mount, with gold lines. Dec. 1810. £40.00
    A competent amateur hand. Titled in left hand margin, hidden by mount, 'From Barn Pool, Plymouth, December 6th, 1810.


  107. Barnstaple ENGINEER'S DRAWING of 'Steam Drying Apparatus for drying clothes etc. for Barnstaple Union'. Fine fully coloured ink drawing on Whatman paper size 21" x 30". Scale 1" to 1 foot. Shows front elevation of brick and stone building with doors; Transverse Section; Ground plan showing piping; details of doors; Detail of Horse (on rollers). With stamp of Nicholls Mathews & Co., Engineers, Tavistock Iron Works. Some minor edge tears, and one 9" tear through mainly blank area, tears neatly repaired on verso with archival tape. Paper watermarked 1873. £65.00
    Presumably prepared for the Workhouse.


  108. Bishopsnympton, Meshaw, Alverdiscott Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF SEVERAL VALUABLE AND ATTRACTIVE FREEHOLD ESTATES Accommodation Lands, Free and Fully Licensed Inn, Coverts and Cottages, comprising- BISHOPNYMPTON.- North Hayne, South Hayne, with fine old House, and South Hayne Plantation, in all total of 415a. 2r. 36p. MESHAW.- Five Estates, viz:- Meshaw Barton, with fine Elizabethan Manor House, Great Whitstone, Little Whitstone, Gidley Arms Inn and Farm, Bourne Bridge, Accomodation land &c., comprising 861a. 2r. 7p. ALVERDISCOTT.- Alverdiscott barton, Borough and Hall, Nethercott, and Lashingcott, Luppincott, South Down and Cloggs Hill, Three Corner Ley and Abboton Cottages in all 988a. 1r. 6p. Messrs J. Hannaford & Son, F.A.I. Have been favoured with instructions from R. Preston Whyte, Esq., to offer the above for Sale by Auction At the Royal Fortescue Hotel, Barnstaple, On Friday, 26th July.... Folio, illust, 12 large coloured folding plans, 24pp, original qtr cloth wraps, photo pasted to top wrap. Second Edition. 1907. £95.00

  109. Burrington, Ashpreigny, Winkleigh, North Tawton, Witheridge and East Worlington Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF SEVERAL VALUABLE AND ATTRACTIVE FREEHOLD ESTATES Cottage Residences, Accommodation Lands, Small Holdings, Free and Fully Licensed Public House, Manorial Rights, Coverts and Artizan's Cottages, comprising: BURRINGTON, Catham and Winswood, Burrington Barton, Ley and Boutchland Estates, several Lots of Accommodation Lands, the Fully Licensed and Free Public House, known as "Barnstaple Inn,".... practically the whole of the Village of Burrington.... WINKLEIGH. - Seven Estates, viz:- Southcott, Penson, Collacott, Gosses, Whitehouse, Narracott, and Woodroberts.... ASHPREIGNY. - Reynards Park Land and Cottages.... WITHERIDGE. - Barton Ground and Dwelling House.... NORTH TAWTON. - Staddon Estate.... EAST WORLINGTON. - East and West Burrow Estates... The whole extending over an area of about 2,797 Acres. Messrs J. Hannaford & Son, F.A.I. Have been honoured with instructions from the Right Hon. The Earl of Portsmouth to offer the above for Sale by Auction At the Rougemont Hotel, Exeter, On Friday, July 21st, 1905. Folio, with 13 large coloured folding plans, 34pp, original wraps, partly faded, few corners curled. Second Edition. 1905. £110.00

  110. Butterleigh BOND of John Berry the elder of Butterleigh, Yeoman, to Robert Chattey and Robert Winn Churchwardens and Overseers, for œ50. The bond was relative to Sarah Johns, single woman who 'hath by her voluntary confession declared that she is with Child & that.... the above bounden John Berry the elder is the Father of the said Child....' 2p, folio, in MS, small wax seal, embossed stamps. 1795. £20.00

  111. Chestwood, Bishops Tawton ABSTRACT OF TITLE of The Duke of Bedford and Trustees to fee farm rent charged on Chestwood. 2p folio, in MS, detailing indenture of 1752, together with printed Abstract of Title of the Trustees of the Will of Francis Seventh Duke of Bedford Deceased to Freehold Premises, 8pp, folio, setting out the terms of his will of 1861. c1880. £14.00

  112. Chulmleigh Estate PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF FREEHOLD FARMS AND ACCOMMODATION LANDS Containing about 760 Acres. Part of the Glebe and Prebendal Lands of Chulmleigh Devon for Sale On Monday, the 30th day of August, 1915, at 2 p.m. at the King's Arms Hotel, Chulmleigh, Devon. Folio, 2 large coloured folding plans in pocket at rear, loose in dusty card covers. 1915. £25.00

  113. Combmartin APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE apprentising Francis Norman to Henry Sanders, Cordwainer. Printed with manuscript inserts, three small wax seals. Size 8" x 13", folds. Signed by the three parties and two witnesses. 1823. £18.00
    The master was to supply 'working Tools, Shoes and Aprons' as well as board and lodging, and the apprentice had to 'follow the Established Church of England during the said Term'.


  114. Cranford, Dartmouth Pub. DARTMOUTH FROM KINGSWEAR Tinted lithograph, size 8" x 13", plus margins. A fine view from high up looking across the top of the church and across the estuary to Dartmouth, two figures in foreground pointing at paddle-steamer. A few minor foxing spots in margins and a few affecting sky area. Newman & Co. c1840. £70.00

  115. Crimmel Passage, Plymouth SEPIA WATERCOLOUR showing several large 3 masted boats, shore in the foreground with a headland on which is a large pole. Size approx. 6" x 8", in ivory mount, with gold lines. December 6th, 1810. £40.00
    A competent amateur hand. Titled in left hand margin, hidden by mount, 'From the Crimmel Passage, Plymouth, December 6th, 1810.


  116. Croydon (Edward) Pub. TORQUAY VIEWS (ROYAL SERIES) A set of 10 tinted lithographs, by Newman and Co., each with tissue guards, oblong folio, (12" x 17"), in the original printed paper boards, cloth spine, waterstain to fore-edge of top boards and a few other marks, tissue guards and edges of plates spotty. Published E. Croydon: c1848. £800.00
    RARE.
    See Somers Cocks. Devon Topographical Prints.... No S.178. Not on the Devon Libraries internet site.
    The views are:- Torquay from Park Hill; Torquay, from Waldon Hill; Torquay from Livermead; Hesketh Crescent from the Sea; Anstey's Cove & Bishopstowe; Anstey's Cove looking West; Watcombe Torquay; Babbacombe; Berry Pomeroy (2 views).


  117. Daniell (W), Engr. LYNMOUTH ON THE COAST OF NORTH DEVON Original hand-coloured aquatint, size of print 6" x 9", plus borders and margins. 1814. £50.00

  118. Daniell (W), Engr. VIEW OF ILFRACOMBE FROM HILSBOROUGH Original hand-coloured aquatint, size of print 6" x 9", plus borders and margins. 1814. £50.00

  119. Dartington Hall Ltd. GARDENS CATALOGUE Oblong 8vo, card covers with decorative woodcut illustration, 223pp, listing Trees and shrubs, Roses, Fruit Trees, Alpines, Herbaceous & Aquatics, Bulbs, Garden Furniture. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout, plan inside front wrap. In pocket at back is a 20p booklet "Landscape Gardening", published by the Gardens Department, Dartington Hall, illustrated with photographs and Piper-esque coloured drawings. Slight foxing of title on front wrap, small tears at hinge at top and bottom of spine. 1935. £65.00
    A finely-printed catalogue, beautifully presented, and apparently the only one ever issued.


  120. Dibdin (T.C) and Vivian (Edward) TOR CHURCH. Tinted lithograph. Drawn by T.C. Dibdin from a sketch by E. Vivian. On stone by E. Gauci. Size approx. 8" x 12", plus margins. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart, c1841. £38.00
    A view of the church with a man holding a stick leaning against a tomb looking at the church.


  121. Dibdin (T.C) and Vivian (Edward) BABBICOMBE, FROM PETIT TOR. Tinted lithograph. Drawn by T.C. Dibdin from a sketch by E. Vivian. On stone by E. Gauci. Size approx. 8" x 11", plus wide margins. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart, c1841. £45.00
    A view across the bay, with a boy asleep on rocks near sheep in foreground.


  122. Dibdin (T.C) and Vivian (Edward) TORBAY, FROM TOR ABBEY SANDS. Tinted lithograph. Drawn by T.C. Dibdin from a sketch by E. Vivian. On stone by E. Gauci. Size approx. 8" x 12", plus margins. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart, c1841. £48.00
    A view twards Torbay with ships in the middle ground, and women standing by a fence in the foreground.


  123. Dibdin (T.C) and Vivian (Edward) TORQUAY, FROM PARK HILL. Tinted lithograph. Drawn by T.C. Dibdin from a sketch by E. Vivian. On stone by E. Gauci. Size approx. 8" x 11", plus margins. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart, c1841. £55.00
    A very attractive view showing sailing ships in the harbour, with men in the foreground.


  124. 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. £45.00
    Includes list of satisfied customers who had the range installed.

    AQUATINTS & LITHOGRAPHS

  125. Haseler (H), Cornish (H), Rowe (G) and others VIEWS IN SOUTH DEVON. A volume so titled with 17 lithographed plates, two are in duplicate, and 17 aquatint views, 7 are hand coloured the rest are sepia, one of the coloured plates has been trimmed and mounted onto a blank sheet, and one of the coloured plates is a duplicate of one of the sepia. Oblong 8vo, early half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, leather label on spine, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing, mainly to margins. 1818 - 1830. £420.00
    The aquatints are from Haseler's Scenery on the Southern Coast of Devonshire See Somers Cocks. Devon Topographical Prints.... No S.51. Includes the set of lithographs from Haseler's Four Views of Sidmouth Devonshire, Somers Cocks. No S.68.
    The views include:- Exmouth, Sidmouth, Torquay, Shaldon, Dawlish, Mamhead, and Budleigh Salterton.
    With the bookplates of William Park and T.N. Brushfield to front endpaper and pastedown.


  126. Hawkins (G), Lith. ILFRACOMBE FROM HILLSBOROUGH Lithograph, size 9" x 12", plus margins. Published by J. Banfield, c1837. £32.00
    Shows view across the bay with Lantern Hill in middle distance, sheep on rocks in foreground.


  127. Holsworthy, Bradford, Milton Damerell, Pancrasweek and Bradworthy PARTICULARS, WITH PLANS AND CONDITIONS of About 3,100 Acres of the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope's Freehold Estates Situate in the above Parishes, comprising "Henscott Barton," "Milton Town," "Soldon Barton," "Soldon Cross," "North Arscott," "Hole," "Greyland," "Virworthy," "Lutson," "Virworthy Mill," "Lufflands," "Instaple," "Newlands," and "Little Instaple," and several Small Holdings and Valuable Accommodation Lands, To be offered for Sale by Public Auction by Messrs Kivell & Harris, In the Town Hall, Holsowrthy, On Thursday, June 29th, 1911. Folio, original wraps, 26pp, 17 coloured folding plans, and 5 photographic illustrations on 4 sheets, shaken, pages loosening, wraps slightly ragged. 1911. £96.00

  128. Ilfracombe REMINISCENCES OF ILFRACOMBE 18 vignette letter sheets, sm. 8vo, each with blank adjoining leaf, bound in blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to front board. Size of engraved view approx. 2" x 3". 1860-4. £65.00
    The vignettes are all of Ilfracombe and are by Rock & Co.


  129. King (Daniel) Sculpt, Newcourt (Richard) Delin. EXONIENSIS ECCLESIAE CATH. FACIES AUSTRALIS Etching, engraved surface 7" x 13", coat of arms and dedication to Solomon Bolton in corner. Ragged along most of top edge, affecting title. c1665. £10.00
    Somers Cox 'Devon Topographical Prints' no. 784


  130. Little, Photographer, Exeter PHOTOGRAPH fine view of a group of two women and three men, with dogs, in front of a bell tent pitched on a sandy area, one man with shotgun. Size 7" x 9", mounted on board with Little's gold stamps and label on verso. Surface of paper scratched away along about " scratch in sky area, mount rubbed. c1900. £8.00

  131. Longdown, near Exeter BILLS of Wm. Ley, for repair work done at 'Longdoon', Feb.- May 1857, and Feb. - May 1858. Two sm. 8vo. sheets, folds. 1857-8. £8.00
    Includes 'throwing timber', 'self and son about the stares casing' etc.


  132. Plymouth PHOTOGRAPHS of Red Devon cattle by Hawkings of Plymouth, presumably taken at a show. Size approx. 4" x 6", mounted on thick card, two with Hawkings name. Two show bulls held by owner, onlookers, one a bull alone. One image faded. c1900. £15.00

  133. Rowe (G) Pub WATERS MEET, LYNMOUTH Lithograph from drawing by G. Rowe. Engraved surface approx. 6" x 8". Shows Lyndale Cottage. A few small foxing spots in margins. c1835. £16.00
    See Somers Cocks's Devon Topographical Prints No 1539.


  134. Salmon (J) LYNTON & LYNMOUTH 16 Views. Booklet of sepia views in buff borders, on glossy paper. In buff wraps with oval cut-out. Sold by Richards, Tobacconist, Lynmouth. Back wrap slightly water-stained at top. c1910. £10.00

  135. Sidmouth TRANSFER of a Mortgage of a Dwellinghouse in Sidmouth, James Pady, Yeoman, William Rugg, Chairmaker to Abraham Ffollett, Mercer. 3 large vellum sheets, browned.... together with... Lease for a year relating to the same property, on smaller vellum sheet. 1800. £12.00

  136. Sidmouth, Upton Pyne MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT Revd. John Bradford of Upton Pyne and Elizabeth Cooke daughter of Revd. George Cooke of Sidmouth. Three large vellum sheets, four wax seals, engraved heading. Spotted on the outside where titled. 1763. £18.00

  137. Spreat (W) DARTINGTON CHURCH. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins. Printed by C. Hulmandel. c1842. £22.00
    In the lower left hand corner are 2 men one of whom is pointing to the church. There is part of a house to the right of the church.


  138. Spreat (W) DARTMOUTH CHURCH. From the Organ Gallery. (interior view) Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 9" x 6", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. Printed by C. Hulmandel. c1842. £11.00

  139. Spreat (W) MORETON CHURCH. Lithotint from Nature by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 8", on India paper, large margins. C. Hulmandel's Patent. c1842. £22.00
    A view of the church looking across the graveyard.


  140. Spreat (W) OTTERY CHURCH, NORTH EAST VIEW. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 9", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. [C. Hulmandel, Printer.] c1842. £22.00
    With a hedge in front of the church.


  141. Spreat (W) PLYMPTON ST MARY CHURCH. Lithotint from Nature by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 8", on India paper, large margins. C. Hulmandel's Patent. c1842. £22.00
    With a man, leaning on a wall in the central foreground talking to a woman.


  142. Spreat (W) STOKE GABRIEL CHURCH. Lithotint from Nature by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 6" x 8", on India paper, large margins. C. Hulmandel's Patent. c1842. £22.00
    An attractiive view showing the river in the foreground two rowing boats, a man standing holding padlles, an emptiy boat on the shore and a sailing boat further along the river.


  143. Spreat (W), Pub. TEIGNMOUTH The Den, Looking South. Tinted lithograph, size 7" x 13", plus margins. Shows bathing machines on beach, couple in a carriage in foreground, tall flagpole-type structure on lawn, The Ness in distance. Sky area spotty. c1850. £50.00

    Spreat's Churches of Devon
    I HAVE SEVERAL OTHERS IN STOCK

    Please let me know if there are any you require.


  144. Tavistock ENGINEER'S DRAWING titled 'Grinder with 24" Rolls', with stamp of Joseph Mathews & Co, Tavistock Iron Works. Two fine drawings on one sheet of Whatman paper size 23" x 37", scale " to one foot. In ink and four colours of wash, horizontal and vertical sections of wheel and machinery in building, a few notes in ink, each drawing approx. 15" high. Signed CJM. In excellent condition. c1870. £75.00

  145. Tavistock Markets Act 1859 BYE LAWS made pursuant to the Tavistock Markets Act 1869. Folio sheet printed on one side only, in five columns, signed by the Superintendent, and 'The Duke of Bedford, Proprietor' written in the same hand in margin. 1859. £35.00
    Issued to a butcher's shop, although the proprietor is not named.


  146. Tiverton HUNTING DIARY with the bookplate of Gilbert J. Acland Troyte. 2 vols., half red morocco, covering 1911-1921 (no entries 1914-18), and 1925-1949. Pages printed with headings for 'Date', 'Hounds', 'Meet', 'Remarks'. Written in a small neat hand, with approx. 8-10 lines of 'Remarks' for each meet. Approx. 30 completed leaves have been partly torn out at end of vol. I. Upwards of 500 pages in all in the two volumes. 1911-49. £100.00
    Hounds include Sir J. Amory's Harriers, East Stert, Ashford Valley Harriers, Tiverton.


  147. Trewman (R) Pub. TREWMAN'S EXETER FLYING-POST or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp. 1838. £14.00
    Contains report of meeting of Devon Agricultural Society, Exeter Theatre etc., adverts. for auction sales of Cockwood Estate, Paper Mills at Barnstaple etc.


  148. Trewman (R) Pub. TREWMAN'S EXETER FLYING-POST or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser. June 15, 1837. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp. 1837. £14.00
    Includes adverts for sale of Torbay House, part of Manor of Brixham, Downe Hall Mansion, Elme Cottage, Babbicombe.


  149. Widworthy Court Estate PARTICULARS WITH PLANS, & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE WIDWORTHY COURT ESTATE Comprising 18 Valuable Farms With Superior Farmhouses and Homesteads.... situated in the Parishes of Offwell, Colyton, Dalwood, and Shute. To be Sold by Auction by Messrs. W.R.J. Greenslade & Co. At the Assembly Rooms, Dolphin Hotel, Honiton, On Saturday, June 28th, 1919. Folio, 12 photographic illusts, 47pp, original card covers, dusty and partly waterstained, staples rusty, rust marks to foot of a couple of leaves, lacks plans from pocket in rear, loose in case. 1919. £25.00

  150. Williams (C.F) IN THE GUARD ROOM, BERRY POMEROY CASTLE Lithographed by W. Gauci from a drawing by C.F. Williams, size of engraved surface approx. 11" x 8", plus large margins. Published by P. Hannaford, Hight St, Exeter: c1840. £35.00
    Depicts a view looking though a large ivy covered arch with a man reclining.


  151. Williams (C.F) THE GATEWAY, BERRY POMEROY CASTLE Lithographed by W. Gauci from a drawing by C.F. Williams, size of engraved surface approx. 7" x 11", plus large margins. Published by P. Hannaford, Hight St, Exeter: c1840. £45.00
    A romantic view of the gateway and the ivy-covered ruin of the castle beyond, framed in trees, with horses feeding on lawn in foreground, figures walking through archway.


  152. Williams (C.F) THE STATE ROOMS, BERRY POMEROY CASTLE Lithographed by W. Gauci from a drawing by C.F. Williams, size of engraved surface approx. 11" x 8", plus large margins. Published by P. Hannaford, Hight St, Exeter: c1840. £40.00
    A view of the inside of the ruin showing ivy-covered walls, with a man and dog in foreground.


  153. Williams (C.F) VIEW FROM THE LIME KILN, BERRY POMEROY CASTLE. Lithographed by W. Gauci from a drawing by C.F. Williams, size of engraved surface 8" X 11, plus large margins. Published by P. Hannaford, Hight St, Exeter: c1840. £45.00
    A romantic view of the castle ruins with two figures looking up to it.


    Devon Acts

  154. Exeter AN ACT for enabling the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the City of Exeter to sell Two Houses in the Parish of Saint Stephen's, Exeter, vested in them, and to purchase other Estates for the Performance of the charitable Purposes of the Will of Joan Tuckfield. 6pp. Stapled. 1831. £12.00

  155. Exeter Debts AN ACT for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the City and County of Exeter. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 21pp. 1773. £15.00

  156. Exmouth & Budleigh Salterton Water AN ACT for better supplying with Water Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, and the adjoining Districts within the Parishes of Littleham and Exmouth, Withycombe Raleigh, and East Budleigh.... 8pp. 1864. £10.00

  157. Huntsham Court AN ACT for authorizing the Trustees of the Will of the Reverend Edward Berkeley Troyte, Doctor of Laws, deceased, to pull down the existing Family Mansion of Huntsham Court, and to build a new Family Mansion on a fresh Site on Part of the Estates subject to the Limitations of the same Will, situate in the Parish of Huntsham.... 30pp. 1866. £14.00

  158. North Devon AN ACT to enable Her Majesty's Paymaster General to repay to the North Devon Railway and Dock Company a Sum of Three thousand Pounds. 3pp. 1862. £8.00

  159. Ogwell AN ACT to Impower Sir John Molesworth, Baronet, and Joseph Moyle, Esquire.... to raise the several Sums, in the said Indenture mentioned.... and pay the same, as well as the rest of the personal Estate of Hugh Gregor, deceased, to such Person as Jane Gregor, an Infant, shall marry.... 11pp., woodcut headpiece with pelican. 1756. £16.00

  160. Plymouth Roads AN ACT to explain and amend Two Acts, made in the Tenth and Twelfth Years of His present Majesty's Reign, for paving, lighting, and watching, the Town of Plymouth, in the County of Devon; and for regulating the Carmen and Porters within the said Town. Cover leaf + 21pp.... together with.... AN ACT to enable certain Persons, during the Minority of Sir John Saint Aubyn, to renew and grant Leases of Lands.... all at Plymouth Dock.... 16pp. Recent paper boards. 1774. £26.00
    Includes 7p. Schedule listing property owners with name of Field, House, etc.


  161. Stover AN ACT to authorize the sale of the Pictures bequeathed by the Will of the late Edward Adolphus twelfth Duke of Somerset deceased as heirlooms and to declare the trusts of the procees of such sale.... 22pp. 1889. £18.00
    Includes a 4pp schedule of the paintings.


  162. Sutton Harbour Improvement Company AN ACT to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to enter into and carry into effect agreements.... 3pp. 1876. £8.00

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    Dorset
  163. Corfe area DIARY of a young solicitor, 6th October, 1862 - 1868. 63p, folio, in an very untidy and hasty hand, no wraps, sewing of sections loose. Contemporary photograph of husband, wife, and two teenage daughters at their front door pasted to first page. The diary covers a long period and is not regularly kept up. He recounts his struggles in the law 'Had the opportunity of defending a youth from charge of stealing. Feel averse to appearing publicly but that I must....', occasionally cases he is involved in, Liberal politics 'Attended meeting of the Liberal Committee. Was appointed corresponding Secretary....', the Sunday school, resolutions to be a better Christian, his family, visits to the theatre, children's illnesses, general soul-searching, etc. Places mentioned include Corfe (which he goes to on foot), Poole, Bournemouth. 1862-68. £95.00
    'Called in company with Mr. Waring when we were introduced to Sir I. Guest to whom Mr W(aring) sd. he had purposed offering hself. to the Poole Constituency in the event of a dissolution....' This long report of the conversation with Sir Ivor Guest is initialled 'J.H'.


  164. Dorchester MANOR OF FROOME WHITFIELD Abstract of Title of William Lewis Henning to parts and parcels of.... the Manor of Froome Whitfield.... and also to Friary Mills, Mill ham, and Premises situate in the Parish of St Peters in the same County. 13 sheets 16" x 13", neatly written, fastened with tape at corner. Outer sheet with title dusty and worn. n.d. c1860. £26.00

  165. Fordington, Dorchester AUCTION POSTER. To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Baker & Ensor, at the King's Arms Inn, Dorchester, On Wednesday the 4th of October.... All that convenient Dwelling House.... also a Policy of Assurance.... Size approx. 20" x 16", folded. G. Pulman, Printer and Bookseller, Market-Place, Crewkerne, 1854. £18.00

  166. Frith & Co. SWANAGE Six loose photographs of Swanage, plus one of Corfe Castle and one of Studland Bay. Size 5" x 8", matt paper, numbered and titled in white in plate. c1890. £14.00
    Includes the Globe, good view of bay with bathing huts, Old Harry, etc.


  167. Haselbury Bryan POSTER advertising sale by auction at the Antelope Inn, on Friday, March 6th, 1863, of a Freehold Estate comprising 5 lots. With Schedule of house and lands giving Quality, Quantity etc. Size 24" x 18", folded. Very slight wear at one fold. 1863. £14.00

  168. Lyme Regis QUEEN VICTORIA The Funeral, Saturday, February 2nd, 1901. Notice of Services at the Parish Church. 1p sm. 8vo, black border, blank adjoining leaf, folds. 1901. £8.00

  169. Portland etc. THE ALBUM OF WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 22 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into sm. 4to boards, corners of boards chipped away, split down one fold across a double page view, repaired on verso. c1890. £10.00

  170. Sherborne BOND of Joseph Pitman of Oborne, Fellmonger, to Samuel Scott of Sherborne. 3p, sm. folio, wax seal. Refers to land at Long Street. 1817. £12.00

  171. Sixpenny Handley PARTICULARS of a Valuable Freehold Estate Farm and Estate.... known as "Upwood Farm," in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Folio, folded, 4 pages, 2 of which are blank. April, 1881. £10.00

  172. Sturminster Newton STURMINSTER FRIENDLY SOCIETY H. Legg in account with the Sturminster Friendly Society. Printed sheet, 4to, folds, showing debit and credit account, present funds etc., and 'Payments to members', listing sums paid to 18 named members. 1853-4. £24.00

  173. Sturminster Newton TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by T. Curme.... at the Swan Inn, in Sturminster Newton.... All Those Two Meadows of Pasture Land, Called Breach, Situated in Sturminster Newton aforesaid, and held under the Right Hon. Lord Rivers, for three good lives....' Handbill, size 9" x 7", with some manuscript notes in margins re. purchase. Traces of folds. Frampton, Printer, Dorchester, 1811. £26.00

  174. Swanage CONVEYANCE OF LAND in Swanage along Ullwell Road. John Earl of Eldon to Joseph Parsons and Charles Hayter, Builders. 3 vellum sheets, approx size 28" x 23", with coloured sketch map, approx. 9" x 18" on the first sheet showing the land and the names of the adjoining owners. Signed, with wax seals. 1897. £16.00

  175. Swanage MORTGAGE of the Advowsons of the Church and Rectory of Sandwich otherwise Swanwyche and the vicarage and church of the Parish of Worth Matravers, John Calcraft to Thomas Williams. On vellum, 22" x 29", 2 wax seals, vellum browned, stained on verso. 1789. £16.00

  176. Welch & Sons Pub. VIEWS OF WEYMOUTH PORTLAND & DISTRICT 46 photos., on 30 pages, some being small views inset in full page ones. 1p. text and brief description below plates. Gilt boards, slightly darkened. c1900. £16.00
    Includes Stone Quarry, Bow & Arrow Castle, H.M.S Furious, Upwey etc.


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    Essex
  177. Bacon's ESSEX County Map and Guide. 22pp. guide, and map folding into sm. 8vo wraps showing cyclists. c1910. £8.00

  178. Burnham, Churchend ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXXI, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Roads and water-features coloured, some fields shaded, four notes of tithes writted in red ink. 1880. £26.00

  179. Canewdon, Rochford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXX, 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 areas colour-washed. Slight browning of linen along one fold. 1880. £30.00

  180. Chipping Ongar, Blackmore ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LI, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Some fields shaded pink. Slight browning of linen along one fold, map surface rather grubby. 1881. £22.00

  181. Fifield MAP AND SURVEY of Primrose Farm at Fifield in Essex belonging to Peter Megiggin drawn by N. Hartland at Cirencester 1806. Manuscript plan in full colour, on paper size 17" x 11", showing farmhouse and fields, orchard, ponds, buildings in Fifield, with church in elevation, hedges with gates and trees drawn in elevation. With two small reference tables 'Premises' listing acreage of fields, and 'Remarks' listing numbers of different types of tree. Decorative calligraphic title, decorative rule and compasses. With original tissue guard, and separate survey sheet with many dotted lines showing measurements of fields, scale down the side. June 13th 1806. £140.00

  182. Hadleigh PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SEVERAL MESSUAGES AND COTTAGES, WITH LARGE GARDENS..... To be Sold by Auction by Alfred Rodd.... on Saturday, June 13th, 1868, at the Crown Inn, Rayleigh.... Folio, 5pp, docket title, folded. 1868. £16.00

  183. Halstead PROBATE of the will of Daniel Davey of Halstead, Shoemaker. Vellum sheet with printed certificate and papered seal attached. 1855. £10.00

  184. Little Chishall ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. VII, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. The printed surface covers only a small corner of Essex, over about 3 sections of the paper. 1879. £14.00

  185. Ramsey, Harwich ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. XXI, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Slight browning of linen along one fold. Electrotype 1882. £22.00

  186. South Benfleet ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXXVII, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Roads and water-features coloured, a few fields around Thundersley colour-washed. Slight browning of linen along one fold, slightly affecting edges of some sections. 1876. £28.00
    Covers Bowers Gifford, Hadleigh, Smallgains Creek.


  187. Southminster, Creeksea ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXIII, 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. Slight browning of linen along one fold. 1880. £26.00

  188. Stondon Massey, Pilgrim's Hatch ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LIX, 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. Large area around Navestock shaded green. 1881. £28.00

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    Gloucestershire
  189. Baring Bros. (Manager) GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL PAGEANT At Cheltenham. Book of Words. 81pp., 4to, decorative coloured wraps, slightly foxed. Loosely inserted are cuttings and actual photos. of Gloucester's 1927 pageant. 1908. £9.00

  190. Cheltenham CHELTENHAM AND DISTRICT LIGHT RAILWAY Bundle of printed and type-written documents relating to the opposition to the scheme. Includes: ORDER authorising the construction of a Light Railway from Cheltenham to Cleeve Hill, 50pp, sm. folio; ORDER authorising the construction of Light Railways at Cheltenham and Charlton Kings, 7pp, sm. folio; set of seven plans in ink, held together at corner, each size 7" x 15", showing course of railway; In the Matter of the Cheltenham and District Light Railway (Extensions), Brief to Oppose, 26pp, typewritten; bundle of signatures of local businesses etc., and covering letters from people opposed to plan; Epitome of newspaper cuttings etc. 1896-1904. £50.00

  191. Chester-Master (G) SOME GLOUCESTERSHIRE HOUSES 24 views from pen drawings, printed on heavy-weave paper, loosely inserted in printed paper boards with ties, list of houses pasted inside front board. 1916. £35.00
    Includes Syston, Hatherop, Kingsweston, Sherborne etc.


  192. Cirencester PHOTOGRAPHS 4 photographs mounted on card, two 4" x 6", showing Market Place, Cirencester, shop signs clearly legible, people in front of Wood's Tobacconists, and Entrance to Park, Cirencester, on verso are two smaller photos, one a reduced version of first photo, the other a view in Cirencester park. c1890. £12.00

  193. English Bicknor DEED to lead the Uses of fines, James McCormick, Tailor, of Oxford, and Richard Radnor of Coleford, Blacksmith, to Henry Morse. Refers to messuage and land in English Bicknor, including orchard, coppice, land called the Great and Little Levelling. Large vellum, sheet, 4 wax seals. 2 fines on small vellum sheets loosely inserted. 1804. £18.00

  194. English Bicknor LEASE FOR A YEAR of a third share in a messuage, orchard, meadow called the Levelling, six acres bordering the River Wye, etc., John Hatton, Coalminer, and Margaret his wife (one of the three heirs of Richard Tudor) to Richard Radnor of Lidbrook, Blacksmith. Vellum, 20" x 27", 2 wax seals. 1794. £18.00

    FOREST OF DEAN MINE

  195. Forest of Dean LEASE FOR A YEAR of one eighth share in that Stone Coal Work commonly known by the name or names of The Young Colliers and Starkey being in the Forest of Dean.... Philip Hatton of Ruardean, Coalminer, to George Morse of Lydbrook, Bargeowner. Vellum, size 16" x 21", small waterstain 2" along one fold. 1792. £40.00

  196. Gloucester Musical Festival 1850 A SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC To be Introduced in the Course of Divine Service, on Tuesday Morning, September 10, 1860, at The Cathedral. The Sermon will be Preached by The Reverend Townshend Selwyn. 8pp, yellow wraps.... Together with.... Wickwar Concert April 17th, 1873, Programme. 3pp, 4to, creased, small hole at fold. 1850. £10.00

  197. Guiting Power LEASE TO VEST POSSESSION between John Kilmaster of Peglesworth, and Thomas Kilmaster, of a message at Guiting. Vellum, 13" x 19", good wax seal with (Roman?) man's head, engraved initial letter with coat of arms. Good clean condition. 1744. £20.00

  198. Hearne (T) BEVERSTONE CASTLE Copperplate engraving, by W. Byrne after drawing by T. Hearne. Engvd. surface 7" x 10", inscribed to Michael Hicks Esq. Pub. W. Byrne 1778. £38.00

  199. 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. £22.00

  200. Lidbrook ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT for the sale and purchase of a Cottage situate at Lidbrook, Thomas Morse of Hereford, Druggist, to James Young of Lidbrook, Butcher. 2p, sm. folio. 1837. £8.00

  201. Mickleton PROBATE of the Will of Emlin Holland, widow of George Holland. Large vellum sheet with small printed certificate attached, crumbly papered seal. Refers to her share in the Manor of Castlett and tenements in Fulbrook, Oxfordshire. 1767. £16.00

  202. Nailsworth Brewery Company TRUST DEED The Nailsworth Brewery Company Limited to Sir W.H. Marling, Bart., and others. Printed indenture, 28pp, 4to, printed wraps, vertical fold, front wrap brittle and split down fold, repaired with archival tape.... together with Draft Conveyance of The New Inn, Littledean, W.L. Barnard and others to The Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd., 1922, and a small bundle of related correspondence. 1896 & 1922. £40.00
    With Schedules giving particulars of Freeholds (public houses in Wootton, Dursley, Avening, Nailsworth etc, particulars of leaseholds, and First Mortgage Debenture.


  203. St. Briavels ABSTRACT of a Mortgage in Fee for œ1200 of the Willesbury Estate in St. Briavels. 12pp. folio 1860. £8.00
    Details deeds etc. from 1845.


    Gloucestershire Acts

  204. Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway AN ACT to empower the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Company to abandon certain of their authorised railways.... 29pp. First leaf with foxing spots. 1887. £14.00

  205. Birdlip Hill and Crickley Hill AN ACT for more effectually repairing, widening, and improving the Roads from the City of Gloucester to the Top of Birdlip Hill and from the Foot of the said Hill to the Top of Crickley Hill.... 32pp. 1806. £12.00

  206. Cirencester Road AN ACT for Repairing the Roads leading from Cirencester Town's-End to Saint John's Bridge in the County of Gloucester. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 14pp. 1727. £16.00

  207. Forest of Dean Poor AN ACT to provide for the Relief of the Poor in the Forest of Dean and other Extra-parochial Places in and near the Hundred of Saint Briavel's in the County of Gloucester. 6pp. 1842. £14.00

  208. Forest of Dean Railway AN ACT for authorizing the South Wales Railway Company to deviate the Line of their Railway in the Forest of Dean.... 10pp, first page slightly creased, with a few spots. 1853. £15.00

  209. Gloucester Streets and Market Places AN ACT for taking down several Buildings, and inlarging the Streets and Market Places in the City of Gloucester. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 14pp. 1750. £16.00

  210. Great Washbourne AN ACT for rendering valid the Award of the Commissioner, and other Proceedings.... under an Act intituled An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Great Washbourne in the County of Gloucester, as to certain Lands allotted under the same to the late Henry Fowke Esquire. 8pp. 1828. £15.00

  211. Moreton Valance and Standish AN ACT for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Moreton Valence, and in the Hamlet or Tithing of Putloe in the Parish of Standish.... 18pp. 1818. £18.00

  212. Naunton AN ACT For Dividing and Inclosing the open and common Fields, Hills, Downs, Pastures and commonable Lands, within the Parish of Naunton.... 27pp. 1778. £25.00

  213. Severn Bridge AN ACT for building a Bridge over the River Severn at or near to the Mythe Hill, within the Parish and near the Town of Tewkesbury.... to the opposite Side of the said River, in the Parish of Bushley in Worcester; and for making convenient Roads and Avenues to communicate with such Bridge.... 64pp. 1823. £18.00

  214. Sharpness New Docks &c. AN ACT for conferring additional powers on the Midland Railway Company in connexion with their Undertaking and the Undertakings of the Sharpness new Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Railway Company and the Severn Bridge Railway Company.... 58pp. 1880. £14.00

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    Hampshire and Isle of Wight
  215. Ampfield, Otterbourne ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLIX, Scale 6" to 1 mile, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Roads and water-features hand-coloured. c1910. £20.00
    Shows Cranbury Park, Hursley Park, Berry Down etc.


  216. Basingstoke POSTER advertising sale by Auction of Very Extensive Corn & Seed Stores, Offices, Mill & Machinery.... 15 Horse-power Horizontal Steam Engine, Boiler, Valuable Stock in Trade.... Printed in black and red, size 38" x 24", folds. 1891. £18.00
    The firm was Raynbird, Caldecott, Bawtree & Dowling Ltd.


  217. 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.... 18th March, 1890.... 4pp., folio, folds. 1890. £20.00
    Gives situation of coppice, number of feet etc.


  218. Basingstoke, Midgham, Aldermaston, Winchfield PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of 722 Timber Trees, comprising 32 Felled Beech Trees, 649 Standing Oak Trees.... to be Sold by Auction.... 22nd March, 1893.... 4pp., folio, folds. 1893. £20.00
    The timber was on the Hackwood Estate.


  219. Beaulieu, Exbury ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXI, Scale 6" to 1 mile, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Roads, sea, water-features and main buildings hand-coloured, area around Exbury colour-washed and outlined in pink. First edition 1871. £28.00

  220. Brockenhurst, Norley Wood ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXX, Scale 6" to 1 mile, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Area round Passmore Farm (including Buckland Rings) outlined in various colours, and numbered 1-10, presumably lots for auction sale. c1910. £20.00
    Shows Brockenhurst Park, Beaulieu Heath, etc.


  221. Broughton, Mottisfont ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX etc., Scale 6" to 1 mile, composite map, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 36" x 36", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Various areas outlined in either red or blue and marked neatly with dates (presumably relating to sale). c1910. £28.00
    Shows West Tytherley, King's Sombourne, Houghton, etc.


  222. Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Various areas outlined in red, some colour-shaded. Slightly grubby. c1910. £20.00
    Covers Rownhams, Allbrook, Bassett Wood.


  223. Gosport TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION By H. Hicks at the India Arms Inn.... Lot 1. All that Messuage or Tenement, with its Appurtenances, being No. 10, situate on the East Side of King Street, in Gosport.... The Premises are Freehold and respectably tenanted. Handbill, size 17" x 11", listing 8 Lots, with occupiers. Prices realised and name of purchaser entered in manuscript. Traces of folds. Johnson, Printer, Gosport, 1808. £50.00
    Includes houses in King Street, Sea Horse Street.


  224. Hurn, near Christchurch FOR SALE BY AUCTION by Mr. Cranston, Sen., At the King's Arms Hotel, In Christchurch.... A Freehold Messuage, Blacksmith's Shop, Sundry Out-buildings, and several small Inclosures of meadow.... Handbill, size 11" x 9", attractively printed on pale green paper. Attached to the corner on verso with spot of glue are 4p. manuscript conditions of sale. 1828. £32.00

  225. Mottisfont, Broxmore ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet No. XLVIII/LXXIII, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into slightly chipped 8vo paper wraps. Roads railways and water-features coloured, some buildings coloured red. One arearound Lower Eldon Farm colour-washed. 1878. £30.00
    Covers Sherfield English, Timsbury, Mottisfont Abbey.


  226. Racing MADDINGTON RACES, 1805 Stockbridge Course. Col. Kingscote, Steward. 4to sheet printed on both sides with details of subscribers, stakes etc., third day to be arranged. Lists Members (headed by Prince of Wales) for November, 1804. H. Reynell, Picadilly, Pr. 1805. £40.00
    'The rules of this club are similar to those of Bibury'.


  227. Ringwood ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXX etc., Scale 6" to 1 mile, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Two small areas outlined in colour. Some slight discoloration of linen at one fold. c1910. £20.00
    Shows Somerley Park, Brockford Common, etc.


  228. Southampton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXV, Scale 6" to 1 mile, made up of quarter sheets, overall size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. Area round Infirmary and Weston Park outlined in colour, with some neat notes re. sale in 1909. c1911. £24.00
    Covers area from Redbridge to Bitterne.


  229. Stanford's Series of Popular Maps MAP OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, Shewing the Various Roads and list of The Most Remarkable Places of Interest. Folding hand coloured engraved map, scale 5 miles to 4", small split at one fold, folding to 8vo into original decorative printed card covers. c1870. £20.00

    Hampshire Acts

  230. Bier AN ACT to enable the Lord Bishop of Winchester to grant Leases of Lands..... for disafforesting the Forest of South, otherwise East Bere.... and for inclosing the open Commonable Lands.... 4pp. 1815. £10.00

  231. Crookham and Ewshott AN ACT for improving Lands within the several Tithings of Crookham and Ewshott in the Parish of Crondall.... 34pp. 1829. £18.00

  232. Husborne Tarrant AN ACT for carrying into Execution an Agreement entered into by Sir James Wright Baronet, for Sale of the Manor of Husborne Tarrant, and several Woodlands and Hereditaments in the County of Southampton, to Joseph Portal Esquire.... 48pp., including 2p. Schedule. 1778. £22.00

  233. Saint Lawrence Wooton AN ACT for inclosing certain Commonable and Waste Lands in the Parish of St. Lawrence Wootton.... 28pp. 1829. £17.00

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    Herefordshire
  234. Bromyard AUCTION POSTER. Important Leashold Property Near Bromyard, To Be Sold by Auction, by Mr S. Broad, At the Falcon Inn, in the Town of Bromyard, On Tuesday, the 25th day of July, 1865.... Size approx. 22" x 17", printed on one side only, folded, some light off-setting. Printed by F. & A. Merrick's General Printing Office, 14, High Street, Hereford. 1865. £16.00
    Lists 8 lots with details of the land concerned.


  235. Lugwardine AUCTION POSTER. To be Sold by Auction by Mr. O. Shellard On Thursday, the 25th day of June, 1896.... at the Herefordshire Law Society's Room, East St, Hereford.... Freehold and Copyhold Property.... Size approx. 33" x 22", printed on one side only, folded, short split at one fold. 1896. £18.00
    Lists 7 lots with details of property, including 'Jessamine House'.


  236. Volunteer Inn, Marden AUCTION POSTER. Mr O. Shellard is instructed to Sell by Auction at the Black Swan Hotel, in the City of Hereford, On Wednesday, 20th of April, 1881.... In one Lot, All that long-established and well known Inn, called "The Volunteer".... Size approx. 22 " x 17", printed on one side only. 1881. £17.00

  237. Wessington Court Estate AUCTION POSTER. Woolhope and Sollershope, Herefordshire. Annual Coppice Sale.... At the Crown Inn, Woolhope, on Thursday, December 9th, 1869.... Size approx. 20" x 15", printed on one side only, folded. 1869. £18.00

  238. Woolhope AUCTION SALE. Sale of Coppice on Lady Littleton's Estate, To Be Sold by Auction, by Mr R.Q. Gange at the Crown Inn, Woolhope, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1873.... Size approx. 17" x 11", printed on one side only, folded. 1873. £16.00

  239. Woolhope AUCTION SALE. To Be Sold by Auction, by Mr R.Q. Gange At the Crown Inn, Woolhope, on Tuesday, December 22, 1874.... The Fallage of 10 Acres of Coppice Wood.... Size approx. 20" x 15", printed on one side only, folded. 1874. £15.00

    For a further selection of Herefordshire Books see Herefordshire - Addenda


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    Hertfordshire
  240. Amwell PARTICULARS of a Very Valuable Freehold Property.... 'Amwell House', A Spacious Residence.... Beautiful Pleasure Grounds, and Rich Park-Like Meadow Land.... Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Norton, Hoggart & Trist at The Mart, opposite the Bank of England on Friday June the 17th, 1864. Folio, 6pp, plus folding map. Second Edition, including Memorandum and Conditions of Sale. 1864, £18.00

  241. Hitchin PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Following Copyhold Estates, which will be sold by Auction, by John Stevens, on Tuesday the 8th of August, 1786.... in Four Lots. Single leaf, printed on one side only, size 13" x 8", traces of folds. Memorandum for sale of Lot 4 completed in MS on verso. 1786. £75.00
    Sale included 'A Genteel Brick and Sash'd Dwelling House.... a large Shop in Front... a Yard neatly Paved, two small Gardens, a large Brew-house.... situated in Bancroft Street' and seven messuages in Lyles Row. Gives names of occupiers and rent.


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    Huntingdon
  242. Godmanchester TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by Messrs. Jenkinson and Lovell.... 5th day of October, 1802.... A Very Desirable Farm, comprising Seventy Three Acres and Half a Rood of Arable Land, Leys and Meadow.... Handbill, size 11" x 9", traces of folds, 'Three' has been altered to 'Two' in ink. Jenkinson, Huntingdon, Printers, 1802. £25.00

  243. Ramsey PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Freehold Estate at Ramsey, to be sold by Auction, In One Lot, by Amos Morris.... Ramsey, June 19th, 1861. 3pp., folio, paper slightly discoloured along fold, repaired split along one fold in 'Conditions of Sale'. 1861. £16.00
    Refers to the 'White Horse' public house with Brewhouse, etc., in High St.


  244. Warboys TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION By Mr. Lovell, On Monday the 3d Day of June, 1805, At the Crown Inn, in St. Ives.... The Following Estates.... Lists 20 Lots, with acreage and Occupiers. Single folio sheet, 3 folds, slightly creased at edges, manuscript notes in margins as to tenure etc., a few lots have been crossed through. 1805. £26.00
    Includes a farm at Woodhurst, a Dwelling House, 'with the Wind Mill, running Gears and Appurtenances thereto belonging' at Fenton, and lands at Bury, Ramsey, St. Ives.


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    Kent
  245. Alkham DESIRABLE FREEHOLD & COPYHOLD ESTATES Which will be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. Coleman & Elwin, the 12th day of July, 1847, At The Flying Horse Inn, In Dover, In Ten Lots. Particulars and Conditions of Sale, 3pp., folio, plus docket title on last page. First page attractively and clearly printed in a variety of type-faces. 1847. £32.00
    Lists 10 Lots, including the tenement Wolverton Court, messuage called Man Galler, cottage at Chalksole Green in the manor of Halton.


  246. Blean, Fordwich, Kent ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXV. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Some hand-shading of boundaries. Waterstaining down left-hand margin. First edition 1875, O.S. embossed stamp 1876. £28.00

  247. Bredhurst, Borden, Kent ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Some hand-shading of boundaries. First edition 1870, O.S. embossed stamp 1878. £30.00

  248. Broadstairs ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVI, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 17" plus margins. Roads and water features hand-coloured, a few plots near coast colour-washed. Linen-backed, folding into 8vo wraps. 1876. £15.00
    Covers Palm Bay, Dumpton Park, St. Peter's.


  249. Canterbury ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVI. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Some hand-shading of boundaries, certain areas in the city outlined in colour. Minor wterstain down left-hand margin. First edition 1875. £32.00

  250. Colbran's VISITORS' MAP OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS Shewing the Walks and Drives Within the Immediate Neighbourhood. ithographed plan size 20" x 23", roads, water-features and woodland hand-coloured. Folding into sm. 8vo boards with printed label, cloth boards spotty. c1850 £30.00
    Drawn by Joseph Lower, Tunbridge.


  251. Eynsford, Crockenhill ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XVII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Some hand-shading of boundaries. Area of one field neatly cut out at top left hand edge, some foxing. First edition 1870. £22.00

  252. Headcorn, Smarden ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXIII, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Roads and water features hand-coloured, area round Frittenden House and Bettenham colour-washed. Linen-backed, folding into 8vo wraps, linen darkened at horizontal folds. First edition 1876. £24.00

  253. Hothfield, Bethersden ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXIV, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Roads and water features hand-coloured, area south of Pluckley Thorne outlined and some fields shaded and numbered, probably marked out for estate sale. Linen-backed, folding into 8vo wraps, linen slightly darkened at horizontal folds. First edition 1876. £24.00

  254. Sittingbourne, Teynham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Neatly repaired 8" tear from top edge. First edition 1872, O.S. embossed stamp 1878. £30.00

  255. Sutton Valence, Grafty Green ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LIII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Some hand-shading of boundaries, two minor repaired edge tears. First edition 1875. £30.00

  256. Tonbridge ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Parts of Sheets