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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 73
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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    Bedfordshire
  1. 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.


  2. Woburn, Tring, Biggleswade ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLVI. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding to 4to. Linen backing has been folded over the edges and partly obscures the scale bar at bottom. Attractive label of James Wyld on verso. Published at The Tower of London, 1st Decr. 1834. c1850 or earlier. £45.00

  3. Windsor, Addlestone ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile, Sheet No. 269, size 13" x 19" plus wide margins. Admiralty stamp in margin. Margins slightly grubby. Minor corrections March 1914. £22.00

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    Bristol
  4. Brydges (Sir Egerton) LETTER to Sir Egerton Brydges M.P., at Lee Priory, Kent, probably from John Hey (signed 'John Hey'), dated Bristol 7th October 1814, 4p 4to, including integral address panel and postmark. Refers to the possibility that he might have offended Brydges, and apologises, and to his opinion of a poem by Raleigh. Thanks him for loan of first edition of Carew, and says he will send some pieces of poetry. 1814. £20.00
    Egerton Brydges was an editor of early English literature and genealogist. Hey died in 1815, and loosely inserted is a portrait engraving 'Rev. John Hey, Bristol'.


  5. City Library THE OLD CITY LIBRARY, BRISTOL The titles of certain early printed books, said to have been recently 'found' there, but which were never lost. 6pp., 8vo, printed wraps. Not Printed for Sale. 1899. £8.00

  6. Fishing Boat BOND of Stephen Peacock of Bristol, Fishmonger, to Mary Mead of Clifton for one hundred pounds, regarding their shares in the 'Sloop, Fishing Boat or Vessel called The Tartar of the burthen of twenty one tons now in the port of Bristol'. 3p., folio, signed by Peacock, small papered seal. 1816. £26.00
    Peacock had agreed to sell the boat to Mr. Thayer of St. George, Waterman.


  7. King Street WILL of John Potter, formerly of Kidderminster now of the City of Bristol. 2p, folio, plus blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Extracted copy. Folds, a few small edge tears. 1802. £18.00
    Leaves his messuage in King Street to his friend Mary Bowen.


  8. Saint Philip and Jacob, Saint Paul, Saint James and Bedminster Estates PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF FREEHOLD PROPERTY to be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. William Tricks, Son, & Wallop, at the White Hart Inn, Old Market Street, Bristol, on Wednesday, June 8th, 1870. Folio, 4pp folded, with the sale Agreement completed and signed by the purchaser. 1870. £14.00

  9. Sickness Club RECORD BOOK listing payment made to women for 'sickness' and 'old age', 1839-48. Cash book, 4to, full reversed calf, blind-stamped decoration, raised bands. The first section comprises 9 pages, one per year, each listing 23 women (only 2 with addresses) and columns to show payment made every month that year, the second part is a cash account, 37 double-page spreads with debit and credit, showing money received from members, sale of consols etc., and money paid out to named women for sickness, old age, and for funerals, and for collector's salary. Many blank pages. 1839-48. £70.00
    There is no clue as to the name of the society. The final note states 'Balance in hand on 16th Feb. 1848 when the Club was agreed to be dissolved. G.C.' It was no doubt a Bristol society as the addresses given are Brandon Street and Hotwell Road.


  10. Smith & Co., St. Augustine's Parade INEXPENSIVE ARTISTIC FURNITURE and Decorations, Carpets, Curtains, Linens.... Brochure on large folio sheet folded in four, illustrating 8 furnished rooms, with prices of furnishings shown. 6" tear along central fold, some edge tears, slight darkening of paper on one side. c1900. £16.00

  11. Smith & Sons REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP OF BRISTOL and Environs. Colour-printed map 14" x 18", scale 4 miles to an inch, linen-backed folding into sm 8vo cloth boards, label on front board. c1900. £15.00

  12. Tankard's Close Houses TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION On Friday, the 14th of May, 1830, At the Bank Tavern, John Street.... Shares in all those Two Freehold Messuages or Dwelling Houses.... Situate in Tankard's Close, Leading from St. Michael's Hill to Mr Tyndall's Park, Now in the occupation of James Davis and Richard Were.... Single folio sheet, folded, printed on one side, a few edge tears, attached with sealing wax to the manuscript `Conditions of Sale' with signature of the purchaser, amount. 1830. £26.00

  13. Tolzey Court and Mayors Court BAIL CERTIFICATES on paper, one approx. 6" x 8", the other slightly smaller, folds, bailing William Frampton in a case of trespass, Richard Frampton, Glover, providing bail, and the other bailing Samuel Iddens, Christopher Devonshire, Merchant, providing bail. Signed and dated, impressed stamps. 1747 & 1755. £24.00

  14. Tolzey Court BAIL CERTIFICATE bailing John Ball in a debt case, Nicholas Ablart, Merchant Taylor, and John Scott, Peruke Maker, Burgess, standing bail. On vellum, approx. 5" x 7", slight browning, red paper impressed stamps, four signatures. 1747. £18.00

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    Buckinghamshire
  15. Bourton Estate HIGHLY IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY Extending to about 1,125 acres, embracing Four Excellent Dairy and Stock Farms.... To be offered by Auction by Humbert & Flint On Thursday, October 10th, 1918.... Folio, original wraps, 11pp, large coloured folding plan. Vertical fold. 1918. £30.00

  16. Chartridge Grange PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Property known as "CHARTRIDGE GRANGE," Chartridge.... in all about 52 acres..... For Sale by Auction by Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard.... on Wednesday, June 24th, 1936. Coloured folding plan, 2 photographic illusts on one sheet, 7 + (1)pp, original printed wraps, staples rusty. 1936. £20.00

  17. Upper Winthenden OBLIGATION BOND binding William Bateman of Upper Winthenden, Servingman, and Elizabeth Bateman, Spinster, to John Morris, Cordwainer, of Piddington in Oxford, in the sum of six hundred pounds. On paper, in English, printed with manuscript inserts, signed with their marks, 2 small wax seals. Sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf. Traces of folds. 1781. £26.00

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    Cambridgeshire
  18. Cary (John) A NEW MAP OF CAMBRIDGE Divided into Hundreds, Exhibiting, Its Roads, Rivers, Parks &c. Folding engraved map, fully hand coloured. Mounted on linen, size approx. 19" x 21", folding into 12mo marbled wraps, inserted in paper-covered slipcase, rubbed at corners. 1808. £65.00

  19. Webster & Waters, Engineers BILL OF QUANTITIES for Corporation of Cambridge and The Local Board of Chisterton, New Roadway, Contract No. 3. Sm. folio, 8p. printed in cursive, prices in ink. Front wrap loose. n.d. late 19th cent. £15.00
    Includes prices for excavating, banking, metalling, granite macadam, kerbs, drains, fencing, etc.


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    Cheshire
  20. New Brighton Pier, Wallasey AN ACT for constructing a Pier at New Brighton in the County of Chester. Pages numbered 4017-4030, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1864. £11.00

  21. Hospital of St. Cross ENGRAVING Copper engraving size 8" x 10", plus margins. View shows buildings on three sides of a central green with figures. Etched by S. Middiman. Published by W. Byrne & T. Hearne, 1780. £14.00

  22. Weaver Navigation AN ACT for making the River Weaver navigable from Frodsham-bridge to Winsford-bridge in the County of Chester. 39pp, plus cover leaf.... bound with.... AN ACT to amend an Act.... for making the River Weaver navigable.... 87pp, plus cover leaf.... bound with.... AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of the River Weaver Navigation to open a more convenient communication between the said River near Frodsham Bridge and the River Mersey, near Weston Point. 100pp, plus cover leaf. With Index to the three Acts. sm 8vo., bound in full calf, chipped down spine, very rubbed at corners, front board slightly loose. Signature of W. Henry Hunter (Engineer to the Navigation) on front endpaper. 1714, 1754, 1807. Smith, Pr., Newcastle. £95.00

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    Cornwall
  23. Bake, Trewolsta LETTER dated Treviles March 5th 1770, 3p., 4to, about disputed lands (...a little lane going into the Quarry, about 20 yds of land which is part of the now my Quarry', etc.). The writer ('J.S') was probably John Sandys, and he refers to lands 'purchased... by my wife's grandfather Richd. Morshead of Sr. Walter Moyle'. Folded with address panel on verso to J. Copley. First page partly browned, not affecting legibility. 1770. £16.00
    'I have lately turned over 2 or 3 hundred deeds relating to my wife's family estates...'


  24. Baldew Mine, Kea SETT of Baldew Mine, Viscount Falmouth to Thomas Reed of Stithians. Grants right to dig for copper ore, lead ore, tin ore etc., throughout an area bounded by 'a landmark fixed up in Skits Coome near the High Way marked with a Borrier... to a Stone post fixed up near Crugigizard Burrow... all which piece of ground or sett is commonly called Baldew Mine... Paper, size 18" x 24". Signed 'Falmouth' with large wax seal, and by Reed with a smaller one. 1786. £40.00
    Viscount Falmouth was to have 1/20th of all Black Tin sold and 1/14th of copper or lead ore.


  25. Besley (H), Exeter, Publisher CORNWALL Map, size 9" x 11", linen-backed and folding into 12mo boards with label. Scale 2" = 20 miles. Inset of Scilly Isles, Polling Places, etc. Four small ink spots, some slight browning. c1860. £12.00

  26. Boscajack and Cowriggen LEASE of Boscajack and Cowriggen, Thos. Gervais of Constantine to Alice (?) and sons, of Sithney. In English on vellum, size 9" x 13", two wax seals on tags, impressed with initials 'VR'. Small tear at bottom edge near tags, held with document tape. 1558. £60.00
    The payment to be made by the tenant included a capon and a 'harvest journey' (i.e. day's work). A scarce deed from the reign of Phillip and Mary.


  27. Botallack Mine FIVE COST ACCOUNT SHEETS 1866, 1867, 1871, 1876, each 2pp., 4to, printed on thin coloured paper, folds. Gives Debit and Credit account, and Agents' Report, with details of driving etc. under the sections of the different mines 'Crowns', 'Wheal Hazard', 'Chycornish', etc. 1866-76. £65.00

    COOK'S KITCHEN TIN SALES

  28. Cook's Kitchen Mine BLACK TIN BOOK Record book of black tin sold Dec. 1850 - April 1867. 4to, size 9" x 7", 165 pages. Printed heading across each page 'Cook's Kitchen Mine Black Tin - Sold', with printed column headings for 'Date', 'Purchaser', 'Quantity', 'Price per Ton', 'Amount', 'Lord's Dues'. Some manuscript entries are divided into 'Tribute' and 'Tutwork', with totals, and there are some totals such as 'Returned from old Floors this Quarter', 'Ends Roughs not sampled as per book' 'Stamped from old Burrows', 'Sump shaft ends &c. not in Tin Book'. Rebound in recent cloth covered boards, half calf, gilt title on spine. The edges of the pages originally slightly browned by damp, and some pages worn at edge, without affecting manuscript entries, but each single leaf has been laid between sheets of Japanese conservation tissue to stabilise it. A few gatherings have recently become loose. 1850-67. £325.00
    Entries in the 'Purchasers' column include Carvedra Ho., Calenick Ho., Mellanear, Williams & Co. Hayle, Bolitho & Sons. 'The improved price of black tin in the late 1850's, largely as a result of the greatly increased tin-plate exports from Britain, brought increased dividends in established mines and another rash of interest in new ones' (D.B. Barton).


  29. Devonport to St. Germans Railway GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CORNWALL RAILWAY 2 CHAIN SURVEY 1908-10. M 247 to M 261. Volume 135. Containing sheet Nos. 1-8 inclusive. 8 hand-coloured lithograph printed sheets, each sheet mounted on linen with a single vertical fold, overall size approx. 26" x 41", recently bound in half roan, paper boards, with the gilt title from the original roan wraps laid down as a label on the front board. Size of the volume approx. 26" x 24". There are two plans of the railway line, each showing 1 mile of track, on each Sheet. Scale 2 chains to 1". Compass rose and scale bar on each sheet. Verso of maps very slightly dusty, otherwise a clean set, light waterstain to edges of a few maps, not affecting the lithographed surface. London: City of London Lithographic Co., 1908-10. £250.00
    The plans show the route of the railway from just before Devonport Station to just after St. Germans Station as far as Padbury Bridge, and include fine detailed plans of Devonport, Keyham, St. Budeaux, Saltash, St Germans stations, including the adjacent buildings, houses, signal boxes, goods sheds, cattle pens, cranes, taps, troughs, smithies, oil tanks, etc. The plans also show viaducts, bridges and their span, tunnels, parish boundaries, woodland, wells, mine shafts, quarries etc. The names of the landowners adjacent are shown with details of leases or conveyances. There are occasional later details of land transactions neatly written in red ink, up to the 1950's. The distance from Paddington is shown at quarter of a mile intervals.


  30. 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, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1865. £10.00

  31. Feock to Flushing Road AN ACT for making and maintaining a Public Road from or near Killiganoon Corner, in the Parish of Feock.... to the Village of Flushing, in the Parish of Mylor.... 40pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. Last page loose. 1815. £22.00

  32. Geological Survey ORDNANCE SURVEY comprising Sheets 335 (Trevose); 353 (Mevagissey), 322 (Boscastle); 347 (Bodmin), 336 (Camelford), 346 (Newquay), 357/360 (Isles of Scilly). Geological Survey, 7 maps, scale 1" to 1 mile, 7 items. 1960's. £32.00

  33. Germoe GRANT and Conveyance of the Great Tithes of Lower Trenall in Germoe and the Rent Charge in lieu, T.P. Tyacke, Charles Lemon, and others to Charles Kempthorne of Constantine. 2 large vellum sheets, 8 small wax seals, ink on first page slightly faded, but legible. 1859. £14.00

  34. Giddy (Davies) LETTER to John Trevenen, Mayor of Helston. 2 pages, integral address panel on verso with armorial wax seal, 'Free' postmark. Folded with docket title 'Davies Giddy abt. the Coina. Hall'. Jan. 25th, 1806. £85.00
    Says he has seen Mr Grey, and there seems to be little objection, but 'they seem disposed to insist most minutely on Terms... in the meantime he desired I would get a statement from the Gentlemen of Helston specifying the following particulars...'. He then goes on list four points, mentioning 'the small quantity of Tin actually Coin'd at Helston and from its inland situation the... impossibility of its ever becoming a principal Coinage Town' and 'the sufficiency of the Hall, intended to be built for all the purposes that can be required of it...'. He says he offered his own bond, but Mr Grey 'opined your engagement would be sufficient.' Davies Giddy later changed his name to Davies Gilbert.


  35. Grade ASSIGNMENT by way of mortgage of a tenement called Mount Batt in Grade, Thomas Stephens to Richard Johns, including lands enclosed out of wastrel ground called Gwendreath Common, with Common of Pasture, Furze, Turf and Heath in Goonhilly Down. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1847. £15.00

  36. Grade GRANT of a freehold tenement in Kugar in Grade, John Medlyn and Philippa his wife to John Randle of three acres of land, two gardens and a dwelling house at Kugar. Two vellum sheets, size 20" x 28", wax seals. Small hole where two folds meet, with loss of two words. Affixed is a certificate relative to acknowledgement of deeds by married women. 1853. £16.00
    Includes the right to take away sand and seaweed from Poltesco Cove.


  37. Heligan LETTER from Hawkins Tremayne, dated Heligan 10th Decr. 1804, to Charles Scott, Attorney, Helston. Advocates the removal of 'your late Servant Richard Johns to the parish of Helston where he will be better taken care of 'as he has no Acquaintance here... he seems in a melancholy low spirited way and he has a sore on his leg...'. 2p., 4to, folded with address panel on conjoint leaf, seal tear. 1804. £18.00
    Gives the history of Johns employment 'he worked as a labourer with a Kitchen Gardener near Plymouth, and about Xmas last he came here, and had the benefit of Mr Lewis's Kitchen for three or four months'


  38. Helston Bakers CONVICTION of Henry Rowe, Baker, for using false weights, having exposed to sale at his shop 43 three-penny loaves which were under weight. Vellum, size 8" x 13", signed by two Justices with small wax seals... together with... similar document for Ann Bath for 6 six-penny loaves. 1807. £16.00

  39. Helston COPY OF CITATION with Intimation in Helston Churchwarden Business 1775. Manuscript with docket title as above, from the Archdeacon of Cornwall requiring Tristram Johns of Helston to appear at the Parish Church of Bodmin to show cause why Bennett Jane should not be admitted Churchwarden at Helston. Oblong 4to, 18 lines, folds. Contemporary copy. 1775. £10.00
    Was the would-be Churchwarden actually 'Jane Bennett'?


  40. Helston LETTER to Rev. Sandys at St. Minver from Malders. (check) Grylls. 3p, 4to, integral address panel, Helston straight-line postmark and broken wax seal. 1791. £16.00
    Gives Sandys advice on a legal case he is undertaking and recommends a lawyer 'I would sooner retain him than any Counsel on the Circuit...'. Says Mrs Grylls has come back to 'meet Her Grace of Leeds at my Mothers and also at a Ball given by the Duke: Godolphin and the town have of course been very gay'.


  41. Helston Tithes COMPLAINT IN THE EXCHEQUER of Richard Fowler of Wendron, Clerk that he is the Proprietor of tithes for the 'corn, grain, hay, wool, lambs, milk, butter, cheese, hemp, flax, hops... honey...' for the Borough of Helston, and also for the tenement of Gwealhellis in Wendron, and that Thomas Wills and others have not paid their tithes, although they have kept 'diverse cocks, hens, geese, ducks, turkeys... which within the said time have laid diverse eggs...'. Gives long list of vegetables and fruit they have grown. 2p folio, split at fold in first sheet and hole at fold in second sheet, in blank area, just affecting a few letters of last line. n.d. c1790. £30.00

  42. Helston vagrant CONVICTION of James Stewart for wandering and begging in Helston and pretending to be a soldier. Vellum, size 10" x 15", signed by Justice with small wax seal. Ink slightly faded in places. 1811. £28.00
    His punishment was to be stripped to the waist and whipped, and then taken outside the town boundary.


  43. Kea COUNTERPART LEASE of 'all that new stamping mill commonly called... Eastern New Stamps' in Kea, for 'score and nineteen years', John Hill of Trenethick to William Dunstan of Perranaworthal. Vellum, 16" x 24". Wax seal. 1762. £40.00
    Names three 'lives'.


  44. King Edward Mine SURFACE PLAN Manuscript plan, probably a student survey, on thick cartridge paper in ink 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. With stamp of Camborne School of mines, and names of the four surveyors. 10th Feb. 1965. £45.00

  45. Launceston AN ACT for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the Borough of Dunheved, otherwise Launceston... 12pp, plus cover leaf, disbound, black letter. Act of Parliament. 1755. £17.00

  46. Launceston MORTGAGE of Hall, suite of rooms and site of Cottage at Wooda Road in the hamlet of Saint Thomas by Launceston, the Trustees of the Launceston Working Lads Temperance Brigade to Mary Ellen Mitchell. 2p on vellum. 1903. £10.00

  47. Launceston VUE DE LAUNCESTON Watercolour, size 6" x 11", plus margins, in stiff paper. View of Launceston across fields showing castle and houses. Under the border is written 'Limur Navy Officer', 'May the first, 1808', and in bottom right corner 'Copied by Otho B. Peter March 15th 1915.' Traces of fold at centre. 1915. £25.00

  48. Leans' ENGINE REPORTER And Advertiser. No. 424. December, 1846. Work performed by Steam Engines. Consists of 5p of tables for Pumping Engines, and 1 page of Stamping and Whim Engines, listing 26 mines with 19 columns for details such as Length of Stroke, Depth, Consumption of Coal, and Remarks & Engineers' Names. 7pp, 4to, uncut, red tax stamp. 1846. £40.00

  49. 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.


  50. Ludgvan POSTER advertising Auction Sale at 'Old Inn', Lowerquarter, of Properties at Nanceddan, January 16th, 1904. Size 29" x 19", folds 2 or 3 splits at folds repaired on verso with archival tape. 1904. £18.00
    Lists 5 Lots with occupiers, rents etc.


  51. Luxulyan MORTGAGE of leasehold land situate near Prideaux Wood in the Parish of Luxulyan, Prideaux China Clays to Miss A. de Bertodano and others. 2p., printed on vellum. 1913. £10.00

  52. Manaccan PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of Freehold Estates known as Tregonwell, Trelowry, comprising 109 acres.... for Sale by Auction, Helston 24th March 1886. 3p., large folio, folded with docket title, lithographic printing. Outside grubby. 1886. £12.00

  53. Mevagissey PARTICULARS of... Ventonwyn Farms, near Mevagissey... For Sale by Auction... St. Austell, Friday, 3rd June, 1960. 39pp., small folio. Wraps. 5 photographic plates. Lacks plan. 1960. £16.00

  54. Mousehole LEASE of number 9 Dumbarton Terrace, James Rowe to Patrick Carolan. Large vellum sheet. 1874. £10.00

  55. Ordnance Survey Boundary Office FOUR ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet 347 (St. Austell); 346 (Newquay); 351 (Penzance); 352 (Redruth). Size 14" x 19", plus margins. With stamps of Ordnance Survey Boundary Office 1904 in margins, 'Boundary diagram for revision purposes' written in red ink in the top margin of each, and annotated by Office in neat red ink, green ink and pencil regarding changes to depiction of boundaries. Various parishes etc. have been underlined in red with note they have been revised to Sept. 1905, July 1913 etc., others added in neat red lettering, for example 'Bodmin Borough'. Some small urban areas shaded, with key. Notes in margin, some initialled, such as 'Improve bdy dots at side of road', 'Boundaries in these channels will be laid down when the revised documents are received from D.O', 'remove cancelled boundary and insert as shown by red dots'. Sheet 351 with some edge tears. 1904-13. £68.00
    Gives a rare insight into the Ordnance Survey working methods.


  56. Penzance, Breage, Germoe DEMISE and Assignment by Way of Mortgage of nine dwelling houses and school room in Alverton Street, Penzance and 10/119ths of 'a Mine or Adventure known as Great Work Consols situate in the parishes of Breage and Germoe together with like shares of and in... Engines Whims Tackles Machinery... all Tin and Tin Stuff...', John Boase, late of Wendron, to John Richards of Poltair. 4 large vellum sheets, wax seal. Loosely inserted is a Mortgage Bond, 1p, sm. folio, printed with ms. inserts, and a copy letter from solicitors acting as agents for John Richards to John Silvester Purser of Great Work Consolidated Mines setting out the terms of the sale, the right to various minerals, etc. 1p, folio, in manuscript. 3 items. 1838. £50.00

  57. Probus PRIVATE CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED SHORTHORN COWS heifers & Bulls. The Property of William Trethewy, Tregoose, Probus, (Cornwall). 31pp., 8vo., recent plain paper wraps, traces (of original wraps?) of pink paper at left edge of title page. Truro: Lake & Lake 1879. £35.00
    'The foundation of this herd was laid thirty years ago, by the purchase of Ruth, a fine Cow by Harold 8131 at Lord Sherborne's Sale in 1848, at Sherborne Park....' Gives details of pedigree back to 12d or 14d. Names include 'Carn Brea', 'Tincroft', 'Lord Lanhydrock'.


  58. Redruth MORTGAGE of premises in Redruth, R. Goldsworthy to Johnathan Wickett. On paper, 3p folio. 1861. £10.00

  59. Reeth Consolidated Mines, Towednack PETITION in the Stannary Court, of Philip Vyvyan Robinson, against Augustus Dalby. ... together with... Answer of Augustus Dalby. Both documents 3 pages, large folio, small blue Stannary stamps, folded with docket titles. 1840. £28.00
    Robinson had been Purser of Wheal Reeth Consolidated from 1836 to 1839, when Dalby became Purser. He had laid out £834 for the benefit of the Adventurers, and was claiming it back.


  60. Sheriffs AN ACT for making further Provisions to enable Persons possessed of Offices... to qualify themselves... and to the continuance of the Sheriffs of the County of Cornwall, and County Palatine of Chester.... 8pp. 1727... bound with... An Act to enable His Majesty to make Leases and Copies of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel of His Dutchy of Cornwall... 4pp, 1751. First few leaves with waterstain in margin... bound with... An Act to enable His Majesty to make Leases, and Copies of Offices, Lands... Parcel of His Dutchy of Cornwall... 4pp, 1761... bound with... An Act to enable His Majesty to make Leases, Copies, and Grants of Offices, Lands... Parcel of the Dutchy of Cornwall... 4pp, 1776... bound with... An Act to enable His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, to make Leases, Copies, and Grants of Offices, Lands... 5pp. 1793. 5 Acts of Parliament, all with cover leaves. Recent paper boards. 1727-93. £35.00

  61. Sithney GRANT of land called Boscasack (Boscajack) in Sithney, William Paynter of Antron to to William Beauchampe the younger of Gwennap. In English, on vellum, size 9" x 12", signed by Paynter, and by 4 witnesses on verso. Some letters rubbed along folds. Tag, lacking wax seal. 1615. £30.00

  62. Sithney MORTGAGE of House and premises at Porthleven in the parish of Sithney, Samuel Dobb to C.L. Daniell. 4pp., folio, on parchment. 1864. £12.00

  63. St. Buryan & St. Just ELECTION POSTER Notice of Election of one County Councillor for each of the above Electoral Divisions.' Size 24" x 19", several folds. February. 1934. £5.00

  64. St. Ives CONVEYANCE by way of Mortgage of part of Grist Mills and Premises near the West Bridge in St. Ives, Jane Bennett to George Blaxland and The Revd. R. Hichens. Three large vellum sheets, three wax seals. 1854. £14.00

  65. 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, disbound, affected by damp, cover leaf with some loss of paper in right margin, first five leaves with staining in margin, not affecting text. Act of Parliament. 1776. £26.00
    'if any Boat having a Seyne-net on Board, shall be put out to Sea before the Warp-rope of her Seyne-net shall be landed, the Hewer or Hewers of such Boat and Seyne shall... forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds...'


  66. St. Ives LETTER from W. Michell addressed to William Trewella at St. Ives, saying he is commissioned to negotiate the sale of the ship 'Bristol', engaged in the Cornwall-Swansea trade, giving details of insurance etc. 14 lines, 1p., 4to, conjoint leaf with address panel, Redruth postmark. 1833. £14.00
    'It will be a great recommendation to be certain of cargoes of ore to Whiterock, if she continues in the trade'.


  67. St. Ives REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF ST. IVES 1p., plus map, zincographed from the Ordnance Survey, coloured in outline. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Approved by Henry James. Folio, disbound, some minor repaired edge tears. 1868. £20.00

  68. St. Ives THEIR HERITAGE or The Story of a Cornish Family. Typescript of a story set in a Cornish fishing village on the Atlantic (obviously St. Ives). 235 typewritten pages (top copy), 4to, in card file with brown paper covers. Signed at end 'Sarah Noall. 13.1.45'. 1945. £120.00
    Tells the story of a young girl, 'Mary Tregarthen', growing up in St. Ives in the twenties and thirties, with a brief spell spent near Clovelly. She eventually adopts a child, and marries her childhood sweetheart who returns after World War II having earlier emigrated to America. Interesting local colour, but a rather bland storyline. There are descriptions of the fishing, preparing the town for summer visitors, storms and wrecks, washing day, 'guising', carol singing, the local shops, etc., e.g. '... and so the work of barking began. They dipped and re-dipped their nets in boiling vats of dark brown liquid, a process of dyeing done to preserve their nets for the following winter's fishing, and when all were barked they were laid on the hillock to dry and so the work of barking, mending and repairing of nets went on whenever the weather was suitable all through the Spring of the year...'


  69. St. Minver Parish A RATE MADE the 25th of September 1738 By Robert Blake and Richard Moyle, Church Wardens, and Richard Treffry and Thomas Guy, Overseers of the parish aforesaid, to be Collected Double or Single Quarterly or Yearly or as often as shall Require for the Necessary Relief of the Poor as follows.... Large sheet folded to 15" x 6", making 2 pages, one listing rates for South Side, one for North Side. Gives name of person, property and amount (some names with several properties). Paper stained, but text easily legible with ink remaining very black. Paper worn at bottom of first page, with loss of 2 names and 10 figures from the pennies column, wear at fold. Lists 93 properties, signed by overseers... together with.... similar sheet for 1784, 6" split at fold, slightly browned, a similar sheet for 1776, another for 1803 (both in fine condition), and a small sheet for July 1792 with a brief schedule listing 33 properties), a printed folio sheet with the name of John Profit, St. Minver in ms., giving directions to the Overseer, and a damaged sheet for the rate for 1754. 6 manuscripts and one printed item. 1738-1804. £120.00
    The 1803 rate has columns for Proprietors, Occupants, Tenements, Sums.


  70. St. Minver PLAN of Part of St. Minver Church Town Survey'd by John Arthur. Plan in ink with outline colour which has faded to grey. Key to colours in margin, and 'Explanation' with key to letters indicating houses, paths to stiles, etc. Small compass rose, scale of chains. Size 5" x 9", folds. Shows Church Yard, New Road, Dingle's tenement, 'late Style's wastrel', part of Glebe land, 'Sandys' land late Anthony's'. Note on verso 'extend the map to take in the Vic. House', etc. n.d. Probably late 18th century. £35.00

  71. St. Minver TO BE SOLD The Fee-Simple and Inheritance of all that Desirable Farm called Treglyn... now in the Occupation of George James... The Estate consists of a good Farm House... 222 Acres of Arable, Meadow and Pasture Land... Sea Sand of an excellent Quality may be had within a Mile of the Estate... For selling the same an Auction will be held, at the House of James Cole, Inn-keeper, in Padstow, known by the sign of the Golden Lion, on Monday, September the 12th, 1814... Handbill, size 12" x 7", folds. Liddell, Printer, Bodmin. £42.00

  72. Tintagel, Lanteglos, and St. Teath Estates PLANS, PARTICULARS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE ESTATES OF THE EARL OF WHARNCLIFFE, Comprising Attractive Agricultural Properties, Accommodation Holdings, Excellent Building Sites, Hotels and Boarding Houses, at and near Tintagel and other popular Seaside Resorts... Messrs J. Kittow and Son have instructions To Sell the above Estate by Public Auction at the Wharncliffe Hotel, Tintagel, on Thursday, July 27th, 1911. Folio, 10 photographic illustrations on five pages, and 10 large coloured folding plans, original printed wraps. Front wrap and first three leaves frayed at edges, not affecting text, Plan one slightly worn along approx 3" of one fold, with some slight loss. 1911. £85.00
    'The Estate occupies a unique position in North East Cornwall. It embraces much of the finest scenery along the coast, with bold and rugged headlands, sheltered coves, the magnificent sand beach known as Trebarwith Strand, and the havens of Tintagel and Bosinney'. Farmhouses, cottages, hotels etc, described in detail.


  73. Trowan Consols, St. Ives and Towednack STANNARY COURT DOCUMENTS relating to a dispute over payment due to the ex-purser, Richard Kerwick, by the shareholders. Comprises: Decree Pro Confessio, ordering payment by the shareholders, 5p.,Registrar's Report, with details of the enforced sale of the shares at Hayle, with prices realised, 3p... Affadavit of James Buzza of St. Ives, Auctioneer, saying he affixed the Order to the Count House Door, etc... together with 4 other Affadavits. All items in manuscript, small folio, folded with docket titles, most with small blue Stannary stamps. May 1849 - Feb. 1850. £45.00

  74. Trowen Consols Mine, St. Ives and Towednack PETITION in the Stannary Court of Richard Kernick of St. Ives, Tinner and Miner, against Campbell Hobson, Robert Uren and others. Manuscript, 5p, large folio, folded. Stannary stamp. 1849. £32.00
    The Petitioner was Purser and claiming money owing to him from these Adventurers. One of the defendants had emigrated from St. Ives to Mineral Point, U.S.A.


  75. Truro BILL of Heard and Sons, Cornwall Music Warehouse, Pianoforte, Harmonium and Organ Imports. Attractive large heading in red and black showing a piano and harmonium. Made out to the Rector of Mawgan for tuning. 1880. £8.00

  76. Truro Boundaries REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF TRURO 3pp, with a coloured Plan by R.K. Dawson. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £22.00

  77. Truro PLAN OF THE UNION HOTEL Manuscript sketch plan in ink and colours on waxed cotton, scale 22ft to an inch. Size 13" x 20", folds. Shows properties at the corner of Tregolls Road and St. Austell St., part of key, includes Hotel, Tin Bar House, Assay Office, Tin Smelting House, with stack, Tin Store. Together with smaller sketch plan. c1870. £24.00

  78. Truro WARRANT from the Constables, Church-wardens and Overseers of Saint Mary, Truro, to the Governor of the Lunatic Asylum at Bodmin, for apprehending Betsey Courtnay, an insane person, now chargeable to the Parish, and conveying her to the Lunatic Asylum at Bodmin. Printed with MS inserts, signed by two Justices, with small orange papered seals. Folded with docket title, small split in margin at one fold. Single small folio sheet with details written in. 1829. £40.00

  79. Wendron ASSIGNMENT of a dwellinghouse in Treneer, Mary Winn to John Winn. 3p. sm. folio. Contemporary copy 1858. £12.00

  80. West Wheal Bolton Mine, Ludgvan PETITION of Nicholas Harvey, William Harvey, John Rawlings and others, Merchants at Hayle, in the Stannary Court, against James Francis, Purser of the Mine. Printed with ms. inserts. 2p, folio, with an 8p folio manuscript list of goods supplied by Harvey including files, smith's bellows, whim chain, scantle slate, Quebec yellow pine, coal, 'men's time repairing Boilers in the Mine' etc., 3 Affadavits, the 'Decree pro Confesso' against the Defendant and order for sale of Machinery, 3p, and the Order Absolute. All seven documents tied with tape at corner and folded. Stannary stamps. 1856. £50.00
    Harveys claimed they were owed £538 for goods supplied. The mine had been working for 2 years at the time of this case.


  81. West Wheal Trevelyan Mine CASE for the Opinion of Mr. N. Lindley, In the Matter of The Companies Act 1862 and of the West Wheal Trevelyan Mining Company, In the Court of the Warden of the Stannaries. 5p, in MS, folio, folded. c1865. £32.00
    Concerns the winding up of the company and the liablities of one Wetenhall 'a man of no means whatever.... who gains his living by loitering about the Mining Exchange and taking transfers of worthless shares in Mining Companies so as to screen the solvent transferors from liability'.


  82. Wheal Dollar, Zennor PETITION of William Hockin of Phillack, Clerk, against John Rosewarne of Phillack, Gent, and Thomas Pearce, Mine Agent. 8p., manuscript, large folio, folded. 1840... together with... Answer of Thomas Pearce 9p., large folio, 1838; Injunction prohibiting the Defendents and co-Adventurers in Wheal Dollar Mine from entering the land. 1p., large folio, 1838; Affadavit of William Michell, Farmer, of Zennor, saying he knows Wheal Dollar Mine 'in the Estates of Kerrowe and Carnelloe', and was employed in 1824 to draw a Water Engine there. 3p., large folio, 1838; Affadavit of William Hockin, 1838. 7p, large folio... together with... 10 other Affadavits, and a Petition for Rehearing. All documents with small blue Stannary Stamps. 15 documents in all. 1838-40. £90.00
    Hocking granted to Rosewarne and Pearce license to dig for tin and copper for 21 years at the tenement of Carnelloe, bounded by lands of Davies Gilbert, the sea, and a 'line from the South Wall of an old stamps in Carnelloe Crofts to a stone set up at the tail of the Middle Adit'. The defendents apparently did not work any veins or lodes, or pay dues, and Hockin therefore entered the premises 'there the said William Hockin thereupon threw a stone into the shaft of the said Engine House and declared that he entered upon the premises for the purpose of making void the indenture', asking the Court for an Injunction. The Rev. William Hockin was the incumbent at Phillack from 1809 to 1853. Throws an interesting light on a mine about which little has been written.


  83. Wheal Elizabeth STANNARY COURT DOCUMENTS Two manuscripts, Affadavits relating to the sale of the Mine, in the case of Absolom Roberts, Defendant and ex-Captain of the Mine, and Henry Ommanney, Plaintiff. 1p and 3p, small folio, small blue Stannary stamps. 1853. £20.00

  84. Wheal Sidney, Breage SETT of Ground part of Wheal Sidney. Distr. 1/10th till Cost paid then 1/12th. The Duke of Leeds to Richard Tyacke of Breage. Two vellum sheets, size 21" x 28", signed 'Leeds' with armorial wax seal. 1800. £60.00
    The Sett is 'part of the Manor of Godolphin... within the limits following... Eastwards as far as the tenement of Heland extends Northwards and Westward as far a the road leading from the Great Work to Penryn near Jordan's Smiths Shop...' Mentions what conditions would apply 'if Gold and Silver ores be found'.


  85. Wheal Vor Mine Company RECEIPT from John Winwood and Company, Bristol, for Stampheads costing £66.1s. A few lines in manuscript on 4to sheet. Bristol April 14th 1823. £7.00
    Winwood and Co. are listed in Pigot's directory as Iron founders and steam engine manufacturers in Cheese Lane, Bristol.


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  86. Drigg GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. 99 N.E. Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in margin. Embossed Ordnance stamp, 1905. £20.00
    Almost two-thirds of the map is sea area.


  87. Grange, Borrowdale PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable and Picturesque Estate situate at Grange.... comprising Two Dwelling Houses, Four Cottages and Joiner's Shop, Numerous Farm Buildings.... 350 Acres of Superior Arable, Meadow, Pasture.... with 39 Grasses on Scawdale Fell, 10 on Langstrath Fell, 16 on Rosthwaite Coomb Fell.... for Sale by Public Auction.... 6th day of October, 1881. 8pp., folio, folded, first page loose. 1881. £22.00
    Includes share of Mines and Minerals in Grange and Brund Fell.


  88. Hesket PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of valuable estates in the Parish of Hesket.... 291 acres of thereabouts, which will be offered for Sale by Auction.... 10th May, 1870. 5pp., folio. Includes schedules. 3 hand-coloured folding plans. Outer page with docket title dusty. 1870. £32.00
    Includes the estate of Stonefolds.


  89. Mason (W), Ambleside, Publisher FRITH'S SERIES ALBUM OF 45 VIEWS representing The Lake Country. 19 full page sepia photographic views, and 26 half page ones, on glossy paper, oblong large 8vo, gilt boards, front board rubbed. c1910. £18.00

  90. 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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  91. Frost & Winfield's PATTERN BOOK OF REGISTER STOVES Tiled Grates and Kerbs for Tiled Hearths, Open and Close Fire Cooking Ranges, Tailors' Iron-Heating Stove, Church Heating Apparatus, Gill Stoves, Plain and Ornamental Gates, Railings, Balusters.... Title page and 48 lithographic plates, all but the last six are coloured, and showing one item per page, the vast majority being ranges and grates. Stiff cloth-covered wraps, blind-stamped, with gilt monogram on front board, size 9" x 11". J. Lockwood, Lithographer, Sheffield. c1870. £95.00

  92. Measham VALUABLE PROPERTY at Measham To Be Sold by Auction by B. Cheatle & Son... June 4th, 1847... Poster, size 9" x 11", folds. Describes 2 Lots, comprising four houses fronting the Cross in Measham, with four others in the yard at the back. Gives occupiers. 1847. £26.00

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  93. Ashburton TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION By Mr. Ed. Sawdye at the Golden-Lion Hotel, Ashburton, Thursday the 25th of May 1865, The Fee-Simple of All That Rich Pasture Field called Emmett's Park. Poster, size 15" x 9", traces of folds. 1865. £18.00

  94. Banfield (J) VIEWS OF NORTH DEVON. Being 20 engraved vignette views, size approx. 3" x 4". Title page. Original blindstamp cloth with gilt title, cloth faded and slightly 'cockled'. c1860. £95.00
    One of the views, of 'The Ilfracombe Hotel' is not uniform with the others.


  95. Barnstaple TO BE SOLD By Private Contract... The Undermentioned Dwelling Houses and Tenements Situate at Somerset Place & Boutport Street. Poster, printed in a variety of typefaces, size 15" x 10", three small repaired edge tears. Brightwell & Sons, Printers, Barnstaple, October 27, 1832. £26.00
    Describes 7 Lots, with occupiers. 'The last three Dwelling Houses are very well calculated for carrying on Trade, having excellent and modern Shop Windows...'


  96. Barnstaple TRANSFER OF MORTGAGE of a house in Litchdon, Charles Carter and George Wilkey to Mary Bealey and Trustee. Large paper sheet, 4 wax seals. 1828. £10.00

  97. Bere Ferrers COUNTERPART OF A LEASE of Hollwills in Beerferris for 99 years, Henry and James Young, to Richard Rundle. Vellum, 21" x 27", wax seal. 1761. £18.00
    Names 3 lives.


  98. Besley, Printer THE WEST OF ENGLAND DIARY with an Almanack. 1845. Diary of a farmer in the Averton Gifford area. Small 8vo, green printed paper wraps. 20pp at the beginning with lists of fairs etc. in Western Counties. A week per page, a few weeks blank, but most pages have 3-5 days of entries. Records stock sold and bought, birth of lambs and calves, seed sown, harvest of crops, manuring of fields, visits to markets, including Totnes, Dodbrook, social visits, registering his child, etc. 1845. £65.00
    '14th April. Lent Master Dick Gillard my Bay Horse to ride to the top of Averton Gifford Hill instead of which he encroached on my kindness and rode on to Salcombe a distance of 16 miles...' The horse caught a chill and he was forced to call the vet. 'My Beautiful Tree that was covered in Ivy fell from the Lawn Hedge'; 'Ermington band played at Thornham'; 'Oliver Stentiford finished the Chimney'; '21 fine young fowls stolen from Thorn Barn'.


  99. Braunton CONDITIONS OF AN AUCTION held this 17 day of April 1844 at the Swan Inn in Barnstaple by John Stephens, Auctioneer, for selling 32 lots of oak timber now standing and growing on Beercharter Barton in Braunton. Manuscript on 3 pages, folio, two minor splits at folds, some waterstaining. Includes memoranda signed by various purchasers, with prices. 1844. £12.00

  100. Braunton IMPORTANT SALE OF FREEHOLD MILLS, VALUABLE WATER RIGHTS choice Building Sites, Cottages and Accommodation Lands... Poster advertising sale by Sanders & Son at the Railway Hotel, Braunton, May 9th, 1907. Size 32" x 20". Folds. 1907. £20.00
    Include Water Grist Mills and House known as Horden's Mills, Chapel St. 'The Grist Mills contain 2 pair of Stones, Flour Machine, Smut Machine, Crane and Belts and a nearly new Water Wheel, and have valuable Water Rights.'


  101. Buckerell, Awliscombe and Honiton PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Dwellinghouses, Shop, Cottages.... Lands.... for Sale by Public Auction.... 9th day of March, 1932. 10pp., sm. folio, wraps. 1932. £14.00

  102. Chulmleigh AGREEMENT whereby Matilda Wadland agrees to give up to Henry Wadland the possession of the Estate of Newnham. He agrees to pay for the livestock and machinery, excepting certain items of silver listed. 2p, sm. folio, in MS. 1878. £8.00

  103. Dartmoor ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, dissected and mounted on linen, size 24" x 36", folding into marbled paper covered slipcase, attractive oval printed label on front. Thick black border around margins of map, leaving key visible in bottom margin. No date, circa 1850. £36.00
    Covers Launceston, Saltash, Ashburton.


  104. Devon Valley Railway AN ACT to confer on the Devon Valley Railway Company further Powers for the Completion of their Railway.... 8pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1861. £10.00

  105. Devonport DEVONPORT, FROM MOUNT EDGCOMBE Engraving, size 2" x 4", plus margins, in ivory mount, overall size 7" x 9". c1850. £7.00

  106. Divorce of Exeter Merchant AN ACT to dissolve the Marriage of George Christopher Degen with Catherine Furlong, due to her adultery with John Baptiste Larraguy.... 4pp, disbound, a few tears and some browning at edges. 1778. £20.00

  107. Dyer (T.J) Publisher GEMS OF TORRINGTON 8 photographs, brief text on facing page. Oblong 8vo, wraps, with small photo on front wrap. c1920. £8.00

  108. Exeter BILL of Thomas Pitts, Late Tripe, Chemist, Druggist etc., 79 Fore Street, Exeter. Engraved heading with vignette of chemist with retorts etc., making 'Patent Medicine'. 3p, 4to, with bill in two columns per page made out to Sir L. Palk, for items from Jan. - Dec. 1842, including harness oil, Friars Balsam, Turkey Umber, Venetian Red, Olive Oil, Arsenic etc. 1842. £15.00
    The total was £306.


  109. Exeter Railway AN ACT to empower the South Devon Railway Company to make a Branch Railway at Exeter.... 18pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1865. £15.00

  110. Farington (J) after L. Byrne VIEW AT LYNMOUTH. Etching, size approx 6" x 9", slightly dusty, couple of brown spots in right hand margin. By L. Byrne after J. Farington, publ. T. Cadell. 1822. £12.00
    Somers Cocks's Devon Topographical Prints. No 1588.


  111. Georgeham LEASE of West Meadow, Long Close, Broadfields, Mountcrosse, part of the demesne lands of North Hole in Georgeham, John Cutcliffe of Ilfracombe, to George Strange of Bideford, Merchant. 38 lines on vellum, attractive script, size 15" x 23". Wax seal on tag. 1663. £38.00

  112. Hartland DEED OF COVENANT Hugh Nicoll of Lowland in Hartland, yeoman, to Lawrence Tucker of Longfurland gent., and Charles Doyman of Bigberry in Hartland, yeoman, of part of lands called Lowlands and South Beckland in Hartland, sometime the lands of John Arundle and Arthur Spry. Vellum, size 7" x 11", 21 lines in a small neat hand. Small wax seal missing from tag. 1664. £38.00
    Relates to the marriage of Hugh Nicoll and Sarah, daughter of Charles Doyman.


  113. Hartland DEMISE of one fourth part of two messuages and tenements called Pattard in Hartland, now in the occupation of Lawrence Waldon and Phillip Squire, The Honble. Bourchier Wrey, Baronet, to Lawrence Waldon, yeoman. Vellum, size 12" x 25", good armorial wax seal on tag. Interesting decorative manuscript initial 'T' decorated with monster fish, thistles, leaves etc. 1684. £46.00
    Wrey became a Devon M.P. in 1685. He famously fought a duel with another M.P. in Hyde Park.


  114. Hartland DEMISE of one fourth part of messuages and tenements of Pattard in Hartland, within the village fields and grounds of Hartland, John Luttrell of Brampton to Lawrence Waldon of Pattard. Vellum, size 10" x 24", tag lacking wax seal. 1663. £34.00
    Has an interesting clause about Luttrell and his wife not having to travel out of the county in dealing with the affairs of the lands.


  115. Horwood, Hartland AN ACT to Vest in, and enable Trustees, to Sell some Out-parts of the Estate late of Sir John Rolle Knight of the Bath, deceased, for the Payment of Debts, Legacies and Portions.... 9pp, disbound, black letter, cover leaf, edges uncut. Held with small staples. 1710 £25.00

  116. Ilfracombe PANORAMIC POSTCARD by W.H. Smith & Sons, The Library, Ilfracombe, a coloured view titled 'The Victoria Pavilion' showing the inside with much greenery etc. Size 3" x 11", slightly rubbed at corners. 1907. £8.00

  117. Kingsbridge Railway AN ACT for incorporating a Company, and for making and maintaining the Kingsbridge Railway.... 15pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1864. £20.00

  118. Lundy Island ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheets 275, 291. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 19" x 13", plus margins. Linen-backed. A rectangle has been drawn round the island in pale blue ink and numbered 4a. 1892. £25.00
    Shows only Lundy Island in the centre of the sheet, with soundings for North West Bank and White Horses.


  119. Milton Abbot BILLHEAD of John Prout, Grocer, Druggist, and Tea Dealer... Horse & Cattle Medicines. 8vo, with fine engraved heading with two vignettes either side of heading, one showing Chinese pagoda scene, the other a still, animals, etc. Made out to Captn. Edgcumbe for sugar for preserving, tin tacks etc. Stab hole, traces of paper at top edge on verso, presumably where once mounted in album. c1840. £10.00

  120. Milton Damerel WILL of Nicholas Dennis of Derworthy in Milton Damerel. 2 large folio sheets, folded, with docket title, in a bold hand, second sheet worn at one fold affecting a few words of last line. 4 witnesses named. 1692. £45.00
    Declares at the beginning he wants to be buried without any funeral sermons 'having observed such sermons to be generally composed of flattery... which I never did like or efect'. Leaves bequest to the poor of Milton Damerel, Barnstaple and Ilfracombe, tenements in Ilfracombe to his daughter Agnes Fortescue, etc.


  121. Musbury, Colyton ABSTRACT OF TITLE of the Revd. John Vaughan Payne to the Capital Messuage and Farm of Roosdown St. Pancras the Advowson of Musbury, and to Estates and Lands at Musbury and in Colyton. 15pp, folio, folded. Lists deeds etc. from 1828. c1850. £18.00

  122. Paignton and Brixham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet CXXII. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 50" x 37", mounted on linen and folding into large 8vo marbled endpapers, inserted in cloth covered slipcase with rubbed label. Two small areas near Kingswear shaded in blue, roads near Brixham coloured in different shades, yellow line marked in, labelled 'EHT'. About half of map is sea area. 1903. £30.00

  123. Palmer (G.G), Heavitree, Artist VISIT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION TO EXETER, 1869 Lithographic group portrait, with the faces portrayed in a very lifelike way, the bodies more sketchily, 'The Mayor Introducing Local Celebrities to the Savans'. Each portrait has been numbered in MS underneath with a key of 21 names in bottom margin. Size 14" x 17", central fold, top corners clipped... together with... Programme of Proceedings for the Meeting, 4p., folio, tipped onto album leaf. Devon & Somerset Steam Lithographic Co., 1869. £24.00
    Celebrities include W. Pengelly, Professor Huxley, Hooker etc. They seem to be standing in a large Gothic hall.


  124. Palmer (Sutton) DEVON WATERCOLOURS 20 coloured plates, including illustration on front board. Published by A. & C. Black, 1926. £18.00

  125. Smith (W.H) & Son, Publisher ILFRACOMBE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS Eighty Views. Size 9" x 12", pictorial wraps, rather grubby, two old sellotape marks top and bottom of spine, spine worn. Explanatory text under views. c1910. £20.00
    Most of the photographic views are by E. Grattan Phillipse, Kingsley Studios. Includes four views of the wreck of the 'Montagu' on the rocks at Lundy.


  126. Spreat (W) CHITTLEHAMPTON CHURCH. South View of the Tower. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by W. Spreat. Lithograph, engraved surface approx. 8" x 6", on India paper, large margins, margins slightly spotty. [Printer, C. Hulmandel.] c1842. £22.00
    Shows a row of houses in front of the church with several people standing around, a seated woman and a woman in a doorway.


  127. Sprytown, Axworthy ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXXXVI.N.E. and S.W., together with Sheet CVI.S.E. Stanlake, Princetown. Scale 6" to 1 mile. On thick paper, water features hand-coloured. Last sheet with some foxing spots. 3 items. 1884. £28.00

  128. Stewart (W), Publisher VIEWS OF NORTH DEVON 23 vignette views, title page, cloth boards, decorative gilt title, corners slightly rubbed, overall size 6" x 10", size of views ranging from 3" x 4" to 4" x 6", plus margins. First views browned, a few of the other views with some foxing spots in margin. Printed title page. c1860. £75.00
    The views are published by Banfield. Artists include William Willis, T. Martin, W. Gauci.


  129. Swymbridge AGREEMENT for the occupation of Torrdown House. Susanna Nott, Rev. W. Mules of Marwood and R. Harding of Combmartin to F. Lawrence of Pilton. 4p sm. folio. 1820. £10.00
    Contains details of upkeep of house & lands.


  130. Teign Valley Railway Company AN ACT for conferring further powers on the Teign Valley Railway Company for the construction of works... 7pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1878. £9.00

  131. Torquay Market AN ACT for the better Establishment of a Market at Torquay.... 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1852. £14.00

  132. Totnes, Paignton and Torquay Railway AN ACT for making a Railway in the county of Devon, to be called the Totnes, Paignton, and Torquay Direct Railway..... 16pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1880. £15.00

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  133. Beaminster ANCIENT NAMES & ADMEASUREMENTS of Chapel Marsh Estate. Sheet of paper size 13" x 7", listing 20 closes and fields with acreages. Folded with docket title. 1756. £15.00

  134. Beaminster and South Perrott SETTLEMENT of Chapel Marsh or Chapel Downe, by William Gybbes of South Perrott on his son Gregory on his marriage with Joane Hodden. Vellum, size 10" x 25", signed by Gybbes with heavy wax seal on tag, witnessed on verso. 1615. £46.00
    Note on verso '..Gibbes deede of Intyle of his Lands to Gregory & his heirs', 'And the Intayle... cutt of to pay fr porcons for my children & pay my debts'.


  135. Beaminster CONVEYANCE of the messuage, farm or tenement known as Chapel Downe and Chapel Marsh, Gregory Gibbs of South Perrot to Henry Garland of Abbotsbury. Vellum, size 25" x 30", two heavy wax seals on tags. Attractive large calligraphic initial letter. Affixed is small declaration by Gibbs appointing his Attorney, which is faded, probably due to damp, which has also affected one area of the main deed, about 3 sq. in., where the ink has faded. 1652. £34.00
    From the Commonwealth period. Refers at one point to 'The Late Kings Majtie. or the Common Wealth of England'.


  136. Beere Hackett CONVEYANCE IN FEE of tenement in Knighton within the parish of Beere Hackett, in trust, William Newman of Dulish to Edward Osmond of Steeple in the Isle of Purbeck, in settlement on the marriage of his son William Newman with Osmond's daughter Honor. Vellum, 21" x 24", 63 lines, signed by four parties, four tags, but lacking small wax seals. Attractive large calligraphic initial letter with flourishes. 1649. £45.00
    Commonwealth period deed. Names the various lands involved.


  137. Davies (G.J), Edited by TOUCHYNG WITCHCRAFTE AND SORCERYE Transcripts of documents relating to witchcraft in Dorset. 72pp., sm. folio, wraps. Dorset Record Society 1985. £8.00

  138. Dorset Central Railway AN ACT for extending the Time for the Completion of Portions of the Dorset Central Railway; for enabling the Somerset Central Railway Company to subscribe to the Undertaking.... 11pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1860. £12.00

  139. Gillingham PARTICULARS WITH PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Choice Dairy Farm with Farm House, called 'Culvers Farm', Farm Buildings are Lands with excellent Building Sites, The Modern well-constructed Small Residence at Common Mead Lane.... to be sold in Lots at The Phoenix Hotel, Gillingham, Monday, 19th August, 1918. Small 4to, folding coloured plan in pocket, 8pp, loose in the original wraps, prices realised noted in ink. 1918. £20.00

  140. Gillingham PLAN, PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Highly Desirable Landed Estate called 'The Thorngrove Estate'..... For Sale by Auction at The Phoenix Inn in Gillingham.... the 4th of June next.... the estate comprises a Substantial Farm House.... Orchard, Arable, Meadow & Pasture Land.... 4pp., folio, plus docket title, folding hand-coloured plan, schedule giving occupiers, etc. 1863. £36.00

  141. National Farmers' Union, Dorset County Branch CALENDAR BLOTTER FOR 1932-3. 4to, stiff green covers with photo of County Chairman, 7pp of local adverts, plus calendar, and information on branches etc. 1923. £7.00

  142. Ordnance Survey INDEX TO THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF DORSET Shewing Civil Parishes. Scale Four Miles to One Inch. Map size approx. 12" x 18", plus margins, showing one inch and six inch maps, and small diagram for 25" maps. With Reference table with symbols for towns of various sizes, parish and county boundaries, towns etc. Small piece torn from margin at corner. Some foxing, and some creasing in margin. Published at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton 1894. £26.00

  143. Penny (J), Sherborne, Printer SHERBORNE, DORCHESTER & TAUNTON JOURNAL Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., red tax stamp. Oct. 21, 1841. £15.00
    Includes detailed advert for J. Blampied Clothing establishment, Sherborne, List of coaches from Weymouth, reports of body found at Portland, etc.


  144. Seymour's of Sherborne BLOTTER with Diary for 1934. Presented by Seymour's of Sherborne, Prize Medal Table Waters. 4to, with full page colour illustration of a ship in an estuary 'The Moorings' by A. Chidley pasted to front wrap. First page is Postal and other Information. 1934. £10.00

  145. Sherborne, Piddletown, Beaminster ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31". A few small edge tears at bottom. Electrotyped 1872. O.S. blindstamp 1872. £38.00
    Also covers part of Somerset.


  146. Small Holdings, Milton Abbas and Bulbarrow ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS AND PLAN. To be Sold by Auction 23 Small Farm Holdings, 2 to 8 Acres each, with a Cosy Cottage, Farm House and Garden, etc. On road from Milton Abbas to Bulbarrow..... To be Sold by Auction.... on Tuesday, July 18th, 1944.... by A.S. Knight.... Double-page plan loosely inserted, 3 photographic illusts, (5)pp, folio. 1944. £15.00

  147. Wimborne School LEASE for 99 years by the 'Governors of the possessions revenues and good' of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Wimborne Minster, of the Tithes and Tenthes arising out of a capital messuage and five score and five acres of land belonging in Petersham, to Barnabie Leighe of North Court in the Isle of Wight. Vellum, 11" x 17", large wax seal shattered into pieces. Three large brown stains, obliterating some areas of text. 1612. £35.00

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    Durham
  148. Barnard Castle, Hartlepool ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet made up of 4 quarter sheets, scale 1" to 1 mile, linen backed, size 25" x 36". Various areas outlined in colour, pipe line and various reservoirs marked in red. Taken from an electrotype 1862. £30.00

  149. Teesdale & Co. Publisher MAP OF DURHAM Engraved fully hand-coloured map, size 13" x 16". 1832. £50.00
    Shaded in wards.


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    Essex
  150. Brentwood RELEASE William Goodchild of London, Glazier, acknowledges receipt of £100 left to him in his will by Richard Goodchild, and releases any claim on his lands at Brentwood, Shenfield and South Weald. 1p., sm. folio, signed and witnessed, with small armorial wax seal. Blank conjoint leaf with docket title. 1723. £20.00

  151. Fullarton (A) ESSEX. Engraved map, with Reference table to the Hundreds. Size approx. 7" x 9", plus margins, central fold, small light water-stain in bottom margin. c1840. £14.00

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    Gloucestershire
  152. Bruton Knowles, Auctioneers, Gloucester TWO RECORD BOOKS Oct. 1908 - June 1909, June 1909 - Dec. 1909. 8vo cloth bound books, with details of sales of property in that period glued to plain sheets, and the process of bidding for each lot recorded in pencil on the facing page, with buyer. With 9 page Index to properties at the front. 148 double-pages in each. Most details cut from printed sales particulars, folded to fit, one lot per page, some details cut from newspapers. 1908-9. £30.00
    Presumably compiled by the Auctioneers for their records.Includes Flaxley Abbey Estate, Maypole Stores, Bream, Eastington Lodge, Stonehouse, etc.


  153. Cheltenham Station AN ACT to authorise the Construction of a New Station at Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester.... 9pp, disbound. Act of Parliament. 1890. £16.00

  154. 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. Recent paper wraps. Act of Parliament. 1727. £18.00

  155. Coleford LEASE FOR A YEAR of a tenement at Poolway in Coleford, with various pieces of land, including Oak Piece, Pool Field, Tuf Torne, John Howells of Dixton Hadnock in Monmouth and James Howell of Llangarren in Herefordshire, to James Yarworth of Monmouth. Vellum, size 18" x 25", two wax seals. 1815. £16.00

  156. Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway AN ACT for making a Railway from the West Midland Railway to the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway.... 16pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1865. £16.00

    GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLOTHIER

  157. Coxe (Cha.) THE RESPONDENTS CASE To be Heard on Tuesday 11th March. The Case of John Ball, Appellant, Nathaniel Ridler, Executor of Thomas Ridler, Respondent. Single sheet, 17" x 13", printed on one side only, folds, title on verso, setting out the history of the case from 1693 to 1700. Small green stamp of British Library on verso, together with red 'Discard' stamp. [London? 1701] £80.00
    Not in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, or Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection.
    John Ball, heir to his grandfather John Wood who had been Factor to Thomas and Walter Ridler "considerable Clothiers in Gloucestershire", pretended that John Wood had died without assets, and presented false accounts in order to avoid payment of a debt.


  158. Forest of Dean Ecclesiastical Districts AN ACT to divide the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester into Ecclesiastical Districts. 7pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1842. £12.00

  159. Forest of Dean Encroachments AN ACT to extend until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Time within which Conveyances may be made on behalf of the Crown of, and Disputes settled with regard to, Encroachments in the Forest of Dean. 2pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1844. £13.00

  160. Gloucester, Tibberton, Twigworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets XXV N.E, S.E and N.W, and XIV N.E. Second Edition, 6" to 1 mile, c1910. £30.00
    Includes Down Hatherley, Hartpury House, northern part of Gloucester around Cathedral.


  161. Great Washbourne PARTICULARS AND PLAN of a Valuable.... Estate Situate in the Parish of Great Washbourne which will be Sold by Auction at the Swan Hotel, Tewkesbury... 6th Day of September, 1854. Folio, folded, 2pp plus hand-coloured lithographed plan on third page, with reference table giving names of fields and acreage. 1854. £25.00

  162. Kendalshire, Winterbourne SALE PARTICULARS. Young and Howes are instructed by Messrs. T.B. and A.A. Luton to Sell by Auction at The Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol, On Thursday, March 18th, 1943 The Agricultural Holding known as Ivory Hill Farm comprising Farmhouse, Small Bungalow, Farm Buildings, Pasture and Arable Land.... small area of Woodland at Ram Hill, Coalpit Heath, the whole containing a total area of 71 acres 2 roods 36 poles. Folio, coloured folding plan, 8pp, short tear to one leaf, some light spotting, prices and purchasers noted in pencil. 1943. £18.00

  163. Playne family of Minchinhampton and Nailsworth COMMONPLACE BOOKS Two 4to notebooks, half morocco, rubbed, one volume lacking spine, containing entries from 1853-1870s, mainly resumes and extracts from books and articles on geology and prehistory, relating to Gloucestershire. Sources include Geological Magazine, Hull's "On the Physical Geography.... of the Cotteswold Hills' (with sketch maps pasted in), Aubrey, Rudder, Domesday Book, etc. One notebook is inscribed on flyleaf, in a later hand than the notes themselves, "F.C. Playne, The Grange, Minchinampton, Glos. Presented by C.E.P." In total 111p and 158p. Among the entries which are not extracts or reviews of books are (i) Account of a journey 'with Sara & Lina' from Weston super Mare to Glastonbury, Wells and Cheddar. 1848. 4p. (ii) 'Part of a letter from Alfred. London March 12th 1855' describing Owen's lectures on fossils etc. at the College of Surgeons, and his attendance at an outlandish soiree for travellers and literary men 'the card of invitation was etched with the Ninevah monuments inhaling the fragrant weed'. 4p. (ii) Letter from Alfred Playne from Paris Sept. 8, 1853. Gives a very detailed account of an eventful ascent of Mont Blanc. 23p. (iv) 'Part of a letter from Alfred Mar. 30th 1855'. 'I write to tell you of Proff. Owens opinion of the jaw.... (found at Dunkirk). He thinks it probably a jaw of the extinct Irish Elk.... Prof. Owen was very interested with the large horn, and made a sketch of it....'. 7p. (v) 'Note on bones found 1861-2 when the flat meadow opposite Pensire House, Nailsworth, was drained..... given to me by Mr. Smith.' 1p. (vi) Copy of letters from a correspondent in Dover re. Playne ancestry and la Plaigne family. 11p. (vii) 'List of trees planted at Whitecroft (Nailsworth) Dec. 1858'. 6p. (viii) 'Part of a letter from Alfred. Sept 185-.' Describes a journey in N. Wales. 15p. 1853-1873. £90.00
    The letters 'from Alfred' begin 'Dear George'. The books may originally have belonged to G. Playne who wrote various papers on Cotswold geology and antiquities.


  164. Poor AN ACT for repealing part, and making more effectual... an Act of Parliament... Intituled, An Act for the Incorporating certain Persons for the better providing for, and setting at work, the Poor in the City of Gloucester. 17pp, disbound, black letter, plus cover leaf, attractive floral initial. Pages bound at left edge with white tape. Act of Parliament. 1727. £16.00

  165. Saint Johns Bridge AN ACT for enlarging the Term and Powers of Acts, for repairing the Road from Fyfield, in the County of Berks, to Saint Johns Bridge in the County of Gloucester. 16pp, disbound. 1812. £10.00

  166. Stanton LEASE of messuage and close called White's in Stanton, Thomas Evans, Weaver to William Evans. Vellum, 11" x 17", two wax seals on tags. Some damp spotting of vellum. 1717. £18.00

  167. Thornbury, Oldbury ASSIGNMENT of lands in Thornbury and Oldbury, Nathaniel Wade and Thomas Edwards of Bristol, to Robert Rogers of Cork, Merchant and Francis Rogers. Three vellum sheets, size 26" x 28". Refers back to indenture of 1684. Signed by Wade and Edwards with armorial wax seals on tags. Decorative printed heading. 1700. £45.00
    With a very long list of lands in Thornbury and Oldbury, including lands known as Greenhouse, Home Closes, Townsend, Tiltfield, Newlands, Over Fields, Willpill, The Warth, land near Oldbury Mill etc., all with occupiers named. Nathaniel Wade had been involved in the Monmouth Rebellion, and was captured after fighting at Sedgemoor. He was pardoned after turning King's evidence, and later sent to Bristol where he became Town Clerk. In 1714 he headed the militia against the Kingswood Colliers.


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    Hampshire and Isle of Wight
  168. Awbridge ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVIII.14 scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Edition of 1909. £10.00
    Shows Awbridge Danes, Camp, Dunwood Farm, Doctor's Hill.


  169. Bacon's LARGE SCALE MAP AND GUIDE to Isle of Wight. For Cyclists and Tourists. Folding plan, size 17" x 26", inset plans of Ryde, Ventnor, Cowes, 16pp. guide. Printed wraps showing cyclists. c1900. £12.00

  170. Basingstoke ADMINISTRATION of the will of Henry Peircie of Basingstoke, 1703. Small vellum sheet size 7" x 9", with will in which he leaves 12 pence apiece to his children and appoints his wife Elizabeth as executrix, attached is probate certificate of the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Latin, in manuscript, signed Thos. Welham. Tag but no seal of traces of one.1 1703. £24.00

  171. Bishops Waltham Railway Company SHARE CERTIFICATE for one twenty pound share. On thin paper, size 7" x 9", good impressed seal of company. Signed by Secretary. Perforated cancelled stamp. 1864. £35.00

  172. Conford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheets XLIV.7 scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Edition of 1910. £10.00
    Shows Linchborough Park, Conford, Passfield Common.


  173. Coupland (J) Publisher HAMPSHIRE ADVERTISER AND SALISBURY GUARDIAN Royal Yacht Club Gazette, Southampton Town and County Herald.... Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp, folded, tax stamp. 21st Feb. 1835. £16.00
    Contains adverts for Yachts for sale, property auctions, reports of dinners of local M.P.'s, packet sailings, etc.


  174. Isle of Wight BOWCOMBE ESTATE Composite map of 6" Ordnance Survey Sheets, covering Newport, Shorwell, Kingston, Chale, size 48" x 36", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo cloth baords, gilt title on front board. 5" split in linen, at top edge at one fold, and two tears in linen at right hand margin. Various areas (presumably of the Bowcombe Estate) shaded in watercolour in different colours. Edition of 1909. £40.00

  175. Monksherborne AN ACT for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Monksherborne.... 23pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1829. £14.00

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    Herefordshire
  176. Agricultural Engineer's THREE BILLS of Thomas Davies, Agricultural Engineer, Davies' Steam Thrashing Machines, Hardwick, to Jenkyns Dew, for threshing Barley, Beans, Wheat, entries for 17 days, others for chaffing grass for silo, man and engine cutting hay, etc. Sm. folio, printed headings, plus subscription reminder from Hereford Agricultural Society. 4 items. Sm. folio and 4to, printed headings. 1887-8. £14.00

  177. Clifford WILL of William Higgins Esquire late of Middlewood in the Parish of Clifford.... but now of the Parish of All Saints in the City of Hereford. 16p. folio, folded. Copy. Last page worn at fold, outer sheet where titled dust-stained. Proved 1820. £18.00
    Refers to lands, cottages etc. at Castleton, Upper Middlewood in Clifford.


  178. Hartlebury SURRENDER at the Court Leet and Court Baron of the Manor of Hartlebury, by Thomas Hooper of Norchard, of a cottage and land at Over Close. Vellum, small wax seal. 1830. £15.00

  179. Leominster, Bodenham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LV S.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Small blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. O.S. blindstamp 1890. £17.00

  180. Ryland (J) THE NORTH EAST VIEW OF HEREFORD Copper line engraving approx. 4" x 7", plus wide margins. c1760. £12.00

  181. The Farmers' Toll-free Corn-Exchange, Hereford TWO LETTERS on headed paper, 8vo, to C. Bodenham, one informing him of a meeting, the other asking him to join subscribers to the Toll free Corn Exchange. Signed J. Smith. November & May 1857. £10.00

  182. Welsh Newton POSTER advertising Sale by Auction of Newton Lodge and Farm, August 1st, 1890. Size 30" x 20", folds. Wear along about 3" of one fold. With table giving schedule of lands. 1890. £16.00

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    Hertfordshire
  183. 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. 1864, £22.00

  184. Great Munden COPY STATUTORY DECLARATIONS relative to the Dimsdale family's title to farms called Cowley Hill Farm and Mill Farm in Great Munden. 3p., large folio, folded. Contemporary copy... together with... REFERENCE to commuted tithe rent charge Apportionment Plan, referring to the two farms. Schedule on 2p., folio, with list of fields, acreage etc. 1852. £25.00
    Gives statements of five people, including Priscilla Gosslin's declaration that her parents John Dimsdale, Surgeon, and Priscilla Pitts married 'at Devonshire House, Houndsditch, my sd. Parents then belonging to the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers'.


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    Kent
  185. Cranbrook ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT between Grace Hatton of Clerkenwell and John Tilden of Cranbook, relating to payment for a tenement at Cranbrook known as Nottors Farm, with barns, gardens, hop ground, and 53 acres. Large folio sheet, signed Gracia Hatton with small wax seal. Small split without loss at part of one fold. 1724. £18.00

  186. Cranbrook BOND of John Tilden of Cranbrook to George Baker. 1p., folio, 31 lines, in English and Latin. Small wax seal, signed Tilden and two witnesses (including 'Mantle Boughton'). 1729. £26.00
    Relates to a house in Hawkhurst.


  187. Cranbrook COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS 29 black and white photographic cards all showing the Union Mill, 1920's, a few slightly later, plus 1 coloured card. Includes an interesting series of 4 cards of close-up views showing men working on the mill, pulling on ropes connected to the sails, climbing up the sails etc. 1920's. £28.00

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    Lancashire
  188. Accrington INVENTORY of 'Printing Machines, Calenders, Mangles, Winces, Steam Engines... and other machines fixtures articles and things now in and upon certain buildings and premises situate at Broad Oak near Accrington... in the occupation of Frederick Grafton as tenant to Messieurs Hargreaves Brothers and Company. 1856. Signed by Thomas Whittaker and James Parke, Appraisers. 309 pages in manuscript, including Index, in a neat hand throughout, 4to, cloth boards, morocco spine, spine split, front inner hinge broken. Marbled endpapers. Loosely inserted is 'Inventory of Valuation of Machinery, Pipes &c in Bell Shop and Long Shop. 15th April 1867.' 9p, sewn in wraps. 1856 and 1867. £110.00
    Gives detailed description of machines, with measurements, etc. Includes Machine Room, Cooling Room, Gearing, Laboratory, Pattern Cloth Room, Block Print Shop, Bleaching Place, Soaping Place, Worsted Bleaching Place, Boiler House to Madder Dye House, etc.


  189. Appley Bridge, Holland Lees ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet LXXV.13. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 37", plus margins. Edition of 1928. £15.00
    Shows Linoleum Works, Quarry, Brick and Tile Works, Glue Works.


  190. Blackburn, Burnley THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet LXII.16 (Blackburn Station, Audley Hall Brick Works, Imperial Mill); Sheet LXX.3 (Witton Park, Ewood, Hollin Bank); Sheet LXIV.2 (Yatefield Mill, Burnley Iron Works, Bank Hall Colliery). Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". 1931-7. £38.00
    Covers a large number of Mills, Factories etc.


  191. Clitheroe REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY AND DIVISION INTO WARDS OF THE BOROUGH. 2pp. with a folding Plan of the borough by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 4" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound, some off-setting on plan. 1837. £22.00

  192. Dalton in Furness TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets XV.15 and XV.16. Size 25" x 36", scale 25" to 1 mile. Edition of 1913. £18.00
    Shows Goldmire Quarry and Iron Mines, Thwaite Flat Iron Mines, Sandscale, Mineral Railway, North End Rabbit Warren, Oyster Beds and Mussel Beds.


  193. Hirst (John), Printer, Oldham TO THE ELECTORS and Non-Electors of the Borough of Oldham. Two printed handbills, 'election letters' one from Wm. Johnson Fox, the other from James Platt, candidates. Both 4to, folds, paper slightly foxed along folds, some tears at edges, repaired on verso. 2 items. Printed by John Hirst, Stationer and Bookbinder, 22 Yorkshire Street, Oldham. March 1857. £25.00
    Platt was 'in favour of the widest extension of the suffrage'.


  194. Newton in Makerfield, Wargrave ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet CVIII.4. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Linen backed. Some areas outlined neatly in dotted red lines. 'TRC Redemption Office Record Map' stamp in top margin. Edition of 1907. £17.00
    Shows Vulcan Village, Red Bank (site of Civil War Battle), Earlestown Engineering Works, Newton Paper Mills.


  195. Ormskirk, Wigan ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet LXXXIX S.W. Size 13" x 14" plus very wide margins. Railways inserted to 1890. £20.00

  196. Preston, Chorley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet LXXXIX N.W. Size 13" x 14" plus very wide margins. c1892. £20.00

  197. Rawtenstall, Longholme ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXII.9. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 37", plus margins. Edition of 1930. £16.00
    Shows Longholme Mill, Hall Carr Mill, Back Mill, Ilex Mill, Albion Mill, Laund Mill.


  198. Southport ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXV.9. Scale 25" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Edition of 1928. £15.00
    Shows Pleasureland, Pier, Marine Lake, Chapel St. Station, tramways. About one third of the map is sea area.


  199. Warrington ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet CXV.4. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Hole an inch square near Grange Farm with loss of practically no print, just part of a field boundary, some scratches on paper near hole. Revision of 1937. £15.00
    Shows St. Helens Canal, Mersey White Lead Works, Atherton's Quay with Iron Works, Rivet Works, Bank Quay Soap Works, White Cross Wire Works.


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    London
  200. Barnes RELEASE of the Freehold and Covenant to Surrender the Copyhold parts of a capital messuage and lands at Barnes, Henry Hoare of South Tawton, Devon, to James Pooley. Three large vellum sheets, includes coloured sketch plan by J. Blore, Surveyor, Brompton, size 10" x 11", showing Barnes Green with ponds, buildings, fields, names of adjoining owners. 1846. £18.00

  201. Cheyne House, Chelsea PARTICULARS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Imposing Freehold Mansion known as Cheyne House.... Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard.... For Sale by Auction.... on Thursday, the 17th day of July, 1919.... Folio, 5 full-page photographic illusts., and view on front wrap, 14 + (1)pp, original printed wraps. 1919. £45.00
    The mansion was designed by Norman Shaw.


  202. Flax and Hemp Sale FOR PUBLIC SALE at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane... 3rd May, 1876, The Following Goods.... Manning, Collyer & Co., Brokers. 4 pages, size 17" x 7". Traces of horizontal folds, stab hole in top right corner. 1876. £30.00
    Lists 56 Lots in all, comprising numbers of bales of hemp and flax, for example Coconada Hemp, Sunn Hemp, Manila Hamp, Green Curled Fibre etc. Lists port shipped from vessell, and which Quay or Wharf it is at, with merchants mark. For example 'Fine Rhine Italian Hemp... Per Emperor, from Venice, on Shew at Watson's Wharf...'.


  203. Harrison (Arthur), Borough Engineer & Surveyor PLAN OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK 1901 Plan size 27" x 23", scale 3" = 500 yds. Linen-backed, folding into cloth boards, 8vo, marbled endpapers. Cloth stained. 1901. £36.00

  204. Highbury Estate PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the unsold Portions of the HIGHBURY MANOR ESTATE. Comprising Freehold Ground Rents and Rack Rents..... situated in Highbury Park, Hamilton Road, Aubert Park, Leigh Road, Roseleigh Avenue..... Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard Will offer the above Properties for Sale by Auction.... on Wednesday, 6th July, 1921. Large folding plan, photographic reproduction of an early print, 5 + (1)pp, original printed wraps. 1921. £28.00

  205. Pepper Sale PUBLIC SALE by Rolls & Lucock, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane... Une 7th, 1876. 5pp., printed on blue paper, size 16" x 7". Lists lots of White, Cayenne and Black Pepper, Tapioca, Sago and Sweepings, in 10 and 20 Bag Lots, with name of Wharf where lying, port shipped from (Penang, Singapore etc.). 1876. £30.00

  206. Port of London PRICES CURRENT LISTINGS East India and other Produce. 7 issues, each 4pp, 4to. Repaired tear in one leaf. 1841-44. £35.00

  207. St. Martin in the Fields AN ACT for Sale of a Tenement adjoining to Northumberland-house in the Strand (part of the Estate of Sir William Dodwell, Knight, deceased).... 11pp, disbound, decorative headpiece and floral initial letter, some wear at corners, secured with staples. Act of Parliament. 1743. £20.00
    Refers to a survey which showed the property 'had been in very great Danger of falling..... several large Cracks in the Wall of the said Turret, and a great Defect in the Foundation thereof....'


  208. St. Mary le Bow CASE IN THE EXCHEQUER Lewis v. Danson. 1p folio, folded with docket title, written in a small neat hand, setting out details of the case, in which David Lewis had delivered goods (27 barrels of flour, 51 bags of bread, 51 bags of biscuits to the value of £300) for storage to Dansons warehouse in St. Mary le Bow. Danson had then sold the goods. 1781. £18.00

  209. St. Pancras THE KING'S CORONATION Borough Festivities and Celebration. Printed letter, 13th May, 1902, small folio, from the Town Clerk of the Borough concerning the appeal for contributions to the cost of providing a Festival for the Children, with some momento, together with similar appeal, May 1911, for funds for a Tea for 42,000 for the Coronation of the King and Queen, 2pp... together with printed letter, October 1914, appealing for funds for 'Food and Boots for Necessitous School Children', and an appeal, August 1917, for funds to establish a Home of Rest for poor children at Clifton Lodge. 1902-14. £16.00

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    Monmouthshire
  210. Rowe (G), Teacher of Drawing, Cheltenham THE WINDCLIFF From Piercefield. Large oval vignette lithograph, size 5" x 7", overall size of paper 8" x 10". Some buckling of paper. c1840. £20.00

  211. St. Mellons NEWPORT EXTENSION ST. MELLONS OPPOSITION Reproduction of Ordnance Survey Map, Scale 6" to 1 mile, 50" x 58", dissected and mounted on linen. Coloured to show proposed boundary extension, land acquired for flood prevention etc., relating to Bill in 1933-4 Parliamentary Session. 1933. £24.00

  212. Taylor (Robt.), Chepstow, Publisher CHEPSTOW CASTLE, MONMOUTHSHIRE Tinted lithograph, drawn on stone by W. Walton. On thick paper, size 8" x 11", plus margins. Shows castle with woods behind, looking up to the main entrance, with low wall in foreground with seated figures, and woman driving cattle towards a cottage with smoking chimney. Overall light foxing, mainly affecting margins and sky area. Feint crease approx. 1" in bottom margin. Dangerfield, Lithographers. c1840. £50.00

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    Norfolk
  213. Aylsham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 147. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", plus margins. 'Temporary Advance Edition with Hills' printed in top margin. With key bottom left, hachures printed in brown. 1884. £20.00

  214. Hockering PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Very Desirable Property sitaute at Hockering, Norfolk, which will be sold by Auction by Mr. Wilde, on Thursday, September 19th, 1849, at the Cock Inn... Sm. folio, 4pp. 1849. £12.00

  215. Saham Hall Estate ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF, the well known Freehold Residential, Agricultural and Sporting Property known as the SAHAM HALL ESTATE comprising Saham Hall, a Modern and Well Appointed Residence.... Home Farm.... Cottage Property.... Hunting with the West Norfolk Foxhounds..... in all about 687 acres.... Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard.... have received instructions to offer for Sale by Auction.... at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, on Saturday, 11th day of August, 1928. Folio, with large coloured folding plan, 4 photographic illusts on 2 sheets, 16pp, original printed wraps. 1928. £24.00

  216. Wymondham PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of A Valuable Small Estate, at and Near Silfield Division, In Wymondham, Comprising Farm, Barn, Stable.... Garden and Orchards and 38 Acres of Highly Productive Arable and Pasture Land.... which Mr S. Cann will offer for auction Friday, the 25th Day of July, 1873. 4to, 7pp., folding coloured plan. 1873. £24.00

  217. Wymondham PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Messuages, Cottages, Brick-Kiln & Yards.... for Sale by Auction.... 14th August, 1877. 4pp., folded with docket title. 1877. £14.00

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    Northamptonshire
  218. Oundle RELEASE AND QUITCLAIM whereby Simon Dickens, Francis, Bridgett and Ann Dickens release any claim on the lands of their deceased father William Dickens, late of Wormington, and acknowledge receipt of their share of the sale proceeds. Single folio sheet, folded, signed by four parties, witnessed, small wax seals. 1720. £22.00

  219. Pattishall COPY ADMINISTRATION with will annexed, of The Revd. Thomas Welch, Clerk. 5p., folio. Leaves the Presentation to Nether Vicarage and Parish Church of Pattishall, and his lands in Blakesley to his son, Presentation to the Rectory and Parish Church of Slapton to another son, etc. Will dates 1815, copy c1818. £12.00

  220. Welford Estate ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile. Composite map made up of Northampton Sheet XIII N.W. and adjoining, size 25" x 36", dissected and linen-backed, folding to small 4to. Welsford Estate neatly shaded pink. In slip case with printed label 'Welford Estate Northamptonshire. Trustees of W.L. Wakefield, Esq.' Second Edition 1901. £24.00
    Covers South Kilworth, Sibbertoft, Naseby.


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    Northumberland
  221. Alnwick ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 6, scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", plus margins. Hachures printed in brown. 1897. £20.00

  222. Daniell (W), Engr. TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND Original hand-coloured aquatint, size 8" x 11", plus margins. 1814. £55.00
    Shows rocky bay with ruined abbey, lighthouse, many fishing boats, couple on the cliff admiring the view.


  223. Fittler (J), Engraved by A COLLECTION OF VIEWS OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, &c. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Engraved by J. Fittler, Marine Engraver to His Majesty. 16 copper engraved views, size of engraved surface 8" x 12", except for the folded panoramic view of the town from the South which is 8" x 18", and the view from the East which is 8" x 17", and the folding view of 'Tinmouth Castle and Monastery', 9" x 18". Brief descriptive text on facing leaf. Each plate with dedication and coat of arms below. Quarter red morocco, cloth boards, gilt morocco label on front board, gilt decoration on spine. Morocco slightly rubbed at head and foot of spine, some light foxing in margins of two plates. Overall size 12" x 16". Published by Henry Chapman, No. 65, Chandos-Street, Covent Garden. c.1800. £450.00
    Rare. Views comprise:- Pilgrim Street Gate; The Infirmary; Church of St. Nicholas; West Gate; Old Castle; Newgate; The Town Wall; Monastery of Black Friars; Ruins of the Bridge; The Exchange; Assembly-House and Subscription-Rooms; Port of Tyne, with Clifford's Fort; Remains of the Castle and Monastery of Tinmouth; Great View of the Town, taken from the South-side; Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from the Shield-Field; Royal Grammar School


  224. Norham PARTICULARS, PLAN and Conditions of Sale of the Desirable Freehold Estate known as New Harperridge & Plough Inn, situate in the Chapelry of Cornhill, in the Parish of Norham.... which will be offered for sale by Public Auction.... 3pp., folio, plan. 1882. £17.00

  225. Sunderland, Seaham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 21 (formerly 105 S.E). Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 14" x 19". 'Record Map' stamp in top margin. Published 1863. £18.00
    About half the map is sea area.


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    Nottinghamshire
  226. Cuckney, Ollerton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXXXII S.E., size 12" x 14", plus margins, key. 4" repaired tear in right margin. 1859. £25.00

  227. Nottingham, Newark ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet 126. Size 13" x 19", plus wide margins. Red Admiralty stamp in margin. Published 1908. £20.00
    A crisp black impression.


  228. Nettleship (Henry) LETTER signed H. Nettleship, Bradmore Road, to a student, asking him to call on him at his rooms in Corpus 'when I will return you your prize exercise with one or two remarks which the examiners made upon it.' 8vo., mourning border. 1882. £12.00
    Nettleship was Professor of Latin at Oxford.


  229. Swalecliffe WILL of Jehoiada Mead of Burdrop. Extracted copy, 1804. 4p., small folio, folds... together with... Letter from John Butler, one of the executors, to Mr. Mead at The Mulberry Tree, Bristol, 1803, informing him of his uncle's death, and the manner of it, with details of bequests. 1p., sm. folio, address panel on conjoint leaf with Banbury postmark, a few small splits where folded. 1803-4. £26.00
    Leaves his house and land at Sibford Ferris and his College Estate (held from Christ Church) to his wife, £100 to the poor of Sibford Gower and Burdrop, his