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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 103
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
Account
LAID OUT AT BRISTOLL July xxiiii.
Manuscript on one side of slip of paper, size 5«" x 4", written in a small neat Italic hand, listing 17 items, with amount for each, and total. Includes 'wastcote', 'a cradell', 'a whissell', 'brass nails', 'lace and tiffonie'. The paper has been tipped onto a double sheet of 4to paper, along the top edge, and there is a typewritten title on the front, with the date 'c.1627. From the papers of the Clarkes of Chipley, Som.' There is a pencil title above the manuscript, and the name W.T. Sanigar (author of books on Bristol history) written below it.
c1627.£36.00
British Railways
WESTERN REGION Bristol Division.
Map of lines and stations, covering area from Bewdley in the North to Evercreech in the South. Size 35" x 28", folded, inset map of Bristol suburban railways bottom right. Printed in some kind of early reproduction process, lines coloured by hand in red, some station names shaded in blue. 2" repaired tear at top edge. Stamp of Engineer's Office, Paddington, on verso.
February 1963.£12.00
Clifton
SHIRLEY AND SON LIMITED The Civil and Military Stores, 28 The Mall. Cash Price List. December 1914 - February 1915.
Size 10" x 6", green wraps with embossed gold lettering. 112pp., including 25pp. of adverts at the end. Lists groceries, cleaning products, wine, vintage champagne, etc. The Ironmongery section has many illustrations of chinaware, jelly moulds, brushes, teapots, glasses, etc.
1914.£32.00
¶ At the beginning is a 'Journey List' showing dates of delivery to villages in a wide radius, including Tyntesfield, Bitton, Clevedon, etc.
Election Petition
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BRISTOL MERCURY Saturday, March 31, 1838.
4pp., broadsheet, containing full report of the Proceedings before the Committee of the House of Commons on the Petition against Francis Henry Berkeley for corrupt election practices.
1838.£14.00
Harvey Barton & Son, Ltd.
GEMS OF BRISTOL A Collection of Sepia Photographs.
Sixteen tipped in views, size 4«" x 7", description on facing page. Oblong 8vo., original wraps with round view, tear at spine, holes at margin for silk tie, but tie missing.
c1918.£8.00
¶ Includes good view of Cabot Tower with sheep grazing in foreground.
Hawkins (G)
CLIFTON, AND ST VINCENTS ROCKS, FROM LEIGH WOODS. Antique hand-coloured lithograph.
Lithographed view size 8«" x 11«", titled beneath, in an ivory mount with gold and silver lines, the hand-colouring is well-executed but later.
Day & Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen, c.1850.£50.00
¶ A view showing the gorge, looking up the river Avon, with boats, and in the distance some of the Georgian terraces of Clifton, Bristol.
Kell (Thos.), Lithographer
BRISTOL JOINT STATION Temple Meads. Scale 40 Feet to An Inch.
Hand-coloured lithographed plan, size 36" x 76", on thick paper backed with linen. Reference with key to colours for Joint Boundary, Joint Running Lines, Joint Sidings, Midland Lines, G.W.R. Lines, Easement. Scale bar, compass rose. With printed 'Notes as to Arches'. Covers area from Bath Parade to South Parade, shows Floating Harbour, New Cut, higher ground shown with hachures, signal boxes, cab shelters, pumping house, G.P.O sorting office, cranes, carriage sheds, fish platform, Hare's Colour Works. Folds, some fraying of paper at folds, without loss, light waterstain along top edge, not protruding onto printed surface. With five signatures.
1906.£55.00
Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds
AN INVITATION to become a Member of the Shepherds Guiding Star Lodge No. 1206 (Bristol, Bath and Western Counties District)... held at the Golden Lion, Redcliff Street, Bristol.
Leaflet, 3pp., 8vo, with poem encouraging the reader to join the Lodge on first page, financial facts, etc., and application form.
1893.£8.00
Ministers
AN ACT for the more frequent Preaching of the Gospel, and better maintenance of the Ministers in the City of Bristol.
4pp., small folio, black letter. Decorative woodcut initial with cherub, etc., coat of arms at top.
Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, Printers to the Parliament of England. 1st April 1650.£40.00
¶ Ordered that the eighteen parish churches should be consolidated into a smaller number, and a tax raised for the payment of the ministers.
FEAR OF PLAGUE IN BRISTOL
Plague at Bristol
LETTER signed 'Craggs Clare' to Lord Townsend on the precautions being taken at Bristol against the plague. 1770.
3p., 4to, 54 lines in a neat hand. Dated at the end Gosfield October 20th 1770, and signed 'Craggs. Clare'. Lightly pasted at the top corners of the second sheet to a double 4to sheet of paper, with typewritten title on the front. The letter begins 'My dear Lord', says he has been in London where he found ministers uncertain whether they should have peace or war, but 'bad as a war may be for us, the Plague is still more to be apprehended: I called at Bristol on my way to London, and found my Constituents frightned out of their wits at the Arrival, which they expected every day, of two ships freighted with Hemp, Flax and Linen from Dantzig...' He contacted the War Office and Customs and 'two Troops of Dragoons were immediately sent and some Custom-House sloops ordered... to prevent the Crews from landing, a difficult Task when the Fear of being pressed after Quarantine, cooperates with the Aversion to Confinement...' The linens are brought down the Vistula from Poland 'where the Plague undoubtedly Rages...' Asks that a Mr Marshall, Collector of Galway, who purchased his post, may have leave to sell it. Traces of folds, docket title 'From Lord Clare. Rec. 30th Oct. 1770', on verso.
1770.£70.00
¶ Clare represented Bristol in Parliament from 1754 to 1774.
Robinson (E.S & A.)
PHOTOGRAPH showing the inside of a factory.
Albumen print, size 9" x 11«", mounted on thick card. Shows the length of a large workshop, with about fifty men and girls working at machines, in the foreground are men working on lithographic stones, and girls working on what appears to be a machine for sewing booklets. One man seems to be working on a sheet headed 'Newport Corn & Hay'. There are rows of pulley wheels fixed to spars running along the ceiling. The girls are wearing long white aprons.
c1910.£18.00
¶ There is no contemporary title to the photograph, and nowhere in the view is the word 'Robinson' visible. Someone has written on the back in pencil ' E S & & A Robinson, Redcliff St'.
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.£50.00
¶ 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 first 23 names listed (1839-40) also have addresses, which include Church Lane, St. Michaels; Frogmore Street; Hotwell Road; Pembroke Court, Jacob's Wells.
West (Robert) and Toms (William)
THE NORTH-WEST VIEW OF BRISTOL HIGH CROSS With a Prospect of the Cathedral, and the Parish Church of St. Augustine.
Copper engraving, view size 12" x 18", plus 8 lines of text giving the history of the Cross, and dedication to the Bishop of Bristol, with coat of arms, under the view, overall depth 15". Margin trimmed to just outside border at sides. Slight trace of one vertical fold, and of light crease reaching about 3" into view at bottom.
Publish'd March 25, 1743 by W.H. Toms Engraver in Union Court near Hatton Garden Holborn.£95.00
¶ Charming view of College Green, with the cross in the foreground showing excellent detail of the stonework, two men are sitting at the base of the cross, and others admiring it, a lady and her daughter, and other figures are walking nearby. There is a line of trees and wooden fence between the green and the Cathedral, houses and church tower on the left. When this view was made, from a drawing by Robert West, the Cross had been recently re-erected 'Painted in imitation of Grey Marble, ye Ornaments are Gilt, & ye Figures Painted in their proper Colours'.
Putney Estate
AN ACT for exonerating the Estates of Percival Lewis Esquire, and Marianne Lewis Spinster, in the Parish of Putney in the County of Surrey, from the Claims of His Majesty against the Estate of Edward Lewis Esquires; deceased.
4pp, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament.
1806.£12.00
Upper Tooting
THE PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Family Residence known as 'The Hawthorns'. with Ornamental Grounds, Vineries, Stabling.... Eight Cottages... comprising 3« Acres... for sale by auction... August 29th, 1871.
5pp., folio, folded with docket title, plus full-page hand-coloured plan showing property with extensive grounds, cottages on Obligation Road with gardens. Small split in margin at one fold, repaired.
1871.£28.00
NOTE:
This is an old catalogue and many of these items are probably sold.
Please contact as I may have similar items in stock.
This page shows the range of items I specialise in BUYING and SELLING.