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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 81
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    Bedfordshire


  1. Barton in the Clay, Manor of AT THE GENERAL COURT BARON of the Right Reverend father in God Edward Willes Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Lord of the said Manor there held for the Manor aforesaid the second day of January... 1745 before William Barker, Steward there... sworn Thomas Brasier, Richard Crouch and William Nash. 11 pages on vellum sheets (written on both sides), each sheet 25" x 11". Tenants presenting include Rev. Wm. Hopkins, for 25 acres, Joseph Striffe, Maltster, for house, land and cottages, Henry Potts for cottages, William Field for messuage, lands and cottage, Owen Davis and Hugh Smyth for messuage, orchards and 26 acres, Thomas Evans for a cottage. Each property described in detail with field names etc.... together with... The General Court Baron... 16th April 1746. 3 pages on similar vellum sheets. Details surrender of Edward Wilson, Wheelwright for 7 acres in the common fields, Admission of Elizabeth Betts for 3 acres in Long Croft and Short Croft near the Water Mill. 1745-6. £140.00

  2. County Theatre, Bedford GOLDILOCKS Charles Denville presents his Spectacular Xmas Family Pantomime... Les Trios Farlows from the Folies Begere Paris... Playbill on card, size 15" x 10", printed in four colours with picture of Goldilocks and bears. early 1950's. £10.00

  3. Felmersham, Thurleigh, Milton Ernest ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet VII S.W, VII S.E etc. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo, cloth endpapers. Water features hand-coloured. Two areas of land shaded. c1890. £24.00

  4. Morden (Robt.) BEDFORDSHIRE Engraved map, uncoloured, size 14" x 16", title cartouche. Central fold. Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchill c1700. £36.00
    From the 1695 edition of Camden's 'Britannia'.


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    Berkshire


  5. Bacon BERKSHIRE Reduced from the Ordnance Survey. Scale 1" = 4 miles. Colour printed, size 11" x 16", central fold. Divided into 5 mile squares. 1885. £8.00
    From Bacon's New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas.


  6. River Kennett AN ACT for Enlarging the Time for making the River Kennet navigable from Reading to Newbury in the County of Berks. Cover leaf + pages numbered 207-209, disbound, Act of Parliament, small stamp in corner of first leaf, last leaf loose and waterstaining to portion of fore-edge margins. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1721. £16.00

  7. Sandhurst Manor AN ACT for vesting in His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, certain lands or Grounds, formerly Part of the Wastes of the Manor of Sandhurst, in the County of Berks, freed and discharged of Commonable and other Rights. Pages numbered 1065-1079, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812. £12.00

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    Bristol
  8. Bristol Waggon & Carriage Works SPECIAL LIST FOR COAL MERCHANTS Corn Merchants, Millers.... 4pp. 20" x 12", folds, illustrating 25 types of cart, with prices for different sizes etc. of each model, brief description. Some slight browning at fold on front page. July 1905. £32.00

  9. Clifton Rocks Railway CLIFTONIA THE BEAUTIFUL With Matchless 'Lift and Spa'. Commenced March 7th, 1891. First charge Fired by the Mayoress, Lady Wathen. New Commemorative Song by P. Gabbitas, Clifton Poet, March 1891. 4to handbill with the poem in two columns, 9 stanzas, title in decorative type-face, at the top a vignette of Clifton and the Suspension Bridge, with measurements and facts about the bridge on the left, and information about the Giant's Cave on the right. Traces of fold, some minor edge tears, small piece of paper missing at top right margin. Published by the author, 46 Muller Road, Bishopston. £40.00
    'The grand new Lift will swiftly shift/The people from below/And in a trice, so smooth and nice/To Downs or Spa may go'. Written to commemorate the beginning of the work on the Clifton Rocks Railway, which was opened two years later in March 1893.


  10. Clifton WATERCOLOUR Amateur watercolour of a view looking south from Clifton, probably from Royal York Crescent, across the docks and rooftops of a few houses to Ashton Court and beyond, paving stones and railings in the foreground, boat with one funnel and two masts on the river. Size 9" x 11", on thin card, traces on verso of having been once stuck down. c1860? £16.00

  11. Donne (B) A PLAN OF BRISTOL, CLIFTON, THE HOTWELLS 1826. A facsimile by Messrs. Waterlow and Sons Ltd., 1952. Size 20" x 27", on thick paper. 1952. £14.00

  12. 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

    MANUSCRIPT CHRONOLOGY

  13. Manuscript Annals BRISTOL ANNALS comprising two sets of chronology of Bristol in a folio notebook, presumably copied from earlier manuscripts in the first years of the eighteenth century, as follows:- (i) "Catalogue of all the Mayors Propositors Bayliffs and Sherriffs Wch have been in the citty of Bristol: The First whereof began in the First Year of King Henry the Third in anno 1216." 1216 - 1702. On 24p, in 2 ruled columns per page. In the early centuries the lists of names are interspersed with few references to local events, but for the 17th century there are quite long accounts, for example of storms, royal visits, executions, an earthquake, fire, ship wreck, fairs, and local trivia, such as the witch or spirit at Mr Hart's the Glover which "did throw about the bowls pothooks and diverse things and.... it pulled the maid out of the bed and it several times threw water on people.... ". Some of the events parallel those in Adam's Chronicle of Bristol, e.g. "1633. This year the Crane on the back was taken down and new built and it cost above 100l." This is recounted in more detail in Adams. (ii) An untitled chronology, 1217 - 1702, 15p, in the same hand, but not so neatly written. Refers to national and local events. This does not correspond to the first chronology, mentioning quite different events, often in great detail, e.g. "1701. This year goody Pugsley was buried in a ground beyond the 9 trees in St. James with a fiddle playing before her thousands of people beheld her.... when they came to the High Cross they threwed sweethearts among the people there was great Rudeness at her burying.... " At the rear of the book is "An Account of Severall persons that have given guifts to the City of Bristoll for good & charitable uses". 1292 - 1670. There are also 10p, listing benefactors, amount given and to whom, preceded by transcript of 2 wills, Edward Cox, Merchant, 1627, and George White, Merchant, 1634. On 6p. In all 55 pages of manuscript, 12 blank leaves, folio, full contemporary calf, very rubbed, most of spine missing, boards detached. Inscription 'Joseph Whittuck' on front paste-down and 'John Drew' on rear end paper, modern indelible ownership stamp inside front board. Wormhole in bottom corner affecting all leaves, but with loss of only a few letters throughout. Hand writing and watermark suggests the manuscript was written in the first decade of the eighteenth century. c170- £350.00
    In the preface to his 'Memoirs of Bristol' 1822-25, Seyer speaks of "A number of MS Calendars or Chronicles.... evidently derived from more ancient copies, transcribed by various hands, having generally a great similarity, but many particular differences.... many have been destroyed, but probably 40 or 50 still remain, chiefly in families of long continuance in Bristol, of which about 20 have passed under my inspection...."


  14. St. James BOND of Samuel Varlow, Hairdresser, and George Gwinnett, of Bristol, to James Hingston Cabinet Maker, for £400. 2p., tall folio, 2 wax seals. 1802. £26.00
    Refers to purchase of a piece of land in North Street, St. James. Two deeds of 1724 and 1743 referring to a fee farm rent on the property had been lost, and Hingston wanted to indemnify himself against any future charges. The early owner was Michael Sidwell Free Mason and Stone Cutter.


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    Buckinghamshire


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


  16. High Wycombe REPORT UPON THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY Sm. folio, disbound, 2pp and plan, coloured in outline, scale 4" to 1 mile. Off-setting on last page. 1837. £22.00

  17. White Cross Green Wood CATALOGUE OF 51 PLATS OF CAPITAL UNDERWOOD Standing in White Cross Green Wood and in Gardiner's Coppice, Bucks, Adjoining the Road leading from Oxford to Brill, and about 6 Miles from Oxford, The Property of Lady Croke, Which Will Be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. T. Mallam & Son, on Thursday, December 8, 1853, At Mr J. Burrows's the Sign of the Kings Arms Studley.... Poster, size 13«" x 8«", slightly off-set. Printed by H. Cooke and Co., Oxford, 1853. £24.00
    'The young Heirs of Oak mus be left uncut and not damaged...'


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    Cambridgeshire


  18. Cambridge TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets Tl 45 N.E and N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 20" x 19", plus wide margins. Contours in red. Provisional edition. 1960. £12.00
    Covers the whole of the town of Cambridge, Teversham, Coton.


  19. Chatteris, Dodington AN ACT for imbanking and draining certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds, within the Parishes of Chatteris and Dodington, and Hamlet of Wimblington, in the Isle of Ely... and for dividing... the Commons and Waste Lands... of Wimblington. 56pp., plus cover leaf. Black letter, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1791. £22.00

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

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    Cheshire


  21. Middlewich ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXX N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Small blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. O.S. blindstamp 1897. £18.00

  22. Northwich, Sandbach ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXX.N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. Railways inserted to 1891. O.S. blindstamp 1897. £18.00

  23. Sandbach PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of Valuable Freehold Land, House, Smith & Buildings at Arclid, near Sandbach..... to be Sold by Auction.... 26th day of October, 1887. 2pp., folio, plus docket title, 1p. hand-coloured plan, 2p. Conditions of Sale on blue paper sewn in at rear. Attractively printed in blue. 1887. £35.00

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    Cornwall


  24. Bodmin Gas Consumers' Co., Ltd. RULES To be observed by the Company's Employees. Attactively printed poster size 18" x 12", giving 12 rules for operation of the valves, management of the Retort House, hours of work, duties of Lamplighters etc., in decorative border with Celtic type ornament at the corners. Rule 5 gives a table of Pressure for the Town Governor and the Asylum Governor for different times of day in Summer and Winter. A few minor repaired edge tears, traces of folds. c1835. £45.00
    'The Stoker on duty to have charge of the Valves which direct the flow of Gas into the Gas-holders, and regulate the supply to the Town... The Lamplighters to commence lighting at Six...' etc.


  25. Bodmin REPORT ON THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF BODMIN 2pp., with folding map, coloured in outline. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £24.00

  26. Caerhays Castle BASEMENT PLAN OF CELLARS AND WINE BINS Scale 4 ft. to an Inch. Drawing in ink on paper size 12" x 21", folds. Plan shows cellars with rainwater slate tanks, drain, four bays, with elevation above showing 'Interior of Wine Bins with Nos.' (20-26 in each of the four). Signed '20.5.85. W.W.' 1885. £35.00

  27. Camelford, Trewen ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XIV.II. Scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Folded to 8vo. Second edition 1907. £17.00
    Shows the whole of Camelford, Valley Truckle, Jetwells, Treclago


  28. Carnbellack AN AGREEMENT by which John Hill of Helston, Gent., grants a lease of the Tenement of Carnbellack to Athanasius Pryor of Wendron, yeoman. 1p., sm. 4to, blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Signed and witnessed. 1710. £12.00
    'Rent to be 20 shillings, 1 shilling for Capon and four pence for havest day, and four shillings in lieu of a Best Beast... the sd. Mr Hill reserves all Tyn...'


  29. Duchy of Cornwall A BILL to confirm the Awards of Assessionable Manors Commissioners, and for other Purposes relating to the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. 11pp. 1848. £12.00

  30. Gastineau (H), del. TREMATON CASTLE Cornwall. Engraving, size 4" x 5", showing river and boats in the foreground, castle on a hill. In cream thick card mount. c1840. £8.00

  31. Gorran Haven LETTER dated 10th Feb. 1879 to Mr. Pryor from Robert Lanyon, Treveague St. 2«p., 8vo, saying the slip before the Fish Cellar at Gorran is washed away and high tides could damage the cellar, suggests Pryor might want to lease the 3 Lofts and fish cellar: 'there are several of the best men going to have a new small Pilchard Seine... I think they would require some place to keep the Seine...' 1879. £8.00

  32. 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.


  33. Helston Church TWO RECIEPTED BILLS on slips of paper. One 'A bill for washing the Church Lynin and other things Mr. John Rogers Mayor. 1783.' inlcudes his dinner on Court Day, and cleaning the church plate. Receipted as paid by John Jago, the other a bill for glass at the church '14 sqrs. of new Glass 6 pr Sqr... For Lid (lead?) and Binds...' Receipted by John Repper, Glazier. 1783. £10.00

  34. Helston THE VOLUNTARY EXAMINATION of Mary Stevens of Helston, who says she is 'big with a base child' chargeable to the Borough and that Williams, late a servant with Mr. Seilly of Falmouth, is the Father. 1p., 4to, printed with MS inserts, signed with her mark by Mary, and by the Mayor, Isaac Head. 1816. £24.00

  35. Kea SETT of Ground in the parish of Kea, R. Hill of Carwythenack to J. Williams of Scorrier House. Two vellum sheets, size 21" x 28", signed by Hill with wax seal. 1819. £50.00
    One of the stipulations for working the set was that a minimum of four men was to be employed.


  36. Lavethan Estate SALE OF FREEHOLD FARMS Accommodation Lands, Cottages, in the Parishes of Blisland and St. Breward, For Sale by Auction... 5th June, 1910. 14pp., small folio, printed wraps with number pasted at top. 1910. £24.00
    With detailed schedules. Includes Quarry at Tresarrett, Ivy Farm, Lease Farm, Metherin Farm, Cocks Penrose, Struland, Barlendew, Royal Oak Inn at Churchtown.


  37. 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

  38. Liskeard, Camelford ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold, Residential and Sporting Estate of 'Lewarne', for Sale by Auction... 18th July, 1916. By direction of Horace B. Grylls. 60pp., folio, printed wraps, 4 photographic views of the house on two plates, one only of three plans in pocket at back (lacks plans 1 and 2), key plan inside front wrap. Water-stain at corner of front wrap (not affecting contents). With numerous Schedules giving field names, rentals etc., including a two-page list of the payers of the Tithe Rent Charges. Some results pencilled in. 1916. £75.00
    The estate included the Pleasure Grounds, Ornamental Woodland, Grass Farm, Glass Houses etc., Trout and Salmon-Peel Fishing in the Fowey, eight mixed farms, freehold of Goonzion and Hardhead Downs, Brown Gelly Downs (including 1/20th minerals underlying), The Manor House, St. Neot, Gill Wood on the Fowey.


  39. Lostwithiel ST AUSTELL LISKEARD ROAD A390 Cornwall County Council. E. Collcutt, County Surveyor. Map so titled, printed on linen, size 27" x 59", scale 1/2500. Shows Lostwithiel and surrounding fields, road shown in red making 'U' bend across river and railway from North Street to Burn's Cottage. Folds. Three (burn?) holes in blank area. n.d. 1950's? £22.00

  40. Morden (Robt.) CORNWALL Engraved map, handcoloured, size 14" x 16", large colourful title cartouche, Table at top with key to the figures, and an explanation of the signs for Market Town, Parish etc. Central fold, reinforced on verso. Trimmed almost to neatline. Slight 'cockling' of paper in parts. 1695 £75.00
    From the 1695 edition of Camden's 'Britannia'.


  41. Morvah, St. Just TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXIa S.E. & LXVII N.E. (Morvah, Gurnard's Head Mine, Bosporthennis) and LXXIIIa N.E. & LXXIII N.W. (St. Just, Cape Cornwall, Joppa). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Linen-backed, folded to 7" x 5". Two items. Second Edition 1909. £19.00

  42. Nicholls (G.F) CORNWALL WATER-COLOURS 19 coloured plates, sm. 4to, coloured illustration on front board. A. & C. Black, 1919. £16.00

  43. Peter (Thurstan C) COMMONPLACE BOOKS Small 8vo plain paper notebook, full morocco, spine detatched and rubbed, with 43 pages of ink sketches, the rest blank. Mostly humourous cartoon-like sketches, and small sketches of detail from statuary etc., but also includes 8 pages of Cornish crosses, one per page, with brief description giving place, type of carving etc. Each drawing dated and initialled TCP. Loosely inserted is a drawing of Redruth National School. Inscribed on fly-leaf 'Thurston C. Peter August 1872.'.... together with.... Commonplace book, sm. 8vo, morocco wraps, 79p of copied epigrams, verses etc. Inscribed with his name and date. 2 items. 1873-5. £60.00

  44. Prideaux family THE ACCOUNT OF EDWARD MANLEY The Receiver appointed persuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery bearing date the 17 day of July 1778 to receive the rents and profits of the Estates late of Sir John Prideaux Bart. dec'd. and devised by his Will lying within the Cos. of Devon and Cornwall... so far as concerns the Parish of St. Minver... An Account of Tythes of the year 1781 rec'd in the month of July 1782. 3 pages, large folio, manuscript, listing Purchasers' names, acreage with wheat, barley, oats, peas, Gross Receipts, plus a final sheet of expenses, e.g. 'Pd. Thomas Pope his Bill for Entertainment of the farmers on paying Tythe'. Together with 3 similar pages for Tythes 1779 received 1780. 6 pages in total. 1779-80. £45.00
    Each lists 69 names. The document concerns a case in Chancery between Edward and Edmund Prideaux and Sir John Wilmot Prideaux, Earl Lisburn and others.


  45. Queen Anne's Bounty CERTIFICATE from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty charging the Vicarage of St. Wendron to repay the £195 advanced for 5 years in 5 instalments. Sm. folio, printed with ms inserts, fine papered seal of the Governors, 4" deep. 1926. £15.00

  46. Redruth LETTER to Js. Plomer from Wm. Davey, on behalf of the Redruth Railway, offering him fifty pounds as compensation 'for the Freehold through which their road has passed the property of the late W.R. Hill. Docket titled on verso 'Letter... offering £50 for land injured by the Rail Road'. 1p, 4to., folded. Redruth 1st November, 1829. £12.00

  47. Sennen TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXXIII S.W. (Sennen Cove, Aire Point, Brea), and LXVIII N.W. (Land's End, Porthcurno, Sennen) Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 12" x 18". Linen-backed, folded to 7" x 5". Second edition 1908. £20.00

  48. St. Erth AUCTION POSTER Advertising the sale of the Fee-Simple of a Tenement in Higher Leah, adjoining Tenement in Killinoon, in the occupation of Richard Woon, moiety of Killinoon Common.... Sale at the White Hart Hotel, Hayle, on Friday 15th August 1873. Size 24" x 17", several folds, few short tears to margins. 1873. £16.00

  49. St. Minver LETTER dated Helston 26th September 1763. Docket title on verso 'Copy of a ltre. this day sent Mr Brown about St. Minver'. 4to, 19 lines, presumably in Sandys hand with his signature. Accepts the purchase of the next presentation to the Church of St. Minver, saying he will meet Mr. Carthew at the White Hart Bodmin 'tuesday se'ennight at dinner' to hand him '£200 cash and £300 bills as cash is so difficult to obtain'... together with... Brown's reply suggesting Thursday instead, dated 27th Sept., with address panel to Richard Sandys Attorney, Helston. 2 items. 1763. £15.00

  50. St. Minver LETTER to William Sandys at St. Minver from H. Paynter, Trevibban(?), saying he had been told by Mr Hawtrey of St. Issey that 'he met with some of your farmers a few days ago at Wadebridge and they said to him if I continued valuing the farmers' estates in St. Minver that I shd. certainly be shot.... these words is not plesent...'. 1p., sm. 4to, folded with address panel, remains of seal, address torn. 1800. £7.00

  51. Stithians RULES AND REGULATIONS of Stithians Cattle Insurance Society. Leaflet, 2p., 4to, folds. Light brown staining throughout. 12 Rules. 1865. £6.00

  52. Tackbeare, Bridgerule A GENERAL LIVERY in the name of James I, to John Gilbert of the Manor of Tackbeare, in the parish of Bridgerule. In Latin on vellum, in strong black ink, size 10" x 14", about one third remaining of large heavy seal on a wide tag, showing the back half of a knight on a horse, a rose and a harp. The portion of the seal remaining is approx. 3" x 4". Fine calligraphic decoration at top with flourishes along the top margin. Endorsed on verso and signed by Walter Tooke and W. Curll. 1604. £70.00
    Refers to an Inquisition Post Mortem of Elizabeth Mayne, who held the manor of the Crown, who died at Bridgerule 1602, and that her heir was John Gilbert.


  53. Treen, Tregiffian, Boskennal ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXVIII N.E. & S.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 18". Linen-backed, folding to 7" x 5". Second Edition 1908. £10.00

  54. Tresavean Mine SECTION ON TRESAVEAN MAIN LODE Printed plan, size 20" x 30", numbered '3' top right. Scale 1" = 200ft. Shows shafts, 'Number of times the Pitch was Set for Tin and Copper' shown in Roman numerals, Table of Pitches bottom left giving Levels, Pitches, Prices, Dates, etc. Folded. c1860. £16.00
    Probably one of a series of plans from a report, or similar. Dates on plan are between 1844 and 1854.


  55. Truro TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN and Capital Burgesses of the Borough of Truro... Election handbill in the form of a letter from 'A Disinterested Observer' extolling the virtues of Sir Hussey Vivian 'a Man who was born and bred amongst you... and only wishess to blend the civic wreath with the military garland to shew... his fervent attachment to the interests of the town of Truro'. Size 13" x 8", traces of folds, some creasing, splash of ceiling wax over one letter in heading, a few small browning spots. Truro June 6, 1818. £28.00

  56. Truro, Saint Austell, Redruth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXI. Size approx. 24" x 36". Scale 1" to 1 mile. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. Printed from an Electrotype in 1880. £34.00
    Covers an area from the Helford River to Polpero and from Illogan and Perran Sands to Lanreath.


  57. Williams family, Scorrier GROUP OF LETTERS from John Michael Williams to Henry and George Williams at Scorrier House and Tredrea, Cornwall, 1853-9. Refers to amounts of copper sold 'We have sold largely here this week of Copper and I shall sell only sparingly seeing there is a speculative demand for a further advance'. Gives advice on the conduct of business: 'The representatives of the Devon Consols & Phoenix Mines should be spoken to on Thursday next about their not getting the ores ready for sampling'. 'I am sorry to see you bought nearly all rich ores on Thursday. It is useless to purchase rich ores in Cornwall... when we only want poor sulphur ores....' Mentions the plans for carrying on of Freeman's Works 'H.H.V. (i.e. Hussey Vivian) is not likely to meet us... they evidently want to drive us to give them half interest...' Refers to the Devoran Railway ('I think we shall get them to terms'), the effects of the insurrection in Chile on shipments of ore ('the quantity now on the way home exclusive of Gibb's contract is very large, 15 or 16 vessels names known'), and the prospect of defeat for Lord John Russell. 7 letters, all but the earliest with mourning borders, 8vo., approx. 3 pages in each... together with... 2 letters from Richard Harvey in Torquay to Henry Williams, about the illness of his father, April 1858, each 2p, 8vo. 1853 and 1858-9. £95.00

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    Cumberland


  58. Abbey Town PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of.... the Border Estate, together with 15 Stints or Cattle Gaits on Calvo.... Cottages in Holme Cultram.... to be Sold by Auction, 25th September, 1894. 3pp., folio, folded. 1894. £14.00

  59. Carlisle PARTICULARS, PLANS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of valuable freehold estate called 'Knight's Lodge', situate at Ivegill.... Closes of Land at Greystone.... and excellent dwelling house no. 42 Aglionby St., Carlisle..... to be Sold by Auction.... 23rd September, 1902. 3pp., folio, folds, docket title, 2 large folding plans. 1902. £28.00

  60. Carlisle PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Estates situate in Carlisle... comprising Two Freehold Dwelling Houses, and Two Shops Adjoining... The Wellington Inn in English Street... share in the Three Crowns Inn and several dwelling houses... to be sold by auction... 3rd of September, 1867. 3pp., folio, folds, with docket title. Double page coloured plan. Some small splits folds at edge. 1867. £32.00

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

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    Derbyshire


  62. Castleton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXI.N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Red 'Record Map' stamp in margin. Railways inserted to 1867. Printed 1890. £18.00

  63. Derby AN ACT for paving, cleansing, lighting and otherwise improving, the Streets, Lanes, and other publick Passages within the Borough of Derby and for selling a certain Piece of Waste Ground called Nun's Green.... 44pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. plus cover sheet. 1792. £16.00

  64. Derby AN ACT for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts within the Borough of Derby... 17pp., plus cover leaf. First few leaves slightly foxed, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1766. £14.00

  65. Derby TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by: Mr. Shaw, at the George Inn, in Derby...12th day of July.... Estates In Mackworth and Langley and in Spondon. Handbill, size 13" x 8", describing 4 Lots, with occupiers. J. Drewry, Printer, Derby, June 29th, 1805. £45.00

  66. Duffield NOTICE Having appointed Samuel Spenser of Belper, to collect my small Tythes and Easter Dues... in order to accommodate and save my Parishioners the trouble of attending at Duffield I have directed the said S. Spenser to call upon each Person at his Residence.... Handbill from F. Dixon, Vicar of Duffield, warning them that the collector will call only twice, and after that he will have to compel payment by civil and ecclesiastical Law. With an extract from the Endowment giving charges for each cottage, every foal, every swarm of bees, and the proportion of geese, pigs etc. he is entitled to. Size 8" x 7", laid down on thin card. c1810. £32.00

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    Devon


  67. Ashburton AN ACT for repairing and widening the Road from Chudleigh Bridge in the Parish of Hennock, in the County of Devon, through the Town and Borough of Ashburton, to Brent Bridge.... 37pp, disbound, black letter, plus cover leaf. Slight browning of paper. 1755. £20.00

  68. Ashton, Kenn, Thorverton AN ACT for Confirming and Establishing the Partition of the Estates late of Sir George Chudleigh.... Tryphena Davie and John Pollexfen; and for settling the several specifick Shares thereof.... and for authorizing Leases to be made of divers Parts of the Premises. 25pp, small folio, attractive engraved headpiece showing pelican and young, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1745. £18.00

    FINE TINTED LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS

  69. Banfield (J) & Rowe (George) Publisher SCENERY IN THE NORTH OF DEVON. With 32 tinted lithographic plates, after George Rowe and others. Views are approx. 7" x 11", overall size of book 10" x 14".Decorative cloth boards, with the original paper label on top board, quarter calf, rubbed, short splits in calf at top of spine. A few of the plates have some minor foxing in the margins. Banfield, Ilfracombe: c1837, and G. Rowe, Cheltenham: 1835 - 1845. £740.00
    According to Somers Cox in 'Devon Topographical Prints' Banfield published 32 lithographs in all, so this is a complete set. The plates are mainly views of Ilfracombe, Lynton, Lynmouth, Valley of the Rocks, Watersmeet, Dunster, Clovelly, Combe Martin.


  70. Barnstaple AUCTION SALE PARTICULARS of valuable dwelling house and shop no 68 High Street, and also about 11 acres of Eligible Building Land.... for Sale by Auction.... 23rd December 1880. 3pp. folio, folded with docket title. Spotty. 1880. £10.00

  71. Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Ashcombe Hill ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size approx. 24" x 36". 1890. £25.00
    Much of the map is sea area.


  72. Bowen (Eman.) AN ACCURATE MAP OF DEVONSHIRE Divided into Hundreds.... Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to the Natural produce, Mines, Minerals, Trade Manufactures.... Map size 21" x 27", trimmed to border, coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen. Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & Robert Sayer in Fleet Street & Robt. Wilkinson No. 58 in Cornhill. (1770). £175.00
    With fine inset plan of Plymouth, with tables of reference for the Citadel and the Town, size 8«" x 7«", large cartouche showing fishing boats, cider press, mining equipment etc.


  73. Broadclist AN ACT to transfer the Endowments of the Domestic Chapel of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Baronet at Columb John in the Parish of Broadclist in the County of Devon, which Chapel is proposed to be pulled down, to a Chapel intended to be built in lieu thereof near his Residence at Killerton in the same Parish. 11pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1837. £16.00

  74. Broadclist Inclosure AN ACT for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Broadclist.... 32pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1829. £18.00

  75. Broadwood-kelly ABSTRACT OF MR GEORGE COLWILL'S TITLE to Bowood and Inleigh in Broadwoodkelly and Okehampton. 2p, folio, 2 small holes in paper with loss of name of one parish in title and two words in first paragraph. Details indentures etc. from 1668 to 1714. With opinion of lawyer added as to a Recovery dated 1726. £16.00

  76. Broadwood-kelly ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS for the proposed restoration. Four architectural drawings on tracing paper mounted on thin card, signed Gould & Son, Archts. 1867. Comprises: (i) Plan as at present. Scale 8 feet to 1 inch. Black ink. (ii) South Elevation as at Present. Scale 8 feet to 1 inch. Black ink with a couple of notes. Some chipping of tracing paper at edges. (iii) South elevation. Scale 8 feet to 1 inch. Black ink with roof in brown red and grey. Three brief ms notes, e.g. 'no new coping is included or proposed at present, but the old on the chancel to be restored and a new cross fixed'. In the blank area above the drawing a piece of the tracing paper has been torn, leaving the remains of a red wax seal and the end of a signature, small piece missing from top corner in margin. (iv) Seats. Comprising 'Section of Seats' 'Elevation of Ends', Elevation of Front & Back framing', 'Children's Seats'. In full wash colour, with detailed measurements. Wax seal below title with date July 16th 1867. All drawings titled with name of church in Gothic-style lettering. Lettering throughout very decorative. 1867. £110.00

  77. Clayhidon AN ACT For Inclosing Lands in the Manor of Clayhidon in the Parish of Clayhidon.... 21pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1812. £18.00

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


  79. Exeter FOR THE BENEFIT OF AN INTENDED SCAVENGER At the Sign of the Saddle, near East-Gate, Is Now Performing A Celebrated Play, Called The Busy Body; or the Exeter Paving Scheme. Marplot... Mr C---e... his Friends... solicit the Suffrages of the Inhabitants, in electing him to succeed the celebrated Harry White, not doubting he will give general Satisfaction, as he will not hesitate to pick up any Excrement or Filth with his Fingers.... we beg no Time may be lost in electing him one of the City Scavengers... Handbill in the form of a cod playbill. Size 9" x 5", lightly browned due to waterstaining across two thirds of surface. c1800. £28.00

  80. Exeter to Dartmoor Road AN ACT for Repairing and Widening the Road from the Exeter Turnpike at Reedy Gate, in the Parish of Dunsford... to Cherrybrook, in the Forest of Dartmoore... 28pp., plus cover leaf, black letter. Disbound. Act of Parliament. 1772. £20.00

  81. Hemiock PARTICULARS OF THE MANOR OF HEMIOCK, CASTLE FARM, AND OTHER LANDS, In Hemiock Aforesaid, Which Will Be Sold by Auction, By Messrs. Hussey & Son, at The Star Inn, In Hemiock, On Wednesday the 23rd June, 1869. Lot 1 comprises the Lordship and Hundred of Hemiock, with Castle Farm, and the other 5 Lots include lands at Coniger, Newlands, Fourways, with Schedules for each Lot. Folio, 5pp, folded. 1869. £24.00

  82. Kingsbridge Railway Company AN ACT to enable the Kingsbridge Railway Company to make Deviations in and to alter the Levels of their authorized Railway.... 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1866. £12.00

  83. Kingsbridge, Dartmouth, Modbury, Salcombe Road AN ACT for more effectually making, repairing, and maintaining certain Roads from Kingsbridge to Dartmouth, Modbury, Salcombe, and other Places.... 15pp. 1828. £14.00

    COMPTON CASTLE

  84. Marldon and Ipplepen PARTICULARS WITH PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Highly Important Freehold Domain... known as 'The Compton Castle Estate', Comprising The Historical and Venerable Remains of an Ancient Castle... together with an Attractively-Situated Residence with Charming Pleasure Grounds... Farms, Compact Tenements and Small-Holdings... An Area of about 1,100 Acres... Which will be Offered for Sale by Messrs. Andrew & Son... 24th June, 1904. 26pp., folio, stapled, 6 very large folding coloured plans. Foredges of pages dusty, water stain at top of last few leaves (not affecting plans) which caused some leaves to stick together along the top and tear slightly when separated, first page dusty and dog-eared at edges. Title page loose. Buff-coloured printed wraps with good lithograph view of the castle, cloth spine, wraps creased, and dusty at edges, small tear at top left corner, detached from content. 1904. £85.00
    Includes a photograph of the Castle, with a 3 page description of it. Other properties include 'Coombefishacre' Estate, Compton Mill, Compton Farm, Compton Barton, Brookside Farm, the 'Hole in the Wall' Cottages, 'Parkfield' in Marldon, Limestone Quarry at Path Torr, Totnes Down. With detailed Schedules.


  85. Pancrasweek CONVEYANCE of a messuage and tenement called Brookhill in Pancrasweek Devon, Hugh Stucley to William Gilbert. 3 pages, folio, folded. With coloured manuscript plan on waxed cotton, size 13" x 20", showing River Tamar and Bude Canal. 1912... together with... Conveyance of part of Brookhill, John Gilbert to Philip Symons, 1920, similar format, manuscript plan size 11" x 15". 1912-20. £24.00

  86. Plymouth Station AN ACT to enable the South Devon Railway Company to improve their Plymouth and other Stations; to widen parts of their Railway.... 6pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1860. £12.00

  87. Plymouth WILL of Joseph Ball of Plymouth, pipemaker, 1745. Extracted from the Registry of the Archdeacon's Court of Totnes. 2p., folio, closely written. Leaves 2 tenements in Plymouth near the old conduit, and a passage leading to Jacobs Well, a tenement in Nutt Street, and messuages in Wimple Street in the occupation of Joseph Collin, Goldsmith, messuage in St. Andrews St., formerly in the possession of Philip Pearse, limner. Also leaves silver tankard marked IB. Attached is Administration, in manuscript, with papered seal of the Archdeaconry of Totnes, pursuant to the sale of one of the properties. 1770. £32.00
    The Administratrix, Ball's daughter, died shortly after him, and Samuel Champion was made the Administrator.


  88. Plymouth, Kingsbridge ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXIV. Folded in three vertically, trimmed to border on three sides, but with marginal information at bottom. Whatman watermark 1857. £38.00
    Shows area from Looe to Prawle Point, as far inland as Diptford, Eddystone Lighthouse. Much of the map is sea area.


  89. Sidmouth Railway and Harbour (New Works) BOOK OF REFERENCE Session 1864-5. 9p folio, printed with columns for No on Plan., Description of Property, Name of Owner, Lessee, Occupier, with details filled in in MS. Original printed wraps, tears at top of back wrap, traces of vertical folds. 1865. £40.00
    Lists 69 properties.


  90. Sidmouth Railway AN ACT to authorise the construction of a Railway.... to be called "the Sidmouth Railway".... 18pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1871. £24.00

  91. South Devon Railway Company AN ACT to enable the South Devon Railway Company to extend the Line of the South Devon Railway to Torquay and to Brixham.... 11pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1847. £15.00

  92. Stockton BOND of Charles Trotter, and Thomas and John Hutchinson to Sarah Hutchinson for £1400. 1p., sm. folio, signed and witnessed. Folded with docket title on blank conjoint leaf. 1864. £8.00

  93. Stokeintinhead AN ACT for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Stokeintinhead.... 19pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1809 £18.00

  94. Stonehouse POSTER advertising the sale by Auction at the Prince George Hotel, Tuesday 19th February 1839, of a house in Union Lane, and four tenements in Adelaide Lane. Size 17«" x 11". Prices realised in ink on verso, folds, two small repaired edge tears. 1839. £24.00

  95. Sutton Harbour Improvement Company AN ACT to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to enter into and carry into effect agreements.... 3pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1876. £10.00

  96. Tawstock MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT of John Mules of Roulsdon and Emlyn Ley, daughter of Henry Ley of Tawstock. Tripartite indenture, granting messuage, cottages, lands, and a moiety of the fishing in the River Taw to William Ley the younger and Wiliam Berry. Vellum, size 21" x 28", 4 wax seals, engraved heading. 1" tear in vellum repaired on verso. 1731. £30.00
    The property is referred to as North Marsh, The Grove, Greene and Chapelton. It had been leased by Sir Bouchier Wrey to William Ley the elder in 1725.


  97. Torquay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Fifth Edition, Sheet No. 145. 1" to 1 mile, blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. Fine condition. 1930's. £9.00
    'Book' type wraps.


  98. Totnes and Ashburton Roads AN ACT for continuing the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers of Two Acts.... for amending the Roads leading from or near the North Side of the Town of Totnes, towards Ashburton.... and for building a Bridge at or near a Place called Emmett, across the River Dart. 22pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. Last leaf loose. 1805. £18.00

  99. Wallis (J), Pub., Sidmouth KNOWLE COTTAGE, SIDMOUTH Lithograph on India Paper, drawn on stone by G. Rowe, size 5" x 6", plus margins, traces of glue on verso in margin corners. c1840. £16.00

  100. Werrington Park IMPORTANT SALE OF 37 PEDIGREE DEVON CATTLE Also 42 Pedigree Devon Cattle, From the Ham Mill Herd... 1st August 1944. Catalogue of sale, 25p, 8vo, wraps, staples rusty, rust stain with small hole at edge of front wrap, and mark on first few leaves. 1944. £8.00
    Prices added in pencil.


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  101. Beaminster AN ABSTRACT OF MR. WILLIAM RICHARDS his Title to Lands called Chappel Marsh in the parish of Beaminster. Details deeds from 1588 to 1736. 2p., sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf. Signed John Russell, 1768, as having received the deeds. 1768. £25.00

  102. Blandford AFFADAVIT of George Long, Mercer, of Langton, Long Blandford, that he has not at any time sold, enfeoffed, released a messuage in Stourpaine this day conveyed to John Parker of Blandford Forum, Surgeon. 1p., sm. folio, signed George Long and witnessed by C. Guy. 1727. £10.00

  103. Bridport LETTER from Philip Harwood, a Minister to his 'Friends of the Bridport Unitarian Congregation', upon his leaving Bridport, thanking them for their gift and their support in the last five years. 3p, 4to. April 18th, 1840. £8.00

  104. Dorchester, Wareham GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. 328. Drift. Colour-printed, size 13" x 19", plus margins, key, section. Linen backed and folding to 4to, blue endpapers. 1958. £17.00

  105. Elliott's West Howe Pottery, Kinson SUGGESTIONS FOR BRICK AND TILE FIREPLACES Chimneys, Pergola Columns, Garden Brickwork. Catalogue, 24pp., a colour plate and numerous pencil illusts., prices and detailed information on each product. 1930's(?). £17.00

  106. Lyme Regis SUNLIGHT AT LYME REGIS Article reprinted from 'Pulman's Weekly News', January 12th, 1932. 1p, 8vo. together with a description of 'Lime Regis' from an 18th century work, 1p., oblong 8vo, headed 'Num. L.' 1932 and late 18th century. £6.00

  107. Poole Harbour ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Large Sheet Series. Sheet 144. Scale 1" to a Mile. White cloth wraps with coat of arms. 1909. £10.00

  108. Sturminster Newton ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT between Thomas Buffett of Winterbourne Whitchurch, Cooper, and Thomas Young of Sturminster Newton, Clothier, regarding a lease of a tenement of 18 acres in part of Sturminster called Bagber near Two Fords Bridge, called Peaslease. 29 lines in a fine hand, on paper size 15" x 12", signed by Buffett and three witnesses, with small wax seal. 1705. £30.00
    Buffett had acquired the authority 'to sell and dispose of the inheritance' from Edward Cook of Highnam in Cloucestershire.


  109. Sturminster Newton DISCHARGE of John Young of St. Botolph Without Aldgate, Middlesex, Grocer, to his brother Thomas Young, of Sturminster Newton Castle, Clothier, of any claim on the inheritance from their father, in return for a sum of money. 33 lines, small folio, blank conjoint leaf. Signed by Young and three witnesses, including Nicholas and Phillis Romayne. 1694. £30.00

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  110. Barnard Castle ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Large Sheet Series. Sheet 14. Scale 1" to a mile. Linen-backed, white cloth wraps with coat of arms. Feint bookseller's stamp in bottom corner of front wrap. 1907. £12.00

  111. Durham PROBATE of the Will of Jane Blackburn formerly of Durham and later of Islington. 3 large vellum pages with printed certificate attached. Large papered seal on tag. 1854. £12.00

  112. Long Newton Estate, Stockton-on-Tees PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of Valuable Freehold Farms on the Highroad between Stockton and Darlington... Which will be Sold by Auction... 17th day of September 1890. Folio, printed wraps, description of lots inside front wrap, very large folding plan, coloured in outline. Back wrap, with docket title, dusty. 1890. £35.00

  113. Ryhope, Silksworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XIV. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size approx. 23" x 35", linen-backed. Map hand coloured geologically, and much geological information added in neat black lettering (e.g. 'Strewn with limestone', 'sand dark-coloured at surface' etc.). In top margin is written 'Geological information copied at 28 Jermyn Street from the original manuscript map 20th September 1890. The original map geologically surveyed by W. Howell.' Map published 1861, MS information added later. £50.00
    Covers several collieries.


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    Essex


  114. Bradwell Marshes ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LVI. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. One field shaded. Over three-quarters of the map is sea or Flats. 1880. £16.00

  115. Forest of Hainault AN ACT for disafforesting the Forest of Hainault in the County of Essex. Pages numbered 369-378, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre, and William Spottiswoode, 1851. £12.00

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

  117. Harwich, Shottisham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVIII N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19", plus wide margins. Paper slightly darkened at edges, a line of light brownish off-setting in sea area. O.S. blindstamp 1866. £17.00

  118. Marks Hall, Chelmsford LETTER from J(?) Hopwood, Marks Hall, 'Saturday evening', to 'My dear Williams' about shooting 'I hope you will come and see me in September... I think there will be plenty of partridge this season... my horses and hounds are going well...' Says he is going to Devonshire to stay with the Carews, mentions obtaining a greyhound, and a visit to Harrow 'much altered'. 4p, 12mo. n.d. c1860. £15.00

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  119. Cheltenham CATALOGUE OF HORSES To be Sold by Auction by Warner, Sheppard & Wade Ltd. at The Repository, Cheltenham, Oct. 13th.... Catalogue, 4pp., folio, folded. Lists 96 horses under owner's name, with type of horse, age, character, prizes won, where hunted, brief history etc. Three horizontal folds, with water staining and discolouration along folds, tear in margin at two folds, some foxing spots. Loosely inserted is Catalogue of Carriages, Harness & Saddlery for sale after the horses. 1p. 4to. n.d. late 19th century. £45.00
    Owners include Hartigan Brothers, Waterford; Asgill Colville; R.C Berkeley; Charles Tilley, Huntsfield Court ('sold on account of Owner having bought a Motor Car').


  120. Cirencester Election TO THE FREE, INDEPENDENT, AND WORTHY ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF CIRENCESTER. Gentlemen, The moment is now arrived to which I so anxiously looked forward, - Parliament is dissolved, and on Tuesday next you are to elect your representatives..... you will find me constantly at my post, attending and discharging my Public Duties... your... most obedient Servant, M. Hicks Beach. Williamstrip Park, Oct 2, 1812. Broadside, size approx. 13" x 8". A few foxing spots at edges, traces of folds. Watkins, Printer, Cirencester: 1812. £36.00

  121. Cirencester Election TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF CIRENCESTER. Gentlemen, After the severe Contest we have had, I could have wished that every unpleasant matter, which arose out of it, might have terminated with it; but I am unfortunately called upon to explain an allusion to my conduct in Mr Cripps's last Address.... Your obliged and most obedient Servant, Joseph Pitt. Cirencester, October 16, 1812. Broadside, size approx. 15" x 9", slightly spotty, few small tears to edges. Watkins, Printer, Cirencester, 1812. £42.00

  122. Hicks-Beach (M.E) PHOTOGRAPH Head and shoulders portrait, in profile, size , pasted onto thick card. c1880. £8.00

  123. Newent DEED OF FEOFFMENT of part of a tenement in Church Street, between the house of Thomas Grosvenor and Thomas Taylor, consisting of three chambers, an entry, a room below stairs, a well and a wellhouse with the plot adjoining, Richard Loveridge of Newent, yeoman, to Thomas Taylor. Vellum, size 23" x 29", wax seal. Vellum rather darkened. 1790. £18.00

  124. Shenton (T) Printer PLAYBILL advertising Mr. Fisher's Benefit, 'on which occasion.... his sister Miss Clara Fisher.... will make her Last Appearance in an entirely new Piece called the Ten Mowbrays, in which she will Personate Ten Different Characters!!!'. Size 17" x 7", two small repairs at top edge where paper inserted into tears. Print on large black letters rather grainy. T. Shenton, Printer, Rose and Crown Passage, Cheltenham: 1826. £35.00
    Includes the 'melo Dramatic Spectacle 'The Wild Man of the Woods'.


  125. Slimbridge PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Freehold Estate Known as Kingston Farm, with Good Farm House & Buildings, Four Cottages, 116 Acres.... and Orcharding.... close to some of the best meets of Lord Fitzhardinge's Hounds.... to Be Sold by Auction.... 28th June, 1884. 4pp., folio, folded, large hand-coloured folding plan loosely inserted. 1884. £36.00

  126. South Cerney TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION By Mr Jefferies, At the George Inn, South Cerney, On Saturday, the 29th of June, 1844.... Freehold Property Situate in South Cerney. Poster, printed on one side only, size approx. 17" x 11".' With it are 'Conditions of Sale', 4pp, with manuscript notes and amendments. Two 2" tears in poster, neatly repaired on verso with archival tape. Henry Smith, Printer & Bookseller, Cirencester: 1844. £20.00

  127. Tiddenham MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT between Richard Lowe, Hooper, of Temple in Bristol, son of Richard Lowe late of Twyddenham in Gloucestershire, Yeoman, and Rebecca Steevens, and John Steevens, Hooper, of Bristol, and Nathaniel Hutton of Twyddenham. Relates to lands called Tanners, Holbrooks, Tollers Marsh, Sadbury, near the River Wye at Tidenham which was to be the marriage portion. Two sheets of vellum, one 25" x 32", the second sheet smaller, signed by three parties with wax seals. Large engraved headings. 1727. £36.00

  128. Wickwar LEASE FOR A YEAR of land in the Common Moor of Wickwar, and a close of pasture called Little Bockney, Arthur Machin Hockley to Joseph Plaister, Shopkeeper, of Wickwar. Large vellum sheet, good wax seal. 1819. £16.00

  129. Woollen industry TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY in Humble obedience to your Majesty's Commands signified to me by The Right Honourable George John Earl Spencer.... referring to me the annexed Petition of Isaac Sanford of the City of Gloucester Civil Engineer and Stephen Price of Stroud Civil Engineer to consider thereof... which Petition sets forth that the Petitioners.... have found out and invented a new improvement of method to raise a Nap or Pile on Woollen Cotton and all other Cloth.... Document which would have accompanied the Petition, in MS on 3 pages small folio, signed by Samuel Romilly. Folds, small piece torn from top corner of second page, affecting 3 letters of one word, traces of mounting on blank verso. The letter recommends that a patent be granted, and that the petitioners should cause a complete description of their invention to be inrolled. 1806. £60.00
    George John Spencer was Secretary of State for 1806 only. Paper watermarked 1801.


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  130. Dibden and Hythe CONVEYANCE of Shipyard, Buildings, Works and Land, Mary Richards to Joseph Bayley Haynes. Two large vellum sheets, small wax seals. Ink very rubbed in parts at folds, stain on outside where titled. 1845. £18.00
    Includes 'all that Shipyard with the Quays Wharfs Slips for Building Dock erections' at Dibden, and 'Capstans, sawpits, gearing machinery implements plant of ship building...'


  131. Farley PROBATE OF THE WILL OF ELLIS ST. JOHN of Farley. Two large vellum sheets, small certificate of administration attached. First six words in very large decorative letter. Second sheet spotted with pink and bits of red wax, presumably from a seal which disintegrated and is not present. Some slight spotting, outside where titled dust-stained. 1728. £28.00
    Leaves property, plate etc. to his wife, who was the daughter of Sir Hugh Stouckley. Refers to his Manors of Farley, Littleton, Shoddesdon, Hannington, a farm at South Newton in Wiltshire, a messuage in the High Street, Winchester, South Sea Stock, etc.


  132. Fordingbridge PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of Dwelling-Houses, Orchards, Gardens, Accommodation Land and Site for Buildings, which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Hannan... 15th Sept., 1881. Folio, folded with docket title, 6pp., very large folding plan. Lots marked in ink with the progress of the bidding, and purchaser. 1881. £30.00
    Includes a dwelling called The Old Inn.


  133. Fordingbridge PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of the Ancient Manor of Sandhill, With the site of the manor House, Farm-house and Out-buildings, 125 acres, with rights of pasturage in the New Forest.... which will... be offered by auction... 10th March, 1887. 5pp., 4to, printed on thick paper, folded with docket title, folding coloured plan. 1887. £24.00

  134. Hale LEASE for 99 years of plot of enclosed land called Wile Close, Thomas Gage of Sherborne, Oxford to John Norris of Hale, yeoman. Vellum, large calligraphic ink initial letter 'T' with date inside, 13" x 27", wax seal. Some slight discoloration at fold. 1712. £22.00

  135. Isle of Wight RELEASE of Tythes of Blowe Farm in the parish Whitwell in the Isle of Wight. The Hon. Charles Anderson Pelham and others to Dr. John Sims. With Schedule of deeds from 1757 to 1810. 4 large vellum sheets, two wax seals. Some rubbing of vellum at folds on first sheet. 1810. £22.00

  136. Kingsworthy CONVEYANCE of a piece of land 'now covered with Water', Colonel T.B. Hitcock to W. Barrow Simonds. 3p., on vellum, 4to, red margins. Small coloured plan showing watercourse, Didcot railway etc. 1892. £10.00

  137. Morestead, Twyford, Medstead PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Landed Estates embracing a total area of 583a. 3r. 17p... comprising.... Morestead Farm... Medstead Manor Farm.... Two Enclosures of Valuable Accommodation, Pasture and Coppice Land... for sale by auction... 17th September, 1891. 8pp., folio, two attractive large hand-coloured folding plans, printed wraps, split along most of spine, trace of vertical fold. 1891. £36.00
    Attractively printed in a variety of decorative type-faces.


  138. Rowbotham (Claude) SOUTHAMPTON WATER Etching. Plate size 2«" x 3«", overall size 7" x 9", sea and sky coloured, showing dockside and cranes, boats, signed in pencil below image. Paper very slightly darkened overall... together with... WEST GATE, SOUTHAMPTON aquatint showing the gate at night with lamplight reflected in wet pavement. Size 3" x 2«", overall size 7" x 9", signed in pencil below image. Foxing spots on margins. 1930's or 40's. £20.00

  139. Southampton AN ACT for amending certain Acts of the Forty-third and Fiftieth Years of the reign of His late Majesty King George the third relating to the Port and Harbour of the Town and County of the Town of Southampton. Pages numbered 497-503, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1846. £10.00

  140. Southampton LEASE of a piece of land with the buildings thereon in Three Field Lane, George King to Rolles Driver. Single vellum sheet, wax seal, coloured plan size 9" x 8" in text. 1859. £16.00

  141. Titchfield THE HUNDRED OF TITCHFIELD TAXED TO THE SUBSEDIES the 28th June 1624. List of 81 taxpayers under headings of the different villages, with amount paid and whether in land or goods, in a neat hand on 2 pages 15" x 6". Blank conjoint leaf, on verso of which is a list of 12 names, without any other information. 1624. £110.00
    Includes Titchfield Town, Stubbington, Warsash, Crofton, Funtley, Swanwick.


  142. Winchester CATALOGUE OF SALE of the Modern Equipment of Chilcombe Lodge... Brussels Tapestry, Carpets and Rugs... 300 Volumes of Books... which Mr. Jas. Jenvey... will sell by Auction on the Premises, June 30, 1891. 18pp., 8vo, printed blue wraps. 1891. £8.00

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  143. Kingstone WILL of Ann Collins of Kingstone. Extracted from the Registry of the Diocese of Hereford. 1p, sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf. 1838. Proved 1850. £8.00
    Refers to her house in Saint Margarets on the Upper Masecod which she held under the Earl of Abergavenny.


  144. Lyonshall PARTICULARS AND PLAN OF TWO VALUABLE FREEHOLD FARMS called "Newhouse" and "Summer Court," In the parish of Lyonshall in the County of Herford.... which will be Sold by Auction by Mr C.F. Blakeley the Oxford Arms Hotel, Kington, On Thursday, the 28th day of July, 1898. Folio, large coloured folding plan, docket title, 4pp. 1898 £26.00

  145. Lyonshall POSTER advertising Sale by Auction of Farms called Newhouse and Summer Court, 28th July, 1898. Size 36" x 22", folds. 1898. £16.00

  146. Trewen area ACCOUNTS Manuscript book of farming accounts, 1805-1815, kept by John Brown. 8 pages of accounts, plus many blank leaves, in a book printed with columns for registering parish apprenticeships, with the relevant 1803 Act printed on the first page. Limp cloth wraps, oblong large 8vo. Records payments for wheat, butter, barley 'paid the Welshmen for repin 44 eaker', 'Acount of money Wm. Davis things do come to', listing 'flaxen sheets', 'candle sticks' etc. 1805-15. £24.00
    Refers to rent at Trewen and Whitchurch.


  147. Ullingswick PARTICULARS AND PLAN of a Valuable Freehold Property known as 'The Steppes Farm'... to be offered for Sale by Auction... 16th July, 1913. 2pp., folio, folded with docket title. Large folding coloured plan. 1913. £18.00

  148. Wellington & Burghill PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of very desirable Landed Properties for Investment or Early Occupation.... Fertile Garden or Hop Lands Well Planted Thriving Orchards.... Commodious Farm House, Homestead & Cottage Residence For Sale by Auction.... July 19, 1871. 7pp., 4to, folded, folding hand-coloured plan. Completed memorandum signed over stamp. Attractively printed in a variety of type-faces. 1871. £32.00

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  149. Hertford TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of The City of Butcherly Green... Political broadside, from 'Alderman Bob Crouch. Saw-Pit Hall 26th April, 1826', offering himself as a candidate 'that I may have the honor of sitting... on the same side of the House as our respected Friend Duncombe'. 4to, small piece torn from top right corner in blank area, some browning and creasing. St. Austin and Sons, Printers, Hertford. 1826. £20.00

  150. Saint Alban's Disfranchisement AN ACT to disenfranchise the Borough of Saint Alban. Pages numbered 161-162, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre, and William Spottiswoode, 1852. £12.00

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  151. Little Ravely ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the receipt of £83 owed to Eleanor Fletcher of Ramsey, nee Raby, under the will of Thomas Pooley of Little Raveley. 1p., folio, blank conjoint leaf, 20 lines. Signed with their marks by Eleanor and Thomas Fletcher, witnessed. 1798. £18.00

  152. Morden (Robt.) HUNTINGTONSHIRE Engraved map, uncoloured, size 14" x 16", title cartouche. Central fold. A few very small tears in top margin. Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchill. c1700. £38.00
    From the 1695 edition of Camden's 'Britannia'.


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


  154. Ashford, Canterbury, Margate ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet III. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Dissected and mounted on linen, size 24" x 36", linen completely split vertically down central fold, thus map in two parts. Folding into chipped paper wraps, 8vo. Trimmed to border all round, no marginal information, some slight off-setting in a few sections in eastern area. n.d. c1860. £22.00

  155. Chartham DEED in Latin, on vellum, size 8" x 13", John Pakenham of Dover Castle to Edmund Farbear of Chartham, granting one messuage called Picklinge with meadow and pasture land in Chartham previously in the occupation of Robert Andrewe. Signed by Packenham, with wax seal lacking about one third of its surface, on tag. 1608. £48.00

  156. Chatham Docks AN ACT for making Compensation to the proprietors of such Lands, and Hereditaments as have been purchased for better securing His Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores, at Chatham and for the Use of His Majesty's Ordnance at Warley Common and Woolwich..... Pages numbered 1189-1195, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1806. £14.00

  157. Erith & Wrotham PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Very Valuable Freehold Estate called The Marsh Farm.... and a Public House called The Chequers or Halfway House, Situate on the Banks of the River Thames, at Erith.... and also of a Freehold Estate, consisting of the Bull Inn and Posting House, Situate at Wrotham, Kent. For Sale by Auction.... 23rd September, 1847. Folio, 3pp, fine hand-coloured double-page plan of Lot 1 with table of reference, possibly lacks plan of Lot 2. 1846. £26.00

  158. Halcot Bexley PARTICULARS, VIEWS, PLAN, & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF The Valuable Freehold Property known as "HALCOT" embracing a Georgian Residence.... Attractive Gardens and Grounds.... in all about 82 acres.... For Sale by Auction by Messrs. Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard.... at the London Auction Mart.... on Wednesday, July 10th, 1935. Folio, with large coloured folding plan in pocket at rear, 2 photographic illusts, 10pp, original printed wraps. 1935. £24.00
    Gives description of the house room by room.


  159. Kent Coal AN ACT to repeal an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for preventing Frauds in the Admeasurement and Delivery of Coals within the several Parishes lying contiguous to the Water-side in the County of Kent. Pages numbered 1037-1038, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817. £10.00

  160. Ramsgate Improvements AN ACT to enlarge the Powers of an Act.... for the better paving, cleansing, repairing, lighting, and watching, the Highways, Streets, and Lanes of and in the Vill of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent.... Cover leaf + pages numbered 447-454, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1796. £12.00

  161. Snave and Brenzett PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Desirable Freehold Property Comprising A Brick and Tiled Dwelling House, Stable... eleven Enclosures of Excellent Pasture Land... For Sale by Auction... 28th day of June, 1904. 2p., folio, plus 1p. conditions of sale, folding coloured plan. Creases, map and pages with repaired tear at old fold, title very dusty at edges. 1904. £20.00

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  162. Clitheroe Junction Railway CAPITAL £150,000 IN 6,000 SHARES of £25 each. Prospectus setting out advantages of proposed Railway, and listing Provisional Committee, with small form for share application at foot of page. 2pp., folio, blank adjoining leaf. 1845. £50.00
    'This Railway is projected for the purpose of connecting the Borough of Clitheroe, and the surrounding district, containing a population of 25,000 inhabitants, taking the Union of Clitheroe alone, with the great system of Railways completed and projected in Lancashire....'


  163. Hillside Colliery MANUSCRIPT PLAN titled 'Lower Mountain Seam' showing the workings. In ink and pink wash on thick paper backed with linen, size 48" x 34". Scale 1/2500. Shows roads and buildings, and workings near Billinge Vicarage and Crank Road, also showing waterlogged workings. 1950's. £30.00

  164. Liverpool Produce Exchange LETTER to Sir Alfred Jones from Sir Wilfred Laurier. On headed notepaper of Hotel d'Angleterre, Rome, with fine large view printed in blue of the hotel in Via Bocca di Leone. 3p, 8vo, outlining the arrangements for his opening the Produce Exchange on 8th October... together with a typewritten letter, signed, from Jones to Col. Montgomery, Liverpool with which he encloses the previous letter: 'he is to open the Produce Exchange then walk across the Corn Exchange.. we will all see him on board the steamer...' 1p., 4to, on headed paper of Elder Dempster & Co, with picture of steamer. 1902. £16.00

  165. 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.


  166. Radcliffe LEASE of Mount Zion Bleach Works and lands in Radcliffe, The Earl of Wilton to John Slagg of Manchester, Commission Merchant. Vellum, size 24" x 28", 2 sheets, schedule, on verso of the second sheet is a good full-page manuscript plan, scale 1" = 3 chains, coloured in outline, showing the River Irwell, old Cut, reservoirs, buildings, print works, house and pleasure garden, fields with names and acreage, adjoining owners named. Outside dusty, two very small holes in vellum. 1875. £46.00

  167. Seacombe PROSPECTUS for a Smelting and Lead Company, at the Seacombe Works, Liverpool. Capital £20,000 in 200 Shares of £100 each. 2pp., folio, blank conjoint leaf. Top corners worn, a few small edge tears repaired with document tape, traces of folds. c1850. £38.00
    The works contain 'three furnaces saturated with lead, four refineries for separating the silver... the machinery consists of a crushing mill, a complete apparatus for drawing lead pipes... a rolling mill... steam engine of 30 horses power...' Emphasises savings to be made by bringing the ores by sea, mentioning ores from Scotland, Cumberland, South Wales, Cornwall, Devon.


  168. Tin Sales LIVERPOOL WEEKLY TIN REPORT 25th - 30th April 1842. 2p., folio, printed in columns for Deliveries, Tin in Stock, Received, etc., details entered in ms. Letter to John Williams at Morfa Copper Works, Swansea on blank conjoint leaf, address panel with Liverpool postmark.... together with... Liverpool Sulphur Ore Report, for the same period, similar document with address panel, postmark. 2 items. 1842. £16.00

  169. Wrigley (J), Printer DEATH OF LORD NELSON and The Cruel Shipcarpenter. Two poems printed in two columns. The 'Shipcarpenter' murdered his lover and was in turn killed by her ghost. Number 343 bottom left. Size 10" x 7". Printed & Sold by J. Wrigley, Junr. 3 Rochdale Road, Manchester. c1850. £20.00

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  170. Huncote SETTLEMENT by Mr and Mrs Harvey of the Red Lion Inn, a butcher's shop and four houses in Huncote to Charles Hall and William Harvey. Large vellum sheet, 2 wax seals. 1878. £12.00

  171. Ibstock APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE binding William Creswell son of Sarah Neal to Theophilus Creswell of Ibstock, Wheelwright, for six years. Vellum, size 10" x 14", printed with manuscript inserts, signed by the three parties, traces only of the three small seals. 1840. £24.00

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  172. Black Bank Farm, Messingham PARTICULARS OF "BLACK BANK FARM" Extending to 118 acres 1 rood 32 perches with Farmhouse and Buildings. For Sale by Auction at the Angel Hotel, Brigg, On Thursday, July 15th, 1948. Coloured folding plan in pocket at rear, 4pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps. 1948. £12.00

  173. East Lincolnshire Railway AN ACT to amend the East Lincolnshire Railway Act, 1846, and to authorize the Construction of a Branch Railway to join the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway... 4pp. disbound. 1847. £12.00

  174. Lincoln Bank TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by Brogden and Son At the Queen Hotel, Lincoln, on Tuesday, February 7th, 1860... 5 Shares in Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Company, and 5 Shares in the County Fire Office.... Poster, 13" x 8«", folds. Ellett Brogden, Pr., Lincoln 1860. £20.00

  175. Moor Farm, Linwood PARTICULARS AND PLAN OF MOOR FARM.... Extending to 63 acres. For Sale by Public Auction..... at the Corn Exchange, Market Rasen, On Tuesday, 13th October, 1964. Small coloured folding plan loosely inserted, 4pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps. 1964. £12.00

  176. North and South Killingholme, Barrow upon Humber & Goxhill PARTICULARS WITH PLANS OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES Situate in the Parishes of North and South Killingholme, Barrow upon Humber & Goxhill extending to 1015a. 3r. 31p. To be offered for Sale by Auction by Reg. J. Broadgate at the Angel Hotel, Brigg, On Thursday, 22nd November, 1945. 2 large folding plans in pocket at rear, 14pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps. 1945. £20.00

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  177. Bermondsey THE BERMONDSEY TRAGEDY! by J. Clarke, and Cottager's Daughter. Two ballads, each with an illustration at the head, the first of a gun, the second a country girl with a basket. Size 9" x 7", number 628 bottom right. Stewart, Printer, Botchergate, Carlisle, c1850. £55.00
    'The Bermondsey Tragedy' tells in 10 stanzas the story of the notorious murder of O'Connor by Mr and Mrs. Manning, in 1849. Mrs. Manning shot O'Connor and she and her husband buried him under his kitchen floor. They were soon apprehended and taken to Horsemonger Gaol where they were executed. The ballad refers to various details of the story, such as that Manning was a Somerset man (in fact he had worked for the GWR), and that Mrs Manning was a foreigner (she was Swiss).


  178. Chelsea Hospital AN ACT to empower the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital to commute Pensions for a Sum of Money in certain Cases. Pages numbered 985-986, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812. £12.00

  179. Edmonton RELEASE of 3 roods of land in the Common Marsh of Edmonton, William Rolfe, Citizen and Haberdasher, to Abraham Jones, Carpenter. Vellum, size 21" x 27", wax seal. Signed by 3 witnesses on verso. 1728. £22.00

  180. Elgin Marbles AN ACT to vest the Elgin Collection of ancient Marbles and Sculpture in the Trustees of the British Museum for the Use of the Public. Pages numbered 865-867, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1816. £45.00

  181. Greenwich Hospital AN ACT to prevent the Embezzlement of certain Property belonging to the Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and to amend so much of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland of the Thirty-third Year of His present Majesty as relates to Payments to Out-pensioners of the said Hospital residing in Ireland. Pages numbered 949-954, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1814. £14.00

  182. Hackney ASSIGNMENT of a brick messuage at Clapton known by the sign of the Windsor Castle, Charles Hurt, Surgeon, to Robert Targus, Victualler. Vellum sheet, two wax seals. Receipted on verso. Ink rather blotchy in places, with some rubbing at folds. 1766. £12.00

  183. Ingram (G), Printer NOTICE B. Ingram of 41 Old Street, St. Luke's, London, Is the Cheapest & Best House in London, For Manufacturing Fancy & Comic Valentines, & Every Description of Poetry Cards, Scent Packets, Book Marks... Illustration of a boy standing outside a shop, wearing a triangular shaped card-board box with lettering as above. Hand-coloured. Size 9«" x 7", dust-marked at edges. London: G. Ingram, 41, Old St., St. Luke's, E.C. n.d. c1860. £18.00

  184. Jeweller's ORDER BOOK 4to notebook with dates (year not given), names and sometimes addresses of customers and items ordered. Items includes bracelets, match boxes in gold and leather, watches, evening bags, pearls, parures, tortoiseshell combs, cigarette cases. The orders have been crossed through in red and marked paid. 40p., cloth wraps, rubbed. n.d. c1910? £25.00
    For example the Marquis of Londonderry ordered 24 items amounting to £101.10s, including 'pigskin motor bag.... £5.15.6d' and 17 other types of bag.


  185. London Pollution AN ACT to abate the Nuisance arising from the Smoke of Furnaces in the Metropolis and from Steam Vessels above London Bridge. Pages numbered 1605-1608, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre, and William Spottiswoode, 1853. £14.00

  186. Millbank Church AN ACT for making Provision for the Rector of the New Church, situate near Millbank, in the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster..... Cover leaf + pages numbered 563-575, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1728. £10.00

  187. Paul & Co. THE PARTED LOVERS by Richard Hatt, and My Own Dear Home. Slip ballad, size 10" x 7«", printed in two columns with a woodcut illustration above each song, the first in an oval showing a woman and a cupid seemingly floating over the sea, the other a man in a garden with two children. Paul & Co., Printers, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. c1840. £30.00

  188. Royal Hospital at Chelsea AN ACT for explaining, amending, and extending the several Laws relative to the Payment of forfeited and unclaimed Shares of Army Prize Money, to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; and for directing the Mode of making up the Accounts of Pensions paid to the Widows of Officers of the Army. Pages numbered 1209-1218, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1812. £11.00

  189. St. George's, Hanover Square EASTER-OFFERINGS Being appointed by the Reverend Dr. Courtenay, Rector of this Parish, to collect his Easter-Offerings, make humble Application to you for the same.... Printed notice, in large type, with receipt form in smaller type printed below, completed in MS, showing Lady Tynte had given one guinea. Signed by Collector. 1789. £18.00

  190. Such (H), Printer CAPTAIN GRANT. and The Bold Bloodhood. Slip ballad, printed in two columns, decorative dividing line. Crude woodcuts at head, one a man on horseback, the other a man with his dog. Size 9" x 7", paper thin and rather brittle, slightly browned and chipped and right and top edges. Number 296 bottom right. H. Such, Printer and Publisher, Boro. S.E. c1840. £25.00
    Captain Grant is a highwayman who gives half his loot to the poor.


  191. Tory Party TORIES IN FULL WORK From John Bull's Picture Gallery. Price One Penny. Pro-Reform broadside attacking the Tories, comprising two poems 'Tories in Full Work', and 'Free Trade', contrasting the plight of the poor (Why are ye call'd 'my Lord!' and 'Squire', While fed by mine and me: And wringing food and clothes, and fire, From bread-tax'd misery?'), with 'Pensions of the Royal Family', giving the sums for yearly maintenance of 13 of the 'Royal Paupers' printed in two columns. Size 17" x 11", with large satirical woodcut size 6" x 7", showing a seated figure holding the Reform Bill being attacked by devilish Tories (referred to by name - Peel, Apsley, Cumby etc. - in the first poem) with pokers, hammers and other weapons while judges peep out from under a table. Small repaired marginal tear, traces of horizontal fold. Manuscript date at bottom. 1 August 1832. £80.00

  192. Wright (W), Printer ST. GEORGE & THE DRAGON. THE EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE OF MR DUCROW, AND MR. STANFIELD'S GRAND EGYPTIAN DIORAMA. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 27, 1834, Their Majesties' Servants will perform a New Historical Comedy in Five Acts, The Minister and the Mercer.... To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Spectacle called St. George and the Dragon Or, the Seven Champions of Christendom... A Grand Divertisement!!! Mr Stanfield's Grand Egyptian Diorama commencing with The Great Cataracts!... Excavated Temples of Ghirsheh. Caverns of Abou Sambou: Ascent of a Pyramid! Distant View of the City... with St. George and the Other Champions into The Temple of Memphis... Double-page play bill, overall size 13" x 17", central vertical fold, a few small splits at fold. Wright, Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1834. £75.00

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  193. Cary (J) A MAP OF MONMOUTHSHIRE from the best Authorities. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline, coloured border. Size 18" x 16", scale 2 miles to an inch. Two folds, repaired tear reaching 1" into map at fold at left edge. 1805. £45.00

  194. Davey (G) CHEPSTOW CASTLE, MONMOUTHSHIRE Lithograph, showing close-up view of castle, vegetation in fore-ground, from drawing by John Willis, on India paper, size 8" x 10", plus margins. Printed by Day & Haghe. c1860. £35.00

  195. Greenwood (C. & H) MAP OF THE COUNTY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE. From an Actual Survey made in the Years 1829 & 1830. Engraved map, hand coloured, with an engraved inset view of Tintern Abbey. Size approx. 25" x 29". Scale approx. 1" = 3 miles. Central fold. Several repaired edge tears, one of which reaches 1" into map. 1831. £70.00

  196. 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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  197. Boulton & Paul, Norwich STEEL FRAMED BUILDINGS Suitable for Agricultural Sheds, Dutch Barns... Catalogue, 4to, 16pp., printed wraps, lacks staples, rust marks where staples have ben. Numerous photos. Smaller brochure loosely inserted in pocket on back wrap. 1920's. £20.00

  198. Diss, Ixworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet L N.W. Size 13" x 18", plus wide margins. Railways inserted to November 1875. O.S. blindstamp 1893. £17.00
    Shows Euston Park, West Harling, Thornham Magna.


  199. East Dereham PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Cottages in Swanton Morley Which Will be Sold by Auction.... 19th September 1862.... 4to, 5pp, folds. Attractive type-faces. Notes on prices. 1862. £15.00

  200. Fishmonger's BILLHEAD of W. Pratt, Fishmonger, Fishmarket, Norwich. Size 9" x 4", engraved heading show game, prawns, barrels of oysters, mermaid etc. Made out for skate at 2s, signed by Pratt. 1840. £14.00

  201. Great Yarmouth AN ACT for continuing for a further Term.... the Term of Two Acts.... for clearing, depthening, repairing... the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth; and for depthening and making more navigable the several Rivers emptying themselves into the said Haven... 10pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. Top edges of pages rather ragged. 1800. £16.00

  202. Great Yarmouth PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of an Old-Established Woollen Draper's and Tailor's Shop and dwelling House... for Sale by Auction, February 2nd, 1882. 3pp., 4to, plus signed memorandum. Folded vertically with docket title. 1882. £12.00

  203. Norwich Castle and Gaol AN ACT for enabling His Majesty to grant the Castle of Norwich, and the Common Gaol... and for vesting the same in His Majesty's Justices of the Peace... Sm. folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1806. £12.00

  204. Norwich THREE BILLHEADS with engraved headings, sm. 8vo, for G. Mingay, Ladies Boot & Shoe Waterhouse; Mrs Taylor, Stay & Elastic Bandage Maker; Magasin des Modes, Millinery, Straw, Tuscan & Leghorn Bonnets, French Flowers. 3 items. 1841-2. £18.00
    All made out and receipted as settled.


  205. Wicklewood WILL of Archibald Rowing of Wicklewood, farmer. 4pp., folio, signed and witnessed. 1870. £13.00

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  206. Marshall, Printer CORRUPT CONDUCT IN A CERTAIN METHODIST PREACHER And an Appeal to the Methodist Conference. A Plain Statement of Facts Connected with the Prosecution of the Rev. Thos. Hill... at the Assizes in Newcastle, On a Charge of Defaming the Character of Miss Jane Bell, of North Shields. Just Published by J. Marshall Newcastle, Price 1s. Contents of the Pamphlet... Broadside, printed on one side only, size 14" x 6", printed in two columns. Horizontal fold, some creasing. Marshall, Printer, Newcastle. 1822. £40.00
    Rev. Hill had fallen out with Jane's brother, of the Methodist Church, Blyth, and in revenge attached her character. This broadside criticises the Methodist Conference for not censuring Rev. Hill.


  207. Newcastle ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Composite map, made up of 4 quarter sheets, Sheets 14 and 15 and sheets to the south. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 38" x 25". Area round Newcastle and to the north hand-coloured in different colours according to area, and neatly titled ' Prestwick', 'Dinnington', etc. Some repaired marginal tears. O.S. blindstamp 1902. £35.00
    Covers Newcastle, Blyth, Sunderland, Morfet.


  208. Woodhorne AN ACT for impowering the surviving Commissioners and Trustees for forfeited Estates to execute proper Conveyances of the late Lord Widdrington's Estate.... to Trustees for the Creditors of the said Company... Cover leaf + pages numbered 735-743, black letter, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1745. £14.00
    Relates to the confiscation of estate of 'Traitors and Popish Recusants'.


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  209. Burford AN ACT for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the Town and Parish of Burford.... 3pp. 1861. £10.00

  210. Cruchley's ROAD AND RAILWAY MAP of the County of Oxford. Showing all the Railways and Names of Stations... Improved from the Ordnance Surveys. Map printed in black pink and red, size 15" x 18". Folding into orange printed wraps, slightly rubbed at edges. c1880. £25.00

  211. 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.


  212. University of Oxford AN ACT to enable the President and Scholars of the College of Saint Mary Magdalen, in the University of Oxford, to grant Building Leases of certain Ground, Messuages.... in the Parish of Saint John, Southwark.... 3pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1777. £14.00

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    Shropshire


  213. Claverley and Alveley PARTICULARS WITH PLANS of the highly desirable Freehold Farms... 'Wooton Farm', 'King's Nordley Farm'... with substantial Residence, 5 Cottages, 4 sets of Buildings.... to be Sold by Auction... 11th June, 1919. 5pp., 4to, wraps. 2 folding coloured plans. 1919. £18.00

  214. Roughton COPY SURVEY of Nash End Estate. 1p. 4to, listing names of 14 fields with measurements. On adjoining leaf is a letter from James Marshall in Roughton to Bewdley, Worcestershire, 'herewith you receive a copy of the particular of Mr. Smi