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Lesley Aitchison's - Catalogue 82
Maps, Plans, Manuscripts, Documents, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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    Berkshire
  1. Reading to Puntfield Road AN ACT for Enlarging the Term granted by an Act.... for Repairing the Highways between the Bear Inn in Reading, and Puntfield in the County of Berks.... Cover leaf + pages numbered 415-427, small folio, black letter, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1728. £10.00

  2. Walker (J) & (C) BERKSHIRE. Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, engraved area approx. 12«" x 15«", plus margins, folding into 12mo cloth boards, with original label. Descriptive summary with table of distances etc., pasted inside front board. 1841. £24.00

  3. Windsor Chapel CERTIFICATE presented to Revd. Prebendary Edward Winnington-Ingram, 'a Descendant of a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter' in recognition of his donation to the Restoration of The Garter Chapel at Windsor, where his name 'is inscribed on the Roll of Benefactors'. Engraved on very thick hand-made paper, 10" x 8", with fine medallion showing St. George slaying the dragon, mounted with crown, good plate mark. Name in ink. n.d. c1920. £18.00
    The Revd. Prebendary Winnington-Ingram lived at Prestbury, Gloucestershire.


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

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    Bristol
  5. Bedford (T), Published by COOKE'S FOLLY Sketched from Nature by T. Hulley. Lithograph, printed surface size 7" x 10", plus margins, in a buff mount, size of mount 12" x 16". c1840. £70.00
    Shows a stone wall in the foreground with a man leaning on it looking at the view, ships on the Avon, and the Severn and the Welsh hills in the distance. Cooke's Folly slightly to the right of the picture.


  6. Bedminster, Clifton Wood, St Thomas ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Gloucestershire Sheet LXXV.4/Somerset Sheet VI.2 & 6. Scale 25.344" to 1 mile. 27" x 38". Folds, some very light discoloration at one fold, two small splits where folds meet. Edition of 1886, re-zincographed and printed in 1892. £28.00
    Covers Ashton Rolling Mills, Malago Vale Works, Dean Lane Colliery, Cumberland Basin, Timber Yards, Marble Works etc., at Canon's Marsh, Brewery, Soap and Candle Works, Vinegar Works, Tobacco Manufactory, etc., at Redcliffe.


  7. Christie's Robson Lowe AUCTION CATALOGUE Great Britain Stamps and Postal History. London 13th March 1990. 130pp., 4to, stiff wraps, many illustrations, some in colour. List of Prices Realised loosely inserted. 1990. £9.00

  8. Cleverdon (Douglas) A SECOND LIST OF PLEASANT BOOKS Douglas Cleverdon, 18 Charlotte Street, Park Street. 12pp, 8vo. Decorative wraps. No. 16 of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. Spring 1926. £8.00
    Mainly Nonesuch Press and other Private Press Books.


  9. Clifton Suspension Bridge AN ACT for extending the Time for building a Bridge over the River Avon from Clifton to the opposite Side of the River.... 3pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1836. £12.00

  10. Freemasonry CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT of James R. Bramble, Late Lt. Col. Royal Engineers (Volunteers)... Provincial Grand Master For Bristol as 'Our Most Excellent Superintendent for such Portion of the City and County of Bristol as was comprised within the boundaries of the City and County in the year 1889'. Manuscript certificate on vellum, in black and red Gothic style lettering, heading with name of Duke of Connaught etc., in large lettering with decorative flourishes, name of Bramble in gold. Size 22" x 25", folded. White papered seal on black background of The Royal Arch Masons of England. With 4 signatures. Given at London under Our Hands and the Seal of Our Grand and Royal Chapter 27th day of November A.D. 5907, A.D 1907. £48.00

  11. Frenchay SIX POSTCARDS OF TEA GARDENS Frenchay. Four coloured cards, three of Ham and one of Cleeve Tea Gardens, including a fine view of the house (by Geo. E. Bullock) with large greenhouse, gardener watering border on right, tables on left, all postally used, 1905-8, plus two black and white cards, unused, c1910, one by Bullock of similar view, another of people on a path in the woods, Cleeve Tea Gardens ...together with... A small folding 'Letter Card' with five views of Cleeve Tea Gardens around a blank space for message. 1905-10. £28.00

  12. Horner (Joshua), lith. VIEW OF THE ROCKS FROM CLIFTON DOWN Lithograph from a drawing by S. Jackson, showing a view up the gorge from a view-point near the Observatory, three figures in foreground, Cook's Folly in the distance. Size 7«" x 9", in green card mount. Published by G. Davey, Bristol. Lithographed by Day & Haghe. c1840. £60.00

  13. Oxford University Press Printer THE FORM AND ORDER OF SERVICE for the Hallowing over the work of the restoration of St. Mary Redcliffe. 25pp., 8vo, printed in red and black. 3rd Nov. 1933. £10.00

  14. Reed (Walter), Printer THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS August 11th, 1902. Broadsheet newspaper, 10pp., size 27" x 25". Folds. Coronation of Edward VII edition. Numerous detailed reports, line drawings. 1902. £15.00

  15. Rose and Crown PHOTOGRAPH showing the Rose and Crown public house, the name 'Townley' on the sign board, with all its windows on the three stories broken, a group of men, one of whom is carrying a jug, lounging in the doorway. Size 8" x 6", mounted on card, with name of W.H. Moore, Artist and Photographer, Merchant Street. Photo slightly faded. c1880? £18.00
    The pub is on a cobbled hill, possibly Kingsdown area.


  16. Rose (Philip), Printer GRAND JUBILEE October 25, 1809. The King's Anthem. Song in three verses, printed with wavy border, large heading and coat of arms. Size 7«" x 6«", glued to plain sheet of paper. Parish of St. James, Bristol. Philip Rose, Printer, Broadmead. 1809. £25.00

  17. Royal West of England Academy REG GAMMON R.W.A., R.O.I. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, 1994. 24pp., 4to, stiff wraps with coloured illustration, numerous colour and black and white illustrations. Bristol, 1994. £7.00
    Held to mark Reg Gammon's 100th birthday. He is best known as the illustrator of 'Westward Ho! From Cumbria to Cornwall'.


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


  19. St. Augustines Parish CONVEYANCE of the reversion in fee of nos. 7 and 8 Pipe Lane, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners to H. Willmott, of Cotham. 3 large vellum skins, small coloured sketch map on verso of one skin, papered seal of Commissioners. 1872. £15.00

  20. Stapleton POSTCARD with 7 small photographs of Snuff Mills, the Lodge, Vassal's Farm Frenchay, Colston Baths, etc. Used, 1905, together with coloured 'Avonvale Series' of people fishing at Duchess Pond, a real photographic view of Duchess Pond, with swans, used, 1910, and another black and white view (M.J.R.B 8233) of the pond, plus two faded real photographic cards of Stoke House. c1905. £20.00

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

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    Cambridgeshire

    FAMILY OF JOHN WILKES

  22. Outwell ACCOUNT BOOK for rents of an estate at Outwell. Size approx. 9" x 4", 31p, plus blanks, ruled in red vertically throughout. Contemporary blind-stamped reversed calf with brass clasps. 13 pages of entries at the front, comprising timber accounts, e.g. 'Walnut Trees sold Matthews and Camm... £39.17.6d... Poplar at 7d per foot... ash and elm bodys at 12d per foot...'; bills received for repairs; rents received listed under tenants name, including John Johnson, Jane Towson, H. Lea, Thomas Green. At the other end of the book are 18p of accounts, many entries signed 'Sarah Wilkes', listing payments for land tax by tenants in Outwell, their names heading the page, and money for draining, for example, 'for 40 acres of Mrs Wilkes Lands in Upwell on the North Side of Pophams Eau.', 'a dyke greve rate for lands of Mrs Sarah Wilkes in Burbeach Field in Outwell in the Isle of Ely' etc. 1758-1779. £275.00
    On the front end paper she notes 'The following is the Copy of a proper receipt (drawn up for me by my dear Son Mr Hayley for me to transmit to Mr Dixon every time I Ballance accounts with him and two such receipts I have sent him since the Estates came into my possession... Sarah Wilkes'. Mr Dixon appears to have been the manager or steward of the estate (she notes sums received from Mr. Dixon 'when he was in town', and that he 'has 5 per for all timber fell'd'), and there is a label on the front board 'Drawer No. 1, Mr. Dixon'. The Wilkes Estate was in Outwell and Upwell. Mentions various There is a plan 'A Map of the Estate of Israel Wilkes Esq. situate in the parishes of Upwell, Outwell and Emneth in the Isle of Ely and County of Norfolk. 1760' in the Cambridgeshire Record Office. John Wilkes was the second son of Sarah and her husband Israel, Malt Distiller.


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

  24. Walker (J) & (C) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, engraved area approx. 15" x 13", plus margins, folding into 12mo cloth boards, with original label. Descriptive summary with table of distances etc. pasted inside front board. A couple of small brown spots. 1841. £22.00

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    Cheshire
  25. Nantwich Station (?) PHOTOGRAPH of a group of 16 station staff posed as a group on a platform, track on the left with steam train approaching in the distance, the men wearing uniform have 'L & N.W' on their hats and lapels. One is obviously the station master. Size 6" x 8", mounted on thick card, one corner of card chipped away. Some very slight browning at centre of image, but details very crisp. Inscribed on verso 'Nantwich (courtesy J.B. Gandern)'. c1900 or slightly earlier. £26.00
    There is no Nantwich sign visible in the photo.


  26. North Wirral MAP OF NORTH WIRRAL, CHESHIRE Shewing Public Footpaths, Disputed or Doubtful Footpaths... Public Open Spaces... Disputed Open Spaces and Commons... Reproduced From Ordnance Survey... Map scale 3" to 1 mile, size 26" x 33", linen backed, folding into sm. 8vo boards, public open spaces printed in green, footpaths in red. Owner's name on front board. Published for the Wirral Footpaths and Open Spaces Preservation Society, 1903. £22.00
    Shows New Brighton, Birkenhead, Hoylake, etc.


  27. Seacombe SEPIA WATERCOLOUR SKETCH titled in margin 'near Seacombe. Sept. 10 1811'. Size approx. 6" x 8", shows sailing boat moored at the bank, near pinkish coloured houses surrounded by trees, two fishermen in foreground. In sepia tones with pencil shading and detail, sky left blank. 1811. £24.00

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    Cornwall
  28. Blisland, St. Breward, Temple PLANS, PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Farms and Cottages... to be Sold by Public Auction... 14th December, 1912. Folio, 12pp, wraps. 3 very large coloured folding plans. Bottom right corner of pages waterstained (not affecting plans), marginal tear affecting wraps and all pages (repaired with archival tape). Traces of having been folded. Wraps faded and dust-stained. 1912. £35.00
    With detailed schedules. Includes Pennant, Pengelly, Trewint, Trevissick, Carbilly, Tor, Hill House Farms, Hallagenna, Cassacawn Mills.


  29. Cornwall Railway CERTIFICATE OF £50 SHARE Printed on green paper, size 7" x 9", made out to John Nuttal of Pimlico. Signed by Secretary. Good impressed seal diameter 2", showing shield with besants, mining tools, Prince of Wales feathers. Three small stab holes top left, in blank area. 1846. £65.00
    The seal has the lettering 'Incorporated 1847'.


  30. Cuisgarne, Manor of LETTER to Michael Williams at Scorrier House from John Smith, Dock, 19th September 1814, giving information on the 'lives' on tenements of Chicoose Vean and Park Wells. 5 lines, 4to, conjoint leaf with address panel. 1814. £12.00

  31. Grade CONVEYANCE of part of lands and house beside the road leading from Polstrangey to Kugar, and fields in Kugar called Voas an nell, with the liberty to take sand and seaweed from Poltesco Cove, J. Stephens to J. Jenkin. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. On verso is small genealogical 'diagram' referred to in text. 1876. £15.00

  32. Gwennap COUNTERPART SETT of Ground in the Parish of Gwennap. William Robinson Hill of Carwythenack to John Williams of Scorrier House with power to dig work mine and search for tin and copper. Two large vellum sheets, signed by Williams with wax seal. Some foxing at folds. 1819. £48.00
    Involved Hill's share of five sixteenths in the land. Williams had to set up engines, drive certain levels, etc. within three years.


  33. Helston, Truro, St. Austell ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No XXXI. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 25" x 36". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding to sm. 4to, marbled endpapers. Electrotype, 1880. £36.00

  34. Lanhydrock Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Agricultural Estates... within the Manor of Trevills, situate in the Parishes of St. Pinnock, Braddock and Liskeard, and the Borough of Liskeard.... extending to about 726 Acres comprising Three Valuable Pasture and Arable Farms, Tenements, Cottages.... 102 Acres of Woodland. To be Offered By Auction at Webbs Hotel, Liskeard.... 13th April 1912. 20pp., folio, printed paper wraps, four only (of five) large coloured folding plans in pocket at rear. Prices realised and purchasers added in ink by each lot, some slight waterstaining to edges of a few pages and front wrap, back wrap with map pocket detached. 1912. £50.00
    Includes Penhole Farm, West and East Trevillis Farms, St. Pinnock, Emlyn's Park, Cricket Field, Stone Yard etc. at Liskeard. The missing plan showed the Liskeard Lots.


  35. Launceston REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF LAUNCESTON 1pp., with map, zincographed from the Ordnance Survey, coloured in outline. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Approved by Henry James. Folio, disbound. 1868. £20.00

  36. Newquay, Crantock, Penzance etc. BRISTOL TO PENZANCE ON BOARD S.S. COATH Photograph album recording a holiday. 40 photographs, of a very good amateur, in album size 10" x 13", cloth-covered boards, title as above painted in decorative lettering in white on first page. Seven leaves of thick card, with photographs mounted 3 - 4 to a page. Views range in size from 5" x 3" to 2" x 3". Each view titled in pencil below. c1905. £90.00
    The first photograph (the largest) is a fine view of the ship at Mud Dock in Bristol, with funnel smoking, St. Mary Redcliffe and Redcliffe Parade behind, very well shot to show the ship in crisp detail and the background smokey grey. Views include sailors and passengers on the deck, 'Sunday morning off the coast of Cornwall'; 'Passing the Longships', 'Rounding Lands End' (4 small views); 'landing in Small Boats'; 'St. Michael's Mount', '4 o'clock tea at St. Rumons' (smartly dressed people on lawn with bay in background); 'Pentre Head'; 'Crantock Bay'; 'Crantock over the Gunnel'; 'Tennis at St. Rumons'; 'Caverns at Porth'; 'Fishing Boat, Pier Head'; 'Trewens Mill'; 'Trenance Gardens'.


  37. Pendeen, Botallack ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXVII S.W., scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 12" x 18", linen, backed, folded but not dissected. Second Edition 1908. £12.00

  38. Penwith ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No XXXIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size approx. 35" x 25", dissected and linen-backed, folding into 8vo cloth endpapers. Watermark 'Turkey Mill 1858'. £38.00
    'Portrait' format sheet. Covers Land's End, Penzance, St. Ives, Godvrevy, Porthleven.


  39. Rae (Oliver M) FIVE POSTCARDS being original etched views on good quality card with uncut edges, good plate marks, each with tissue guard. Views are: The Jew's House, Couch's House, The Harbour, and The House on the Props, Polperro, and Talland Church. Titled and signed in plate. c1930? £10.00

  40. Record Office, Truro GUIDE TO CORNISH PROBATE RECORDS 54pp., plus numerous folded sheets, copies of the original documents which are transcribed, loosely inserted. Small folio, printed wraps, cancelled library label. 1984. £7.00

  41. Redruth ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Charles Chaplin of Blankney, Lincolnshire as a Trustee of William Praed to part of the tenement of Parc Hoskin, Messuage in Trengweath, 'Seisin of the Minerals' of fields in Redruth (refers to Sett of 1793), etc. 3 pages, in manuscript, large folio, plus 42 lithographically printed pages detailing deeds from 1803 - 1854, and referring to the Manors, or Shares in the Manors, of St. Ives, Treloyan, Marazion, Lelant, Trevethow, Trewinnard, Trembethow, listing approximately 150 places, 'theretofore the estate of William Mackworth Praed', with details of rights of common, turbary, etc. 1854. £50.00
    Concerned Lot 91a of 'Praed's Sale'.


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

  43. Stithians GRANT to Search for Tin Copper &c. in James Buller's tenement called Penalvean, James Buller of Shillingham to Thomas Reed of Trevales, the dues to be one tenth. Vellum, size 24" x 31", wax seal. 1801. £40.00

  44. Surveyor of Weights and Balances, Hundred of Kirrier THIRTEEN CONVICTIONS for giving false weights. Each 2 pages, small folio, printed with manuscript inserts. On the left page is 'The Information and Complaint of Benjamin Moon Surveyor of Weights and Balances.... ' that he visited a certain persons shop and found weights deficient 'contrary to the Standard of the Exchequer'. On facing page is the conviction and sentence at the Petty Sessions for Helston. Signed by the Surveyor, and 2 J.P.'s, folded with docket title. Together with a manuscript list of all the offenders, with fines. All the shops were at Helston. 14 items. Penaluna, Printer, Helston. 1805. £70.00
    Names of the offenders include Anne Williams, Anne Pascoe, Joseph Veysey, John Bunny, Thomas Hancock (whose balance was false), John Polglase.


  45. Tintagel, Lanteglos, and St. Teath Estates PLANS, PARTICULARS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE ESTATES OF THE EARL OF WHARNCLIFFE, Comprising Attractive Agricultural Properties, Accommodation Holdings, Excellent Building Sites, Hotels and Boarding Houses, at and near Tintagel and other popular Seaside Resorts... Messrs J. Kittow and Son have instructions To Sell the above Estate by Public Auction at the Wharncliffe Hotel, Tintagel, on Thursday, July 27th, 1911. Folio, 10 photographic illustrations on five pages, and 10 large coloured folding plans, original printed wraps which are slightly dusty. 1911. £85.00
    Includes farms of Upton, Trevillett, Fentafriddle, Trebarwith, Trenouth, Trecarne,, Smith's Shop at Bosinney, King Arthur's Arms Hotel, Wharncliffe Hotel, Stone Quarry near Treknow, Treknow Mill, Wharncliffe Refreshment Rooms, cottages, building sites. 'The Estate occupies a unique position in North East Cornwall. It embraces much of the finest scenery along the coast, with bold and rugged headlands, sheltered coves, the magnificent sand beach known as Trebarwith Strand, and the havens of Tintagel and Bosinney'. Farmhouses, cottages, hotels etc, described in detail.


  46. Trescowthick family AFFADAVIT OF DEBT Statement of Elizabeth Moore of Helston affirming that Mark Trescowthick of Sithney is indebted to her for the sum of £2.2s. 6d. 10 lines in manuscript on one side of small folio sheet, folded. Signed by H. Tremenhere, Mayor, and Elizabeth Moore. 1741. £16.00

  47. Trewey Common, Zennor ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXI S.W. and LXVIII N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheets. Second Edition. 1940's reprint. £14.00

  48. Walker (J) & (C) CORNWALL. Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, size approx. 15" x 12", folding into sm 8vo boards, original decorative printed label. Description with distance table etc. pasted inside front board. c1840. £25.00

  49. Williams & Sons THREE LETTERS to Mr Skewes at Burncoose Copper Office from E. Corrie, Williams Foster & Co. in London, regarding Messrs. Williams and Sons Annuities, and accounting matters. Each 1p 4to, address label with postmarks on verso of conjoint leaf... together with a similar letter to Michael and William Williams at Scorrier House. 4 items. 1850-53. £16.00

  50. Woolcock, Printer NUMBER SEVEN The Publisher is of opinion that, perhaps the following interesting and singular Complication of the Applications of the Number Seven throughout the Scriptures would have a greater tendency towards exciting in the minds of Youth a desire to pursue the Sacred Pages, than volumes written expressly for the purpose. Broadside listing in two columns a great number of occurrences of the number seven in the Bible '7 angels bringing 7 plagues...' etc. 4to, decorative border and woodcut of a king. Woolcock, Printer & Publisher, Helston, Cornwall. c1860. £35.00

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    Cumberland
  51. Bolton AN ACT for Dividing and Inclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds within the Manor of Bolton... 43pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1777. £22.00

  52. Brampton BILL of William Harrison, Veterinary Surgeon, Horse Infirmary, to William Canick, for attendance and medicine for cow. 8vo, printed heading with vignette of horses being watered in a street. Stab hole. 1863. £8.00

  53. Buck (S. & N) THE WEST VIEW OF WETHERALL-PRIORY, IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. Copper plate engraving, engraved surface approx. 7«" x 14", plus wide margins. Coat of arms below view, view of park and ornate fountains in middle distance. A good impression. Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, 1739. £40.00

  54. Castle Sowerby, Dean, etc. PARTICULARS of Three... Freehold Estates, Most desirably situate in the vicinity of the beautiful scenery of the Cumberland Lake District... Deanscales.... Newlands... Penruddock... 6pp., folio, printed wraps, two large folding plans, lacks the plan of the Deanscales estate. Some edge tears. 1872. £20.00

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


  56. Kendal, Keswick ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 102. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Folding into sm. 8vo cloth wraps, edges of sections slightly browned, 6" split in linen at one fold. Electrotype 1878. £22.00

  57. Kirklinton VALUABLE ESTATES for Sale. To be Peremptorily Sold, by Public Auction, at the Scotch Arms Inn, Rickergate, Carlisle.... All that Freehold and Tithe-Free Estate known by the name of Field Foot.... also a Freehold Estate called Close House.... Handbill, size 12" x 7«", traces of folds, some contemporary notes in a very small hand. P. Scott, Printer, Carlisle, 1824. £24.00
    With descriptions of properties.


  58. Moresby ARCHITECT'S DRAWING Titled 'Proposed Reconstruction of Orchard House, Moresby, for Joseph Paisley, Esq.' On cartridge paper, in ink and attractive full wash colours. Overall size of paper size 27" X 37". Shows front, side and back elevations, section AB, attic plan, ground plan, block plan (showing garden with fruit trees etc.), first floor plan, key plan showing location on road from Distington to Whitehaven. With stamp at bottom of J. N. Singleton, Lowther St., Whitehaven, Architects. Signed by Singleton and dated. Small repaired tear reaching approx. half an inch into drawing. Nov. 24th, 1910. £50.00

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


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    Derbyshire
  60. Denby Common SALE AT SHORT NOTICE. NURSERY COTTAGE, DENBY COMMON. Messrs Geo. Lee and Son, Have been favoured with instructions from Hy Briscoe.... to Sell by Auction, On Whit-Wednesday, May 16, 1894. Waggonette (To Carry Eight), Harness, Prize Fowls and Rabbits.... Sale to Commence at 2p.m.... Grosvenor Place, Ripley and at Heanor. Poster, size 22«" x 17", some off-setting, couple of short tears. G.C. Brittain, Printer, "News" Office, Ripley, 1894. £20.00
    Included Cochin Fowls, Langshan Cock, 2 pure-bred Leghorns, '6 Angora Rabbits and Hutches, taken firsts at all the leading shows, strain bought direct from Lady Vincent'.


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

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    Devon
  62. Ashburton Railway AN ACT for making a Railway from Ashburton in the County of Devon to join the South Devon Railway. 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1846. £18.00

  63. Ashburton TO BE SOLD By Public Auction.... 12th day of April next.... all that Cottage and Garden called Rose Cottage.... Poster, size 17" x 11", fold. 1865. £16.00
    With description of cottage.


  64. Aveton Gifford PARTICULARS WITH PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of all those two valuable Freehold Farms known as West Venn and Bridge End... comprising two conveniently arranged Stone Built and Slated Dwelling Houses with ample Farm Buildings and 97a... 4p, folio, plus large folding coloured plan. Some marginal tears, stains at top corners of plan, title page dusty, creasing in pages. n.d. c1904. £24.00
    With Schedules.


  65. Axmouth Inclosure AN ACT for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Axmouth.... 15pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1828. £17.00

  66. Aylesbeare PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Two Highly Desirable Valuable Freehold Farms, viz. 'Rill Farm' and 'Homer Dairy'.... which will be offered for Sale by Auction by Messrs. Hussey & Son.... Friday June 17th, 1921.... 12pp., sm. folio, wraps, coloured folding plan. 1921. £18.00
    Part of Lord Clinton's Estate.


  67. Bantham, Kingsbridge PHOTOGRAPH Commercial photograph showing a street of thatched cottages, Sherriff's baker's shop in foreground with baker outside in white apron. Size 9" x 11". 'Wyatt's New Series' bottom right. c1900. £8.00

  68. Barnstaple & Ilfracombe ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Mounted on linen, size approx. 24" x 36", worn silk edging tape. Border on top and left edges. Linen on verso rather stained at edges. c1810. £40.00
    Margary State 2.


  69. Barnstaple printing THE MISSLETOE BOUGH and I Would be a Soldier Still, The Fairies' Song. Printed in 2 columns, with crude woodcut of an angel holding a book and a branch. Size 10" x 7«". Searle, Printer, Barnstaple. c1840. £20.00
    The Missletoe Bough tells the story of a lady who died trapped inside a heavy chest while playing a Christmas game of hide and seek.


  70. Barnstaple, Linton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, fully hand-coloured, county border shaded in pink and green wash, dissected and mounted on linen, overall size approx. 25" x 37", folding to small 4to, marbled endpapers, in red slipcase with Stanford label on front and key map on back. Watermark 1857. £24.00
    Much of the map is sea area.


  71. Bratton Clovelly TO BE SOLD The Fee Simple and Inheritance of the first three Lots, and the residue of a Term of 600 Years commencing the 13th of August 1793, in the last six Lots.... The Measure of the different Estates is taken from actual Surveys... A survey will be held at the House of Mrs. Palmer, at Lifton, on Tuesday the 12th day of June 1804.... Handbill, size 12" x 15", traces of folds, with 9 Lots listed, with columns for Tenants, Tenements, Acreages, Lives, Rents, Heriots. Launceston, Printed by W. Bray, Bookseller and Stationer. 1804. £40.00
    Includes tenements in Woolacott, Frankaborough, Maina Moor, Cobton, Thrushelton, Broadwoodwidger. Gives the names and ages of 28 people. The Conventionary rents could be paid in money or as a capon or hen.


  72. Broadwoodwidger and Virginstowe PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE With Plans, of Valuable Freehold Farm, Accommodation Lands, The Hare & Hounds Inn, Cottages and Premises... For Sale by Auction... 29th June, 1898. 9pp., folio, title on front wrap, memorandum on back wrap, three very large coloured folding plans. Front wrap with piece torn from margin. Front and back wrap dusty, edges of pages dusty, with some small edge tears. Paper split up most of spine. 1898. £45.00
    With detailed Schedules of fields etc. Includes the farms of Venn, Grove, Coombeshead, Virginstowe Town, Crow's Nest, The Hare and Hounds Inn, Venn Wood, The Impropriate Recotry of Poundstock, Rectory of Woolfardisworthy West with the Rent-charge.


  73. Charles CONVEYANCE of part of a field known as Barn Park on the Tonguesland Estate in Charles, Plymouth, F.H. Crozier to Henry Foster. 2 vellum sheets, small plan in margin. Three wax seals, two of which have shields. 1887. £12.00

  74. Charles, Plymouth ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Francis and Richard Crozier to the fee simple of The Townsend Building Estate. Printed in cursive on 22p. folio, folded. First 2 leaves loose from tie at top corner. Includes a Schedule giving description of lands, occupiers, acreage, etc. 1887. £26.00
    Gives title from 1837-1880.


  75. Chittlehampton MORTGAGE of messuage called Hawkeridge, with Hawkeridge Wood and other lands, in Chittlehampton, with various other cottages, etc. in Goodleigh and Swymbridge, Malett Hals to Charles Davie and Robert Furledon. Vellum, size 20" x 29", hole in vellum with loss of about four words, another small hole with loss of half a word. Wax seal. 1731. £22.00
    The original mortgage was by Baldwin Hals and John Honycombe.


  76. Chudleigh Rebuilding AN ACT for the better and more easy rebuilding of the Town of Chudleigh.... for determining Differences touching Houses demolished by the late Fire there; and for preventing future Danger by Fire. 18pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1808. £18.00

  77. Clawton LEASE FOR A YEAR of a tenement called Taylors at North Beer. Earl Fortescue to Gideon Mapowder. Vellum, 15" x 24", signed Fortescue with wax seal. 1838. £17.00

  78. Clyst Saint Lawrence, Broadclyst, Stokeinteignhead, Bovey Tracey and Newton Ferrers AN ACT For enabling the Trustees... of Hele's Charity Estates to grant Leases for absolute Terms, of certain Estates vested in them... in the Parishes of Clist Saint Lawrence, Broadclyst, Stokeinteignhead, Bovey Tracey, and Newton Ferrers... in the County of Devon... 31pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1842. £15.00

  79. Crediton AN ACT for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts within the Town of Crediton.... 26pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1845. £14.00

  80. Devonport printing ELIZA The youth's Recitor. No. 8. Poem in three stanzas printed on one side only, 9" x 8", title in large bold lettering, with a woodcut showing a solider discovering his dead wife, shot by a stray ball from the battle. Decorative border. Edges brittle and slightly browned, edges chipped. A few foxing spots, slight browning. Columbian Printing Office, James-street, Devonport: c1840. £20.00

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

  82. East Putford PROBATE of the Will of William May of East Putford. Copy on 5 pages, folio. Will dated 1860. This copy undated, but on paper water-marked 1850. £22.00
    Bequeathes to various relatives his farm in Lower Narracott, his poll deeds on the Bideford Turnpike Trust, his land called Thornetown and a Marsh called Saunders Meadow, Venn Hills, and many other properties. The 'presentation to the parish church of West Putford with a plot of ground adjoining the Glebe which I purchased of Lord Clinton' was to go to his nephew Revd. James May.


  83. Exeter CORONATION EXHIBITION of City Archives illustrating Exeter's history through eight centuries. Royal Albert Memorial Musuem.... 35p., 8vo, plates. 8 pages of relevant newspaper cuttings pasted in at rear. 1953. £8.00

  84. Hartland, Morthoe, Bideford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 276. Size 16" x 19", linen backed and folding into 4to cloth wraps. 2 railway lines neatly coloured, and stations written in in very small red lettering. 1908. £16.00
    Much of the map is sea area.


  85. Ilfracombe LEASE FOR A YEAR of lands in 'Ilfordcombe', Edmund Fortescue, Captain in His Majesty's South Devon Regiment of Militia, and Elizabeth his wife, to Nathaniel Vye Vellum, size 25" x 28", signed by 6 parties, including Edmund and Elizabeth. Ink slightly faded. 1809. £16.00
    The lands comprised Higher Broomhill, Fern Park, Hempland.


  86. Ilfracombe LEASE of a messuage and close of land in the Borough of Ilfordcombe, William and James Darracott, both Mariners, to William and Walter Lawnd, both Coopers. Vellum, size 12" x 13", printed heading, two wax seals. Vellum slightly darkened. 1718. £25.00

  87. Ilfracombe LEASE of two closes of land in Broomhill, Ilfracombe, George Burgoyne to William Blackmore. Vellum, size 11" x 25", wax seal on tag. Vellum slightly darkened in places 1682. £28.00

  88. Ilfracombe WILL of Nathaniel Vye of Rosemount, Ilfracombe, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Devon. 4p., folio. Will dated 1883, probate copy 1888. £10.00
    Leaves his effects to Walter Raleigh Gilbert of Bodmin, legacies to the Tyrell Cottage Hospital, Mission to Seamen, etc.


  89. Lifton ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS Plans and Conditions of Sale of Freehold, Residential Agricultural and Village Properties at Lifton, also about Twelve Miles of Fishing in the River Tamar and its Tributaries, 306 Acres... for Sale by Auction at the Coronation Hall, Lifton... 22nd day of July 1948. 23pp., size 8" x 11", two very large folding plans, Plan 2 being of the fishing rights. Memorandum completed by the purchaser of the fishing rights. 1948. £40.00
    The fishing rights included 4 miles on the Tamar, and stretches on the Rivers Carey, Lyd, Wolf and Thrushel. Properties included 'Hornapark', 'Woodbine Cottage', house in Fore Street, 'Underwood', Gatherley and Leat Woods, etc. There do not appear to have ever been any illustrations in this copy.


  90. Lundy Island ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 25" x 37". Printed by Ramshaw. Published 1st Jany. 1820 by Major General Mudge, Tower. £50.00
    Watermarked 'T. Edmunds Wycombe 1827'. Fine early edition. Scarce.


  91. Plymouth AN ACT To authorise the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to convert Part of the harbour of Sutton pool into a Dock.... 31pp. Disbound. 1874. £12.00

  92. Plymouth ASSIGNMENT of Bank premises at Plymouth, The Western Counties Bank Limited to the Capital Counties Bank Limited. 3 vellum pages, red margins, folded. Signed by both parties with the large red paper seals of both banks. 1890. £16.00

  93. Plymouth CONVEYANCE IN FEE of a dwelling house shop and hereditaments being no. 28 Salisbury Road, North Plymouth, W. Wakeham to W. Hendy. 3pp., folio, folded, red margins... together with... Mortgage relating to same transaction. 1898. £10.00

  94. Plymouth LEASE FOR A YEAR of two dwellinghouses in Southside Street, Edward Ford, Woollen Draper, of Exeter, to Ann Ford, his sister. Vellum, 12" x 18", good armorial wax seal. Printed title with coat of arms. 1729. £28.00

  95. Rundlestone LEASE of two acres of land near Rundlestone parcel of the Forest of Dartmoor, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to Joseph Wills of New Passage, Miner. Vellum, 23" x 28", wide border with decoration all round in red and blue, with coat of arms top left, red crests alternated with blue decoration around edges, large papered seal of Prince of Wales on tag. Coloured plan with scale bar and compass rose in margin, size 7" x 6". 1852. £38.00

  96. Shobrook Parish HIGHWAY WEEKLY ACCOUNT BOOK Two 4to volumes printed in columns over two pages headed 'Weekly Account of Money expended on the Highways of the Parish of Shobroke. Paper-covered boards, cloth spines, printed title on front boards. One book for March 1852 - March 1853, the other from March 1855 - March 1856. Columns for Day Labor, Laborers' Names, Team Work, Weekly Total, etc. Sparse entries, although from Nov - March 1853 there was expenditure every week, including laying pipes, stone breaking at various named places 'Stone drawn from Trew Quarry & Landed at Nomansland'... etc. A Charles Vinecombe was employed fairly regularly. At the back of the earlier book is pasted a printed 'General Statement', with ms inserts, folded, and in the back of the later one a printed Schedule, folded, stating state of roads, bridges, what materials used, state of hedges etc. 1852-56. £75.00

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

  98. Taw Vale Railway and Dock AN ACT to amend the Act relating to the Taw Vale Railway and Dock. 7pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1845. £14.00

  99. Teignmouth LETTER from Eliz. Motton to a Mr. Rowell, Builder, asking 'how things is Stled for the Maintenance of my Child as its now gowing on 2 months old'. Asks him to intreat the Chairman to send it 'as it will in sume Measure allevate my spirits under my opresed situation... Sir i have receved one Pound since i left Tengnmouth'. 1p, 8vo., folded with Rowell's name on outside leaf, but no address. n.d. c1840? £8.00

  100. Torbryan GRASS AND SEEDS ON YEATE ESTATE In the Parish of Torbryan, To be Let, until Lady-Day next... for which purpose a Survey will be held.... Handbill, attractively printed in large letters, size 15" x 10", listing 19 lots with name of field, quality, acreage. Stentiford, Printer, Ashburton. 1851. £40.00

  101. Totnes LEASE FOR A YEAR of a messuage with orchard and herb garden in Totnes without the West Gate now in the possession of Peter Hawkins, Weaver, John Langman, Malster to John Colwell of Bodmin, Doctor of Physick. Vellum, size 14" x 22", wax seal. Small area of browning about 2" x 3" at top. 1750. £20.00

  102. Warmscombe DECLARATION by John Hancock, now of Berrynarbor, as to the use of a watercourse to irrigate the meadow of Sherramoors. 2p, folio, signed by Hancock and a J.P. 1842. £10.00
    Hancock has used the watercourse during his tenancy from 1801-1838.


  103. West Putford WILL of John Walters of Mills, Kismeldon in West Putford. 3p, sm. folio. Solicitor's copy. 1878, copy 1885. £10.00
    Leaves his wife the right to occupy his house called 'Granny Walters House' in Sessacott, the right to dispose as she wishes of 'silver, plate and all the little fancy things she had when she was single'.


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    Dorset
  104. Blandford Forum Rebuilding AN ACT for the better and more easy rebuilding of the Town of Blandford Forum in the County of Dorset, and for determining Differences touching Houses and Buildings burnt down or demolished by reason of the late dreadful Fire there. Cover leaf + 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1732. £32.00

  105. Bournemouth A NEW PLAN OF BOURNEMOUTH Including Westbourne and Boscombe, with complete Index for Easy Reference and shewing the Levels above the Sea. Third Edition. Scale approx. 2«" = 1000 ft., 19" x 32". 46pp. Index with numerous local adverts. Folding into stiff green printed wraps, with advert for watchmaker on back wrap. Bournemouth: T.J. Hankinson, Victoria Library. c1880. £75.00

  106. Bourton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. Dorset I.10, Wilts. XII.8, etc. size approx. 25" x 38". Scale 25" to 1 mile. Some small repaired tears at bottom edge in margin. The area around the Foundry has been neatly shaded in 3 colours, with a key to ownership to right. Second edition, 1903. £17.00
    Covers Penselwood, Chaffeymoor House, Bourton. Shows the Foundry in details, with Water Wheel, Factory Pond, Crane, Rope Walk etc.


  107. Bryanston WILL of William Straight of Bryanston, Gent. 2p., small folio, conjoing leaf had been used as address panel by Robert Gapper to send the will to John Long at Whalley, near Frome, with small round stamp with letters 'AP'. Conjoint leaf torn right across, splits down main fold, paper creased. 1724. £17.00
    Extracted copy with Probate details in Latin. Refers to his Manor of Compton in Wiltshire, messuage in Stourpaine.


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

  109. Graston LEASE of 21 acres of land in the parish of St. Lukes, Richard Roberts of Burton Bradstock to Thomas Fish of Bridport. On paper, size 18" x 27", three wax seals. Two small splits where folds meet. 1786. £18.00

  110. Isle of Portland Harbour and Breakwater AN ACT to amend an Act for empowering the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to purchase Land for the Purposes of a Harbour of Refuge and Breakwater in the Isle of Portland.... Pages numbered 1361-1370, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1850. £14.00

  111. Rock's ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH CABINET ALBUM 16 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into magenta gilt boards, sm. 4to, corners very slightly rubbed. 8 are 2 to a page. c1880. £17.00
    Includes Corfe Castle, Hotel Mount Dore, The Arcade, Invalids Walk.


  112. Sadborrow, Thorncombe A TRUE AND PERFECT INVENTORY or appraisment of all and singular the Goods Chattles rights and Creditts of John Bragg Esq. late of Sadborrow in the County of Devon deceased Taken and apraised by us whose names are hereunto subscrib'd on Wensday 30th day of August 1749. Manuscript in a neat hand on 37 pages, 4to, marbled wraps. Inventory room by room listing items in Little Parlor, kitchen, pantry, servants' hall, cyder cellar, chamber, summer house, etc. Then 'Goods Sold to Mr. Bethel', 'Living Stock on the farm at Sadborrow, Grighay Dedlewood and Burstock' (includes in Sadborrow Stable '4 Coaching geldings.... £40'), 'Household Goods Sold at Sadborow 16,17,18th Jan. 1749' listing item sold, purchaser and price, (includes 'A Gunn by Nichols.... 16s', 'a pair of horse pistols'), 'Horses sold at Sadborrow Sept. 12, 1749 by auction', 'Sheep sold by auction 27th March 1750', and Cart Hoses, Waggons, Bullocks etc. 'An account of the plate pack'd into the portmanteau Trunck' including 'Large Silver waiter with the Bragg arms quartered with the Pawlets', 'A Coffee pott chas'd with Mr Braggs and his last wifes arms', 'A Cocoa Nutt Bowl sett in a Silver foot', 'late Mrs Braggs gold Watch with a crystal seal with her own and her husbands arms', 'An account of China pack'd up in the Great Trunk...' (Tea cups flower'd with blue and gold... Octagon Blew and White Tea Cups and Saucers'). 1750. £170.00
    The Bragges were the largest landowners in the district.


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


  114. Southbourne-on-Sea SALE CATALOGUE for auction of the Marine Residence known as 'Gorselands', St Catherine's Road.... 4pp., sm. folio. Wraps with actual photo, photo frontis. Creases in wraps where once folded. 1939. £12.00

  115. Swanage PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of all that Freehold Cottage Property known as 'Summer's Terrace'.... Which Messrs Plummers are favoured with instructions to offer for Sale by Auction.... 27th October, 1919. 4pp., sm. folio. 1919. £8.00

  116. Tyneham MAP OF THE PARISH OF TYNEHAM Dorset 1840. Manuscript map in ink on paper, with a small amount of colour. Linen-backed. Size 48" x 32". Scale 6 chains = 1in. Title in decorative lettering, compass rose, scale bar. Roads coloured in buff, buildings in red and black, shows fields, each numbered, footpaths, coastline with cliffs indicated. Initialled at corner and dated March 6, 1841. Tear in paper (but not linen) reaching 8" from top edge down through title, edges of paper frayed, silk tape edging worn. 15 vellum pages sewn to top of map, including 12 pages listing Owners, Occupiers, No. on Plan, Description, Cultivation, Quantity, Rent Charge. Vellum leaves slightly browned. Over 270 properties listed. Henry Hyde, Land, Timber & House Surveyor, Lulworth, Dorset, July 1840. £250.00

  117. Wambrook LEASE FOR A YEAR of plot of twelve acres late part of Bewley Down, Thomas Lawrence to William Palmer. Vellum, size 15" x 19", wax seal. 1814. £14.00

  118. Wambrook LEASE FOR A YEAR of house and 33 acres of land in Bewley Down called Shags Plud and Woolfern Hill comprising the Site of the old Lime Kiln and a Lime Stone Quarry, and other lands, Thomas Deane to Martha Edwards. Vellum, size 18" x 23", two good armorial wax seals. Loosely inserted is an obligation bond relating to the lease. 1820. £16.00

  119. Wambrook TO BE SOLD by Auction By Mr Thomas Bunston, at the George Inn, Chard... All That Messuage, Tenement and Farm called Bewley Down... Poster, 17" x 11", folds. Some slight off-setting. 1856. £18.00

  120. West Dorset Liberal Association SOUVENIR PROGRAMME Demonstration in Commemoration of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Dorchester Town Football Ground, Saturday, July 7th, 1934. Speaker The Rt. Hon. D. LLoyd George. 8pp., 8vo, wraps. Illusts. 1934. £8.00

  121. Weymouth WEYMOUTH COLLEGE LOWER SCHOOL Prize Distribution. December 1888. Programme printed on pink paper, 3p., 4to, folds. Wheeler, Weymouth. 1888. £6.00

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

  123. Cruchley's ROAD AND RAILWAY MAP OF THE COUNTY OF DURHAM Showing all the Railways and names of Stations... Coloured folding map, linen-backed, folding into sm. 8vo brightly coloured limp cloth wraps with illustration of cyclist etc. c1900. £22.00
    With geological information.


  124. Lead Mining DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PARTICULARS OF SALE of Lead Mines, 28th October, 1790. List of Lots, headed 'Lead Mines', to be sold be sold 7th December at the House of Charles Turner, The Queen's Head in Newcastle, before the Receiver of the Estate of Wm. Bacon Forster.... late the Property of Jno. Wm. Bacon Forster Esq. decd. 'held by Lease jointly with Sir Thomas Blackett under the Bishop of Durham'. The particulars are part of a letter sent to the Receiver, Charles Wren, in Newcastle, from Van Heythuyson, Solicitor, in London, asking him to insert details of place, date etc., in the blanks he has left in the particulars, and to ask Blackett for an under lease. It is to be inserted in as many local papers as possible, and the London papers. Comprises 2 pages of particulars, folio, plus the letter on the conjoint leaf, integral address panel on verso, with circular postmark, black wax seal, leaving small hole in margin where opened. Wren has inserted the details and made some amendments. 1790. £120.00
    Comprises 6 Lots, listing 31 Mines in all, in Whesonhope Fell, Burnhope Fell, Rookhope Fell, Killhope Fell, and other Fells. Includes Wolfcleugh, Straithhead, Greengroves, Grove Rake, Berry Cleugh, Puddingthorne, Stone Peake.


  125. Walker, Printer THE STOLEN CHILD with The Woodpecker, The Wife's Dream. Three ballads on one sheet, two illustrations, one of a barefoot gypsy and a woman remonstrating with her husband in front of the fire. Size 10" x 7", number 74 bottom left. Repaired tear in left margin, not affecting text. A few small tears at right edge. 1840's. £20.00

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    Essex
  126. Berechurch PLAN OF THE BERECHURCH HALL ESTATE Situated in the Parishes of Berechurch, Layer de la Haye, Abberton, Fingringhoe, Peldon and East Donyland in the County of Essex the Property of Thomas George Graham White Esq. Collated from Parochial Surveys and revised by J.S. Surridge Jnr., Surveyor, Coggeshall, Essex. 1873. Manuscript map in ink and full wash colour, on thick paper, backed with linen, overall size 66" x 44", scale approx. 100 feet to 1 inch. Decorative title, partly in water colour, initials of Thomas White illuminated. Compass rose and scale bar. Edges of plan bound with silk tape, fraying in parts. Some minor staining along bottom border, not affecting printing. 1873. £300.00
    Shows fields, woodland, halls, houses, inns and churches, farm buildings, layout of gardens and grounds shown in detail, rights of way, water features. Shows Maypole Farm, Berechurch Hall, Friday-Wood Farm, Park Farm, Water Mill, Windmill, Rock Farm, Abberton Hall, Hill Farm, Gate Farm, Rye Farm, Blind Knights.


  127. Chelmsford, Maldon, Halstead, Much Hadham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheets 222, 223, etc., Size 27" x 37", scale 1" to 1 mile, composite map, dissected and linen-backed and folding into 8vo endpapers, lacks front endpaper. Wyld label in bottom margin. Some very slight discolouration in places on left side. Electrotype 1886. £32.00

  128. Halstead CONVEYANCE of freehold part and covenant to surrender copyhold part of 'Bees Farm', Halstead, James Hutley and others to Allen Canning. 2 large vellum sheets, on second sheet is good coloured plan size 10" x 12", with Schedule at the side referring to numbers on plan. 5 wax seals. 1881. £25.00

  129. Much Waltham COPY SURRENDER of Lease of the Parsonage House, Glebe and Tithes to the Intent a New Lease may be granted to Henry Sanford Esq., Sir Wm. Adby Bart., to The President Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College Oxford. 3p., small folio, waterstaining, paper worn at top right corner affecting a few words. 1815. £10.00

  130. Saffron Walden BILL of T.F. Hall, Veterinary Surgeon, to the Executros of Sir James Bailey, Lofts Hall. 4to, printed heading. Detailed bill in manuscript on both sides from October 1909 - December 1910. Receipted over stamp. 1911. £5.00
    Includes attendance on 5 terriers and 2 puppies, blistering leg of horse, attendance on foxhounds etc.


  131. Tolleshunt D'Arcy RELEASE of land and premises, Barclays & Co. to Frank Mynott. 2p., vellum, plus 1p plan. 1910. £10.00

  132. Walthamstow AN ACT to Enable Joseph Fell, Esquire, to make a Lease of a Farm and Lands at Walthamstowe, in the County of Essex, for a Term of Ninety-nine Years. 3pp, plus cover leaf with docket title, decorative initial letter, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1762. £16.00

  133. West Ham, Billericay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 257. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", plus margins. Feint 'Record Map' in top margin. Some very slight darkening of paper over about 2 square inches. Blue Admiralty stamp in right margin, just obtruding onto border. Railways inserted to 1911. £20.00

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  134. Bourton-on-the Water AN ACT to extend the Bourton-on-the-Water Railway towards Cheltenham, to amend the Act relating to the Bourton-on-the Water Railway Company; and for other purposes. 8pp, disbound, printed on pale blue paper, vertical fold. 1864. £15.00

  135. Cheltenham Turnpike Trust AN ACT to continue the Cheltenham Turnpike Trust.... 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1863. £10.00

  136. Cirencester ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Joseph Mullings to several pieces of Land part of a late Close called Stepstairs. 4p., folio in manuscript. Inset coloured plan size 7" x 4". 1853. £15.00
    Details title from 1837.


  137. Coleford LEASE FOR A YEAR of a tenement called Poolway in Coleford, with lands once part of Pool field, closes called Oak Piece, Ferney Leazes, Ann Collins of Ross and Robert Yarworth of Coleford to Mary Collins of Monmouth. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. 1803. £15.00

  138. Forest of Dean Timber AN ACT for the Increase and Preservation of Timber in Dean and New Forests. 4pp. 1808 £18.00

  139. Frampton upon Severn WILL of John Hieron of Frampton, 1776. 2p, folio, attested copy taken in 1787. Leaves his estate at Frampton 'lately purchased of Thomas Loveday of Painswick' to his three sons. 1787. £18.00
    Also refers to 'one acre of land in the Nassfield'.


  140. Gloucester BILL of J.B. Kirk for the Parish of St. John Baptist. 1p, 4to, folded, listing services for two burials, 1828 & 1829, for 'a coffin for Pauper... bread and cheese... to dress the corpse...' etc. 1829. £8.00

  141. Gloucester Records Office ROYALIST AND ROUNDHEAD IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1640-1660. An Exhibition... at The Wheatstone Hall, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, 15th to 27th July, 1960. 8vo, 16pp., wraps. 1960. £4.00

  142. Gloucestershire Election DIALOGUE Lord S. - Well, John How do you go at Glo'ster? Hon. J.D.-D-'d bad my Lord They'll stand it no longer. Sir William's a-head; and the Freeholders say we shall no longer make a Borough of the county of Gloucester Broadside, size approx. 8¬" x 6«", few spots, slightly browning where once folded, slight wear at one point in fold. Watkins, Printer, Cirencester: c.1810. £24.00
    The dialogue attacks Sir William Guise's opponents and is supposedly between 'Lord S.' and 'Hon J.D.' (Dutton): 'Lord S. - Well but, John, you should talk to them; make them fine speeches and fair promises; that costs nothing, you know. J.D. - I tried that my Lord; but when I'm going to speak, they cry out 'Hare-skins and rabbit-skins!'.


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

  144. Parish of Winterbourne AN ACT to remove Doubts as to the Division of the Parish of Winterbourne in the County of Gloucester into Two Parishes. Pages numbered 409-414, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre, and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1841. £12.00

  145. 'Reuben Ramble' GLOSTERSHIRE Engraved map, size approx. 4" x 3", within a border, surrounded by hand-coloured vignettes of Gloucester Cathedral, women milking, haymaking, fishing etc. Overall size 8" x 6«". With page of accompanying text. Light rust mark in left-hand margin. 1845. £18.00
    From 'Reuben Ramble: Travels Through the Counties of England'. (Ramble was the pseudonym of the Rev. Clark)


  146. Sturge & Sons, Surveyors PLAN OF AN ESTATE IN THE PARISHES OF YATE, WICKWAR, HORTON & IRON ACTON in the County of Gloucester, Held Subject to the Trusts of the Will of Henry Bengough Esq., Deceased. Manuscript plan in ink and colour on thick paper backed with linen, size 35" x 47", scale 1" = 6 chains, mounted on mahogany roller with finials, wooden stretcher on the left curved to fit around roll, titled in gilt on the outside. Large title with decorative lettering in a variety of styles, compass rose, scale bar. Signed 'I. Sturge & Sons, Surveyors, Bristol' bottom right. Shows buildings in red, with surrounding parkland and orchards indicated, streams, roads, Bristol and Gloucester Railway, fields shaded in green or buff, and numbered. Shows Hill House, Hallend Farm, Firing Close Farm, Frith Farm, Shortwood Farm, Oxwick Farm, Brickyard. Some browning due to damp in top left corner above compass rose, with 3 tears in paper (but not linen) approx. 3" long, part of one letter in title rubbed. Some spotting at top edge, and an area of rubbing approx. 2" square in top margin, green silk edging tape, missing from bottom edge. 1888. £200.00

    SOCIETY OF TRADESMEN

  147. Wickwar CONVEYANCE by Appointment and Release of Lands at Wickwar, Arthur Hockley of Wickwar, William Jones, Labourer, master, and Thomas Watts, Labourer and others, Stewards of a Society of Tradesmen formerly meeting at the Kings Arms in Wickwar and now meeting at the house of John Chandler known as the New Inn, Revd. Thomas Jones and others to Joseph Plaister, shopkeeper, of Wickwar. 3 vellum sheets, some browning and rubbing, outside dusty, signed by 48 parties, with small wax seals, on the last sheet, some with their marks, and again on the back of one sheet, without seals, acknowledging receipt of £250 paid by Plaister. 1819. £45.00
    The names of the parties are given in the body of the deed, all with occupations, including farrier, pargeter, woolstribbler, woolcomber, mason. The majority are listed as labourers. Parishes they come from include Tortworth, Yate, Hawkesbury, Cromhall.


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    Hampshire and Isle of Wight
  148. Andover ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS Plans and Conditions of Sale of... The Over Wallop Estate, including Seven Corn-growing and Dairying Farms... Watercress Bed, numerous Cottages... about 2,418 acres, Valuable Sporting Rights.... for Sale by Auction... 24th August, 1932... 32pp., sm. folio, large folding coloured plan, 2 pages of photographs. 1932. £38.00

  149. Basingstoke ADMINSTRATION of the will of Henry Piercy of Basingstoke. Copy of will (dated 1703) on vellum, size 7" x 8«", administration in Latin, size 7" x 6". Tag, lacking seal. 1707. £20.00
    Makes his wife Elizabeth administratrix, leaves twelve pounds each to his children.


  150. Cruchley's REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT Colour wash, size 15" x 15", folding to small cloth boards with gilt title. Information on excursions etc. inside front board. Some slight discoloration on part which is pasted to board. c1880. £24.00
    Also shows Southampton, Lymington, Havant.


  151. Godshill, Isle of Wight CONVEYANCE of the Tithes Corn, Grain, Hay etc., of Burrows, Dolcoppice and Prangnolls situate in Godshill, James and Sarah Cole to Michael Hoy of Beauchamp. Vellum, size 24" x 32", 3 fine wax seals with busts. 1811. £18.00

  152. Heathfield PARTICULARS, PLAN, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF, the Valuable Freehold Residential Property known as HEATHFIELD situate in the Parish of Christchurch east and including a Substantially-Built Residence.... Good Stabling, Home Farmhouse & Buildings Two Cottages and Lodge.... the whole covering a total of 99 acres. Messrs. Daniel Smith, Oakley & Garrard.... to Sell by Auction at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London EC. on Thursday, the 8th day of July, 1920. Folio, with large coloured folding plan, mounted photo on front cover and 4 photographic illusts on 2 sheets, 12pp, original printed wraps. 1920. £22.00

  153. Isle of Wight LEASE FOR A YEAR of a farm house, orchard, and various closes of land in the Manor of Whitcombe, called Blows Farm. John Cocker, Seymour Fleming and others to Dr. John Sims. Vellum, size 24" x 38", 3 wax seals. 1809. £18.00
    Lists all the closes of land with name and measurement.


  154. Letts, Son & Co. Ltd. HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT Colour printed map, size 15" x 13", linen-backed and folding into small cloth boards. Explanation and list of Divisions, Population statistics, no. of paupers, etc. c1890. £18.00

  155. Monk Sherborne Wood, Pamber End, & Bramley Frith, near Basingstoke A CATALOGUE OF ABOUT 80 ACRES OF FINE UNDERWOOD To be Sold by Auction by Messrs T. Mallam and Son, At the College Arms Inn, Pamber, on Wednesday, the 5th of November, 1856.... Poster, size 17 x 13«", slightly off-set. H. Cooke & Co., Printers, Oxford, 1856. £18.00
    Includes a list of the items in the sale.

    FITTING UP OF SHIPS AT PORTSMOUTH

  156. Portsmouth, Board of Ordnance LETTER to 'The respective Officers of his Majesty's Ordnance at Portsmouth', from Edward Short at the Office of Ordnance 4th April 1729. 1p., sm. folio, 15 lines in a large clear hand, with blank conjoint leaf with address and post-mark on verso, traces of folds. Orders guns and gunner's stores to be put on board various ships, to be delivered to the respective master gunners. 1729. £45.00
    The 'Berwick' and 'Portland' were being fitted for Channel Service, the 'Princess Amelia', 'Royal Oak', 'Kent', 'Monmouth', 'Kingston', 'Dreadnought', 'Lyon', 'Falkland' for a voyage to the Mediterranean, and the 'Oxford' for Newfoundland. There is an 'N.B' at the bottom: 'the Ships above mencon'd to be Supplyed with their highest Proportions'.


  157. Portsmouth, Board of Ordnance LETTER to Mr John Hooper Storekeeper for the Office of Ordnance at Portsmouth, from Wm. Boulter and C. Margrave(?), Office of Ordnance 26th October 1698. 1p., small folio, 21 lines in a large clear hand, signed, with small wax seal with the arms of the Ordnance, blank conjoint leaf with address, postmark and docket title of the recipient on verso of blank leaf. Paper browned, but sound. 1698. £60.00
    Says that 'Colonel Collingwood's Regiment of Foot, Embarqued at Portsmo. for the West Indies, being to have Musqts. and Cartouch Boxes, in lieu of Pikes' he was to receive into the stores 'what Pikes shall be delivered... and deliver Musqts. and Cartouch Boxes instead of'em.' They are to supply 100 muskets for the 300 men on board, and give an exact account to the Board.


  158. Romsey DEED OF BARGAIN AND SALE of messuage, barn and lands at Romsey, Rachel Piper of Andover, widow, Joseph Waight of Andover, Cordwainer, James Allen of West Wellow in Wiltshire, yeoman, William Fowley of Ranville in Romsey, and others to William Mathews of The Close. New Sarum. Vellum, size 17" x 31", very fine large calligraphic title, with large 'T', signed by 10 parties with 10 wax seals on tags, some seals showing a swan. Very bold dark lettering. There is a stain 1" - 4" wide down the centre of the document causing the ink to run and rendering the words there very difficult to read. 1713. £20.00
    Gives a long list of the closes of land, with names, including Petty, Agars, Frith. Refers to the will of Edward Allen.


  159. Rotherwick and Newnham DEED OF COVENANT for production of Deeds, The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Mornington to John Vines. 3 large vellum sheets, with details of 49 Indentures, 1810 - 1859. Signed Mornington with large wax seal. 1860. £15.00

  160. Southampton QUIETUS for the City of Southampton. Vellum roll, made up of several membranes joined, size 45" x 12". In Latin, in a large script, with very large decorative calligraphic flourishes on the last word '(Quietus') at the foot of the document. Letters rather rubbed in some places (without affecting legibility). Lists Green wax, parcels of the pipe, etc.. Signed by Whitaker, Deputy Clerk to the Pipe. 1691. £140.00

  161. Stanford's TOURIST'S MAP OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT With Popular References to Fossiliferous Localities, Antiquities, Landing Places For Boats &c and an Appendix Shewing The Island, Southampton Water, And the Adjacent Country on a reduced scale Geologically Coloured. Engraved map, size 18" x 25", scale 'British Statute Miles 69.12 to a Degree', dissected, mounted on more recent linen, folding to 8vo, some slight wear at some section edges, trimmed to border. Inset bottom right in a decorative border is a geological map, hand-coloured of the Island and the Southampton area, size 5" x 3", scale 1" = 7 miles. c1870. £28.00
    Shows Lymington, Exbury, Portsmouth.


  162. Tichborne, North End ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLII.13. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36" Some fields outlined in colour with notes as to cultivation, area of trees planted added in pencil. Edition of 1909. £10.00

  163. Well Farm, Odiham A CATALOGUE OF THE WHOLE LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK comprising 6 capital Cart Horses, 2 4-Year Old Colts... for sale by Auction... October 10th, 1898.... 4p, on card, sm. 8vo. Vertical fold. 1898. £10.00

  164. Winchester CALENDAR OF THE PRISONERS IN THE COUNTY GAOL AT WINCHESTER Tried at The Michaelmas Sessions, Holden at The Castle of Winchester, on Tuesday, October 18, 1825. 9 pages, sm. folio, printed on vellum. Comprises title with Index of names, List of Prisoners Tried, with details of their offence and sentence, (4pp), For Trial at the Assizes, For Offences under the Revenue Laws, For Limited Times, (1p), Prisoners in the County Bridewell for Limited Times. Vellum water-stained down right hand edge, with 'cockling' of vellum in bottom right corner reaching about 1"-2" into text, (mainly affecting first two leaves), stain at top left corner which has caused vellum pages to stick together at the extreme corner, not affecting text, but with discoloration on all pages at this point. Lacks stitching. Printed by James Robbins, Winchester. 1825. £95.00
    Crimes included 'being a lewd woman', 'disobeying his master's orders', 'keeping a lurcher', 'being idle and disorderly'. James Batt was sentenced to 6 months hard labour, for stealing 3 geese, 8 ducks, and 6 fowls, the property of Daniel Diddams, at Barton Stacey.


  165. Winchester CALENDAR OF THE PRISONERS in the County Gaol at Winchester Tried at The Epiphany Sessions Holden at the Castle of Winchester on Tuesday, Januar 10, 1826. 5pp., small folio, printed on vellum. Comprises title, with Index of names, Prisoners Tried, with details of offence and sentence. 46 cases. Waterstained down right hand edge, very browned down inner margins. Lacks sewing. Printed by James Robbins, Winchester. 1826. £75.00
    Includes various poaching offences, stealing a silver watch at Portsea, the property of Thomas Loader (sentence 7 years transportation), stealing a 'rail' from the Earl of Shaftesbury (three months' hard labour). William Oakley was charged with stealing a bee-hive and bees from John Gibbs at Chawton.


  166. Worthy Down ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheets XL.4. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Minor tear in margin. Edition of 1932. £10.00
    Shows Worthy Down, Littleton House, Lower Farm, Officers Quarters, Roman Road.


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


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

  169. Hereford Roads AN ACT for enlarging the Terms and Powers granted by an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the several Roads leading into the City of Hereford. Cover leaf + pages numbered 423-436, Black Letter, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1749. £11.00

  170. Little Cowarne PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Freehold Mill, known as 'Little Cowarne Mill', comprising a dwelling-house, water, corn and grist mill and 25a. 3r. 7p... to be sold by auction... 14th August, 1889. 3pp., folio, folded with docket title. Coloured full page plan. Schedule. 1889. £18.00

  171. Longtown PARTICULARS, PLAN, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE, OF A VALUABLE FRAM CALLED THE MAERDY, Situate in the Townships of Longtown and Newton, Herefordshire, which will be offered for Sale by Auction, by Messrs. Rogers, Hamar, & Pye, at the Spread Eagle Inn, in the City of Hereford, On Wednesday, the 29th day of June, 1881. Folio, large coloured folding plan loosely inserted, 3pp, folded, docket title. 1881. £28.00

  172. St. Margarets SCHEDULE OF TITLE DEEDS and writings relating to a Messuage lands and premises in the parish of St. Margarets in the County of Hereford late the property of Samuel Maddox deceased. 4p., folio, folded. 1836. £18.00
    Details deeds from 1782-1836.


  173. Weobley PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Dwelling Houses and Orchard, Pasture, Arable and Garden Lands, which will be Sold By Auction.... 5th December, 1876. 5pp., folio, on blue paper, folded, with completed memorandum. Folding plan coloured in outline. 1876. £28.00

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    Hertfordshire
  174. St. Albans LETTER from Viscount Grimston, to an un-named artist congratulating him after seeing 'a proof Print of your Drawing of the Abbey, and the adjoining Ground at St. Albans, which I much approve of, and think does infinite credit to the artists employed in the work...' He says he is honoured to be mentioned in the Dedication. Gorhambury, 13th Feb. 1798. £18.00
    The writer was created Baron Verulam in 1790.


  175. St. Austin and Sons, Printers, Hertford TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of The City of Butcherly Green. Gentlemen and Ladies... The height of my ambition, has long been to represent you enlightened and respectable city.... I offer myself as a Candidate.... Alderman Bob Crouch. Saw-Pit Hall, 26th April, 1826'. Size 10" x 8", paper lightly browned, with some wear, offsetting of print from a poster which has been stored against it. 1826. £16.00
    Mentions he would hope to sit on the same side of the house as 'our respected Friend Duncombe' (the Liberal candidate).


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    Kent
  176. Bowen (Emanuel), Geographer to His Majesty AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT Divided into its Lathes and Subdivided into Hundreds, Drawn from Surveys and most approved modern Maps with various additional Improvements: Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to the Air, Soil, Natural Produce, Manufactures, Trade and present State of its Cities & principal Towns. Engraved folding map, dissected and mounted on linen, size approx. 21" x 28¬", including small margins, coloured in outline, contained within the original rubbed marbled slipcase. Decorative cartouche showing cherry trees, fishing equipment, fruit pickers etc., inset top right is 'A Correct Draught of the Downs and adjacent Coast'. Small holes in linen where folds meet at three places, occasional light foxing. London: Printed for John Bowles, in Cornhill, Carrington Bowles in St. Paul's, Church Street, & Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, c1780. £170.00

  177. Brand's Hatch, Chimhams ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XVII.15. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Revision of 1936. £17.00
    Shows most of Speedway track, Maplescombe, Hever Place etc.


  178. Cliffe LEASE of the Rookery and Dalham Farms in Cliffe and Halstow, Thomas Grant to John Oakley. Vellum, 22" x 29", wax seals. 1833. £14.00

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

  180. Dymchurch ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXII.N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 21" x 18", linen-backed and folding into 8vo endpapers. Second Edition 1899. £9.00
    About half of map is sea area.


  181. Goodnestone, Barfreston ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Composite map, scale 6" to 1 mile, size 36" x 18". Indelible stamp of Margate Corporation, signed by the Engineer. Wells shaded in red, with figures in red ink to show 'depth of wells from surface', and in black to show 'depth of water in wells', manuscript additions dated 1927. Third Edition 1908. £14.00

    INDEX MAP TO ANDREWS AND DRURY'S LARGE-SCALE MAP

  182. Kitchin Sculpt. A MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT Taken from an Actual Survey as an Index to the Large One. Engraved map, coloured in outline, 2/5" to 1 mile, divided into 25 numbered sections corresponding to the 25 sheets of the large-scale map. Size 20" x 27", dissected and mounted on linen, some browning of paper at edges of four central sections, a few light browning spots at edges. Linen on verso spotty (presumably staining from glue where paper pasted to linen). Folding into marbled slip-case, rubbed at corners, owner's 1833 inscription in ink. 1769. £190.00

  183. Reynolds' ALBUM OF CANTERBURY VIEWS 23 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into sm. 4to gilt boards. c1880. £17.00

  184. Sheerness and Chatham Naval Bases AN ACT for the Purchase of certain Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments at Sheerness and Chatham in the County of Kent, for the Use of the Navy. Pages numbered 689-694, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1816. £15.00

  185. Tunbridge Wells TWO BILLS of James Comley, Job Master and Fly Proprietor, made out to Mrs. Thomas, York Road, for Carriage Hire, July-August 1903 and 1904. Foolscap, printed headings, receipted over stamp. 1903-4. £8.00
    Mrs Thomas hired two carriages practically every day.


  186. Woolwich SECURITY ON THE COMMON FUND for £6,000 and interest, The Guardians of the Poor of the Woolwich Union to the London Assurance. Vellum, 23" x 28", two armorial wax seals 2" in diameter, one of which has some pieces of wax chipped away. 1871. £15.00

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    Lancashire
  187. Accrington New Hold Manor of SURRENDER of Elizabeth Woodcock of land at Oakley Rawtenstall, at the Halmot Court of the Clitheroe Estate Company. Vellum, small plan in margin. 1908. £12.00

  188. Bacon's LARGE-SCALE PLAN OF MANCHESTER Colour-printed plan, scale 6" to 1 mile. Folding into blindstamped cloth boards with circular label printed in brown. Street index at sides. c1885. £25.00

  189. Birkenhead LETTERHEAD of Gamlins Limited, Cabinet & Chair Manufacturers, Laird Street. 4to, fine decorative heading in bold dark printing with views of the Mersey Works, and the St. John's Works, heading 5" x 8". Typed letter quoting price of a piece of gimp. Two small stab holes at right edge where once filed. 1909. £8.00

  190. Carlton LEASE of a messuage in Carlton for a yearly rent of five shillings and eight pence, George Hull the elder to John Silcock of Harthorne, husbandman. On vellum, size 10" x 17", wax seal on tag. Vellum rather thin and rubbed in parts, 1" split at a fold. 1635. £17.00

  191. Farnworth FARNWORTH CHURCH, LANCASHIRE. S.E. watercolour, titled in bottom margin, in ink and grey tones, showing church surrounded by low wall, small gate in foreground. Ruled border, margins trimmed. Size 6" x 7". c1820. £20.00

  192. Formby ABSTRACT OF THE TITLE to a leasehold plot of Land and dwellinghouse situate in Formby. 8p., folio. Small coloured sketch plan in margin. 1880. £14.00
    The plot was half an acre, near the Liverpool and Southport Railway line.


  193. General Strike LIVERPOOL EXPRESS BULLETIN May 8th, 1926. Single sheet, broadsheet size, printed on one side only. Folded, hole 1" diameter where folds meet at centre, with loss of some text. 1926. £10.00
    'More Specials Wanted', 'Union Leaders Suspended'.


  194. Heaton Norris CONVEYANCE of a plot of land for building upon, The Right Honourable Lord Egerton of Tatton to Henry Boardman. 2 large vellum sheets, wax seals, sketch map of land on verso. 1874. £15.00
    The land was to build Albert Road.


  195. Ince Moss Colliery RAVINE MINE Manuscript plan, ink and colours, size 46" x 80", on cartridge paper, linen backed, rolled. Shows numerous pools, canal, some buildings, railway, plan of what appears to be a formal garden S.E. of workings. Workings dated between 1902-1934... together with... Hindley Field Colliery, J.C. Eckersley's Estate. Three manuscript plans of workings in Ravine Mine, on waxed cotton, average size 15" x 20", scales 30-50 yds. per inch, with correspondence re. lease, 1917, attached. Plan probably orginally drawn c1910. £50.00

  196. Ince Moss Hall Colliery, Wigan PEMBERTON FIVE FEET MINE No. 5 New Pit, Ince Moss Hall Colliery. Manuscript plan on paper backed with linen, in ink and six colours, showing workings with coal got in different colours, labelled neatly with dates, ranging from 1892 - 1929, large title in Gothic lettering. Shows buildings. Size 25" x 80". Water stain along 30" of top edge, just touching coloured area at some points. Surface dusty. 1892-1929. £45.00

  197. Ince, Wigan LOWER YARD MINE SPRINGS COLLIERY Manuscript plan, titled on verso, showing workings in different colours. On thick paper backed with linen, rolled. Scale 5" = 150 yds. Size 38" x 56". Coloured according to date of working, from 1872-1898. Shows outline of buildings, railway, line of main fault etc. c1910. £70.00

  198. Liverpool AN ACT for enabling the Trustee under the Will of Henry Brown, deceased, to sell certain Shares in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Navigation, and a Share in the Liverpool Theatre.... and to apply the Money in repairing, pulling down and rebuilding certain Houses in Paradise Street, Liverpool.... 20pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1831. £15.00

  199. Liverpool BILL of D.A. Weaver, 135 Dale Street, Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Paper Dealer. Small bill with printed heading made out for 10 reams of 'Cap'. Stab hole. 1847. £5.00

  200. Manchester Town Hall ROYAL WEDDING DANCE Marriage of H.R.H. The Duke of York to the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Dance programme and supper menu. 4pp, sm. 8vo, plus stiff wraps with gold embossed coat of arms. April 26th, 1923. £15.00

  201. Mersey Volunteer Division, R.E., Submarine Miners SMOKING CONCERT January 8th, 1894. Programme, printed one side only of 8vo sheet, embossed and pale green border, embossed badge at head. Lists songs and sketches, no indication of where the concert was held. 1894. £10.00

  202. Ravenhead Mine, Wigan TWO MANUSCRIPT PLANS 'Ravenhead Main Delf Seam', 'St. Helens Four Feet Seam'. In ink on waxed cotton, each size 20" x 18", scale approx. 25" to 1 mile. Wm. Sword, Mining Engineer, Wigan. c1950. £14.00
    Shows Loyola Hall, Home Farm, Woods House Farm, etc.


  203. Rochdale NUMBER AND NAMES OF ALL THE LOCKS upon the line of the Rochdale Canal from the Junction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation to Manchester showing the length and breadth of each Lock and the distance from each other. Manuscript on large sheet size 40" x 26", listing approx. 90 locks with 20 columns for measurements such as 'Breadth of the Head', 'Breadth of the Bottom Bar' 'Distance from Sowerby' etc. Laid down on conservation paper, some loss of paper at top and left edges, area approx. 3" long torn from bottom left corner, with loss of the list numbers of the last few locks. A few rust spots. c1840. £140.00

  204. Royal Liverpool Country Hospital for Children SUBSCRIPTION DINNER Very attractive menu, size 12" x 4«", printed in brown on green ground, folded once, the top half of the card consisting of a charming picture of a small girl in the garden of the hospital holding an actual miniature envelope which has been pasted on. Lists dishes, and toasts. Adelphi Hotel 23rd February 1911. £16.00

  205. Shevington THE GROVE CHEMICAL WORKS, SHEVINGTON Manuscript plan on thick paper, backed with linen, rolled, size 24" x 36", Scale 30ft. to an inch. In ink with some very light shading and feint outline colour. Shows buildings, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, railway. Many figures entered alongside canal, red lines drawn across plan marked 'Cut Line' etc. Edges dusty. n.d. c1920. £40.00

  206. Spotland, Rochdale LEASE OF POSSESSION of Miln House in Spotland with Cottage, Water Corn Mill and one Kiln, a messuage called Horsecroft, another called Holling Hill, and three messuages in Rochdale called the Queen's Head, in Yorkshire Street, James Hey the elder to James Hey the younger. 3p., folio, folded, contemporary copy. 1760. £22.00

  207. Strangeways Hall Colliery TWO MANUSCRIPT PLANS 'Strangeways Hall Colliery. Haigh Yard Mine, Leylands Exors. Estate.' On waxed cotton, in ink and colours, scale 30 yds. to an inch. One size 23" x 25", showing coal got between 1912 and 1915, coloured according to year, with key in top corner, the other size 25" x 33", showing top coal. 'Office Copy' in red in top margin. c1915. £20.00

  208. Wigan Public Libraries JUBILEE EXHIBITION OF EARLY MINING LITERATURE May 1st to September 29th, 1928. Annotated Catalogue. Compiled and arranged with an introduction by Arthur J. Hawkes. 38pp., 4to, printed wraps, wraps almost detached. Illustrations. Manuscript notes on some of the works exhibited on blank pages at the back. Wigan. Printed for the Libraries Committee. 1928. £20.00

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    Lincolnshire
  209. Bardney Norton, Branstow, etc. FINE in the court of Orlando Bridgeman, Robert Hyde, Thos. Tyrell and Samuel Browne, Justices. James Hoste, armiger and Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham and William Willoughby armiger, deforciant of 4 messuages, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 300 acres of meadow and 70 acres of pasture in Bardney Norton, Branstow, Metheryngham, Lanton, Ragby. In Latin, on paper, 5p., folio, written on rectos only in a fine hand, widely spaced. Last page ragged and stained in margin, with some loss of paper in blank area. Contemporary copy. 1662. £24.00
    James paid Francis and William £80 and they renounced any right to the lands.


  210. Brickhills Farm AN EXCELLENT ARABLE AND STOCK FARM KNOWN AS BRICKHILLS FARM Broughton, near Brigg.... Superior Farmhouse Residence, Ample Farmbuildings and Four Cottages extending to 452 acres. For Sale by Auction..... by John D. Wood & Co., and T.H. Russell at the Angel Hotel, Brigg, On Thursday, 25th July, 1957. Large coloured folding plan, 12pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps, few ink notes of prices. 1957. £15.00

  211. Lincoln AN ACT for paving the Footways of certain Streets within the City of Lincoln; for cleansing, lighting and watching the said Streets... 52pp, plus cover leaf, Black letter, attractive woodcut headpiece with ships, ploughman etc, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1791. £18.00

  212. Lincoln, Gainsborough, Horncastle ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 36", linen backed, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Parkland, roads, county boundaries hand-coloured. Small area about 1" square shaded pink. O.S Blindstamp 1858. £40.00

  213. Louth, Spilsby ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 26". Linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers. Parkland and main roads hand-coloured. c1860. £20.00
    One third of map is sea area.


  214. Louth, Spilsby, Revesby ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 26". Over half the map is sea area. Covers as far inland as High Toynton... together with... Sheet LXXXV. Two thirds of map is sea area. Covers mouth of Humber, North Thoresby, Tunstall. 2 items. Printed by Ramshaw. Published at the Tower of London 1st March 1824. £45.00
    Watermarks T. Edmunds Wycombe, 1829 and 1823 respectively.


  215. Tetney AN ACT for dividing and inclosing the open Fields, Meadows, stinted common Pastures... in the Parish of Tetney... and for draining and improving Part of the said Parish... 50pp., plus cover leaf. Some slight darkening of paper. 1774. £12.00

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  216. Clementi, Collard BILL of Clementi, Collard, Davis & Collard, Manufacturers of Musical Instruments and Music Sellers, 26 Cheapside. 4to, fine printed heading in a variety of typefaces, coat of arms 'By Appointment', made out for 'An Elegant New patent Piano Forte with Octagon Corners inlaid', with packing and wharfage, for Swinburn, Hexham. Traces of folds. 1820. £18.00

  217. Coals, Culm, and Cinder AN ACT to allow.... the bringing of Coals, Culm, and Cinders, to London and Westminster, by inland Navigation. Pages numbered 747-750, disbound, folio, small hole affecting a letters of a couple of words, Act of Parliament. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1810. £12.00

  218. Collins' LONDON 3,000 Street References. Plan, size 21" x 28", folding into sm. 8vo boards, rubbed at edges, printed label, one corner of label chipped. 18pp. index of streets. Three splits at folds 5" long repaired on verso with archival tape, three very small splits where two folds meet. c1860 £70.00
    Covers Stoke Newington to Denmark Hill, Hammersmith Bridge to West India Dock.


  219. Cox and Baylis, Printer EUSTON THEATRE ROYAL The Public are respectfully informed at this Theatre, having undergone considerable alterations, and entirely new painted and decorated, will open for a short Season, on the 22nd day of July, 1817. After an Occasional Address, spoken by Mr. Allspout, will be presented the Musical Farce of The Boarding House, or, Five Hours at Brighton... after which... the Burlesque Tragic Opera of Bombastes Furioso.... the Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance of Blue Beard, or, Female Curiosity. Playbill with comic spoof names of actors, size approx. 13" x 8", the date of the performance written entered in manuscript. 1817. £70.00
    The farce 'The Boarding House' was written by Samuel Beazley. Actors includes 'Signior de la Scratchwiggo', 'Mr. Bristleface', 'Mr. Looney Mactwolter'. Scenery was by 'Daub and Brush', Dresses by 'Mr Cabbagecloth'.

    ISAAC WATTS' CHAPEL

  220. Dissenting Chapel ASSIGNMENT for fifty years of the lease of a parcel of ground in or near Berry Street in the parish of St. Catherine, Robert Andrewes, Citizen and Carpenter of London, to Isaac Watts, Gent., Thomas Pickard, Citizen and Joyner, William Pickard, Citizen and Dyer, Daniel Stott, Citizen and Tallowchandler and others, 'to and for the use of the congregation of Dissenting Protestants now usually assembling for publick Worshipp at Pinmakers Hall in Broad Street London under the care of the said Isaac Watts their Minister or Pastor...' Vellum, size 23" x 302, engraved heading with coat of arms. Ink rubbed at two of the folds. Signed by Andrewes, his signature slightly faded. On the verso is a record of the replacement of trustees who had died by new trustees, 1710, 1715, 1724, 1730, each agreement signed by Isaac Watts in a bold clear hand, and by 5 others. For example 'Agreed this thirtieth day of November 1710 by us whose names are subscribed to chuse and appoint Mr. John Rooleston of London, Linnen Draper... Trustees for the within-recited Land and building & all appurtenances, in the room of Mr William Pickard... deceased.' Further agreements of 1735 and 1740 are also signed by Watts, but the ink on this section is slightly faded. Watts' was not involced in the later agreements of 1745, 1749, and 1755 (he died in 1748). 9 agreements on verso in all. 28th April, 1708 - 1755. £200.00
    Isaac Watts had become pastor at the Dissenting Chapel in Mark Lane in 1702. Its distinguished congregation included relations of Oliver Cromwell, and Sir Thomas and Lady Abney, Watts' patrons. It moved to Pinmakers' Hall in 1704, and in 1708 to Bury (Berry) Street, St. Mary Axe.


  221. Edmonton LEASE FOR A YEAR of land in the Common Marsh of Edmonton, William Rolfe, Citizen and Haberdasher, to Abraham Jones, Carpenter. Vellum, size 14" x 25", written in a fine large hand. Printed heading with coat of arms, wax seal with bust. 1728. £24.00
    Gives adjoining owners.


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


  223. Fortey, Pr. DREADFUL MURDER OF 5 PERSONS ballad in 10 verses, printed in two columns, size 10" x 7«", name of printer down dividing rule, brief prose explanation at head, and large woodcut illustration, 5" x 3", of a man in a top hat pointing a gun. Fortey, Printer, Monmouth Court, London W.C. (1865) £45.00
    With a neat note in ink in the bottom margin referring to 'Saturday last' the day of the murder in the text as 'August 5th 1865'. A man named Ernest Southey killed his paramour's three sons at the Star Coffee House, Red Lion Street, Holborn. He was apprehended in Ramsgate, having there shot the mother and the youngest child.


  224. Hackney and Stage Carriages AN ACT for regulating Hackney and Stage Carriages in and near London. Pages numbered 849-868, disbound, Act of Parliament. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Arthur Spottiswoode, 1843. £11.00

  225. Harlesden COUNTERPART LEASE of No. 6 Springwell Avenue Harlesdon. Large vellum sheet, printed with manuscript inserts. R.P. Wright Esq. Small coloured sketch plan in text. 1901. £10.00

  226. Hendon, Manor of COPY COURT ROLL Admission of Charles Bertram, Wine Merchant, of Piccadilly, to copyhold fields called Drivers near the Adam and Eve, and a house near Drivers, at the Court Baron of Daniel Hinley, Lord of the Manor, 15th January 1811. Contemporary copy, 2p, m. folio. 1811. £15.00
    The tenement had been held by Ludowig August Leukfeld, whose heir lived in Saxony and could not inherit being an alien.


  227. Her Majesty's Theatre MADE LIEBHART'S BENEFIT MATINEE Thursday, July 14th, 1898. Programme and book of words. 15pp., 4to, wraps with photo of Madame Liebhart. 1898. £8.00
    'Her Majesty The Queen has graciously subscribed for seats..'. Performers included Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and George Grossmith.


  228. Hickin (John) TO THE WORTHY INHABITANTS of the Parish of St. Dunstan in The West. Handbill, 4to, printed on one side only, thanking