Guilden Sutton, near Chester PARTICULAR OF FREEHOLD ESTATE, Situate at Guilden Sutton, about Two Miles from Chester, advertised To be Sold by Auction, at the Albion Hotel, in Chester, On Monday, the 25th Day of October, 1824.... A Good Spacious Farm House, with Spacious Outbuildings.... Poster, size 17«" x 11". Carnes, Printer, Northwich, 1824. £24.00
Macclesfield AUCTION PARTICULARS of Desirable Freehold Residence and Land in Macclesfield, to be Sold by Auction 7th March, 1916. Single sheet, 4to, with blank conjoint leaf, describing 3 Lots, in Great King St. 1916. £6.00
Macclesfield PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Valuable Estates called The Foden Bank, The Hollins, and Guncar Lane Estates, in Sutton.... For Sale by Auction.... August 3, 1831.... 5pp., folio, plus docket title. Folds. Gives schedules for each lot with occupier, description, acreage. Values have been added in ink in margins. 1831. £40.00
CHESHIRE Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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Middlewich ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXX N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Small blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. O.S. blindstamp 1897. £18.00
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.
Northwich TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION at the Angel Inn, Northwich... 29th day of July, 1844... Handbill, 1p. folio, conditions of sale attached at top corner. Lists 7 lots, including shops 'Lamb' Inn, Candle Manufactory and Warehouse, Cottages, 3 shares in the Northwich Gas Light & Coke Co. 1844. £24.00
¶ Gives names of occupiers.
Northwich, Sandbach ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXX.N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. Railways inserted to 1891. O.S. blindstamp 1897. £18.00
Peak Forest Canal LETTER OF ATTORNEY The Company of Proprietors of the Peak Forest Canal to Messrs. David Browne & Maurice Jones, to surrender certain copyhold land in Yeardsley Whaley in the County of Chester. 3p., folio, signed next to fine large papered seal of the Company, 2" diameter.... together with.... Letter of Attorney, Francis Jodrell to Messrs David Browne & Maurice Jones, to receive Admission to certain copyhold land in Yeardsley-Whaley, to appear at the Halmote of the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield. 1p., sm. folio.... together with.... three draft copies of printed document of Admission to Manor and Forest of Macclesfield, manuscript insertions in an untidy hand with many amendments (referring to the above mentioned piece of land and the Letters of Attorney). 1806. £35.00
¶ The small piece of land concerned had lately been used by the Canal Proprietors 'for part of a wharf or quay at the termination of the branch or cut from and out of the Peak Forest Canal to Whaley Bridge'.
Sandbach PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLAN of Valuable Freehold Land, House, Smith & Buildings at Arclid, near Sandbach..... to be Sold by Auction.... 26th day of October, 1887. 2pp., folio, plus docket title, 1p. hand-coloured plan, 2p. Conditions of Sale on blue paper sewn in at rear. Attractively printed in blue. 1887. £35.00
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
The Greenbanks, Ellesmere CATALOGUE of the Attractive & Highly Important Sale.... Farming Stock and Implements, 200 Iron Hurdles.... Handsome Roan Mare.... Kitchen & Culinary Utensils &c.... 22pp, 8vo. Traces of vertical fold. 1889. £10.00
West Kirby FINE relating to two messuages two cottages two stables two cowhouses four crofts and two orchards in West Kirby, Thomas Smith and Richard Downham and wife. Vellum, size 8" x 16", printed with manuscript inserts. 1833. £16.00