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  1. Abraham Dee, Hatter, London BILL with engraved heading 'Bought of Abraham Dee, Successor to Mr. Ovey, Patentee', for superfine drab hat and other items, with short covering letter at foot of page from Dee's widow. Sm. folio, integral address panel on verso. 1813. £8.00

  2. Admiralty HANDBOOK OF MINES, BUOYS &c That May be Found Afloat at Sea. For Official Use Only. 20 pages of photographs of mines, charges etc., with brief descriptions. Folio, wraps, traces of vertical fold. 1917. £35.00

  3. Advertising ANSTIE'S GOLD FLAKE Advert in bright colours on very glossy paper, showing open packet of cigarettes 'Just Your Line!'. Size 8" x 26". No white margin at sides, although there is at top and bottom, difficult to say if it has been trimmed or not. c1950. £12.00

    BONFILS, PHOTOGRAPHER

  4. Alexandria PHOTOGRAPH of Pompey's Pillar, by Bonfils. Albumen print, size 10«" x 9", signed 'Bonfils 100' in the plate in black. Small tear approx. a quarter of an inch long at bottom edge, some light creases at corners. c1880. £25.00

  5. American Thread Company PROSPECTUS 4pp., folio, folded with docket title. Some foxing at edges. 1898. £20.00
    The Company was established to unite eight cotton manufacturers and spinning, twisting, dyeing businesses in the eastern States. It had links with the English Sewing Cotton Company Ltd., and J. & P. Coats Ltd. were to apply for 100,000 Shares.


  6. Anglo American Corporation of South Africa SHARE CERTIFICATE for 655 shares in Brakpan Mines Limited. Size 8" x 11", folds, printed in brown, manuscript inserts and impressed seal of Brakpan Mines, London. 1954. £15.00

  7. Anon. COMMONPLACE BOOK 148 pages, 4to, full vellum, darkened, last 7 leaves with wormhole. Entries from 1810. Entries include extracts from religious works, from 'Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia', a synopsis of Mungo Park's last journal in Africa, with illustrations., pithy sayings, remarkable stories, thoughts on insanity, 'The Black Jews', 'Deistical writers in England', 'Cure for Blight', recipes, an account (presumably his own summary) of Robert Owen's 'A New View of Society...' - 'he has not one reference to Scripture as offering him any help to his system, nor commendation of its morals, far less its doctrines... I think there is a good deal of the Utopian in the Scheme (i.e. New Lanark)... I fear Old Adam will be found too strong for it...' Pasted inside the front board is a poem in manuscript 'Verses written by the Revd. Mr Newton on the top of the Light House on the North Foreland'. c1810. £180.00
    The writer was possibly a clergyman. There are a few words in Hebrew. He refers several times to Kingsland (Shropshire), for example in the story of a young man who 'came up from Kidderminster to keep Kingsland turnpike'.


  8. Anon. COPY OF A CURIOUS LOVE LETTER Letter printed on one side of 8vo sheet, with an explanatory note at the bottom. Paper rather browned, chipped down right hand side. Stamp of W.H. Palmer, Union Passage, Bath, on verso. c1880. £10.00
    The letter could be read by the lady's stern father in one way and in another way by the lady, who had to read every other line.


  9. Anon. ORPHAN BOY'S PRAYER AND MY DEAR MOTHER'S GRAVE Two poems printed side by side on 4to sheet, no imprint, each poem with decorative border and vignette headpiece. Two marginal tears, traces of folds. c1860? £18.00

  10. Avery (W & T), Ltd., London & Colchester AVERY COAL WEIGHERS List No. 16. 16pp, wraps, 8vo. Printed in mauve with very attractive illustrations. 1912. £18.00
    Includes 'dead-weight scales', 'sack machines', 'lever weighers' etc.


  11. Bacon's GEOLOGICAL MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES Colour printed map on two sheets, each 12«" x 20", scale 15 miles to 1". With reference key in top right corner. 1884. £16.00
    From Bacon's Atlas of the British Isles.


  12. Bacon's ROAD-MAP OF THE SOUTH COAST Margate to Land's End. Map in two sections, linen-backed, in cloth covered board, maps pasted to each board and folding out to 8" x 42" each side. Scale 1" = 5 miles. Boards slightly faded at edges. n.d. c1910. £14.00

  13. Bath, Bristol, Birmingham JOHN HALL (TOOLS) LTD. Tool Catalogue. Autumn 1960. 108pp., wraps, 8vo, numerous illusts. Slight rubbing at bottom of front wrap. 1960. £12.00

  14. Bedford Levels A STATE OF THE REVENUES AND DEBT OF THE CORPORATION OF BEDFORD LEVELS, as the same stood at Lady-day 1752, with the Advantages which will accrue to the Creditors of the Corporation, and the Proprietors of the South and Middle Levels, by permitting the Proprietors of the North Level to be discharged of the Debt. in order to their making a Security for a sufficient Sum of Money to be raised for their better Draining, on the Terms which have lately been proposed. 3pp, folio, docket title, folded. (1752) £85.00
    The Bedford Levels were in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, Northamptonshire, and Lincolnshire.


  15. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire PARTICULARS OF VERY DESIRABLE FREEHOLD ESTATES comprising the Vine Farm... First-class Garden and Arable Land at Langford.... Fertile Land at Clothall.... to be Sold by Auction.... July 24, 1862. 3pp., folio, including completed Memorandum. Large folding hand-coloured plan. 1862. £34.00

  16. Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXV N.E/XXVII N.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 25" x 37", linen-backed and folding into sm. 4to cloth endpapers. Contours in red. 1925. £22.00

  17. Bentley (E), Publisher THE GENERAL EVENING POST London. From Thursday June 28 to Saturday June 30, 1798. Size 19" x 13", 4pp. Folded in two, some light foxing spots on front page. Red tax stamp. Small tear above title. 1798. £15.00
    Includes articles on the troubles in Dublin, Toulon Expedition etc.


  18. Bonnard (G.C) TAVOLA SINOTTICA Della Grammatica Inglese. Double folio sheet with grammatical summary on left, pronunciation in 42 points on the right. Attractive heading in decorative typeface. Tip. Olivieri. n.d. c1840, or earlier. £20.00

  19. Bootle and Broughton, Cumberland and Lancashire PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLANS of Freehold and Customaryhold Land, Dwelling-Houses, and Cottages, to be Offered for Sale by Auction... 25th May, 1887. 5pp., plus two very large folding coloured plans. Folio, folded with docket title. 1887. £32.00
    The Vendors were the Trustees of the late Rev. J. Postlethwaite.


  20. Bowen (E) A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND Divided into their respective Wards From the Best Surveys and Intelligences, Illustrated with Historical Extracts relative to Natural History, Produce, Trade and Manufactures Shewing also the Rectories & Vicarages With various other Improvements. Engraved map, size 27" x 20", folded, not dissected. Original colouring of borders of Hundreds and border of map. Decorative cartouche, and dedication top right to Sir James Lowther. Descriptive text around edge of map. Map trimmed to within a quarter of an inch of border, losing imprint (as was often done with folded maps). Two tiny splits in paper where folds meet reinforced on verso with archival tape. Small light brown spot in border bottom right. 1760. £200.00

  21. Bristol and Plymouth LIST of Water Barrows, Garden Hose, Wheelbarrows, Troughs etc. Sold by Western Counties Agricultural Co-operative Assn. Ltd., Plymouth, Bristol and Branches. List 083. 4pp., 4to, printed in dark red. Each item illustrated, with prices for different sizes. Some slight smudging of ink in places. March 1903. £20.00

  22. Bristol District GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES Solid and Drift. Bristol District. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Parts of Sheet 250,251,264,265,280,281. Coloured map, overall size 42" x 34", vertical sections at sides, including sections of coalfields, sections in bottom margin. 1962. £25.00

  23. Bristol, London & Southern Counties Railway ESTIMATE OF EXPENSE for Railways No 1-6. 10pp., folio. In Parliament Session 1903. £25.00
    Gives cost of earthworks, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, permanent way, etc.


  24. British Association LETTER to G. Griffiths, Esq. from the Duke of Bedford, dated Bolton Abbey 2nd August 1871. Says he will be pleased to accept the office of Vice President for the meeting at Brighton. Signed 'Devonshire'. 2p., sm. 8vo. 1871. £8.00

  25. Brodie (W.B), Publisher THE SALISBURY AND WINCHESTER JOURNAL And General Advertiser of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset. October 28, 1843. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp. Small piece cut from top margin of last page, with loss of a few words at top of one column. 1843. £14.00
    Includes notice of public foot-paths and roads to be set out by the Figheldean enclosure Commissioners, fire at Abbey House, Malmesbury.


  26. (Brooke, G.F.) THE ENGLISH MEAT SUPPLY By A Farmer. 15pp., 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. 1887. £10.00
    '.... it requires no rare gift of prophesy to predict that unless something is done speedily to ameliorate the existing state of affairs, long before the end of the present century the British farmer will have ceased to exist.'


  27. Brown (H), Printer THE MORNING HERALD October 15, 1800. 4pp., red tax stamp. Small split along part of spine. 1800. £9.00

  28. Buckingham and Bedford GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. XLVI.N.W. Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in left-hand margin. Embossed Ordnance stamp, 1901. £25.00

  29. Burials in Woollen AN ADDITIONAL ACT for Burying in Woollen. Cover leaf + pages numbered 3-5, small folio, disbound, some slight worm damage in left margin. Act of Parliament... with... An Act prohibiting the Importation of Cattel from Ireland. Pages numbered 6-11. London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1682. £30.00

  30. Cambridge and Norfolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36", linen-backed and folding into 8vo wraps. County boundaries, main roads, water features, parkland hand-coloured. The Woodhall Estate and estates of Lyne Stephens, Angerstein and Donwham Estates in the south east have been hand shaded in different colours. Printed from an Electrotype. c1870 or earlier. £36.00
    Covers Kings Lynn, Wisbech, Swaffham.


  31. Cambridge and Suffolk PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Valuable Freehold Estate Consisting of Fee Farm Rents issuing out of Estates in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk..... Which Will be Sold by Auction.... 19th day of March, 1824.... Single folio sheet, listing rents in two columns, listing 28 premises in Cambridgeshire and 11 in Suffolk, with Owner and Rents Payable. On verso are Conditions of Sale and Docket title. Folded. 1824. £38.00
    Properties include Ashley Manor, Boxworth Manor, Fishing at Benwick, tenement in Petty Cury (Petticura), Trumpington Manor, etc


  32. Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire REMARKS Upon that Part of the Great Bedford Level, called The North Level, in Which The Causes of its First Drowning, and of its present ruinous Condition, are considered; with some Proposals for the better Draining the said Level. First Published in 1748, and now Corrected, and Published, for the Perusal of the Publick, as there is a Bill depending in Parliament for the better Draining of the North Level, with Porsand. 3p., folio, finely printed on thick paper, folded with docket title. c1750. £80.00

  33. Carlisle and Canobie Railway SUBSCRIPTION CONTRACT Indenture between several persons and Isaac Cartmell of Carlisle, Tanner, and William Richardson, Ironmonger, 'for subscribing to a Company called 'The Carlisle and Canobie Railway Company... applying to Parliament for enabling the Company to make the following Railway and Branch Branch Railways...' 4p on parchment, manuscript, unsigned, with 10 ruled in columns for signatures etc, with numerous small wax seal, none of which have been filled in. Size 18" x 12", morocco wraps with gilt title. 1855. £85.00
    Presumably a surplus or draft copy.


  34. Chapman and Hall, Pub. ISLES OF MAN, JERSEY & GUERNSEY Engraved map, coloured in outline, showing the three islands. Size 7«" x 9", linen-backed and folding into small 4to boards, gilt title. Some spots on boards. c1840. £22.00

  35. Cheshire and Staffordshire, near Macclesfield and Buxton PARTICULARS AND PLANS of Valuable Freehold and Copyhold Dwelling-Houses, Farms and Lands.... will be Sold by Auction by Mr. George Broadhurst, at the "Macclesfield Arms Hotel", Macclesfield, on Tuesday, the 12th day of September, 1876. Folio, 12pp, docket title, few short tears. 1876. £20.00

  36. Christie's TIME MEASURING INSTRUMENTS From the Time Museum. For sale by Auction 14 April 1988. Sale catalogue, 162pp., 4to, glossy wraps. Numerous black and white and coloured illustrations. 1988. £15.00
    Includes nocturnals, sundials, armillary spheres, astrolabes, etc.


  37. Churchill (Randolph S.) LETTER to Lord Headfort, October 20th 1876. 2 pages, manuscript, signed, on two leaves of 8vo notepaper with embossed heading 'Blenheim Palace, Woodstock' with small coronet. 17 lines, beginning 'Dear Lord Headfort'. Thanks him for his congratulations on behalf of his father, who has asked him to say he has had many applications for appointments and he is unable to decide 'on the filling of the various posts' yet, but that 'he will bear Mr. Beresford's name and your recommendation of him in mind.... Very sincerely yours, Randolph S. Churchill'. 1876. £40.00
    A later note in pencil initialled 'CB' notes 'Claudius Beresford was appointed I believe thinking it was me.' Lord Headfort was from a prominent Irish Protestant family. He had presumably recommended 'C. Beresford' for a post as John Churchill was about to take up his post as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Randolph was his third son, the father of Winston S. Churchill (born 1874).


  38. Cleeve Prior, Pebworth, Stratford on Avon etc. SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY The Warwickshire Avon. Photograph album. Size 9" x 12", cloth-covered boards with title painted in decorative lettering in black and white. 39 photographs, each approx. 3«" x 5«", white borders, pasted each side of 12 thick card leaves, each view mounted on different paper then on the album leaf, titled in white on mount in decorative lettering. Fine atmospheric views, particularly on the river, and detailed close-up views of individual houses. One view spotty, some fraying of cloth at spine. Monogram 'FAS' on back board (the photographer apparently was named Simmonds and lived in Bristol). One view spotty. The first page shows 'Marlcliff. Our home for time being'. c1905. £90.00
    Views include 'Two men in a Boat (in skiffs near boathouse); 'Cleeve Mill', 'Cleeve Prior Church'; view of a house and farmyard with waggon at Cleeve Prior; 'Cleeve Mill'; Pebworth (3 views of thatched cottages); Offenham Ferry (carrying a passenger in a bowler hat); Welford on Avon (half-timbered thatched cottages); Lenchwich; Wood Norton; Moor (a gabled house); Fishermen at Fladbury; Elmley Castle (4 views including Deacon's Cottage); Bidford; Stratford (5 views including view of punts); Warwick, Marlcliff (2 views).


  39. Coates & Howes, Wine Merchants, London PRICE LIST for 1865, with introductory letter above summarising the vintages etc. 1 page, in small print, with adjoining leaf with address panel on verso, some small holes in a couple of lines of text at top and at folds of address panel... together with... Letter from Walter Howes explaining how the case of champagne ordered will be transported to Wadebridge. 1865. £20.00
    Chateaux Margaux was £90 a hogshead.


  40. Colin & Cie, Ancne. Mon. Godin ALBUM GENERAL Des Appareils de Cuisine, Chauffage et Batiment. Mai 1903. 495pp., large 8vo, cloth covered boards, blindstamped title on front board. In French. Illustrates many stoves, ranges, grates, gas stoves, radiators, pumps, baths, ornamental washbasins, jardinieres, garden edging, umbrella stands. 1903. £85.00

  41. Collins (H.G) Publisher ENGLAND AND WALES Shewing the Rail Roads Completed, Proposed & in Progress. Lithographed hand-coloured map, 20" x 26", counties coloured in outline, shows railways existing and 'in contemplation'. Later railways added by later owner, in slightly shaky red red ink, together with ferry routes. Linen-backed, folding into small 8vo cloth-covered boards with orange paper label, part of label torn away. c1845. £40.00

  42. Coning (Geoffrey), designed by EXMOOR decorative map in colour, size 19" x 25", scale 3" = 4 miles. From the original map specially designed for the Hunter's Inn at Heddon's Mouth. Numerous pictures illustrating Exmoor's history, literature, topography, hunting etc., including the Doones, Poltimore Arms, Oare Church, Filliegh, Twitchen, Arlington Court, Acland Barton. n.d. c1960. £18.00

    PREPARATION OF COPPERAS

  43. Copperas production AN ACCOUNT OF BOILINGS ... and receipt and fillings and receipt of Coals... 1766 - 1800. Account book bound in parchment, size 8" x 6«", some splits in parchment on spine, titled in manuscript as above (some words illegible), front board spotty. Entries consist of: (i) 'An Account of boilings for the year 1766', listing date fires lit and left off, with one or two firings per month, e.g. 'March 10th. Litt fires at 6 in the Morning filled all the Coolers left off 15th at 4 in the afternoon'. Similar account for each year up to March 23rd 1800. 53 pages. (ii) Coals account. 1771-1800. The first entry is '1771. Aug. 19th The Copperas Works borrowed of the House Coals 1 Chaldron and a half to dry the new Boiler...'. Lists coals received 'for the House' ,'for the Works', 'for the Lodging at Blackheath', 'Recd. 1 for Speerings house...', 'Recd. 5 Chaldron of Coals for the Coppera Works...' 'Received of Messrs May & Warner 5 Chaldron of Coals..' and 'coals remaining in the Works'. 26p. (iii) At the back of the book 'An Account of Casks for the year 1766'. Lists number of casks filled and received month by month from 1766-1800, e.g. 'Filled 9 large old Iron casks and 3 new ones... filled large Hogds....' 'Filled 8 Green 10 black', 'filled 50 Firkins by Speerings special Order', 'Recd. from Harrington, Cooper. 11 Hogds.' 'Filled 20 with black and green copperas of wch. was old Casks... 14', 'Brought to Account those that contained part of the Copps. that sunk & which I shall take of J. Letchmere', 'Recd. 21 out of 60 casks Mr Dixon sent the rest either damg. or lost by the Lightermans Fault for which he must account.' 32p. Many blank pages. 1766-1800. £270.00
    Probably a firm in the London area, as Deptford, and 'Greenwich Town' are mentioned. The firing of the boilers for long periods of time, the reference to green and black copperas and old iron would suggest this was the record book of someone involved in the manufacture of copperas. There were many works along the Thames Estuary, and at the period this book covers England was the biggest European manufacturer of copperas, which was used in the textile industry, ink making, engraving, etc.


  44. Cornish copper merchants in Chile GROUP OF THREE LETTERS Copies taken on thin paper, relating to mining and exportation of copper in Chile. As follows: (i) Letter from Mauris Thomas, Pampa 16th Dec. 1841, to Mesrs. Hegan Hall & Co., Serena, describing his visit to the Panmoncilla Mine, the property of Alex. Colcleugh. Describes the lodes, quality, value: 'I find the annual produce of the mine will be equal to 9720 quintals of Copper... in the ordinary course of mining in Chili they calculate the mining expenses to be about $40 for each bareta including salary, victuals, powder, smith cost... wood for smelting in the neighbourhood is scarce - Mr Colcleugh seems to have an idea of bringing coals from Concepcion and to erect furnaces for reducing his ores with regulus... I think there is a probability of our doing some business with him...' Describes the port of Tongai, availability of labour for shipping the ore etc. 3p., 4to, folded. (ii) Letter from Anthony Plummer of Hegan Hall & Co., to Messrs. Vivian & Sons and Williams Foster & Co. in Liverpool, Coquimbo, 2nd January 1842, about the system of buying ores and the difficulty of persuading the local producers to change their methods: 'The copper ore business of this country has been conducted with so little judgement... that we fear it will take sometime to bring the Trade into a healthy state...' Gives a list of vessels despatched from Coquimbo in the last three weeks, with details of cargo and shippers. 2«p, 4to. (iii) Letter from Valparaiso, 11th Jan. 1842, to Messrs Vivian & Sons, Williams Foster & Co., signed Francis Brown for Hegan Hall & Co., about laying the foundation for business in the area. Ink faded. 1p. 4to. 1842. £120.00

  45. Cornwall and Devon Schools PRESENTATION VOLUME To E. Douglas Tinling, her Majesty's Inspector, Church of England Schools, with the names of Managers and teachers of the Church Schools under Government Inspection in the Diocese of Exeter. 4to, full calf, rubbed and scuffed, gilt title, first page illuminated in gold and red and blue, 3 page introduction and 21 pages with name of school and names of teachers and manager. Blanks at end. Damp staining affecting bottom right hand corner of pages, mainly in margin except for first page, with some disintegration of paper at edge of first few leaves. Loosely inserted is printed letter of thanks from Tinling to the 260 who signed the Memorial. Schools include Lympstone National School, Menheniot, Pendeen, Pool Bassett School, Sancreed School, Bovey Tracey School, Brampford Wood Reformatory, etc. 1863. £60.00
    Tinling became Prebendary of Wells in 1863. His letter of thanks refers to the '17 years we have laboured together in the work of Education amongst the children of the poor in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall'.


  46. Covent Garden OBLIGATION BOND of Mary Miller, of Covent Garden, widow of John Miller, Merchant, late of Ramsbury in Wiltshire, to John Riley of Oundle, Draper, for £160. In Latin and English, 1p., sm. folio, signed Mary Miller with good small wax seal, signed by three witnesses. Conjoint leaf with docket title. 1717. £28.00

  47. Cricklade & South Cerney PARTICULARS OF A VERY DESIRABLE ESTATE, Situated in the parishes of Cricklade and South Cerney, Partly Tithe Free and Exonerated of Land Tax, Comprising a Substantial Farm House.... A Water Mill, and 146 Acres.... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Daniel Smith & Son.... On Monday, the 28th of June, 1852. Folio, folded, 4pp, loosley inserted is a folding plan, couple of short tears to folds.... With.... 'Conditions of Sale' 8 folio leaves in manuscript written on one side only, many alterations, held with a pin at one corner. Presumably a draft copy. 1852. £24.00

  48. Cumberbatch family, Barbados COPY RELEASE of C. Cottle, Aministrator in Barbados of the Will of Laurentia and Rosalie Cumberbatch, for the use of Anne Cumberbatch and others. 14pp., sm. folio, manuscript. 1891. £12.00
    Refers to the will of Laurence Trent Cumberbatch of St. Peters, who left his Plantation and Estate to Laurentia his great niece.


  49. Dean Forest, Windsor Great Park, Crown Properties INDES TO THE REPORT From the Select Committee on Woods and Forests and Land Revenues of The Crown. Pages numbered 317 to 357, printed wraps, folio, sewn. Paper slightly chipped at bottom right corner of the first few leaves, old library stamp on wrap. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 July 1889. £26.00
    Includes 4p. on Dean Forest, Although basically an index, there is still a deal of detailed information in the format, for example 'Opinion that the position of affairs in Dean Forest as regards the free miners' rights is a disastrous one.. Culley 378-384... Desirability of the free-miner mode of tenure being brought to an end; opinion that the Government should in 1838 have limited the free miners' rights to the shallow workings only, Brown 779-781... Statement that there are forty-four working coal mines and sixteen working iron mines in the forest, there being 160 gales not-working... '.


  50. Devon & Somerset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVII. Printed surface 24" x 36". Dissected and mounted on linen. Pub. 11th Oct. 1809. Later state naming 'Gas Works' and 'Factory' at Barnstaple c1840. £32.00
    Shows area from Braunton Burrows to Countesbury.


  51. Devon & Somerset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XXVII. Printed surface 24" x 36". Dissected and mounted on linen. Water features, main roads and parkland hand-coloured, county boundary shaded in two colours. Pub. 11th Oct. 1809. Later state naming 'Gas Works' and 'Factory' at Barnstaple c1850. £30.00
    Shows area from Braunton Burrows to Countesbury. Over half the map is sea area.


  52. Devon and Cornwall GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Colour printed map, sheet 337, covering Launceston and Tavistock. 12" x 19", plus margins, key and section in margins. Folded, 3 small splits at fold repaired on verso. 1910. £14.00

  53. Devon and Cornwall ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 144. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 18" x 30", plus margins. Printed in black and blue. First published 1931. £15.00
    Possibly an outline edition prepared for a further printing.


  54. Devon and Cornwall ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 144. Fifth Edition. Printed in black and blue only. Size 23" x 29". Covers Lansallos, Plymouth, Gunnislake, Newton Ferrers. 1931. £15.00
    Possibly and outline edition issued in preparation for a final edition.


  55. Devon and Somerset Railway Company REPORT AND ACCOUNTS for the Half-Year Ended 30th June, 1876. 8pp., sm. folio. 1876. £22.00

  56. Digby family DRAFT GRANT of a Rent Charge of £3000 to be issuing out of he estates devised by the Will of the late Edward Earl of Digby. 15pp., folio. 1856. £10.00

  57. Dodwell (E.S) Florist, Clapham, London CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES Catalogue describing in detail 38 varieties, divided into 'Scarlet Bizarres', 'Rose Flakes' etc. 4pp, 8vo, folds, tear in margin. 1880. £14.00

  58. Dorset and Hampshire RELEASE James Wickens by the direction of Horace Twiss, of London, to Sir William Oglander of Parnham in Dorset. 3 large vellum sheets. 1830. £20.00
    Refers to the marriage settlement of Anne Lawrence Serle, daughter of Peter Serle of Chilworth Lodge, Hampshire, and Horace Twiss. Anne Serle had subsequently died. Sir William Oglander was a trustee. Also mentioned is Francis Twiss of Bath.

    CHARLES CASTLEMAN'S COPY

  59. Dorset and Hampshire PLANS OF THE SOUTHAMPTON & DORSETSHIRE RAILWAY Captain W.S. Moorsom, Engineer. 1844. Five lithographed plans of the line, scale 6 chains to the inch, size 28" x 17", sewn at left edge with green silk ribbon, front wrap printed with large title and scale bars. Two 3" tears in front wrap, 8" tear from right-hand edge in last plan, and a few small edge tears, all tears neatly repaired with archival tape. The front wrap has the inscription 'Sir J.B. Mill Bart. With Mr. C. Castleman's Compts.' Clerk * Co. Litho. 202 High Holborn. £150.00
    Charles Castleman was a solicitor who promoted the line, apparently convincing Capt. Moorson that the railway should go through Wimborne. The twisting line, which opened in 1847, became known as 'Castleman's corkscrew'. He later became Chairman of the amalgamated company.


  60. Dorset and Somerset GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. XVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31", fully hand-coloured, key down left hand margin. Three small brownish stains in margins, one obtruding onto border. Some glue marks on verso of linen, not affecting the map. Published 1875. O.S. blind-stamp 1907. £80.00

  61. Dorset and Somerset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 26" x 30". Electrotype 1872. £35.00
    A good strong impression. Covers Langport, Gillingham, Dewlish.


  62. Dorset and Somerset SETTLEMENT by Miss Ella Glyde of a half part of dwellinghouses and lands in Martock, Adber, Queen Camel and Yeovil upon her marriage with Whitfield Scammell. 3 large vellum sheets, including one page of detailed schedules, 5 wax seals. 1882. £17.00
    Includes house known as 'Wyndham House' in Yeovil.


  63. Dufour (G.H) MAP OF STANZ, INTERLAKEN etc. Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000, Sheet XIII, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps, stain on one wrap. 1871. £25.00
    From the Survey of Switzerland. Covers Grindelwald, Brunnen, Schwarzenneg, Eiger.


  64. Dufour (G.H) MAP OF VEVEY, SION Engraved map, covering Rhone Valley, Erschmatt, size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000, Sheet XVII, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps which are faded. 1863. £22.00

  65. Dufour (G.H) MAP OF NEUCHATEL, FREYBURG Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000, Sheet XII, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. Some minor darkening of linen between folds. 1860. £25.00
    From the Survey of Switzerland. Covers Thun, Lucens, Bulle, Bern.


  66. Dufour (G.H) MAP OF ZERMATT AND LAKE MAGGIORE Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000, Sheet XXIII, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. Some minor discolouration along edges of sections. 1869. £25.00
    From the Survey of Switzerland. Covers Arona, Isole Borromeo, Domodossola, Klein Matterhorn.


  67. Emmott (Alfred), Liberal M.P. LETTER to Col. Montgomery, dated Spring Bank, Oldham, 17th Jan. '06. 1p., sm. 8vo, plus blank conjoint leaf. Thanks him for his congratulations and says he hopes 'we have killed the Chamberlain quackery'... together with another letter, 7th May '05 with House of Commons stamp. 1906. £14.00

  68. Epstein (Jacob) EPSTEIN An Exhibition Held at the Tate Gallery 25th September - 9th November 1952. Book of Illustrations, including a number of works not exhibited. 30 pages of illustrations, 4to, stiff wraps. Middle 2 leaves, loose due to rusty staples. 1952. £18.00

  69. Essex and Hertford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", linen-backed. Border at top and left sides. Scale bar and 'Index to the Tithe Survey' in top margin. O.S. blindstamp 1891. £40.00
    Covers Royston, Thaxted, Halstead.


  70. Essex and Suffolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36", linen-backed and folding into small 4to boards, frayed at edges of spine. Electrotype 1879. £34.00
    Covers Ipswich, Colchester, Mersea Island.


  71. Essex, Hertfordshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet XLVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Engraved map, fully hand-coloured, size 24" x 35", plus margins. Key in left margin. 1884. £90.00

  72. Exeter, Bath, Bristol AFFADAVIT of Thomas Wallop the Younger of Bath, swearing that he had witnessed Charles Baring of Exeter, Merchant sign a deed, an agreement between Baring and Stephen Minot of Jamaica, John Douglas late of Jamaica now of London, and William Douglas of Jamaica and Surrey, and Hugh Campbell Mair, carrying on Trade in London as Merchants in Copartnership under the Firm of Baring Mair and Company, and that the handwriting is that of Charles Baring. 2p., sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf, signed, witnessed by Edw. Protheroe, waterstained at top and bottom... together with... Affadavit of Edward Protheroe, Mayor of Bristol, swearing that Thomas Wallop 'a person well known and worthy of good credit' had sworn the affadavit before him 'upon the Holy Evangelists'. 1p., large seal, tear in paper behind crack in seal, repaired. Some slight browning at top of page. 1804. £26.00
    Charles Baring was the brother of Francis, the founder of Barings Bank. The Exeter firm was the original company, but suffered from Charles wild speculations.


  73. 'F.W. Esq.' TWO MANUSCRIPT POEMS one on the fleeting charms of beauty and the survival of virtue, entitled 'Written immediately after the occurrence it recites in France by F.W. Esq.', six 4-line stanzas, 1p., sm. folio, and on the conjoint leaf a poem about Buonaparte in six 8-line stanzas. c1810. £50.00
    The first poem describes how the writer while walking on the shore with Amanda writes her name in the sand, she protests that as the letters will be effaced by the tide, so will her memory: 'Not so my Amanda thy beauty shall live/In the heart which thy virtue hath won/And virtue the ruin of time shall survive/And live when extinguish'd the sun'. The poem on Napoleon 'Wondrous chief of modern days' describes how he has survived many setbacks, including the attacks of the Turks, 'Plague at Suez', crocodiles, famine, 'Often kill'd yet still existing/What a paradox we find/Some new project ever twisting/In thy mistchief making mind'.


  74. Farriery ELEVEN BILLS From William Hull and Son to Mistress Hannah Gibbon. Small folio, each bill listing approx. fifty items over a period of months. 1831-43. £40.00
    Includes shoes for horses, sharpening tools, doses of 'physick' for cows, 'blistering mare', mending wheels, 'sharpening coulter' etc.


  75. Fashion and Textiles AMERICAN FABRICS Number 21, Spring 1952. Magazine, 122pp., folio, stiff decorative wraps. Numerous black and white and colour illustrations, some tipped in. Actual fabric samples throughout. Spine slightly rubbed. 1952. £16.00
    Includes articles on colour loading, 'The Shakers. An American Phenomenon', 'Heathers'.


  76. Fashion and Textiles AMERICAN FABRICS Number 62, Fall and Winter 1963. Magazine, 86pp., folio, coloured stiff wraps. Numerous black and white and colour illustrations. Actual fabric samples tipped in throughout. 1963. £16.00
    Articles on American printed textiles from the early nineteenth century onwards, 'Marimekko' of Finland, The Posture of Fashion.


  77. First World War LETTER signed 'Roberts, F.M.', to a Mr Paull in London, thanking him for the donation of field glasses 'Your glasses will be of the greatest possible service to our Non-Commissioned officers in the field'. 7 lines, typewritten, 4to, with printed address, 'Englemere, Ascot'. No envelope. Nov. 5th, 1914. £15.00

  78. Forests, Parks, Museums etc. ACCOUNTS OF THE RECEIPT AND EXPENDITURE OF THE COMMISSIONERS of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, In the Year ended on the 31st day of March, 1849, and of the Balances due to or by them... distinguishing the Receipts, Payments and balances relating to each separate Service... 66p., folio, sewn. Ordered by The House of Commons to be Printed. 1 August 1849. £75.00
    Includes Forests of Dean, Woolmer, Alic Holt, Bere, Parkhurst, the Royal Parks, Kew Gardens (including Palm House), Pheonix Park, Richmond Park ('Salary of Botanical Collector in India, six months.... £800, 'Clearing out the Serpentine', 'Purchase of food for the deer'), New Houses of Parliament (payments for carver's work, stained glass, gilding, frescoes etc.), Holyhead Harbour and Holyhead Road, British Museum Buildings, Geological Survey, Ambassador's House in Paris, Nelson Monument (for Alti Rilievi... £777.15s.6d'), etc.


  79. French grammar PRINCIPES DE GRAMMAIRE 3eme Cahier. Small 8vo notebook, plain wraps, 105 pages in a small very neat hand, setting out rules for passive verbs, reflexive verbs, subjunctive etc. All in French, with many examples. n.d. early 19th century. £12.00

  80. Gall and Inglis THE EXETER ROAD The 'Strip' or 'Motor' Route Maps, No. 5. Strip map, scale half an inch to a mile, printed in black and brown. Linen-backed, approx. 7ft. long, folding into brown cloth covered boards printed with key map, size 6" x 3«". With contour plans. Several pages inside with explanation, list of hotels etc. c1910. £16.00

  81. Genealogy MANUSCRIPT on 38 pages, plus many blanks, in small 8vo notebook, calf boards, detached, lacks spine, listing various earls, lords, viscounts, with list of their children, birth dates, when created etc. c1840. £18.00
    Includes Lord Politmore, Earl of Clonmell, Lord Tenterden, Earl of Munster, etc.


  82. Goode & Co. (London) Ltd. CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BONE CHINA and Earthenware Services. 32pp., 4to, imitation snakeskin boards, 10 full colour plates, some with gilt, attractively printed, prices on facing page, plus black and white illusts. c1950. £24.00
    Includes Crown Derby, Spode, Minton, Worcester etc.


  83. Great Northern Railway MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Half-Yearly Ordinary General Meeting and Special Meeting of the Proprietors.... 7pp., folio, folded, with docket title. 1906. £16.00

  84. (Great Northern Railway) BOOK OF RENTS for individuals renting property, parcels of land, pipes, water, etc., from the Company, under the following headings: Nottingham Canal, Grantham Canal, Ambergate Railway, Luton Dunstable & Welwyn Junction Railway Co., Bourne and Essendine Railway Co. 14 double-page spreads with printed columns for Name, Address, Description of Property, Annual Rent, Quarterly Rent Received, When paid etc., Remarks, completed in manuscript. Number of entries varies: The Nottingham Canal has 60 rents, whilst the Bourne Railway has only one. Remarks. Ledger size 14" x 21", half calf, very rubbed, cloth spotty, boards buckled at bottom corner, brown damp-stain on pages throughout, affecting bottom part of columns closest to the joint, affecting columns for 'When Paid' and 'Ending at Lady-Day', although the ink is only very faded, and the figures are just legible. 1863. £70.00
    The label is missing from the front board, but as all the Companies listed were owned by the GNR at that time it is probable that these rents were paid to them. Rents paid include: Armitage and Bowman, Fellmongers and Tanners, for water taken from the Canal into their works near Trent Lock; John Hall & Sons, Sawyers, for water to work steam engines; for 'Dock in the Castle Pond (all Nottingham Canal); Hopkins and Co. for a wharf at Fosse Lock Coal Yard, Grantham Canal.


  85. Great Western Railway IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1886. ESTIMATE OF EXPENSE 8pp., folio, gives estimates for cutting, bridges, viaducts and railways described in the Bill. 1886. £16.00

  86. Great Western Railway IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1888. 4pp., plus docket title. Lists expenses for Permanent Way, Bridges, Gatekeepers Houses, land etc. 1888. £16.00
    The Engineers were Fowler and Roberts.


  87. Great Western Railway NOTICE of the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors, 3rd June, 1869. With a list of the 6 Bills to be considered by the meeting, including Bristol Harbour Railway, Severn Navigation Commission, Whitland and Taff Vale Railway. 1p., 4to, form for proxy voting on conjoint leaf, folded with address panel, postmark, on verso. Vertical fold, slight wear at top and bottom edge of fold. Paddington, 18th My, 1869. £16.00

  88. Great Western Railway Company FORM of the Shareholder Trenham Old, Pier Mansion, Brighton, requesting payment of dividends to be paid to his account at Smith Payne and Smith, Lombard St. 1p., 4to, printed, with manuscript inserts. Brief letter on blank conjoint leaf, and address panel and stamp on verso, traces of paper on address panel, presumably where once stuck in album. 1858. £16.00

  89. Guano THE NATIVE GUANO COMPANY LTD. Balance Sheet, 31st October, 1874. 3pp., 4to, plus docket title. 1874. £10.00

  90. Hampshire & Berkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 30". Linen-backed and folding to 4to, silk edging tape, frayed in places. Section at top right 5" deep butted in from a quarter sheet and extending out 3" from edge at right. Two railways drawn in in red ink. A 3" and a 1" split in linen at one fold. Electrotype 1879-82. £32.00
    Covers Basingstoke, Hungerford, Wokingham.


  91. Hampshire & Wiltshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LV.4/LXXVII.4, scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Edition of 1925. £14.00
    Shows Whiteparish, Melchet Park, Melchetcourt Farm, Landfordwood Farm.


  92. Hampshire and Wiltshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheets VII.3/XLIII.3. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Some pink and green markings. 2 items. Edition of 1924. £22.00
    Shows Ham Ashley Copse, White Farm, Upper Horns Farm..


  93. Hampshire and Wiltshire PARTICULARS of Chute Forest House... for Sale by Auction... 14th Sept., 1949. 7pp., 4to, wraps, photo. on front wrap. 1949. £8.00

  94. Herapath (John) THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE and Annals of Science. Containing Copious Accounts of All Railways, At Home and Abroad... Vol. IV New Series. January - June 1838. 444pp., 8vo., fine folding plan of Bristol and Exeter Railway, hand coloured, size 15" x 11", and folding plate of sections of that railway. Index at back. Plain paper boards, cloth spine. German Library stamp on title page. Wyld and Son, 1838. £110.00
    Articles on: The first crossing of the Atlantic by the Great Western in April 1838 (with a map); cutting tunnels at Shakespeare Cliff, Dover; a wind machine for mining purposes (by Edward Concanen); on rendering Chain Suspension Bridges... nearly Inflexible; the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Railway reports include Grand Junction, Blackwall Commercial, London and Birmingham, Great Leinster and Munster, London and Croydon, list of share prices.


  95. Hertford and Essex REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP Published by Gall and Inglis, Sheet No. 27. Scale «" to 1 mile, size 20" x 25", linen-backed, folding to sm. 8vo. Roads coloured yellow. n.d. c1900. £15.00
    Covers Biggleswade, Clare, Billericay, Watford.


  96. Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Middlesex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet VII, scale 1" to 1 mile. Size approx. 24" x 36", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into cloth endpapers. Some slight browning in places in bottom half of map, road from Wendover to Windsor lightly coloured in crayon, linen browned between some sections. Electrotyped 1876. £28.00
    Covers West London (west from London Bridge, Great Marlow, St. Albans.)


  97. Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XVIII S.E. etc., composite map, scale 6" to 1 mile. Size linen-backed and folding into 8vo endpapers. Water features hand-coloured. Estate south of Biggleswade hand-coloured, presumably relative to sale. 1891. £25.00

  98. Hertfordshire, Middlesex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet Middx. IV S.E/Herts. XLIII S.E. etc. Size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. Dissected and mounted on linen, marbled wraps. Water features hand-coloured. Second Edition 1899. £16.00
    Covers Harefield Grove, Grand Junction Canal, Moor Park, Mill End, River Colne.


  99. Hospital PHOTOGRAPH size 8" x 11", of a group of 22 nurses, a matron, and four doctors, posed in front of a building, the nurses in long white aprons, coifs and starched cuffs, five of them (presumably Sisters) in darker dresses with caps with a large bow under the chin, matron in dark dress with silver buckle. The front row is sitting on Turkish carpets. Very small tear at bottom edge. A very fine crisp photograph, with great detail. c1890. £40.00

  100. Hotels LETTER ON HEADED NOTEPAPER of Kraft's Gd. Hotel de Nice, 1891. 3p large 8vo, with fine engraved view of hotel, gardens, carriages etc., printed in blue.... together with letter on headed notepaper from Grand Hotel Montfleury, Cannes, 1903, with photographic type view of hotel. 1891-1903. £8.00

  101. House of Commons VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS Mercurii, 25 die Junii, 1828. 3pp. folio, listing 32 items, plus motions and Orders. Folds, some slight dustmarking. 1828. £15.00
    Among the business to be dealt with are Hindoo Widows, Post Office Steam Packets, silk throwing, swearing in of member for Wareham, impressment of seamen.


  102. House of Commons VOTES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS in the Sixth Session of the Fourth Parliament of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Appointed to meet 22 June 1807; and from thence continued to 7 January 1812, in the Fifty-second Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George The Third. Nos. 1 - 135, 7th January 1812 - 30th July 1812. Un-bound as issued, title page, and half title 'Votes 1812'. Continuously paginated from 5-1052. Paper crisp and clean, apart from 3 leaves which are dusty. No imprint, 1812. £180.00
    Gives proceedings in great detail, with all the bills and petitions presented, addresses to the Prince Regent, much on inclosure, canal and road-building, on the war etc., for example, from 27 April 'A Petition of several Inhabitants of the Town of Liverpool, was presented.... setting forth that the Petitioners have been credibly informed that the Right honourable George Rose did lately... compare the situation of the people of England and France to that of two men holding their heads in a vessel of water, and trying which can longest endure the pain of suffocation.... the above-mentioned comparison too aptly typifies the condition of the Petitioners, all whose means of livelihood are alarmingly curtailed by the events of the War, and many of whom are reduced to the extreme of want, it is by no means applicable to the Right honourable George Rose and others... who by the possession.... of sinecure places, are much at their ease in the midst of public calamity'.


  103. Hunting BILL made out for goods purchased 1744 and 1745, with prices. Large sheet folded to 16" x 6«", 8 items named, the rest listed as 'goods'. Includes 'a watch string' 3 Hunting Horns', 'powder and shot and powder flask', 'a jockey whip'. At the end is written 'unjust demands... needless things... not behaved well... pickpockett... must sell his goods'. 1745. £15.00

  104. Hutchison & Son Ltd. CATALOGUE of Porcelain Enamelled Baths. 27pp., 4to, illustrated stiff covers, glossy pages with illustrations of rolled edge baths, including 5 pages with photographs of the manufacturing process. Late 1920's? £25.00

  105. Ibbetson (L. Boscawen) LETTER to an un-named correspondent asking him if he could get him some more fossils 'particularly from the Bririated rock near the Sea.... I have not been able to go down having been much occupied'. 2p., small 8vo. No address, but gives the address he will be at in London. c1860? £8.00

  106. Isaacs (Rufus) LETTER to The Speaker's Secretary, dated 32 Park Lane, 29th January 1907, asking him to put his name down for the ballot 'for a place in the House of Lords on the opening of Parliament by His Majesty'. 1p., 4 lines, signed 'Rufus Isaacs'. 1907. £12.00
    Rufus Isaacs, First Marquis of Reading, became Lord Chief Justice in 1913, and Viceroy of India in 1921.


  107. Jute, Hemp and Sisal MANUSCRIPT COMPILATION of information on jute, etc., in folio volume titled 'Reference Book'. Half morocco, rubbed at edges, approx. 180 pages of entries and letters, reports etc. pasted in, with Index. Loosely inserted is a Report of the House of Commons Committee on the Petition of Messrs. Hill and Bundy on flax and hemp preparation., 9pp. 1920's. £60.00
    Includes material on New Zealand Hemp, Mexican Sisal, Production of Hemp and Flax in Italy, Madras hemp, Manila hemp, rope manufacturers, hemp imports into the UK, reports of interviews, copies of letters, detailed tables, lists of shippers, lists of exporters, references, phormium fibre, auction sales, etc. Possibly compiled by a broker as a reference. Some of the letters of which typed copies are pasted in are headed 'For Reference Book'.


  108. Kensington Baron LETTER on headed notepaper, 69 Grosvenor Street, dated Nov. 30th 1885. 3p, sm. 8vo, signed 'Kensington', written to Mr. Colfax who had asked him about disestablishment. He says the matter is very important and should be 'a direct issue before the Country for their verdict at a General Election'. He himself was in favour of Disenstablishment and Disendowment. 1885. £18.00
    William Edwardes, Baron Kensington, politician. 1835-1896.


  109. Kent and Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, 27" x 46", linen backed and folding to 8vo, cloth wraps, red contours. Some areas outlined in colour and shaded. The top left hand corner, 8" square, is blank. Revision of 1930. £16.00
    Covers Croydon, West Wickham, Hayes, part of Beckenham.


  110. (Kitchin, T) MAP OF SOUTH EAST ENGLAND Copper-engraved map covering south-east England and the east midlands, the coast of France, the coast from Purbeck to Lowestoft. Rivers, towns, parkland hand-coloured, size 25" x 22". Traces of fold. Number '38' in top corner. 1790. £70.00
    One of the sheets making a map of England.


  111. Laing (S) RAILWAY TAXATION Pamphlet, 23pp., 8vo. 1849. £20.00
    The writer was Chairman of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway.


  112. Lancashire and Yorks. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXXXVIII N.W., size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in right-hand margin. Surface slightly dusty. A few repaired edge tears. Embossed Ordnance stamp, 1904. £26.00
    Shows numerous faults with white lines, and one mineral vein in gold.


  113. Lancashire and Yorks. TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale 6" to 1 mile. Sheet LXV S.E (Higher Twiston, Rimington Moor) and XLVIII N.W/CLXXXIII (Walk Mill, Deerplay Moor). Water features hand-coloured. Surface dusty. Some edge tears. c1899. £20.00
    Shows old lead mines, quarries etc.


  114. Licensed Premises PARTICULARS, PLANS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of 20 Freehold Premises in the Districts of Liverpool, St. Helens, Sheffields, Middlewich, Birmingham, Manchester.... together with Valuable Shops, Warehouses and other Premises.... for Sale by Auction... 20th day of March, 1928. With 18 folding coloured plans, 22 + (1)pp, 4to, original printed wraps, some leaves and maps loose, edge tears to a few leaves. 1928. £45.00

  115. Lincolnshire and Yorkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXVI. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36", linen-backed and folding into 8vo endpapers. Water features, parkland, county boundaries hand-coloured. Linen between sections perished along 6" vertically and 6" horizontally at one point due to black ink stain on verso at fold, some ink along edges of sections at this point. Two other 3" splits in linen at folds, a few small areas shaded and marked with dates. c1860. £18.00
    Covers Isle of Axholme, Kingston upon Hull.

    ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT

  116. Liverpool, Taunton, Exeter, Ilminster, Somerton, etc. JOURNAL OF EXCURSIONS 8vo plain paper notebook, half calf, gilt, marbled boards, corners rubbed, paper on front board slightly rubbed, gilt decoration on spine, with title 'Excursions' (title rubbed). 148 pages of manuscript in a very neat hand, mostly written on one side only, interleaved with 24 large steel-engraved vignette views, approx. size of engraved surface approx. 5" x 6", illustrating the text. There is an Index of 'Cities and Villages'. The greater part of the journal covers Somerset, and it is possible the writer lived in Bristol, as he describes day excursions from Bristol, and a train trip from Bristol to Liverpool. There is a great deal of architectural and historical detail, and the description for the larger places is arranged in the form of town 'Walks' (there are five for Liverpool), covering the sights street by street. Circa 1844. £340.00
    Places visited are: Liverpool, (38pp.); Chester (10p); Taunton (13p); Ilminster (5p); Exeter (19p, five 'Walks'); Sherbourne (9p), and then: Banwell ('Banwell Caves are two extensive Caverns 40ft high and 50-60 broad, one of them is remarkable for its beautiful stalactites - there is also a natural stone seat with round back at the end of the cavern called the Bishop's Chair. The second cavern contained many fossil bones, now removed to Mr. Beard's near the cavern.'); Abridge, Cheddar, Langport, Fivehead, Burton Pinsent, Langport, Ilchester ('Long Load - remarkable for its stone dressing Works by steam where the blue lias of the neighbouring hills are polished like marble and cut into every variety of form by saws driven by steam'), Martock, Somerton, Compton Dunder, Glastonbury (with plan of town cut from a Sales Particular), Wells, Wookey Hole, Shepton Mallet. At Littleton he points to a column on a hill asking a local boy its name. He replies 'I never heard as how anything grawed there, some o' em do try a little wheat but doant never do them hills be too high and cold'.


  117. London Chatham & Dover Railway ARBITRATION Second and Final Award. 23pp., 8vo, printed wraps. With schedules of Land Purchases, Creditors, etc. 1871. £20.00

  118. London Salisbury & Yeovil Junction Railway PROSPECTUS 3pp., folio, folded. Lists Committee, number of shares etc., setting out route, advantages etc. MAP present. 1845. £45.00
    The Engineer was John Rennie.


  119. Lord Sidmouth OBITUARY Two obituaries, from The Morning Herald and the Morning Post. Specially printed with black borders on 3pp. sm. folio, with black armorial wax seal in bottom margin, mounted along edge in folio card folder, together with a letter dated Richmond Park Feb. 14th, 1844, from Horace (Currie?), saying 'we are under great anxiety about Lord Sidmouth and since Friday we have lost the hope of his recovery...' Together with letter, 3p 8vo, mourning border, from Charlotte Currie, to someone (un-named) who has also lost a relation, an engraved portrait of Lord Sidmouth, 8vo, signature of Lord Sidmouth clipped from bottom of a letter, with clipped 'free front' sent by him to Lord John Russell, and another address panel with impressed pink stamp, maltese cross cancellation. 1844. £45.00
    Probably compiled by his daughter, Charlotte Currie. A pencil note at the bottom of the obituary states 'given me.... by the Honble. Mrs Currie now residing at Silvermere nr. Cobham.'


  120. Lyons (Richard, Baron) LETTER written in the third person, unsigned, on paper with printed embossed heading 'Ambassade d'Angleterre, Paris', to Captain Charles Beresford, requesting his company 'at dinner on Xmas day and 8 o'clock'. 4 lines, 8vo notepaper, blank conjoint leaf. Decr. 23, 1879. £12.00
    Lord Lyons was British Ambassador in Paris 1867-1887.


  121. Madame Tussaud's CORONATION CATALOGUE 1937. 80pp., wraps. 1937. £8.00
    Lists 342 characters, plus Chamber of Horrors.


  122. Maddington Races FREE HANDICAP Maddington, 1814. First Day. Sweepstakes of 50gs each. h.ft, two miles..... Printed list of 25 runners with age, and weight of jockey, 1p., 4to, folded, blank adjoining leaf has been used for address, to J.G. Kneller, Donhead Hall, with postmark. 8 horses have a small ink cross beside them. 1814. £55.00
    'A Proposition will be made at the first Maddington Dinner in London, to allow Jockies to ride, and it is to be understood that this Race is void, unless such measure be carried.'


  123. Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway PLAN, SECTION AND BOOK OF REFERENCE of so much of the Railway as relates to the Parish of Fulwood. Session 1889. Plan lithographed by Thos. Kell & Son, size 22" x 30", in printed wraps, with small 4to 'Book of Reference', 1p. in printed pink wraps, bound in. The plan shows line with limit of deviation, woodland, roads, etc., scale 6 chains = 1 inch, with a vertical section below, scale 5" = 300ft. 1889. £65.00

  124. Manuscript COMMONPLACE BOOK Titled 'Common-place Book Vol. III. 9th February 1872.' on fly-leaf. Notebook, size 8" x 6", marbled boards, half calf, lacks spine. 210 pages, plus index. Entries dated from the 1870's to 1907. £36.00
    Contains much on religion, and was possibly kept by a clergyman. Includes extracts on Mohammedanism, Buddha, Darwin, baptism, quotes from Ouida, Conan Doyle, R.D. Blackmore, Froude, copy of a song 'Bill Brady' 'The above by a Cambridge undergraduate was given to me by Mr Bond a Cambridge student & passenger with me on board the 'Sobraon' June 1881.'


  125. Medici Society CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTS and Other Colour Reproductions. 4to, printed boards with pasted on colour print, 140pp., approx. 100 colour and black and white plates illustrating prints by Russell Flint, Margaret Tarrant, Peter Scott, etc., as well as Old Masters, with prices. foxing on first few pages. c1940? £22.00

  126. Mentz, Germany PENCIL DRAWING Titled 'At Mentz'. Very detailed drawing in dark soft pencil, showing ruined masonry of some kind of church or abbey, with a cottage built into the ruins, tall church tower behind. On thin card, size 11" x 9", right margin trimmed. A few minor spots in sky area. c1825. £18.00

  127. Merchant Navy CERTIFICATES OF DISCHARGE for W. Gill, of Bristol, and Robert Barnes of London, from various ships 1879-81. 10 certificates, 3 brief related letters and a character reference, printed with manuscript inserts, circles for conduct report on verso. 1879-81. £14.00
    Voyages were mainly to Philadelphia on the 'Lord Gough'.


  128. Metz PENCIL DRAWING Good quality, very detailed sketch in soft pencil showing close up view of ruins of an abbey, with a tower behind, small cottage has been built against the ruins. Titled 'At Metz". On thick 'Bristol' paper, size 11" x 9". One or two minor foxing spots in sky area. c1825. £20.00
    The drawing covers almost the whole paper.


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  129. Middlesex, Dorset & Berkshire PARTICULARS OF SALE OF A SUPERIOR SEMI-DETACHED VILLA RESIDENCE, AT WEST BROMPTON: 113 Acres of Superior Grass Land and Corn rents at Willesden; A Farm of 105a. 1r. 14p., the Rent charge and pew rents, at Handley, Dorsetshire, and the Rent Charge, on lands in the hamlet of Grove in the Parish of Wantage, Berkshire..... Which will be Sold by Auction... 6th of August, 1858. Folio, 8pp, docket title, folded, lacks lower half of last leaf which is the 'memorandum', partly affecting description of Wantage lot. 1858. £12.00

  130. Middlesex, Dorsetshire, Berkshire PARTICULARS OF SALE of a Superior Semi-Detached Villa Residence known as No. 7, Bolton's, 113 Acres of Grass Land at Willesden... Rent Charge and Pew Rents at Handley, Dorsetshire.... Rent Charge in Wantage.... which will be Sold by Auction... 6th August, 1858. 7pp, folio, memorandum cut out of last page, affecting description of Wantage Lot. 1858. £12.00

  131. Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile, boundaries, woodland, main roads hand-coloured. Composite map, borders on all sides, size 37" x 58", linen-backed and folding to 8vo marbled wraps. Electrotype, c1870. £90.00
    Covers Brighton, Guildford, Reigate, West London, Windsor, Shiplake.


  132. Municipal Corporations Act ADDRESSED TO ALL OVERSEERS of Persons executing the Duties of Overseers of the Poor in Parishes maintaining their own Poor... Folio sheet, printed on both sides, giving instructions for recording all 'Male Persons of the age of Twenty-one Years... rated to the Poor Rates....' according to the Act. On the back is a list of boroughs, and warning about penalties.. together with... Order in Council regarding the Act, Court of St. James, 11 September 1835, large folio, folded. Together with printed covering letter from Whitehall. 1835. £30.00

  133. Murchison (Sir R.I) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF EUROPE Exhibiting the Different Systems of Rocks according to the most recent researches and inedited materials, by Sir R.I. Murchison, D.C.L., Professor Nicol, and A. Keith Johnston. 1856. Coloured geological map, size 40" x 41", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into large 40 cloth-covered boards, gilt title. Split in cloth at spine, corners rubbed. Large 'Table of Colours &c With Explanations' bottom left. Green silk edging tape. Engraved and printed by W. & A.K. Johnston 1856. £200.00
    Includes Turkey, Russia, Iceland, and the coastal part of North Africa.


  134. Nicholls (G.F) COTSWOLDS WATER-COLOURS Nineteen colour plates, and plate on front board, small mark to cloth on front board. 1928. £16.00

  135. Norfolk and Suffolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet L N.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", plus margins. 'Record Map' stamp in margin. Railways inserted to 1875. £22.00
    Covers Ixworth, Brettenham, Diss.


  136. North British Railway BOOK OF REFERENCE To The Plans of the North British Railway, Hawick and Carlisle Junction Railway and Branches, and to the Plan of Additional Land at the Hawick Station, Containing The Names of the owners or reputed owners, Lessees or reputed Lessees and Occupiers of Lands in and through which the lines of the said Railway and Branches will or may pass... 97 printed pages, printed on one side only, plus title page. Printed in columns with Number on plan, Owners, Lessees, Occupiers. Size 15" x 9", paper wraps, slightly dusty, printed label. Edinburgh 1857. £145.00
    Parishes imclude Hawick, Kirkton, Castleton, Kirkandrews, Arthuret, Grinsdale, Rockcliffe, Canobie.


  137. Nottingham and Derbyshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXII S.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile, Size 13" x 15", plus wide margins. c1890. £18.00
    Covers Ollerton, Elmton.


  138. Nottingham, Derby MAP OF RESERVOIRS Untitled lithographically printed map in black and two colours, showing Ambergate service reseroir. Size 22" x 32". Shows roads, railways, rivers, cotton mills, saw mills. Covers Nottingham, Derby, Matlock. c1910. £18.00

  139. Ordnance Survey A DESCRIPTION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MEDIUM SCALE MAPS 21pp., tall 8vo, dark brown and tan wraps with coat of arms. 14 plates, some folding. 1949. £15.00

  140. Ordnance Survey A DESCRIPTION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY SMALL SCALE MAPS 21pp., tall 8vo, plus 19 coloured plates. Buff and brown wraps with small coat of arms. Small inscription on front wrap. 1947. £15.00

  141. Paris RECEPTION DES MEDECINS ANGLAIS Programme for the Soiree 12 May 1905 at the Theatre de l'Automobile-Club. 2 pages small 8vo, plus stiff wraps with engraving showing fauns, musical instruments etc., trace of slight fold in front wrap. Invitation loosely inserted. 1905. £8.00

  142. Philadelphia ANNUAL REPORT of the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools, with the Annual Report of the Treasurer and a List of Officers for the Present Year. 15pp., sewn in plain paper wraps. Philadelphia, 1834. £20.00

  143. Post Office AN ACCOUNT OF THE GROSS AND NET PRODUCE of the Post-Office, from the 5th April 1783 to the 5th January 1807 Distinguishing each Year and the Produce of the Restriction of Franking, or any new Rates... 1p., folio, with blank conjoint leaf, folded, with printed docket title. Printed with columns for Ordered to be Printed July 27, 1807. £18.00

  144. Pyne (W.H) THE LAMP LIGHTER Coloured aquatint, approx. 13" x 10", showing a lamplighter up a ladder propped against a lamp in front of the window of a large house, handing down the oil container to a young boy who is waiting with the oil can. The lamp lighter is wearing a very colourful red and white striped coat, and a blue apron. Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street, Jany. 1, 1805. £85.00
    From 'The Costume of Great Britain', the fully coloured edition.


  145. Railway Clearing House OFFICIAL RAILWAY MAP OF LANCASHIRE & CHESHIRE DISTRICTS Drawn and engraved by J. & W. Emslie. Colour-printed map, scale, size 45" x 28", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into morocco boards with gilt title, front board detached. Inset of Liverpool and Wrexham. Some slight darkening of paper at some section edges. Prepared and Published at the Railway Clearing House. 1909. £95.00

  146. Ramsay (A.C) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES by Andrew C. Ramsay, F.R.S. & G.S., Local Director of the Geological Survey of Britain and Professor of Geology at the Government School of Mines. Hand coloured folding map, size 36" x 31", folding into 8vo cloth covered boards, gilt insignia of Letts, Son & Co. on front board, cloth at edges of spine rubbed, split down one edge of spine. With key, 6 sections. An extra manuscript key at bottom left, with some extra information added, three notes in ink, and a few in pencil added around the coast, for example at Tees Bay by the Rock Salt deposits the owner has written 'Near North Ormsby 1344 feet down they are putting out 3000 tons a week, Sir Lowther Bell estimates the deposit at 100 million tons...' 1877. £130.00

  147. Rendel family THE YOUNG COMPANION Volume 1, No. 1 January 1897 - No. 12 December (1897). Vol. II, No. 1 January 1898 - (no. 12) December 1898. The illustrated manuscript magazine of a clever, witty and precocious family of children, bound in two volumes, 4to, marbled boards, half calf, rubbed, titled 'The Young Companion' in gilt on spines, boards and one spine detached, sewing rather loose, with the first few leaves of volume I loose. Each number with a full-page watercolour title page - charming scenes such as the six children walking on stilts, the baby on a bicycle, a view of the Queen's carriage on Westminster Bridge on the Jubilee procession, a girl bicycling while reading a copy of 'The Young Companion', 'A view of Nell Gwynn's stable from Parkhurst Schoolroom'. There are 39 photographs, mostly very small, and approx. 10 full-page watercolours, and other pen and ink and watercolour illustrations in the text. Articles include recipes, plays, puzzles, scientific experiments, family gossip, descriptions of stays at relatives, scores and photographs of a cricket match played at Rickettswood, 'the residence of Sir Alex M. Rendel' between two family teams, and a description of the house, a paperchase (illustrated with photograph), fashions, a detailed description of the Queen's Jubilee procession by four different children: they had 'a lot of seats in a window of a store house on Westminster Bridge...' Their grandfather hired an omnibus for them, and there is a photograph of the baby on top of the 'privat omnibus' in front of St. Martins in the Fields, and four other very small photos of the procession. They had 'a Jubilee cake with red white and blue sugar made by our cook, we could not think were (sic) she got the blue sugar from'. A letter from 'Jungly Wallah' sent from India (presumably their grandfather) is pasted in 'I belive your very valuable paper could be made even more interesting by publishing a series of scenes depicting Native Life and Character in the East... I am sending some photographs of performing bears...' These 8 small photos are pasted in. There are also recollections of their early life by older family members, for example the grandmother's memories of her house Ashwick, near Shepton Mallet, and holidays in Weymouth 'we made excursions to Portland & were deeply interested in seeing the convicts at work in the Quarries...'); a memoir by their grandmother, Jane Strachey, nee Grant, of her childhood at Rothiemurchus, Speyside, and in India (being called 'Mother Bunch' by Lord Elgin etc.), and later at a house called Wittenhall. There is an 80th birthday poem for General Sir Richard Strachey, and a detailed description of the dresses worn by 'Grandmama, Aunt Dorothy and Aunt Pippa' when they were presented to the Queen. Visits to Whitestaunton and Marlborough are recounted, with photographs. Milestones in the baby's life are noted in 'Baby's Chronicle', with photos. Robin Rendel describes Winchester slang and rituals. There is a brief family tree of the Rendels, and one of Richard and Jane Strachey and their children, showing Giles Lytton the last but one child. There is a description of a stay at Lawford Hall ('The day that Grandaddy came back, Lytton stepped out the balony and made several speeches to us in an exceeding comic manner about the abolition of slaves.') There is are two contributions by Dorothy Shakespeare, a sketch of two hens titled 'Quand ce coq chantera mon amour finira', and a comic letter, in the style of Brutus' speech, to one of the Rendels who was ill. A photograph of her (4" x 3") is pasted in, by the minutes of a meeting at which she is admitted a new member: 'The staff who very much wished to have a prove of Miss Shakespear's Oratorical power asked her to honour the assembly with a few words from the platform... Miss Shakespear choose for her subject: The Play of Julius Caesar at Her Majesty's Theatre...' she is then cross-questioned by the panel about the play. This is possibly the Dorothy Shakespear who married Ezra Pound. 1898-8. £950.00
    Contributors include Richard, Andrew, Elizabeth, Elionor Rendel, H.R. Ricardo (later a well-known engineer), Ralph, Alma, Anna Ricardo. Elionor Rendel, the children's mother, was the eldest child of Sir Richard Strachey and Jane Grant. She appears in the photograph of the Strachey family in the National Portrait Gallery where the family are shown kneeling in imitation of an Elizabethan tomb effigy. (Giles) Lytton Strachey was their uncle. Jane Strachey and 'Aunt Pippa' were leading figures in the Women's Suffrage Movement.


  148. Royal Institution MEMORIAL TO FARADAY Proceedings at a Public Meeting, at the Royal Institution, London, June 21st, 1869. 11p, 8vo. Last page torn and corner worn. 1869. £7.00
    Includes speeches by Prince of Wales, Professor Owen etc.


  149. S.D.U.K. MARSEILLE Ancient Marsilia. Town plan, size 12«" x 16". Narrow margins. Slight crease top left corner. 1840. £35.00

  150. Saint Christopher, West Indies CERTIFICATE printed on vellum, size 13" x 15", with manuscript inserts, affirming that Messrs. De Grave, Short and Tanner of London, Scale Makers, have verified the weights listed, 'stamped and issued for the use of The Island of St. Christopher's.' Signed by the Warden of the Standards. Folded, some wormholes at folds. 1869. £20.00

  151. Saurel (B.J) PLAN DE GAND (GHENT) dresse par B.J. Saurel, Geometre de 1re Classe, et Lithographie par G. Jacqmain. Plan size 12" x 15". Scale 1: 10,000, street index down margins and at bottom. Traces of folds, 7 small worm holes, some creasing. 1858. £20.00

  152. Severn Estuary THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXVII S.W (Hallen Marsh); LXII S.W (Sudbrook, Portskewett); LXII N.W (Mathern, St. Pierre). Scale 6" to 1 mile, size approx 12" x 16" plus margins. 1903, 1920, 1920. £20.00

  153. Sheldon (Prof. J.P) THE ENGLISH DAIRY A Lecture delivered in the Lecture Room of the International Health Exhibition June 16th, 1884. Disbound pamphlet, 20pp. 1884. £8.00

  154. Shropshire and Worcestershire SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY. 2 CHAIN SURVEY 1880. Lithographed hand coloured plan, scale 2 chains = 1", showing the line in the parishes of Kidderminster (Worcestershire) and Dowle (Shropshire). Two plans of the line one above the other, each showing a mile of track, on thick paper, size 27" x 45". Shows roads, rivers, embankment, level crossings, wooded areas, boundaries indicated, owners of land named. Distances from Shrewsbury shown along the line. Repaired tear at right hand margin, not affecting printing. Surveyed May 1880. £50.00

  155. Shropshire, Hereford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LV N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Small blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin, 'Index to Tithe Survey' in top margin. O.S. blindstamp 1891. £18.00
    Covers Great Malvern, Bromyard.


  156. Siemens ELECTRICAL FITTINGS Bowls, Globes, etc. Catalogue, 11" x 8", 24pp., wraps. 2-3 illustrations per page. Some slight dustmarking at corner of some pages. 1927. £25.00
    Includes 'Italian Alabaster Bowl Fittings' 'Cornelian Glassware Fittings' etc.


  157. Somerset and Devon ORDNANCE SURVEY Sheet XXI. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", dissected and mounted on linen, folding to calf boards, with tuck-in flap, size 6" x 4". Hand-coloured in full wash colour, with borders in darker shading. Borders and all marginal information trimmed away, a piece of the map (middle right) comprising 6 sections has been neatly cut out, and is loosely inserted. c1845. £24.00
    Covers Crediton, Dulverton, Taunton, Ilminster.


  158. Somerset and Dorset PARTICULARS of Valuable Freehold Estates, in the Parishes of Henstridge, Horsington, Kington Magna, and Manston.... comprising 782 Acres of excellent Grazing and Dairy Land... to be Sold by Auction at the Henstridge Ash Inn.... 18th June, 1849, in Ten Lots. 7pp., folio, folded with docket title. Two fine lithographed folding hand-coloured plans. 1849. £40.00
    With detailed schedules of fields etc.


  159. Somerset and Dorset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet 312. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Printed with hachures. Some small creases in top corner at margin. Revised 1898. £20.00
    Covers Chetnole, Sherborne, Isle Brewers.


  160. Somerset and Dorset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 130. 'Yeovil and Blandford' Popular Edition. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 19" x 27", plus margins. Printed in black and blue only. Small 'Record Map' stamp top right corner. n.d. 1930's. £10.00

  161. Somerset and Dorset Railway Company JUNCTION OF THE MIDLAND AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAYS Extension to the Midland Railway at Bath. Authorised by Act of Parliament 34th and 35th Vic. Completing the connection on Unbroken Narrow Gauge between the Systems of the Midland Railway at its Southern Terminus at Bath.... Issue of 6,250 Extension Shares of £20 each. 3pp, size 17" x 10", folded with docket title. Loosely inserted is a map, size 20" x 14", printed in red and black, showing the Somerset and Dorset Railway in red, and the extension in a dotted red line, passing through the Radstock and the Coal Fields. Map extends to Plymouth, Brecon, Portsmouth, Leicester. Also inserted is Form of Application for Shares, 1p, folio. 1872. £85.00

  162. South Sea Stock MANUSCRIPT PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of John Dawson's Right to £1264. of Stock in the Old South Sea Annuities. 1«p, sm. folio, folds, decorative heading. 1797. £15.00
    Dawson was a Suffolk linen-weaver. The sale, at Beccles, was to pay his creditors.


  163. Staffordshire and Leicestershire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXII.N.W. Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in left-hand margin. Embossed Ordnance stamp, 1901. £25.00
    Shows Cannock, Penkridge.

    SIGNED BY BARON CUVIER

  164. Strasbourg, France DIPLOME DE BACHELLIER ES-LETTRES Au Nom Du Roi. Nous, Baron G. Cuvier... Grand-Maitre a l'egard des Facultes de Theologie protestante.... donnons audit Sieur... le Diplome de Bachelier es-Lettres... Certificate awarded 2 October 1824 to Frederic Diebl, born in Strasbourg 6 November 1804, printed on vellum, with manuscript inserts, size 12" x 15", folded in half, large coat of arms at head, decorative border with motifs in roundels, papered seal of 'Grand Maitre de l'Universite de France' affixed, diameter 2«". Signed 'B.G. Cuvier' in a bold hand with flourishes. Some slight creasing in places. 1824. £70.00
    Cuvier had been asked to make reports on higher educational establishments in the districts beyond the Alps and Rhine which had been annexed to France. After the Restoration of the monarchy he was elected Chancellor of the University, and, as a Lutheran himself, supervised the faculty of Protestant theology.


  165. Sun Publishing Co., St., Pine St., St. Louis AGENTS WANTED For the Grand New Book, Theatrical and Circus Life, Or Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Saw Dust Arena. By Jno. Jennings of the St. Louis Globe - Democrat. Poster, size 25" x 19", giving a summary of the chapters, with details of printing etc. Woodcut illustrations of actors and actresses, mashers, dancers etc, around the sides. Folded, two 1" repaired tears at margins. c1880. £50.00

  166. Surrey, Kent REDUCED ORDNANCE MAP Published by Gall and Inglis, Sheet No. 20. Scale «" to 1 mile, size 20" x 25", linen-backed, folding to sm. 8vo. Roads coloured yellow. n.d. c1900. £16.00
    Covers Highgate, Horsham, Maidstone.


  167. Taylor Brothers SCENE ON THE MARAVILLA COCOA ESTATE Advertising sheet, 8vo, with brightly coloured chromolithographed scene of people picking cocoa beans, estate buildings etc., framed by cocoa beans. On verso is advert with 'Opinions from the Press' etc. Obviously once glued in album, as there are light traces of glue overall. c1890. £20.00

  168. The Lake District ORDNANCE SURVEY TOURIST MAP Scale 1" to 1 Mile. Cloth backed. Coloured wraps with illustration by Ellis Martin, cream ground. 1925. £9.00

  169. Thompson & Co. THE IDOLICE CONFECTIONER Edited by 'Craftsman'. Catalogue and recipe book of cake decoration manufacturer, aimed at bakeries. 19pp, 4to, illusts. Some stab holes in front wrap. 1930's. £8.00

  170. United States DECORATIVE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Folding lithographed 'Marriage Seal', completed in manuscript for the marriage of William Bauer and Catherine O'Neill at Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. Attractive lithograph at head of couple sailing on a lake, framed in flowers. Size 13" x 9", folding into card wraps. Meyer & Bro., Chicago, 1919. £14.00

  171. Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council APPOINTMENT of Richard Barrington Ward as Second Lieutenant in the Volunteer Forces of India. Printed on vellum, slightly yellowed, manuscript inserts, size 9" x 13". Signed by Robert Scallum, Major-General, and J. Minto. Punch hole top right. Fort William, 1st March, 1910. £20.00
    Lord Minto was Governor General of India.


  172. Walker and Jackson families GENEALOGICAL TREE, WALKER OF FRODSHAM Large printed chart, size 18" x 25", together with similar chart listing names of nephews and nieces of William Walker, with dates and place of residence (places include Frodsham, Liverpool, Wisconsin, Rochdale.) Frodsham 1935. £22.00

  173. Walton (Thomas), Printer CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL And Church of England Gazette. Saturday Evening, January 19, 1839. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp. Some splits at left edge. 1839. £10.00
    Includes notice listing subscriptions recieved for the Nelson Monument, Trafalgar Square.


  174. Warwickshire, Oxfordshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LIII S.W. Hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size 12" x 14", plus margins, key. 1899. £25.00
    Covers Warmington, Alderham, Lower Shuckburgh


  175. Wedgwood EXHIBITION CATALOGUE of Early Wedgwood Pottery Exhibited at 34 Wigmore Street, London W.1., 1951. 4to, 110pp, spiral bound, wraps, many photographs including some in colour. Wraps slightly rubbed. 1951. £35.00
    Lists 289 exhibits.


  176. Weinreb Architectural Books ITALY, ARCHITECTURE AND ANTIQUITY Catalogue 40. Catalogue of books and prints. 500 items. 150pp., 8vo, stiff wraps. Numerous illustrations, many full page. 1978. £18.00
    Many rare early works in English, French and Italian.


  177. Weller (E) Engr. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY London to Reading, Oxford &; Continuation to Bristol; Bristol to Plymouth; Oxford to Chester. Lithographed plan in vertical strips on four sheets, each sheet 17" x 12", some outline hand-colouring. Scale «" to 1 mile. 1863. £50.00
    From 'The Dispatch Atlas'.


  178. Weller (E) Engr. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY London to Exeter and Plymouth. Lithographed plan in vertical strips on four sheets, each sheet 17" x 12", some outline hand-colouring. Scale «" to 1 mile. 1863. £50.00
    From 'The Dispatch Atlas'. Includes Salisbury Branch, Yeovil Branch, London to Oxford, Oxford to Chester.


  179. Weller (E) Engr. NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Sheet 1, London to Birmingham, Sheet 2 Birmingham to Manchester & Liverpool. Lithograph maps, hand-coloured in outline, on two sheets 17" x 12", each divided into three strips, scale «" to 1 mile. 1863. £36.00
    From 'The Dispatch Atlas'.


  180. West Cornwall Railway, South Devon Railway etc. SELECT COMMITTEE ON GROUP (2) OF RAILWAYS Proceedings of the Committee. Tuesday 21st Map, 1846. Railway Bills comprised in Group (2) 1. Cornwall. 2. West Cornwall. 3. South Devon (No. 2) 4. Taw Vale Extension. 9pp. 1846. £25.00
    I.K. Brunel appeared in support of the West Cornwall Railway Bill.

    WILTSHIRE & GLOUCESTERSHIRE

  181. West Littleton Down, & Chippenham district ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXXIII.8 (Glos.) XVIII.8 (Wilts). Size approx. 25" x 38", plus margins, scale 1/2500 (25 miles to 1"). Filing strip down one edge, slightly browned, mounted on linen. Surveyed in 1880, edition of 1921. £10.00
    Shows West Littleton Down and part of Shire Hill etc.


  182. Westmoreland and Yorkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet CII.S.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", mounted on linen, folding to 4to. Border all round. c1860. £16.00

  183. Wilmington, Swanley ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, Sheet IX S.W. Size 12" x 18", plus wide margins. Dissected and mounted on linen, marbled wraps. Water features hand-coloured. Slight browning in places. Second Edition 1898. £10.00

  184. Wilts. Somerset and Weymouth Railway PLAN SHEWING THE LINE OF THE WILTS. SOMERSET AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY Through Property belonging to James Burgess in the Parish of Westbury. Lithographed plan with outline handcolouring, decorative title, scale 4 chains = 1 inch. Size 19" x 26". Plus similar plans for property in Westbury belonging to James Burgess, and in Frome Selwood: Philip Whitcomb, Charles & Martha Halls and Sarah Chinnocks, Marquis of Bath and Revd. Charles Phillot; Betty Olive; John Hassell; John Simkins; Henry Miller, and 1 other in Frome Selwood with top corner torn and name missing. Plus a larger plan showing river and plots, with no title. Plans rolled together, some edges slightly ragged, stamp of GWR Engineers Office top right. c1846. £90.00
    The actual plots of land shown are very small indeed.


  185. Wiltshire & Gloucestershire. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 36", linen-backed. 5 old sellotape marks in margin. 'Index to the Tithe Survey' printed top margin. Cancelled red 'Boundary Section Record Copy' stamps in margin. O.S. Blindstamp 1881. £35.00

  186. Wiltshire and Gloucestershire AUCTION POSTER for lands in the parishes of Ewen, in Kemble, and Oaksey, to be sold by auction by Acock & Son at the King's Head Inn, Cirencester, Monday February 20, 1837. Size 17" x 11", folds, small tear at one fold, repaired. Attached with a pin are MS Conditions of sale, 3p sm. folio. 1837. £24.00
    Lists 5 Lots, with occupiers.


  187. Wiltshire and Somerset Auction PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Farm.... Known as 'Alcombe Farm'.... Situate in the Parishes of Box and Ditteridge, also Freehold Dwelling-Houses, Gardens, Building Land, Lime-Kilns and other Premises, Situate in the Upper Bristol Road, about 1« miles from the City of Bath. To Be Sold by Messrs. Hawkins & Son.... On Thursday the 4th day of November, 1886. Folio, 5pp, folded, 3 large folding coloured plans. Memorandum of agreement on verso completed by purchaser of Lot 8. 1886. £32.00

  188. Wiltshire and Staffordshire DEED OF EXCHANGE ... of certain Farms and lands situate at Braydon in the County of Wilts belonging to His Majesty in right of his Duchy of Lancaster for certain Farms and Lands situate at Needwood in the County of Stafford belonging to the Earl of Clarendon, His Majesty and The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with The Earl of Clarendon. 6 vellum sheets, size 22" x 26", plus two fully coloured manuscript plans on last sheet, showing the two estates, scale 5" = 60 chains. Shows roads, buildings, boundaries, woodland, adjoining owners indicated. Numbers on plans refer to detailed Schedules on 3 of the vellum sheets. Some minor yellowing of vellum in places. 1826. £90.00

  189. Wiltshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Important Freehold property of the late Wm. Crowdy, Esq., of Highworth, Wilts, comprising nearly 400 Acres of the Best Land in the Vicinity of The Great Western Railway, including Westrop House... together with various Farms and Lands situate in Stratton, South Marston, Shrivenham, Watchfield, Hannington and Lechlade.... Which will be sold by Auction.... November, 1846. 13pp., folio, folded. Prices added in ink. 1846. £38.00

  190. Windermere etc. THE NEW ALBUM OF ENGLISH LAKES 24 photolitho views on extending strip, folding into gilt decorated boards, size 5«" x 4«". c1880. £15.00

  191. Withers ARTISTIC BEDSTEADS FOR THE MODERN HOME Catalogue, with prices. 56pp., size 6" x 10", wraps. Well illustrated. Divided into sections 'Oak French', 'Mahogany and Walnut' etc. c1930. £20.00

  192. Wyld (James) MAP OF THE SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY of the British Isles, with the Physical and Topographical Features, The Line of Railways... Stations.... Steam Packet Routes.... Compiled from the Ordnance Surveys and other Authentic information. Size 51" x 19", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into marbled wraps. County boundaries hand-coloured, large decorative title. A few small foxing spots in blank areas, slight darkening of paper along some section edges, a 1" split in linen at one fold. London: Published by Jas. Wyld, 457 Strand. c1870. £80.00

  193. Yorkshire and Durham PARTICULARS of a singularly delightful... on the borders of Yorkshire and Durham... within Two Miles of the wealthy Town of Darlington... Twelve Hours Journey from the Great Metropolis... known as the Tees Cottage Estate, Situated on the River Tees... The Residence is Most Perfect... The Garden & Pleasure Grounds... planted with choice Shrubs and Luxuriant Ornamental Plantations... 78 Acres of most superior Land... to be Sold by Auction by Mr. Geo. Robins... 28th September, 1841. 3pp., plus docket title, professionally reinforced at spine with tissue, bottom margin clipped, with loss of one line of which gives one of the addresses where particulars may be inspected. Loosely inserted are a sheet of notes by the auctioneer, and a folding lithographed plan of the estate by Madeley, Lithographers, size 20" x 15", with fine vignette view, size 5" x 7", showing house with lake and fishermen in foreground. Small piece «" x 4" clipped from top left corner, affecting a few letters and the corner of one field. Bottom margin trimmed, just affecting imprint. 1841. £70.00

  194. Yorkshire and Lincoln ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 3. Scale one quarter of an inch to one mile, Large Sheet Series. Linen backed, folding into printed cream wraps. Second edition, 1914. £10.00

  195. Yorkshire and Westmoreland ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS With Plans and Conditions of Sale of The Historical, Residential, Sporting Property known as The Ingmire Hall Estate With the well-preserved early sixteenth century residence Killington Hall, with 14th Centruy Farmhouse, Killington Grouse Moor.... Small Holdings, Fell Grazing Rights.... Salmon Fishing in the RIvers Lune and Rawthey.... to be offered for Sale by Auction by Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley at the Town Hall, Kendal.... 4th day of August, 1922. 47pp., 4to, wraps, large coloured folding plan in pocket, key plan. Lacks plan no. 1. 1922. £28.00
    The plan present is in fact the 'Block Plan', which shows all the numbered lots, but coloured in blocks, as the estate was to be first auctioned in blocks, and and if unsold in this manner, in separate lots.


  196. Yorkshire, Cheshire MAP OF RESERVOIRS Untitled lithographically printed map in black and two colours, showing some reservoirs in red, some in blue. Size 22" x 32". Shows roads, railways, rivers. Covers area from Chesterfield to Holmfirth. c1910. £18.00

  197. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Large Sheet Series, scale quarter of an inch = 1 mile. Sheet 3. Linen-backed, folding into white linen wraps with key map. 1914. £9.00

  198. Young (M), Printer THE SUN Two issues, Numbers 11,994-5, February 19 & 21st, 1831. Broadsheet newspapers, 4pp, some waterstaining. 1831. £12.00
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