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  1. Aislabie (John) I DO HEREBY TRANSFER THE PRINCIPLE SUM of Five Hundred Pounds... to the Govr. & Co. of the Bank of England... with all Interest... due thereon from the first day of August 1715. Slip of paper, size 3" x 10", three lines in ink, signed J. Aislabie. The slip has been cut from a printed document, with three first lines only, referring to repayment of a loan by Aislabie, with the date 11 May 1715. 1715. £26.00
    Aislabie had been made Treasurer of the navy in 1714. In 1717 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer. He supported the South Sea Company, and steered the Bill through the House of Commons, but when the scheme collapsed he was found guilty of corruption and sent to the Tower of London.


  2. Asnieres, Paris CACHEMAILLE Tout pour Harley. Tarif Des Pieces Detachees. Septembre 1923. 16pp., 8vo, printed on lilac paper, small illustration of tricycle type motorbike with two seats on cover. 1923. £18.00

  3. Austrian manufacture RAYMANN AND REGENHART Linen and Table Linen Manufacture... purveyors of the imp. roy. court of Austria... Principal warehouse 401. city, Vienna. Advertisement printed on thin paper size 4«" x 6", decorative type-faces, engraving of two sides of medal and Hapsburg eagle at head. n.d. 1860's? £8.00

  4. Bailey (E.B) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS based on the work of The Geological Survey. E.B. Bailey, Director. 3rd Edition 1939. Colour-printed map size approx. 32" x 25". 1939. £25.00
    First published 1904.


  5. Balmoral PRESENTATION OF COLOURS to the First Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders by Her Majesty the Queen, Balmoral, 30th May, 1955. Booklet, stiff card wraps, 8vo, 8 pages. Coloured illustration of banners below list of battle honours. Small light stain throughout at bottom staple. 1955. £6.00

  6. Bank of New South Wales SEVENTY-SIXTH REPORT to the Half-Yearly General Meeting... 31st October, 1888. 4 pages, 4to., folded... together with... Commercial Bank of Australia. Forty-Third Half-Yearly Report. 2nd August 1888. Blank verso of last leaf dusty. 2 items. 1888. £15.00

  7. 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. £26.00

  8. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Bedfordshire Sheet XXXV N.E. and sheets to south and west. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 26" x 38", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo wraps, Stanford label. Contours in red. Edition of 1925. £18.00
    Covers Harpenden, Redbourn, Flamstead


  9. Berkshire, Oxfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31" plus margins, linen-backed, folding into 8vo green paper wraps. Printed from an Electrotype. c1860. £30.00
    Covers Oxford, Faringdon, Henley, Reading.


  10. Berkshire, Oxfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31" plus margins, linen-backed, folding into 8vo plain wraps. Parkland, main roads, county boundaries hand-coloured. Electrotyped 1866. £50.00
    Covers Oxford, Faringdon, Henley, Reading.

    QUAKERS IN FRANCE

  11. Binns (Thomas), Liverpool A COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS. VOLUME X. 1808. Beginning with 'Account of the Friends of Congenies, Calisson and St. Gilles near Nismes in Languedoc called by the World Quakers or Fanatics'. Thick 4to volume, size 7«" x 6", 582 numbered pages, all in the same neat hand, plus 17p list of Contents at rear. Half calf , marbled boards very rubbed, calf on spine almost rubbed away, split in binding at spine meaning first quarter of volume has split from the body of the book, front board detached. Title on flyleaf as above, followed by title page of section on Languedoc. The Languedoc section comprises 134 pages, and gives a brief history of the Protestant revolt in the Cevennes, the founding of the Quaker meeting at Congenies, a summary of their beliefs in 19 points, the persecution of Quakers such as the execution of Daniel Raoul, a preacher and illiterate labourer, broken on the wheel 1704. Includes transcripts of translations of correspondence between the Languedoc and English meetings, Jean Marcillac's visit to London, 'A letter written by Daniel and Flottier 1703 to Revolted Protestants in the Cevennes', condemning their violence, correspondence about setting up a school, petition to Count de Villedeuil, Secretary of State, and his reply, etc. Other sections include correspondence between Phildelphia and London meetings, 'From Yearly Meeting of Women Friends held in New York 1810', 'Account of Sufferings of Friends in Ireland around 1798', 'The Vision which Mary Scott saw 10th third month 1699', 'A letter from William Mott of Marmaroneck to Demeney Willett of Bethpage in Long Island 1765', 'Samuel Hopwood's Travels in America 1744'. 1808 and later. £350.00
    Thomas Binns (1771 - 1842) came from a prominent Quaker family in Liverpool. He was particularly interested in Lancashire topography and compiled a large collection of drawings, portraits and maps relating to Liverpool and Lancashire, which is now in the Liverpool Record Office. Congenies, a village north of Nimes in the Gard department, is regarded as the birthplace of the Society of Friends in France.


  12. Boundaries of Boroughs COPY OF RETURN OF ALL PETITIONS, LETTERS Papers and Memorials laid before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Boundaries of Boroughs, together with the Reports of the Assistant Commissioners. 293pp., size 13" x 8", original blue paper wraps, small pieces of paper chipped from top and bottom of spine. Ordered to be printed 2d July 1868. £25.00
    With tables, petitions, reports, correspondence etc., on 33 Boroughs, including Birmingham, Manchester, Cheltenham, Bristol, Reading, Newport, Windsor.


  13. Bristol and Plymouth CORRESPONDENCE between the Western Counties Agricultural Co-operative Association Ltd., and Bristol Docks Committee, relating to their request to lease sheds at Avonmouth. 4 letters from the Company, 1-2p. 4to, and 3p 8vo., with printed heading with company's crest, and two from the Docks Committee. November-December 1884. £8.00
    'We think Avonmouth would suit us best provided your Committee would accept a reasonable rental'. After some negotiations about the rent which they consider 'exorbitant' compared to Plymouth, they agree to take 3 sheds for a year.


  14. Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and South Wales GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet XXXV. Hand-coloured map, overall size, including margins, 26" x 34". Scale 1" to 1 mile. Key to colours down left margin. Old repaired tear from top edge running about 5" into map, and another one from bottom edge approx. 2" into map. These tears are well repaired on verso and not intrusive. Line of GWR from right edge of map to Wapley drawn in in red ink, with tunnel labelled. Margins slightly dusty. Published 1866. Railways inserted to 1887. £70.00
    Covers an area which includes the Bristol Coalfield, and Clevedon, Marshfield, Eastington and Usk.


  15. Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY known as Passenham Manor, Passenham, Charming 16th Century Residence... Monastic Tithe Barns... 41 Acres... for Sale by Auction... 13th July, 1931. 8pp., 4to, printed wraps. Large folding plan, 2 photographic plates, one a full page view of the interior of a tithe barn. One page historical note loosely inserted. 1931. £20.00

  16. Cambridge and Norfolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 36". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo green grained paper endpapers. Printed from an Electrotype. c1860. £35.00
    Covers March, Wisbech, Kings Lynn, Brandon.


  17. Cambridge, Newmarket ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LI. Scale 1" to mile, size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers. c1860. £38.00

  18. Cary's REDUCTION OF HIS LARGE MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES With Part of Scotland; Comprehending the whole of the Turnpike Roads, the Principal Rivers and the course of the different Navigable Canals... Dedicated with Permission to the Rt. Hon. the Post Master General. Engraved map dissected and mounted on linen, size 30" x 24", marbled endpapers. 2" tear in linen at one fold, and some small holes in linen at a few points where sections meet. County boundaries coloured. Inserted in 8vo card slip-case, rubbed and faded, with printed label. Printed for J. Cary, Engraver and Mapseller, Strand. n.d. 1830? £85.00
    Shows distances of one market town from another, and from the metropolis.


  19. 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. £16.00

  20. Cheshire and Derbyshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 27", dissected and mounted on linen and folding into boards size 7" x 7". Owner's name on linen on verso. Made of different quarter sheets, border all round. High grounds shown with hachures. No Sheet Number but Sheet LXXXI. Part of road south of Buxton coloured with thin red line. Electrotype 1871. £35.00

  21. Costume HOW TO WASH CALLICO OR HOLLAND FLOWR'D WITH SILKS Take a pound of Crown Soap... Manuscript of 10 lines on one side of 4to sheet. n.d. c1800 or earlier. £20.00
    The garment was to be washed twice, starched, and 'spread out upon a Sheet laid upon the grass to dry with the flowers downwards...' then ironed as quickly as possible.


  22. Courtenay family FACSIMILE OF A PEDIGREE OF THE ROYAL AND IMPERIAL HOUSE OF COURTENAY being the French and the Eastern Branches, from a Genealogical Tree of the Royal Family of France drawn and presented by D.H. Thuret P.D.H to King Louis XIV pm 28th April 1687. In watercolour on thick paper, rolled, size 28" x 26", plus wide margins. From the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Bruxelles. Signed W.H. Shippard, 4th April 1838. Formed of a large tree, with 39 coloured shields, with names in circles, with date of death. Begins at the bottom with Louis VI, the last date is 1307. 1838. £95.00

  23. Crests CREST ALBUM Collection of crests pasted on decorative chromolith pages. 45 pages of crests, in album with heavy diamond embossed calf boards, size 9" x 11", rubbed at edges and spine. Front board detached, gilt lettering 'Crests' on front board. Later Beardsley-esque bookplate inside front board. Decorative and very fine coloured chromolith 'frames', each of which is completed with crests. Examples include a chessboard with the 'black' squares in gold, and a floral border; an artist's easel, a clock, a fan, a church window; a five-bar gate. There is a small amount of delicate hand-colouring in the borders. Tissue guards to each page. There are a few pages with large shields of the coats of arms of monarchs. n.d. c1880? £80.00

  24. Crests THE LINCOLN CRESTS AND MONOGRAM ALBUM Collection of crests pasted on decorative chromolith pages. 36p., 4to, green cloth with decorative gilt title on front board and spine. Decorative title page. Decorative elaborate coloured chromolith 'frames', of church windows, portcullis, naval ropes and anchor, flags etc. printed in one colour on one side only. Of the pages 19 are completed, 21 are blank. At the back are 16 pages, with illustrations, for other 'Lincoln' products. n.d. c1890. £65.00

  25. Cricklade Saint Sampson and South Cerney Estates PARTICULARS OF A VERY COMPACT AND DESIRABLE ESTATE, Comprising A Dairy and Grazing Farm, bounded by the River Thames with an Excellent Newly-Built Farm House, 92 acres.... and a Valuable Estate of 26 Acres. For sale by Auction.... 25th October, 1844. Folio, folded, 3pp, plus fine double-page lithographed plan. 1844. £30.00

  26. De Courcy Nixon (Brinsley) SCHOOLBOY DIARY 1838 in 'The Gentleman's Pocket Daily Companion Containing an Almanack... for 1838'. Size 5" x 3«", calf wraps with tuck-in flap. (xl) pages of printed information bankers' directory, hackney fares etc., followed by diary entries, which begin on 9th January. There is an entry of one, two or three lines up until July 12th, with hardly any entries after that. The entries are fairly repetitive - weather, letters written and received ('put on my light clothes, wrote to Mama'), half holidays, church attendance ('went to Baker Street Chapel with Lord Adare'), learning lessons (began Euripedes', 'came back to school, felt very dull indeed. Learnt Homer in the evening'), cricket, billiards, skating, visit to Peckham Rye Fair, to Royal Academy, 'went to the House of Commons and heard Lord Chancellor speak'. 1838. £50.00
    Presumably the Brinsley De Courcy Nixon who was born in County Limerick in Ireland, 1825, which would make him 13 years old at the time of this diary. He became a banker in London. He built the house 'Seafield' at Westward Ho! in Devon as a holiday home. He refers in the text to Lord Adare and Mrs Goold, who were distant relations.


  27. Denmark THE BEARER OF THIS LETTER Lady Muller (nee Wibe) wishes the honour of presenting to your Excellency a very antick piece of Ivory... 13 lines on thin paper, 4to, blank conjoint leaf. No signature or address of recipient. At the bottom is written 'Christianshavn Brogaden No 2, the 30th April' but with no year. The ivory is apparently 'a little chest to keep or beware precious Stones', and was 'once in the Cabinet of Ludwig XIV'. It is engraved with 'la belle Gabrielle'. The owner's family is forced to sell, and asks '10£ or a 100 dollar Danish'. no date. Paper watermarked 'E & R'. c1820's? £30.00
    Possibly written to Henry Watkyn Williams-Wynn who was Envoy to Denmark 1824 - 1853.


  28. Derby and Nottingham THREE ENGRAVED LETTER HEADS which have been cut from a full bill-heads. Comprises: 'Bt. of Joseph Frost, Saddler & Harness-Maker, Derby', with fine vignette of carriage; 'To Joseph Saunders. Ladies and Gentlemen's Boot and Shoe Maker', Nottingham. With fine vignette showing boots; 'R. Moseley, Carver and Gilder to the King, Jeweller, Silversmith... Picture Gallery... Spar & Marble Museum... Derby. c1840. £10.00

  29. Derbyshire, Cheshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXI. Made up of quarters. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 28". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 4to marbled wraps, Stanford label. 4 rust sports west of Ashbourn, and 4 more west of Bakewell. In worn slipcase which lacks bottom edge. Electrotype 1880. £20.00
    Covers Leek, Wilmslow, Stockport, Bakewell.


  30. Devon and Cornwall TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet XXIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36". Flat sheet, linen-backed. 'Index to the Tithe Survey' printed in top margin.. Covers Looe Bay, Prawle Point.. together with... Sheet XXV, flat sheet, linen-backed. Covers Dartmoor, Liskeard. Cancelled 'Boundary Section Record Copy' stamp in top left margin on both maps. 2 items. 1887. £30.00

  31. Devon and Somerset POSTER Advertising sale by Auction at The George Hotel in Axminster of property in Axminster, Kilmington and Chard, including cottage in occupation of Thomas Hutchings, Nurseryman, near the Churchyard of Axminster. Size 16" x 13", folds. Wills, Printer, Bookseller &c, Axminster. 1854. £12.00

  32. Direct Western Railway REPORT 19th February, 1846. 2pp., 4to, blank conjoint leaf with docket title, folded. 1846. £18.00
    The intended line was to connect London to Falmouth, with branches to Bath and Bridgwater. The Company had prepared Plans and Books of Reference for the line as far as Launceston, but was hit by a collapse in public confidence in railway investment. The Report calls upon those who had not paid up for their Allotment of Shares to contribute 'one hundred and fifty miles of Survey having been completed'.


  33. Dorset and Somerset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 26" x 30". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into marbled endpapers, inserted in plain cloth slipcase, size 9" x 6«". Electrotype n.d. c1870. £45.00
    A good strong impression. Covers Langport, Gillingham, Dewlish.


  34. Education TWO COPY BOOKS of handwriting. Each book 4to, with marbled wraps, name 'Matr. Beeson November 3rd 1856' and 'Matr. Beeson Mids. 1857' inside respective front wraps. Each comprises 40 pages of writing practice, in a fine large cursive hand, with approx. 10 lines repeating the same sentence on each page, the sentences chosen to practice the capital letters from A-Z, for example the first page 'Avoid vicious companions' to 'Zeal aids emulation'. There are no blots or crossings out. 2 items. 1856-7. £60.00

  35. Elstobb (William) A CHAIN AND SCALE OF LEVELS ALONG WISBEACH RIVER and Channel from Peterborough Bridge down to the Eye at Sea. Taken in 1767 by William Elstobb. Chart size 10" x 33", five vertical folds. Shows The Longitudinal Section of the bottom of the river, line of level of surface of water at Peterborough Bridge. Scale of feet at left and furlongs horizontally. Features on the land shown along the top, such as 'The End of Black Dike', 'Knar Lake', 'West Marsh Tunnel'. 1767. £25.00

  36. Erewash Canal A LIST OF THE PROPRIETORS April 1833. Listing of 78 proprietors with the number of shares each held. Listed in two columns on one side of 4to sheet... with... Letter from the Clerk of the Company informing a Proprietor of the next Annual Meeting. Printed, 8vo., 1865. Cartwright, Printer, Loughborough, 1833. £25.00

  37. Erewash Canal A PLAN OF THE NAVIGABLE CANAL now making from the River Trent to Langley Bridge in the Counties of Derby and Nottingham: Surveyd in 1776 by J. Smith. Engraved map, size 8" x 12", traces of vertical folds. With hand colouring, of main features, hachures. Shows roads, rivers, villages, coal works, churches. Bottom right is a table showing the rise of water in two different places. 1776. £45.00
    From 'The Gentleman's Magazine.' The canal was opened in 1779, and it transported coal, stone, bricks and metal manufactures.


  38. Erewash Canal AN ABSTRACT OF THE ACCOUNTS of the Erewash Canal Company, For the Year Ended 31st March, 1909... Large folio sheet, blue paper, folded to form 3p, with docket title on verso, letter from the Clerk on the front, and the accounts inside. 1909. £20.00

  39. Essex and Hertfordshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP In slip case with printed label 'The Country Around Brentwood'. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 38", plus margins. Sheet 241 and adjacent sheets. Border all round. In full wash colour, water fully coloured, Essex coloured in pale yellow, Hertfordshire in pale pink, roads and parkland coloured. County border and coast in deeper yellow. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo marbled endpapers, in red Stanford slipcase with printed label as above. Railways inserted to 1901. £40.00
    Covers Widford, West Ham, Southend, Shoeburyness, mouth of the Blackwater.


  40. Essex and Hertford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo endpapers. Full border at top and left sides only. Parkland, main roads, county border, hand-coloured. Good plate-mark. No marginal information in bottom margin, only Letts Mapsellers label. High ground indicated by hachures. Information about Geological, 25" and 6" maps on verso, with coloured illustration showing geological information. c1850. £40.00
    Covers Royston, Thaxted, Halstead.


  41. Essex and Suffolk ORDNANCE MAP OF THE COUNTRY ROUND COLCHESTER Sheet 244 and sheets to south and west. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 37", plus margins. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo 8vo marbled endpapers, in slip case with Stanford label, cloth of slipcase faded with some red staining on label. Map fully hand-coloured in bright wash, colour key to heights in margin, some slight red marking on linen on verso, but map itself is clean. Printed from an Electrotype 1878. £30.00

  42. Essex and Suffolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36", linen-backed and folding into small 8vo endpapers. Parkland, main roads and county boundaries hand-coloured. Electrotype 1864. £35.00
    Covers Ipswich, Colchester, Mersea Island.


  43. Felonies on Canals and Navigable Rivers AN ACT to facilitate the Trial of Felonies committed on board Vessels employed on Canals, Navigable Rivers, and Inland Navigation. 2pp, disbound, small folio, Act of Parliament. 1819. £10.00

  44. Fire Engines FABRIQUE SPECIALE DE POMPES A INCENDIE & ACCESSOIRES Ancienne Maison Bouchard L. Guinand, Succr. Ingenieur, Quai de la Charite, 42, Lyon. 4pp., 4to, with fine large illustrations of fire engines, one showing a fireman in full gear standing by it, another with 6 firemen on a cart pulled by a galloping horse, towing a fire-engine. Detailed description with columns for measurements. On the last page is a long list of the towns and villages supplied, arranged by departement. Imp. B. Arnaud, Lyon. Late 1870's. £34.00

  45. French military COMPAGNIE DE VILLEUX list of officers. 4to sheet, with lists in ink in a small hand. One side headed 'Compagnie de Villeux' with two columns of 58 names (mostly commencing with a 'de'!) under 'Commandant (de Villeux la faye), 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sections. Similar list on verso of 'Compagnie de S. Clair, 4 Sections, 54 names. n.d. paper watermarked 'C.I. Molitor'. £20.00

  46. Gloucestershire and Worcs. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XLIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 29", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo green endpapers. Letts label on bottom border. c1860. £40.00
    Covers Cheltenham, Evesham, Burford.


  47. Gloucestershire and Wiltshire AN ACT for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the River Thames, or Isis, at or near Leachlade, to join and communicate with the Stroudwater Canal at Wallridge, near the Town of Stroud; and also a Collateral Cut from the said Canal at or near Siddington.... 87pp., sm. folio, bound in paper boards, cloth spine. Act of Parliament. 1783. £60.00
    The Thames and Severn Canal was opened in 1785, and finally abandoned in 1933.


  48. Gose, (Illustrator) TAUROMACHIE Illustration from the periodical 'L'Assiette au Beurre'. Size 10" x 7«", plus margins. Printed in black red and yellow. Shows a dapper character in a striped blazer talking to a bullfighter. 'Tauromachie' printed below, with a four-line poem. c1910. £10.00
    Xavier Gose was a Catalan artist, who painted cafe society, sportsmen etc.


  49. Halliwell (A.E). artist POSTER Royal College of Art Associates Exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly, W.1. Painting Sculpture Architecture Drawing Engraving. October 13 - November 6, 1948. Admission One Shilling. Poster size 29" x 20", printed in brown and black. Stylised coat of arms at head. A few small chips at bottom edge. 1948. £20.00
    A.E. Halliwell was a teacher of design at Camberwell School of Art and The Central School of Arts and Design. He designed a wide variety of posters, including for the Underground Group.


  50. Hampshire & Berkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 30". Parkland, roads, hand-coloured, boundaries shaded in two colours. A few holes in linen where folds meet, 6 places where linen split from edge of map down fold, to approx 1" - 1«". Approx. 11 estates shaded in different colours, with dates, endpapers rubbed, with green surface chipped at corners on back wrap. c1875. £20.00
    Covers Basingstoke, Andover, Newbury, Odiham.


  51. Hampshire and Berkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Made of quarter sheets. Sheet 268 and sheets to south and west. Border all round. Size 26" x 37", plus margins. Dissected and mounted on linen and folding into 8vo marbled wraps. Inserted in cloth covered slipcase with printed Stanford label. Parish boundaries inserted to 1883. £30.00
    Covers Andover, Basingstoke, Lambourne, Reading.


  52. Hampshire, Sussex GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAPS four colour-printed maps. Comprises: Sheet 315 (Southampton), 1904; Sheet 314 (Ringwood) 1902; Sheet 299 (Winchester). Drift. 1949; Sheet 319 (Lewes), Drift. 1961; Approx. size 13" x 19", plus margins with key. 1904-62. £22.00

  53. Hereford, Monmouth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Part of Sheet XLIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 23" x 20". Dissected and linen-backed and folding to 6" x 4", marbled endpapers, Wyld label. The eight sections on the east have been cut away. The linen is stained with light pink between sections, but this does not affect the paper at all. n.d. c1880. £15.00
    Covers Forest of Dean, Hereford, Monmouth, Mitcheldean.


  54. 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. £18.00

  55. His Majesty's Stationery Office (Pub.) THE BRITISH GAZETTE May 12th 1926. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., published in the General Strike. Folded in four, some browning along part of one fold. 1926. £8.00
    Anti-strike newspaper, reporting 'Increasing numbers of Men Returning to Work', 'Legal Issue of the Strikee', cartoon showing John Bull confronting the T.U.C., etc.


  56. Houses of Correction AN ACT to empower the Justices of the Peace of a Liberty or Corporation, to commit Offenders to the House of Correction of the County, Riding or Division in which such Liberty of Corporation is situate. 1«p., small folio, plus cover leaf. Decorative initial letter with battle scene. 1742. £10.00

  57. Hume (Joseph) FREE FRONT cut from wrapper, with red 'Free' postmark with crown. Address of Dr. Richard Millar, George Square, Glasgow, date written across the top, 'Josph Hume' signature bottom left. Small broken wax seal at bottom of the folded sheet. January 28th 1831. £5.00

  58. India LETTER signed 'T.F Calcutta' to the Chief Justice of Calcutta Sir Edward Hyde East. Dated from an indecipherable place beginning with 'Ch' (possibly Chowringhee in Calcutta) 13 Dec. 1817. 33 lines on 3p 4to. Thanks him for conveying in a letter the respects of Mr Justice Park. Says they were members of the same club 'consisting principally of Lawyers and Divines... Justice Park and Baron Richards were our leading Lawyers.' Says the clergy members were 'heartily attached to our Constitution of Church and State', and that he is sending him a copy of his 'Charge to the Clergy of India'. 1817. £40.00
    Thomas Fanshaw Middleton was the first Bishop of Calcutta, appointed in 1814. Sir Edward Hyde East was Chief Justice of Calcutta. Middleton died in 1822.


  59. Ingpen (Thomas) LETTER to a theatre manager about a song he has composed, Oct. 9, 1813. 2p., 4to, with address on verso of conjoint leaf, simply 'Mr Shaw'. A five stanza song, followed by a letter beginning 'Sir', saying he has sung this song to some private friends to the tune of 'The White Cliffs of Albion', and 'in this small circle it has pleased very much... if you shall think it worth your notice and shall give it a Trial in your Theatre you shall be extremely welcome...' He will hum him the tune if he has forgotten it. Small edge tear in left margin. 1813. £30.00
    A patriotic song extolling Wellington 'In the field still asserting old England's high claim/He humbles the Tyrant's invincible fame... May we ne'er want such Britons to fight in the Cause/Of our country our King our Religion and Laws'.


  60. Kent and Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 27" x 37", linen backed and folding into marbled endpapers, in 8vo slipcase with Stanford label printed with 'The Country Around East Grinstead'. Made of four sheets, Sheet 287 and sheets to south and west, border all round. East Grinstead is more or less at the centre of the map. Electrotyped 1881. £45.00
    Covers Horsham, Leatherhead, Sevenoaks, Mayfield.


  61. Kent, Essex, Surrey, Middlesex TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale 1" to one mile. Sheet VI, covering Rochester, Bromley, Tunbridge Wells. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into green grained cloth 8vo endpapers. Bright colouring of county boundaries in pink, blue, yellow and green, roads and parkland coloured. Electrotype 1863. £55.00

  62. Kent, Essex, Surrey PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable... Properties, including securities at Croydon, Ladywell, Gravesend, Norwood... and in London, together with 'The Docks Estate' Plaistow... Which will be Sold by Auction... March 25th, 1908. 13pp., folio, plus large folding plan. Stiff wraps printed in red and black, slight wear at spine, one leaf loose. Lots which sold crossed through with ink line and price marked, unsold lots marked with reserve in code. Slight vertical crease. 1908. £20.00
    Includes 'The Freemason's Railway Hotel', Ladywell; 127 Gower Street, London; 121 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill.


  63. Kent, Surrey CARRIER'S DAY BOOK Ledger recording customers and goods carried, September 1835 - December 1840. Tall narrow ledger, size 6" x 13«", parchment bound, some splits in spine, and 3" split in parchment along front lower hinge. Lettered 'Day Book 1835' on front board. 410 pages of entries, each page full. Gives date, name of customer, usually weight of the goods, and price charged. Mostly marked 'Paid' in left margin. On the front pastedown is the name 'Wm. Franks, September 5th 1835'. Loosely inserted are two small bills made out to Mr Franks for carpentry work on a cart . There are few place names mentioned next to the customer but the carrier would seem to be delivering or collecting in the Kent area: Chelsfied, Maidstone, Riverhead, Bromley, Greenwich, Ightham, Deptford; 'Mr Busby Faith Street Maidstone 1 Load Colour'd Rags. Brought back 1 Ton 1/2 Coals from Ightham 6s.6d'. Goods transported include chests of tea, casks of wine, boxes of raisings, hides and skins, casks of lard, furniture, eggs, oysters, mussels, bars of iron, lots of chees e.g. '10 Gouda, 2 Gloster, 4 Cheshire'. 1835-1840. £120.00

  64. Kestell Cornish (Rt. Rev. Robert) LETTER to a Mr Drummond, dated Winchester April 8, 1887. 2p., sm. 8vo, signed Robert Kestell Madagascar. Suggests dates they might meet, and thanks him for interesting himself in his work... with... LETTER dated College of Winchester Oct. 19, 1896. 3p, 12mo. Name of correspondent is illegible, but thanks him for hospitality, and mentions the recipient's interest in building a church at Ankadifotsy 'which is a suburb of the Capital, in which the natives are taking an active part and deserve encouragement'. Someone has typed Kestell-Cornish's name and dates top left. 2 items. 1887 and 1896. £16.00
    Ankadifotsy is a suburb of Antannarivo in Madagascar. Kestell-Cornish was Bishop of Madagascar from 1874-96. On his return he became Rector of Down St. Mary in Devon.


  65. Kitchin (George William), Dean of Winchester LETTER addressed to 'My dear Jacob' about the memoir of Bishop Edward Harold Browne he is working on. 4p., small 8vo, signed 'G.W. Kitchin'. Asks him for his memories of the 'Ordination week at Farnham'. Says he's had to cut and leave out a lot, and the 'domestic & family life too, has had far less than justice dealt to it.' Winchester 14 July, 1894. £15.00
    'I've done great lots of grubbing and writing - too little of reading. One feels one's mind grow stale...' The book was published in 1907 by John Murray.


  66. Kitchin (Thomas) SOUTH BRITAIN or England and Wales. Drawn from the Several Surveys &c on the New Projection; Corrected from Astronomical Observations, & the Places marked where the Observatns were made. By Thos. Kitchin Geogr. Engraved map, Large pictorial cartouche, with clock, ship, etc. Size 52" x 42", dissected and mounted on linen, folding to 4to. Linen fragile at folds, with many splits between sections. Printed for Robt. Sayer and John Bennett. 1777. £150.00
    A cheaper working copy.


  67. Lake District ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP made up of quarter sheets, Sheet 39 and sheets to west and south. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 27" x 38". Linen-backed and folding into large 4to marbled wraps. 1898. £22.00
    Covers Kendal, Dalton-in-Furness, Wast Water.


  68. Lancaster, Grange, Hawes, Gargrave ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 50 and adjoining sheets. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 30" x 37". Made up of smaller sheets, pasted together with border all round edge. With hachures. Mounted on linen, folding into small 4to marbled wraps. Inserted in green cloth slipcase with Philips label. 1852. £36.00
    Shows Settle and Carlisle Railway.


  69. Lee family ADDITIONS TO THE PEDIGREE OF LEE of Pinchinthorpe. In ink and watercolour, including gold, on paper size 20" x 23", mounted on card. Shows line of William Lord Eure, died 1594 to John Mathews, died 1794; Simon Lee of Worcestershire to Edward Lee Archbishop of York. Shows five and six generations in two lines. Signed bottom right by S. Ambrose Lee, York Herald, 1922, testifying the Pedigree and trust seal have been faithfully extracted form the Records of the Heralds College. With large watercolour of the Archbishop Lee's seal, and 3 shields in bold colour, including gold. Title in black and red. 1922. £80.00
    Pinchinthorpe is a hamlet near Guisborough, Yorkshire.


  70. Leghorn to London BILL OF LADING Shipped in good Order and well conditioned by Viollier & Co. upon the good Ship called the Ann whereof is Master for the present Voyage N. Pentreath and now lying in the port of Leghorn and bound for London... One Case Alabaster's Works... Printed with manuscript details inserted, signed by Pentreath. Size 7«" x 9", some vertical folds. Attractive engraved vignette of a ship in top corner, by Aliprandi. With a few lines on verso signed for Viollier instructing delivery to Michael Williams. Small stab hole... together with... Manuscript on 1p., 4to, listing charges for customs, 'pierage & Lazzaretto dues' wharfage etc. 'upon a Case Alabasters landed ex. Ann... delivered to Henry Stokes Esq. 5th May 1820. 6th March and 5th May 1820. £40.00
    Volterra and Livorno (Leghorn) were centres of the alabaster trade in Italy.


  71. Leicestershire and Northamptonshire PARTICULARS of Two Twelfth Shares of a Freehold Estate situate in the Parish of Brampton, and Two Fourth Shares of a Freehold Estate in East Norton... which will be Sold by Auction... at the George Inn, Northampton, Saturday 10th February, 1810. 2p, size 12" x 7", folds. Title and description of 4 lots, which comprised rich meadow land. Gives occupiers. Names of buyers and price realised have been added in ink, and there is a manuscript memorandum on the blank verso. 1810. £25.00

  72. Lincolnshire and Leicestershire BOOK OF MANUSCRIPT PLANS Name 'F. Orton' on front wrap. Six plans in fine ink, in borders, some with a small amount of colour wash, varying in scale from 3" to 6" per mile, sewn into marbled wraps, size 11" x 9". Shows roads, basic plot, with measurements all round the perimeter, compass rose, scale bar, adjoining owners named. Plans titled Mr. Stokes', Mr. Kemp's, Mr. Harvey's (2), Mr. Hall's Close, and 'Lands in Spittlegate'. The first plan has some light brownish marks. n.d. c1830. £75.00
    There is a record of a Francis Orton, farmer, at Bottesford.


  73. Literary history MANUSCRIPT synopsis of French literature from the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century. Notebook lettered 'P.I' in gilt on front board, 4to, paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Comprises 82p, in two different hands, brief biographical summaries of writers. There follows a list of Kings and Queens in English, with brief summary of their reign, from William the Conqueror to 1871. 52p. The last section is headed 'English Litterature (sic). Steinamanger december 11th '79. and is in English. 58p. At the end are 40p in Hungarian(?) about different countries. A note 'Finished at the 9th of July 1881' on last page. 1881. £40.00
    Steinamanger was the old name for Szombathely near the border with Austria.


  74. London and Devon PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Modern-Built Private Residence, No. 8, St. George's Terrace, Islington... Also of a Freehold House in Whimple Street, Plymouth... Which will be Sold by Auction... March 12th, 1856. 3pp., plus docket title, folio. 1856. £20.00
    With description of rooms etc.


  75. Maldon, East London ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet I. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36", linen-backed, folding into 8vo cloth endpapers. Published 1843. This edition Electrotyped, n.d. c1860. £35.00
    Covers East London, Isle of Grain, Southend, Chelmsford, Hoddesdon.


  76. Manuscript FLOWERS WHICH SERVE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FLORA'S DIAL List of 21 flowers on 4to sheet, gives time of opening and closing for each species, with Latin name. e.g. 'Malva. Mallow. Opens 9-10 closes 10-12.' On verso is written 'The Lady Delamere'. n.d. Late 19th century. £8.00

  77. Manuscript poetry CHARADES Twelve riddling poems, heading as above. Written in a small neat hand on 4p., 4to. The last two puzzles are in Latin. Small repaired tear along edge fold. n.d. Paper watermarked 1805. £20.00
    'My first with more than quaker's pride/At your most solemn duty/You keep, nor deign to throw aside/Even though it veils your beauty.'


  78. Metal casting LETTER from Albert Cadman at the Canal Foundry, Openshaw, Manchester, on headed paper, about the setting up of the fund for the 'Oliver Stubbs Medal'. In ink, 8 lines, 4to.'a great amount of good will be done... more interest will be taken in the institution from the Employers' side'. Attached are three copy letters relating to the gift to the Institution of British Foundrymen from the National Ironfounding Employers' Federation.... together with... another letter on headed paper, same correspondents, with 3 copy letters attached. The medal is still awarded. January, 1922. £8.00

  79. Methodism THE ORIGIN OF METHODISM Manuscript poem. Twenty one four-line stanzas on 4 sides 4to, in a small neat hand. The first page has two repaired tears at central fold, and second page has a repair all along a central horizontal fold, with some wear which has caused the loss of one line on the verso, there are also a few small holes in blank area. The poem is a vituperative attack on Methodism, presenting Old Nick as having blended 'A Man Man, Knave and Motley Fool' to make a Methodist: 'Of zealot pride he added store/To make the Mass ferment/Of Dark Hypocrisy yet more/With Temper violent'. The writer deplores the Methodists' attacks on the theatre, on drink and feasting, and their lack of education: 'And from the unletter'd lank Hair breed/Your fellow Labourers choose/ For he who cannot write or read/More plain his Mission shows'. Watermark showing a horserider. Late 18th century. £50.00

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  80. Middlesex and Surrey PARTICULARS of Valuable Freehold Properties, Situate at Willesden & Highbury, Middx., and a Capital Freehold Residence, with Coach-House, Stabling, and Garden situate in North Terrace, Camberwell.... Which will be Sold by Auction.... on 20th October, 1858. 4pp, folio, cold. plan of Willesden property. Slight darkening of paper on outside where folded. 1858. £20.00
    Included a beer house called 'The Case is Altered'.


  81. 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

  82. Middlesex, Essex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 256. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19", border all round, boundaries, main roads, railways, parkland and water features hand-coloured. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 8vo marbled wraps with Stanford label. c1890. £16.00
    Covers Watford, much of North London, Stratford, Southall.


  83. (Moll, H) A MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Copper engraving. Size 6«" x 10", plus margins. Shows Britain and the coast of France, Shetland, Orkney and Faroe Islands inset top left. Central fold. Scale bar, small compass rose. 1720. £18.00

  84. Monin (C.V) OCEANIE. (Map) Engraved map, size 11" x 15", plus margins, with an inset of 'Colonie Anglaise' (New South Wales). Later coloured key in manuscript denoting countries and their colonies, though not completed on plan. Some light creases. Lyon: 1838. £40.00

  85. Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire OBLIGATION BOND of Philip Baker late of Felton in Gloucestershire but now of Langston in Monmouth, Grazier, to John Smith of the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, Gloucestershire, Gardener. 1p., folio, printed with manuscript inserts, signed by Baker and three witnesses with good wax seal. Blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Folded. 1805. £18.00

  86. Morley (Arnold) LETTER to W.R. Bousfield, M.P. 7 lines on one side of 8vo notepaper with seal of Post Master General, white on red background, at head. Says he will look into the case of W. Swansboro of Stoke Newington. Blank conjoint leaf. 1890. £8.00
    Morley was Post Master General from 1892-5.


  87. Moss Bros. RIDING, HUNTING KIT AND SADDLERY Price List October 1949. 4pp., 8vo., green wraps with illustration of hunting horn etc. 1949. £5.00

  88. Municipal Corporations Act AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES... ORDER IN COUNCIL 11 Day of September 1835, present The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council... Large folio sheet, printed on one side, regarding An Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations. folio, folded. Covering letter from Whitehall printed at head... with... ADDRESSED TO ALL OVERSEERS... Large folio sheet with instructions directing overseers how to operate under the Act. On verso are lists of places 'maintaining its own Poor'. 2 items. 1835. £16.00
    Overseers of the Poor were to keep copies of the Burgess List. One list was to be pinned to the door of the Town Hall.


  89. New Forest AN ACT for the better Preservation of Timber in the New Forest in the County of Southampton, and for ascertaining the Boundaries of the said Forest, and of the Lands of the Crown within the same. 14pp., sm. folio, disbound. Act of Parliament. 1810. £12.00

  90. Noack (Alfred), Photographer GENOVA. TRUOGOLI DI S. BRIGIDA. Albumen print. A view looking down the street from the top of some steps, people standing at the bottom of the steps, and sitting in doorways. Many lines of washing hung up, the shadows making patterns on the walls of the very tall houses.Size 11" x 9", pasted to thick album leaf. c1890. £40.00
    Alfred Noack (1833 - 1895) was a German photographer who settled in Italy, He recorded the life of the city of Genoa and the Ligurian Riviera.


  91. Norfolk and Suffolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet L N.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. 'Index to the Tithe Survey' printed in top margin. Railways inserted to 1881. O.S. blindstamp 1886. £20.00
    Covers Diss, Ixworth, North Lopham.


  92. Northbrook (Earl of) NOTE written in the first person. 10 lines on one side, sm. 8vo., mourning border. Headed 'Stratton, Micheldever'. Presents his compliments to Mr Bentley, and says he will call on him to look at 'the pictures which Mr. Bentley has of Lord Northbrooks'. Together with a portrait of Northbrook clipped from a magazine article. dated only 'July 29'. c1890? £14.00
    Thomas George Baring, First Earl of Northbrook 1826 - 1904, M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn, Secretary to the Admiralty, Governor-General of India. Retired to Winchester.


  93. 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.


  94. Nottingham and Yorkshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXII.S.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 17", linen-backed, folding to 8vo. Electrotyped 1865. £16.00
    Covers Worksop, Bawtry, Maltby, Tickhill.


  95. Ogilby (J) THE ROADS FROM EXETER TO DORCHESTER and from Plimouth to Darmouth com. Devon By John Ogilby Esq., His Maties. Cosmographer... the first containing 51 miles 6 furlongs... Handcoloured engraved 'Ribbon' road map, attractive title cartouche with coat of arms, fruit etc., compass rose on each of the six strips. Size 13" x 17", plus margins. Small edge tear repaired on verso. Central fold. No printed page number, but someone has added '94' in pale ink, top left corner. c1675. £65.00
    A good strong impression. The edition with no plate number.


  96. Oxfordshire and Wiltshire RECONVEYANCE of lands in West Lavington, Charlbury, Shipton under Wychwood, Rt. Honble. John Baron Monk-Bretton and others to Rt. Honble. V.A. Francis Lord Churchill. Large vellum sheets, with schedules of lands. Signed by 3 parties with wax seals. 1896. £16.00

  97. P & O Ports SUEZ CANAL Leaflet giving a history and description of the canal. Two pages of text, title on front with coat of arms, printed in red and blue, map on verso showing canal from Port Said to Suez Bay. Some slight creasing. c1928. £10.00

  98. Palmerston (Viscount) FREE FRONT addressed to Fred. Payne at Tiverton. Signed 'Palmerston' bottom left, red postmark 'official paid'. Front clipped from envelope and pasted to piece of stiff paper. 1864. £8.00

  99. 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

  100. Paris SALE CATALOGUE for sale on 4th May 1840, of two Hotels Meubles du Prince Regent, 'situees rue Saint-Hyacinte-Saint-Honore nos. 10 et 5, et rue du Marche-Saint-Honore no 18.' In two Lots. 4pp., 8vo. 1840. £10.00
    'un des hotels meubles les plus recherches par les etrangers et surtout par le commerce anglais. En 1836 il a ete vendu 135,000 fr...'.


  101. Peerage MANUSCRIPT PEDIGREES of British earls, barons, etc. 28p, neatly written in a small hand, in small 8vo notebook, one calf board, detached, back board and spine missing. Gives name of peer, date of birth, marriage, wife's name, and list of issue, date of creation. e.g. 'Francis Godolphin Osborne Baron Godolphin of Farnham Royal. b. 11 Oc. 1777 m. 31 March 1800 Eliz. Charlotte Eden dr. of Wm. 1st Lord Auckland and has Issue... creation 10th May 1832...' n.d. probably 1830's. £20.00

  102. Philip (George) & Son, LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY and Connecting Railways. Folding map size 27" x 16", printed in blue and black, with lines in red. Shows L.N.E.R and Joint Lines, Track of 'Flying Scotsman'. Other Railways, Road Services. Folding into 8vo orange printed wraps, partly split at spine. London, July 1930. £18.00

  103. Puzzles CHARADES manuscript so titled on 4p, 4to, in a small neat hand. 11 acrostic-type rhyming puzzles, the last one being in Latin. Watermark 1805. £25.00
    For example 'The child of a peasant Rose thought it no shame/To toil at my first all the day/When her father grew rich, and a farmer became/My first to my second gave way.... etc.'


  104. Queen Victoria MEDAL FOR VICTORIA'S JUBILEE 1837 - 1887. Bronze medal by Pinches showing the queen in profile on one side and crown, wreath, and 'Jubilee of Her Majesty's Reign 1887 on verso. In original read leather case in fine condition, gilt monogram with crown and dates. 1887. £18.00

  105. Railway signs SMALL COLLECTION OF UNUSED TRANSFERS in gilt. In block letters size approx. 1" high. Comprises three 'Lift to Open', 'Used Tickets', 'Fuel', 'Off' (with arrow) plus to part signs 'Wait Until...', and 'To Seat Passengers...', together with 'Southern Vectis' in green. n.d. 1950's or earlier. £18.00

  106. River Avon AN ACT for making the River Avon, in the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, navigable from the City of Bath to or near Hanhams-Mills. 10pp., sm. folio, disbound. Act of Parliament. 1813. £15.00

  107. Royal Engineers PLAN showing East Dock, Centre Dock, West Dock, Scale 1/600, showing powder used. Drawing in red and black 'Numbers in Red are the I.I.R's in feet, Numbers in black are the charges in lbs... The charges were calculated for the Pierheads in pounds English...' Around each of the three plans are approx. 35 red circles with numbers. On thick paper size 10" x 11"... with... another plan showing sections of docks, in watercolour, scale 1/50.... with Report on the Demolition of the Revetments of some of the old Works at Sheerness on Saturday 14th July 1827. 2p 4to (possibly not complete)... with... Report on the construction of a Blinded Gallery in the month of October 1829 at Chatham. 1p, 4to, on verso is plan and sections in watercolour, scale 10ft to an inch... with... Notes applicable to the demolition of Masonry by Blasting. 2p, 4to.... with a small quantity of mixed pages from various reports, not complete and in random order, on military matters, reconnaissance, defence etc. 1840's. £35.00
    There is no mention of where the docks were situated.


  108. Ruthven (John) MAP OF THE ENGLISH LAKES and Adjoining Country Geologically Coloured by John Ruthven of Kendal 1855. Fully hand-coloured map, size 21" x 19". Coloured sections in all four margins. Index in bottom left corner. Linen-backed, now flat, but with traces of once having been folded to 8vo. 1855. £95.00
    Covers area from Lancaster to Carlisle, Whitehaven to Kirkby Stephen.


  109. Sanders MAP OF THE BRISTOL COAL FIELD GEOLOGICALLY SURVEYED Sheet No. 6 and 7. Two sheets which have been joined together to form one continuous map, size 24" x 56", backed with linen. Scale 4" to 1 mile. Map hand-coloured to show the geology. A few small creases in surface of paper. (1864). £140.00
    Covers Shirehampton, Little Stoke, Frampton Cotterell, West Littleton, Oldland, city of Bristol as far south as Queen Square. From Sanders' Atlas of 19 maps. Printed with names of geological deposits, as well as the hand-colouring.


  110. Sanders (William) MAP OF THE BRISTOL COAL FIELDS AND COUNTRY ADJACENT In 19 Sheets. Geologically Surveyed by William Sanders, F.G.S. 1861. Scale 4 miles = 1 inch. 11 double page and one single page sheets only (there should be 19), plus half of one double-page sheet. Hand coloured, lithograph title with coloured key beneath. Folio, 25" x 18", calf spine with gilt title, lacks front board, back board present, with marbled paper rubbed. The front board had the small index map pasted inside, so this is not present. No free front endpaper, the first leaf has the title page, facing the first map. Small piece of paper missing at corner of title page, and there are some very small edge tears on this leaf. Sheets comprise: Sheet 1 (Oldbury); Sheet 3 has right half of double-page map only (Thornbury, Olveston); Sheet 5 (Walton in Gordano); Sheet 7 (Oldland, Doddington); Un-numbered sheet (8) (Kewstoke, Salthouse Point); Sheet 10 (Bedminster, Hanham, Chew Magna); Sheet 11 (Bath, Keynsham); Sheet 12 (Weston super Mare); Sheet 13 (Axbridge); Sheet 14 (Ubley, Clutton); Sheet 16 (East Brent, Huntspill); Sheet 18 (Wells, Gurney Slade); Sheet 19 (Stratton on the Fosse, Elm). 1862. £420.00
    Scarce. An unusually large-scale survey. Encouraged in his work by H.T. de la Beche, Sanders made his own surveys between 1835 and 1862, using also a map he made by collating approximately one hundred parish maps. He was curator of the Bristol Institution from 1857-1872.


  111. Sheerness REPORT ON THE DEMOLITION OF THE REVETMENTS of some of the old Works at Sheerness on Saturday 14th July 1827. 1827. £28.00

  112. Shuldham (A.S) LETTER to Frederick Booth, Craven Street, Strand, from A.S. Shuldham, dated Henbury 22 April, 1790. 22 lines in a neat hand on 2 sides 4to, address panel on verso of conjoint leaf, with broken wax seal, Bristol postmark. Small hole in conjoint leaf where seal broken. Relates to the recovery of Shuldham's articles from the ship 'Diana' which had been seized. He'd asked a Mr. Gretton to retrieve his articles, but he'd drawn on him for £31, and given half to the mate, who'd gone off with the money. He'd heard a man from Plymouth had come to Dartmouth to examine the 'Diana', hauled her on shore, and 'took up some of the Dining room Floor and shifted the Ballast to look for some secret Places', but found nothing. 1790. £40.00
    Amongst the Blaise Castle estate deeds in the Bristol Archives is an assignment of a lease from Francis Adams to Arthur Samuel Shuldham.


  113. 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. £18.00
    Includes 'Italian Alabaster Bowl Fittings' 'Cornelian Glassware Fittings' etc.


  114. Somerset, Devon, Dorset FOUR ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets 18, 19, 20, 21. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Each map size 24" x 36", dissected and mounted on linen and folding to small 4to, cloth endpapers with gilt sheet numbers. Inserted in later card slipcase with manuscript label. Printed from an Electrotype in 1878-9. £90.00
    Covers Langport, Gillingham, Crewkerne; Bath, Meare, Glastonbury; Worle Hill, St. Donat, Porlock Bay; Dulverton, Ilminster, Crediton.


  115. Spain JAMES CRAGGS Her Majesty's Resident at the Court of Spain humbly prays an allowance of his Extrays. from the 17th of June to the 17th of Sept. 1710. Viz... Slip of paper, the top part only of a document which has been torn horizontally, heading as above, lists sum for postage of letters (a hefty £50) and Stationary ware. Size approx. 4" x 7". 1710. £25.00
    Craggs became secretary to Stanhope, the envoy to Spain, in 1708, but was made a minister in Spain so he could stand in for Stanhope when he was away. After his return to England he became M.P. for the 'rotten borough' of Tregony, in Cornwall, later becoming a member of the Privy Council.


  116. Staffordshire, Shropshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Composed of quarter sheets LXI N.E., LXII N.W., LXXII S.W., LXXIII S.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 29", plus margins. Counties lightly colour washed, parkland, water features, railways, main roads hand-coloured. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 4to marbled wraps with small printed label giving early owner's name. Electrotyped in 1872. £50.00
    Covers Stafford, Market Drayton, Rugeley, Broseley.


  117. Stanford's RAILWAY AND ROAD MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES 1862. Fully hand-coloured map, size 38" x 30", dissected and mounted on linen, folding to 6«" x 4" and inserted in slipcase with blindstamped decoration and gilt title. Adverts for other Stanford maps on endpapers. Small ink splash size two inches by a quarter of an inch at Northampton-Huntingdon border. 1862. £80.00
    Shows railways, rivers, roads, canals.


  118. Summer holidays JOURNAL recording summer holidays of a man from Lavender Hill, London, from 1885 - 1896. Small notebook, 6«" x 4", stiff wraps, lacks parts of spine. 73 pages in a neat hand, with an entry for every day of the holiday. Fairly pedestrian chronicle without much comment. 'Thurs. July 9. Had our machines out again and rode to Christchurch visiting the Priory, Southborne, and went a roundabout way home through the Rhododendron Forest', 'Took boat to Swanage and saw Tilleywhim Caves...' 'Striking bye roads innumerable I found myself in the weald of Kent and gradually approaching Pluckley. This also is delightfully situated on a hill and although charmingly pretty is also jolly hard to mount...' At the back of the book are 40p of expenses, noting dates and sums spent on items of clothing, cost of some of the holidays. Details cost of many items such as cycling breeches, silk hat, suit, braces, repair of cricket boots, fee at French class, etc. 1885-96. £65.00
    Holidays comprise: 1885 Worthing; 1886 Ventnor; 1887 St. Austell, 1888 The Thames (boating); 1890 The Thames then Surrey (biking); 1891 Dorset (biking); 1892 North Wales (biking); 1893 Falmouth ('in company with my sister and my fiancee'); 1896 Lowestoft and Norfolk Broads.


  119. Surrey and Kent ORDNANCE MAP OF THE COUNTRY ROUND EAST GRINSTEAD Scale One Inch to One Mile. Composite map, size 26" x 38", plus margins. Dissected and mounted on linen and folding into small 4to marbled wraps, inserted in slipcase with Stanford label which has printed title as above. Railways inserted to 1889. £45.00
    Covers Leatherhead, Otford, Tunbridge Wells, Haywards Heath.


  120. Sussex and Durham AN AGREEMENT for placing out Trust Money. Between Mary Pooley, Mary Monypenny, Robert Lambe and James Monypenny. 1p., large folio, signed by 5 parties with small wax seals. Witnessed. Refers to £600 originally placed with the Commissioners for repairing the Harbour of Rye, now to be advanced to the Trustees appointed by an Act 'for repairing the road from Buckton Burn in Durham through Berwick upon Tweed...'. 1755. £18.00

  121. Sussex, Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 302. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19", border all round. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 8vo marbled wraps with Stanford label and key map on front. Back wrap with old piece of paper stuck to it. c1890. £14.00
    Covers Horsham, Cuckfield, Capel.


  122. Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 301. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19", border all round. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 8vo marbled wraps with Stanford label and key map on front. c1890. £16.00
    Covers Frensham, Billingshurst, Liphook.


  123. Theatre EXTEMPORE LINES ON CAPT. WINCHESTER and Mr. Roberts making a Collection for Miss Poole at her Benefit. Manuscript satirical poem in 22 lines, on one side of small folio sheet, folded. Describes how a Captain of Dragoons persuaded the audience to contribute 'He dwelt on Pool's youth her grimace and her quaver/And hop'd that their verdict would run in her favour...' c1830. £18.00
    The writer ends on a cynical note 'By thus playing their Cards they make sure of the Pool'. I have been unable to find whether this is a copy of a printed broadside or similar. Miss Poole acted in the 1830's. A print exists of her in 'The Daughter of the Regiment'.


  124. Tobacco AN ACT Concerning the Planters of Tobacco. 3pp., sm. folio, pages numbered 51-53, Black Letter. First page with large arms of Protectorate and large title. London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653 £50.00
    Planters 'in the County of Gloucester, or elsewhere in England' would have to make an entry of all tobacco grown or cured at the Excise Office, and obtain a special ticket from them.


  125. Trade and shipping AT THE COURT AT WHITEHALL March 6. 1664... It was Ordered by His Majesty in Council, That an Order this day read and approved, for Dispensing for some time with certain Clauses of Several Acts concerning Trade, Shipping and Navigation, be forthwith Printed... 4pp., folio, black letter, disbound. List of those present under coat of arms on first page. Contemporary inscription in ink in bottom margin of last page '6o Marci 1664 Ordr. for dispensing with the Acts for Navigation & Trade'. Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1664. £45.00
    Concerns which ships were authorised to carry goods to and from England and her plantations.


  126. Trade and shipping AT THE COURT AT WHITEHALL March 6. 1664... It was Ordered by His Majesty in Council, That an Order this day read and approved, for Dispensing for some time with certain Clauses of Several Acts concerning Trade, Shipping and Navigation, be forthwith Printed... 4pp., folio, black letter, disbound. List of those present under coat of arms on first page. Contemporary inscription in ink in bottom margin of last page '6o Marci 1664 Ordr. for dispensing with the Acts for Navigation & Trade'. Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1664. £30.00
    Concerns which ships were authorised to carry goods to and from England and her plantations.


  127. Trade Board Act 1909 and 1918 RETAIL BESPOKE TAILORING Proposal to Vary Minimum Rates of Wages for certain classes of Male and Female Workers in the Area comprising the Counties of Cornwall, Devonshire and Somersetshire, the City and County of Bristol... Kingswood... Hanham Abbots and Mangotsfield... Large poster 'To be Posted up Until 28th October 1931' showing rates of pay. Size 24" x 19", folds, continued on a second sheet of the same size. 1931. £8.00

  128. Transportation of Criminals AN ACT to amend several Laws relative to the Transportation of Offenders.... 8pp, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1815. £15.00

  129. Ulverston, Grasmere, Kirkby Lonsdale ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP made up of quarter sheets 38/39/48/49. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 39", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into large 4to marbled wraps, small key map label on front wrap. O.S blindstamp 1901. £36.00

  130. Varley (Jno.), delin. A PLAN OF THE INTENDED NAVIGABLE CANAL from Chesterfield to the River Trent near Stockwith. Surveyed in 1769. Fine engraved plan, size between borders 15" x 31", overall size 19" x 37". Scale 1 mile = 1 inch. Title across the top, compass rose, scale bar, reference table with list of 9 distances between letter along the length of the canal. Canal itself outlined in hand-colouring in three different colours for the three counties traversed. Shows Rivers Trent, Idle, Rother, with various tributary 'Dykes'; buildings, with larger buildings shown with tiny elevation (e.g. 'Rhenishaw Hall', 'Bilby Hall'); hills shown in profile; wooded areas; windmills, mills (e.g. 'Mr Wilden's Mills', 'Peck Mill'); roads shown with dotted lines, some named (e.g. 'Esq. Hewit's Coach Road'; Glass House; Fire Engine, Coal Works. A few light creases at edges, and a few very light foxing spots, mainly in margin at bottom right corner. A later owner has written the title in ink on the verso of the map. Thos. Kitchin, Sculp. 1759. £230.00
    The canal was promoted by James Brindley but most of the work was carried out by John Varley. It opened in 1777, and was successful throughout the nineteenth century, carrying coal, iron, pottery, and stone, the most famous cargo being 250,000 tons of stone used in the building of the Houses of Parliament.


  131. Warwickshire and Staffordshire LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION from William Vyse, Vicar General of the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, to John Barratt of Powley, regarding the estate of Samuel Yeomans, late of Bangley in Stafford. 25 lines in manuscript on large folio sheet, folded, followed by printed section with manuscript inserts. Impressed seal of Bishopric. 4" split at edge neatly repaired on verso. 1806. £22.00
    Administration had been granted to Yeomans' son, but he also died. A term of 500 years in an estate at Ansley in Warwickshire was vested in Samuel Yeomans the elder. Trustees had nominated Barratt to take out the letters of Administration.


  132. Warwickshire, Worcester ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 28", in four quarter sheets, border all round, normal margin at top and bottom, wide margins mounted at the sides. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into plain 8vo endpapers. A couple of sections top left have buildings hand-coloured in red, and parkland in green. Printed from an Electrotype. c1870. £35.00
    Covers Worcester, Solihull, Stratford upon Avon.


  133. Weller (E) Engr. NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Sheet 1, London to Birmingham, Sheet 2 Birmingham to Manchester & Liverpool. Lithograph maps, hand-coloured in outline, on 2 sheets 17" x 12", each divided into three strips, scale «" to 1 mile. From 'The Dispatch Atlas'. 1863. £25.00

  134. Weller (E) Engr. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY Dover & Hastings Branch. Lithographed map with some outline hand-colouring, size 17" x 12", divided into 3 vertical strips, scale «" to 1 mile. From 'The Dispatch Atlas'. 1863. £20.00

  135. Whitaker (John) LETTER to the Rev. Benjamin Richardson, Rector of Farleigh Hungerford. Defective letter, what is probably the second page of a folded sheet. 65 lines in a small hand, closely written on one side of sheet 13" x 8", folds. On verso is address 'Rev. Mr. Richardson, Hungerford Farley, near Bath', with the figures '1 0' written in the top corner. Under the address, in an early hand is written 'Rebuilding the Temple of Minerva Review of the History of Bath', circled round. A few splits at folds, small piece torn from left margin with loss of first half of three words, some foxing at left side. There is an old repair approx. one and a half inches along one fold on verso, using printed paper. Whitaker starts by saying that since he has freed himself from the 'Blagdon Controversy' he has been working on a review of Warner's History of Bath for the 'Jacobin Review': 'it has made many mistakes and left many deficiences... I have aimed to illustrate the history rather than censure the author'. He goes on to say 'in the third article I have nearly rebuilt the Temple of Minerva' and asks Richardson for his 'architectural assistance' - would he inspect some specified parts of the building and answer some questions about holes in the stone. Refers to a 'portrait of a lady' discovered there, and mentions Guidott's work on Bath. He offers to help Richardson in the sale of his book 'I shall be very happy if what I say shall enable you to sell it well'. He says his wife is still lame, but his daughter well. n.d. c1801? £45.00
    John Whitaker was Rector of Ruan Lanithorne in Cornwall. As well as works on Cornwall and Manchester he wrote 'The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted' (1772). His review of Warner's book appeared in the 'Anti Jacobin Vol X, 1801'. Benjamin Richardson was a keen amateur geologist and scientist, and a friend and supporter of William Smith. He helped Smith with his work on the Bath strata.


  136. Wilts. & Glos. borders ILLUSTRATED PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Outlying and Remaining Portions of The Westonbirt Estate Nr. Tetbury, extending to about 2319 Acres... to be offered by Auction... May 28th, 1934... 17pp of text, plus 2 pages with tipped-in photographs, 4 crisp photographs in all. Large 4to, stiff printed wraps. Very large coloured folding plan at rear. One page loose due to rusty staple. Text finely printed in brown by Baily & Woods of Cirencester. 1934. £40.00
    Included Beverstone Castle Farm 'with fine and historical House', Babdown, West End and Bowldown Farms, cottages in Westonbir and Beverston, small holdings, building land.


  137. 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. £16.00
    Lists 5 Lots, with occupiers.


  138. 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. 1886. £32.00

  139. Wyld (J) THE COUNTRY TWENTY-FIVE MILES ROUND LONDON Planned from a Scale of One Mile to an Inch by W. Faden, Geographer to His Majesty and H.R.H the Prince of Wales. 3rd Edition. N.B. The Extent of the Penny Post coloured Orange. Counties hand-coloured in full bright wash colour, county boundaries in darker colour, roads in buff. Size of map 40" x 48", scale 1" to 1 mile. Dissected and mounted on linen. Title as above in yellow oval cartouche on tablet. An earlier owner seems to have gone over the small figures of the date 1802 in the cartouche in ink. Border coloured and printed all round with miles from London. 1802. £220.00
    This map does not correspond exactly with any of the listings given in Howgego 188. Extends to Hertford, Chelmsford, Reigate, Beaconsfield.


  140. Wyld's A MAP OF ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND describing all the Direct and principal Cross Roads in Great Britain, with the Distances measured between the Market Towns and from London; Likewise the Great Rivers and Navigable Canals and Railroads. Engraved map, counties in wash colour with boundaries in brighter colour, dissected and mounted on linen and folding into 8vo marbled wraps, inserted in cloth slipcase, rubbed at corners, with faded Wyld label. Size 28" x 24". Inset map of North Part of Scotland. c1880. £65.00

  141. Wyld's MAP OF ENGLAND WALES & SCOTLAND describing all the Direct and principal Cross roads in Great Britain with all the distances measured from London likewise the Great Rivers and Navigable Canals and Railroads. Lithographed map, size 29" x 25", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into cloth-covered slipcase, with Wyld label, rubbed, cloth frayed at edges of slipcase. Pale wash colour with brighter colour for the county boundaries. Published by James Wyld, 11 & 12 Charing Cross. n.d. c1875. £130.00

  142. Yacht insurance POLICY CERTIFICATE of Norie and Wilson for the yacht 'Octopus', for six months from April 1892. 1p., large folio, printed in black and red, with manuscript inserts. Blank conjoint leaf with docket title on verso. Price was £120 and this was shared between 6 named owners who each paid £20. 1892. £7.00
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