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

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

COMMONWEALTH ACT

Almshouses, Poor Knights AN ORDINANCE for the Continuance and Maintenance of the Alms-Houses & Alms-Men called Poor Knights and Other Charitable and Pious uses, Whereof the late Dean and Canons of Windsor were Feoffees in Trust. 13pp., small folio, plus cover leaf. Disbound. Act of Parliament. Black letter, with coat of arms on cover leaf and at head above title on first page, last leaf loose and browned at edges, cover leaf slightly spotty. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Council 1654... Henry Hills and John Field, Printers, 1655. £55.00
¶ The lands whose revenues were to be used to support the foundation were mainly in the West Country.

American Presidential Campaign PRESS PHOTOGRAPH showing Barry Goldwater in a television studio. Size 7" x 9", typed heading pasted along top 'Los Angeles. Republican Presidential Nominee Barry M. Goldwater is shown before the cameras at a commercial television studio...' Stamp 'United Press International Photo', and clipping in Spanish pasted to verso. 1964. £10.00

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.

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. £10.00

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

Armorial Bearing LICENCES for Armorial Bearings... Year 1940. For Armorial Bearings Worn or used otherwise than upon a Carriage... £1.1s.0d. Painted.... Sets out terms of licence and penalties, armorial bearings, and below that, a separate section for Dogs and Guns. Poster, size 11" x 8". 1940. £10.00

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

Avery (W & T), Ltd., London & Colchester AVERY COAL WEIGHERS List No. 16. 16pp, wraps, 8vo. Printed in mauve with very attractive illustrations. 1912. £16.00
¶ Includes 'dead-weight scales', 'sack machines', 'lever weighers' etc.

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

Ballantyne (John), R.S.A. LETTER to John Ballantyne R.S.A., The Mall, Kensington, London, from Wm. Gellatly, 835 Broadway, New York. Introduces 'Mr Mathews, an artist an Englishman and friend of mine.' The writer says he had been Ballantyne's pupil at the School of Design, Edinburgh. 1«p., folds, in yellow envelope, hand delivered... together with a letter to him in French, 1850 on the subject of expenses that would be incurred by artists and suggesting a new proposition to be put to them. 1866 and 1850. £12.00

Bath and West of England Society CERTIFICATE OF ENTRY. FOR CATTLE ONLY for Tunbridge Wells Meeting, 1881. Large folio blank form, printed on one side only, to be filled in by exhibitor. Keenes, Printers, Bath. 1881. £6.00
¶ 14 questions were to be answered, e.g. 'The Colour (Any animal found to be artificially coloured will be disqualified.')

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

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. £26.00
¶ Covers Harpenden, Redbourn, Flamstead

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

Berkshire and Hampshire TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets XLIII.12/III.12 and XLIII.11/III.2. Each size 26" x 37", scale 25" to 1 mile. Edition of 1911. £12.00
¶ Shows River Emborne, Hyde End Fishery, Woodhouse Farm, northern part of Headley, Starck House Farm, Foxhold Farm.

Berkshire, Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 285. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19". Borders all round, trimmed to margins, linen-backed, folding into marbled endpapers. Some slight browning of linen at sections. c1870. £14.00
¶ Covers Aldershot, Guildford.

Bicton GROUP OF LETTERS to Lord Rolle at Bicton from Charles Wade at Pucknall, regarding legal matters. 1807-1811. 26 letters, in a good-sized legible hand, most with integral address panel on verso, and Rumsey straight-line postmarks. Each 2-4p. small 4to. 1807-1811. £38.00
¶ As well as advising Lord Rolle on property matters, such as the right to common of furze on his Manor of Harpford, acquiring some South Down ewes, the price of wool, a meeting with Mr Green the Engineer about line of the Torrington Canal 'he is now aware of the great difficulty in regard to Mr Cockram's Water Meadows and does not appear capable of getting over it in any way without undoing what is already done...', fears about 'canine madness', 'Southampton and its County have been in a State of Alarm several months - several Dogs have certainly gone mad and some persons have been bit by Dogs supposed to be affected but as yet I believe no Hydrophelia has appeared in any human being near us...', and comments on the French war.

Birmingham & Oxford Railway FOLDING MANUSCRIPT PLANS of part of the line, Fenny Compton to Birmingham each plan in ink heightened with colour, on tissue, backed with linen, size approx. 56" x 10", 10 plans. Cloth spine with morocco label, lacks boards. Each plan titled on front section, with number, the first plan is 'Fenny Compton to Harbury. 97-100', the last plan is 'Yardley to Birmingham 125¬ to 127', each one with GWR stamp to verso. n.d. probably 1860's. £110.00
¶ The plans show owners of land, water features, buildings etc. A few notes in pencil.

Blacksmith BILL of A. Law, Blacksmith, to Benjamin Lumsdon Esq., Kingsford. 2«p., foolscap. Manuscript. June - December 1849. £8.00
¶ It is not clear which Kingsford it refers to. Items mostly new shoes, mending collars, cart wheels etc.

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. £18.00

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.

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. £180.00

Brazil SHARE CERTIFICATE for 60 Shares in the North Brazilian Sugar Factories. Size 10" x 11", made out to a lady at Locking, Somerset. Impressed seal of Company. A small marginal tear, folds. 1900. £8.00

Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD ESTATES in the Parishes of Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall, comprising the Farms of Liddaton, Telay, Tresoke, Tippaton & Trevivian. In all about 637 Acres, with One-fourth the Manor of Penpont and Treglasta.... To be sold by Public Auction at the White Hart Hotel, Launceston, on Saturday, August 24th, 1918. By Messrs. J. Kittow & Son. 12pp, folio, original printed wraps. 1918. £24.00
¶ Includes one fourth of the Manor of Penpont and Treglasta, with the Chief Rents and Mineral Rights over 3,000 Acres of waste lands.

Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway PROSPECTUS Capital £1,000,000 In Shares of £20 Each. 3pp., folio, folded with docket title. List of Committee etc. on first page, explanation of the advantages of the railway, and form for shares on the second page, the third page being a full-page plan, engraved by J. Wyld, covering the south coast north to Manchester, showing the proposed line hand-coloured in red, the Manchester and Southampton in blue, and the Southampton, Manchester & Oxford Junction in yellow. Small library stamp top right. 1845. £85.00
¶ 'by means of this projected line, a direct communication with France, either from Brighton or Dover, will be opened with the Northern Counties of England.' The Engineers were Sir John Rennie and George Remington.

Bristol and Exeter Railway FORWARDING NOTE for delivery of 2 bags of wool from Williton Station to Bristol, for Bradford. Size 6" x 10", printed with ms inserts, for weight etc., conditions on verso. 1863. £8.00

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. 1903. £18.00
¶ Approx. 50 items illustated.

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. £24.00
¶ '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.

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

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.

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

(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.'

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

Cabinet maker BILL of G. Potbury, Cabinet Maker, to Mr. Le Marchant, March - Dec. 1804. 3p, small folio, approx. 100 items listed, including repairs. Receipt attached. 1804. £18.00
¶ Items include '1 dressing table 3 drawers...', 'making and quilting mattress', 'washing and carding wool for two mattresses', 'two nursing chairs'.

Caldwell (E), (Illustrator) LETTER from E. Caldwell, 2, primrose Hill Studios, December 2nd 1903, to a Mr Collis. Asks him to thank Mr Findlay for the copy of his book: 'I have heard nothing further regarding the Musk Ox head. I hope they will not put a 'makeshift' on the cover.' 1p, 8vo, blank conjoint leaf. 'Received' stamp top left, and '1946' in blue crayon. 1903. £14.00
¶ Caldwell illustrated such books as 'Jock of the Bushveld', and 'Chase of the Wild Red Deer in Devon and Somerset'.

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

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

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.

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

Cheffins's MAP OF THE ENGLISH & SCOTCH RAILWAYS Lithographed map, size 27" x 22", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 8vo cloth boards with faded printed label. Railways hand-coloured, coast shaded. Inset map of Principal Railways in Scotland. A previous owner has added some railways, such as the North Devon, in brownish wash colour, with the name of the railway, and a manuscript key. There are two smudges of this brownish colour in the English Channel just off the Kent coast, each smudge about 2" x «", and a small light smudge near the title. Inset 'Map of the Principal Railways in Scotland' top right. Fourth Edition c1855. £45.00
¶ Shows lines open, under construction, and projected.

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

Christie's AUCTION CATALOGUE for sale of Scientific, Philosophical and Medical Instruments. South Kensington, 29th November, 1990. 38pp., 4to, stiff wraps with colour photographs, numerous illustrations. 1990. £8.00
¶ Includes globes and sundials.

Cincinnati, Ohio THE PHOENIX CARRIAGE COMPANY Manufacturers of Buggies, Phaetons, Surreys, and Road Waggons. Catalogue no. 40. 1901. 48pp., 4to, original decorative paper wraps. 32 carriages illustrated and described one per page (illustration taking up just over half the page), and twelve carriages shown two to a page. Describes Body, Axles, Springs, Gear, Shafts, Painting etc., giving measurements. With prices. The last 5 pages list harness, etc. Loosely inserted is a letter on the firm's headed paper, 1901, with fine heading showing people in carriage. 1901. £55.00

Cleveland, U.S.A. VAPOR STOVES, RANGES AND SPECIALITIES The Dangler Stove & Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Trade catalogues, 36pp., size 9" x 6", original decorative wraps. Illustrations of 30 stoves, mostly one to a page, with prices. 1898. £50.00

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

Coplestone and Colby families GENEALOGICAL TREE manuscript family tree of the Coplestone family. Extracted from the Records of the College of Arms, Geo. Harrison, Windsor Herald, Registrar, G.E. Adams, Lancaster Herald (signed). In ink and colour on parchment, size 24" x 29". The tree with branches drawin red ink follows the Coplestone family from John Coplestone (d. 1550) and Catherine Bridges and then in blue ink the line of Mary Coplestone and Thomas Colby (married 1780). The last date recorded is the birth of Herbert Colby at Exeter 1866. Fine decorative border in blue, two coats of arms (approx. 4" x 3") in bright colours and gold. Contained in original black metal tube. c1870. £250.00

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

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. £40.00
¶ 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'.

Cornwall and Devon PLACES OF INTEREST IN CORNWALL visited Aug. & Sept. 1894, and Devon '90. Scrap book and journal so titled, size 4" x 7", boards, 59 pages of pasted-in commercial photographs, watercolours, sketches, manuscript description. 9 pages cover Devon, the rest Cornwall. c1894. £70.00
¶ The writer stayed at 'Rose Cottage', Newquay (a newspaper clipping names 'Rose Cottage, Mrs Baker and the Misses Baker, Surrey). There is an ink sketch 'Rose Cottage, Tea time, with charming original photo of 'Lizzie Trethewy our parlourmaid', 'some names of householders', sketch of the 'sociable horse that walks in at our window'. There are three small watercolours of 'The Banqueting Hall' cavern, with notes ('Cecil sang in this Cavern for us Aug. 31 'The Storm King'...), two watercolours of 'The Norwegian Rock' and 'A cove near Porth', a fine watercolour 3" x 5" 'Roche rocks', with a pencil sketch of Burngullow clay Works old smelting chimney; good watercolour view of the coast, 'Rose Cottage, Atlantic Hotel'; view of their lodging at Falmouth, fine ink and wash view of Carn Brea. There 8 pages on St. Ives, with description of 'The Island' etc., 'the natives have oval faces, black or grey eyes, large mouth & nose'. There are some quotes from local people: 'Noall (fisherman at St. Ives) said his brother in America was 'home-sea-sick... why there's nowt there but a passel o'hills'. There are some fine Valentine views of St. Ives, including a view of cottage with many skates pinned on walls. There are also four pages of pressed plants, including 'Himalayan Rhododendron. From Miss Fox, Penjerrick '94'.

Coronation of Edward VII THE GRAPHIC Special Double Coronation Naval Review Number. August 23, 1902. Illustrated magazine, folio. Pages numbered 229-268. Fine illustration in blue on front wrap of a navy ship, with extra double-page supplements showing the naval review. 1902. £22.00

Coronation of George VI COPY OF THE LOYAL ADDRESS of The Members of The Association of Municipal Corporations of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the Occasion of The Coronation of His Majesty King George VI. 12th May, 1937. Album size 13" x 10", plain grey card wraps, silk tie at margin, 13 photographic plates size 9" x 7", mounted on 13 card leaves, inserted in matching slipcase with title in gilt on front. 1937. £18.00

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

Cox (Horace), Publisher THE FIELD The Country Gentleman's Newspaper. 102pp., folio. Horizontal fold. February 23rd, 1907. £14.00
¶ Numerous adverts. for country seats, etc. Much on hunting.

(Cruikshank, Isaac) HOW TO GAMMON THE DEEP ONES or the way to overturn a Coach acording to Act of P-l-m-t. Etching with hand colouring, size 9" x 16", mounted along the top edge on greyish paper. The words 'of Caracature' are in a much feinter print, and the words 'Deep Ones' in capitals has been etched less strongly than the capitals in 'Gammon.' The caricature shows a coach travelling at a great pace, 'Holyhead' on the side and on the door 'According to Act of Parliament', a signpost points to 'Turn Over Hill'. Only one passenger is inside, and all the others are crowded on the top, with the luggage, and in a basket behind the coach. The passengers and the riders on the horses are commenting in speech bubbles, including a Scotchman who says 'Hoot mon, I had rather Twanty Muckle Scotchmen were on the Tap...'. Initials 'I C' (Isaac Cruikshank?) amongst the grass at the bottom of the view. London Pub. Jan 1. 1791 by W.S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the largest Collection of Caracatures in the Kingdom also the Head & hand of Count Struenza admit 1. £90.00

Darton & Clark, Pub. THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES including the Principal part of Scotland whereon are carefully Delineated all the Mail and Turnpike Roads Direct and Cross with the Various Alterations Additions & Improvements... Lithographed map, size 30" x 26". Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo boards, front board detached. County boundaries, Mail roads and railways hand-coloured. Piano key and blue wash border. 1839. £75.00

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... '.

Death of Edward VII THE TIMES Edward VII Memorial. May 23, 1910. 23pp., size 24" x 18", folded in half, mourning border on each page. Some light foxing spots in margins of front page. 1910. £10.00
¶ Includes detailed reports of funeral, lying in state etc., with illustations and sketch plans.

Death of George V DAILY SKETCH Memorial Number. January 21, 1936. 28pp. Horizontal fold. Some slight browning at edges. 1936. £10.00
¶ Numerous photographs of the King and Queen.

Devon & Somerset GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. XXVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Printed surface 24" x 36". Hand-coloured, key in sea area. Embossed stamp of Board of Agriculture, 1896. £55.00
¶ Shows area from Braunton Burrows to Countesbury. Over half the map is sea area.

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
¶ Covers Plymouth, Ivybridge, East Looe. Possibly an outline edition prepared for a further printing.

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.

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

Devon and Somerset ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXIV.6/LXVII 7.8.11.12. Scale 25" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 37". Second Edition 1905. £13.00
¶ Shows Exebridge Works, Exebridge, Cattle Market.

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

Direct Western Railway REPORT 19th February, 1846. 2pp., 4to, blank conjoint leaf with docket title, folded. 1846. £25.00
¶ 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'.

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. Published 1875. Impressed stamp of Board of Agriculture 1890. £85.00
¶ Covers Langport, Wincanton, Piddleton, Beaminster.

Dorset, Gloucestershire, etc. ABSTRACT OF THE TITLE of Sir John Webb Bart. to the Fee Simple and Inheritance of his Estates in the Counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Southampton, the Town of Poole, Gloucester and Northampton to the year 1764. 114 pages, manuscript, folio, tied at top left corner, folded. Details deeds from 1661. Properties include the Manors of Avon Tyrell, Midgeham, in Hampshire, of Canford and Poole in Dorset including 'the soil of the Great Waste of Canford Containing 10,000 acres', lands in Ham and Hamworthy 'all Allum and Copperas Mines....', The Hundred of Coodken, Manor of Hatherup in Gloucestershire, Hampworth in Wiltshire.... together with... ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF SIR JOHN WEBB BART. 1797 Jan. 7th. 11p., folio. Estate were left to Edward Arrowsmith in trust for his grandaughter Lady Barbara Ashley only child of Barbara Countess of Shaftesbury. 1764 and 1797. £90.00
¶ Edward Arrowsmith was empowered to 'lay out any part of the Rents and Profits of his estates in the County of Dorset... in encouraging the Erection of any Wharfs or Buildings...'

Duchy of Cornwall AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS of the Duchy of Cornwall in the year ended on the 31st December 1852. 37pp., folio, recent cloth boards, gilt title on spine. Lists income from Rents and Profits of Courts for different Manors in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Somerset, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, in detail, with names of tenants etc. Includes Royalties on 118 mines in Cornwall, and others in Devon and Somerset. Disbursements include details of repairs to properties, donations to charities such as The Cornwall Lunatic Asylum 'Reward to W. Summerhayes for apprehending and convicting Offenders for stealing gates at Curry Mallet'). 1852. £65.00

Dufour (G.H) MAP OF NEUCHATEL, FREYBURG Sheet XII. Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. 1860. £16.00
¶ From the Survey of Switzerland. Covers Thun, Lucens, Bulle, Bern.

Dufour (G.H) MAP OF ZERMATT AND LAKE MAGGIORE Sheet XXIII. Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. 1869. £16.00
¶ From the Survey of Switzerland. Covers Arona, Lake Orta, Isole Borromeo, Domodossola, Klein Matterhorn.

Dufour (G.H) MAP OF SIMPLON, JUNGFRAU, BRIEG Sheet XVIII. Engraved map size 20" x 29", scale 1/100000. Dissected and mounted on linen, folding into sm. 4to marbled wraps. 1854. £16.00
¶ From the Survey of Switzerland. Shows numerous glaciers in the northern half of the map.

Dulverton, East Anstey FOUR ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet LXVII S.E (and parts of Devonshire); LXVII S.W (and parts of Devonshire); Somerset LXVII N.E. (and parts of Devonshire); LXVII N.W (and parts of Devonshire). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 12" x 18", plus margins. Second Edition 1906. £30.00
¶ Covers Exebridge, Morebath, Oldways End, Dulverton, Bury, Northmoor.

Durkopp GROUP OF FIVE CHROMOLITH CARDS illustrating gemstones. Each size approx. 3" x 4". Shows the stone in close-up, with an attractive scene of the mining of the stone. On verso is advert. for 'Durkopp... Motorwagen... Milchschleudern...' c1900. £18.00
¶ Includes diamond, topaz, turqoise etc.

Edward VII THE GRAPHIC Special Double Number, With Which is Incorporated The Ordinary Number of June 28. Folio, decorative green wraps. Pages numbered 861-908. Profusely illustrated. 1902. £16.00

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

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

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.

Eyre and Strahan, Printers to the King BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION, FOR A GENERAL FAST. George R. We, taking into Our most serious Consideration the just and neccessary War in which We are engaged... hereby command That a publick Day of Fasting and Humiliation be observed... God save the King. Folio sheet with coat of arms at head, size 16" x 12", printed on one side only, title in large letters, setting out the arrangement for a day of Fasting on 17th February next. 20 lines of text. Traces of folds, some slight creasing. 1808. £70.00

'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'.

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.

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. £42.00

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
¶ From Field Marshall Roberts.

First World War SIX LETTERS to Mr Sanford (Eddy) from different correspondents, mainly London, thanking him for presents of wild duck 'in these hard times they are doubly welcome', and giving news of their relatives serving in the war. Small 8vo, all dated Jan. 1915, 2-8 pages. 1915. £28.00
¶ '(Lewis) has been lucky in his trenches, the last had a brick floor! He was knocked down by the concussion of a Bomb but only made dizzy... a German deserter came into their Trenches carrying tea to a sniper. He shouted mercy mercy when he saw the trench... a wonder he was not shot...' Possibly related to the Sanford who was rector of Combe Florey in Somerset.

COMMONWEALTH ACT

Forests or Chases AN ORDINANCE for Sale of Four Forrests or Chases reserved for Collateral security to the Souldiers. 14pp., small folio, plus cover leaf, disbound. Disbound. Act of Parliament. Black letter. Coat of arms on cover leaf and at head of first page. Pages coming loose at spine, paper slightly browned. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Council... Printed by William Du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654. £65.00
¶ The forests were: Needwood in Stafford and Derby, Kingswood Chase in Gloucestershire, Sherwood Forest in Nottingham and Derby, Ashdown Forest in Sussex.

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.

Garnet (J), Publisher VIEWS OF THE ENGLISH LAKES Fifteen engraved views. Lacks wraps. Decorative title with two soldiers. Size of views approx. 3" x 5", overall size 5«" x 9". Tissue guards c1850. £45.00
¶ Four of the pages have double views in two adjacent circles. Includes Mill on the Stock, Ambleside; Barrow Fall; Dungeon Ghyll; Rydal Water; Windermere.

Gloucestershire and Wiltshire GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SHEET Sheet XXXIV. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Hand-coloured map. Size 27" x 33", coloured key in margin. Railways inserted to 1890. Blindstamp of Board of Agriculture, 1893. £75.00
¶ Covers Minchinhampton, Tetbury, Chippenham, Cirencester, Swindon.

Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Dorset ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Sir John Webb, Bart. Details mortgages etc. relating to his Manors in (among other places) Hatherop, Aldsworth, East Leach, Coln St. Alwyn, Southropp (Gloucestershire), Ripley, Christchurh, Ringwood, Fordingbridge, Midgeham (Hampshire), Hamworthy, Lytchett Minster, Canford, Poole, Canford Magna (Dorset). 49 pages, folio, written on one side nly, held at corner with tape, torn and dusty outer sheet with docket title, ink on first couple of leaves rather faded. 1781. £45.00
¶ Refers to indentures as far back as 1713, and mentions connections with many landowning families, including Lord Waldegrave, Barbara Viscountess Montagu, Lord Teynham, Marquis of Hertford etc.

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.

Gotch (Bernard) LINOCUT black and white, titled in pencil in margin 'Winter'. On thin paper, size 6" x 7", mounted along top margin on thin card. Letter 'G' in bottom corner. 1940's or earlier. £24.00
¶ Attractive view of a village street under snow, fields and trees on left.

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

(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.

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

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.

Great Western Railway NOTICE of the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors, 3rd June, 1869. With a list of 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 on verso. Vertical fold, slight wear at top and bottom edge of fold. Paddington, 18th May, 1869. £14.00

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

Great Western Railway REPORT Twenty-ninth Half-Yearly General Meeting. 31st December, 1849. 3«p, folio, folded with docket title. With Chairman's Report, and Report of the Engineer, I.K. Brunel. Docket title dusty. 1849. £40.00
¶ 'Upon the state of the finished Works generally, I am able to report very satisfactorily. The severity of the frost, and suddenness of the change of temperature, have, during this winter, produced generally greater effect upon the surfaces of masonry and earthwork, than I have ever known'.

Great Western Railway WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' BENEVOLENT FUND Statement of Account, Year ended 31st December, 1880. 3pp., 4to, with 1p. Report by Secretary, detailing number of widows looked after etc., list of Committee. 1880. £18.00
¶ One of the Trustees was Sir Daniel Gooch.

Great Western Railway Widows & Orphans Benevolent Fund LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS giving name, address and amount. 4pp., 8vo., together with printed letter for donors. 188-. £14.00
¶ Heading the list is Sir Daniel Gooch.

Great Western Railway REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS to be submitted to the Proprietors... at the Company's Offices, Paddington Station, the 11th day of August, 1881. 100pp., folio, folds, with docket title. 1881. £40.00
¶ With many tables for expenditure on Repairs, Rents of Leased Lines, Canal Traffic, etc.

Hagelberg, Berlin Printers CHRISTMAS CARD die-cut card. Size approx. 4" x 5", single piece of card with blank back. Fully coloured, shows a kilted Scotsman leaning on his elbow, holding a bottle and glass, with the legend 'Many O' Them', and a verse about 'helping yourself' at Christmas, by 'J.G.F'. c1910. £7.00

Halliwell (A.E), Artist POSTER Your Holiday Abroad. The S.R. Continental Enquiry Office, Victoria Station, London, will help you to choose. Call or Write. Size 40" X 25", very bold abstract repeat pattern in vivid orange, green, and mustard, with thick black outlines, white circle with 'Your Holiday Abroad' in it, other lettering in white on black along on bottom. Name 'A.E. Halliwell' stamped bottom right. Folded horizontally, trace of vertical fold, 6" horizontal tear, repaired on verso, 1" down from top edge in left corner, brown tape on verso along top, three pin holes at top edge. Southern Railway Advertising. Sanders, Phillips & Co., The Baynard Press, Chryssell Road, S.W.9. (1928). £75.00

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. £28.00
¶ Covers Basingstoke, Hungerford, Wokingham.

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.

Hampshire and Sussex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Hampshire Sheet XLV etc. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 24" x 35", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo paper wraps. Roads and water-features coloured, some buildings coloured red, lands around Fowley House and area south of Haslemere shaded in wash, one area marked with price sold at. 1880. £26.00
¶ Covers Liphook, Bramshott, Haslemere, Linchmere.

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..

Harwood's VIEWS OF THE LAKES 12 engraved views. Oblong 8vo, stiff card wraps with decorative title, rubbed, cloth spine. Size of engraved surface approx. 4" x 6". Tissue guards. Small waterstain in top margin. Some areas of foxing on 5 of the plates. c1860. £45.00
¶ Includes Windermere, Esthwaite Water, Dunmail Raise, Grasmere, Coniston, Ambleside.

Her Majesty's Theatre SOUVENIR OF NERO Ninth of March, 1906. Presented, With Mr. Tree's Compliments, on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Consecutive Performance of Nero. Booklet with cast list etc., 14 pages of text, plus 10 coloured full-page portraits of the cast, from pastels by Chas. Buchel. Oblong 4to, attractive decorative stiff wraps with picture of charioteer. 1906. £14.00
¶ Beerbohm Tree played Nero.

Heraldry MANUSCRIPT MANUAL OF HERALDRY 25 pages of text and 8 plates of illustrations in ink. Bound in cloth-covered boards, calf spine, gilt title on spine. c1820. £110.00
¶ The text comprises an alphabetical list of heraldic terms, two columns per page, with explanation and references to the plates that follow; a list of terms in English, French and Latin, also two columns per page. Illustrations comprise shields (approx. 60 per page) illustrating terms e.g. 'Treille', 'Bordure' etc., 40 different types of cross, animal, quartering, etc., and different orders, crowns and coronets, etc.

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.

Hertfordshire and Middlesex ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", margins trimmed away. Mounted on linen, folding into plain 8vo endpapers, paper of endpapers chipped. Thin red line drawn from near Bowes to Edmonton. c1880. £18.00
¶ Covers Cock Fosters, Enfield, Lower and Upper Edmonton, Colney Hatch.

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

Hides and skins LETTER from William Eales, Plympton, to Messrs. Weekes & Borrow, Bow Lane, London, who were presumably dealers in hides. 3p., 4to, in an untidy hand. Address label with straightline 'Plymton' postmark and red circular date-stamp. Explains he does not want to take any more hides, as he has a large stock and 'I cannot take more than the 250 H.Hides...' Refers also to 40 doz. veal skins he has which he cannot work... together with another letter, 1p., where he says his 'pits are crammed quite full' and mentions the duty taken off leather. Some damp-spotting on both letters. 1829-30. £8.00

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

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 p.5-p.1052. Paper crisp and clean, apart from 3 leaves which are dusty. No imprint, 1812. £80.00
¶ 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'.

Illumination SUPPLEMENT TO ILLUSTRATED LIST OF ILLUMINATED ADDRESSES and Testimonials. 4to, wraps, 43pp., illustrating photographically 44 specimens of highly decorative illuminated presentation certificates etc. c1920. £16.00

Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sudan, Togo MAP Croquis du Sahara et ses Regions Limitrophes au 1.000.000e. Dresse par the A.O.F. a Dakar en 1926. Map printed in black, blue, brown and pink, size 18" x 80", plus margins, composed of several sheets butted together. 1" = approx. 25 kilometres. Heliograve et imprime par le Service Geographique de l'Armee en 1928. £35.00
¶ Goes from Jebba in Nigeria in the east to Makump in Sierra Leone in the west

(Jaillot, A.H. & Mortier, P.) CARTE DE L'ENTREE DE LA TAMISE Avec les Bancs, Passes, Isles et Costes comprises entre Sandwich et Clay. Copper-engraved chart, size approx. 18" x 35". extends from Sandwich to Clay in Norfolk. Inset map of Thames from London to 'Greane Island'. Hand-coloured. Scale bar in French, English, Spanish and German leagues, compass roses. North is to the right of the chart. Towns and villages shown with small churches etc., coloured red, also shows windmills. Traces of central fold, small skilfully repaired tear at right-hand margin. (Paris, 1693.) £300.00

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'.

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.

Kent and Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet Kent XXXIX/Surrey XXVIII & XXXVI. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. Published 1871-3. Printed from a transfer to zinc in 1896. £28.00

Kent and Surrey ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet Kent XLIX/Surrey Parts XXXVI etc. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 35" x 23" plus margins. First edition 1872-3, O.S. embossed stamp 1898. £30.00
¶ Covers Edenbridge, Chiddingstone, Hever, Haxted.

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.2 1908. £30.00
¶ Includes 'The Freemason's Railway Hotel', Ladywell; 127 Gower Street, London; 121 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill.

King (P.S.), Westminster, Publisher A RECORD OF JUBILEE BONFIRES in The United Kingdom, Queen's Night, June 22nd, 1897. Booklet, 8vo, printed wraps, splits at spine, 22pp. Names of Committee printed inside front wrap. 1897. £18.00

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. £28.00
¶ Shows numerous faults with white lines, and one mineral vein in gold.

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.

Land Commission, Copyhold Dept. FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of The Commissioners. 1883. 22pp., sm. folio, with tables of Enfranchisements, with columns for the Manor (in alphabetical order of county), County, Name of the Lord of the Manor, Tenure, Incidents of the Manor, Terms for Enfranchisment. 1883. £14.00

Layard (Sir A) LETTER beginning 'Dear Seymour' congratulating him on his success, and wishing him 'a long and successful Parliamentary career'. 4 lines, 1p, sm. 8vo. Only 'F.C' above the date as an address. Jan. 21st, 1903. £8.00

Lethbridge & Ashley Estates A PARTICULAR OF SOME LANDS IN SOMERSET AND DORSET belonging to Messrs Lethbridge & Ashley 1792. Sm. 8vo notebook giving details of 13 farms with name & acreage of each field, coppice, etc. and name of tenant. Includes farms at Henstridge, Preston Plucknett, Nether Compton, Buckhorn Weston, Beaminster, Symonsbury. 19pp in a neat hand, plus blanks, marbled wraps with MS title on label on front wrap. 1792. £32.00

Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Nigeria MAP Croquis du Sahara et ses Regions Limitrophes au 1.000.000e. Dresse par l'A.O.F. a Dakar en 1926. Map printed in black, blue, brown and pink, size 18" x 80", plus margins, composed of several sheets butted together. 1" = approx. 25 kilometres. Repaired 10" tear at left edge (in sea area). Heliograve et imprime par le Service Geographique de l'Armee en 1928. £35.00
¶ Goes from Monrovia in Liberia in the west to Lagos in Nigeria in the east.

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

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Liverpool, Taunton, Exeter, Ilminster, Somerton, etc. JOURNAL OF EXCURSIONS 8vo plain paper notebook, half calf, gilt, marbled boards, corners rubbed, calf at top of spine torn across, corners rubbed, paper on front board rubbed near edge, gilt decoration on spine, with title 'Excursions' (title rubbed). Front inner hinge broken, thus front board and spine, although in one piece, have parted from the contents. 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. £260.00
¶ 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'.

London - South Wales Motorway REPORT ON THE EFFECT ON AGRICULTURE 3pp, sm. folio, and 7 large folding maps, scale 2in to a mile, showing the line of the 'Modified Direct Route' and 'Modified Southern Route', with areas along the route in different colours. Stapled, lacks back wrap. Marked 'In Confidence'. 1964. £25.00
¶ 'Section 3. Effect on Agriculture', part of a larger study.

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway REPORT & ACCOUNTS 21st July, 1880. 8pp., folio, plus docket title, folded. Gives details of receipts and expenditure in table form, including enlargement of different lines, lines in course of construction, maintenance, repair of carriages etc... together with... similar Reports for 26th January, 1881, January, 1882, December 1882. 4 items. 1880-2. £75.00

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway MINUTE OF THE PROCEEDINGS at the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Proprietors held at the Terminus Hotel... 22nd July, 1885. 45pp., 8vo, rusty staples, traces of vertical fold... together with... Letter to Shareholders, 3pp., 4to, thin paper, giving 15 Resolutions passed at meeting 30th Jan., 1865, issuing new £5 shares, and a similar leaflet for issue of Ordinary Stock after a meeting of Proprietors on 26th July, 1867. 3 items. 1865-1885. £34.00

London, Kent VALUABLE FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES which C. & F. Rutley are Instructed to Sell by Auction... May 6, & May 14, 1902. 18pp., folio, plus completed memorandum. Large folding coloured plan. Slight wear at spine. Horizontal fold. 1902. £24.00
¶ Includes Globe Wharf, Mile End; Houses in West Brompton; shops and Kilby's Livery Stables in Caterham Valley; sea-side residence in Beaconsfield Terrace, Hythe.

(Longhurst, Percy) MANUSCRIPT OF UNTITLED SHORT NOVEL set during the Civil War In Yorkshire. In 4to notebook, 182 pages, written on rectos only. Marbled boards, calf spine, calf chipped at top and bottom of spine, boards rubbed. In 15 chapters, with Headings such as 'I Join the King's Service', 'The Taking of Pontefract', 'A Deed of Some Daring', 'A Venture on My Dear Lady's Behalf'. On the flyleaf is the inscription 'To my dear Rose, for without whom this had never been written, Percy Longhurst'. c1920, or possibly earlier. £80.00
¶ 'The flag of the Parliament was hauled down and most solemnly cut in shreds and burned, and then, to the accompaniment of great cheering and hearty emptying of tankards, the royal standard was hoisted informing the good folk of Pontifract that once again the castle was held for the King... up to the castle for many days afterward, since the news of our great exploit spread about the country with great quickness, came from all parts gentlemen who had been in hiding, in the houses of friends, the fastnesses of the eastern and western moors, and the obscurity of disguise, all once more ready and anxious to strike another blow for their royal master...' The swashbuckling story tells of the adventures of a young man who joins the Royalist troops. It ends with the flight of some of his companions who take ship from Robin Hood's Bay. He decides to stay because he is in love with a girl in Yorkshire who had originally inspired him to join he Royalist cause. A Percy Longhurst wrote adventure stories for 'The Magnet' (1919), 'Blackie's Boy's Annual' (1930's), and 'Young England'. The style of this story would tie in with that type of writing.

Looe, Plymouth, Salcombe ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP. Sheet 24. Engraved surface approx. 24" x 27". Scale 1" to 1 mile. Tear at right just obtruding onto map by about 2", repaired on verso. Light trace of vertical fold at centre. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark 1854. £30.00

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.

Maison de la Belle Jardiniere, Angers EIGHT ADVERTISING CARDS showing children, four of them with girls in granny spectacles sewing or knitting. Coloured card on thin paper with details of shop ('Habillements, Tout Faits sur Mesure pour Hommes et pour Enfants' 'Membre du Jury Exposition Universelle Paris 1878') on verso. c1900. £18.00
¶ The pictures seem to be based on photographs.

Manchester Ship Canal Company REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, Statement of Financial Accounts and Statistical Returns for the year ended 31st December, 1923. 13pp., folio, folded, plus full page plan of the Canal, between Manchester and Liverpool, indicating the Ship Canal, Bridgewater Canals, Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and Ship Canal Company's Railways. 1923. £26.00
¶ Includes table of traffic from 1894 - 1923.

Mantua maker APRENTICESHIP INDENTURE for Charlotte Hilton to be apprentised to Ann Perkins of Sunbury, Middlesex, Mantua Maker, for 3 years. On vellum, size 7" x 8", printed with manuscript inserts, two small seals, one wax and one papered. Traces of folds. Receipt for £27 paid by Lancelot Hilton on verso, signed by Ann Perkins. 1783. £30.00

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.'

Mappin & Webb Ltd. SPORTS TROPHIES, CUPS, MEDALS, PRIZES Catalogue. 40pp., 4to, card wraps with fine embossed silver lettering and large embossed illustration in silver of 'Daedalus and Icarus' the Burgoyne Aviation Trophy. Many illustrations showing silver cups, caskets, bowls, statuettes, challenge shields, tankards, medals for sports and competitions, including golf, rowing, bowls, shooting medals and spoons. 5 pages at the back show ordinary stock items. Small stain at bottom of front wrap. 1925. £45.00

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

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

Mesopotamia LETTER beginning 'My dear Colonel' addressed from 'Inland Water Transport, Mesopotamia July 25 1919'. 6p., 8vo. Embossed monogram top left 'R.E' with crown. Says The War Office says he must stay in 'this ancient land' until the end of the year. Describes visit to Nejef 'where poor Marshall the Political Officer was foully murdered last year. It is an extraordinary city right out in the desert, with a population of 40,000 mostly of the priesthood, student & parasitical classes... we had to have an escort to go through the town...' Says he has been awarded the C.B.E. The signature is unclear but it could be Summers. 1919. £16.00

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.

GENERAL LOCAL HISTORY Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

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

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

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.

Midlands THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale half an inch to one mile. Sheet 23 (Birmingham, Northampton), Sheet 14 (Lincoln and Grimsby), Sheet 22 (Worcester and Ludlow). With Layers. Green and buff Ellis Martin wraps with car and coat of arms. c1930. £12.00

Military Ordnance THIS IS TO CERTIFY that it is this Day agreed betwixt William Backe Clerk of Stores to the Royal British Artillery, and George Henrich Baurmeister, Shipper, that the said George Henrich Baurmeister shall Transport by Water from Cassel to Prussian Minden the Ammunition & Stores mention'd in his Bill of Lading... Manuscript on single sheet of paper, size approx. 10" x 10", written on one side only, docket title on verso, signed by Backe and Baurmeister, and witnessed by George Whitson, Serjt. of Pontoons. Paper foxed throughout. Folds. Hanover Munden 12th march 1760. £40.00
¶ The charge was 196 dollars, to be paid on delivery.

Monckton, Publishers BLACK & WHITE February 16th, 1901. Illustrated magazine, size 15" x 11", 34pp. Numerous illustrations. 1901. £10.00
¶ Cover illustration shows the Premier of New South Wales signing the Oath of Allegiance. Includes material on mourning for Queen Victoria, the Queen of Holland, a story by Eden Philpotts 'Corban, A Devonshire Yarn' (with illustrations by Arthur Garratt).

Monckton, Publishers BLACK & WHITE May 28th, 1910. Issue on the Funeral of Edward VII. Illustrated magazine, size 15" x 11", 47pp. Numerous illustrations of boy scouts decorating the streets for the funeral, arrival of foreign royalty, etc. Cover in purple and white. 1910. £10.00
¶ Includes an article on Manchester, with a double-page bird's-eye view.

Moreton & Co., Publisher LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY Illustrated Tourist Guide. Price One Penny. Booklet, 48pp., 8vo., mauve front wrap detached and brittle at edges, lacks back wraps, loosely inserted in card folder. Map of the Steam Packet Lines and Connection with Continental lines. Many woodcut illustrations, including full-page. c1900. £12.00
¶ Chapters on the Isle of Wight, Paris, Eastbourne, Hastings, Brighton, etc.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

North East England, Eastern Counties (N) TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets 3 and 6. Scale quarter inch to 1 mile. Covers in blue and buff showing motor-cyclist reading map, coat of arms below. Cloth-backed. 2 items. Third Edition. c1930. £14.00

North Petherwin, and Jacobstow PARISHES OF NORTH PETHERWIN, AND JACOBSTOW. Attractive Sale of Freehold Agricultural Properties. Known as Middle Whiteley Farm, Billacott Farm, and Little Clubworthy Farm, A Tenement at Maxworthy Cross, and Little Exe Farm. Messrs. J. Kittow & Son.... For Sale by Public Auction at the White Hart Hotel, Launceston, on Tuesday, the 11th day of June, 1912. 8pp, folio. 1912. £25.00

North Wales and South Wales TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets 4 and 7. Scale quarter inch to 1 mile. Covers in blue and buff showing motor-cyclist reading map, coat of arms below. Cloth-backed. 2 items. Third Edition. c1930. £14.00

North Wales and the West Country PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM recording a holiday in North Wales, and visits in the West Country. Album size 16" x 12", cloth-covered boards, small split in cloth at hinge, thick card leaves. Photographs attractively mounted on paper and then on the album leaf, with ruled borders and neat captions. 73 photos in all. c1910. £80.00
¶ The first section records a holiday in North Wales, with a composite panorama of Snowdon, 5 small views of 'Snowden View and its "Owener"', Lewydd, views of the two holiday-makers and men shearing sheep at 'The Farm by the Lake', 5 atmospheric views of boating on Lyn Gwynant, Criccieth, 'Sir Watkin's Path up Snowdon', 'At Capel Curig (four views of the two bicycling). The last section is in the West Country, with three views inside Wookey Hole, one with a man carrying a light and what looks like a stone bottle, three views of Stonehenge, one with party in open-top car with chauffeur, wooden poles seem to be leaning against the stones; the car again on Mendip, Wells, Glastonbury, 'A Military Review. By Genl. Smyth Dorrien, Salisbury Plain (10 small views), Surveyor's Institution vist to Berkeley Castle and Tortworth park.

Northumberland and Durham PARTICULARS OF THE REAL ESTATES of John William Bacon Forster, Deceased, Remaining Unsold... are to be Sold by Charles Wren, the Receiver of the said Estates... at the House of Charles McDonald, the Sign of The Blue Bell, at Belford... 3rd Day of May, 1790, and at the House of Matthew Dods, the Sign of The Queen's Head, in Wolsingham, 13th day of May, 1790. 15pp., small folio, folded with docket title, sewn at edge. Docket title slightly dust, with small tear at fold. With detailed Schedules. Includes:- The Manor of Adderstone, the Corn Tithes of Newham, Tedcastle in Warden, in Northumberland, Wolsingham, House and Shop in the Market Place, Bishop Auckland, large seven-roomed house in Old Elvet, Durham, in the county of Durham. 1790. £85.00
¶ A sale subsequent on a Case in Chancery 'Tew and Forster against Earl Winterton' and 'Forster against Forster'.

Northumberland and Devon WILL of John Clarke of Newcastle upon Tyne. Probate copy on vellum, size 22" x 25", preamble in Latin, papered wax seal (pieces of wax missing). 1696. £30.00
¶ Leaves land at Frithelstock, Devon, leases in Yorkshire and Northumberland (including mill at Langhangton, Alnwick North Demesne, his right and title in Billy Moore Colliery, lands in the 'Manor of Tinmouth' purchased of William Blackett and others, ten pounds to the poor of Newcastle, etc.

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.

Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire etc. REDUCED ORDNANCE ROUND NOTTINGHAM by Cruchley. Fully hand-coloured engraved map, 56" x 49", linen-backed and folding into cloth-covered boards, 4to, with morocco label on front board, marbled endpapers. Explanation pasted inside front board. Counties shaded in different colour wash, with borders in a deeper tone, parkland and railways coloured. Map centred on Nottingham with concentric circles at 1" intervals. Border all round with Sheet Nos. in margins. Published by G.F. Cruchley, Mapseller and Globe Maker, Fleet St. £140.00
¶ Extends to Chorley, Pontefract, Barton on Humber, Stamford, Bedford, Stratford upon Avon, Bromyard, Much Wenlock.

Ogilby (J) THE ROAD FROM BRISTOL TO WEYMOUTH com. Dorset By John Ogilby Esq., His Maties. Cosmographer... viz From the High Cross in Bristol to Bishops Clive 7, to Wells 12, to Glastonbury 6.... 'Ribbon' road map, title cartouche with coat of arms, compass rose on each of the six strips. Size 13" x 17", plus margins. Central fold. Border neatly ruled in red, main part of title underlined neatly in red. Small light pinkish smudge near Somerton (probably from the red ink). c1675. £70.00
¶ A good strong impression. The edition with no plate number.

PROPOSED CANAL FROM BRISTOL TO FOXHAM

Old Sodbury and Chippenham DRAFT MANUSCRIPT RESOLUTION Proposed Canal from the City of Bristol to join the Wilts. & Berks. Canal at or near Foxham in Wilts. At a very numerous & respectable Meeting of the Landowners... at the Cross Hands Inn in Old Sodbury, Monday the 21st day of May 1810.... His Grace the Duke of Beaufort having... taken the Chair... and The Resolution of a Meeting holden.... at the Angel Inn in Chippenham.... having been read.... Resolved unanimously that the making a Canal... would be highly injurious to the owners... of lands thro' which the same is proposed to be carried...' Manuscript on 3p. sm. folio, folded with docket title and note 'N.B. The Origl. Resolutions taken from the Meeting by the Duke of Beaufort the Chairman'. In an untidy hand with amendments and crossings out (for example the paragraph being the resolution beginning 'That the promoters.... have not acted with... candour...' has been crossed through). There are six resolutions, involving the setting up of a Committee, that they will 'oppose and resist' the application, etc. A couple of small edge tears. 1810. £90.00
¶ On the Committee were Christopher Codrington, William Scrope, William Bullock, etc.

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

Ordnance Survey ANCIENT BRITAIN A Map of the Major Visible Antiquities of Great Britain Older Than A.D. 1066. South Sheet and North Sheet. Two maps, linen-backed, scale 1/625,000, illustrated wraps, slightly bumped at corner. Index of names. 1951. £16.00

Ordnance Survey ANCIENT BRITAIN A Map of the Major Visible Antiquities of Great Britain Older Than A.D. 1066. South Sheet and North Sheet. Two maps, linen-backed, scale 1/625,000, glazed card wraps. Index of names etc. Second Edition 1964. £14.00

Ordnance Survey ANCIENT BRITAIN A Map of the Major Visible Antiquities of Great Britain Older Than A.D. 1066. North Sheet. Map scale 1/625,000, illustrated glazed card wraps. Index of names, etc. Second Edition 1964. £7.00

Ordnance Survey MAP OF ROMAN BRITAIN Scale 16 Miles to One Inch. Coloured map, folding to 4to, 44pp. of text. Glazed printed wraps with coloured mosaic decoration. Third Edition. 1956. £12.00

Ordnance Survey MAP OF BRITAIN IN THE DARK AGES Scale 1:1000,000. Illustrated glazed card wraps, 4to. Descriptive text and index of place names. Second Edition 1966. £8.00

Oxford ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Sheet 219 and sheets to south and west, size 38" x 38", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen and folding into large 8vo cloth-covered boards, with label of Charing Cross Central Depot. Hand-coloured in delicate wash colour. Oxford is roughly at the centre of the map. Printed from an Electrotype in 1887. £80.00
¶ Extends to Brackley, Henley on Thames, Burford, Bishopstone.

Palmer (A.E), Birmingham PETROLEUM HEATING STOVES With enamelled drums, which will not rust in any climate. Trade catalogue, printed in blue, 16pp., 4to, original dark blue paper wraps. Divided into Heating Stoves, Cooking Stoves and Boiling Stoves. Illustrations mainly one to a page, including some very fine attractive ones of 'Palm' cooking stoves showing joint of beef in the oven, etc. Prices and description under the illustration. n.d. c1900. £40.00

Paris Exhibition NINE CHROMOLITH CARDS with views of the Exposition de 1900. Printed in colours and gold, size approx. 3" x 4", printed backs, 3 cards advertising 'A La Ville de Strasbourg, Av. d'Italie', 3 for 'E. Joanne, Paris', and 3 other various firms. 1900. £18.00
¶ Shows 'Palais de la Ceramique', 'Palais de l'Education', 'Panorama Generale', 'Porte Monumentale' etc.

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

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. £14.00
¶ 'un des hotels meubles les plus recherches par les etrangers et surtout par le commerce anglais'.

Pasta Vampa, Mestre ADVERTISING CARD showing a young housewife rolling out a sheet of pasta, bag of 'OO' flour and eggs on the table, a small boy feeding pasta to two hens, broken eggs on the floor. On card, 13" x 9", 'Vampa' in large letters across the top 'Pastificio Volpato, Mestre' at bottom. Blue background with lettering in yellow. 1950's. £18.00
¶ 'La vera pasta fatta in casa dalla massaia con uova fresche...'

Philadelphia, United States of America CATALOGUE of the Schuylkill Valley Stove Co., Spring City, Philadelphia. 91 pages, original wraps with gilt title, cloth spine, size 8" x 5«". 61 full-page illustrations of extremely decorative cooking and heating stoves, description and prices under the illustration, plus 3 pages illustrating various accessories. 1896. £70.00

Pomeroy (William), Compiled by ELEGANT SELECTIONS, ON SACRED SUBECTS Selected and Compiled by William Pomeroy. 1826. 180 pages, size 16" x 13", written on rectos only, each page full of text. No blank pages. Full calf, rubbed, with piece torn away in one place, front board almost detached, morocco lettering piece on spine with title 'Sacred Subjects'. Inscription on fly-leaf stating the book was presented to Tiverton Library by a relative of the Pomeroy family in 1946. Library label on front paste-down. Title page in decorative border, with leaves etc., and a variety of lettering styles. The Preface gives categories of extracts, and the various authorities (including Percy's Anecdotes, Rev. C. Bradley, Christian Guardian, Methodist Magazines, etc.) A few pages slightly spotted, small brown stain affecting the first few leaves. About a sixth of the pages have a particularly decorative border, but all have some kind of border. 1826. £140.00
¶ Includes accounts of Toplady, Whitfield, Wesley, Archbishop Leighton, Rev. Dr. C. Bayley, 'The Dying Negro', anecdote of Hannah More and her work at Cheddar, etc.

Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway. TIME AND FARE TABLE From December 1st, 1866, until further notice. Sheet size 17" x 22", folds, printed on one side only, headings in large type-faces. Gives time-tables between Shrewsbury and Aberystwith, via Llanfyllin, Oswestry, Llanymynech (North Wales Section). Sandford, Printer Shrewsbury. 1866. £45.00

Presentation to the Pope LETTER to Mrs Stevens, 10 S. Bastianello, Rome, from (Miss?) Grant, English College, March 14th 1846 explaining the protocol, dress, etc. for their forthcoming audience with the Pope. 1p, 8vo, written in a very small hand, 13 lines... together with... a note dated 13th February from Mr Kestner saying the presentation to the Pope for which he has already sent the list is only for gentlemen, and he has had to put off the one for ladies, and enquiring about names, etc. 3p, small 8vo. 1846. £20.00
¶ 'Will you have the goodness to meet me at the place where the Swiss Guard is stationed (above the Colonnade)... the dress required must be of full black, with a veil... the ceremonial is to kneel on one knee at the door... and then at the Pope's feet...'

Pringle (T.F) THREE MANUSCIPT MAPS of Europe, Africa and Asia. All in the same hand, in pen and outline colour, with coast shaded, on thick paper, sizes approx. 9" x 13". Each has lines of latitude and longitude, with numbers in margins, mountain ranges marked with little outline hills, lettering in Dutch, in copperplate. Each has a title cartouche with title in ink and the decoration in pencil. Comprises: Kaart van Azie 1822 29 Maart. Covers New Guinea to the Red Sea, Siberia; Kaart van Europa; Kaart van Afrika. Covers Cape Town ('De Hottentotten' marked) to Cadiz, Damascus. 3 items Asia map signed 'T.F. Pringle de 29e Maart 1823'. £75.00

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.

Queen Victoria THE GRAPHIC January 26, 1901. Folio, 38pp. Issue on the death of Queen Victoria, with articles on her last days, many illustrations of scenes from her life, large double-page portrait, etc. 1901. £14.00

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

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 on the balcony 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. £850.00
¶ 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.

Renshaw's FRIENDSHIP'S TRIBUTE 1858. Diary, limp calf wraps with tuck-in flap, size 5" x 3", chromolith frontis and 8 engravings of Rome, Venice etc. Some notes on expenditure on ribbons, etc. 1858. £12.00

Rents RECORD OF RENTS RECEIVED 1752 - 1794. Parchment-bound cash book, size 12" x 8", titled in manuscript on front board 'Rentale Book Begining 1754'. 33 full pages of entries, plus many blanks. Records letting of 'the Croft' 'let to Mr Dent the Croft for £2 10s per year all the profitts to Return upon the ground to enter at Ladyday next old stile, I am to pay all the Taxes...', 'March 25 1790 given Cristiphor Swift leave to Spin in My Croft He paying Me a Guinea...', and 'Pothem Close', and 'the little part of the house' ('Let to John Leck the little part of My House for 3£ 3 shills. a year I am to pay all the assesments Window Money and the High Ways.') Notes sums allowed for Land tax. Loosely inserted are a few slips with notes such as amount paid on Window Money 'I pay for 23 Windows' etc. 1752 - 1794. £120.00
¶ At one point the writer refers to having let 'the little part of My House & the Kilnn flour', and 'the great stable'. Tenants include John Corbett, Thomas Masser, Lepton Middleton, Thomas Harrison, Charles Stoppart, John Burnby. Unfortunately there is no clue as to the writer's name, or any place name. However a Lepton Middleton is shown on the IGI as born at Ryther in Yorkshire, 1724, father William Middleton, and in this rent record a tenancy is shown to change from William Middleton to Lepton Middleton in 1758.

Rome LETTER to a 'Mr Thomas', signature illegible, but with printed address of 19, Bonchurch Rd., N. Kensington. Says the 'double-page block' will soon be finished, and notes 'the two bell towers of the Pantheon at Rome are now being pulled down... if you think the matter would be worth illustrating I have a large photograph...'. With small pen drawing of Pantheon on second page, noting 'Bernini's ears'. Undated. Probably 1883. £12.00

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.

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

Saskatchewan, Canada BILLS OF SALE for horses sold at Indian Head, Drinkwater, Biggar and other places, 1909 - 1918. 40 bills, mainly 4" x 8", printed with manuscript inserts giving names of buyer and seller, price, interest, name of horse, weight, description (often several horses on one Bill). On verso is form of oath signed by seller, 25 cent stamp. 1908-10. £26.00
¶ 'one roan horse (blind) named 'Bob' and one Bay horse, seven years old named 'Bazel' etc.

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

Scientific and Medical Instruments CATALOGUE of auction sale of Scientific and Medical Instruments, Christies, April 14, 1988. 46pp., 4to, many illustrations in black and white and colour... together with similar catalogue for sale of June 29th, 1989. Printed list of prices realised at end, latter catalogue with some prices marked in ink. 1988-9. £14.00
¶ Includes anatomical figures, globes, telescopes.

Scientific Instruments CATALOGUE of Important Instruments of Science and Technology 1550 - 1950. Sotheby's London, 30th September 1997. 87pp., 4to, many illustrations, in colour and black and white. 1997. £12.00
¶ Includes microscopes, sun dials, Napier's Bones, quadrants, cameras.

Scott (Valerie), Editor THE MAP COLLECTOR Three issues, nos. 67, 68, 69. Magazine, stiff wraps, size approx. 12" x 8". 76pp. in each. 1994. £24.00
¶ Includes articles on Collecting Maps of Bermuda, Cartobibliographies of City and Town Plans in England, Printed Maps of the Whole of Wales 1573-1837, Parts I and II.

Scott (Valerie), Editor THE MAP COLLECTOR MAGAZINE Three issues, nos. 27, 28, 29. Magazine, stiff wraps, size 12" x 8", 76pp. in each. 1984. £24.00
¶ Includes: Large Scale Maps of Derbyshire, New England Charts, Manuscript Maps, Fire Insurance Plans.

Seaplanes BREVET D'INVENTION giving the French patent for fifteen years for 'perfectionnement relatif aux avions'. Deposited by Norman Thompson (deposited in England 17th May 1919). Folio booklet, lithographed, decorative front wrap with medallion, classical border, 3pp., plus 2pp. insert describing the invention and a folding plan, 11" x 13", with two figures showing part of the wings and the wheels of a plane and the system for landing on water, or for taking off from water. Vertical fold. Signed, with the impressed stamp of the Ministre du Commerce. 1920. £45.00
¶ The invention included 'un cadre ou autre dispositif analogue supportant une roue ou autre organe similaire, ces cadres pivotant autour des bords superieurs externes des flotteurs, afin de rendre l'avion capable egalement de descendre sur terre lorsqu'on le desire'. The chassis could be rotated 'afin de ne pas gener au moment de la descente sur l'eau.' The Norman Thompson Flight Company supplied aircraft to the Royal Navy in World War One, but went into receivership in 1918. I became part of Handley Page in 1919. The factory was at Middleton on Sea.

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

Sidmouth and Lyme Regis ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Fifth Edition. Sheet No. 139. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Blue and black Ellis Martin Cover with hiker, cloth-backed. Slight crease in front wrap, slightly rubbed at corner. 1937. £8.00

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. £24.00
¶ Includes 'Italian Alabaster Bowl Fittings' 'Cornelian Glassware Fittings' etc.

Smith's NEW MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES With Part of Scotland, Including the Turnpike and principal Cross Road, the Course of the Rivers & Navigable Canals... Engraved map, counties shaded in light wash colour, roads, county boundaries etc., in denser colour. Size 46" x 37", dissected and mounted on linen, folding to small 4to. Scale 1" = approx. 10 miles. Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller, 172 Strand, June 4th 1806. £140.00
¶ Covers Scotland as far north as Selkirk, part of the coast of Ireland.

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.

Somerset and Devon NOTES ON THE MILITARY CAREERS of members of the Corfield and Blundell family. Two large folio printed forms, with column headings for Name, Season of appt., Ensign or 2nd Lieut., Captain, and higher ranks, and Services. Notes in manuscript for George Snow Blundell, Frederick, Charles and Alfred Corfield, William D'Oyly Burgh. No date. Probably compiled c1900. £24.00
¶ Detailed information on their service in the Army in India, for example among the exploits of Frederick Corfield 'He was given command of 20th N.I. 7th March 1842 and commanded it throughout the 2nd Sikh War 1848-9 including the crossing of the Cherrab river and the battles of Chillianwala & Goojerat, medal with 2 clasps.'

Somerset and Devon OBLIGATION BOND of Thomas Greenwood of North Perrot to John Bickley of Little Torrington, for £100. Preamble in Latin, the rest in English, on vellum, 4" x 8", small papered seal on tag. 1623. £30.00

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.

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

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

Somerset and North Wales PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Thirty-two good amateur photographs. Album size 7«" x 10", cloth-covered boards, manuscript title 'Holidays 1908'. Thick card leaves with photos carefully mounted, titled very neatly in white. Average size of prints 3«" x 4«". 10 unidentified prints of thatched houses, churches etc. loosely inserted, including one of Cheddar Gorge. 1908. £38.00
¶ Includes good street scene of Porlock, Lynmouth, The Lyn, Coombe Park Water, Hillford Bridge, The Wye near Llangurig, Tan-y-Bwlch, Ogwen Falls.

Sotheby's CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, Literary Manuscripts, Historical Documents.... 240pp., 4to, illustrations, wraps. 428 Lots. Printed wraps, a few small spots on wraps. Prices realised stapled to front wrap. 5th and 6th July, 1977. £14.00
¶ Includes the William Beckford papers (description over 8 pages), papers of the Smythe family of Long Ashton, Somerset.

Spanish trade ARTICLES OF CO-PARTNERSHIP between Mark Gregory of Cowes, Merchant, and Nicholas Guille of Guernsey, Merchant, to be partners in the business of a merchant for seven years, and to set up a house in Barcelona known as Gregory and Guille. Copy setting out terms of the original agreement, the renewal for another 7 years, sale of a share to William Gregory, etc. Manuscript, 12p. small folio. Ink slightly faded in parts. 1799. £20.00
¶ Each partner was to put in £1000.

Spink & Son's NUMISMATIC CIRCULAR 4 issues, Vol. XLVII, Parts 5, 6, 8-9, 10-12. approx. 20p in each, large 4to. Some illustrations. 1939. £20.00
¶ Catalogues, with prices, preceded by articles.

St. Kitts CLAIM to Nathaniel Hart, Colonial Treasurer and George Evelyn, Officer of Customs, of Isaac Richards of the town of Basseterre, Master Mariner, for the return of his sloop 'Lady Robinson', which had been seized under the Act relating to carriage of passengers by sea. Manuscript, signed, 2p, sm. folio, folded. Paper slightly browned, with a couple of wormholes. 1858. £16.00

St. Minver INSURANCE CERTIFICATE for 'St. Minver House' and farms and cottages in Church Town and Trevanger, St. Minver. 2pp., folio, blank conjoint leaf, folds. Manuscript inserts, listing 23 properties. Vignette at top of page, size 4" x 5", showing large sun flanked by firemen. 1901. £18.00

St. Petersburg RELEASE by the Creditors of Francis Dring of St. Petersburg in Russia and of Francis Dring and John Brunning Merchants lately in Partnership in St. Petersburg, in consideration of the sum of £500 paid by Katherine Dring of Hull, Francis' mother. 2p., sm. folio. n.d. c1800. £16.00
¶ Presumably a contemporary copy, not signed.

SIGNED BY BARON CUVIER

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.

Street cleaning, watering SOHY Constructeur Mecanicien, Materiel d'Arrosement, Materiel de Nettoiement, 62 rue Amelot, Paris. Catalogue, large 4to (size 13" x 19"), 4pp., traces of folds. Two small pieces chipped away in right margin. Illustrations, including large illustrations of machine for watering streets, another for cleaning streets with a large brush at the back (both drawn by horses), attractive view size 3" x 7" showing a large park with gardener watering with complicated hose system, also carts, rakes, pipes, men using hoses mounted on wheels, fire pumps, firemens uniforms, pumps for wells etc. 1879. £40.00

Suffolk and Norfolk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LI. N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Blue 'Record Map' stamp in margin. 'Index to the Tithe Survy' printed in top margin. O.S. blindstamp 1880. £17.00
¶ Covers Mildenhall, Thetford.

Surrey, Berks. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 269. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 20". Linen-backed and folding into sm. 8vo marbled wraps. c1880. £15.00
¶ Covers Windsor Great Park, Staines, Bray.

Surrey, Berks. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 269. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 19". Some railway lines added neatly in red and blue ink. O.S blind stamp 1907. £20.00

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

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

The Spectator Ltd. THE QUEEN'S BEST MONUMENT And Other Articles, Notes, Poems, And Letters On The Queen. A Memorial Reprint From The Spectator. 79pp. 8vo, printed wraps. 1901. £8.00

Thomas (Angus), London, Printers CHRISTMAS CARD Single piece of card with wavy edges, 'Wishing You a Warm and Comfortable Christmas and A Lively Time Throughout the New Century. If our way don't forget to Pop In We've always A Spare Bed.' Size 3«" x 5". With cut-out of man sleeping in an uncomfortable bed, and a fold-over corner 'Oh Why did I Leave my little back room?'. c1900. £7.00

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

United States of America LETTER signed 'CHV' from 172 State St., Albany, New York, June 29th, to a friend in Britain addressed as 'Dear Colonel'. 16p., 8vo, undated but paper water-marked 1900, describing his visit to New York, Albany, Boston, and Washington. Handwriting rather scrawly... together with a four-page letter in the same hand, also signed 'CHV', addressed from 'Applegarth, Maidencombe, Teignmouth, Nov. 30th' (1905), to 'My dear Young', about his recent serious illness. c1900. £24.00
¶ He stays at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, where he pays 3 dollars a day, and describes the menu as 'running to 150 different edibles... Americans seem to be very temperate as to wine etc... mostly taking iced water'. He is impressed by the 'electric hansoms'. At Washington he found the White House was about to be repaired, and feared he could not go inside, but 'my landlord came to my rescue getting me into the place, & even introducing me to the President Mr. Rooseveldt with whom I had the honour of shaking hands & exchanging a word. He is a very busy man & 20 or 30 people were waiting to see him at the time...'

Urban Plans HISTORIC CITY PLANS AND VIEWS Catalogue, Spring 1970. 12" x 5", 53pp., stiff wraps. Catalogue of the company 'Historic Urban Plans' reproduction Limited Edition prints of eighteenth and nineteenth century town plans, with numerous illustrations (approx. 3 per page). New York. 1970. £14.00
¶ Many are of American cities, but also includes British and European city plans.

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 received for the Nelson Monument, Trafalgar Square.

War Office LETTER dated War Office 25th Jan. 1809, to Rev. Sandys at St. Minver, regarding a payment to Private Nutting of the 2nd Battalion 28th Foot. 1p., 4to, manuscript, plus blank conjoint leaf. Gilt edges. Together with copy of a letter from the Paymaster of the Battalion to the Commander, Major Nixon, dated Limerick Jan. 13th 1809. 1809. £10.00

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

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. £28.00
¶ Lists 289 exhibits.

Weinreb Architectural Books GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES A Catalogue of Books. Catalogued and edited by Hugh Pagan. 72pp., stiff paper covers with illustration, numerous plates. 1977. £10.00
¶ A scholarly listing of rare early gardening books, British and foreign.

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.

Weinreb Architectural Books ARCHITECTURE Catalogue 2. Books and Drawings before 1800. 94pp., 8vo., stiff wraps. Numerous illustrations... together with... Public Building Part I. 32pp., 8vo, stiff wraps. n.d. c1977. £12.00
¶ Booksellers catalogues of rare books and original architectural drawings and designs.

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. £45.00
¶ From 'The Dispatch Atlas'.

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.

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'.

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.

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

Whitcomb & Tombs, Printer AUCKLAND Latest Views of the Queen City. 44 photographic views, mainly full page, one folding panorama, oblong 4to, decorative wraps with bi-plane and yachts. c1920. £10.00

Wilder (Mitchell A.) THE ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER FOLK ART COLLECTION An Address by Mitchell A. Wilder... on the Occasion of the Opening... March 15, 1957. 7pp., 8vo, stiff paper wraps with gilt lettering and decoration, two photographs and one woodcut illustration. Staples rusty, causing rust marks on paper near staples throughout. 1957. £10.00

COPPER MINING

Williams family SEVEN LETTERS from John Michael Williams to his brother and uncle, 3 from London and one from Swansea. One dated 1858 says they have an order for copper, and that R. Michell is 'going on with Carne's Bank, his capital will be employed & we may get his Tin House...', another dated 1859 about lack of orders, imports from Chile 'only four vessels on the way to us... Mines in Chili nearly all stopped... this alone justifies our keeping up the price of Copper a little longer'. The letter from Swansea, 1860, says they should purchase little more ore 'I hope you will not purchase exceeding 250-300 Tons of ore on Thursday, say high produce and none but what contain much sulphur or arsenic and no grey ores - ask M. Andrews to be more particular in marking the Foreign Ores when they contain Black or Grey and part yellow...' all one page, sm. 8vo, except the last which is 2«p. May 1859 - August 1860. £55.00

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. £12.00

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.

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

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.

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

Wiltshire and Somerset GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. (GENERAL POWERS) DIVERSION OF ROAD Near Limpley Stoke. Parish of Winsley. Plan and sections, size 23" x 30", scale approx. 10 chains = 3". Linen backed. Shows Bathampton Branch Railway, river, Chatley House, Avonside House .. bound with... Diversion of Road and Path near Dunkerton. Plan and sections. Shows roads, railway in course of construction, paths etc. Held together at left edge with wide linen strip. Some slight darkening of paper along top margins. Kell & Son, Lithographer. Session 1909. £60.00

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

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

Wyld (J) A NEW MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES Projected upon the Trigonometrical Operations made for the General Survey of the Kingdom. Engraved map size 48" x 38", edges bound with tape, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into large 8vo cloth slipcase with printed label. County boundaries and park-land hand-coloured, canals coloured and named, piano-key border. With table of Altitudes of Principal Mountains. Some off-setting of title. London, January 1st, 1840. £155.00
¶ Shows county boundaries, Mail Roads, Turnpike Roads, Travelling By Roads, Railways, Canals, etc.

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

Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Freehold Estates at Rothwell, Nettleton, Alvingham and Market Rasen in Lincoln, Misterton, in Nottingham, Thorne and Hatfield in the County of York, which will be Sold by Auction... 30th March - 7th April, 1886. 10pp., folio, plus 4 folding and 2 full-page plans, hand-coloured in outline. Stitching loose, hence split at spine, held down spine with archival tape, one map has some small tears re-inforced on verso with pieces of newspaper, some chips in fore-edges of pages, docket title dusty. 1886. £34.00
¶ With Schedules giving occupiers, etc. Includes the Rothwell Estate, houses in Mill Road, Market Rasen.