Alnwick TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION D. Busby, Auctioneer, At Mr. Busby's Room, Clayport Street... The Following Valuable Property, Belonging to Miss Forster of Bolton, Consisting of a large quantity of Silver Plate; a massive Gold Snuff Box... Chimney-piece Ornaments... nearly 500 Volumes of Books... Handbill, printed with headings in large type-face, size 7«" x 9", folds. Graham, Printer, Alnwick, January 16th, 1836. £24.00

Alnwick TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION Mr. Riddell, Auctioneer, at The Angel Inn, Alnwick... All that Freehold Messuage and Premises in Bailiffgate Street.... Handbill, attractively printed, size 11" x 9", folds. Describes three lots, in Canongate Street and Bailiffgate Street, with occupiers. Two small additions in ink to descriptions. 1829. £30.00
¶ The houses were apparently large as one contained 9 apartments, one 10, and the other 16 rooms.

Alnwick TO BE SOLD by Auction at The White Swan Inn, Alnwick... 13th Day of August, 1823... All that Messuage or Dwelling House... situate in Bailiff Gate... now in the occupation of Ann Blackbrough, Isabella York, and others... Handbill, 11" x 8". Folds. The name of the Auctioneer has been changed in manuscript from James to Robert Russell. 1823. £30.00

Alnwick, Otterburn ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 5/6/8/9. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 25" x 38", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into marbled paper wraps, large 4to. Small library stamp on verso. 1897. £32.00
¶ Covers Alnham, Embleton, Longhirst, Falstone. About one eighth of the map is blank, being on the Scottish side of the border.

Bacon's MAP OF NORTHUMBERLAND by John Dower, F.R.G.S. Folding fully coloured map, showing railways and stations, folding into small 8vo boards with decorative printed label. Scale 1" = 3 miles. c1880. £28.00

Bothal PLAN OF BOTHAL DEMESNE LANDS in the County of Northumberland, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland. Manuscript plan in ink on paper, size 13«" x 18", slight wear to folds, some off-setting, couple of small holes to blank area to lower corner, back of plan slightly dusty. With names of fields, showing acreage, table listing 'Names of Farms', 'Names of Tenants', and acreage. The land is partly bordered by the River Wansbeck, shows names of the lands, or parishes bordering the Duke's land. c.1820. £70.00
¶ Bothal is just to the south of Pegswood.

Chatton TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION the 7th day of May, 1839, by Mr. George Phillips, All the Excellent Farming Stock, Horses... 155 Ewes with their Lambs, 237 Ewe and Wedder Hogs, 2 Tup Hogs and 1 Tup, all of the Leicester Breed... 17 Draught Horses... upon the Farms of Hetton and Hetton Law... Handbill, size 11" x 9", folds. Attractive decorative lettering. Graham, Printer, April 23rd, 1839. £30.00

Edlingham TO BE SOLD by Auction, for Ready Money, At Abberwick Mill... by W. Amory, Auctioneer, All the Stock upon the Farm there, occupied by Mr. Thomas Purvis: Consisting of 2 Milch Cows, 1 Yearling Quey... several Bolls of Oats and Barley in Granary, a Bolting Mill and Cloths... 2 Boats and Oars... 1 Acre of Turnips... Handbill, with some lines printed in very large type-faces, 9 lines listing machinery, crops etc. Some creasing. Feb. 17th, 1834. £30.00

Ellingham SALE OF FARMING STOCK Brockley Hall, March 24, 1848. By J.O. Stamp. Notebook, small 8vo, stiff marbled wraps, 11 double-page spreads recording the sale, in columns for Lot No., Article, Purchaser, Amount... together with... two printed notices of distraint for the sale, details in manuscript, a final account with sum raised, auctioneers costs etc., and a number of letters concerning compensation to the tenant for 'damage done by carting to and from the Tilery across the Moor'. 1848. £46.00
¶ The sale included shovels, forks, harrows, 'killing stool', 'corn bogie', ewes in lamb, 'wedder hogs' etc. The tenant was Adam Tindall and the landlord the Duke of Northumberland. He owed a large amount of rent.

Greenhaugh LEASE FOR A YEAR of Jameson's Farm, now in the occupation of William Lowes. John Milburn of Camogan, husbandman, to Christopher Reed of Chipchase. Vellum, size 15" x 26", chipped wax seal. 1760. £17.00

Holy Island, Wooler, Berwick-upon-Tweed ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 1/2/3/4. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 26" x 37", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into large 4to marbled wraps, small key plan on front wrap. Small library stamp on verso. 1897. £32.00

Kelly's MAP OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE and Gateshead. Size 33" x 25", scale 8" = 1 mile. Folding into plain cloth-covered boards, 10" x 7", marbled endpapers. c1900. £14.00

Leconfield (Lord) LETTER to Professor (handwriting illegible), saying he and Lady Leconfield will be glad to receive his son at Petworth, although he will be detained in London by the meeting of Parliament. Printed address of 9 Chesterfield Gardens, dated Nov. 12th 1884. 3p., small 8vo. 1884. £8.00

Lesbury TO BE SOLD by Auction at the Black Swann Inn, Alnwick, Saturday 10th Day of June... T. Riddell, Auctioneer, All That Valuable Freehold Estate in the Village of Lesbury... containing about 70 Acres... and a Substantial Dwelling House... thriving Plantation, fine Stream of Water... Handbill, size 12" x 10". Folds. Printed in attractive variety of type-faces, with auctioneers name in printed in '3 D' effect shaded lettering, appearing as if it is at an angle to the paper, the word 'Estate' in large black lettering with white leaf decoration in the letters. Graham, Printer, Alnwick, May 25th, 1837. £40.00

Mac-Lauchlan (Henry) MAP OF THE EASTERN BRANCH OF THE WATLING STREET in the County of Northumberland, From Bewclay near Portgate on the Roman Wall to Berwick upon Tweed, together with a branch extending from High Rochester to Whittingham, with Enlarged Plans of the Adjacent Camps. From a Survey made by direction His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., in the Years 1857, 1858, and 1859, by Henry Mac-Lauchlan. Scale to the Map, 2 inches to a mile, scale to the enlarged plans, 8 chains to an inch. 5 double page engraved map sheets, drawn on Stone by J. French, in folio volume, half morocco, gilt title on front board, morocco rubbed. The line of the road is in red. Inscribed 'With the Duke of Northumberland's Compliments' on flyleaf. Printed for Private Distribution. 1864. £220.00
¶ The plans of the camps are very finely drawn, showing buildings, woodland etc., with delicate hachuring. Mac-Lauchlan published 'A Memoir written during a Survey of the Watling Street from the Tees to the Scotch border in 1850 and 1851...' in 1852, and later 'A Map of the Roman Wall' in 1860, and 'A Map of Northumberland shewing the Ancient Camps & Roads....' in 1866.

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Newcastle GEOGRAPHIA PLAN OF NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD Scle 5" to 1 mile. Linen-backed, card wraps... together with... Reid's Plan of Newcastle. Scale 4" to 1 mile. 8vo. wraps. n.d. c1950. £10.00

Newcastle ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Composite map, made up of 4 quarter sheets, Sheets 14 and 15 and sheets to the south. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 38" x 25". Area round Newcastle and to the north hand-coloured in different colours according to area, and neatly titled ' Prestwick', 'Dinnington', etc. A few repaired marginal tears. O.S. blindstamp 1902. £30.00
¶ Covers Newcastle, Blyth, Sunderland, Morfet.

Newcastle, Morpeth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Made up of 4 quarter sheets. Size 24" x 37", shaded in different colours to show municipal Boroughs, Urban districts, Tynemouth Rural District, area of Tynemouth Union etc. Water mains drawn in red. With neat key numbers in sea area. O.S. blindstamp 1902. £28.00

Newcastle, Sunderland ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Made up of quarter sheets pasted together, sheets 14, 15, 20, 21, size 26" x 38". Area between Morpeth, Stocksfield and Gateshead outlined and shaded in different areas and labelled (Bedlington, Horton, Burradon, etc.) Tear in bottom margin, repaired. c1902. £28.00

Tweedside PARTICULARS of the Freehold Farm known as 'Mount Carmel' to be Sold by Auction 13th March, 1920. 4pp., small folio, pink wraps, back wrap detached, held down spine with archival tape. Folding coloured map. 1920. £8.00

Walker (J) & (C) NORTHUMBERLAND Folding engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, engraved area approx. 12¬" x 15«", plus margins, folding into sm 8vo cloth endpapers. Roads, rivers, parkland, county border hand coloured. 1836. £22.00
¶ With Reference to Wards, Polling Places etc.

Warden PLAN OF STAWARD ESTATE in the Parish of Warden and County of Northumberland belonging to William Bacon Foster Esqr. Manuscript map in ink on vellum, size 28" x 25", scale 1" = 5 chains. Large title top right in decorative 'Gothic' lettering, large compass rose, Contents table down right-hand side with names of 45 fields etc., numbered and referring to numbers on map, with acreage. Shows the Allen river at the left, with the lands to the east of it. Woodland along the river shown with many small trees, shows roads, hedges, buildings, public quarry, Lots of Common with to whom awarded, lands and boundaries belonging to Greenwich Hospital. no date. c1800. £160.00

Whittingham TO BE SOLD By Auction at Great Ryle, in the parish of Whittingham... on Saturday the 9th day of May, 1840 all the Farming Stock on the said Farm belonging to the Trustee of Mr. G.H. Grey... Poster, size 15" x 10", folds. Hodgson, Union St., Newcastle, Printer, 1840. £28.00
¶ Printed with a list of 11 types of stock in large type-face, including '318 Ewes and their Lambs', '33 Gimmers', '56 Kyloes'.

Wooler TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION At Weetwood House, near Wooler... Household Furniture, Table and Bed Linen, That belonged to the late Lieut. Gen. and Mrs Orde... Handbill, attractively printed in a variety of decorative type-faces, size 11" x 9". Horizontal folds. Weetwood House, January 30th, 1821. £40.00
¶ With a long list of Household contents, including 'double-moulded cut Fenders and Fire Irons', 'elegant cut Wine Decanters', 'Travelling Landau and Harness... Steady Bay Carriage Horses...'