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  1. Brimham Rocks, near Harrogate WATERCOLOUR showing pile of rocks, one balanced precariously on top of another. Heather moors all around, with hills stretching into the distance. On thick paper in tones of purple, peaty-brown and grey, with grey-blue on distant hills. Size 11" x 17". On verso is written 'No. 18 Brimham Rocks'... together with... a similar watercolour, size 6" x 19", showing a pile of heather-clad rocks on the right, two small hills with buildings atop in middle distance, grey-blue hills on horizon... together with... another watercolour in the same hand showing a pile of rocks in the middle of the picture, in middle distance is what looks like a line of cliffs. All three paintings reach right to the edges of the paper. 3 items. c1860. £40.00
    Atmospheric paintings. The vegetation is well rendered. The scenery is reminiscent of Dartmoor.

  2. Castleford PLAN AND PARTICULARS of Valuable Building Sites at Castleford, to be Sold by Auction... 16th January, 1873. 2pp., folio, folded with docket title. Large folding coloured plan. 1873. £30.00
    Comprised 29 plots of land north of Albion Street. The streets are marked as 'Intended'.

  3. Coatham Mandeville, Darlington, Fighting Cocks ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile. Sheet 14a. Size 32" x 36", plus margins. Water features, main roads, parkland, railways handcoloured. Dissected and mounted on linen and folding into stiff marbled covered endpapers with printed key map. O.S. blindstamp 1884. £25.00

  4. Doncaster GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXXXVII S.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Fully hand coloured, key in right-hand margin. Top right corner torn away about half an inch along. Embossed stamp 1878. £24.00
    Covers Doncaster, Conisborough, Rossington.

  5. Fenwick, near Askern SALE OF LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK Wheat & Bean Stacks, Eatage, Household Furniture &c at Fenwick, near Askern... By Public Auction On the Premises of Mr Mark Skelton.... 14th & 15th of Feb. 1844, All the Valuable Farming Stock... Poster, size 15" x 10", rather creased in places, with some marks with printers ink. Lists Horses, beasts, Sheet, Poultry, Carriages & Implements, Furniture. T. Brooke & Co. Printers, Doncaster. 1844. £20.00

  6. Halifax LEASE FOR A YEAR of ground containing 'two days' work', lately occupied by the Cross Pipes Inn, adjoining Parkinson's House Lane and King's Cross Lane, John Watkinson of Ovenden, Merchant, and others, to John Howarth and others. Vellum sheet, two fine wax seals with rampant lion, lightly browned throughout. 1784. £18.00

  7. Hull SECOND REPORT of the Committee Appointed to Obtain Additional Dock Room at the Port of Hull. 3pp., folio, folded with docket title. Ross, Printer, Bowlalley-Lane, Hull. 24th February, 1820. £20.00
    'The Port of Hull unquestionably possesses local advantages superior to most other sea-ports in the United Kingdom, and it is painful to reflect, that, by the disjointed situation of the docks, these advantages are in a great measure rendered inefficient...'

  8. Ingleton LEASE of inclosure in the Township of Ingleton called Between Gates, Adam Shepherd, Ironmonger, to Richard Balderston. 2pp., folio, wax seals. Folds. 1797. £14.00

  9. Kingston-upon-Hull PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of A Freehold Estate at Carleton & Aldboro' In the County of York which will be Sold by Auction... at The George Inn... 5th Jan. 1819. 3pp., sm. folio, folded with docket title. 1819. £35.00
    Lists 15 Lots, with acreage, including the Family Mansion House in Carleton lately occupied by John Dodsworth, with description of buildings etc.

  10. Leeds PLAN OF THE NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING Scale 8 Feet to an Inch. Lithographed plan, by Thomas Winn, Architect, Leeds, showing three floors. Size 22" x 30". Repaired tear along much of central horizontal fold. n.d. c1880. £15.00
    Prepared for An Arbitration in The Matter of Samuel Croft's Trustees and The Postmaster General.

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  11. Settle, Malham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 1" to 1 mile. Quarter sheet with borders all round, size 13" x 18", folded, two small splits at central fold repaired on verso, some slight browning at fold. c1870. £8.00
    '92 N.W' in pencil on verso.

  12. Sheffield BOOK OF RECEIPTS for household furnishings, pictures, cutlery etc., ordered by Carleton Williams of 33 Broomgrove Road. Approx. 65 receipted bills with printed headings, plus a few without headings, folded and partly pasted on 14 leaves in ledger, size 15" x 9", many blanks. Ledger half calf, titled 'Receipts' on spine, calf very rubbed. 1883 - 1886. £120.00
    Carleton Williams was Professor of Chemistry at Firth College. He lived at number 33 Broomgrove Road. Includes 17 bills for framing of prints, giving name of picture; bills for porcelain from Royal Worcester, Copeland, John Rose of Coleport; Mappin & Webb; Maple & Co.; Orme & Sons (Billiard Table Makers); Woof & Whitker, Sheffield, House Furnishers (8 bills, some of several pages foolscap), for bedding, mattresses, curtains, linen, 'Bed drapery in Silk arras damask', 'new parquet Axminster carpet square for dining room', 'new mosaic tile floor in vestibule' etc.; Whiteleys; Anderson, Lerwick, Manufacturers of Shetland Shawls'; Fisher Sibray, Nursery (7 bills), for named plants and fruit trees 'clematis Duke of Edinburgh', 'dwarf Gloire de Dijon', etc.; Pim Bros., Manufacturers of Irish Poplins. Gives an interesting picture of the furnishing of the house of a well-to-do family in the high Victorian period.

  13. Sherburn THIS 28th DAY OF DECEMBER 1815 Is Upon Sale By Auction Lot 3rd A Freehold Close or Allotment of Land in Sherburn called the Common Close... Printed Conditions of Sale, 2p., small folio, manuscript docket title on verso of conjoint leaf, place of sale (House of Robert Hough, Innholder) and description of land in manuscript. Completed and signed memorandum on verso. 1815. £18.00

  14. Skelton TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION On Saturday the 28 day of October 1820, at the House of Eliz. Green, the Duke William Inn, by Mr. John Watson, Houses and Land at Skelton, in Cleveland. Printed in large typefaces with 6 lines of description of each of the 2 Lots. Size 14" x 8", traces of folds. Marshall, Printer, Guisbro'. Sept, 26. 1820. £40.00
    Comprised 2 cottages with Wright Shop, Orchard, Garth, and half a Pew in Skelton Church, and An Allotment on Manless Green 'desirable to any Person... anxious to Build; as there are good Public Quarries in and for the use of the Township, where the Purchasers will have right to win Stones'.

  15. Sneaton, Delph, Gunnerside, Guisborough EIGHT ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Comprises: Sheet 22 (Arkengarthdale); Sheet 46 (Smeaton); Sheet 191 (Escrick), Sheet 270 (Delph); Sheet 184 (Earby, Ickornshaw); Sheet 26 (Fryholme, Dalton on Tees); Sheet 17 (Guisborough); Sheet 51 (Gunnerside). Engraved surface 24" x 36", plus margins. Sheets 26 and 270 have blank areas (as they don't show adjoining county), and Sheet 191 has some red ink lines along R. Ouse. 8 items. 1850's. £30.00

  16. South Cave PARTICULARS of a Valuable and Truly Desirable Freehold Estate.... Which Will be Sold By Auction at the House of Mr. William Hudson, Known by the Sign of the Fox and Coney.... 31st day of October 1839. Title page, 1p listing 12 lots, mainly in MS, plus 1p. printed conditions, completed Memorandum. 1839. £18.00

  17. Terrington DECLARATION by Charles Hall that he will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England. Printed with manuscript inserts, on one side of folio sheet. Made as he was admitted to the Rectory of Terrington. With papered seal of the Archbishop of York, signed 'Ebor' below it, and signed by Charles Hall. Traces of folds. 1823. £35.00
    The Archbishop at this time was Venables-Vernon-Harcourt. Charles Hall built a large classical style rectory at Terrington, now occupied by a prep school.

  18. Thornton, near Bradford PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of a Freehold Farm, Together with Barn, Mistal, Stable, also a Messuage (in ruins) known as 'Alderscholes Farm'... to be Sold by Auction, 26th September, 1902. 3pp, sm. folio, printed wraps, folding coloured plan. 1902. £10.00

  19. Walker (B), Bradford, Sold Wholesale by JOHN BULL AND THE NEW TAXES. Slip ballad in two columns, size 10" x 7". No. 4. top right. c1840. £22.00
    Humourous attack on taxes and the Corn Laws. 'And for to raise some money/For the wedding of the Queen/They'll tax old maids and bachelors/That have turned seventeen... To tax and starve the nation/They do cobble up some laws/And the devil swears he'll tax them all/When they get into his claws.'

  20. Welburn APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE apprenticing William Tiplady, son of William Tiplady of Welburn, Stonemason, to Robert Bielby, Carpenter. Printed sheet, size 13" x 15", manuscript inserts. Signed by all three parties, Bielby with his mark. Small papered seals. olds, some slight wear at parts of some folds, with slight browning. 1847. £30.00
    With the usual provisions about fornication, gambling, frequenting taverns and so on. Beilby was to provide drink, lodging, pocket money, aprons, and three weeks in harvest for his own use.

  21. Whitby, Scalby ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XCV N.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19", dissected and mounted on line, folding into small 8vo marbled endpapers. An extra piece from the adjacent sheet covering Whitby has been added by sewing an extra piece of linen, which folds in neatly. 1872. £12.00

  22. York CATALOGUE of 256 Pure-Bred Shorthorn Cattle for Sale by Auction, 30th April 1924. 96pp., 8vo., green wraps. Staples rusty, tear in paper at part of spine. 1924. £7.00

  23. York City Club MENU for the Annual Dinner at Harker's Hotel, Nov. 24th, 1893. 4pp, 12mo, on pink card with decorative gold border with medieval people, etc. Small trace of glue near the word 'City' in the title. 1893. £5.00

  24. York INVITATION from the Sheriff of York to a Reception at the Exhibition Buildings, January 16th, 1895. Card size 4«" x 6", printed in brown, with shield surrounded by leaves at top... together with... Menu for the City Club, York, Annual Dinner, Nov. 28th, 1894. 4pp., printed in red on card, small 8vo. 1894-5. £8.00

  25. York THREE PHOTOGRAPHS of York. Album leaf with view of Monk Bar, and view of city walls, river, Minster in distance, size 5«" x 8" pasted on, on verso is large view of flooding showing three men in a boat paddling towards the 'Blue Boar Inn, crowd of spectators watching near the 'Crown Commissioners', woman looking our of first floor window of Georgian building opposite the inn. Some slight fading. The title on the mount is 'Floods in Bristol', but this scene is not Bristol, and is probably York. c1890. £15.00

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