Messengers & Literature
Tuesday 4 May 2004
SALE 654
* = ONLY lots with their lot numbers prefixed by one star are subject to V.A.T. at 17·5%. ** = ONLY lots with their lot numbers prefixed by two stars are subject to V.A.T. at 5%. PLEASE NOTE: All lots in this auction are subject to the Buyers’ Premium of 15% (plus V.A.T. where appropriate) on their hammer prices. ALL BIDS WILL BE TAKEN AS EXCLUSIVE OF THIS PREMIUM
MISCELLANEOUS ACCUMULATIONS
4000 CARTON containing a miscellany of items inc. 1950s magician's magazine 'The Gen' (5), 1951 Festival of Britain catalogues (2), 1967 Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' songbook, fine engravings c1830 of Greenock & Dundee harbours, various maps, books of plates, 1953 Coronation coach model etc. (Qty). **/*** £50
4001 MISCELLANY: Three newspapers inc. 'The Alfred' (1811) mentioning King George's illness, 1853 Bill of Lading for the 'Guerand' en route from the Thames to Guernsey, 1864 London hotel bill, 1885 letter from Indian native NCO to his CO of the Bhopal Battalion, WWII airgraphs (4 inc. unusual civilian example from NZ), 1866 Bill of Sale posted from Birmingham etc. (15 items). **/*** £75
** 4002 MISCELLANY of European letters etc. inc. (1721) Prussian Royal proclamation, Duke of Brunswick (1874), German & French stampless letters plus a few later, 1866 French telegram etc. Mixed condition. (20) **/*** £60
4003 MISCELLANY: 1814 Large invitation card to the Centenary Dinner of the Union Society (Insurance) of Cornhill at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street - fine engraved vignette in blue. Also (1920) White Star SS'Baltic' menu card with inset view of Gibraltar, c1870 folder of views of Scarborough (separation), unusual Xmas card c1918, prints etc. (8) **/*** £60
4004 MISCELLANY inc. c1890 Libretto of "Rigoletto" printed in Malta, Madame Tussaud's leaflets (3) c1931 , 1896 "The Picture Magazine" (180pp) with a portrait of the young Churchill, 1877 "The Construction of Roads & Streets" (350pp - fine) & c1830 "Queen Mab's Treasury Open'd" (164pp - Fairy tales with hand-coloured engravings, binding poor), etc. (9 items). **/*** £40
4005 MISCELLANY inc. 1924 illustrated Prospectus for Barnard Castle School, 1940's Newcastle Playhouse programmes (26), cigarette card album with various Wills sets, various PPC's, 1930's maps, etc. (Qty.). **/*** £36
4006 MISCELLANY: Carton containing various items of Post Office & Welsh interest inc. large 1922 photograph of Wrexham GPO staff, 2 folders of publicity photographs (postmaen, pillar boxes etc.), 1809 Carnarvon horse hire bill (ill'd), Conway Bridge Act (1821), Welsh billheads, prints, PPCs etc. Also a bundle of fouontain pens and paper knives. (Qty) **/*** £50
4007 MISCELLANY: An accumulation of letters inc. examples from Orlando and Devon refering to various musical concerts, performers and concerts. (Qty.). £30
4008 MISCELLANY inc. a bundle of sheet music, c1865-1945, 18th Century engraving of St. David's Cathedral, 1935 Aldershot Military Tattoo programme, various Liebig/Brooke Bond cards, cigarette "silks", etc. (Qty.). */*** £40
4009 MISCELLANY: 1720-1910 selection of documents inc. 1732 accounts for the rents on the Staffordshire and Warwickshire estates of Walter Chetwynd, Tax Office form, land tax assesments etc. (25 items). £60
4010 MISCELLANY: An accumulation of c18th & 19th century bills and accounts mostly dealing with the affairs of an estate at St Minvers, Near Wadebridge. Sorting may produce some interesting inforamtion. (Qty.). £70
4011 GAMES MISCELLANY: Carton containing vintage children's games etc. inc. 1930s 'Handicap Race Game' with fine printed tinplate spinner, various wooden jigsaws, 'Eagle Book of Records' c1950, Chad Valley projector slides (6 sets) c1960, 1930s annuals, construction kits, 1950s scrap sheets etc. (Qty).**/*** £40
4012 MISCELLANY: Carton containing 9 parts of 'Finden's Landscape Illustrations' (1832) prepared for Murray's edition of Byron - each with 5 engravings (mainly topographical); some edge foxing. Also 2 albums of beer labels, large qty. of cigarette 'silk' cards, cigar box papers, advertising items etc. (Qty) **/*** £50
4013 MISCELLANY inc. 1841 printed return from Leicester Blue Coats School with 1d black cancelled by two MC's, 1835 printed prices of canal & railway shares, 1917 comic Xmas card from troops in Mesopotamia, etc. (4 items). £30
4014 BUNDLE OF PRINTS etc. inc. c1720 fine street plan of Candlewick Ward (London), Southampton grocer's billhead c1840depicting shopfront, Louis Wain cat designs (2) etc. Good lot for framing. (50 approx.).**/*** £40
4015 PHILATELIC ACCOUTREMENTS: Box with a small selection comprising boxed "Signascope" T2 & adaptor, Morley Bright watermark detector, Eschenbach magnifier on stand and four philatelic society ties. (7 items). *** £15
GREAT BRITAIN - PRE 1500
4016 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1344: Small vellum document referring to land at Sutton Bonnington, finely written with almost entire original wax seal attached; dated the 17th year of King Edward IIIFine & attractive. ***. £80
4017 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1412: Vellum document recording an agreement between John Taillor of 'Castel Donyngton' and John Bonyngton concerning prooperty at Bonington; clean & attractive with fine geometric seal. *** £100
GREAT BRITAIN - 16TH CENTURY
4018 GARSINGTON (Oxfordshire): Two indentured vellum strips dated 1597 & 1614 with Latin inscriptions, being Final Concords relating to a property at Garsington held by Augustine Foorde & then his widow, Anna. Fine. (2 items). *** £60
GREAT BRITAIN - 17TH CENTURY
4019 DERBYSHIRE: Group of legal documents, 1612-87, relative to property at 'Fyndern', South of Derby; each written on vellum and sealed. Mixed condition. (6). **/*** £100
4020 'The PARLIAMENTS Proceedings juftified, in Declining A Perfonall Treaty with the KING...' (1648) : Pamphlet (20pp) by Henry Marten MP produced in the final stages of the Civil War, printed by Sweeting in Popeshead Alley, London; paper toning, otherwise fine in later marbled paper covers. A scarce item. **/*** PHOTO £75
4021 LITTLE MISSENDEN (Bucks.): 1655 Bargain & sale of Walter Mauncell's land in Little Missenden to Thomas Kent of London by William Walker, City Goldsmith; vellum indenture finely written in English with large, elaborate initial, wax seal, three witnesses & later endorsements. An interesting Commonwealth period item. £40
4022 YARDLEY (Herts.); Will of John Daniell of Yardley, itemising bequests to family members and to the poor of Yardley; handwritten on vellum (external discolouration), seal missing. Also a small (album page size) vellum probate (1704) with two very early embossed 5/- Revenue stamps. (2 items). £30
4023 ABERDEEN/EDINBURGH: 1678 m/s agreement for the sale of property at "Fordlands" (Edinburgh) with m/s "Is. Paid" & seven signatures; wear/splitting along folds but an early Scottish item from the reign of Charles II plus 1679 large sheet of paper with legal agreement written in Latin and signed at Aberdeen with an elaborate signature & a drawing of a crown and bleeding heart. A few wormholes. **/*** £50
4024 THE POPISH PLOT: "A True NARRATIVE & DISCOVERY of feveral very REMARKABLE PASSAGES relating to the Horrid Popifh Plot" - 40pp foolscap pamphlet by the London goldsmith Miles Prance with details of various murder plots etc. with author's portrait; disbound copy with old library stamp, last 4pp with edge damage, not affecting text. Scarce. **/*** £75
** 4025 THE POPISH PLOT: 16pp Evidence of Stephen Dugdale given to Parliament in 1680 concerning the Popish Plot against Charles II, being a detailed, first-hand account by a participant in the meetings which planned to assassinate the King, leading to the execution of many Catholic noblemen; published in 1680 by the forerunner of HMSO with superb woodcut of the Royal Arms; disbound but complete & fine. *** £50
4026 THE LONDON GAZETTE: Two 2pp issues being 1685 (7 Dec.) inc. a robbery by Highwaymen on Hounslow Heath & Turkish inroads into central Europe and 1698 (29 Aug.) cash stolen from the Horse Guards, runaway apprentice, battle between the Venetian & Turkish fleets. Toned, the earlier with edge faults. (2 items). **/*** £30
4027 1686 Single sheet handwritten declaration of the administration of the estate of George Manley of St. Margaret's, Westminster, granted to his son, William; folds and a spike hole. An uncommon item from the short reign of James II. *** £30
4028 RICHMOND (Yorks.): 1688 narrow vellum document being an obligation written in Latin, between John & Anne Hoppe of London & Joseph Hoppe of Richmond, draper with a summary in English on the reverse; partial wax seals, folded. *** £40
GREAT BRITAIN - 18TH CENTURY
4029 MISCELLANY: Bill of Eton School (1766) listing the staff and pupils, letters from Brownlow North , Bishop of Winchester and a m/s poem. (5 items). £70
4030 ABERDEEN: 1709 large handwritten detailed disposition of property on the east side of Gallowgate agreed between John Forsyth & Andrew Carnegie; some wear along folds but mainly fine. **/*** £30
4031 NORTHALLERTON (Yorks.): 1710 single sheet m/s memorandum concerning the transfer of property at "West Rowtreze" & "Garth Yard Bankfield"; 9d paper duty stamp & two fine embossed 6d revenue stamps. Folded. **/*** £30
4032 RECEIPTS: 1718 small printed receipt for Land Tax (spike hole) completed in ink with printer's imprint of "J.Brooke, Stationer, at the Anchor & Crown, next to the Drawbridge on London Bridge on London Bridge" plus 1790 printed Exchequer Pensions receipt completed in m/s for payment to Lady Colebrooke with fine embossed 4d Revenue stamps. (2 items). **/*** £50
4033 HITCHIN (Herts.): 1726 Release of land at St. Ippollitts by the trustees of Richard Washington of Staple Inn to John Turner, blacksmith of Hitchin. Large vellum indenture with printed initial, three sealed signatures and a strip of three embossed blue 6d Revenue stamps. Very fine. £40
4034 BISHOP AUCKLAND (Durham): 1727 single sheet handwritten memorandum of a property agreement involving the "Garth of Bankside" at Bishop Auckland; 8d paper duty h.s. & three fine embossed 6d revenue stamps. Folds & edge-wear. **/*** £30
4035 THE GENTLEMAN'S DIARY OR THE MATHEMATICAL REPOSITORY - AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1745: 18pp Almanac printed in black & red with month-to-a-page information plus an article on algebra, table of monarchs, ready reckoner and 2d tax stamp; paper toning, slight spine damage, unbound as sold. ** £25
4036 ABERDEEN: 1762 4pp contract concerning a croft at Pitmuckston owned by two ladies - the agreement having the consent of both husbands, Aberdeen tradesmen - and let to George Mackie, "wright"; 9d paper duty and 6d & 1/- revenue stamps. Folds *** £30
4037 THE UNIVERSAL MUSEUM: May 1768 52pp issue of a monthly magazine with a fine woodcut title & two folding plates with articles on a "new" South Sea Island, S.American Indians & John Wilkes; also the Court Miscellany for the same month inc. an article on Henry Fielding and "An account of two extraordinary dwarfs". (2 items). *** £30
4038 NEW THEATRE, HAYMARKET c1770: Fine example of a scarce complimentary ticket to a production of 'Othello', finely-printed in orange-brown on a small sheet (160 x 210 mm) the design features a Roccoco cartouche with a Chinese umbrella, bow & spear etc; signed 'Francis Delaney' and with a wax armorial seal presumably authorising the ticket. Folded with slight wear but a remarkable item nevertheless. **/*** £75
4039 VINTNER'S HALL, LONDON: 1778 printed vellum freedom certificate featuring Company badge, completed in m/s for John Farley who had completed his apprenticeship with Lawrence La Forest of London. Piece cut away, folds. ** £30
4040 TRADE CARDS - LONDON FISHMONGERS: 1) c1780 card of Samuel Rackstraw, fishmonger near the Bell & Crown in Holborn depicting the arms of the Fishmonger's Company, a mermaid & merman, barrels of oysters & fish etc. 2) c1850 Chapman of The Quadrant, Tulse Hill - beautifully printed on glazed card with an unusual 'landscape' design of a seashore heaped with fish & crustaceans, with a fishing smack at sea in the background. A very fine & unusual pair of cards. (2) *** PHOTO - see plate no. £70
4041 FAMILY CORRESPONDANCE, 1781-1851: Large bundle of letters (153), mainly between Charles Kindon & Eliza Kempson, some Jowett correspondence, a few postally used from London to Dunham & Swaffham. Also a bundle of autograph letters from various members of the aristocracy c1870s-'80s and an attractive ambrotype portrait of a young girl c1855. (Qty). £50
4042 ROBBERY OF THE BRISTOL MAIL: 1781 (30 Jan.) 8pp issue of the London Chronicle with a detailed notice of the £200 reward offered for the arrest of a highwayman who stopped the Bristol mail at Cranford Bridge and stole the mailbags with a list of material thought to have been stolen; also a report of General Cornwallis fighting in Geoirgia. Front page a little blurred. *** £30
4043 DUKE OF DORSET - an early patron of cricket; c1783 handwritten 13 line memorandum written whilst British Ambassador in Paris, listing the domestic arrangements to be carried out by M.Perregaux - mainly payments, orders for wine & furniture. Fine signature. £50
4044 BALLOONING REPORTS: Group of newspapers carrying reports of early balloon ascents inc. Raphine & Cousins (Brentford, 1784), Barrett (Greenwich, 1802), Sadler (Hackney, 1811), Glaisher (Woolwich, 1864) & de Groof's fatal fall from the Cremorne Gardens balloon (1874). All complete with minor faults. (6 items). £60
4045 MURDER OF LETTER-CARRIER, 1788: Complete (4pp) issue of The London Gazette (5.April) with front page announcement of the shooting of a mounted letter-carrier in Manchester and offering a reward of 200 guineas for the apprehension of the robber; also GPO notice concerning packet mails to Jamaica & the Leeward Islands etc. Fine tax stamp. *** £40
4046 LONDON BOOKSELLER'S TRADE CARD, c1790: Splendid card (75 x 120mm) with floral swags, books etc. for Clement, Stationer & Bookseller in The Strand with advertisement for the postage-free delivery of newspapers, bookbinding and printing & engraving; fine & unusual. *** PHOTO £50
4047 WARWICKSHIRE: 1793 printed bond completed in m/s, being a loan agreement between Thomas Harbridge of Pillerton Hersey and William Gardner, silk & wool manufacturer of Coventry; printed 1d paper tax and fine embossed 15/- revenue. Folds. *** £30
4048 CHANCERY PAPERS, 1796-1802: Bundle of documents relating to the case of Langham v. Langham - a dispute between two London brothers over the estate of their sister, Mrs Elizabeth Mara of Stoke Newington; documents inc. copies of her 1777 marriage settlement, the wills of Mr & Mrs Mara, inventories of furniture by room & smaller articles, depositions of witnesses who saw property removed etc. Some damp damge / repair to documents but a most fascinating story! (40+ items). */*** £120
4049 THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET: 1796 Box ticket for a benefit concert under the patronage of the Duke of Clarence (later William IV) - fine, stipple-engraving of two cherubs, musical instruments, portrait etc.; irregular / split top margin. **/*** PHOTO £40
GREAT BRITAIN - 1800-1849
** 4050 GEORGE ALEXANDER THOMPSON CORRESPONDENCE, 1800-52: Group of 36 letters from / to George Thompson of Andover, son of a friend of Warren Hastings & relation of the Vansittart family, mainly from London addresses inc. Lincoln's Inn, Stamp Office, Audit Office, Somerset House etc. tracking his career through to an 1852 letter from the French Ministry of the Marine rejecting his invention of a new method of steam propulsion; postal markings inc. a curved BROMLEY (1800), 1828 FREE letter to Belgium, m/s 'Mifsent to' with s/l AYLESBURY/46 on much-redirected letter & several strikes of the boxed 'Fitzroy / Square'. Extensively transcribed & annotated on leaves. (36) **/*** £150
4051 REPORTS FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE KINGDOM (Abbott, 1800): Large folio volume (675pp) with the1st & 2nd Reports recording the types of material held at Somerset House & the Scottish Record Office, folding plans of both buildings showing planned improvements, large folding plates of major documents, texts, locations, etc. plus index; half-leather, boards detached, some light foxing but mainly fine. **/*** £60
4052 'THE PERPETUAL ALMANACK OR GENTLEMAN SOLDIER'S PRAYER BOOK': Single sheet (252 x 375mm) broadside c1800 printed by Catch of Monmouth Court, relating a version of the pack-of-cards-as-prayer-book story, purportedly a true story involving a soldier disciplined for playing cards in church; pair of attractive crude woodcut illustrations and border of a complete pack of cards. Some creasing and staining but a scarce survivor. ** £50
4053 TRADE CARD MISCELLANY: c1800 simple card of Woodburn, painter & gilder of Ulverston; pretty chromo ice-skating scene on sale card of Logan Bros., Peckham c1880; ill'd tariff card for the Inversnaid Hotel , Loch Lomond c1870, etc. Various modern items are included. (19). *** £50
4054 OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS: c1800 Advertising bill (250 x 400mm) of P.& G. Dollond, Royal Opticians of St Paul's Churchyard with extensive price-list for telescopes, microscopes, thermometers and spectacles etc. Folded but generally fine. **/*** £40
4055 NEWCASTLE ON TYNE: Three vellum documents relating to property in Silver Street inc. 1798 3pp purchase agreement with details of the building of Bethel Chapel on the site (1803), an 1841 conveyance of property in the same street and a further (1864) mortgage document. (3). *** £50
** 4056 LIVERPOOL TONTINE SHARE, 1807: Printed vellum certificate transferring a share in the Colquitt Street Tontine to a 5 year old girl; very fine. Also a magnificent, finely-printed Freemasons' admission certificate of the United Grand Lodge, London, 1881with embossed seal; two large printed Insurance Policies of the Newcastle Fire Office for property at Whitby (Yorks.) (1845 & '59) - one with split along fold; large invoice (1889) from Langdale's Chemical Manure Co, Newcastle, with v.fine illustrated letterhead of the works alongside the Tyne etc. (6) **/*** £75
4057 PORTSMOUTH: 1814 4pp foolscap m/s account of visit by Prince Regent & foreign royalty plus local newspaper with report of the meeting, 1858 Portsmouth Railway Co. m/s memo re. opening of Havant junction, 1742 Act concerning repairs to the Petersfield-Portsmouth road, fine engraved notepaper with view of harbour c1840 etc. (Qty). £80
4058 THEFT OF LETTER CONTAINING BANKNOTES: 1815 (13 Oct.) 4pp issue of "The Courier" containing a notice from Francis Freeling of a reward of £50 offered for the arrest of a postal clerk from Stone, a one-armed ex Marine Chelsea Pensioner - suspected of absconding to Ireland with a letter which contained £165, etc. Bears 4d tax stamp. *** £30
4059 DUBLIN GROCER'S BILL, 1819: Printed stock-list of 'Charles Smyth...Grocer, Tea, Wine & Spirit Merchant' of Upper Sackville Street, Dublin illustrated with a fine woodcut of a Chinese tea merchant overseeing the loading of a ship, with the imprint of N.Kelly & Son; handwritten bill (1819) for various sugars & spices on reverse. Folded with a little edge wear / toning but generally fine. *** £50
4060 YORK - ELECTION BROADSIDE: "Milton's Minority - an Epigram" - small (180 x 105mm) sheet with four-line verse attacking a succesful election candidate, c1820 with an imprint of T.Deighton, York. Slightly dusty, closed tear but unusual. ** £20
** 4061 REV. CHARLES HESKETH CORRESPONDENCE, 1823-50: Correspondence from / to Charles Hesketh of Tulketh Hall Preston, rector of North Meols & St Cuthbert's, Southport, benefactor of Southport with postal markings inc. red ORMSKIRK/PENNY POST & c.d.s. of Ormskirk, Derby, Chester, Sherborne & Leamington, two FREE letters etc. Extensively written up with copious detail of family history to the 1990s. (24) **/*** £100
4062 LONDON NIGHT-SOIL MAN - TRADE BILL, 1823: Finely-printed handbill for 'Samuel Foulger, Nightman to His Majesty's Offices and for the City & Suburbs...Sugar Refiners, Lime-cisterns cleans'd Also unstops Funnels & Empties Sespools' with an engraving showing carrying slops to a wagon in a London street; folded & repaired, paper adhesion on reverse which bears a bill for 1823. A scarce item. ** PHOTO £60
4063 REIGATE (Surrey): Will of Elizabeth Cucksey of Reigate (1796), inscribed on a large sheet of vellum with attached probate (1824) having fine embossed seal of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Prerogative Court and a fine £8 blue revenue stamp. Dusty outside. *** £30
4064 THEATRE: 1826 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane advertsing handbill on white silk (slight splitting) promoting a benefit performance for Miss Smithson of "Foundling of the Forest" & "Oberon". Also "PANTINS, Jocrisse et Cassandre, Danseurs Indiens" - large card showing hand-coloured printed designs of four cut-out puppets (two evil looking pirates plus a male & a female Red Indian produced by the Imagerie d'Epinal (c1860's); edge-wear to top does not affect design, otherwise fine & attractive. (2 items). £40
** 4065 AUCTIONEERS' HANDBILLS, LONDON & SUSSEX, 1828-33: Four attractive handbills, each printed in a variety of fonts, advertising property auctions at East Grinstead, Stamford Hill, Marylebone, Hammersmith & Fleet Market; also (1866) an unissued bilingual £20 share certificate in Lafitte & Co. (5 items). *** £60
4066 TRADE CARDS - ROYAL WARRANT HOLDERS c1830: Pair of small trade cards with pre-1837 Hanoverian Arms - 1) Eagles of Covent Garden, manufacturer of Paper Tea Trays to the Royal Family (!) - finely-engraved with a list of other products on the reverse incl. Birmingham-made tableware; 2) Lawrence of Bond Street, makers of pocket books, dressing cases & desks to British, Prussian & Dutch Royalty (very slightly trimmed at left); fine & attractive examples of top-notch London tradesmen's cards. (2). *** PHOTO £60
4067 TRADE CARDS - LONDON WARRANT HOLDERS: Two fine cards - 1) c1830 spectacular small card printed in gold on deep green with Hanoverian Arms and a Gothic frame, for Scott of The Strand, engraver to the Royal Family, advertising the manufacture of seals, gilt paper & printing in gold & silver; 2) c1837 depicting Victoria's Arms unusually - but correctly - in a lozenge, for Archer & Taverner, paper stainers of Goswell Street, with adverts for wove wire blinds & ornamental mouldings on the reverse. A fine pair. (2) *** PHOTO £60
4068 MORTLOCK'S CHINA WAREHOUSE, OXFORD STREET: Large (210 x 160 mm) trade card, with scrolled embossing, printed in gold with a lengthy description of goods available from the Oxford Street store with notice of his annual sale "...Articles...at a reduction unprecedented, being suitable for Persons now furnishing.", dated London June 1831; generally fine , some tarnishing of the 'gold' - unusual. *** PHOTO - see plate no. £50
4069 BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD (Staffordshire) miscellany inc. 1833 handwritten Assignment, printed report (with one plate) on 1893 boiler explosion, 1909 sales particulars, 1951 pageant souvenir, billheads, 2 modern publications and ten PPCs. (23 items). **/*** £30
4070 THE MECHANIC'S MAGAZINE: 1834-45 selection of 24 disbound issues, each with fine engravings covering a variety of topics. Fascinating reading. (24). **/*** £45
4071 LETTER DESCRIBING COACH JOURNEY FROM EDINBURGH TO LIVERPOOL & THE SECURING OF THE LAST BERTH ON THE 'NORTH AMERICA' SAILING FOLLOWING DAY (1 Oct. 1835) EL posted Liverpool to Edinburgh, from passenger Abraham Craig to his wife. Very detailed account of coach journey and the "splendid vessel" on which he is sailing the 5 week voyage. *** £40
4072 PAIR OF PARCEL TICKETS ISSUED FOR THE 'PAVILION' COACH FROM THE BULL & MOUTH INN TO BRIGHTON AND FOR SHEPHERDS 'ROYAL BLUE VAN' TO HASTINGS (1832 & 1836) the 'Bull & Mouth' ticket advertises mail & stage coaches country wide and Shepherd's ticket depicts the 4-horse spring van travelling at speed. *** PHOTO - see plate no. £40
4073 LYNDHURST (Hants.): 1839 Precept for the Court Leet of the New Forest - single printed sheet completed in m/s addressed to the "Tythingham of Buttash & Handley", calling a meeting of the Court at Lyndhurst. Plus three Wiltshire Bills of Sale inc. poster advertising the auction of land & property at the White Horse, Cricklade and two 4pp printed particulars of the sale of the same farm at Draycott Foliatt in 1844 & 1845. Slightly dusty. (3 items). */*** £40
4074 BALLAD SHEETS: Four sheets printed by Such of Union Street, The Borough, c1840 each with two melodramatic ballads - 'The Mother who has a Child at Sea', 'The Woman that wished She Had Never Got Married', 'Poor Caroline of Edinboro' Town' etc. , elaborate type-setting, two with woodcuts; paper ageing, some splitting / repairs but scarce. (4) **/*** £40
4075 POST OFFICE PRINTS: c1840 pair of hand-coloured engravings showing 'Letter Carriers' room arranged for dispatch of newspapers' and 'Inland Office'; both framed & glazed. [UNSUITABLE FOR POSTING] (2) *** £30
4076 HEADED NOTE PAPER - ANTI CORN LAW CONTENTS: 1842 part letter from Joseph Hume to Richard Cobden written on a piece of notepaper with a very fine engraving of Bognor. The letter written from Manchester mentions the Anti Corn law League. PHOTO £140
4077 HEADED NOTEPAPER - LETTER FROM AN AUTHOR: 1844 letter on headed note paper depicting "The Rosery. Old Brompton" from the author Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881) carried by hand to Alnwick. £40
** 4078 SCOTTISH VIEW CARDS c1845: Group of 8 scarce engraved views of Scottish tourist sites printed on glazed cards (113 x 75mm) and published by Menzies, Edinburgh - souvenir picture-postcard forerunners. (8) **/*** £40
4079 SOMERSET: 1846 Grant of administration to the sister of the intestate Edward Habberfield of Creech St. Michael, m/s on vellum with fine seal of the Archdeacon of Taunton; also a similar embossed seal of the Archbishop of Canterbury plus 1861 Marriage license for St. John's, Glastonbury with fine red embossed seal of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Vicar General and a fine blue 10/- revenue stamp. (3 items). *** £40
4000-4079
4080-4159
4160-4239
4240-4319
4320-4399
4400-4479
4480-4559
4560-4639
4640-4719
4720-4799
4800-4879
4880-4959
4960-5039
5040-5112
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