Lesley Aitchison - Dorset, Manuscripts, Maps, Photographs, Ephemera etc.

Bartholomew's REDUCED ORDNANCE SURVEY For Tourists & Cyclists. Sheet 34. Dorset. Scale 2 miles to an inch. Colour-printed, linen-backed and folding into decorative blue cloth wraps. c1918. £12.00
Beale's Fancy Fair, Publisher PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF BOURNEMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Sm. 4to, 42 photolitho views on extending strip (some full page, some 2, 4 or 6 to a page). Gilt title on front board. Map on back endpaper, lacks the back free endpaper with half the map. c1900. £16.00
¶ Includes two good views of Beale's shop.
Bloxworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLII N.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17", plus margins. Second Edition 1902. £10.00
¶ Covers Bloxworth House, Morden, Black Heath.
Bryanston WILL of William Straight of Bryanston, Gent. 2p., small folio, conjoint leaf had been used as address panel by Robert Gapper to send the will to John Long at Whalley, near Frome, with small round stamp with letters 'AP'. Conjoint leaf torn right across, splits down main fold, paper creased. 1724. £17.00
¶ Extracted copy with Probate details in Latin. Refers to his Manor of Compton in Wiltshire, messuage in Stourpaine.
Caundle Bishop WILL of Mary Fry of Caundle Bishop, widow. Contemporary copy, signed by a female witness and an attorney. 3p., folio, closely written. 1830. £24.00
¶ Leaves her estate at Caundle Bishop to her niece Ann Peacock, an allowance and a bedstead and quilt to her servant, a sum for paying for blankets and clothes to be given to six poor widows of the parish, on St. Thomas's day, and a bequest of £750 to her late grandson's two illegitimate children by 'Mrs Maria Munro who lived with him', to be paid to the Governor of the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of 'placing them out as apprentices or otherwise for their advancement in the world.'
Chardstock AGREEMENT for a Lease of messuage and land at Alson, John Stevens of Axminster to Philip Griffith of Lyme Regis. 3p, folio, including 12-line schedule with names of fields. 2 small splits at folds, outer sheet dusty. 1853. £10.00
Chardstock (Liberty and Manor of) LICENCE to William Bond of Axminster, Land Surveyor, to let a cottage and four acres called Purdishay in Chardstock. Granted at the Court Baron of the Rt. Hon. George Lord Auckland... Vellum, 12Ť" x 15"... together with two other similar documents giving licence to Bond to let a cottage late Burridges, and a tenement called Boards. This last document has two lines almost rubbed away. 3 items. 1814. £16.00
Evershott WILL AND CODICIL OF HENRY PETTY of Evershott. Attested copy. 2p, folio. Ink slightly faded. 1841. £10.00
¶ Bequeathes his property in Evershott to three Trustees for the use of his wife.
Geological Survey FIVE MAPS colour-printed. Comprises:- Sheet 329 (Bournemouth), Drift. Maps size 17" x 24", overall size 25" x 36", key and sections in margins. 1976... with... Sheet 342 (Weymouth, Portland), 1937. Drift, size 13" x 19", key in margin, sections, central fold.... with... Sheet 326/340 (Lyme Regis, Sidmouth), Drift. Size 13" x 19" plus margins. 1955; Sheet 313 (Shaftesbury) 1977. Size 16" x 24", plus margins, folds... with... O.S. Provisional Edition Sheet SY67 (Weymouth and Portland) 1958 (6" scale, not geological). Size 21" x 20, plus margins. Five maps in all. 1937-1976. £20.00
Hazelbury Bryan PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of Freehold Properties in Hazelbury Bryan, Bagber, East Orchard, Sutton Waldron, Hinton St. Mary and Powerstock... for sale by Public Auction... March 1st, 1918. 10pp., wraps. Vertical fold. 1918. £16.00
Henbury Park, Charborough Park ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIV S.W. Size 13" x 17" plus margins. Contours in Red. Provisional Edition. Revision of 1926 with additions in 1938. £12.00
Hinton St. Mary WILL of William Wadman of Hinton St. Mary, Carpenter. 1p., blank conjoint leaf. Signed by Wadman and three witnesses with wax seal. 1831. £12.00
Kingston WILL of John Barns of Kingston in the Tything of Great Canford, yeoman. Extracted copy of 1811 of will made 1804. 5p., folio, folded, cover sheet with docket title. 1811. £16.00
¶ The executors with William Recks and Hookey King. Bequeathes his estate to his wife, money to his grandchildren. Andrew Barns Burlington was to have his clock and his feather bed.
Lydlinch DECLARATION of Robert Drake, of Poole, Pork Butcher, as to the heirs of his father's brother, Thomas Drake, of Lydlinch, yeoman. 3p., folio, folded. Gives information about the eleven children of Thomas, where they lived, where buried etc. 1853. £8.00
Lyme Regis, Lydlinch MORTGAGE of Messuages Farms and Lands in Dorset Somerset and Devon for securing £6000 and Interest. Revd. H. Yeatman of Stock Gaylord Dorset to Revd. J. Daintry Vicar of Putney, Wiltshire, and J. Du Boulay of Holwell, Somerset. Made in pursuance of an Act of Parliament. Properties include Summerleaze Estate at Kilmington, Devon, newly-built house in Lyme Regis on Uplyme Road, houses in Vicarage St., Yeovil, and Holwell, and house and orchards at Lydlinch in Dorset. 23 ms pages, folio, secured with pin. Contemporary copy. 21st Aug. 1845. £20.00
Melcombe Regis WILL of Mary Petty. Attested copy on 7p sm. folio. 1858. £9.00
¶ Details her bequests of 'purple & gold Dresden china' etc.

DORSET Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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Portland ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XVII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31". 10" repaired tear at right-hand edge, in sea area, but just touching Isle of Portland. O.S blindstamp 1880. £22.00
¶ Covers Chesil Beach, Bridport, Dorchester, Lulworth.
Rack Close, Sherborne ABSTRACT OF TITLE of Edward Earl Digby to a Close called Rack Close.... agreed to be exchanged with Messrs. Stevens & Fooks for a Piece of Land called Purly. Folio, 2Ťp. c1840. £10.00
Swanage PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Properties situate at Swanage.... for sale by Public Auction at the Town Hall, Swanage.... on Monday 17th day of May, 1897. Folio, 4pp, folded. 1897. £12.00
¶ Includes Alexandra Terrace, Newton Cottage, Albany Terrace, etc.
Tolpuddle PEDIGREE of Mrs Phillis March, Widow. Re. Browning decd. Manuscript on paper 10" x 23", folds, showing the children of James Frizzle and Mary Tice, with their baptism, marriage, death dates, and their spouses. 'Tollpuddle' is written on the back. n.d. c1860. £9.00
Wareham ASSIGNMENT of a piece of land at Wareham at the south side of West Street, Revd. H. Capel to R.C. Hutchings of Wareham. Vellum, 20" x 22", ink rubbed in parts. 1881. £8.00
Wareham LICENCE to assign land at Pound Lane, John Calcraft of Rempstone Hall to Samuel Townsend of Wareham. 1Ťp., sm. folio. 1843. £8.00
Weymouth HAWKES FREEMAN LIMITED Bridge Cash Stores, Weymouth. Leaflet advertising 5 types of Frister & Rossmann's sewing machines, 4pp., 8vo, 5 good large illustrations. Gives prices... together with... very small leaflet of the same Weymouth stores advertising the 'Kent' rotary knife cleaner, 4pp., illustration. n.d. c1910. £10.00
Weymouth PROPOSED PLAN of Layout of the Weymouth Bay Estate. Estate Surveyors Jackson & Greenen, Bournemouth. Coloured plan, size 20" x 34", showing plots above Overcombe Beach, proposed Cliff Walk and Gardens, Recreation Ground, Charlbury Lodge, Jordon Farm, Preston. Each plot numbered. Some stamped 'Sold'. Folded to 8vo. Issued November 1926. £12.00
Wimborne PLAN OF WIMBORNE MINSTER copper engraved plan, covering the town from Walford Mill to Deans Court. Size 13" x 10", clipped to edge on left side. With Reference table giving index to buildings. Small compass rose with face of sun. n.d. late 18th century. £8.00
¶ Appears to have been taken from a book.
Wyke Regis, Manor of ADMISSION of Jacob Roper, a Minor, to a tenement in Elwell. Vellum, 12" x 28", waterstaining along one fold, but legible. Verso of deed browned. 1837. £10.00

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