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A selection of :- Hampshire & Isle of Wight Acts of Parliament
When ordering from this list please note item No, and brief description.
Measurements for maps, engravings, etc are given depth x width.

  1. Andover NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS of the Borough of Andover in the County of Southampton. Poster, size 13" x 8", folds, heading in large letters. 12 lines of text explaining that the candidate William Cubitt is disqualified and votes for him 'will be thrown away'. With actual signatures of Henry March of Hatherden House, James Symons and George Young of High St. Some small edge tears. J. King, Printer, Andover. 1847. £16.00

  2. Basingstoke, Kingsclere, Stockbridge ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XII. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding to 8vo, plain paper endpapers. Main roads, parkland, hand-coloured, county borders with wide pink and yellow bands of shading. Taken from an Electrotype 1867. £45.00

  3. Bramley Firth, Pamber End 24 ACRES OF USEFUL UNDERWOOD, 57 Elm Trees and 250 Small Oak Trees Felled last season in Monk Sherborne Wood and Bramley Frith... Auction Poster, size 14" x 104", headings in very large type-face. Some very light dusting at bottom corner. H. Cooke & Co., Printers, Oxford, 1857. £20.00

  4. Bramley, Pamber and Monk Sherborne CATALOGUE OF UPWARDS OF 44 ACRES OF USEFUL UNDERWOOD, and upwards of 400 Small Oak, Elm, & Ash Trees & Saplings... To be Sold by Auction... At the Queens College Arms, Pamber End, on Friday, the 18th of November, 1853.... Poster, size 17" x 13«", some off-setting of lettering. H. Cooke & Co., Printers, Oxford, 1853. £16.00
    Includes an extensive list of the items in the sale.


  5. Broughton PARTICULARS of the very attractive residential property known as 'Broughton House'... comprising an Old Queen Anne House of Medium Size... entrance lodge and two cottages... lovely old gardens, intersected by Stream in all nearly 26 Acres... 'Clifton Cottage' and a pair of quaint old thatched cottages... for sale by Auction... 21st July, 1925... 12pp., small folio, folding plan at rear. 3 tipped-in photographs, and one on front wrap. Traces of vertical fold, wraps dust-stained. 1925. £12.00

  6. Hampshire BURLEY MANOR Manuscript plan of outbuildings and flower beds entitled "Copy of Mr E.C. Lister Kay's Drainage Plan.' In ink on tracing paper, size approx. 19" x 20", scale 4yds to 1". Shows Granary, Dairy, Saddle Room, Shrubbery etc with drainage plan in red ink. n.d. c1890. £5.00

  7. Kingsclere TRACING SHOWING OUTLINE PORTIONS of Lord Bolton's Property from the Kingsclere Inclosure Map. Manuscript sketch map in ink and colour on waxed cotton, size 40" x 29", folds. Coloured to show property to be sold and property to be retained. Shows roads, buildings, fields etc. Covers Butler's Coppice, Sleeper Coppice, Holt Common, Skittle Hill Coppice. Some notes in a small hand on some areas re. exchanges with Duke of Wellington etc. Some slight smudging of red ink. n.d. 1880? £12.00

    HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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  8. Ryde Isle of Wight THREE AUCTION POSTERs for sales of furniture by Messrs. Wallis, Riddett & Down. Posters printed in very large type-faces. Size 30" x 20", advertising sales in 1894 and 1900. Includes bicycles, 'Rudge' tricycle, tandem, 'Hermann' piano, Brussels carpets, bamboo furniture etc. A few minor repaired edge tears. 3 items. 1894-1900. £18.00

  9. Ryle (Herbert), Bishop of Winchester LETTER from his wife to the Rev. Cudlip, at Plympton, dated Farnham Castle, Feb. 7th 1904, thanking him for the messages from their Devon friends 'we cherish the memory of the dear Exeter days', with envelope, and a second letter of 1908 from Herbert Winton about the stone Cudlip is having built into the Piscina at All Saints, Sparkwell 'it will indeed be a sermon from stone...' 2 items. 1904 and 1908. £7.00

  10. Southampton Salisbury Canal POEM manuscript of 8 lines, making fun of the proposal to build a section of the canal along the estuary. Written at the top of a 4to sheet. Below this is 'On a Memorial in Kingston Church Yard'. 25 lines describing how Lt. Robert Jenks and seamen from H.M.S. Hero were drowned off Roscoff, in a gale, in 1810. Some managed to reach shore in a boat but 'from which they were inhumanly driven by the French soldiers and compelled to expose themselves to the mercy of the waves'. n.d. early 19th century. £18.00
    The anonymous poem, presumed to have been written by the Poet Laureate, compares the proposal to the man who cut two holes in his wall 'To admit his two cats, the one large, t'other small'.


  11. Stoke LEASE FOR THE YEAR of a close of land called the Parsonage Purrock in Stoke, William Peachy of Gosport to Revd. Francis Clifton. Vellum, size 13" x 18", wax seal. 1791. £20.00

  12. Winchester LETTER from Sir Thomas Heathcote, Hursley Park, April 23rd 1822. Written in the third person, saying he will have the honour of waiting upon the President of the Council of the Royal Academy on 4th May. Four lines, 4to. 1822. £14.00
    Sir Thomas Freeman Heathcote (1769-1825) was M.P. for Hampshire from 1808-1820.

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