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  1. Atherstone, Nuneaton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXIII.S.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 12" x 15", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding to small 8vo. Electrotyped 1864. £9.00

  2. Birmingham VIEW OF ASTON FLINT GLASS WORKS Two mezzotint views on one sheet, each view size 5«" x 9", plus margins, the two views printed from one plate, one below the other, overall size of paper 19" x 14", folded horizontally making a crease between the two plates. No imprint or title of any kind. c1810. £60.00
    The top view shows the works with a Regency facade, a pavement in front with elegant figures strolling and talking in doorway, the smoking cone behind, open countryside on the left with a house among trees in the distance. The lower view shows the canal in the foreground with barges and horse towing, the cone and works, with smoking chimneys, on the opposite bank, with figures working unloading barges. The two views present an interesting contrast. The glass works were owned by B. and W. Gibbens.


  3. Cliff, Kingsbury, Bodymoor Heath PARTICULARS AND PLANS OF A VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE situate at Cliff, Kingsbury, Bodymoor Heath, and Nether Whitacre extending to about 128 acres... 5pp., folio, wraps, large coloured plan and manuscript Valuation of Manor House Farm, Cliff, 3p. 1929. £18.00

  4. Coventry LETTER signed 'John Sibree', dated Coventry May 12th 1821. Address panel on verso with address to 'Joshua Wilson, Castle Street, City Road, London.' Postmark. Small repair in paper top right. 1p, 4to. 13 lines in a neat hand. 1821. £18.00
    Asks for information from the Church Book for an acquaintaince 'the name is Elisabeth daughter of Saml. & Sarah Shilton... this person has had some property left her & the copy of the Register is wanted...' Possibly the Revd. John Sibree, of Coventry, whose family were friends of George Eliot.


  5. Leamington Spa PHOTOGRAPH title on verso 'Upper end of Holly Walk'. Albumen print, size 6" x 8«", shows wide lane lined with trees, with detached half-timbered house on left with lady standing in front of porch. c1890. £5.00
    Leamington Spa is not noted on verso, but it would seem to be this location.


    WARWICKSHIRE Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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  6. Warwick REPORT ON THE PROPOSED EXTENSION of the Borough of Warwick by R. Owen Jones. Map showing Parliamentary boundaries, scale 2" to 1 mile, size 14" x 12". With one brief page of text, folio. Zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office. 1885. £20.00
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