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  1. 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

  2. Dobcross ADMINISTRATION WITH WILL of Edmund Schofield, Butcher, of Dobcross in Saddleworth. Large vellum sheet, small printed certificate attached with papered seal. Outside of vellum where titled rather spotty. 1849. £12.00
    Refers to his butcher's shop in Saddleworth, and asks trustees to find an apprenticeship for his son.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Fryholme, Dalton on Tees ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP. Sheet 26. Engraved surface 24" x 36", plus margins, scale 6" to 1 mile. 1857. Embossed Ordnance stamp, 1876. £18.00
    Covers area to the South of the River Tees, the Northumberland part of the map (about one third) being blank.

  6. Guisborough ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP. Sheet 17. Engraved surface 24" x 36", plus margins, scale 6" to 1 mile. Linen-backed. Contours at 100ft intervals have been coloured in buff water-colour, and marked neatly with heights in red. 1856. £20.00
    Guisborough is more or less at the centre of the map.

  7. Hornsea DRAWING titled 'View from my bedroom window, Grantham's Lodging, Hornsea, Preventive House. Sept. 23rd, 1857'. Size 7" x 9", competent amateur drawing of detached house with tall mast in the garden, man looking through telescope coastline in distance. Thick paper, some light foxing. 1857. £8.00

  8. 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. £12.00
    '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...'

  9. 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

  10. 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.

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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. Sheffield DIARY of Alice Gatty, written in Smith's Pocket Diary and Almanack 1878. Small 8vo., green cloth, front board printed with gilt title. Every day is filled in, with 5-6 lines, mainly notes fairly humdrum domestic duties, housework, cooking, gardening, visits to Sheffield for shopping, theatricals, the weather. Her husband Stephen appears to have worked in the law as he frequently goes to the Sessions in various towns, and goes to 'chambers'. Her father arrives in October for the 'Congress': 'Went to meet Papa at Sheffield in the afternoon went to see the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition with him and then to see Canon Walshaw', 'went in early to the Congress with Papa, lunched at The Wharncliffe. Saw over S. Marie's & dined at 4 with Canon Walshaw...' 1878. £85.00
    Canon Walshaw was rector at St. Marie's. She sometimes visits Ecclesfield 'in the garden at Ecclesfield in the morning. Came into Sheffield in a cab...' 'Walked over to Ecclesfield to lunch had a talk with Lizzie about housekeeping.'. 'Dr Gatty and Diney only at home'. The Ecclesfield family is probably that of Alfred Gatty, the Vicar there, and local historian. 'Stephen' would be Stephen Herbert Gatty, who was called to the bar in 1874, and went on the north-eastern circuit. He later became a colonial judge, and was knighted. He married Alice Georgina Rawlinson in 1876. She died in 1894. His sister was the children's author Juliana Horatia Ewing, and his daughter by his second marriage married Siegfried Sassoon.

  14. 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

  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. £35.00

  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. Thirsk ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XCVI.S.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 13" x 19", border all round. Parkland and main roads hand-coloured. Linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers. Linen slightly discoloured between sections with a few holes in linen where folds meet. 1859. £14.00

  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. £16.00
    With the usual provisions about fornication, gambling, frequenting taverns and so on. Bielby 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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