A carte de Visite (CDV) of the Prince Consort, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband. The photograph was published by Burton and Company of Haymarket, Leicester and New Street, Birmingham.
PRICE: £15.00, incl postage within UK.
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CARTE DE VISITE – PRINCE CONSORT
FACTS ABOUT BRITISH RAILWAYS – 1935
Booklet, c 10 x 16 cms, rear cover missing, 32pp, with folding map.
PRICE: £10.00 (incl postage within UK)
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING – BOTTROP, Germany
An architects drawing of a department store in Bottrop, Germany. The premises are described as ‘Geschaeftshaus der Firma 77 Unterberg, Bottrop. The architect signed the drawing ‘G Lohrmann, Arkitekt, Essen. A fine Ink drawing on thin paper, c 33 x 26 cms, it is of the period 1910-1920. I am not sure whether the building [...]
WILLIAM COZENS-HARDY – Opinion – 1903
Clerk’s copy of an opinion given by William Hepburn Cozens-Hardy K.C. concerning an estate in Belize; also an original case to Counsel relating to the matter, 1903.
The Right Honourable Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy was born at Letheringsett, in Norfolk, 22nd November 1838, and was a most distinguished representative of an old and respected Norfolk family. [...]
SEAL OF QUEEN’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
A detached seal, paper on wax, of Queen’s College Cambridge, c 7 x 10 cms. The impression is fine. The date 1675 appears in the legend, but the seal is without doubt of a later period.
£6.00, including packing and postage.
STATUTORY DECLARATION by Emma Jane Ireland – 1929
Statutory Declaration signed by Emma Jane Ireland of Hornsey, Middlesex, the daughter of Joshua Parsons, as to her her parenst and family’s immediate lineage. Dated 21st January 1929. On 4 pages of paper, two with text, c 21 x 33 cms.
PRICE: 7.50, including packing and postage.
POSTAL COVER for WELLS – 1816
Postal cover with WELLS town mark and mileage stamp.
PRICE: £11.00, including packing and postage.
AN ACTION OF LIBEL – John and Thomas Snowdon of Twizzel House vs Major Dickenson – c 1766
This small archive contains 7 documents:
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A copy of “personal answers of John Snowdon of Twyzzel House, in the parish of Balmborough, in the county of Northumberland, and of Thomas Snowdon of Fawdon, in the parish of Ingram, joint farmers of all the tythes of wool and lamb renewing happening and being within the parish of [...]
RIPON, in Yorkshire, Final Concord – 1801
Final Concord between John Jordison, Gentleman, plaintiff, and John Smith, Gentleman, to 3 messuages, 2 barns, 2 stables 2 gardens 2 orchards, 15 acres of land etc….in Bondgate in or near Ripon Aldfield otherwise Oldfield Ripon, in Yorkshire….. consideration: £160. On parchment, c 50 x 20 cms, two very slight stains.
PRICE: £15.00
HAMISH HAMILTON, publishing contract – 1949
A Memorandum of Agreement, in typescript, dated 28th February 1949 between Dr Jose Trueta of Headington, Oxford, author, of 1st part, Hamish Hamilton Ltd of Great Russell St, London of 2nd part and Cassell and Company of St Andrew’s Hill, London of 3rd part… relating to an assignment by Hamilton to Cassell of a work [...]