A large Ottoman cast bronze railway station bell, cast in Germany and bearing a founder's mark, 1912 date and BAGDAD; together with a framed hand drawn 'sketch map of Syria' bearing copper and brass plaques with the engraved inscriptions This bell was brought home by Brig. Badcock, AOC. This bell came from Mouslimiie Junction, 8 miles north of Aleppo (it is the station where the Constantinople-Bagdad railway turns eastward) and this station, which at the time I got the bell was being pillaged by our friendly Arabs, marks the northernmost point reached in our advance of over 450 miles of Sept / Oct / 1918 via Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Damascus, Homs and Aleppo, bell 43 cm high
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18TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "An accurate map of the Counties of Gloucester and Monmouth divided into their respective hundreds collected from the best materials and illustrated with historical extracts relative to their natural produce, trade, manufactures &c MLCCLX", dedicated to the Honourable John Thynne Lord Chedworth, Lord Lieutenant of The County of Gloucester...., printed for John Bowles in Cornhill...... 1760
A New, Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Published by London: Alexander Hogg, (1784-6) including Voyages I II III and Last. Folio Calf Backed Front has worked loose from the whole. With engraved portrait frontispiece and several plates, maps and charts including one large map showing the track of Cooks voyages.
NEWTON, William, The History and Antiquities of Maidstone The County-Town of Kent. Knapton, London, 1741. 8vo. engrd. frontis. xvii 1lf. 168 . Tog.with IRELAND, W.H. ed. England's Topographer or New and Complete History of the County of Kent. Embellished with a Series of views from Original drawings by Geo. Shepherd, H. Gastineau etc. Virtue, 1828. in 4 vols. 4to. folding frontis. map. 118 plts. only. full cf. spines worn and scuffed. Plus other Maidstone, Kent interest. 18
BAINES, Edward (printer). Directory, General and Commercial of The Town and Borough of Leeds for 1817. Leeds. 8vo. frontis. map. 220pp. repair to hinge. full cf. worn. Tog.with BARKER, W.G.M. Jones, Historical and Topographical Account of Wensleydale and The Valley of The Yore in The North Riding, Yorkshire. London, 1856. 2nd. edn. 8vo. embossed cl. worn. Plus a collection of Yorkshire Topography. 12
FORTUNE, Robert, Three Years' Wanderings in The Northern Provinces of China. Murray, 1847, 1st edn. illlus. as listed. orig. cl. worn. author's insc. pasted to ffepp. Tog.with A Journey to the Tea Countries of China including Sung-Lo and The Bohea Hills. by same, Murray, 1853. 1st edn. with map and illus. as listed. Frontis. and engd. 1/2 tp. pub. advts. 16pp. tape repair to frontis. hinge. orig. cl. worn. Plus A Residence Among The Chinese: inland, on the Coast, and At Sea. Being the Narrative of scenes and adventures during the third visit to China, from 1853-1856. by same. Murray, 1857. Illus. as listed. orig. embossed cl. worn. 3
FORTUNE, Robert, Three Years' Wanderings in The Northern Provinces of China including A Visit to the Tea, Silk and Cotton Countries. Murray, 1847, 1st edn. 8vo. frontis, engd. tp. 1 map. illus. as listed foxed. 1/2 bds. scuffed. Author's insc. to ffep. Tog,with Yedo and Peking. A Narrative of A Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China. by same. Murray, 1863. 1st edn. 8vo. folding frontis. plts. as listed. folding map. 1/2 marbled bds. plus an A.L.S. to his daughter Helen.
HAWKESMOOR, Nicholas, A Short Historical Account of London-Bridge; with a proposition for a New Stone-Bridge, at Westminster. Wilcox, 1736. slim 4to. (no frontis). foxing to pp. 47pp. 5 folding plts. at rear. Tog.with HUGHSON, David, Walks through London including Westminster and The Borough of Southwark with the surrounding suburbs. London, 1817. 8vo. folding map & engd. plts. foxing to margins. 1/2 bds. worn. Plus Lambeth Palace Illustrated by a series of views representing its most interesting Antiquities in Buildings, Portraits, stained glass etc. Brayley & Herbert, London, 1806. Plus other London interest. 21
HILL, Sir John, The Family Herbal or An Account of those English Plants, Bungay, 1812. 8vo. annot to ffep. viii xl 376. 54 cold plts. Tog.with CULPEPER's Complete Herbal and English Physician. Manchester, 1826. fo. frontis port with repair. Hand cold plts. as listed. bound with Ch v. Bogatzky, A Golden Treasury for the Children of God with map of Palestine. owners mark to endpp. cf. worn. 2
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