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Click here to subscribeA small collection of maps to include Ordnance Survey maps of Minehead (1946), London S.W (1948), Dorchester (1960), Exeter (1946), a Geographia Ltd. map of Cornwall, Bartholemew's World Layered Series Map of Central & East Africa, and Daily Mail Motor Road Map of London and 10 Miles Around, with one other (8)
A .577" Enfield 3 band percussion rifle, barrel 39" with ordnance proofs and government sale mark (worn), the lock stamped with crowned “VR” and “1858 Tower” (worn), walnut fullstock with government sale mark on the butt, regulation brass mounts, the butt plate tang stamped “51” and “1633”, with sling swivels, solid barrel bands, and correct steel ramrod. GWO & C (slightly worn, lock and barrel polished). £400-500
A French 6 shot 12mm St Etienne 1858 Naval pattern single action pinfire revolver, no visible number, round barrel with octagonal breech 156mm (6-1/8”), the right side of the breech dated “S 1864”, the left side with various ordnance inspectors’ marks and initials, with ejector rod, plain walnut grips, and lanyard ring. Good Working Order and Condition (slightly worn overall with some pitting around the breech) Plate 20 £500-600
Various books, Smith (Keith), Silversmithing A Manual of Design and Techniques, Wine According to Ralph Stead, various other books, Saleroom Catalogue, Photographs, Bloomsbury, Dreweatts Wednesday 19th May 2010, Thirsty Work, Heineken Advertising and various Ordnance Survey maps, etc. (a quantity)
An early 19th Century Victorian presentation sword, Presented by the Officers of the Third Troop of Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry to George Knight as the best Swordsman in the 2nd Class 1843', with pipe back with etched blade, with Royal cypher and harvesting equipment, blade made by 'Reeves Greaves Reeves of Birmingham, manufacturers to her Majesty's Honourable Board of Ordnance and the Honourable East India Company', complete with steel scabbard with chain link hanger
NO RESERVE Atlases.- Reynolds (James) Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain, frontispiece vignette showing the mountains and hills of England and Wales, title, and 33 double-page lithographed maps with hand-colouring outlining geological structure of each county, some minor spotting and surface dirt, later cloth boards, [circa 1890]; together with another copy of the same, some leaves loose and only 32 maps (of 33), and four others, including Edward Stanford's The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames, 1909, a folding cycle touring map of the environs of London, a 1910 Ordnance Survey map of Kent, and an incomplete copy of Benjamin Pitts Capper's 'A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom', 1825 (6)
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***British Isles.- Bacon (George W., publisher) New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles..., 104 hand-coloured double-page lithographed maps, mounted on stubs, occasional spotting and minor browning, re-backed, modern half morocco, g.e., losses to inside marbled papers, minor rubbing, 4to, [c. 1883].*** Including regional and geological maps of Britain and Ireland, plans of towns and ports, a railway map of London and its suburbs, and a map of the Lakes of Killarney.
England & Wales.- Faden (William) The Roads of Great Britain, second edition, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, 750 x 610 mm (29 1/2 x 24 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some spotting and browning, folding into slipcase, printed label to upper cover, very worn, 8vo, 1790; together with Cary's Pocket Companion to the Roads of Great Britain, 1791, and 17 further folding maps of English counties, including J. & C. Walker's 'Sussex', John Cary's 'New Map of Durham', Stanford's 'Country Round Churt', and ordnance survey maps covering Hereford, Derbyshire, Bicester, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, among others, various sizes, 8vo and 4to, mainly 19th century (19)
NO RESERVE East Midlands.- Colby (Lt. Col. Thomas) [Six Ordnance survey maps covering the environs of Lincoln and Rutland], including sheets LXIV, LXIX, LXXXIII, LXXXIV, LXXXV, and LXXXVI, engravings, each approx. 650 x 950 mm. (25 1/2 x 37 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, neatly edged with blue linen, occasional surface dirt and light browning, all folding into contemporary gilt-tooled and lettered book-style calf slipcase, rubbed, worn, large 4to, 1824.
***Please note, the description of this lot has changedLondon.- Bacon (George W.) New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs with Supplementary Maps..., title, contents, two index maps, one for nine-inch scale and the other four-inch scale maps, with 34 double-page maps at nine-inch scale, 25 double-page maps at four-inch scale, four double-page maps of the environs of London, and 10 further supplementary maps, lithographs with some hand-colouring, each approx. 350 x 525 mm. (13 3/4 x 20 3/4 in), occasional finger-soiling, surface dirt and minor browning, a few maps with splitting to folds, numerous tears and loss to text leaves, rebound in blue cloth, boards now completely detached, worn, folio, 1886.
Holy Land.- Wilson (Capt. Charles) Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, lithograph, 1170 x 780 mm (46 x 30 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, folding with publisher's printed endpapers, even toning and minor surface dirt, contemporary slipcase with printed label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1864-65; together with two folding maps of Palestine, including Rappard's 'Karte von Palastina', Berlin 1868, and J.F. Assheton's 'Topographisch-Historiche Charte von Palestina', both folding without slipcases, worn, 8vo, [19th century] (3)
NO RESERVE Hong Kong.- War Office (The, Geographical Section) Hong Kong and the New Territories, third edition, Ordnance Survey map, lithograph printed in colours, on thin wove paper, sheet 720 x 100 mm (28 1/4 x 39 1/4 in), old folds, some with splits and small losses, minor nicks to edges, handling creases, surface dirt, spotting and browning, unframed, 1949.
Folding maps. A mixed collection of 25 maps, 18th - 20th century, engraved and lithographic foreign maps, British county maps, regional maps and town plans, including examples by Reynolds, Ordnance Survey, 'Geographia', Bacon, Waterlow and Son, Kelly, Sworder and Emanuel Bowen, various sizes and conditionQty: (25)
A collection of paper ephemera with WW2 military and social history interest relating to the Royal Signals and 12th Fusiliers in the Middle East, to include Army service booklets, a Blankets and Reporting In Booklet, Movement Control papers, Anticholera inoculation slip, a Christmas card 'Christmas Greetings 1946 Middle East Land Forces', annotations made by the soldier on films the troops watched, the 'Middle East Annual Athletic Championships 1947 Programme', a humorously annotated 1945 Base and Ordnance Depot Christmas menu, for example the starter 'soup (dish water)', sketch of a private room, several Middle Eastern maps and various other clippings, cuttings and papers (quantity)
A COLLECTION OF MAPS, GUIDES, STAMPS AND POSTCARDS/PHOTOGRAPHS, the maps mainly of regions in Britain and France (ordnance Survey, Michelin, AA, etc) the stamps, in a 'Wanderer' stamp album are mainly World stamps, the small number of postcards/photographs are mainly from Britain and France, there is also a book entitled Poster & Their Designers
Bacon's County Map of Cumberland, similar new plan of Glasgow, The Story Of Lancashire by Pitman, The English Lakes by Baddeley, Blacks new large linen backed folding map of Scotland, sheet 5, Philip's Tourist's Companion To North And South Wales, 19th C Ordnance Survey Of England And Wales, Cambridge, Ordnance Survey map of Lewis Beard Icarsgarth, Blackburn and Ordnance Survey map of Birmingham and Surrounds cut into sections
Marlborough, John Churchill, First Duke of Warrant signed ("Marlborough"), as Master General of the appointing William Weatherhead a Labourer in Ordinary in Her Majesty's stores at £26 per annum, in place of the late William Waterman, directed to Thomas Erle, Lieutenant General of HM Ordnance and the rest of the principal officers; counter-signed by his secretary and political ally, James Craggs the Elder, with Marlborough's papered armorial seal at the head, one page, folio, integral leaf removed, some browning and dust-staining, upper half laid down with associated tears, Office of Ordnance [Tower of London], 22 January 1707/8Footnote: Note: Signed while Marlborough was in London, outfacing the threat posed by Robert Harley who was attempting to replace Marlborough's ally Godolphin, and while preparing to counter a possible Jacobite invasion from Dunkirk.
A Pair Of 32-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Turn-Off PistolsBy W. Birkell, London, Circa 1745, London Hallmarks And Maker's Mark JAWith cannon barrels, one an old replacement and of 25-bore, breeches each engraved 'London' (refreshed) and with a band of foliage at the rear, and signed beneath the chiselled steel-springs, shaped border engraved tangs each decorated with foliage, border engraved actions (cocks and retaining screws replaced), sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with an expanded flower-head on the bow, figured rounded butts (old splits at each tang, one repaired at the rear of the action) each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates, foliate escutcheons each engraved with owner's initials 'MB', and grotesque mask butt caps each with foliate border, London proof marks and Birkell's barrelsmith's mark (2)11.5 cm. barrelsFootnotes:William Birkell was apprenticed to Charles Dymond in 1740 and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1726. He was contractor to Ordnance between 1742 and 1749, and was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1748For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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