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SOPWITH T.  Notes of a Visit to Egypt by Paris, Lyons, Nismes, Marseilles & Toulon. No frontis (as mentioned in the plate list) but 3 litho plates as called for. Orig. brown cloth, much internal thumbing & foxing. Pres. copy from the author. Private Circulation, 1857. Sopwith, a railway surveyor at the time, was accompanied on this trip by Robert Stephenson, the railway engineer who is one of the dedicatees of this volume.

Tribal weapons. A collection of African edged weapons, 19th c, including a Zulu war axe with decorated steel blade and richly patinated wood shaft, the head carved with a mask with elongated features, handle 45cm Provenance: William Selkirk FGS (1869-1951); thence by descent to the present owner A mining surveyor and geologist born in Cumberland, Selkirk travelled extensively whilst for many years a close associate of the copper magnate Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). He was much involved with gold, copper, manganese and iron ore fields around the world, in particular West Africa and Northern Rhodesia Some rust but all complete and in original condition

Vintage Star Wars and Legoland Space Sets, 7110 Land speeder,6821 Lunar Rock collector, 6846 Zero 15 Interceptor, 6870 Space craft Launcher,6880 Mercury Surveyor, 6890 Space Ship & Shuttle, 6929 Space Transporter, loose Lego including baseplates with landing straps, 2 crater plates, and a boxed 6655 car with jack, plus a number of catalogues/leaflets including 1980,81, 82, 84, all the boxes have been opened except set 6870 (A.lot)

Original vintage double-sided travel map poster Motor Map of Ceylon, Published under the direction of I.F. Wilson, M.C., F.R.G.S. Surveyor General of Ceylon, the map presents main trunk roads, motorable roads, motor ferries, cart tracks, railways, petrol depots, rest houses, hotels, police stations, hospitals, resident dispensaries, telegraph and/or telephone offices, telephone boxes, province boundaries, light houses, and aerodromes. Horizontal. 31x12cm when folded. Fair condition, folds, tears, creasing, staining, paper losses on cover, double sided. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 61x80, year of printing: 1940s.

NO RESERVE Space.- Apollo 12.- Conrad (Pete) Alan Bean holds a lunar soil sampler, the photographer reflected in his visor, signed by Alan Bean, vintage print on Kodak Royal Digital paper, [late 20th century]; "Me & Surveyor II", printed on Kodak Professional paper, n.d.; and 5 others of Alan Bean on the moon, all signed in either gold or silver pen, c.200 x 255 mm. (8 x 10 in.) and c.510 x 405 mm. (20 x 16 in), (7)

A MAP OF THE LORDSHIP OF SMEETON WESTERBY, 1850, by Wm. Buzzard, Surveyor, Kibworth, in pen and coloured ink, on canvas backing, the fields named and numbered with corresponding proprietors, in a tin metal storage tube. Tin case 134cm longFootnote: it is known that in 1846 (until c.1876) H.H.H. Hungerford was Lord of Smeeton Westerby Manor.  The village is in the parish of Kibworth, Leicestershire

Henrietta Maria (Queen & Consort of Charles I, 1609-1669). Large vellum document signed 'Henrietta Maria R', 16 January 1666, folded vellum indenture, being a lease of fields at Caldecott in Northamptonshire in the county of Northampton, to Robert Lambe, yeoman, at a cost of thirty-two pounds, large title cartouche including portrait of Henrietta Maria, the first three words supplied in large gold script, signed Henrietta Maria R to upper right, additionally signed by Sir John Wintour (twice), Principal Secretary, Sir Charles Harbord, Surveyor Generall, Sir Henry Wood, Treasurer to Henrietta Maria, and Sir Peter Balls, Attorney Generall, with remains of large Royal seal attached at foot, and six additional smaller seals, some marks and generally light soiling, one or two small holes, not affecting legibility, overall size approximately 63 x 71 cmQty: (1)

Berkshire Estate Map, White Waltham.- Mar (William, surveyor) A Mapp of Land belonging to Feenes House in ye Parish of White Waltham in ye County of Berks, manuscript estate map with watercolour wash in green, yellow, red and blue, on vellum, folds, small brown stain in centre, some slight soiling, 540 x 630mm., 1689.⁂ Feenes, now called Ffiennes. White Waltham, 3.5 miles west of Maidenhead.

Dorset Estate Map, Cheddington.- Donne (Samuel, surveyor, of Melbury Osmond, near Yeovil) An Accurate Map and Survey of Several Farms and Tenements Situate within the Manor of Cheddington... the Property of Thomas Bishop of Weeks Court near Bridport..., manuscript estate map in pen and ink and boundaries highlighted in red, on vellum, soiled and creased, 790 x 755mm., 1763; and another estate map relating to Weston Farm in the Manor of Costom, 1763, v.s. (2).⁂ Chedington, 4 miles southeast of Crewkerne.This lot is sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules and cannot be exported from England and Wales.The purchaser of the documents must notify the Secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition and provide details of where they will be kept.

Oxfordshire Estate Map, Williamscot.- Jennings (J., surveyor and delineator) Plan of the Estate, at Williamscot, Wardington & Bourton in the County of Oxford Belonging to John Loveday, manuscript estate map in pen and ink and green watercolour wash boundaries, on vellum, some slight soiling, 680 x 800mm., 1786.⁂ Williamscot, 4 miles northeast of Banbury.

Architecture.- Bridges (James) Mr. Bridges's Reasons for Building a Bridge of Three Arches on the Old Foundations; with his Objections to the Single Arch Plan, 26pp., only edition, ink corrections/alterations to a couple of leaves, title soiled at upper outer corner, stitched in original blue wrappers, uncut, a little dusty, [Harris 51], 8vo, Bristol, S.Farley, 1762.⁂ Rare pamphlet relating to the Bristol bridge controversy. In 1757 Bridges was commissioned to draw up designs for improve the medieval bridge over the river Avon in Bristol. He advocated a bridge of three arches using the existing piers but many wanted a completely new bridge, a much more expensive option. Designs were sought from other sources and much argument ensued but Bridges was appointed surveyor in November 1760 to build a single arch bridge. Before he started the commissioners consulted engineers' opinions, one advising that a single-arch was too risky and John Smeaton saying the opposite, hence this pamphlet from Bridges in defence of his original design. The confused commissioners then co-appointed Bridges and another architect to construct a three-arch bridge, at considerable more expense, but Bridges was so fed up by this time that he left for the West Indies. The bridge was finally built to his original plan by Thomas Paty in 1763-68.ESTC records only one copy (BL) but Library Hub adds another 3 (National Library of Scotland, University of St. Andrews, Wellcome Library). Harris also cites Avon County Reference Library, Bristol. We have been unable to trace any copy at auction.

WWII, Ken Wilkinson signed 10x8 black and white photograph. Wilkinson, who worked as a chartered surveyor in Birmingham after the war, was the son of an aircraft manufacturer in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, and became fascinated by flying while watching aircraft tests at Farnborough. He joined the RAF at the outbreak of the second world war and flew Spitfires with 616 and 19 Squadrons, on missions protecting industrial sites in the Midlands. He was one of the last survivors, died just age 99. Good condition Est.

WHITE (GILBERT), SELBORNE AND THE HOLT-WHITE FAMILYAn archive of books, watercolour and scrap albums, photographs, portrait miniatures, silver and other ephemera relating to the White, and Holt-White families, including: HOLT-WHITE (RASHLEIGH) The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, 2 vol., AUTHOR'S COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.55 additional plates (of which approx. 20 photographic, including images of the Selborne Great Oak, the house, etc.), several autograph letters by later family members, and manuscript receipts of eighteenth century, green half morocco gilt, by F.T. Neale of Hastings, John Murray, 1901Silver tray, with the arms of Rebecca White (nee Luckin, 1664-1755) who married the vicar of Selborne in 1687, together the grandparents of Gilbert White (1720-1793), diameter 256mm., hallmarked John Robinson, 1746Album, with artwork attributable to Mary (b.1809), Caroline (b.1811) and Anna Holt-White (b.1813) and other family members, approx. 42 pencil drawings, 18 watercolours (botanical, costume, portraits), of which many signed with initials, 1 gouache of Switzerland, 4 watercolours on rice paper, mostly mounted one per page, contemporary morocco, covers detached, 4to, [c.1832-1840]Album, belonging to Louisa Rose White (1804-1870), approx. 155 mounted engraved or lithographed views of British scenes (including one of White's residence at Selborne), loosely inserted a lithographed plan with view of the Selborne Estate issued for the auction held by George Robins on 28 July 1840, contemporary half morocco, rebacked, folio, [c.1840]Album, associated with Algernon Holt-White (1807-1880), with newspaper cuttings, printed ephemera (electioneering, schools projects, etc), architectural drawings (including 'Plan of the Intended Lodge at... Clements Hall, the Residence of A.W. Holt' signed by G.B. Crowes, Surveyor, 1842), all loose, original calf, worn, folio, [1840/50s]A collection of approximately nine portrait miniatures, mostly of members of the Holt-White family, mostly mounted, framed and glazed, various sizes, [late nineteenth-early twentieth century]Miscellaneous others, including 2 twentieth century albums of watercolours, an album of nineteenth century cuttings with a signed document by Leon Gambetta, approximately 40 albumen and silver gelatin photographs, etc. (collection)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Army Long Service and Good Conduct,V.R., impressed (Serjt Mr John Starrot. Staff). Small edge bruise, otherwise good very fine. (1)Footnotes:This is considered to be Staff Sergeant of Pensioners John Starrett (as it appears on the Staff LS&GC roll) where 'Sergeant Major' has been crossed through and 'Staff Sergeant' inserted. Sergeant Major John Starrett is shown as having served in the 91st Foot and his medal was sent to the Surveyor of Pensions in Carlisle in 1862. A pension record shows a Sergeant Major John Starrett of the 91st Foot having been admitted to Out Pension on the 13th of August 1850. The 1851 Census shows John Starrett, born in Ireland, his wife Eleanor born in Northumberland and a daughter Eleanor born in the Cape of Good Hope. The census is for Hayton in Cumberland. The 1861 Census shows John Starrett as a Sergeant Major and Staff Sergeant off Pensioners residing in Carlisle, without his wife and daughter. The 1871 and 1881 Census shows John Starrett as a Chelsea Pensioner living in Carlisle without his wife. Probate records for 1886 record John Starrett passing away on the 28th of April 1886 in Edinburgh.Sold with copied service papers.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Family Group: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp (13455 Tpr: S. A. Dighton, 73rd Coy. Imp: Yeo:) note incorrect second initial, toned, extremely fine Six: Captain D. O. Dighton, West Yorkshire Regiment, late 7th Canadian Infantry 1914-15 Star (77442 Pte. D. O. Dighton. 7/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. D. O. Dighton.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., unnamed, mounted as worn with matching mounted set of miniatures; together with France and Germany Star and War Medal 1939-45, these in their named Air Ministry card box of issue with entitlement slip, extremely fine (7) £200-£240 --- Stanley Moore Dighton was born in 1857 and baptised at St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham, on 22 July. For some years before the outbreak of the war in South Africa he was a tea planter in Kerala, India. He married in April 1890, Georgiana Louisa Deane, and by her had a daughter who died shortly after birth in March 1892. A son, Dennis Onslow (qv) was born on 5 October 1893. Twin daughters were born to the couple on 15 December 1897, but then tragedy struck with the sudden death of his wife on 4 January 1897, closely followed by the deaths of the twins Winifred on 10 April, and Georgiana just five days later. No doubt these tragic events caused him to return to England with his surviving son. He enlisted into the 19th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry (Paget’s Horse) at London on 21 March 1900, aged 40, and served in South Africa from 1 April to 23 July, 1900 (Medal with Clasp). In about 1904 he emigrated to British Columbia and, having remarried, was living at Cowichan Bay where, on 31 October 1908, a second son was born. Stanley Dighton died on 7 September 1920, at Duncan, Vancouver Island. Sold with several original photographs of Stanley Dighton and his first wife, Georgiana. Dennis Onslow Dighton was born at Travancore, India, on 5 October 1893. He emigrated with his father, via England, to British Columbia in about 1904, settling at Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island. He became a land surveyor and railway engineer for the state of British Columbia, and was already active in the 50th Gordon Highlanders (Militia) when he attested for the 30th Reserve Battalion C.E.F. at Victoria B.C. on 7 November 1914. He transferred to the 7th Battalion C.E.F. and served with it in France from 4 May 1915 until 15 December 1915, when he was discharged on appointment to a commission in the ‘New Army’ as 2nd Lieutenant in the 21st Battalion (Pioneers) West Yorkshire Regiment, based at Skipton, Yorkshire. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 May 1916, and after finishing training proceeded with the battalion to France on 20 June 1916. He was promoted to Captain on 4 May 1917, and was gassed on 6 April 1918, remaining in hospital in France and London until 27 May 1918. Upon release from the Army in May 1919, the Colonel Commanding 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, stated in his Record of Services, ‘A good officer, served a considerable time at the front and did well. Was twice wounded & awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. Conduct quite satisfactory.’ The award of the Belgian Croix de Guerre was announced in the London Gazette of 15 April 1918. Returning to Canada after the war he lived in Vancouver until the late 1930’s when he returned to England. During the Second war he served as an Aircraftman 1st Class in the R.A.F.V.R. from 4 January 1944 to 24 June 1945, and was issued with the France and Germany Star and War Medal 1939-45. Sold with a quantity of original documents and photographs, including West Yorks. Regt. group photograph; Discharge Certificate (15 December 1915); Officer’s Record of Services (Army Book 439); Royal Air Force Service and Release Book; City of Vancouver Poll-Tax receipt 1935; Individual Liquor Permit 1936, etc.; Canadian (1936-41) and British (1946-53) Passports; National Identity Card; four family photograph albums, mostly of Canada between the wars; and related books on the Dighton family.

Holy Bible, Robert Barker, 1613/1611. Second folio edition of the King James Bible, commonly known as the Great She Bible. Black letter with large typeface, printed in double columns with 59 lines to a full column. Complete with general title, New Testament title and double-page map of Canaan by More & Speed. Includes Apocrypha. With the reading ‘she’ in Ruth 3 v.15, and with a tipped-in slip correcting the ‘Judas’ for ‘Jesus’ error in Matthew 26 v.36. Worn mid-nineteenth century blind-stamped calf, red edges.Footnote: What is extraordinary about this copy is that the last two and a half pages of the book of Revelations were missing from the book, so in 1850 Thomas Kendall, when only 13 years of age, using a pen and Indian ink, copied out the missing pages in perfect facsimile. Kendall’s work starts from the last few words of Revelations 20 v. 12 and goes on to the end, including the tailpiece. The calligraphy is such a superb copy of the old black letter typeface that it is virtually impossible to distinguish from the printed page. The only discernible difference is that the ruled border surrounding the page is slightly thinner. The paper used for the last two leaves is slightly heavier stock. Herbert 319. Printing and the Mind of Man 114.Footnote: Footnote: The bible was purchased in or before 1850 by William Kendall, an architect and building surveyor of Warwickshire. His son, Thomas Henry Kendall (1837-1919), the noted wood carver of Warwick, came to be regarded as the doyen of British wood carvers. As a boy he was frequently put to work copying plans and documents for his father. In 1850, when only 13 years of age, he copied out the last two and a half pages of the bible, which were missing from the book his father had bought. The bible and its history is recalled in articles on Thomas Kendall in The Biographer and Review, August 1900, and in The Gentleman’s Journal and Gentlewoman’s Court Review, August 27th 1910, where Kendall himself shows the bible to a journalist in response to a question asking to be shown some of his earliest work. Photocopies of these articles are included with the lot. The bible was exhibited in Warwick at the coronation celebrations in June 1911 and at Sotheby’s, Chester, in 1983.Condition report: A note on the front endpaper states that the book was rebound by Robinson of Leamington in 1864. Boards are holding mainly by the cords and a piece is detached from the head of the spine. General title laid down with minor loss at bottom left. Following 3 leaves have been window mounted. A few other preliminary leaves have been reinforced on the fore-edge. Generally a little shaken. Good margins. Page size is 385mm by 260mm, overall 404mm by 275mm by 130m thick.The boards are holding mainly by the cords.  The top 5" of the spine (with title Holy Bible) is detached but present.

An original Victorian hand-painted wooden trespassing sign, for Alice Holt Woods (Hampshire), circa 1885, measures 65 cm h x 84 cm w Note - originally affixed to Keepers cottage, Rowledge, Cumberbatch served as Commission Surveyor until 1885, the sign removed from the cottage circa 1980's 

An early map of Nepal, dated 1892, linen backed and mounted, framed and glazed. 105 x 80.5 cm overall. Published under the direction of Colonel G Strahan R.E offg Surveyor General of India.The map was produced at the height of ''The Great Game'' when the British and Russian Empires were fighting for the control of Central Asia and the British Empire was protecting India, ''The Jewel in the Crown" from perceived Russian threats. Nepal was a closed kingdom and was forbidden to foreigners, despite this the map shows numerous unpublished routes by various officers, furnished by the Quartermaster General's Department, Intelligence Branch and unpublished sketches and Reconnaissance by Colonel H.C.B Tanner, Major F.A Wilson, Captain E.G Barrow, Mr W Robert and Rinzin Nimgiyal. This map pre-dates by 11 years the British Expedition to Tibet under the leadership of Sir Francis Younghusband, mounted to counter the Russian Empires perceived threats and ambitious on India's Northern Border.

MIXED LOT OF COLLECTABLESincluding two leather bound surveyor tapes by Chesterman of Sheffield, Chinese ebonised box with mother of pearl inlay, Degid cigarette lighter, combination pipe cleaner, bone and stone cigarette holder, brass whistle, brass seal, bone seal and a small sheath knife

Great War 1914-15 Star North Staffordshire Regiment Officer, Killed in Action with the 5th Battalion’s Attack on Vermelles on 13th October 1915, medal named to “2 LIEUT. H.R.G. DAVIES N. STAFF. R”. Complete with ribbon and in good overall condition. Henry Robert Griffith Davies was born on 29/6/1887 at Glansychan, Abersychan, Monmouth. Educated at Monmouth Grammar school he was employed as an Assistant Surveyor at Shelton pit. Enlisting into the 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment in August 1914 he was commissioned on 9th Feb 1915 he served in France from March 1915. Initially reported missing during the attack by the 5th Battalion at Vermelles on 13th October 1915 he was later assumed to have been killed on that date and is commemorated on the Loos memorial. Battalion officer casualties for the attack were 5 killed, 9 wounded and 5 missing. Also entitled to a British War and Victory medals.

Royalty - Courtiers from Queen Victoria's Court, a collection of ALS and ink manuscript Court Circulars: Robert Keate FRCS (1777 ? 1857), Serjeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 3pp ALS, dated 1837, (1); Sir George Couper, KH, CB, 1st Baronet (1788?1861), Comptroller of the Household and Equerry to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, a third person letter addressed from Frogmore House, 18th January 1851, requesting Mr Roberts, Superintendent of [Windsor] Castle, for an order to see the State Apartments for his son and a schoolfellow, (1); three late Victorian Court Circulars, two dated 1898 & 1899, all inscribed on Balmoral Castle writing-paper, (3); Sir Lionel Henry Cust KCVO FSA (1859-1929), Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, (1); other, later, (1), [7]

Birmingham. Beilby, Knott & Beilby (publishers), To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Lewisham &c. &c. the Zealous Promoter of the interests of the Town and Liberal Patron of its Public Institutions, This Map of Birmingham engraved from a minute Trigonometrical survey, made in the years 1824 & 1825, is with permission dedicated..., J. Pigott Smith, Surveyor and Engineer, Birmingham, March 25th 1828, uncoloured large engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset plan of the town of Birmingham in the year 1731, large calligraphic cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, slight dust soiling, edged in green silk which is partially frayed, 1380 x 1290 mm, marbled endpapers, Qty: (1)Footnote: A scarce large scale map of Birmingham.

Alan Bean Charles Conrad examines the Surveyor 3 probe Apollo 12, 14-24 November 1969 Large format black and white photograph, 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16 in), [modern reprint of NASA AS12-48-7134], SIGNED "Charles Conrad, CDR Apollo 12"

Spherical lunar mosaic composed of narrow angle photographs taken by the spacecraft showing the spacecraft's footpad on lunar soilSurveyor 1, June 1966One vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 25 x 19.5 cm (10 x 7¾ in), cropping marks and signed on the verso by Tim FurnissProvenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:This important image by Surveyor 1 aided the research into the consistency of the lunar surface and whether it was strong enough to support humansCondition Report: Crease in upper left corner and light creasing overall, goodCondition Report Disclaimer

A pair of extraordinary images taken by Surveyor's 3 television camera, the first photographs to document from the surface of the Moon a solar eclipse, where the Sun is obscured by our own planet.Surveyor 3, 24 April 1967Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.6 cm (10 x 8in), with NASA HQ captions numbered 67-H-483 and 67-H-483 on the versoFootnotes:These photographs were taken by Surveyor 3 from the surface of the Moon. In the first photograph the camera photographs the Earth 'about midway through the eclipse of April 24. Brightest portion of the lighted ring around the Earth appears in the north polar regions - Alaska and the Bering Strait. The solar disc passed slightly north of Earth's equator. This produced the extra brightness in the Northern Hemisphere. Picture was taken at 4:01 a.m. PST. ' (NASA caption)In the second photograph 'both sunrise and sunset on Earth are seen (...) as photographed from a vantage point on the moon. The picture was taken by Surveyor III's television camera at 3:24 a.m. PST during the April 24 eclipse. On the upper left side of the disc, the sun is setting over Asia and the Indian Ocean. Lower right edge shows sunrise over the southeast Pacific. At this stage of the eclipse, the Earth and sun are 42 minutes into the period to totality. Brightest portion of the lighted ring around the Earth is in the northwest quadrant of the Earth as viewed from the moon. This is the eastern portion of the Asian Continent.' (NASA caption)

A montage of four views of the Apollo Landing Site 2 in the Sea of Tranquility, selected for the first lunar landing by Apollo 11. The area was photographed by Surveyor 5, Lunar Orbiter 5, Ranger 8 and, finally, the Apollo 10 crew during their investigatory flight1965-1969Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (8 x 10 in), with NASA HQ caption numbered 69-H-938 on the verso (1)Provenance: from Tim Furniss collection 

Alan BeanCharles Conrad inspects Surveyor 3 during the first reunion of a human with a robotic probe on the surface of the MoonApollo 12, 14-24 November 1969Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 50 x 39 cm (20 x 15½ in), [NASA AS12-48-7134], mounted on board to an overall size of 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Charles Conrad on the board "For Jim E. Jay, It is is always VRF on the Moon - makes it easy for me. Pete Charles Conrad, CDR, Apollo XII" 

An oblique view of the lunar surface and the lunar horizon transmitted by the first robotic probe to soft land on the Moon, Soviet Luna 9Luna 9, 2 February 1966Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.5 x 25.7 cm (8 x 10 in), an AP Wirephoto print with the APW press caption across the front and another one attached to the verso (dated 4 February 1966)Footnotes:Luna 9 was the first robotic spacecraft to successfully soft land on the Moon in 1966. It preceded the US Surveyor 1 by around 4 months.After touchdown a television camera erected from the probe and the system began a photographic survey of the lunar environment. Seven radio sessions with a total of 8 hours and 5 minutes were transmitted, as well as three series of TV pictures. After assembly the photographs gave a panoramic view of the immediate lunar surface.Although the pictures of the Moon were initially not released by Soviet authorities, their signal format was found to be similar to the Radiofax signal universally used by newspapers to transmit pictures. Thus, Jodrell Bank Observatory near Manchester was able to instantly intercept, decode and publish Luna 9's first photographs from the Moon's surface    

York Whipmaker & Surveyor.- Tindall (James) Account and commonplace book, manuscript, c.180pp., occasional light spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, small 4to, York, 1815-1831.⁂ Includes a 17 page valuation of stock begun on 3rd January 1815, which totals £432/6/6½.; prices of thongs (with costs, wholesale prices and profits); prices of making 35 varieties of whip (including by the dozen); and notes of rental incomes, land taxes, journeys to America by local families, harvest and farm records, servants' wages, and land surveys.

Ainslie, John 4 Rare Maps, comprising Ainslie, John A Map of the County of Renfrew. Surveyed by John Ainslie in 1796. London: W. Faden, 1801. Second edition, map on 4 sheets, 104 x 116cm (image size), hand-coloured in outline, mounted on linen with a W. Faden label to each part, [BL, Bodleian, Glasgow & NLS copies - Worldcat & Copac]; Ainslie, John A Topographical Map of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Surveyed by John Ainslie, 1796. London: W. Faden, 1801. Second edition, map on 4 sheets, 104 x 116cm (image size), hand-coloured in outline, mounted on linen with W. Faden label to each part, [BL, Bodleian, NLS and 1 copy in Germany - Worldcat & Copac]; Ainslie, John A Topographical Map of the County of Wigton or Shire of Galloway. Surveyed by John Ainslie, 1782. London: W. Faden, 1801, Second edition, map on 4 sheets, 78 x 108cm, mounted on linen, hand-coloured in outline, [One copy only Germany in Worldcat & Oxford on Copac]; Ainslie, John A Map of Selkirk Shire or Ettrick Forest, from a Survey taken in the year 1772 by J. Ainslie. London: W. Faden, 1801. Second edition, map on 2 sheets, 66 x 66cm, hand-coloured in outline, mounted on linen, imprint in bottom right-hand corner has been overprinted most probably on the erased Ainslie 1773 imprint leaving only the word Edinburgh decipherable, [BL & Bodleian copies only on Worldcat & Copac]; the 4 maps contained in a contemporary calf 'pull-off' case with red morocco label lettered in gilt, case slightly rubbedFootnote: Note: John Ainslie (1745-1828) was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. In 1762 he was apprenticed to the London mapmaker and publisher Thomas Jefferys Sr., Geographer to King George III. It is here that he first learned the talents that made him the greatest British land-surveyor of his generation. As the Seven Years' War, and its American phase, drew to a close, Jefferys turned his attention away from military mapping to large-scale surveys of the English counties with Ainslie taking a leading role. At Jefferys' death in 1771 Ainsie returned to Scotland, establishing himself in business in Edinburgh as a land surveyor and publisher. He is best known for the sequence of large-scale Scottish county maps and his great map of Scotland. The Counties of Ayr and Dumfries were proposed but not produced and therefore this is the complete set of South West Scotland contained in a contemporary box labelled in gilt to the spine 'Counties of Kircudbright/Renfrew/Selkirk/Wigton'. No copies have been traced of these maps selling at auction.

Original vintage poster La Lune / The Moon by Spirou, a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published since 1938, the poster features large images of the near and the far sides of the moon surrounded by smaller images of moon surveyor, the crew of Apollo 8 American astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, Vostok space rocket, Lunar excursion module, Soyuz space station, the image of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Saturn 5, Lunar module, and Ranger, set over dark background with a yellow frame. Horizontal. Good condition, folds, tears, staining, pinholes, plastic rings on top edge.. Country of issue: Belgium, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 100x75, year of printing: 1960s

Findley (Alexander George). A Directory for the navigation of the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sunda and Western Australia, including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; the winds, monsoons, and currents, and the passages from Europe to its various Ports, 3rd edition, London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1876, 16 lithographed maps, mostly folding or double-page, occasional light spotting, map facing page 151 (Passages over the Indian Ocean) torn without loss to upper edge, final map (Colombo) bound facing page 920 (not page 928 as listed), upper inner hinge partly cracked, original blind-stamped maroon cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed with some wear to joints and head and foot of spine and outer corners, thick 4toQty: (1)Footnote: A substantial work on navigation, covering the Arabian peninsula, and the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to Australia. This third edition incorporates according to the note appended to the preface 'much new information... gained by Government survey of the coasts of the Cape Colony and Natal, also of Zanzibar Island, the Gulf of Suez and the Mekran Coasts... The Western Coast of India is described from the Directions for the West Coast of India drawn up by the surveyor, Commander Taylor, in the year 1866'

Stokes (John Lort). Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands of the Arafura Sea, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. and W. Boone. 1846, 26 engraved and lithographed plates, 8 folding maps including 6 contained in front pockets (tear and splits to pockets), advertisements front and rear, occasional light spotting, previous owner signatures, original 1st issue blue blindstamped cloth, spines gilt with kangaroo and emu vignette at foot, spines toned, edges a little bumped, 8voQty: (2)Footnote: Ferguson 4406; Wantrup 89a. Stokes was assistant surveyor on the Beagle's second voyage from 1831-36 which had Charles Darwin on board, and afterwards served as lieutenant and later commander of the Beagle which surveyed the coasts of Australia, New Zealand and Timor, the account of which is related here.

Collection of Surveying Instruments,comprising three trough compasses with two in mahogany cases and one in a bakelite case, a Philips pocket surveyor in case with instructions, a WWI magnapole compass with case, a clinometer stamped J. H. Steward, 406 Strand, London, in a leather case stamped G. A. F. G. and a pocket Heliograph, a Lot

MAP OF LUDLOW by C Evans, 1832. A Map of the Borough of Ludlow showing the limits as respects the election of members to serve Parliament as settled by an act passed in the third year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth. By C Evans, land surveyor, November 1832. 555mm x 500mm. On a scale of about 9 chains to an inch. Wooden supports top and bottom. Varnish has browned, tears and wear

Two surveyors measurers together with a Kern Swiss GKO-A surveyor leveller

* River Thames. Stockdale (John, publisher), Map of the River Thames, 1796, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, 235 x 855 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Bowen (Thomas). A Correct Draught of the River Thames from its Spring in Glocester Shire to its Influx into the Sea..., The London Magazine, 1775, hand-coloured engraved map, inset table of locks, bridges and weirs, old folds, some creasing and dust soiling, thread margin on the left-hand vertical border, 190 x 605 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Whitworth (Robert, Surveyor). Plan of the Intended Navigable Canal from Moor Fields into the River Lee at Waltham Abbey, Surveyed by order of the City of London, circa 1775, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, slight toning, 130 x 510 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria). Disegno Idografico del Canal E Reale..., circa 1695, uncoloured engraved map, two large decorative cartouches, slight creasing, 455 x 605 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (4)

Property Survey - a structural survey up to the value of £500 by qualified surveyor (subject to terms and conditions).*Sold for the 100% benefit of St. Teresa's Hospice by arrangement of The Darlington Rotary Club*

Attributed to Thomas Malton the Younger (London 1748-1804)The Henry VII Chapel from Old Palace Yard, Westminster pencil and watercolour on laid paper34.5 x 48.8cm (13 9/16 x 19 3/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection of F.L. PearsonWith John Baskett, by whom given in 1970 to Dudley SnelgroveHis sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1992, lot 294 (as Circle of Thomas Malton II)The Collection of John P. Foster, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey (1973-88), and thence by descent to the present ownerMany of Malton's London views were made in preparation for publication in aquatint in his 1792 series Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster. He is believed to have collaborated with other artists such as Francis Wheatley to paint the figures, which probably accounts for the considerable variation in their quality between different watercolours. Another version of this composition by Malton, taken from a slightly different angle, was sold at Phillips, London, 21 November 1988, lot 20, for £16,500.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Bonar-Law (Andrew) The Printed Maps of Ireland, 1612-1850, folio Dublin 1997. Presentation Copy, also The Printed Maps of Ireland to 1612, and John Speed - Maps of Ireland, 2 vols., wrappers; Andrews (J.H.) Plantation Acres, A Historical Study of the Irish Land Surveyor. 8vo Omagh 1985, First Edn., d.w.; and A Paper Landscape, Dublin 2002, boards. (5)

1840 Proclamation Carlow Reports -  With respect to the County of Carlow, of Richard Griffith, Surveyor, to ascertain and mark out reputed Boundaries of each County, Barony, half Barony, Parish, or other Division or Denomination of land in Ireland, bearing the stamp of Thomas Crawford Butler, Attorney., printed by George and John Grierson, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, as a Poster, w.a.f. (1)

STEPHENSON ROBERT: (1803-1859) English Civil Engineer and designer of locomotives, the only son of George Stephenson, the 'father of railways'. A.L.S., Rob Stephenson, one page, 8vo, Newcastle, 25th October 1943, to Mr. Martin, a surveyor at Leeds. Stephenson writes, in full, 'I shall be in Leeds on Friday morning by the first train from York. Will you have the goodness to inform Mr. Young of this: by express if he be on the Line'. With blank integral leaf (slight areas of paper loss to the upper edge). Some very light creasing and minor age wear, otherwise VG

Quantity of 19th Century postal covers, including three letters addressed to A. Allen Esq. from Sir Horace Jones, City of London Architect and Surveyor, relating to Queen Victoria visiting St Paul's Cathedral, William Haywood Architect and Civil Engineer, relating to the visit of Royalty, and another related to the Service of Thanksgiving for the recent recovery of the Prince of Wales from Typhoid February 1872

Astronomy.- Wing (Vincent) Astronomia Instaurata: or, or a new and compendious Restauration of Astronomie... Whereunto is added, a short Catalogue of . . . Coelestiall observations by Tycho, Longomontanus, Gassendus, the Landgrave of Hassia and others, first edition, title in red and black, errata leaf at beginning, woodcut diagrams, tear at tail of title, 3E1 & 3N1 & front flyleaf, some ff. working loose, some ff. with slight dampstaining, John Wing's copy with an ink inscription on fly-leaf and signature at tail of title, also contemporary ink signatures of Tycho Wing, John & James Lord, numerous near contemporary ink notes, bookplate of a 19th century Tycho Wing V on front pastedown, contemporary calf, extensively rubbed, two corners worn, joints splitting at head and tail, lacks tail of spine, [Tomash & Williams W90; Houzeau & Lancaster 9228; Wing W2987], folio, by R. and W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, 1656.⁂ With contemporary manuscript notes on two astronomical phenomena observed in the seventeenth century. (1). "Dr. Wallis [John Wallis (1616-1703), mathematician and cryptographer] observed, this Eclipse at Oxford A.D. 1654 Begin Aug: 2d... He also observ'd ye visib. Diam. equal to that of ye D contrary to what ye Astronomical Tables gave it."(2). "1680 On the 11 day of December there appeared a comet [known as The Great Comet, Kirsch's Comet or Newton's Comet] which set about an hour sooner than venus but on the wednesday after it set but a little before venus or near a quarter of an hour as I soposed and continued until the middle of January."John Wing (bap. 1662, d. 1726), surveyor and almanac maker; nephew of Vincent Wing.

Surveying.- Wing (John) Geodaetes Practicus Redivivus: The Art of Surveying: Formerly Publish'd by Vincent Wing, Math. Now Much Augmented... With the Description and Use of a New Quadrant [bound with] Scientia Stellarum: Or, the Starry Science.., 2 vol. bound in 1, as usual, 7 engraved plates and tables (1 folding), errata/advertisement leaf bound after preface and another leaf of advertisements at end, E2 & 4Q2 small tear at head, extensively browned, bookplate of Tycho Wing V and ink inscription "received from Colonel J.B.V. Wing... 20th September 1905" on front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners bumped, [Wing W2985 & W2992], folio, by J. Matthews, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1700.⁂ John Wing's updating of Vincent Wing's 1666 Art of Surveying. "The folio volume can be regarded as presenting the normal instruction course which a surveyor would follow in 1700." - Taylor, 529a.

Astronomy.- Wing (John, surveyor and almanac maker, of Pickworth, Rutland, nephew of Vincent Wing, astronomer, astrologer, and land surveyor, 1619-68, bap. 1662, d. 1726) Scientia Stellarum. Calculations and Observations Compared Proving the Excellent agreement of these tables with the Heavens at all times Especially in this Age As the observations... plainly demonstrates as I Received them from the hands of that unparallel'd observator Mr John Flamsteed, and are here exposed with their Calculations..., [taken from additional title at end], 3 parts in 1, manuscript text and tables, together c. 247pp., mostly in 1 hand, signature at beginning of "Thomas Waring" and a few additional notes and calculations at beginning and end in two other hands, ?lacks 2ff. at beginning (?general title), 2ff. blanks with notes loose, some other ff. working loose, browned, original calf, some slight surface wear, rubbed and creased, 8vo, dated in text 1693.⁂ "... that unparallel'd observator Mr Flamsteed."Comprising: the first part text, second part "A Table of Logistical Logarithms", and third part "Scientia Stellarum Containing New Astronomical Tables For the Attaining of the true Longitude & Latitude of the Planets... ."Dated in text to 1693 Scientia Stellarum was published as a supplement to John Wing's Art of Surveying, a new version of his uncle Vincent Wing's work of the same name. In terms of dating this manuscript, there are several examples designed to aid study of the stars by calculating astronomical events which will occur in 1694. The calculations in another hand at end date from 1701 to 1732 while not by Wing, must have some connection as one of the calculations relates to the latitude of Pickworth, the home of John Wing. The printed text and this manuscript generally conform, with very similar chapter headings, but with some differences in phrasing and paragraphs. The manuscript runs to Chapter 13, the printed work stops at Chapter 11. There follows c. 100 pages of of tables of logarithms, which do not appear to correlate to those in the printed book.Scientia Stellarum, a reworking of Wing's abandoned Astronomia nova Britannica which he "published despite John Flamsteed's warning that it was itself full of crude errors." - Oxford DNB.

Astronomy.- Wing (John, surveyor and almanac maker, of Pickworth, Rutland, nephew of Vincent Wing, astronomer, astrologer, and land surveyor, 1619-68, bap. 1662, d. 1726) Astronomia Nova Britannica, or The New British Astronomy Containing an Exact Theorie of the Coelestial Motions, according to the Genuine and most Rational Systems of the World, wherein the Sun is Centre of the Planetary Orbs... Deduced from Astronomia Britannica Published in Latine by Mr V. Wing..., manuscript, title and 163pp. (pp. 1-30 mostly text, pp. 30-160 mostly tables), a few ink diagrams, pp. 74-75 glued together and a corrective slip glued over p. 102, several ff. loose, a few small tears to edges, browned, contemporary panelled calf, extensively rubbed, lacks tail of spine, sm. 4to, dated in another hand at end 1691, but probably late 1680s, see ODNB note below, [c. 1688].⁂ A unique copy of an unpublished 17 century astronomical treatise."At the end of the 1680s, [George Parker, a rival astrologer] alleged, [John] Wing had tried to rush into print a manuscript entitled 'Astronomia nova Britannica', which he had been forced to abandon when Henry Coley exposed it as only half completed. Wing had then reworked the manuscript as Scientia stellarum, which he had published despite John Flamsteed's warning that it was itself full of crude errors. Wing issued a pained rebuttal of all these charges in his almanac for 1704, pointing out that his project was essentially an English summary of his uncle's Astronomia Britannica, and claiming that Flamsteed, on whose astronomical observations it drew, had commended it." - Oxford DNB.Vincent Wing, "taught himself arithmetic, surveying, and dialling by the age of twenty, mastered Latin, and acquired a competence in Greek. He spent the rest of his life practising as a surveyor and diallist in the east midlands... . Wing's fame rested primarily on his achievements in astronomy, as a champion of the new astronomical systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe. Wing's last and most important work, Astronomia Britannica (1669), appeared shortly after his death. This was a large-scale Latin treatise on the size, distance, and motions of the planets according to the Copernican system, documented by numerous observations by Tycho Brahe, Bullialdus, Gassendus, and other continental astronomers, and by Wing himself and a group of English astronomers with midlands connections, notably Samuel Foster, John Palmer, and John Twysden. This volume, aimed at a European as well as English readership, was the most significant English astronomical work of its time and made a considerable impact both in England and on the continent." Wing's nephew, John, "was the son of Moses Wing (bap. 1629, d. 1697?), Vincent Wing's brother. He was a surveyor at North Luffenham, before moving in 1683 to Pickworth, in Rutland, near Stamford, where he practised and taught surveying and all branches of mathematics, including dialling, laying out enclosures, building plans, and music. Like his uncle before him, he also used his almanacs to popularize the new astronomy. He explained and defended Copernicanism, noting in 1690 that many people still adhered to the Ptolemaic system, and wrote brief essays on tides, gravity, the periodicity of comets, and the possibility of other solar systems and inhabited planets within the universe." - Oxford DNB. Inscription at end reads: "14th Jan 1691 at 5 h 30 P.M. qr in to Holland."

Better known as a 'pedometer' and probably made for a surveyor.A 'Paceometer' by Henri Chatelain of Paris, c1900. Nickel-plated brass case, dials register 0-100, 0-1000, 0-25000 paces.Click here for more details and images

An inter-War M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Templeton, Royal Engineers, who died in service on 26 February 1947 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1927; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. S. J. Templeton. S.R.E.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. J. Templeton.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, the first seven mounted court-style for display, the last loose, generally good very fine (8) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 June 1928. Stanley James Templeton was appointed temporary Inspector of Works, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on the Staff for Royal Engineer Services on 10 February 1915, ands served with the S.R.E.S. during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 February 1915. Subsequently appointed Surveyor of Works, with the honorary rank of Major, he saw further service during the Second World War. He was due to be placed on retired pay, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 28 February 1947, but in the meantime had died in service just two days previously. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. Headstone in Southampton Crematorium. Sold together with the recipient’s Second War Memorial Scroll, ‘Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Templeton, M.B.E., Corps of Royal Engineers’; Bestowal Document for the M.B.E.; and named Bestowal Certificates for the Jubilee and Coronation Medals.

Manchester. Laurent (C. surveyor), A Topographical Plan of Manchester and Salford, with the Adjacent Parts shewing also the Different Allotments of Land proposed to be built on, John Stockdale, 1793, uncoloured engraved map on four conjoined sheets, three inset maps of the county around Manchester, Manchester in 1650 and the Road from Manchester to London, old folds, 1040 x 935 mm, together with Milton (Thomas). A Geometrical plan & West elevation of His Majesty's Dock-yard and Garrison at Sheerness with the Ordnance Wharfe &c., 1755, uncoloured engraved map with a panorama of the dockyard above the plan, engraved by J. Cleveley and P. C. Canot after T. Milton, decorative borders, old folds, upper margin extended, 480 x 650 mm, with Stanford G. publisher). Plan of the Borough of Hammersmith, 1942, uncoloured lithographic map, old folds,1000 x 685 mm, plus Chapman & Hall (publisher). The Stars in Six Maps on the Gnomonic Projection Revised by W. R. Dawe under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1844, title and explanation and six engraved celestial maps with contemporary outline colouring, each map 310 x 280 mm, disbound,Qty: (4)

[MANUSCRIPT - CIPHERING]. EVANS, Cadwallader. Ciphering Book of a Colonial Schoolboy. [Philadelphia], 6 April-26 July 1763.  Folio (330 x 210 mm). 37 II. Manuscript in English, in ink, with diagrams, comprising Geometry and Trigonometry (ff.1-6), land surveying (ff.7-19), and plain, traverse, oblique and Mercator sailing (ff.20-37). With an elaborate surveying map, compass, and several diagrams. (Some mostly marginal chipping or tearing occasionally affecting text, small losses to the corners of two leaves.) Original red linen over boards, hand-lettered "C. E." on upper cover. (Upper hinge broken A portion of the surveying exercise appears to come from William Leybourn's The Compleat Surveyor (see the fourth edition, published 1679, pp. 292-294). Evans personalizes his ciphering book on the first page, including a drawing of his rooster, "Belon is Narr Cock's Father or the Bony Cock a Doodle Doo."   The drawing includes the rooster's spurs, with a note: "Spurr um up my Boy." Evans also includes an aphorism about doing good deeds.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MATAGORDA PROPRIETORS]. Partly printed document accomplished in manuscript. A land deed signed by two of the proprietors, both Old Three Hundreds, Ira Ingram and Elias Wightman. [San Felipe de Austin: Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1830 or early 1831].  1 page, oblong 8vo, annotated verso, lightly browned, old creasing, a few tiny chips. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 383).   "Town of Matagorda, April 4th, 1831. This Certifies, That, at the sale of In and Out-Lots in said town, held on the date hereof"”Daniel D.D. Baker became the highest bidder for Lots No. 5 & 6, in Block No. 2 & Tier No. 4 in the Colorado front of said town"¦". Ingram, the first alcalde of Matagorda, and Wightman, surveyor and partner of Stephen F. Austin in the founding of Matagorda, signed the original deed, as did Daniel D. D. Baker, who attempted to found the town of Preston on the lot.   Ownership records the transfer of one lot to Hamilton Cook, who was from an Old Three Hundred family.   FIRST PRINTING of a broadside relating to early printing in Texas. According to Streeter (locating only one copy): This certificate is in effect a form for a deed. It and the entry No. 18.2 were not available for [earlier] inclusion with the other early forms. Mr. John C. Wyllie, Librarian of the University of Virginia and a recognized authority on type, has examined the photostats of these two forms for me and reports that they were undoubtedly printed on the press Godwin B. Cotten had set up at San Felipe in the fall of 1829. The date of printing was probably 1830 or early 1831. From the manuscript records, formerly in my collection and now at Yale, of meetings of 'Proprietors of the town of Matagorda' held on August 1 and 2, 1830, and on January 28, 1831, it appears (records of the January 28, 1831, meeting) that Stephen F. Austin held a quarter interest or two shares in the partnership or association known as 'Proprietors of the town of Matagorda,' and Ira Ingram a three-eighths interest, with Seth Ingram, H.H. League, and Elias Wightman each holding a one-eighth interest, and that what is referred to in the Minutes as the 'constitution' of the Proprietors was adopted on July 8, 1830. ...The 'Out' lots of the 'In and Out' lots referred to in the certificate were the lots not included in the laid-out blocks making up the center of the town" (Streeter Texas 18.1).  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

THIELEPAPE, Wilhelm Carl August (1814-1904), lithographer.  Sam Recruiting, after the injunction of secrecy had been removed. San Antonio: Thielepape, July 1855.Lithograph on heavy paper, 610 x 480 mm. (Fully backed in japan tissue, a few minor losses with repairs occasionally affecting image or text, creased where formerly folded, separations along those creases.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 227).  THE FIRST LITHOGRAPHED POLITICAL CARTOON CREATED IN TEXAS. The lithograph was printed when Sam Houston's political career was in shambles. Shortly after the publication of this cartoon, Houston failed in his reelection bid for the U. S. Senate, and in a run for the Texas Governor's office.   In the cartoon, Houston is seen walking on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.   He carries a "Net for Gudgeons," the handle of which is strung with a gun and knife ("Sam's Logic or reasoning powers"), a heart ("Sam's 'Great American heard,' sore"), and a mask ("Mask of Washington," "Worn when assuming to be the Savior of the Country").   He carries a lantern "used by Gui [Guy] Fawkes in his midnight plots, and bequested to [Houston's] father."  The print was one of three lithographs, all created by Thielepape, considered to be among the first lithographs created in Texas.   These three documented Thielepape lithographs pulled in Texas also include the letter sheet with a view of Alamo Plaza (see previous lot). When the present copy was sold by Dorothy Sloan, she located only two other copies of the lithograph: one at the Center for American history at the University of Texas, and one at the Dallas Historical Society. She quoted the unpublished research of Ron Tyler: "The first lithographs that can be documented as having been made in Texas appeared in San Antonio... Wilhelm C.A. Thielepape, a trained surveyor and recent immigrant with no printing experience, pulled the first lithograph from a Texas press in 1855. It was a crude map of San Antonio. He printed at least two other images, this caricature of Sam Houston and the other a view of the San Antonio plaza, before finally abandoning the badly worn lithographic equipment and closing his shop."Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

A MAP OF GEORGETOWN PENANG (1952) Folding, linen-backed map with hardcovers, published under the direction of the Surveyor General, Malaya, No. 27- 1952 99 x 74cm Condition: Minor signs of wear and some pen/pencil marks commensurate with use and age

清 黑緞地織金錦五爪龍紋掛飾 gold-thread and silk on a satin ground, with three five-clawed dragons amidst ruyi clouds and chasing flaming jewels above the swirling sea173cm long, 21cm widest partProvenance: Private UK collection, acquired by Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder VC, M.P (1908 – 1986) from western China as a surveyor in the 19th century, thence by descent.Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder VC was a Royal Navy officer and a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He became a Member of Parliament after retiring from the navy.Note: with a V&A letter dated to 7th December 1954, written by G. F. Wingfield Digby, Keeper of the Department of Textiles to Captain Robert Ryder, suggested that 'This is a streamer from a hanging, probably a door-hanging; it might also have been used on an alter-frontal, although these streamers were usually not quite so long as this. The embroidery is in gold-thread and silk on a satin ground, and I think it very probable that it came from one of the Palaces...." (see images for full letter)

Pair of c1950s brass BUILDING SIGNS or DOORPLATES, the first 'District Estate Surveyor, British Railways' (18" x 9" - 46cm x 23cm, in very good, ex-use condition) and the second 'The Prudential Assurance Co Ltd, Life - Fire - Accident' (13" x 8" - 33cm x 20cm, in good, ex-use condition, small losses to the enamel inlays of some letters). [2]

Surveyor Tape

Charles Montrion (British, active 1820-1840)Napoleon's tomb, St. Helena, from a sketch taken on the spot signed with initials (lower right)pencil22 x 29cm Footnotes:The present lot was most likely painted on St. Helena between 1826 and 1827. Charles Montrion was a surveyor in the employ of the Survey Department of India, based in Calcutta; he is known to have also worked surveying the southern coast of India, and is listed as a passenger aboard the Hon. Company Ship 'Repulse', which sailed from England in January 1826, arriving in India in 1827. The ship would have called at St. Helena on both outward and return journeys.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lt. Col. Alexander Beatson, A View of the Origin & Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun G. & W. Nicol, London, 1800Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army under the Command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam, 433 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding engraved maps and plans (one hand-coloured), two folding tables, contemporary calf 4to, 270 x 220 mm.Footnotes:The tables and maps comprise:The Order of Battle of the army under the command of General Harris.A Plan of the Attack upon the North West Angle of Seringaptam.A Sketch of the Environs of Seringapatam.A Map of the Dominions of the late Tippoo Sultaun, exhibiting their Partition among the Allied Powers (hand-coloured).A Table of Revenues.An Abstract of Tipu's territories and their overseers, population, etc.Colonel Beatson was 'late aide-de-camp to the Marquis Wellesley, Governor-General of India, and Surveyor-General to the Army in the Field'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Astrologer and Surveyor of New York.- Holwell (John) Catastrophe Mundi: or, Europe's many Mutations Until the Year, 1701. Being an Astrological Treatise, first edition, 5 engraved plates only (of 6), diagrams, lacking A1, some leaves trimmed with slight loss to catchword, pagination or signatures (and slightly affecting imprint and date on title), some early marginal maniculae and later annotations and calculations, later blind-stamped calf, a little rubbed, [Wing H2516], 4to, Printed for the Author, 1682.⁂ Scarce. In this edition, line 6 of title has "Triple"; another edition has "Tripple". Holwell (1649-?1686) was an astrologer and mathematician, friend of Halley, who became royal astronomer and surveyor of crown lands. Allegedly the government so feared his pen that he was sent to America to survey the city of New York, where he was poisoned.At the end of this work is bound Thomas Wall's A Second Christian Warning-Piece, 8pp., [?1681], trimmed with slight loss of signatures, last leaf soiled, similar marginal maniculae and inscription of Job Lousley, [Wing W487], excessively rare with ESTC locating only 4 copies, with BL copy the only one in British Isles.Provenance: Thomas Umfrevile (ink signature to title verso); Job Lousley (ink inscription round margins of title, dated 1845).