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Hardcover. ,Oblong 8vo,Bound in original 'pebbled' red leather embossed in gilt,The boards are lightly worn at the extremities, with a scuff mark to rear board. Some foxing to pages. Minor adhesive issue to gutter of title page. A good copy of a very scarce local history. No date of publication. Appears to be printed in 1890s. Unpaginated - twenty pages of views, one photo to a page. black-and-white photographs (illustrator). …

First Edition. One postcard in near fine condition and printed on stiff card paper. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. No inscription on the back of the postcard. Physical description; 1 postcard. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Isle of Wight. Maps. Postcards. 1 Kg.

Tinted map, about 28 x 23 inches, backed with linen and folded into 12mo portfolio as issued. publisher's blue lettered cloth. Light use to the cloth portfolio. Index on pastedown.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. (SL#19).

First Edition. One postcard in near fine condition and printed on stiff card paper. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. No inscription on the back of the postcard. Physical description; 1 postcard. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Isle of Wight. Maps. Postcards. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1 folded col. map. Covers dulled and creased, some scuffing along folds of map o/w pretty good condition. No publication date [c191-?]. [Maps - Birmingham and district - England] r390 / m14101.

Cloth. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No DJ. No date stated: map displays "Copyright 1/52". Cardboard covers rubbed along edges and sides of spine, small tear (1/8 inch) on front top edge, corners bowed and creased. Map firmly attached. Overall, very good plus. Map has 3 pinpoint brown spots on underside, map itself is bright and clean.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12 mo., green card covers, folding map inside of cardboard, cover scuffed else VG. map folded to small format [6 inches by 3.5] with 32pp index. Gives "strangers guide to London". Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Nd. c. 1910, edition not stated. 11 page alphabetical index to streets of Woolwich and adjacent districts to start. large folded coloured map in very good condition housed in red printed card cover rubbed around spine and edges, light marking, else very good copy. Large folding coloured map in good condition. (illustrator). …

Lithograph, coloured. Scale 1: 2500. Large folding map in fine condition. 39 x 31" Drawn by J.E. Parr Borough Engineer and Surveyor.

Condition: very good. Undated but from style and contents probably c.1900. HB. Purple cloth covers, lettered in gilt to spine and front, protecting large coloured folding map printed on paper laid onto linen, with marbled paper front and back once folded. Folds out to 24 sections. Scale of 3 miles to one inch. Folded size: 24.5 x 21 cm, opening out to 95 x 120 cm. Attractively printed in various colours, (pink, yellow, light orange and green), with a panel devoted to geology map, as well as text panels at sides for Index-Gazetteer. Good condition overall: the map is very good, bright and clean, with slight browning to margins, and the folds are clean and sturdy; there are some light marks to back of linen. The cloth covers are fair only as spine panel is largely lost but the front is very good and with bright gilt of title; creases to back. Other Bacon maps of various counties published at same time in same format available.…

Folding map in stiff printed wrappers. 20 pp. text detailing distances along various bicycle routes. Shows the area from London in the east to Oxford at the northwest corner, Basingstoke, Aldershot and Guildford in the south. Defective, lacking most of an 8x15 cm. section at the bottom right, which would include the immediate area around Merstham. Otherwise, the map is in good condition with one repair of a split fold. Main roads and park areas are colored. The front wrapper reads "Bacon's Cycling Road-Map, 40 Miles about Windsor", though the map itself touts only 25 miles around Windsor. The back cover advertises Humber bicycles, touting their ownership by King Edward VII and other members of royal families.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date, circa 1930's/40's. Map. Folding. Measures: 75cm x 60cm. Printed on cloth/linen. Coloured. Minor fraying to edges of map. Overall a bright example. Housed in red/maroon cloth pouch with gilt title. Advert for 'The Rover Bicycle' to rear. Some minor discolouration to pouch, corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Overall a Very Good copy.…

Pocket map in original stiff illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. 36 pp. text, with descriptions of each of the towns in Yorkshire. The text is complete, but its signatures have been bound out of order. The map shows the major roads, identifying which are safest for bicycle riding and which have dangerous hills.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . 8vo, hardcover, maroon cloth. Very large fold-out color map, backed on original linen. Vg condition. Binder faded, though intact, with backstrip possibly replaced. Map itself in very good condition, with no marking or rubbing. A fascinating contemporary look at 19th century England s industrial Midlands.…

Unbacked folding map in red cloth binding. 16 pp. text lists the bicycle routes. Very good condition, with general wear at extremities of binding. While the title and the routes listed describe an area in an around Oxford, the map shows a large area extending from Birmingham in the northwest to London in the southeast.…

Condition: Good. Bacon's Large Scale Plan of Halifax with street index. Vintage. Rare.Cloth map.G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., London.Size: 69cm x 55cm approx.Publication date: not stated.Condition: Light edge wear/marks to cover. Light wear to map with some minor pen notes to borders.

Map. Condition: Good. First Edition. This copy bearing the ink stamp of F.R. Swanton of Davis Point, Manitoba. Frederick Swanton served in the 200th (Winnipeg) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during WWI. Illustrated red card covers measure 8.25" x 5.5". Map folds out to 40" by 31". Undated but appears to be circa 1918. Issued as a supplement to Montreal publications The Family Herald and Weekly Star by permission G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., 127 Strand, London. Detailed black and white map of Europe presents the setting of World War I, presumably as a reference for Canadians following the progress of the war. Average wear. Several unobtrusive clear tape repairs. A sound vintage copy of this Canadian WWI memento with special noted provenance. Size: Double Elephant - over 25" - 50" tall. …

Map dimensions 92 x 132 cm (excluding table to right margin), overall dimensions 100 x 149 cm. Large folding map of London and the surrounding regions covering the extents from Hoddesdon down to Reigate and Canvey Island across to Windsor. Bright original colour marking out the counties, boroughs, districts and parishes. The map divided into three mile squares numbered and lettered at the borders, the grid references corresponding to a large index of local authorities found at the right margin. Printed over four conjoined sheets, the whole divided into 28 sections and mounted on linen. Folds into orginal dark green cloth slipcase, gilt lettered to the upper board. Marbled paper to folded end sections on linen verso. The slipcase slightly worn at extremities, one of the lower joints cracked at the upper edge. The map in excellent condition. The Northern Line extension from Clapham Common to Morden (opened 1926) is marked on the map. Park Royal & Twyford Abbey Station on the District (now Piccadilly) Line is also shown, the station was closed in mid 1931. Stations along the eastern extent of the District Line between Barking and Upminster (re-opened 1932), such as Upney and Becontree, are not shown. …

Coloured Folding Map. 30 x 21.5 inches. Paper map folded into red cloth cover, which has slight wear to extremities. splits along fold lines of map neatly repaired. This Map of 'The Eastern Crisis' probably dates to the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 as it appears to show Russia still occupying Manchuria and Port Arthur and Korea still independent of Japan (until 1910). TOPOGRAPHY FAR EAST TOPOGRAPHY ASIA FOLDING MAPS 20TH CENTURY TOPOGRAPHY.…

Text of all three letters clear and entire. A well-written and well-informed correspondence relating to 'locomotive matters'. Letter One (14 October 1942): Manuscript. Foolscap, 4 pp. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. 'Knowing, and to some extent, at least, sharing' King's 'interest in loco matters', Pimm informs him that the Ministry of Supply 'have ordered 360 L.M.S. mixed traffics generally like the 227 that AW's [Armstrong Whitworth] bill as their last order'. Pimm's 'chief' has told him 'that lately he met some steel foundrymen & asked one of them if he had got the order for the castings. The man asked, in return, how many tons were there on the 227 A.W.'s "mill". My chief, who was estimator at Scotswood [Armstrong Whitworth headquarters], said 'about 22 tons', and the other man went on, 'well, as these engines there are 4 tons, a pair of driving-wheels & some miscellaneous castings, the trailing drivers are - 17 tons tensile - and the tender wheels were to have been solid C.L., chilled on the tread'. Pimm comments on this statement, and on the news of another order. Paragraph on 'two Scotswood men'. Two paragraphs discussing 'the future of steam on railways' and whether 'in this Country the diesel-electric can compete with it for main line & passenger work' ('the prime cost of diesel electrics is higher than its advocates admit, the maintenance is higher and the cost of spares is ruinous'). Full-page discussion of valve-gears. Recounts an anecdote relating to 'Blacklock, chief loco technical man at Scotswood'. Ends by discussing the relative merits of Pacifics ('the best engines the L.N.E.R. had for that district, bar none') and Atlantics ('they won't steam on Scotch coal'). Letter Two (4 November 1942). Typewritten. Foolscap, 3 pp. Good, though lightly creased and aged. Lengthy and informed discussion of 'the locomotive building firms'. Armstrong Whitworth 'had a plant much less antiquated than the rest of the plants in the country. It was bought after the last war, though lately for want of funds it was not renewed it was certainly the least obsolete of all'. Explains, 'in confidence', how the 'Loco. builders [.] kept going before the war': the smaller firms 'tendered for everything, 200 ton engines for Australia, and such like. The large firms protested, pointing out that the small firm couldn't execute the order and therefore shouldn't tender, but the small firm took up an attitude of offended dignity, saying how do you know what we can and cannot do. You don't want anybody to expand, you would keep all the best things for youself. So they continued to tender and to draw their share.' Comments on 'Gresley Pacifics' and 'the old S.W. engine men'. Letter Three (18 December 1942): Manuscript. 8vo, 2 pp. 'Can you not ease off a little. I know another H. G. officer, mang. Director of a firm, who I am sure is doing far too much, but he is so far in, so to speak, that he can't withdraw, or feels that he can't.' Gives reasons for his distrust of 'railway building costs'.…

Map dimensions 38 x 67 cm, overall dimensions 42 x 71 cm. Folding plan of the City, on a scale of 12 inches to the mile. The plan shows the extents from Farringdon down to Southwark and Aldgate across to Aldwych. The whole backed on linen, folding into original brown printed card wrapper with Underground map printed on verso, 16 pp. Index booklet to inner cover A serial number y/8 appears next to the copyright at the bottom left margin, presumably 1948. Certainly a post war issue as it highlights "Blitzed City Areas" (Cf. Boyle, 445.).…

Map dimensions 38 x 67 cm, overall dimensions 42 x 71 cm. Folding plan of the City, on a scale of 12 inches to the mile. The plan shows the extents from Farringdon down to Southwark and Aldgate across to Aldwych. The whole backed on linen, folding into original brown printed card wrapper with Underground map printed on verso, 16 pp. Index booklet to inner cover A fine copy. A serial number y/8 appears next to the copyright at the bottom left margin, presumably 1948. Certainly a post war issue as it highlights "Blitzed City Areas" (Cf. Boyle, 445.).…

No Binding. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 75 x 54.5 cm.