Bedfordshire Cartographic Miscellany: Seller J. : Bedfordshire, C.1695 (or later). H/c in outline; Kitchin T. : Bedfordshire engraved from an Accurate Survey, 1747. H/c; Cowley J. : Improved Map of Bedfordshire with Borough & Market towns,principal roads & rivers, C.1745. H/c in outline; Wallis J. : Bedfordshire, 1812. H/c in outline. All maps mounted, framed and glazed. Maps slightly browned o/w generally vg. Estimate £50 - £60
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Morden R. : Norhamptonshire. Early 18th.C. h/c in outline, engraved map sold by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchill. Framed and glazed. Scroll work titular cartouche. Clean and bright edition. Estimate £30 - £40
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Cary J. : A Map of Bedfordshire from the best Authorities, 1805. A well preserved, clean example. Mounted, framed and glazed. VG, n/f. Estimate £30 - £40
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Philips' Atlas of the Counties of England, 1876. Folio, qtr. binding, gilt titling, marbled eps., aeg. Reduced from the Ordnance Survey by Edward Weller. New Edition with complete consulting index by John Bartholomew. Some moderate wear to the extremities of the binding but still very sound. Some very slight sporadic foxing o/w a vg copy. Estimate £30 - £40
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Philately. An extensive collection comprising six cover albums with 242 GB Commemorative issue FDCs, 1965 - 1996; an album featuring a 20th.C. GB collection and 100+ postcards from home and overseas. The contents of the first album has the significant inclusion of very early covers ( oldest 1889 ), some early Airmail postings ( first 'British Transatlantic Air Mail Service' - 1939 ), another bearing the stamp 'Despatched by 'Tin Can Canoe Mail', 1934. Vg Estimate £100 - £140
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Philately. A very large, eclectic collection of philatelic material, with two albums, nine cover albums, four stock books and hundreds of unsorted loose covers, postal history items and PHQ cards. The albums feature 'World' collections, ( GB entries to the late 1950s ). The cover albums contain over 400 FDCs ( U.K., Channel Islands, U.S.A., West Indies, Gibraltar together with various Commemoratives, some dating from 1937, but mostly 1970s to 1990s), as well as booklets and miniature items. The stock books mainly feature min examples, the PHQ cards are also in mint condition. Generally vg. Estimate £560 - £660
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Philately. Commenced as a child's Christmas present in 1944 this very large selection of philatelic material represents in excess of 50 years enthusiastic and dedicated study by a specialist. Major parts of the collection are focussed on the postage stamps of Australia and are housed in albums of exceptional quality, together with large quantities of covers and postal history items and a substantial amount of unsorted material. Also included are some good quality 'general' collections - World, U.K. ( Victoria until 21st.Century ), together with two further albums dedicated to 'Royal Occasions' containing commemorative issues. In addition there are a number of FDC albums ( Australia & U.K., 1970s -1990s ) and a collection of postcards. All albums are of a very high quality. Vg. Estimate £480 - £580
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Navigation Charts : A miscellany of original charts including the following : East India Archipelago ( Western Route to China ) 1877; C.Eski Stamboul to Koum Kaleh, including Bashika Bay and Tenedos Island, 1880; Cotes Meridionales De France, partie comprise entre cette et Marseille, 1867; Mediterranean Sea including Spain, Italy, Straits of Gibraltar, Sardinia, Corsica, Siciliy and many other vignette charts of smaller islands and ports, 1855; Ireland,Southern Coast, including vignette charts of major ports, nd. C.1870; England, East Coast, including major ports and harbours, lighthouses and coastal Church Towers, 1890. Some charts with closed tears, minor soiling, some tears with small loss. O/w an interesting colllection. Estimate £80 - £120
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Scripophily : Chinese Imperial Railway, Canton-Kowloon Railway, Five Per Cent. Gold Loan for £1,500,000 Sterling. Bond Certificate for £100, 1907. Including attached coupons. British and Chinese Corporation Limited. Detailed engraved borders with a maroon tint. Fine. Estimate £30 - £40
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Scripophily : City of St.Petersburg, 41/2% Loan Bond Certificate for 189 Roubles ( £20 ), 1913. Together with Coupons. Intricate engraved border, tinted in various shades of green. Fine. Estimate £30 - £40
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Cricket Team Autographs : Australian Team on Tour, 1956. Australian Board of Control for International Cricket - An official presentation sheet with team's original signatures. West Indian Touring Team, 1957. Menu Card from Sussex County Cricket Club Complimentary Dinner with various original signatures on the verso. Vg. Estimate £50 - £60
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19th.Century Household,Domestic & Business Documents. Two qto. folders containing a wide range of documents including Invoices ( Tailors, Grocers etc.), Written Correspondence, Legal Documents ( Writs ), Hand written correspondence, Gas Meter readings, Various Masonic documents and correspondence, Time Sheets, Cheques, Unpaid Income Tax Demands, Household Accounts and many other examples. A number of these are partly soiled or darkened but still legible. All housed within plastic wallets. See listing. Estimate £30 - £50
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Aircraft Recognition Journal. Large collection of this monthly publication from the late 1940s. through to the 1960s. Journal includes photographs, aircraft profiles, aviation news and reports of new projects and developments. Virtually all journals are in mint condition. See listing Estimate £70 - £80
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Air Pictorial and Air Reserve Gazette. Substantial collection of this publication from the 1950s. Magazine includes photographs, individual aircraft profiles, new designs and developments and a range of additional articles. Virtually all copies are in mint conditon. See listing. Estimate £50 - £60
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The Art Book ( 3 recent Editions ) and Directory of Illustration ( 4 recent Editions ). Qto. Hb. Colour illustrations. Vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Postcard Album, qto. containing a range of cards dating from the 20th.C. ( some quite early) , featuring mainly topographical locations in the UK together with some of architectural significance. Binding needs repair, contents generally vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Large Folio sized Postcard Album containing a wide range of early 20th.C. cards including, scenes from the front in the 1st.WW ( including a completed official 'Field Service' card ); humorous cards; historic buildings in the UK & Europe; on Safari in Rhodesia; various passenger Liners and many others. Together with a Victorian Family photograph album with 'floral' mount pages and original photographs. Bindings of both albums needing some repair but contents generally vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Meeting of the 1st. and 2nd. Battalions of the Bedfordshire Regiment at Locre, 6th. November 1914. First Battle of Ypres. Coloured landscape format, signed print, ( Ackerman copyright 1922 ) mounted, framed and glazed. Slight foxing at margins o/w vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Airships R101, R33, R38 and the Graf Zeppelin featured in a series of monochrome printed photographs cut from contemporary newspapers ( inc. Beds.Times?) together with other cuttings of local interest and an original photograph of Bedfordshire County Council's first fleet of lorries ( with drivers ) C.1925. Vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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The Brick Industry of the Great Clay Vale within Mid-Bedfordshire, nd.C.1960s?. An original (10,000 word) Dissertation or Thesis on this subject featuring coloured maps, geological sections and charts together with original monochrome photographs. The study refers to the possibility of flooding the clay pits thereby creating additional water supply and natural habitats. Housed within card folder. Vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Marriage Settlement, October 1763. Complex and extensive Marriage Settlement Vellum Deed relating to the Gery and Bell families residing in Eaton Socon, Bushmead and Bedford in Bedfordshire. The deed also refers to land and property in Thurleigh and Milton Ernest, also in Bedfordshire. This is an extensive document comprising 7 large sheets measuring 86cm by 68cm. Other names appearing on the signatories section are Towersy, Welby and Birt together with wax seals. Vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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19th.Century Education - Documentary Ephemera. Original vellum bound folio account ledger for 'Alpha House Preparatory School for Young Gentlemen' Cresswell Park, Blackheath, S.E. Names featured on the outer cover are : 'Miss E. Shair, 1866 to 1869 & Mrs. C.E.A. Gibbs, 1869 to 1873' - presumably Head Teachers. Entries in the ledger are mainly related to the accounts for individual students and include the following : One year's board, half a year instruction in German, 9 Postages to India, one History of Greece 3/6d, Euclid 2/6d., for slippers made to order, Xmas vacation one week 10/6d., Exc. to Crystal Palace 5/-, 2 teeth ext. 2/-, Haircutt (sic) & Pomade 2/- + 1/-, slate 1/-, and many more fascinating entries/items which provide perhaps a unique insight into the contemporary life of students in this environment. Also included loosely in the front of the ledger are a manuscript table of examination results for particular classes and a manuscript copy of a curriculum timetable which specifies times of lessons and content, starting with morning lessons and finishing with evening sessions! Also a note referring to a 'Bad Debt' amounting to £73.42p! Vellum binding somewhat marked but very sound. Contents, incl. loose items, very clean, bright and legible. Estimate £80 - £120
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Commonplace books/albums. Two 19th.C. items, one 8vo bound in maroon straight grained morroco aeg, with a label indicating that it was kept by Miss Ann Irving ( Mrs. Ann Swift ) from the year 1826. This album features beautifully executed calligraphy ( copied poetry and prose), some fine pencil sketches and silhouette work and one accomplished pen and ink sketch of Leamington Church. The second album is qto, gilt, aeg and features mainly skilful calligraphy. The binding and contents of the smaller album are well preserved; the binding of the larger needs repair and restoration, contents vg. Estimate £50 - £60
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R A F 5 I.T.W. ( Initial Training Wing ), 2 SQUADRON, A FLIGHT. Dinner Menu Card, Monday, 10th. February, 1941. An original menu card featuring details of the meal and then the toasts proposed to the King, No.2 Squadron, Flight Commander and Flight N.C.O. In addition the card also features the signatures of all present at the meal on the reverse including Squadron Leader S.Glover, D.C.M., M.M. Card a little foxed on the outer surface otherwise clean and quite bright with the signatures all clearly legible. Estimate £20 - £30
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Aircraft Recognition Binder ( A.P. 1764 'Not to be taken in the Air' ) containing monochrome photo-type illustration cards of British, French and German Aircraft. German aircraft featured have the 'Swastika' emblem on the tail fins together with the cross. Binder appears to be either just pre-WW2 or a contemporaneous aid to aircraft recognition. Possibly used as a form of training manual. The binder is a little soiled and has obviously been well used but is still sound. Photo-cards in vg condition. Estimate £20 - £30
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Collection of Vintage Aviation Magazines and related WW2 HMSO Publications together with other memorabilia. Substantial collection featuring magazines and photographs. Good to vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Aviation Themed Cigarette, Spotter/Recognition and other Collector's Cards - an extensive collection. Sets include : Wills Early Balloon,Dirigibles & Aircraft, Players (inc. Doncella Golden Age of Flying), Churchman, Lambert & Butler, Osborne Tobacco, Turf Cigarettes, Strathmore and Gallaher's 'Aeroplanes' series; Players R.A.F. Badges series; Godfrey Phillips cards; Senior Service 'Britain From The Air'; Ardath Fighting & Civil Aircraft. Aircraft series from Brooke Bond, Lyons, Priory and Willow Tea Cards. The collection also features 'Valentine' Aircraft Recognition postcards; 'Restricted' Recognition Cards ( A.L.); 'Cardmaster' series and 'Royal Observer Corps Club cards. Some series are complete, others are part collections. Some cards are coloured, others monochrome. Some photographic, others pictorial. A large, well organised collection, mostly housed in dedicated folders with pockets. Other subjects are marginally featured in the collection. Generally well preserved, carefully collated and presented collection. Estimate £100 - £150
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Notes on the Employment of Women on Munitions of War with an Appendix on Training of Munition Workers. Ministry of Munitions, February 1916 ( HMSO ). Qto. Booklet with flexible card binding featuring numerous monochrome photographs of mainly female staff engaged in the production of various munitions and their components in industrial environments using specialised workshop machinery. Illustrations are accompanied by textual commentary relating to components featured. Apparently very scarce and effectively an informative documentation of social history. Generally vg. Estimate £75 - £100
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Early Tourist 'View' Books : A Collection : Twenty Four Views of the Isle of Wight, nd. C.1880; 12mo landscape, blue blind-stamped stiff card binding, engraved titled vignettes; Upton's Victoria Album - Coloured Views of Folkestone, nd. C.1900. Red 12mo landscape stiff card binding, gilt, coloured engraved-type glazed folding illus; New Album of London, nd. C.1900, small 8vo. blue,gilt stiff card binding, monochrome engraved-type folding illus; One Hundred and Fifty Views of London, nd. C.1920. Qto. Monochrome photographic illus. Generally vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Ironmongery and Sanitary Catalogue, No.20. Nicholls and Clarke, London. Nd. C.1930. Large qto. hb; 320pp with mutliple photographic/engraved-type illus. Water mark across a small section of the lower part of the page block but not with marked discolouration; o/w vg. inc. binding. Estimate £30 - £40
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Frank Richards ( Charles Hamilton ) : The Gem. 44 original copies of this comic publication dating from the early 1920s. Each copy within a proctective cellophane wallet. Given their fragility - in vg condition. Estimate £50 - £60
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THE EAGLE ( Comic ). 14th.April, 1950, No.1, Vol.1 together with Vol.1, April 1950- April 1951; Vol. 2 April 1951 - April 1952 & Vol. 3 1952 - 1953 ( Vol.3 lacks 9 issues). Together with other 'Eagle' Memorabilia including : Two Eagle Club Membership Cards, Two Certificates of Membership, Correspondence featuring the 'Eagle' letterhead and two brass 'Eagle' Club brass badges/pendants featuring the numbers '2' & '3' respectively. Also included with this Lot are: Daily Sketch, Sat. Dec. 12th, 1936 ( featuring abdication ) and Daily Mirror, Monday,Sept.11th. 1939 ( featuring Polish resistance in Warsaw to Nazi invasion ). Given regard to the relative fragility of the items - vg. Estimate £100 - £150
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R.A.F. STATION : Theatre Section : Gianaclis, Middle East, Christmas 1943 - Souvenir Programme ( Provides details of 'Production Staff', 'Theatre Section', 'Committees', together with programmes and performers for 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Pantomonium' and a menu for Christmas Day ), also a Christmas Dinner Menu for 1944 signed by Station C.O. Group Captain A.P. Revington. Also in this Lot - Ration Book, 1944/45, Identity Card 1943 & Clothing Book 1945/46. Together with 20 HMSO Publications from the 2nd.World War covering Naval, Military and Airforce operations. Generally vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Churchill IV-VIII - Vehicle Training Pamphlet, 1945. Original maintenance manual including crew drills, illustrations and diagrams for the Churchill Tank. 1st.Edition. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Covers slightly soiled but stapled text block tight, clean and bright Estimate £20 - £30
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Fine Binding Autograph Album. Fine leather bound album with gilt and colour floral 'Art Nouveau' style design on the upper board, aeg. The album contains a substantial number of significant autographs representing a wide spectrum of celebrities from film, theatre, radio, tv and music, including : Tommy Reilly, Dorothy Squires, Geraldo, The Andrews' Sisters, Ted Ray, Renee Houston, Charlie Chester, Frankie Lane, Clive Richardson, Googie Withers, Charles Williams, Eric Coates, Hoagy Carmichael, Tommy Handley, Henry Hall, Cicely Courtneidge, Chico Marx, Ted Heath, Uncle Mac, Maurice Chevalier, Benjamino Gigli, John Major, Robert Donat, Dame Nellie Melba and Dolores Gray. A comprehensive set of notes is available providing details of the contributors. Together with a copy of the Bible signed by Lawrence Wright and 'Cider with Rosie' signed by Laurie Lee. All vg, nf. Estimate £400 - £500
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Postcards : Late 19th.C./Early 20th.C. Collection of 19 Erotica cards, mainly by 'Penot' and 8 'Fashion' cards. Some wear to the edges and surface marks but generally sound and bright. Estimate £50 - £75
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'After The Battle ' Magazine series. Nos. 1 - 130, complete set. WW2 comprehensively illustrated with scholarly textual commentary. Scarce complete collection published between 1973 & 2005 complete with four storage racks. Vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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The Third Reich : Collection of 23 'collectors' photo-postcards mainly featuring Hitler but also Goering and other party leaders, and 10 similar but larger format postcards with similar images. Together with 6 'Valentine' Aircraft Recognition cards ( UK ). Generally vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Manneken-Pis Postcards - Early 20th.C. collection of these humorous coloured postcards, 20 original cards from 'series 2' together with their original folding card case. Slight surface wear o/w vg. Estimate £10 - £20
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Great Western Railway : Jigsaw Puzzles. Two original ply-wood-backed coloured jigsaw puzzles in their original illustrated cardboard boxes. Scenes featured are : Mountains of Killarney & City of Bath. Complete and scarce. Matching adhesive tape repair to sides of boxes ( only ), o/w vg and complete. Estimate £30 - £40
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Book and Magazine Collector : Substantial collection ( in larger groups of consecutive runs ) of this specialist magazine and informative resource comprising a total of 150+ issues ranging from the first issue ( No.1 ) to Number 328. All vg+ / nf. Estimate £50 - £80
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Airship R.101 : Original In Memoriam Programme of the Funeral Service and Procession of the Officers, Crew and Victims of Airship R.101 which crashed on Sunday morning, Oct.5th. 1930. Slight wear at crease where it has been folded once, o/w vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Postcard Albums : Two postcard albums, one containing a collection of early 20thC. cards mainly UK and Continental with some from further afield ( also featuring liners ) including, South Africa, South America, New Zealand etc. The second album contains an early postcard of the R101 moored at Cardington, and similarly early cards of Ickwell May Day Festivities. Bindings of albums a little worn but contents vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Heraldic 'Genealogy' Table on Vellum. The table features generations of the Cave family that has some association with Bedford which is also mentioned. Water colour has been employed to enhance the presentation of the shields. The date of composition of the table remains uncertain, early 19th. or late 18th.C. given the handwritten script employed within the circular medallion-type lozenges for each generation and some forms of spelling. Scroll surface a little soiled in places but otherwise sound and colourful. Estimate £80 - £100
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Japanese Crepe paper story book featuring detailed monochrome printed illustrations of warriors in active combat occasionally with other creatures together with an associated script. Cover a little worn but complete and sound, contents vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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1953 Coronation and 1945 Victory Commemoration Memorabilia. Victory Party and Thanksgiving Souvenir Programme, De Havilland Sports Club, 22nd.Sept. 1945, Souvenir Programme for the Celebration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2nd.June 1953 ( Rural District of Hatfield ) and the packet of a Coronation edition of 'Barratt's Pure Sweets'. Sweet packet a little battered, other items vg. Estimate £10 - £20
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Soviet Socialist Republic Certificate : '' To the people of the Soviet Union from the people of Great Britain in commemoration of Stalingrad. From the Leek Anglo-Soviet Friendship Committee : One Bed - from the people of Leek, Staffordshire, to the people of Stalingrad in grateful admiration. This page records the gift of equipment to the City Clinical Hospital, Stalingrad.'' Nd. Framed and glazed, 31cm. x 41cm. Slight foxing spots o/w vg. Estimate £20 - £30
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Matchbox Labels : A substantial 'International' collection of labels carefully mounted and displayed in two folders designed for housing such a collection. Examples include 'those of a certain age' will recall ( The Scissors, The Key - also in unusual colours ), some of the other countries represented are : Japan, Israel, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Nederlands, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Tunis, Israel and India. Whilst some examples are individual labels the majority are represented by a complete series that have been issued together with some rarities. All are in very good or near fine condition and expertly presented. Most labels are 'loosely' mounted. Estimate £100 - £120
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Film Star Photographs. Three variously sized albums containing monochrome photographs of well known Actors and Actresses ( including film stars ). The photographs also vary in size and some original signatures of the person featured, other signatures are reproduced. Together with a book containing a facsimile of a letter signed by Winston Churchill. Generally vg. Estimate £30 - £40
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Collection of mainly early 20th.C Ordnance Survey maps, differing scales, many linen backed, including : Montrose, Sheet 20, 1908; Anglesey, Sheet 41, 1922; Midlands, 1920, Sheet 5; Isles of Scilly 1933; Truro and St.Austell, 1934, sheet 143, and Lyme Regis, 1910, Sheet 142. A total of 25 maps. One or two with loss of at least one cover, some fold-wear and repairs on others. Generally a well preserved collection. Estimate £20 - £30
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