Search Results: Authors starting with O from AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish)

First edition, Shaylor, London: 1930.. Illusts, xiii + 144pp, original qtr. cloth, paper boards, some occasional foxing. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Reprinted, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1950.. 56pp, 12mo, original wraps, fore-edges slightly spotty. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1934.. Folding map, plates, illusts, Pages numbered 65-81, complete, original printed wraps. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1959.. With a coloured frontis and 68 photographs, xii + 162pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

c1928.. Two pages of text, title on front with coat of arms, printed in red and blue, map on verso showing canal from Port Said to Suez Bay. Some slight creasing. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1846-1933.. Cash book, size 14" x 9", full parchment boards, front inner hinge broken, so front board and spine, although not detached, have come away from the spine. On the first two pages is a list of 70 members with year of entrance (going back to 1789). There is also a list of 22 Honorary Members. 290 pages. Each year's accounts signed by auditors. A few pages loose, parchment darkened, some tears in parchment on back board, back inner hinge partly broken. Neatly written throughout. Blanks at end. Includes money paid out for funerals, provisions for the Feast 'One gallon of ale to Band at John Colledge's', 'Singers at Church', 'Ringers at Church', payments to hundreds of named people, presumably while they were sick, 'Surgeon half year's salary...' etc. Receipts include subscriptions, odd sums such as 'received from Bolehill Lodge for use of the Flag... 5s'. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DERBYSHIRE [… Read More

June 6th 1834.. 10 lines in a large hand on 2p., small 8vo. Addressed from 16 Aldermanbury. Asks Haggard about the probable value of the coins in the accompanying box, and the best way to dispose of them. Possibly B.G. Babington, the epidemiologist and inventor of medical instruments. William Haggard was Director of the Bank of England. --- Please e- mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LONDON [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

Nicholl, Manisty & Co., Solicitors for the Claimant, London: 1907.. 4 volumes:- (i) Two large folding pedigrees, 43pp, folio, original full leather, spine slightly rubbed to edges. (ii) 178pp, folio, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, front inner hinge partly split. (iii) 11pp, folio, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, slightly rubbed to edges, rear hinge weak and partly split. Herbert won his case as the barony was able to pass down through female lines. In Herbert's case his was via his maternal uncle. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

1852.. Three sheets of the four sheets which comprised the whole of the city, being the N.W., N.E., S.W. sheets. Lithographed plans, with hand colouring. The N.W. sheet has a large decorative title, with small city coat of arms, and covers Windmill Hill Lane, Markeaton Park, Duffield Road; N.E. sheet has large compass rose top right, and covers Race Course, River Derwent, Chaddesden Hill, Little Chester; S.W. sheet has Reference Table, giving key, including brick and stone buildings (coloured pink), wooden buildings (shaded grey), letters for face of wall, centre of wall, etc., and scale bars in feet and chains. This sheet covers The Firs, County Gaol, Brickyards, Temple House. All sheets are 26" x 39", edges bound with green tape. On two sheets there are three old sellotape marks in top margin. Scarce. Shows water features, field outlines with hedges, areas with trees, garden plots, boundaries, boundary stones, manufactories, breweries, chemical works, brickyards, etc. The Board of Health… Read More

Ordered to be printed 2d July 1868.. 293pp., size 13" x 8", original blue paper wraps, small pieces of paper chipped from top and bottom of spine. With tables, petitions, reports, correspondence etc., on 33 Boroughs, including Birmingham, Manchester, Cheltenham, Bristol, Reading, Newport, Windsor. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1814. . Vellum, 12«" x 15"... together with two other similar documents giving licence to Bond to let a cottage late Burridges, and a tenement called Boards. This last document has two lines almost rubbed away. 3 items. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DORSET [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

City of Bristol District Council, 1984.. Coloured illusts, maps, 136pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

n.d. 1870. Heavily embossed card in bright colour, size 5«" x 6«", the embossing covering about half of the card, showing top centre a shield with a red hand and 'Registered Trade Mark. Established 1831'. Flanked by gold scrolls and silver city dragons, arms of city on left and another shield with ship and three fleur de lys on right. Some small glue marks in blank area, possibly where a printed card had been pasted. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LONDON [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

n.d. c1820(?).. 7 lines on small 8vo paper, small embossed gilt circle with initials and coronet. Sends compliments to Mme. Fini(?) and says she will see her tomorrow as early as possible after 10. Dated only Park Lane June 12. A note in pencil says it is from the wife of the 11th Duke. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1835.. Size approx. 3" x 5", addressed to 'Mr Dodd Portsmouth', 'London March Sixth 1835' written across the top, 'Free' circular postmark with crown. Signed 'Free Wellington' bottom left. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1799.. 10 lines in an untidy hand, dated W.C. (Warwick Castle) January 5 1799. Signed 'Warwick'. Written on one side of folio sheet, folded, with docket title 'Earl of Warwick, Letter 15th Jan. 1799, Castle. hopes of Success.' Assures the recipient he can have no greater pleasure than to succeed so as to be able to communicate a favourable account of his application. What the application was is not clear as some words in the last two lines are illegible. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

Ordered to be printed 23d February, 1791.. 41pp. Gives lists of the people each Peer voted for. At the end are some 'Protests' by Peers who objected to certain other Peers being given the vote, with answers to their objections. - -- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1898 and 1907.. On vellum, size 23" x 27"... together with... SURRENDER of a plot of land at Oakley Rawtenstall, John Woodcock to Joseph Grimshaw. On vellum, size 23" x 27", engraved plan 5" x 5" in text, showing buildings, adjacent owners, roads. 2 items. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LANCASHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

Printed by John Baskett... and the Assigns of Henry Hills deceas'd. 1725.. Cover leaf and 26pp., folio. Disbound. Lists items alphabetically. Fine engraved headpiece and tailpiece, with flowers, etc., and fine large headpiece for 'Rules' section, which is printed in large type. Particularly finely printed. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

1824.. Veneris, 13 die Februarii, 1824. 3pp. folio, listing 33 items, plus motions and Orders. Folds. Among the business to be dealt with are East India Company, Brighton Police, Tay Fisheries. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---