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[ Great Northern Railway; St Albans Station, Hertfordshire ] [ Great Northern Railway. ] Original coloured map of St Albans Station (London Road). Original map, drawn in black ink, coloured in blue, grey and red. Titled: 'GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY \| ST. ALBANS STATION \| SCALE 50 FEET TO AN INCH'. Dimensions: 77 x 143 cm. Showing the station complex - including 'Coal Stocking Ground', 'Goods Shed' and 'Stables' - on the line from Hatfield to '...	£280.00
[ G. N. Tyrrell (d.1893), Superintendent of the Line, Great Western Railway; Didcot Railway Station, Oxfordshire ] [ Great Western Railway. ] Original map of 'Proposed Alterations' at Didcot, Oxfordshire, signed by G. N. Tyrrell, Superintendent of the Line. Original map, drawn in black ink, with a few lines in red. Rolled up. 'G, W. R. \| DIDCOT \| PROPOSED ALTERATIONS \| Scale 40 Feet to an Inch'. Dimensions: 101 x 385 cm. With a few annotations in light pencil. Signed by G. N. Tyrrell (Superintendent of the Line) and another individual ('). Oval ink...	£350.00
[ Engineer's Plan Office, Great Western Railway, Paddington, London; Cookham Station, Berkshire ] [ Engineer's Plan Office, Great Western Railway, London. ] Original map titled ': 'COOKHAM STATION \| Scale, 40 Feet to an Inch \| July 1867'. Original map in black ink, coloured in blue, grey, brown, cream, yellow, red. Titled: 'COOKHAM STATION \| Scale, 40 Feet to an Inch \| July 1867'. With stamp in red ink: 'TO BE RETURNED TO \| ENGINEER'S PLAN OFFICE \| G.W.R. PADDINGTON'. In ink on reverse: 'COOKHAM STATION'. Aged and worn.	£235.00
[ Engineer's Office, Great Western Railway, Paddington, London; Pangbourne Railway Station, Berkshire] [ Great Western Railway, London. ] Original coloured map from the Engineer's Office of 'G. W. R. \| PANGBOURNE STATION \| SCALE 40 FEET TO AN INCH', with a few brief annotations in pencil. Drawn map in black ink, coloured in blue and pink. Titled: 'G. W. R. \| PANGBOURNE STATION \| SCALE 40 FEET TO AN INCH'. 46 x 111 cm. Oval ink stamp in top right-hand corner of the Great Eastern Railway, Engineer's Office, Paddington, numbered 6241. Aged and grubby, with wear to extremities. In...	£235.00
Sheena Tennant (1883-1974), niece of Margot Asquith [William James Maitland (1847-1919), Deputy Government Director, Indian Guaranteed Railways; Sir Pratab Singh of Idar; Sir Bhupal Singh of Udaipur] , Indian Guaranteed Railways.] Two Autograph Accounts by Sheena Tennant of a tour with Maitland across India in a private railway car, encountering Bhupal Singh of Udaipur and Pratab Singh of Idar. Sheena Lilian Grant Tennant (hereafter ST) came from a privileged Scottish family, being the youngest of the six children (five daughters and a son) of wealthy industrialist James Tennant of Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Argyllshire, a nephew of Sir Charles Tennant of the Glen (father of Margot Asquith...	£1,000.00
Sir George Rose (1782-1873), barrister of the Inner Temple and law reporter [East India Company] [Sir George Rose.] Autograph Letter Signed ('G Rose'), endorsing the 'Pursuit' by an unnamed recipient of a directorship of the East India Company. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. 'Mr. George Rose' in another hand at head. Following a visit by the recipient's son, Rose writes to wish him 'Success in your Pursuit to be chosen a Director of the East India Company on a Vacancy; in which Situation I think you are likely to be useful...	£35.00
Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle, Cumbria ('Booksellers, Stationers, and Printers' and 'Lithographers and Commercial Printers') [ Thurnam's General Railway Guide ] [ Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle printers.] Large album labelled 'Advertisement File. \| Chas. Thurnam & Sons.' Containing examples of the firm's work, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper cuttings Around 190 items, fifteen of them loosely inserted. (The firm was already a century old at the time this material was assembled, boasting that it was 'established the year after Waterloo', 1816.) Contained within a sturdy album of grey paper (dimensions 48.5 x 33.5 cm.), stitched with string...	£450.00
Charles Thomas Courtney Lewis [ C. T. Courtney Lewis ] (b.1856), English writer on art [Le Blond & Co., London fine art publishers] [Charles Thomas Courtney Lewis.] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. T Courtney Lewis') to an unnamed recipient, regarding his two books on the publishers Le Blond & Co. 1p., narrow 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. He explains that he has 'not written since my Vol in 1920 any Book on Le Blond except the one just published of which I enclose the Prospectus & do not contemplate any other'. He points out the differences between the two volumes...	£80.00
[Victoria, Australia] [Printed ephemera] Statement of Expenditure under Schedule D to ACT 18 and 19 Vic., Cap.55, During the Year 1859 on Account of he Year 1858. Four pages, sm. folio, pp.[2] and [4] blank, disbound (a little roughly leaving edge ragged, with small holes), some foxing, and marking, but text complete. No separate listing although the State of Victoria appears to hold a Statement from the previous year.	£80.00
[Van Diemen's Land] James Bailey [Pamphlet] [Letter] To the Chairman and Directors of The Van Diemen's Land Company Eight pages, 4to, unbound as issued, fold marks (sl. grubby), mainly good condition. A report of the Company's properties in Tasmania. Copies held by several Australian libraries.	£85.00

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