[Z106] Harwich Corporation. [Map] Plans and Sections, November 1863. Parliamentary plans & sections for the 1864 Session. Land reclamation, navigable cut, bridge, pier, and other works in the Stour estuary. Three litho sheets in printed paper covers, minor repairs. Colouring and notes in ink wash and pencil on one sheet. Press notice of application pasted inside cover. £40.00

[Z108] Church, J. [Map] Tendring Hundred Water, Essex. Parliamentary plans & sections Session 1884. Jabez Churchf, Engineer. Pipes and reservoirs between Mistley, Harwich, and Walton on the Naze. Title page and two sheets in printed covers, minor tears. £26.00

[Z119] Colby, Thomas (Director General Ordnance Survey 1820-46). Autograph letter. Original autograph letter written by Colby from the Ordnance Map Office in the Tower of London 29 december 1826, to an unidentified correspondent possibly in Edinburgh, referred to as 'My dear Wallace' regarding suitable education to be given to a young man to prepare him for a position with the Survey. 'I wish him to spend his time in acquiring as much knowledge of the use and construction of instruments as he can, and any knowledge he may acquire of drawing, or increase of mathematical information, will also be a recommendation' Starting pay is referred to as four shillings per day. Single folded sheet, 1824 watermark. £195.00

[Z124] Cunard Steamship Co. Deck plan 'Samaria'. 1929. Large official folding deck plan of the 20,000 ton Cunard twin-screw turbine steamer. Detailed internal layout of every cabin and public room, with one external and five internal photos. The ship was built in 1922 for the Atlantic crossing, and broken up in 1956 after a busy life including spells as a troop and refugee transport. Thin paper, slight wear on folds, outer panels lightly soiled. £28.00

[Z127] WAR OFFICE. Norway map. An example of wartime recycling and a cartographic curiosity. Part of an unidentified Allied coloured military map of the Narvik area of Norway showing transport routes, scale about 5 miles to the inch, cut from discarded stock and reused as a small envelope. An unusual ephemeral survivor. £8.00

[Z134] Rivers Commission. Third Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers (Rivers Aire & Calder). Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1867. Folio Blue Book relating to the Aire & Calder Basin, comprising the Report Appendix & Plans volume. 81 pages of text and various folding maps. Original printed paper covers. Paints a vivid picture of the nauseous state to which the rivers had deteriorated through industrial expansion in the West Riding. £80.00

[Z135] Rivers Commission. Third Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers (Woollen manufacture and processes). Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1871. Folio Blue Book relating to the West Riding woollen industry, the fairly disgusting processes used in cloth manufacture, and the state to which the rivers had been reduced by the waste products. Report Appendix & Plans volume, 57 pages of text and a folding map. Original printed paper covers. £80.00

[Z136] Rivers Commission. Fourth Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers (Rivers of Scotland). Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1872. Folio Blue Book relating to the foul state to which factories had reduced some scottish rivers. Report & Plans volume, 57 pages of text and various folding maps and plans. Original printed paper covers. £80.00

[Z138] Secretary of the Treasury. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements required by the act for carrying into effect the Treaties with the Chickasaws, approved April 20, 1836. 25th Congress, 3rd Session, 1838. Two page letter and three page statement listing the many purchasers of lands by investors and settlers and prices paid, under the "treaty" with the indians. Disbound, intact but browned with age. £28.00

[Z139] Thomas Barker. Register of the weather at Lyndon in Rutland. 1785. Three page article submitted by Thomas White from the Philosophical Transactions describing the weather in Rutland during the year 1784. Table of monthly barometer, thermometer, and rain gauge readings. Disbound, age discolouration. £12.00

[Z140] John Landen FRS. Of the rotary Motion of a Body of any form whatever, revolving, without Restraint, about any Axis passing through its centre of Gravity.. 1785. 22 page extract from the Philosophical Transactions, with one folding engraved plate. Uncut, modern paper covers £40.00