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They are mostly priced between £1 and £1.50 each. A contribution towards postage is requested. The first list is the One Inch Popular maps, 6th editions, 7th editions and some other bits in the list here. Then there are the 1:50,000 maps both 1st edition and Landrangers in this list. Please contact Richard Clark if you are interested in any of the remaining maps. Richard is in Stafford should you want to meet in person instead.
OFFERS REQUESTED FOR MAPS AND BOOKS
Firstly a selection of maps can be located here
Then the following books are for sale:
Alfred Wainwright books. All in good condition with original sleeves covers.
If you are interesting in acquiring one or more of the above , please contact by email Richard Summers with your offer of renumeration for them. If successful, you can then arrange transfer with Richard.
OFFERS REQUESTED, The bookshop of the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology has received:-
Ordnance Survey Maps of the United Kingdom: a description of their scales, characteristics etc (HMSO 1907) 16pp + 13 extracts, 8"x13" sewn in brown paper covers. The most useful section may perhaps be the styles for showing administrative boundaries and names on County Series maps, both the pre-1879 and post-1879 systems. (How many of us can confidently distinguish Liberties from Superintendent Registrars' Districts?) Among the extracts, the most appreciated may be those of Salisbury showing the four styles of the one-inch that were current: a rare opportunity to acquire a Brown-Hills specimen (albeit one printed lithographically).
Any offers by email to the Honorary Secretary will be communicated to the bookshop.
OFFERS REQUESTED, Five lots of folded and flat maps
The Society is helping with the relocation of five lots of maps for the estate of the late Richard Porter. These lots are listed below, with the details held in a PDF from the associated link. Bids are requested for individual lots or the entire collection, which will result in equivalent donations to BCS and CCS jointly in return.
He has now sourced all the data he needs for 1:2500 and 1:1250 scale NG sheets, and it turns out this data was first published starting in 1947. The above info is for adding to his online mapping utility mentioned previously. The end result will be a graphic tool covering publication dates for all large and medium scale NG mapping, ie. everything larger than 1-Inch scale.
Small scale mapping such as the 1-inch will not be tackled due to the difficulty in knowing where to draw the line, trying to define which maps adhere to a regular NG layout is a grey area. Contact Rob if you can help.