Jumble Sale Books : bargains, rarities, one-offs
Atlases
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B30. A key to maps. H.S.L. Winterbotham. 208 pages, 9 plates. 1936. Good clean condition.
The author served as Director General of the Ordnance Survey. The book is a good introduction to maps, scales, projections, contours and so on, with chapters on weather and geological maps and map making.
£7.50 including postage with clean dustwrapper, damaged at top of spine
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B27. Bartholomew gazetteer of Britain
Compiled by Oliver Mason. 48 pages of statistics, 271 page gazetteer giving a brief description of a place with a National Grid reference, 97 page atlas at 1:300,000 scale, town plans, weather maps and so on.
First edition 1977. Excellent condition in excellent dustwrapper.
£20.00 plus postage at cost
First edition 1977, reprinted 1981. Excellent condition in clean but slightly creased dustwrapper.
£17.50 plus postage at cost
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B26. Ordnance Survey postcards.
Forty coloured postcards of map covers issued in 1991 to celebrate the bicentenary of the Ordnance Survey. Taken from the illustrations in Map cover art (see Ordnance Survey books), there are four sets, each with ten cards in a coloured wallet. Cards are in mint condition in slightly scuffed wallets.
Set 1 Blue wallet with covers by Ellis Martin.
£4.50 including postage.
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Details of all four sets in new condition are available by clicking here.
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B25. Our publications. Special offer.
Catalogue of maps and other publications of the Ordnance Survey, 1924
Introduction by Richard Oliver, plus index diagrams for the major inter-war series. 80pp illus. 1991. New copy.
History in the Ordnance map : an introduction for Irish readers
J.H. Andrews. Second edition. A guide to Irish Ordnance Survey maps with much information on mainland activities. New preface and bibliography. 72pp illus. bibliog. 1993. New copy.
A résumé of the publications of the Ordnance and Geological Surveys of England and Wales…September 1909
Edward Stanford catalogue listing Ordnance Survey maps plus an extensive supplement with seventeen illustrations of the various methods of map mounting offered. Introduction by Francis Herbert. 74pp illus. indexes. 1994. New copy.
£6 each including postage.
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B24. The Oxford school atlas for India, Burma & Ceylon
A John Bartholomew atlas for Oxford University Press. 64 pages, good internal condition, slightly scruffy paper cover, but not tatty. 1943.
£12 including postage.
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B22. A description of Ordnance Survey Small Scale Maps. 5th Edition, 1925
A few small ink marks on the cover, one on each of the Popular and Third Edition plates, and one in the margin of the Third plate. The rest of the book is nice and clean. Cover illustration of three people in a car (Mrs Ellis Martin in red). 30 pages, including 8 coloured map extracts and 10 index diagrams.
£18.00 including postage.
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B21. Map cover art
Map cover art : a pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations, by John Paddy Browne, 144 pages, full colour illustrations, bibliography, 1991. New copy.
One cannot be interested in OS maps and not have a copy. At the back are 199 small images of map covers, plus supporting text with details of variants from those illustrated.
£15.00 plus postage.
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B19. The ten-mile maps of the Ordnance Surveys. Roger Hellyer. Essential reading for all with a wide interest in Ordnance Survey maps. Valuable for railway details. 214pp illus. 1992.
As new copy. £14.00 plus postage. (New copy £17.95)
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B13. Indexes to the 1/2500 and 6-inch scale maps : England and Wales. Originally published by the Ordnance Survey, this new edition has an introduction by Richard Oliver and additional material by Roger Hellyer. 128pp illus. bibliog. 2002. New copy.
Indexes to the 1/2500 and 6-inch scale maps : Scotland. Originally published by the Ordnance Survey, this new edition includes extra material, including new indexes drawn specially for this work. Introduction by Brian Adams. 112pp illus. bibliog.1993. New copy.
Two books for £30 including postage.
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B9. Notes on map reading : 1929. (Reprinted with amendments (Nos. 1 to 4) 1939). HMSO. 95 pages 20 plates. 1940. Nice clean copy.
Very useful introduction to map reading with coloured Ordnance Survey map extracts.
£5 including postage.
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B8. Ordnance Survey descriptions
Three booklets describing the complete range of Ordnance Survey maps available in the 1950s.
Large scale plans : 21 pages and 9 plates, including the conventional signs and writing on 1:2500 County Series plans.
Medium scale maps : 20 page and 14 plates, including index diagrams for the 1:25,000 First Series maps.
Small scale maps : 12 page and 17 plates and index diagrams.
All three booklets £10, including postage.
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