(Important Cornish manuscript) 'Plans of the whole Parish of...

Hammer

£820

(Important Cornish manuscript) 'Plans of the whole Parish of Sithney, in Cornwall. 1824' MS survey of parishes in Cornwall, showing field boundaries, with detailed tables of land use. Thirty highly detailed hand drawn maps, twenty of which are in the parish of Sithney, showing coloured field boundaries, numbered with corresponding table; table titles include Field Name, Hedges, Arable & Orchard, Crofts & Waste, Total Statute, Total Cornish Customary, with a statement of tenement and occupier; Other maps titles include Deanery and Hundred of Penwith, Deanery and Hundred of Kirrer, Parish of Sithney, The Deaneries and Hundred's of Pydar and Powder, Deanery of East, Hundred of East, The Hundreds of Stratton and Lesenewth, The Deaneries of Trigg Major & Trigg Minor, Chart of the Scilly Islands, most with corresponding tablic information contemporary to the time; hand written pagination to 335, some blank leaves between maps and areas, contents, index, full red goat with gilt tooled spine and title Plans of Sithney, slightly bumped extremities with a small chip to bottom of front board, marbled endpapers with some offsetting from another work visible, contemporary homemade vellum dj (which this cataloguer took the liberty in cutting strings for access), Bath Superfine paper used throughout with heraldic Prince of Wales fethers blind stamped throughout, some light staining throughout but generally in vg to fine condition, 1824. This is an extraordinary document with considerable information gained and presented for a large area of Cornwall. Although there is no identification as to who created this work, it is clear they were highly skilled in surveying. The numbered field boundaries with corresponding tables are a particular highlight, which offers the reader a wealth of information contemporary to 1824. A loft find in the vendor's new home.