London, Land Ownership and Finance from the Reigns of Queen ...

Hammer

£110

London, Land Ownership and Finance from the Reigns of Queen Victoria to George V - Jessetts Estate, Cash Account, No. 1, neatly inscribed in ink manuscript by an agent of the Burrage family, comprising their investments, yields and landed property, dated from 1877 to 1919, and including property in London’s West End, South Kensington, 12 houses in Lambeth (in what today we would term Earl’s Court); as well as land outside of London, 23 acres at Barton-upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, and Horsham, Sussex, including Cowfold Lodge; their investments, of which the yields are recorded, include: Pietermaritzburg Consolidated stock, Queensland Cattle Co. & Government Bonds, various railway enterprises in Argentina, Canada, Great Britain (LNWR & Metropolitan Railway) and Russia, Winnipeg and other waterworks and gas companies, including London’s and the Union and Hong Kong & Shanghai (China) banks; some loosely-inserted ephemera/newspaper clippings illustrative of social history; etc., contemporary morocco gilt, the upper-cover blocked in gilt, the whole restrained by a Bramah Patent lock clasp, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, [1]