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SHAW (Rev. George)
Old Grimsby.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), 261pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. red cloth, gilt, a nice copy.
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YEOMAN (Thomas)
The Report of Thomas Yeoman, Engineer, concerning the Drainage of the North Level of the Fens, and the Outfal of the Wisbeach River.
First edition, 4to (230 x 175 mm), 12pp., large folding engraved plate, orig. wrappers, a single worm hole throughout otherwise a fine copy. The engraved plate shows "A Chain and Scale of Levels along the Wisbeach River and Channel from Peterborough Bridge down to the Eye at Sea. Taken in 1767 by William Elstobb." Skempton, British Civil Engineering Literature, 1871.
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[TODD (Joel)]
Todd's Album of Great Grimsby and Neighbourhood.
Oblong 8vo (150 x 240 mm), 16 plates printed on pink paper, stitching loose, orig. red cloth, stamped in gilt. Provenance: Early presentation inscription: "A. J. Everett, Cherry Holt, Caistor - A Present from William Dalby, 26 Donington Street, Grimsby." Copac locates the British Library and Oxford copies only.
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HALL (John George)
Notices of Lincolnshire being an Historical and Topographical Account of some Villages in the Division of Lindsey.
First edition, vi, 200pp., hand-coloured frontispiece, 8 hand-coloured plates, ownership signature to front-free endpaper, orig. red cloth, uncut, t.e.g.
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LINCOLN.
The Hand Book Guide to Lincoln, and Business Intelligencer.
Second edition, 12mo (135 x 90 mm), 72pp., engraved frontis., 4 plates, 3 folding maps, orig. printed boards detached.
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RAWNSLEY (Willingham Franklin)
Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
8vo, 502pp., illustrs., closed tear to blank margin of folding map, orig. green cloth, gilt, a nice copy.
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SHEAHAN (James Joseph)
History and Topography of Buckinghamshire Comprising a General Survey of the County, Preceded by an Epitome of the Early History of Great Britain.
First edition, xiii, [1], 940pp., inner hinges broken, several pages standing proud, spine of text block broken, orig. blue cloth, head of spine frayed, a good working copy.
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TROTTER Torrens) Compiler.
Cowdray in the Parish of Easebourne, near Midhurst, Sussex. A short history, architectural and biographical, together with a detailed guide to the Ruins and Museum, and some account of the ancient domain.
First edition, small 8vo, 64pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. white buckram, gilt, ink scribble on upper cover.
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PIERCY (John S.)
The History of Retford, in the County of Nottingham, Comprising its Ancient, Progressive, and Modern State, with an Historical and Topographical Account of the Villages of West Retford, Babworth, Ordsall, Grove, and Clarborough.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 125 mm), viii, 246, [6]pp., frontispiece and 8 plates (one foxed), a very good ex-library copy with stamps, cont. half calf, marbled boards, joint cracked, red morocco spine label, uncut. A rare topographical work.
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PLOT (Robert)
The Natural History of Stafford-Shire. 1686.
Folio (360 x 250 mm), 450,10pp., numerous illustrs., and maps, orig. cloth, gilt.
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ARMSTRONG (John)
The History of the Island of Minorca. Illustrated with a Correct Map of the Island.
12mo (170 x 105 mm), [2], xvii, [1], 248p., with half-title, upper corner of E8 torn away and just touching one letter, folding engraved map of the Island (gutter margin a little creased), cont. half calf, rebacked, marbled boards and corners rubbed, spine tolled in gilt with a red morocco title label. First published in 1752, this rare Dublin edition was published in the same year as the London second edition. "Mr. Armstrong's Omissions, which, in the London Edition, that Gentleman has supplied by an Appendix, are in this introduced in the Body of the Work, at the several Places to which they respectively belong."?Advertisement leaf. Provenance: Lieutenant William Grant's signature in ink to front-free endpaper. ESTC locates copies at National University of Ireland (Galway); Royal Irish Academy; Public Library of Cincinnati; University of Chicago.
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MARTIN (Charles Wykeham)
The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent.
First edition, folio (380 x 270 mm), x, 210, [2], xxxvipp., title in red and black, 8 mounted albumen prints (145 x 200 mm) by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, images faded at edges, lithographic plan hand-coloured outline, double-page pedigree and double-page facsimile letter, fore-edge of frontispiece and title page neatly strengthened, neat repair to inner margin of leaf G3 marbled endpapers, attractively rebound in the style of a late eighteen-century panelled calf binding, gilt, with red and black morocco labels to spine. Leeds Castle was the country seat of Charles Wykeham Martin (1801-1870), an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1841 and 1870. Cruttenden had exhibited two of his images of Leeds Castle at the Photographic Society's 1861 Exhibition. Gernsheim, 458.
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COX (J. Charles)
Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire. Vol. I. The Hundred of Scarsdale. Vol. II. The Hundreds of the High Peak and Wirksworth. Vol. III. The Hundreds of Appletree and Repton and Gresley. Vol. IV. The Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch: and general supplement. Illustrated with heliotypes from photographs by R. Keene, and numerous other plates.
First edition, 4 vols., royal 8vo ( 250 x 155 mm), xxv, [1], 495, [1]; xxi, [3], 612; xiii, [1], 556; xxiii, [3], 570 pp., half-titles and frontispieces in each volume, 45 fine heliotype photographic plates, marbled endpapers, finely bound in nineteenth-century red morocco, five raised bands, four compartments gilt tooled extra, the other two gilt lettered direct, some minor rubbing, uncut, t.e.g. a very handsome set. Provenance: With the bookplate of Baroness Burton of Rangemore Hall to each volume; Bookseller's invoice (Frank Woore of Derby) made out on April 11th 1950 with Mr. C. Brown being the recipient. Ormerod, p. 9.
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JUKES (J. Beete)
Additional Notes of the Grouping of the Rocks of North Devon and West Somerset: With a Map and Section. Preceded by an Introductory Statement.
First edition, 8vo (210 x 140 mm), xxii, [2], 15, [1]pp., with a hand-coloured map of North Devon & West Somerset and another of section, with a couple of corrects to the text, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco title label to spine.
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MANBY (G. W.)
Fugitive Sketches of the History and Natural Beauties of Clifton, Hot-Wells, and Vicinity.
First edition, royal 8vo (235 x 145 mm), [2], vi, [5]-84, [2]pp., with half-title and terminal advert/errata leaf, aquatint frontispiece (lightly offset) and a further 17 engraved and aquatint plates, some light unobtrusive water-staining to prelims, nineteenth-century red quarter morocco, marbled boards, uncut. Provenance: Francis Frederick Fox bookplate.
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BURTON (George H.) Editor.
Old Lincolnshire: An Antiquarian Magazine. Volume I. From March, 1883, to June, 1885 [all published].
First edition, volume one [all published], 4to (260 x 190 mm), [6], 256pp., 10 plates (of which 6 are actual photographs), 3 illustrs., in the text, orig. red calf calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. This rare Lincolnshire periodical ran to just this single volume and is illustrated with 6 tipped-in Woodbury photographs, two additional early photographs of the 'Lincoln Imp' pasted on to front-free endpaper. Corns, p. 8.
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POTTER (Sidney Pell)
A History of Tollerton.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), [viii], 147, [5]pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. half vellum over blue boards, spine lettered in gilt direct, uncut, a nice copy.
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PORTCHESTER CASTLE.
History of Portchester Castle.
12mo (175 x 110 mm), 34pp., ex-library with usual stamps and labels, later quarter calf. This little publication appears to be unknown, no copies located in Copac or OCLC.
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CROSS (Frances W.) & HALL (John R.)
Rambles Round Old Canterbury.
First edition, small 4to (220 x 170 mm), 148, 12pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt.
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[LOVE (Benjamin)]
Manchester as it is: or, notices of the Institutions, Manufactures, Commerce, Railways, etc. of the Metropolis of Manufactures: Interspersed with Much Valuable Information Useful for the Resident and Stranger.
First edition, 12mo (155 x 100 mm), 244 p., engraved frontis., and 11 plates (lightly foxed), double-page engraved map, orig. cloth, gilt, a very good copy.
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Black's Guide to Gloucestershire. With a Map of the County, Plans of Bristol and Cheltenham, and Chart of Bristol and Birmingham Railway.
Small 8vo (170 x 110 mm), viii, 148 + 72pp., of adverts, 2 folding maps, orig. green cloth, gilt, label to spine.
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WHITE (Francis)
History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent Staffordshire comprising a general survey of the county with separate historical statistical topographical commercial agricultural and mineral descriptions of all the towns, parishes, chapelries, townships, villages, hamlets, manors and extra-parochial liberties... and a variety of other commercial and statistical information to which is added directory of the Borough of Sheffield Yorkshire.
Large 8vo (220 x 140 mm), xvi, 996pp., without the map, a couple of gatherings standing proud, terminal leaf loose, cont. half calf, rubbed and worn.
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PENNINGTON (Rooke)
Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire. With an Account of a Descent into Elden Hole.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), [8], 124 + 36pp., of adverts, bookplate removed from front endpaper, orig. brick red pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
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HEREFORD & MONMOUTH.
Black's Guide to the Counties of Hereford & Monmouth: Described in Alphabetical Order.
Eighth edition, 12mo (170 x 110 mm), ix, [3], 174 + 108pp., of adverts, frontis., illustrs., last few leaves a little creased, orig. green cloth, gilt.
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ISLE OF WIGHT.
Black's Guide to the Isle of Wight.
Ninth edition, 12mo (170 x 110 mm), xii, 103 + 108pp., of adverts, frontis., folding map, illustrs., orig. green cloth, gilt.
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WINDSOR.
The Windsor Guide: containing a Description of The Town and Castle, the present state of the paintings and curiosities in the Royal Apartments...
A new edition, corrected and much enlarged, 12mo (170 x 105 mm), 183, [5]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards.
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THOMAS (W. H.)
Tinterne and its Vicinity.
First edition, 12mo (175 x 110 mm), xiii, [1], 168pp., title vignette, orig. green cloth. Provenance: Ownership signature on front endpaper: 'Wm. Webster, Tintern Abbey.'
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[ALLISON (Joseph)]
Allison's Picturesque Pocket Companion, Comprising a Succinct Descriptive Sketch of Whitby and its Neighbourhood, the Scenery, Gentlemen's Seats, the Railway, the Abbey, Churches, Castles, Rivers, Antiquities, Waterfalls, &c. In the North Riding of Yorkshire.
First edition, 12mo (160 x 104 mm), [5], 6-112pp., engraved frontispiece of Whitby Abbey (lightly spotted with a stain to lower blank margin), bookplate, text illustrs., orig. publisher's printed boards, a very nice copy. Rare, Copac locates the BL and York Minster copies only.
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CHELTENHAM.
A New Guide to Cheltenham, and its Environs.
First edition, 12mo (163 x 100 mm), v, [1], [7]-319, [1], v [index], [1, advert]pp., vignette to title page, engravings within the text, orig. publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, joints split. Provenance: Maggs Bros. pencil not to front paste-down 'Ex Sir Thomas Phillipps Library', with Sir Thomas' Ms. press-mark in pencil to front free-endpaper.
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[CHILCOTT (J.)]
Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, Clifton and the Hotwells; With a Description of the Neighbouring Seats, Villages, &c. Illustrated with a Plan of Bristol, and a Map of the Country Eleven Miles Round.
First edition, 12mo (155 x 95 mm), ix, [1], [3]-241, [1]pp., frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, text illustrs., orig. publisher's printed boards, upper joint split but holding firm, uncut, a very nice copy.
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CHELTENHAM.
New Edition of the Cheltenham Guide with Map and Views.
12mo (180 x 110 mm), [4], [5]-203, [1, overlaid advert]pp., engraved title page with vignette, 8 engraved plates (of which one is folding), 2 engraved maps (one folding), cont. half calf, marbled boards, rubbed. The title page includes an engraved vignette view of 'Bettison's Cheltenham Library', page 102 gives a description of the said library and the engraved plate opposite is an advertisement for 'Bettison late Henney's Cheltentham Library, Bookseller and Stationer...'.
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[CROY (Robert)]
A Narrative of the Grand Festival, at Yarmouth, on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814; with an Appendix, Containing Copies of all the Handbills which were Published on the Occasion; a List of the Subscribers; and an Account of the Expenditure.
First Edition, 4to (260 x 205 mm), [2], 72pp., large paper copy, with an additional portrait of the author engraved by John Collyers, title-page printed in red and black, added engraved title depicting Neptune with trident framed by scenes of the celebrations, large folding engraved plan of the table layout along the quay, one further engraved plate, contemporary crimson morocco-backed boards, original pink printed label on upper cover, spine rubbed and joints cracked. A festival to celebrate the fall of Napoleon I, April 1814. a vivid account of the 'grand festival' in Great Yarmouth was written by Robert Cory, a local businessman and the builder of a suspension bridge across the River Yare which collapsed in 1845 with considerable loss of life. Inclusively was again the order of the day, and on a larger scale than at Cambridge: over 9,000 people were fed at fifty-eight tables stretched along the waterfront. An afternoon of feasting, donkey-racing and a 'pig hunt' culminated in the burning of a vast, symbolic bonfire representing the 'Funeral Pile of the Buonapartean Dynasty'. Despite concerns prompted by the participation of 'the lowest order of society', everything passed off peacefully. Even the weather obliged: the drizzle stopped five minutes before dinner was served.
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[DYDE (William) & JOHNSTONE (James)]
The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time: Collected from Ancient Records and Other Authentic Materials: Tow Which is Added Some Account of the Medicinal Water near Tewkesbury.
First edition, 8vo (185 x 120 mm), 3 parts in one, [2], vi, [8, list of subscribers], 32, 29*-32*, 33-131, [1], iv, [5]-30, [2], 19, [1]pp., with half-title, folding engraved frontispiece (spotted and offset onto title), 2 engraved plates, one folding list of inscriptions in the church yard, cont. half calf, marbled boards, corners rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped. 'Some account of the medicinal water, near Tewkesbury' with separate title page, pagination and register, includes another part: 'Thoughts on the function and diseases of the lymphatic glands' by by James Johnstone, with a separate half title, register and pagination. Provenance: Maggs Bros. pencil not to front paste-down 'Ex Sir Thomas Phillipps Library', with Sir Thomas' Ms. press-mark in pencil to front free-endpaper.
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HAMPSHIRE.
Aimez Loyaulte. The History of Basing House, in Hampshire: Containing an Interesting Account of the Siege in Sustained during the Civil War; with Notices of Distinguished Persons concerned in its Transactions. To which is added Basing House; An Elegy. Basingstoke; Published and Sold by S. Chandler... 1815. First edition, 40pp., engraved frontispiece. [Bound with:] The History of Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke, and of the Brotherhood, or Guild of the Holy Ghost, in the said Chapel... Basingstoke; Published and Sold by S. Chandler... 1819. First edition, viii, 94, [2]pp., with final advert leaf, engraved frontispiece. [Bound with:] The History and Antiquities of Silchester, in Hampshire, the Vindonum of the Romans, and the Caer Segont of the Ancient Britons....
First edition, 40pp. 3 vols., bound in one, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), some light dampstaining and browning, nineteenth-century half calf, marlbed boards, red morocco title label to spine. Provenance: Contemporary signature 'Rich. Booth, Basing' to title of each; bookplate and signature of James Wells.
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HEWITT (W.)
An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast, with a Design to Arrest its further Depredations; dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 140 mm), 108pp., + leaf of additional subscribers, 2 lithographed plates showing the beach at Happisburgh before and after the author's suggested improvements, orig. blue embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt and lightly faded. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
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GLOVER (Stephen)
The History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby: drawn up from actual observation and from the best authorities; containing a variety of Geological, Mineralogical, and Statistical Information. Illustrated by a Map of the County, and numerous copper-plate and wood engravings by the first artists. The Materials and Directory collected by the Publisher, Stephen Glover. Edited by Thomas Noble, Esq.
First edition, 2 vols., 4to (280 x 220 mm), viii, [14], 365, [3], 110; viii, 623, [1]pp., Large paper copy, large folding engraved map of the County with a boarder consisting of 16 engraved views, slightly spotted with a 1 inch closed tear to inner margin, 8 plates, numerous illustrs., and pedigrees, unopened, orig. green watered cloth, orig. printed spine label to vol. I chipped, otherwise a very nice set. This book was planned to comprise of two volumes, each in two parts. Only part 1 of each volume was published as here, no more published. Vol. 1, part 1: Containing a variety of geological, mineralogical, commercial, and statistical information ? vol. 2, part 1: Containing the parochial and family history, biography, and statistical information. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of John Gretton, Stapleford.
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[MOREAU (Simon)]
A Tour to Cheltenham Spa; or, Gloucestershire Display'd. Containing an account of Cheltenham, in its improved state; its mineral waters, public parks, amusements, environs &c. The Natural History of the County and City of Gloucester, and the towns of Cirnecester, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Fairford &c and a correct itinerary from Cheltenham.
First edition, 12mo (170 x 105 mm), iv, 173, [3]pp., orig. boards, inner front hinge broken but holding, blue sugar paper peeled away from upper cover, head of spine chipped, a nice copy with text very clean and bright. Provenance: Early signature of Thomas Edwards, Long Melford at head of title page.
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ROBBERDS (John Warden)
Geological and Historical Observations on the Eastern Vallies of Norfolk.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 140 mm), xiii, [1], 76, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf, folding lithographed map, new cloth-backed boards, old manuscript title label pasted onto upper cover. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
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WOODWARD (Samuel)
A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains: in which all the edited British fossils are systematically and stratagraphically arranged in accordance with the views of the geologists of the present day; and a reference given to their localities strata and engraved figures. Accompanied by a lithograph of the fossil turtle in the Norfolk and Norwich museum.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 130 mm), [2], xi, [3], 50pp., with half-title, lithographed frontispiece, neat stamp to title page, rebacked quarter blue calf, orig. marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, a nice copy. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
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OLDFIELD (Edmund)
A Topographical and Historical Account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln.
First edition, royal 8vo (260 x 170 mm), [8], [8, list of subscribers], [9]-370, 38, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 14 engravings in the text, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, a very good copy.
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WILLIAMS (Frederick Smeeton)
Nottingham: Past and Present; Illustrated by Photographs.
4to (280 x 215 mm), [8], 64pp., plus one leaf of publishers' adverts, 28 mounted photographs (165 x 120 mm) of Nottingham street views, each with caption title in ink on lower margin, orig. green cloth, spine and upper cover decorated in gilt and black with a mounted photographic view of Nottingham Castle, re-cased, some minor fraying to head and foot of spine otherwise a very nice copy. Gernshiem describes a copy with 12 albumen prints and gives a date of 1875. In our copy page 64 notes that "While these sheets are passing through the press, an event of unusual interest has taken place in Nottingham. On Thursday, September 27th, 1877, the Foundation Stone of the new University College was laid." Inscribed on front free-endpaper "Mary Thorpe, with her brothers love and best wishes, January 20th 1882." Gernshiem, 601.
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ROOKE (Octavius)
The Channel Islands: Pictorial, Legendary, and Descriptive.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 125 mm), viii, 178pp., title vignette, numerous engraved illustrs., within the text, orig. publisher's embossed green cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, a nice fresh copy.
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OXFORD.
The Oxford University and City Guide, on a New Plan: Containing a Full Description of the Colleges, Halls, Public Buildings, Libraries, Gardens, Walks, Pictures, and Statues, in Oxford: With an Account of the Dresses, Examinations, Degrees, Distinctive Ranks, Manners, Customs, &c. of the Members of the University; To Which is Added a Guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, the Newly-Discovered Roman Villa, near Northleigh, &c.
New edition, with considerable additions, large 12mo (180 x 105 mm), vi, [4], 11-214, [2]pp., 8 engraved plates, orig. publisher's blue printed wrappers, lightly chipped.
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GORMAN (Pierre) Compiler.
Cambridge in Books. The University, the Town and the County. A Catalogue, Arranged by Year of Publication, of the Collection Held in the University of Melbourne Library.
Third Edition, 4to, 97pp., printed wrappers.
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BRAYE (John) Editor.
Swanage (Isle of Purbeck). Its History, Resources as an Invigorating Health Resort, Botany, and Geology.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), [6], 119, [1]pp., frontis., 2 folding maps, illustrs., orig. printed boards.
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DENSHAM (W.) & OGLE (J.)
The Story of the Congregational Churches of Dorset, from their Foundation to the Present Time.
First edition, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), xiv, 433, [1] + [4, adverts]pp., orig. cloth. Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Albert Spicer.
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DORSET.
The Poll Book for the County of Dorset, in the order in which the votes were taken in the different districts, at the General Election of 1857.
First edition, 8vo (235 x 145 mm), viii, 87, [1]pp., orig. blind-stamped bule cloth.
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RODGERS (Joseph)
The Scenery of Sherwood Forest.
First Edition, 4to, large paper copy, viii, numerous illustrs., (some tipped-in), inner hinges repaired, orig. green buckram, gilt, lower cover a little stained.
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HOWSON (J. S.) & RIMMER (Alfred)
Chester as it was.
First edition, 4to, [4], iii, [1], 39, [1]pp., frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, 10 engraved plates, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover.
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NICHOLSON (Richard, Architect)
Sketches of the remains of the Abbey Church and conventual Buildings, formerly belonging to Canons of the Order of Saint Augustine, at Worksop, and of the church as restored: with a concise historical and descriptive account, from its foundation to the present Time.
First edition, 4to, [6], 20pp., frontispiece and 15 plates all with Grimsby Public Library stamps on each, margins browned, original boards, quarter calf, spine worn.
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