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FAKENHAM
The Church of St. Margaret, Felbrigg. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. Third (revised) edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with a folding plate as frontispiece, and 2 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The first two editions were published in 1935 and 1959. In this edition the inscriptions on the famous brasses are printed with most of their contractions expanded. Darroch & Taylor 4123.
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BRADLEY A. G.
Flodden Field. [Reprinted from Macmillan's Magazine, October 1907]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original white boards, upper board lettered in red, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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HEATHERSLAW MILL.
Heatherslaw Mill, Ford, Northumberland. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, clean copy.
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BEVAN G. Phillips
Tourist's Guide to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Revised and edited by R.N. Worth. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with folding map as frontispiece and 2 plans (one folding), some occasional underlining towards rear of text; original terracotta cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.204.
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DETSICAS A. P.
Excavations at Eccles 1972. Eleventh Interim Report. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with 8 plates on 4 and a large folding plan; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE FRONT WRAPPER. Offprinted from Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. LXXXVIII, 1973.
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DETSICAS A. P.
Excavations at Eccles 1973. Twelfth Interim Report. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with 4 plates on 2 and a large folding plan; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE FRONT WRAPPER. Offprinted from Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. LXXXIX, 1974.
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PALMER W. M.
Further Excavations at the Bran Ditch. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 2 plates, small neat signature on upper wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. Offprinted from Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Communications Vol. XXXII.
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THOMAS-STANFORD, ed. Charles
The Private Memorandums of William Roe of Withdean in the County of Sussex, 1775-1809. WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS SLIP
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, covers lightly dust-soiled, backstrip mildly browned else a very good, brightm clean copy. WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. Roe was a distinguished civil servant at the time of George III. These are verbatim printings of his private notebooks filled with much interesting material on the Withdean estate and the parish of Patcham (now all but absorbed by Brighton). EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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HISTORIC HOUSES
Historic Houses of the United Kingdom. Descriptive. Historical. Pictorial. Historical. Pictorial. IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 5 engraved plates, and very numerous line illustrations (many full-page) in the text, endpapers faintly spotted; original brown grained cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Well-illustrated survey including Welbeck Abbey, Warwick Castle, Floors Castle, Hatfield House, Alnwick Castle, Audley End, Malahide Castle, Chatsworth, Penshurst Place, Trentham Hall, St. Giles' House, Berkeley Castle, Cawdor Castle, Hoghton Tower, Castle Howard, Cardiff Castle, Belvoir Castle, Kilkenny Castle, Longleat, Naworth Castle, Knole House, Lismore Castle, Newstead Abbey, Chillingham Castle. Scarce in this condition.
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KEYS A. E.
A History of Eastington. Near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire. 220 COPIES WERE PRINTED; THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 220 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 103). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Scarce.
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DRAPER W. H.
Hammersmith. A Study in Town History. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 29 plates on 20, a full-page illustration in the text and a folding map, fore-edges dust-soiled, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original boards, green cloth back gilt, a very good, clean copy. With 32pp of trade advertisements (several illustrated) bound in at end. With a small quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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SHEPPARD] [Rev. Martin
A Short Guide to the Churches of St. Mary de Haura, New Shoreham, and St. Nicolas, Old Shoreham, West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and plans in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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BEEVERS David
Sussex Churches & Chapels. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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BOYD Ronald M.
Alfriston. Second Edition, May 1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, signature on upper wrapper, small damp-mark on lower wrapper [only]; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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ANDERSON Robert
Deeside. [Illustrated by W. Smith]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 20 fine coloured plates and a map; original green pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip lightly chipped at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Inman 141.
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GOWING Ellis N.
The Story of Prittlewell Church [Essex]. With Illustrations by Alan W. Stapley. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The first appearance of Gowing's history, the humble format of which belies its content. The work has been successively expanded and reissued several times but never with such charm as in this first version. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Powell p.258
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PELTOR Rev. L. F.
Kilburn, Yorkshire. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with several photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy.
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GREGORY R.R.C.
The Story of Royal Eltham. With Illustrations from old Plates and Prints, Sketches by R.W. Gregory and W.H.Browning, and Photographs specially taken by F.W. Nunn..Together with an Index by W.H. Browning..
4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 161 half-tone plates and illustrations in the text, wanting front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers a little faded, corners lightly bruised else a sound, clean copy. Extremely scarce in any condition. Bennett p.134.
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GLASTONBURY
A Guide to Glastonbury and its Abbey. A short History of the Abbey Ruins and other notable Buildings: together with Ground Plan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 4 plates, and illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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ENGLEHEART Francis
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland. [Second, revised, edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Revised and updated version of the first edition of 1964. Steward, 7426.
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AUSTIN E.J.
Ashtead Church: its Story and Memoirs. EARLY COPY WITH A. . FROM THE AUTHOR
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 8 plates; green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With the pictorial bookplate of Rowland Leonard Watson on front paste-down. Printed by Birch & Whittington. AN EARLY COPY PRESENTED TO WATSON BY THE AUTHOR, WITH A LONG A.L.s TO HIM FROM THE AUTHOR. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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BROMHEAD H.W.
The Heritage of St. Leonard's Parish Church Streatham. Leonard's Parish Church Streatham. Being an Account of the Traditions and Associations of the Church. Incorporating Notes on the Monuments by Mrs Arundell Esdaile. [First and Sole Edition]. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates, 8 illustrations (one full-page) in the text and a folding map; original beige boards, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A remarkable copy. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
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LE CRAS [Abraham]
The Laws, Customs, and Privileges, and their Administration, in the Island of Jersey. With Notices of Guernsey; also a Commentary on certain Abuses, and a Petition to Parliament, for a Reform of the Same. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH
16mo., First Edition, endpapers mildly age-stained; publisher's original brown cloth, backstrip with printed paper label (chipped but entirely legible), uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, covers moderately age-stained else a remarkably crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. Sold from a sporting institution with its stamp on endpapers. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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KIRKE Albion
North Curry. A Short History of the Church and Parish. [Introductory Note by J. Armitage Robinson. First and Sole Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY; ONE PLATE IN PHOTOFACSIMILE
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece portrait, 8 plates [one in photofacsimile] and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. The plate present in photofacsimile is 'The Church, South View'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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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] a Guide to Blenheim. IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL CLOTH
12mo., New Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 8 steel-engraved plates and an engraved folding map, some negligible age-staining; original ribbed red pictorial cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, back with five flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, lemon endpapers, very neatly recased with original endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Slatter & Rose was first published in 1818. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL. Anderson, p.242; Cordeaux & Merry 310.
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BELLOC Hilaire
The Stane Street. A Monograph. Illustrated by William Hyde. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 15 fine plates, 22 sketch-maps in the text and folding map coloured in outline; original tan boards, upper cover blocked with road map and lettered in darker brown, oatmeal buckram back lettered in brown, uncut, boards unevenly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bonser, 2451; Cahill, 57C.
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HUGHES M.V.
A London Family 1870-1900. A Trilogy by M. Vivian Hughes. [Second Impression thus].
8vo., Second Impression thus, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 25; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Nice copy of Hughes' classic trilogy comprising A London Child of the Seventies (1934), A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) and A London Home in the Nineties (1937). First published as a single volume in the previous year.
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PENN] [Arthur
St. Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale. Compiled by the Vicar and published by the Parochial Church Council. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Impression, with 10 plates on 6 and a full-page plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in simpler form in 1957.
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LENOX-CONYNGHAM G.H.
Lavenham Church and Town. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with 4 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. First issued in 1927. Uncommon. Steward 6385.
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OSSETT
Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Handbook, 1890-1950. Issued by Authority of Ossett Corporation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (several full-page) throughout. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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MAXWELL Donald
The New Lights o' London. Being a Series of Impressions of the Glamour and Magic of London at Night. Written and illustrated by Donald Maxwell.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in brown and blue, coloured title-vignette, 35 fine full-page coloured or tinted illustrations, and numerous coloured or tinted illustrations in the text; original decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, bevelled edges, a good, clean copy of an early Maxwell.
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CLARKE S.R.
The New Lancashire Gazetteer. Or Topographical Dictionary, containing an Accurate Description of the Hundreds, Boroughs, Market Towns, Parishes, Townships and Hamlets of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Roy. 8vo., First [Sole?] Edition, some occasional light offsetting to text; strongly bound in late nineteenth-century cloth, uncut, a very good, clean copy. Very scarce; much harder to find than Marshall's 'Alphabetical Index of the County of Palatine of Lancaster' published two years later. Clarke also compiled the less notable 'Conversations on the History of England'. Not recorded by Anderson.
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BELLOC Hilaire
The Road. [Sketches by Sydney R Jones.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 15 maps and diagrams in the text; broad-weave cloth, buckram back with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With small neat institutional stamp on front paste-down. This attractively produced work, published for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, is perhaps the scarcest of the author's studies of the history and development of the English road. Cahill 80.
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YAXLEY (ed.) S.
History of Hemel Hempstead. By Members of the Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society.
8vo., First Edition; with 22 plates, and a double-page illustration and 12 maps and plans in the text; cloth, gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. With a presentation bookplate to a local dignitary
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YEARSLEY Y.
Dedham, Flatford & East Bergholt. A Pictorial History.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, and front and rear endpaper maps; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT
Yarmouth Parish Church, Isle of Wight. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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LODGE Eric
The Yorkshire Dales. Official Guide with Map. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and a large folding map coloured in outline; original coloured pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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YONGE Charlotte M.
John Keble's Parishes. A History of Hursley and Otterbourne. HER SOLE TOPOGRAPHICAL WORK
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 11 plates (one a portrait in photogravure) and a map coloured in outline, endpapers browned; original black buckram, gilt back, uncut, corners lightly bruised, hinges weak (but binding entirely sound), a good, clean copy of a very scarce work. With a 4pp catalogue of Macmillan's 'Uniform Edition' of the author's novels and tales (this was her sole excursus into topographical history) at end, and the blind trade stamp of W.H. Smith, Strand, on rear free endpaper. This fine local history, first published in the preceding year, draws on Marsh's 'Memoranda of the Parishes of Hursley and North Baddesley' (1808) and Duthy's 'Sketches of Hampshire' (1839) to provide an account of its localities more detailed than either of its forbears.
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BENFIELD T. C.
City and County of the City of York. Official Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 pages of arms in gilt, silver and colours, numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text, a folding coloured street plan and a full-page map coloured in outline; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements, many illustrated, at rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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YATES E. M.
A Study of Settlement Patterns. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with frontispiece and several maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a litrtle frayed at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Printed in advance from 'Field Studies', Vol. I, No. 3 with altered pagination.
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YORKSHIRE
The Victoria History of the County of York. Edited by William Page. Volume One [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. folio, with frontispiece, title and series title in red and black, 21 monochrome plates on 11, 25 illustrations in the text and 3 folding maps coloured in outline; decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, neat accession data on series title verso and small Dewey serial in gilt at tail of backstrip. This high-quality facsimile re-issue omits the geological map present in the original edition of 1907.
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WYE VALLEY. FOREST OF DEAN
The Wye Valley and the Royal Forest of Dean. Official Guide. Published for the Wye Valley and Royal Forest of Dean Publicity Board. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and folding map in green on japon; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and green, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WYLIE W. H.
Old and New Nottingham.
8vo., First Edition, neat nineteenth-century inscription on front paste-down, wanting front free [blank] endpaper; original green diced cloth, sides with multiple frame borders enclosing arabesque frame all in blind, gilt back, uncut, yellow endpapers, boards mildly age-soiled, covers browned at edges, corners lightly bruised else a very good, clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and the binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down. Scarce. Anderson, p.237; Dobbin, 290.
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MCGIMPSEY Christopher D.
Bombs on Belfast. A Camera Record. The Blitz 1941. Introduction by Christopher D. McGimpsey. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., Second Edition, Second Impression, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip scuffed else very good, bright, clean copy. This valuable photo-documentary, based on photographs taken for and published by the 'Belfast Telegraph' newspaper, was first issued in 1941. This much-needed facsimile reprint was first published in 1984.
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WORTH R. Hansford
Stray Notes on the Teign Valley. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1946, vol. lxxviii
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WORTH R. Hansford
Two Stone Circles on Dartmoor. Swincombe Valley and West Dart Valley, with a Note on 'Grey Wethers'. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 4 plates on 2 and 3 fill-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1939, vol. lxxi.
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WOOLLEY Peter W.
Liverpool in Old Picture Postcards. Vol 1: A Portrait of a City; Vol. 2: A Portrait of the Docks and River Mersey. Foreword by Brian Jacques of BBC Radio Merseyside. COMPLETE SET IN NEAR FINE STATE
2 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, a near fine set.
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WORDSWORTH (ed.) Christopher
The Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford from Documents of the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Together with Computus Manualis ad usum Oxoniensium from C. Kyrfoth's Edition, Oxon, 1519-20.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, a plate and 5 facsimiles in the text, free endpapers browned; original series binding of decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplates on front paste-down. Oxford Historical Society, vol. XLV. Cordeaux & Merry 5035.
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WORTH R. Hansford
The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part I and Part II [THESE PARTS ONLY]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPIES
2 vols., 8vo., with 11 plates, a few leaves lightly age-soiled; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, both very good, bright copies. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, vol. lxxviii (1946) and vol. lxxix (1947). EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WORTH R. Hansford
Retaining-Circles associated with Stone Rows, Dartmoor. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 2 plates and several plans in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1941, vol. lxxiii
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