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SAVING N.A.
Glimpses of Past Days. Being a Historical Survey of the Town and Parish of Winslow cum Shipton, As taken between the Years 1970-3.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, neat signatures on front paste-down and front free endpaper; original armorial boards lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE
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BASS RATCLIFF & GRETTON LTD
Excursion to Scarborough. Friday 24th July 1914. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 18 sepia-toned photographs on 6 plates and a large folding plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. High-quality facsimile of the original edition of 1914. SCARCE.
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SAUNDERS G.W.
Notes of the History of the Hundred of Martock. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First [and Sole?] Edition, with a frontispiece, 6 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; original boards, cloth back gilt, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a neat personal bookplate on front paste-down.Collected essays originally published in the Western Gazette' newspaper between 1933-34. The plates appear here for the first time.Very scarce.
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SALCOMBE REGIS
Church of SS. Mary and Peter, Salcombe Regis, Devon. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 8 plates, and illustrations and full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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SALMON Arthur L.
The Heart of the West. A Book of the West Country from Bristol to Land's End. With Illustrations by Fred Adcock.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and 114 charming ilustrations and a full-page map in the texct; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Brockett, 63910
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SANKEY H.R.
The Maps of the Ordnance Survey: a Mid-Victorian View.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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DELL (ed.) Richard F.
The Records of Rye Corporation. A Catalogue edited by Richard F. Dell.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignettes, 23 plates and 2 large folding maps; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a near fine copy. With a pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper. Categorisation includes: assemblies, hundreds and sessions, oaths political and religious, oaths of office, registration and deposit, coroner, court of record, general instruments, process, correspondence, government circulars and returns, customs and precedents, cinque ports, account, receipts, vouchers and payments, special accounts with vouchers, borough rates, taxation, musters and militia, prisons, water supply, commissioners of sewers, harbour and maritime records, borough council, charities, corporation properties, maps and plans, parish and church properties, transferred records, civil and parish records, printed books, acts of parliament, fragments of records and seals. Extremely scarce in any condition.
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RYE
Adams Illustrated Guide. Rye and District. by Jim Foster. [Thirteenth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
12mo., Thirteenth Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and large folding map; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear.
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RUTHVEN Angela
Clovelly. A Guide Book. [Fifth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fifth Edition [First Edition thus], with 5 illustrations ( a number full-page) and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Ruthven's guide was first published in 1926. This, the first post-WWII issue, is appropriately updated. Brockett 63530 (recording the first edition).
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RUTLANDSHIRE
Engraved map of Rutlandshire. NEAR FINE COPY COLOURED BY HAND
Engraved map measuring 8.5 x 10.5 ins (approx. 22.0 x 26.5 cms), COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE, with ivory bevel-cut mount, mild fold line else a very good, bright, clean copy ideal for display or presentation.
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RUTTER David C.
A Find of Palimpsest Brasses at Dinton, Buckinghamshire. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with several illustrations (a number full-p[age) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from Monumental Brass Society Transactions Vol. VIII, Part VI.
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SAMPSON June
All Change. Kingston, Surbiton & New Malden in the 19th Century. SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text, small inscription on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
Barnett's Official Street Plan of Tunbridge Wells. With Road Map of Kent, Plans of Tonbridge, London Boroughs & Postale Districts. Also Map of the M2 Motorway. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding street plan in red and black on paper, measuring 25.0 x 20.0 ins (approx. 63.5 x 51.0 cms) folding in 16 panels to 9.0 x 5.5 ins (approx. 23.0 x 14.0 cms); original printed wrappers in orange and black, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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DODWELL R.
Barkshire or Berkshire. Pocket County Companion.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a large folding map coloured in outline on japon (one medium-length tear), endpapers browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, case lightly shaken and faded, hinges weak else a good, clean. Scarce. Horrocks p.4.
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GEORGE Dorothy
London Life in the XVIIIth Century. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly age-faded (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Published five years after the first edition with a few corrections but omitting the illustrations. A scholarly study of the life and work of the poorer classes. Nice copy of a standard reference by one of the foremost historians of her generation. Pargellis & Medley 3268.
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FARRANT J.H.
Sussex Depicted. Views and Descriptions 1600-1800. With the Assistance of John Bleach, Timothy J. McCann, Christopher Whittick and Peter Wilkinson. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
4to., First Edition, with 16 fine coloured plates and 204 monochrome reproductions in the text; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Sussex Record Society, Vol. 85 [Centenary Volume]. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Very scarce
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PHILLIPS J.
The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire with Essays on the Climate, Scenery, and Ancient Inhabitants of the County. EARLY ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece map and 35 lithographed engraved plate (one finely coloured by hand), some mild age-staining to plates; original coarse-grained green cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, neatly rebacked in cloth to style, uncut, blue silk marker, boards moderately age-faded else a very good, bright, firm copy. With the errata slip (often missing) tipped-in at p.291 and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated November 1862) bound in at end. The plates are by Bevan after sketches by the author, and engraved by Monkhouse of York. The work includes topographical and personal indexes. This work is often described wrongly as possessing 35 plates, for the plates themselves are numbered 1-35. The true complement is 36 (as called for on title and list of plates) for plate 27 is present in two forms. 'This work, professedly on geology, contains much antiquarian and topographical information. The learned Professor, from his position in the Geological Survey undertaken by the Government, was personally enabled to collect his information from every part of the County' (Boyne). A second edition, published in 1855, adds a folding diagram. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. Anderson, p.311; Boyne, XVI.
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CLAYDEN A.W.
The History of Devonshire Scenery. An Essay in Geographical Evolution.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 43 plates; small label scar on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, tiny pin-hole in backstrip, covers very lightly age-worn at extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Brockett, 12000.
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MACNAIR Peter
The Geology and Scenery of the Grampians and the Valley of Strathmore. 480 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 138 plates from photographs (one folding), 5 folding maps (3 coloured), 6 full-page maps (5 coloured), and 23 illustrations and diagrams, and several tables, in the text, endpapers lightly spotted, small label scars on front free endpapers, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down of first volume, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal); original blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut and partially unopened, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 480 COPIES. Includes a bibliography. Nice copy of a scarce standard reference.
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BELLOC Hilaire
The Stane Street. A Monograph. Illustrated by William Hyde. IN FULL MOROCCO
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; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Bonser, 2451; Cahill, 57A.
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FORTESCUE S. E. D.
The Story of Two Villages. Great & Little Bookham. IN FULL BUCKRAM
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; strongly bound in dark green full buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, original front wrapper preserved, a very good, clean copy. Lovely copy of a scarce Surrey account.
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MAXSE Lady
Petworth in Ancient Times. Being Articles by the late Lady Maxse. Revised Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
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MATTHEWS E.C.
The Highlands of South-West Surrey. A Geographical Study in Sand and Clay. WITH THE SCARCE MAP PORTFOLIO
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, 7 diagrams in the text, a folding chart, plus the portfolio of 7 large folding coloured maps on japon in pocket et end; strongly bound in blue buckram, gilt back, gilt from original front board preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The portfolio of seven maps, originally provided in a separate wallet, is nearly always missing. Very scarce in this condition.
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MELLO J.M.
Hand-Book to the Geology of Derbyshire. Illustrated with a Geological Map and Sections. Second Edition, Revised. BEST EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with a large folding coloured map as frontispiece (one neat repair), 2 plates (one double-page), 2 double-page sections and a folding plan; original; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, very neatly recased with new endpapers to style, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Substantially rewritten and revised version of the original edition of 1876. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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YOUNG Arthur
Tours in England and Wales. Selected from the Annals of Agriculture. [Facsimile reissue]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, original printed label preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. LSE Reprints of Scarce Tracts in Economics and Political Science, No. 14. Now very scarce in its own right.
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HORN Pamela
Joseph Arch (1826-1919). The Farm Workers' Leader.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first full-length biography
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WICKETT W.
The Farmer's Boy: The Story of a Suffolk Poet. Robert Blomefield, his Life and Poems 1766-1823.
8vo., First Edition, with 23 plates on 16, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FINBERG H.P.R.
West-Country Historical Studies. A.L. ROWSE'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, with several maps in the text and folding map; sand cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A.L. ROWSE'S COPY WITH HIS PENCILLED MONOGRAM ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS AND NUMEROUS MARGINAL LININGS AND NOTES THROUGHOUT. A collection of classic essays, including 'St. Patrick at Glastonbury' and 'The Open Field in Devon', from the Professor Emeritus of English Local History at the University of Leicester. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Brockett 26730
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ADDISON William
Audley End. With a Foreword by Lord Braybrooke.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 monochrome plates and endpaper pedigrees, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Powell, p.289.
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ADDISON William
The County Books. Suffolk. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, small damp-mark on cover extending to rear endpapers else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little marked at bottom of rear panel. Published in Hale's seminal County Books series. Steward 411.
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ALDOUS Tony
The Illustrated London News Book of London's Villages.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ARCHER Fred
A Lad of Evesham Vale.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. Edwardian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham
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ARNOLD James
Farm Waggons and Carts.
Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous detailed illustrations, and maps and diagrams in the text, front free endpaper lightly marked; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily reinforced on inner surface and with two of three closed tears. The standard reference, first published in the previous year. Includes detailed construction plans of over fifty different types, together with glossary of regional terms. Scarce in this condition.
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ASPDEN J.C.
A Municipal History of Eastbourne 1938-1974. Foreword by Francis H. Busby. SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 21 plates on 10; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a small quantity of relevant ephemera (including the purchaser's original receipt) loosely inserted.
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AUSTIN Janet
Kirdford. The Old Parish Discovered. Illustrations by Peggy Harman.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs, illustrations and a full-page map in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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BEAMISH D.
Poole and World War II. [With a Foreword by Earl Mountbatten]. SECOND, BEST AND LIMITED EDITION
8vo., Second, Best and Limited Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1980. This is the limited edition produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, with new and altered illustrations and a fresh dustwrapper. Already scarce in its own right.
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BEBBINGTON Gillian
London Street Names.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 pages of maps; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Nice copy of a standard reference
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BELL Adrian
The Budding Morrow.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled on rear panel and with very minor loss at head of backstrip.
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BENFIELD Eric
The County Books. Dorset. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series
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BENFIELD Eric
The Town of Maiden Castle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 11 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper, one or two neat annotations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
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BENSUSAN S.L.
Marshland Calling. Illustrations by Betty Aylmer.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. A scarce Bensusan title, especially in this condition.
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BERESFORD M. W.
Medieval England. An Aerial Survey. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with over 150 illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A classic study and the standard reference. This is the considerably revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1958.
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BETJEMAN John
An Oxford University Chest. [Illustrated by L. Moholy-Nagy. Facsimile Re-issue].
4to., Facsimile Re-issue, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. First published in 1938, the author's first prose work is an entertaining survey (architectural, historical and social) of the Oxford he knew and adored as an undergraduate. The original edition is very scarce indeed; this re-issue is rapidly becoming elusive in its own right. Cordeaux & Merry, 433; Stapleton, I.54 (both recording the first edition).
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BIRCH, ed. Clive
The Book of Beaconsfield. An Illustrated Record.. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio,First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles in the text and front and rear pictorial endpapers printed in red; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Includes bibliography, index and list of subscribers.
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BIRTCHNELL Percy
A Short History of Berkhamsted. [Enlarged and Revised Edition.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Best Edition, with 33 plates on 20, numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, and endpaper maps in blue; original buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at edges. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. A valuable local history, this is the substantially enlarged version of the original edition of 1960.
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BLANN Rob
Edwardian Worthing. Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town. [Foreword by Raymond Baxter].
Sm. folio, First Edition, with a title-vignette and very numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed pictorial errata slip.
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POOL P.A.S.
William Borlase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 12 plates, 3 pedigrees on 2 folders and a double-page map in the text; original blue cloth gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Already scarce, especially in this condition
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BOSWELL James
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763. Now first published from the Original Manuscript. Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes. [Fifth Impression].
8vo., Fifth Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, 3 full-page facsimiles and endpaper maps, small neat contemporary signature on title; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. First volume of The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Brown 98 (recording the first edition).
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BOYLE John
Portrait of Canterbury. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and 3 plans (two double-page) in the text; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's notable 'Portrait' series.
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BRADBEER Grace
The Land changed its Face. The Evacuation of Devon's South Hams 1943-1944.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and a full-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly browning else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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