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BOSWELL James
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764. Including his Correspondence witrh Belle de Zuylen (Zelide).
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page facsimile and endpaper maps; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of the definitive series 'The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. The work is complete in itself. Brown 99
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SACKVILLE-WEST Vita
Knole and the Sackvilles. New [Fourth] Edition.
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 24 plates, and a full-page pedigree in the text; decorative green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Vita Sackville-West's extensive account of her beloved birthplace was first published in 1922. Each successive edition benefits from extra material incorporated from Phillips' definitive history of the Sackville family. Scarce in any early edition, especially in the dustwrapper. Cross & Hulme A8(d); Gretton, 8 (recording the first impression); Thomson p.145.
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WILLIAMSON G.C.
The Guild Hall of Guildford and its Treasures.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. Scarce in this condition.
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GREEN A.H.J.
St. John's Chapel and the New Town, Chichester. John's Chapel and the New Town, Chichester.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KELLY (ed.) E.R.
County Topographies. Wiltshire. With Map engraved expressly for the Work. Edited by E.R. Kelly.
8vo., with folding engraved map, small neat signature on front free endpaper, end papers lightly spotted; original red pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, red edges, backstrip midly faded else a very good, bright, firm copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition. This edition not recorded by Goddard.
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STANLEY D.
[Basingstoke] Within Living Memory. [Preface by John Betjeman].
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) by the author throughout; holland gilt, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Uncommon collection of evocative scenes of Basingstoke scenes and worthies. Peterson B98; not recorded by Stapleton.
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HOPKINS Gordon
Greete, Whitton and Hope Bagot, and Tenbury Wells. The Farmers, the People, the Camp and the Neighbourhood over fifty Years. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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MACNAGHTEN Angus
Windsor in Victorian Times. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 7 plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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MORLEY G.
The Smuggling War. The Government's Fight against Smuggling in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ORME A. R.
The Raised Beaches and Strandlines of South Devon. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 9 full-page illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; laminated printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Reprinted from Field Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 1960).
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TAYLOR E. G. R.
An Atlas of England and Wales. Forty Plates from John Speed's Pocket Atlas of 1627 introduced and described by E.G.R. Taylor. [King Penguin 61]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 40 full-page coloured plates, neat signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of printed boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin, 61.
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GASQUET Abbot [F.A.]
Parish Life in Mediaeval England. Fifth Edition. [Antiquary's Books].
8vo., Fifth Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 6 plates, and 32 illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Abbot Gasquet's comprehensive study was first published in 1906. Published in Methuen's fine 'Antiquary's Books' series.
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LYME REGIS
Sunny Lyme Regis. [Official Guide]. Fifth Edition. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Oblong 4to., Fifth Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) and a full-page map; original wrappers printed in red, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. In this condition, a rare survival.
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CHARMAN Aubrey
The Memories and Local History of a Southwater Farmer. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 19 photographs and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury. Volume One. FINE COPY IN RED BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, 104 plates (most with multiple images), numerous plans (a number folding) and 3 large folding maps in pocket at end; original series binding of red cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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GILL Conrad
History of Birmingham. Volume I Manor and Borough to 1865. Vol. II Borough and City 1865-1938. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 8vo., with 99 plates and maps (including four maps in pockets at end); cloth, both very good copies in dustwrapper, the latter soiled and mildly frayed at edges. The standard history. A third volume by Sutcliffe and Smith (updating the history to 1970) appeared in 1974 but the first two volumes are considered complete in themselves. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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MANNING Roger B.
Religion and Society in Elizabethan Sussex. A Study of the Enforcement of the Religious Settlement 1558-1603.
8vo., First Edition, with a folding map; brown cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front free endpaper, neat blind stamp on half-title and small label scar on dustwrapper.
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MCCUTCHEON A.
Wheel and Spindle. Aspects of Irish Industrial History. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Oblong 4to., First Edition; with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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WATERLOW S.
In Praise of Cambridge. An Anthology in Prose and Verse. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in blue 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, gilt top, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title.
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MCLAREN M.
Lord Lovat of the '45. The End of an Old Song.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and 11 plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. With neat samp on front paste-down.
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BELL J.H.B.
British Hills and Mountains. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, 96 monochrome plates on 64 and endpaper maps; rose cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's notable 'The Face of Britain' series with wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook.
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ADAMS W. Bridges
English Pleasure Carriages. With an Introduction by Jack Simmons.
8vo., on laid paper, with numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1837.
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ADDISON William
Essex Heyday.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 34 collogravure plates on 30, a full-page ilustration in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn at edges and joints.
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ADDISON William
Essex Worthies. A biographical Companion to the County.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 6 plates on 4; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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ASH Bernard
The Golden City. London between the Fires, 1666-1941.
8vo., First Edition, with a tinted frontispiece, 23 plates on 16 and 6 illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed and worn.
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ASHBEE Paul
The Bronze Age Round Barrow in Britain. An Introduction to the Study of the funerary Practice and Culture of the British and Irish Single-Grave People of the Second Millennium B.C.
4to., with two portraits as frontispiece, 78 plates on 32 and 61 illustrations and diagrams (several full-page) in the text, small but unsightly inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The standard study, dedicated to Gordon Childe and containing an extensive bibliography
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ATKINSON Tom
Elizabethan Winchester.
8vo., with 9 plates on 8 and a map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The author was City Archivist
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BECKINSALE R. P.
Companion into Berkshire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with frontispiece, 21 plates and front endpaper map; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Substantially enlarged and updated version of the first edition of 1951.
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BIRNEY N.
Bray Today and Yesterday. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 22 plates on 15, 12 illustrations in the text, a large folding map at end and endpaper maps (different at front and rear); cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter faded at backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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BOASE Wendy
The Folklore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Wood Engravings by George Tute.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter sunned. Published in the series 'The Folklore of the British Isles' edited by Venetia Newall.
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BOSWELL James
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764. Including his Correspondence witrh Belle de Zuylen (Zelide).
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page facsimile and endpaper maps; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of the definitive series 'The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. The work is complete in itself. Brown 99
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BOYD A.W.
The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 20 plates on 14, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper.
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BRANDON Peter
A History of Surrey. Drawings by Carolyn Lockwood.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 48 coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations and 12 full--page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in clipped dustwrapper. Published in Phillimore's notable 'Darwen County History' series
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CANNAN Joanna
The County Books. Oxfordshire. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, endpapers (only) lightly damp-marked; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON BLANK PRELIMINARY AND SIGNATURE ON TITLE. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SIGNED AND PRESENTATION COPIES IN THIS SERIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
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BULLEID H.A.V.
The Aspinall Era.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and many illustrations and diagrams in the text, short crease in front free endpaper, fore-edge lightly spotted; cloth, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12072.
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JONES Philip E.
The Butchers of London. A History of the Worshipful Company of Butchers of the City of London.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 12; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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CAMDEN William
Camden's Britannia, Kent. From the Edition of 1789 by Richard Gough. Annotated and edited by Gordon J. Copley.
4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations (one double-page) and a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The value of this edition is its practical and scholarly access to Camden together with its contextual preface and a general bibliography.
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CAMDEN William
Camden's Britannia. Surrey & Sussex. From the Edition of 1789 by Richard Gough. Annotated and edited by Gordon J. Copley.
4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, and numerous illustrations and 2 double-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The value of this edition is its practical and scholarly access to Camden, together with its contextual preface and general bibliography.
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CHURCH Richard
A Portrait of Canterbury.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn at extremities.
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CHURCH Richard
The County Books. Kent. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED 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 unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's notable 'County Books' series.
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CLIFTON-TAYLOR Alec
Another Six English Towns.
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, fore-edges of a few leaves lightly marked; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Based on the highly successful BBC television series, Taylor's third volume covers Bury St. Edmunds, Cirencester, Devizes, Durham, Sandwich and Whitby.
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COBB Ruth
A Sussex Highway. llustrated by the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and 19 charming illustrations (7 full-page); cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Nice copy of the author's delightfully written and illustrated account of a pre-war walk through the Wealden countryside from Lewes to Clayton. Many of the buildings and scenes depicted are scarcely changed.
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CONNOR Arthur .
Monumental Brasses in Somerset. With a Preface by Paul Corbould. [First Edition in book form.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Editoion thus, with 101 plates (a number folding), and several illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. These studies appeared originally between 1931 and 1953 as a series of 22 papers in volume 77-98 of the Proceedings of the Somerset Arachaeological and Natural History Society. The present work is the sole edition in book form.
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CRICHTON Ruth
Commuters' Village. A Study of Community and Commuters in the Berkshire Village of Stratfield Mortimer.
8vo., with 14 plates on 8 and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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DAINTON Courtney
Clock Jacks and Bee Boles. A Dictionary of Country Sights.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates on 16; cloth, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A delightful yet uncommon work.
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DE MARE Eric
London's Riverside. Past, Present and Future.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 96 illustrations (2 double-page and 7 full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip. The best modern studty, profusely illustrated and with a select bibliography
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DONALD Archie
The Posts of Sevenoaks in Kent. An Account of the Handling and Transportation of the Written Communication of Sevenoaks District (Westerham to Wrotham, Biggin Hill to Edenbridge) on the Road to Rye and Hastings.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a mint copy in the dustwrapper. A detailed study concentrating on operational necessity and examining how national policies were adapted and carried out locally. The work covers the period from 1085 to the mid-1980s and each chapter can be read separately as a vignette of its period.
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DUNLOP John
The Pleasant Town of Sevenoaks. A History.
8vo., First Edition, qith 18 plates on 12, 17 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and 8 maps, small inscription erased from front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. A splendid history, detailed, well-written and illustrated
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EDWARDS A.C.
English History from Essex Sources 1550-1750.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper. Essex Record Office Publications, No. 17.
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HARRISON Godfrey
Bristol Cream. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 40 monochrome plates (one double-page) on 24; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Definitive history of John Harvey & Sons, world-famous wine and sherry merchants, in the context of Bristol's historic association with the wine trade.
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