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HEYWOOD Abel
Harrogate, Ripon and Fountains Abbey. [Motoring, Cycling, Walking and Driving Routes]. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition thus, with sepia-toned illustrations in the text and folding map; pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip mildly frayed else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STEVENS Ian D.
The Story of Esher. [First Paperback Edition]. FIRST EDITION IN PAPERBACK
8vo., First Edition thus, with 10 plates on 6; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published simultaneously with the clothbound edition.
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GRIGSON Geoffrey
The Crest on the Silver. An Autobiography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; oatmeal coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-spoiled and with tiny chip at head of backstrip.. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. Proceedings Volume 120 for 1998. Editor Peter W Lock. FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations, maps and plans throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. Proceedings Volume 119 for 1997. Editor Peter W Lock. FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations, maps and plans throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. Proceedings Volume 117 for 1995. Editor Jo Draper. FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations, maps and plans throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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LONDON.
Edwardian London. [Facsimile reissue of Cassell's 'Living London' (1902)]. NEAR FINE SET
4 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; pictorial wrappers, a near fine set. First published as 'Living London' in three volumes (Cassell) in 1902.
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SMITH Sir Hubert Llewellyn
The History of East London. from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, maps and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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MATHEWS Godfrey W.
The Chester Mystery Plays. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire', Vol. LXXVI, with an Appendix and an additonal Plate. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with sepia-toned frontispiece and plate; green cloth, upper board framed in white, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. VERY SCARCE.
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HODSON D.
Portsmouth Record Series. Maps of Portsmouth before 1801. A Catalogue. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, maps and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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WALKER Joyce
West Wickham in the Second World War. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps, small note on title; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO.
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WALKER Joyce
Vanished West Wickham. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE VERSO.
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PALMER Susan
The Soanes at Home. Domestic Life at Lincoln's Inn Fields. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The author is archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum.
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HOLDGATE Martin W.
A History of Appleby. County Town of Westmorland NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text, small signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KLOPPER Harry
To Fire Committed. The History of Fire-Fighting in Kent. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8VO., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE.
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HUGHES Thomas
The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and its Environs. Containing a Short Sketch of its History and Antiquities, a Descriptive Walk round the Walls, and a Visit to the Cathedral, Castle and Eaton Hall. With Forty-Seven New Illustrations by George Measom etc. FIRM COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with steel-engraved frontispiece (lightly spotted) and engraved plates and illustrations in the text, some moderate and occasional spotting; publisher's blue embossed cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back,uncut, primrose endpapers, long tears in joints (but binding entirely sound) else a firm, clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of R J Fynmore on front paste-down, 4pp of local trade advertisements at end and binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down. VERY SCARCE. Anderson, p.66 (recording thirty-four illustrations).
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WALKER R J B
Old Westminster Bridge. The Bridge of Fools NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FINCH William Coles
In Kentish Pilgrim Land. Its Ancient Roads and Shrines. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND IMPRESSION
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, title in red and black, plates, and several illustrations, maps and plans in the text; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, boards lightly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. First published in 1925. Bennett, p.208 (recording the first edition). SCARCE.
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FIRTH J. B
Highways and Byways in Nottinghamshire. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and several maps (one double-page and several full-page) in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip lettering dulled (but wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down and 2pp series catalogue bound in at end
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GORDON Seton
Highways and Byways in the West Highlands. With Illustrations by Sir D. Y. Cameron. And a Glossary of Place-Name Elements with Aids to Pronunciation by W.J. Watson. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8co., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map; original series binding of navy blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy.
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DICK C.H.
Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH MAP CORRIGENDA
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text and large folding map (two neat repairs on inner surface); original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed map corrigenda slip mounted facing map, and 4pp series catalogue bound in at end. One of the scarcer titles in this much sought-after series. Spielmann & Jerrold, 60.
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BROWN A.F.J.
Colchester 1815-1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 8 and front and rear endpapers maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean in dustwrapper. Essex Record Office Publications, no. 74.
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BECKER M. Janet
Rochester Bridge: 1387-1856. A History of its Early Years. Compiled from the Wardens' Accounts. With a Foreword by S.C. Ratcliff. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, inscription on front free endpaper; light brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bennett, p.314.
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JACOB Edward
History of Faversham. With an Introduction by John Whyman and a Biographical Note on Jacob by Arthur Percival. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, and illustrations and plans (a number double-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Much-needed (and augmented) facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1774.
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MASTERS Betty R.
The Public Markets of the City of London surveyed by William Leybourn in 1677. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and illustrations and maps in the text; original series binding of grey cloth boards, brown cloth back lettered in black, a near fine copy. LTS Publication No.117.
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THOMPSON Canon [H.P]
A History of Hayes in the County of Kent. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with 17 plates on 15; red marbled cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1935. Canon Thompson was rector of Hayes 1919-1933. 'The only full printed history of Hayes; useful for parish matters since author searched parish archives fully' (Burch). Bennett p.176; Burch 427 (both recording the original edition).
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WILLIAMS Ethel Carleton
Companion into Derbyshire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with blue-toned frontispiece, 20 blue-toned plates and front endpaper map; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at joints. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAM Joan
Storrington in Living Memory. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with and very numerous photographs in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Arguably the best of Ham's several books on Storrington and environs. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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VARWELL Emmie
Throwleigh. The Story of a Dartmoor Village. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 11 plates on 8; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. SCARCE. Brockett, 73980; Somers Cocks p.57.
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WILKIE James
Bygone Fife from Culross to St. Andrews. Traditions, Legends, Folklore and Local History of 'The Kingdom'. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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LETHABY W.R.
London before the Conquest. [First and Sole Edition]. LONDON BETWEEN ROMANS AND NORMANS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, very numerous illustrations (3 full-page) and 2 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; red buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned as often else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end. The first authoritative treatment of the topography of the capital between the Romans and the Conquest.
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BENSUSAN S.L
A Marshland Omnibus. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (repeated on wrapper) by Rowland Suddaby; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Collects no fewer than ninety-nine short (and longer) stories by the laureate of the Essex marches. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
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PEVSNER Nikolaus
The Buildings of England. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with double-page map as frontispiece, 99 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1967. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Buildings of England, BE32. Cherry 32; HB2, HJ3 (recording the first edition)
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MEE Arthur
The King's England. London. Heart of the Empire and Wonder of the World. [Eighth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Eighth Impression, with frontispiece, very numerous plates toned in sepia, full-page map in the text and endpaper maps; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, red top (mildly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937, providing a complete record of London before the bombing. EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Reading and Newbury. Popular Edition. Sheet 113 Scale: One Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1919. This is the 1933 reissue with minor corrections. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'cyclist on hillside' in dark red and black with location map. Browne, 11.2.a.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Worcester. Popular Edition. Sheet 81. Scale: One Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1920. This is the 1928 reissue with minor corrections. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'cyclist on hillside' in dark red and black with location map. Browne, 11.2.a.
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MEE Arthur
The King's England. Sussex. Fully revised and edited by C.L.S. Linnell. Illustrated with new Photographs by A.F. Kersting. REVISED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
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NIGHTINGALE James Edward
Memorials of Wilton and other Papers. Edited, with some Additional Notes, by Edward Kite. 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED: THIS COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, first and last few leaves mildly marked at extreme fore-edge; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, uncut, original backstrip gilt mounted on new and separate leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
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AINGER Arthur Campbell
Eton Songs. Set to Music by Joseph Barnby. Illustrated by Herbert Marshall. ETONIANA: NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY IN THEMED BINDING
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; elegantly bound in green full morocco, sides with multiple frame border stopped at corners by Eton lilies and rosettes, and enclosing title and decorative cartouche reprising Eton lilies and rosettes all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers heightened in gilt, a splendid, crisp copy in themed Eton binding. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM AINGER TO HIS PUPIL ANGUS VALDEMAR HAMBRO WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Ainger (1841-1919) taught at Eton until his retirement in 1901. Hambro (1883-1957) was educated at Eton, elected twice as MP for Dorset and served as High Sheriff of the county. This copy was presented at Election 1900.
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THEATRE ROYAL BATH.
A Calendar of Performances at the Orchard Street Theatre 1750-1805. Compiled by Heather Bryant [and many others]. With additional Material by Kathleen Barker. Edited by Arnold Hare. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, signatures on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MULLINGER James Bass
Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century. Or, the Studies of the University and their Influence on the Character and Writings of the most distinguished Graduates during that Period. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; terracotta cloth, sides framed in black, gilt back, terracotta endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of W.A.C. Macfarlane, sometime Scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, on front paste-down. SCARCE.
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HAWLEY (ed.) C.D.
List of Antiquities in the Administrative County of Surrey. With a General Introduction and Photographic Illustrations. Presented by the Records and Ancient Monuments Committee. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION
Roy. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous plates, 3 large folding plans and folding map coloured in outline, and a large folding map in pocket at end; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy. Lovely copy of the last high quality edition of the official inventory.
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MURRAY'S HAND-BOOK.
Handbook for Travellers in Kent. Fourth Edition. With Maps and Plans. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with 2 full-page plans in the text and large folding map in pocket at end; original red cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, firm copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of William Thomas Laird Patterson on front paste-down, advertisement endpapers and 76pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett p.212 (recording the first and subsequent editions starting in 1858).
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NICHOLLS Rev. H.G.
Nicholls's Forest of Dean. An Historical and Descriptive Account [with] Iron Making in the Olden Times. [New Edition, With an Introduction by Cyril Hart]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo.,with illustrations and diagrams in the text, tiny signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and browned at extremities. Much needed reissue of Nicholls's two classic studies, first published in 1858 and 1866 respectively.
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PUREY-CUST, ed. A.P.
Our English Minsters. With Illustrations by Herbert Railton and Others. First and Second Series. BRIGHT SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and numerous illustrations (a number full-page)| in the text; original red cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a good, bright, clean set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Road Map of Weymouth, Yeovil and Taunton. Sheet 37. Layers. Scale 1/2 Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1928. This is the 1937 reissue with minor corrections. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'car passing signpost' in green and brown. Browne, 12.2.a.
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SNELL L. S.
Documents towards a History of the Reformation in Cornwall. No. 1: The Chantry Certificates for Cornwall. Transcribed with an Introduction. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., with a frontispiece; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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MACLEOD Fiona
The Winged Destiny. Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael. [Uniform Edition, Vol. V]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., on laid paper, with frontispiece in photogravure toned in blue (original tissue guard present); original green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in rare unclipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting lower half of backstrip. First published in 1904 and dedicated to Dr. John Goodchild. Includes Ireland as well as the folk of the Scottish Highlands. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DIXON Mark
An Eton Schoolboy's Album. [With a Foreword by John Julius Norwich]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHEETHAM Anthony
Eton Microcosm. Illustrations by Edward Pagram. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, boards striped in Eton Blue, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper.
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