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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Isle of Man. Appendix for Anglers. Seventh Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Sm. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, plates and 2 folding coloured maps; original red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, backstrip a little faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, 16pp of advertisements at front and 64pp of advertisements at rear.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the English Lake District. With an Outline Guide for Walkers and a Special Section for Motorists. Twenty-Second Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Sm. 8vo., Twenty-Second Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and 6 maps and plans (3 folding); original red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, 18pp of advertisements at front and 48pp of advertisements at rear.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
Guide to Bournemouth, Poole and District. With Descriptions of the principal Motor and Steamer Excursions. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Sm. 8vo., with folding coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and 7 maps (3 folding); original red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, backstrip chafed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, and 10pp of advertisements at front.
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CARY John
Survey of the High Roads from London, 1790. [North and South sets]. [Facsimile reissue] NEAR FINE SET IN IN PUBLISHER'S PORTFOLIOS
2 vols., 8vo., containing 33 coloured road maps in facsimile (a number folding), with titles and descriptive letterpress; a near fine set in publisher's printed card portfolios. Splendid coloured facsimiles of the original editions of 1790. SCARCE.
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REDFARN W B
Old Cambridge. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, and 26 fine plates on blue stock with accompanying letterpress; original full brown leather, boards elaborately framed in blind enclosing title in gilt, back with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from a local institution with two neat stamps on blank preliminary only. Valuable and very scarce record of many of the ancient buildings cleared to to make way for late nineteenth-century redevelopment. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson, p.60; Bartholomew (Clark Bequest) p.203 (giving the author as 'Redfern').
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SCOTT-MONCRIEFF George
The Lowlands of Scotland. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine plates in monochrome and front and rear endpaper maps on green stock; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head. With splendid wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. Published in Batsford's notable 'The Face of Britain' series. First published in 1939. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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Evans George Ewart
The Pattern under the Plough. Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia. Illustrated by David Gentleman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; olive cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of tail of backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HOOKE Wilfred D.
The County Books. The Channel Islands. 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 with one short closed tear. One of the most elusive titles in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION..
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COUNTRY LIFE. LONDON.
The Country Life Picture Books of London. [Complete set.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., roy. 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and numerous fine full-page photographs throughout, contemporary inscription and tape-marks on front free endpaper of second volume; cloth (olive/brown/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper The set comprises: First Book. Introduction by John Codrington (second impression 1951); Second Book. Introduction by Raymond Birt. Photographs by G.F. Allen (first edition 1953); Third Book. Photographs by G.F. Allen (first edition 1956). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MACKAY James
Michael Collins. A Life. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, primrose endpapers, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BORENIUS Tancred
Forty London Statues and Public Monuments. With special Photographs by E.O. Hoppe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with mounted plates toned in sepia; red cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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STAPLETON Alan
London Alleys, Byways and Courts. Drawn and Described by Alan Stapleton. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous full-page illustrations in the text;, some light offsetting to free endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, uncut, small mark on backstrip else a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WHITTERIDGE Gweneth
A Brief History of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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BARTON Margaret
Tunbridge Wells. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and folding map, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; purple cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at extremities and rear panel. Well-written social history of the town and spa. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.351
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MEATES Lt.-Col. G.W.
The Roman Villa at Lullingstone, Kent. Volume I: The Site. Monograph Series of the Kent Archaelogical Society No. I. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome and numerous plans (a number folding); navy buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Monograph Series of the Kent Archaelogical Society No. I. Bennett (Supp.) p.198.
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ROWLANDS M.L.J.
Tunbridge Wells in Old Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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ELLIOTT A. G.
A Second Portrait of Portslade and Brighton. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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POUCHER W.A
Over Lakeland Fells. With Photographs by the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, 109 fine sepia-toned plates and 2 double-page maps in the text; pale green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A detailed table of the author's photographic data is included.
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POUCHER W.A
The Surrey Hills. With Photographs by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 97 fine plates, neat inscription on front paste-down; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. A detailed table of the author's photographic data is included.
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EASTBOURNE
Photographic View Album of Eastbourne. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Oblong 4to., with 16 pages of photographs (all but a few full-page); original dark red boards, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, silk endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Splendid views include Eastbourne from Wish Tower, Carpet Gardens, Grand Parade, Pier, Splash Point, Grand Parade, Queen's Hotel, Beachy Head, etc. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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EASTBOURNE
The 'Camera' Series Album Views of Eastbourne. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., panorama folded in concertina fashion to show 14 double-page views; original red cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, rear paste-down advertisement, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. Views include the Pier, Promenade Gardens, Queen's Hotel, Promenade, Parade from Wish Tower, Marine Parade, Devonshire Park, Floral Hall, Grand Parade, etc. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUBBARD Arthur John
Neolithic Dew-Ponds and Cattle-Ways. [Second Edition, with new Preface.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, joints mildly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1904.
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THORNBURY Walter
Old and New London. A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
6 vols., roy. 8vo., with frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and many hundreds of woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, preliminaries and titles lightly spotted as often, fore-edges faintly spotted; original brown cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and black, gilt backs, gilt tops, black endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. The set comprises: Vol. I: General (Thornbury); Vol. II: General (Thornbury); Vol. III: Westminster and the Western Suburbs (Walford); Vol. IV: Westminster and the Western Suburbs (Walford); Vol. V: The Western and Northern Suburbs (Walford); Vol. VI: The Southern Suburbs (Walford). A HANDSOME SET IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING.
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CHURCH Alfred .J.
Isis and Thamesis. Hours on the River from Oxford to Henley. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 12 fine etched plates and numerous delightful illustrations in the text, some occasional and generally inoffensive spotting; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 473.
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HANNA Denis O'D.
The Face of Ulster. Antrim, Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Monaghan, Cavan, Donegal and Down. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text , endpapers very lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Batsford's 'Face of Britain' series. With splendid wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook.
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JONES P. Thoresby
Welsh Border Country. [Second Edition, revised.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and endpaper maps, neat contemporary inscription on frontispiece verso; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. Published in Batsford's much sought-after 'Face of Britain' series with wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey One-Inch Map. Torquay and Dartmouth. Popular Edition. Sheet 145. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56 x 76 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, WANTING LOWER WRAPPER else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin was issued in 1919. This is the 1931 reissue (roads revised to 1925). The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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MORTON H. V.
In Search of the Holy Land. With Photographs by Rene Burri and a historical introduction by Raymond Flower. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured title spread, and numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue end papers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based on extracts taken from 'In the Steps of the Master' (1937).
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MORTON H. V.
In Search of London. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 15 sepia-toned plates and endpaper maps in red; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The endpaper maps are mounted on new leaves at front and rear. Fields & Devenish 36.
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CLEW Kenneth R.
The Kennet and Avon Canal. An Illustrated History. With Foreword by Charles Hadfield. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and plates, illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 1968.
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GOODWYN E.A.
A Century of a Suffolk Town. Beccles 1760-1860. Part I: 1760 -1815. [All Published.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. A second volume, Part II: 1816-1860, was projected but never published. SCARCE.
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ORDANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Road Map of N.London, St. Albans and Hertford. Sheet 29. Layers. Scale: ½ inch to 1 Mile.. [With Ellis Martin's 'car & signpost' cover]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 28 x 30 ins (approx. 71.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 32 panels to 7.0 x 3.75 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.5 cms), some very light age-soiling; original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled, else a very good, bright, clean copy. The half-inch road maps were reduced from the one-inch map of 1903-08. This 1925 issue includes the 1924 revisions, with Ellis Martin's well-known 'car & signpost' cover in the green and brown variant. SCARCE. Browne, 12.2.a.
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ROLT L.T.C
Red for Danger. A History of Railway Accidents and Railway Safety. Fourth Edition, revised and with additional Material by Geoffrey Kitchenside. [Third Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Rolt's classic study was first published in 1955. This edition adds material from the succeeding two decades, including the disasters at Hither Green, Hixon, Moorgate and Taunton.
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WOODFORD Cecile
Sussex Ways and Byways. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition.
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HAGGARD Denis
Rambles in Hampshire and Sussex [with] More Rambles in Hampshire and Sussex on Foot and by Car. Maps and Drawings by Betty Haggard. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set.
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BRIGGS Martin S.
Middlesex Old and New. Illustrated by the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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KENDALL, ed. S.C.
The Sussex County Book. Edited by S.C. Kendall. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end.
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DRUETT Walter W.
The Stanmores and Harrow Weald through the Ages. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper ; red cloth, gilt back, covers mildly rubbed and age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. The third and by far the scarcest book in Druett's 'Harrow' trilogy of local histories. SCARCE.
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BYRON, ed. Robert
Shell Guide to Wiltshire. A Series of Views of Castles, Seats of the Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities, etc. Edited by Robert Byron. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
4to., First Edition, with title-vignette, 8 plates toned in sepia, numerous photographs in the tgext and double-page map; original series binding of pictorial wrappers, comb-bound as issued, wrappers just a little age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. First appearance of the classic guide, one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series conceived by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WYE VALLEY.
Hillman's Illustrated Historical Handbook for Tourists to Chepstow, Wynd-Cliff, Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Raglan and other Places of Interest in and about the Wye. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., Fifth Edition, with frontispiece, engraved illustrations (a number full-page) and double-page map; original illustrated wrappers, sewed as issued, upper wrapper virtually detached else a very good, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Not recorded by Anderson.
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GARRETT Eric
Bradford Abbas. The History of a Dorset Village. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in price- clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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WOODFORDE Rev. James
The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. BRIGHT, CLEAN XL SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and large folding map, tops lightly dust-doiled; black cloth, gilt backs, dustwrapper of first volume laminated to boards else a very good, bright, clean working set in unclipped dustwrapper. SOLD FROM AN INSTITUTION WITH ITS STAMP AND LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. This is the first complete re-issue. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
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WINDRUM Anthony
Horsham. An Historical Survey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 12 and 14 illustrations in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper, top lightly spotted; purple cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
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HOWARTH Patrick
The Year is 1851. [With dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter age-soiled and browned on (predominantly white) rear panel Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
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ROOKER John
Notes on the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Sevenoaks. BRIGHT, UNSIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue-grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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HOLDEN E. W.
Excavations at Old Erringham, Shoreham: Part One. A Saxon Weaving Hut NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the textl printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy Reprinted from Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 114.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 117. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans (a number folding) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 102. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans (a number folding) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 108. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans (a number folding) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 103. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans (a number folding) in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy
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