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LEHMANN John
Holborn. An Historical Portrait of a London Borough. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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POWELL Geoffrey
The Book of Campden. History in Stone. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; buff cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip. This copy (No. 67) bears the subscriber's number of the Earl of Gainsborough. With list of subscibers at rear.
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BAKER Michael
The Book of Braintree and Bocking. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON LIMITATION PAGE. This copy (No. 354) bears the subscriber's number of James Waring. With list of subscibers at rear.
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HAMMOND Nigel
The Book of Abingdon. With Chapters on Early Abingdon by David Miles. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. This copy (No. 379) bears the subscriber's number of H.T. Randolph. With list of subscibers at rear.
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OXFORD.
Mowbray's Guide to Oxford with Plan and Illustrations. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with full-page photographs and double-page street plan in the text; wrappers printed in blue and black, sewed as issued, covers lightly browned else a near fine copy. With trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TOMLINSON Miss
A Guide to Heysham with a Description of its Antiquities. Illustrated with Photographs kindly supplied by W.O. Roper and Mrs. Baldwin Bent. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, upper wrapper with mounted photograph (repeated in text), wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PLAISTED Arthur H.
The Romance of a Chiltern Village, 5,000 BC to 1957 AD. [Medmenham, Buckinghamshire]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece, 10 plates on 5, 3 full-page plans and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was sometime vicar of Medmenham and author of the standard work 'The Manor and Parish Records of Medmenham' (1925).
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GRAHAM P. Anderson
Highways and Byways in Northumbria. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Spielmann & Jerrold, 65 (recording the first edition).
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DAVIES C. Stella
A History of Macclesfield. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates (one in colour) and plans in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, faintly spotted dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original MUP edition of 1961.
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PUREFOY [Elizabeth]
The Purefoy Letters 1735-1753. Edited by L. G. Mitchell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Elizabeth Purefoy lived and worked for ninety years in the village of Shalstone, Buckinghamshire. Her letters provide a fascinating picture of life ion provincial England in the eighteenth century.
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BENTWICH Helen C.
History of Sandwich in Kent. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original dove-blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 76).
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BRANNON George
Vectis Scenery. Being a Series of Original and Select Views exhibiting Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight. [Facsimile reissue.] 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved title-vignette, 40 engraved plates and large folding engraved map; green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER (THIS COPY NO. 551). High quality facsimile of the 1865 edition. Includes separately printed List of Subscribers together with the author's booklet 'A Short History and Bibliography of the Vectis Scenery engravings by the Brannon family in the context of Isle of Wight art'. Anderson p.121 (recording the original edition of 1825 and later issues).
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PARKER Eric
Highways and Byways in Surrey. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps coloured in outline, free endpapers mildly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, fore-edge very lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-marked dustwrapper. With series advert leaf at end. Bright copy of the revised and updated version of the original edition of 1908. Spielmann & Jerrold, 45 (recording the first edition).
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
[Map of] Roman Britain. Scale 1:625 000 about Ten Miles to One Inch. [Fourth Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with maps in the text and two large folding coloured maps in pocket at front; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in black, brown endpapers, a near fine copy. Previous editions were scaled at sixteen miles to one inch.
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SERRAILLIER Ian
All Change at Singleton for Charlton, Goodwood, East and West Dean. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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GRAVES Rev. John
The History of Cleveland. With a new Introduction by Robert Wood. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text, large folding map and several pedigrees (a number folding); navy faux-morocco, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1808 (the first dedicated history of the region). Anderson p.316 (recording the original edition).
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
Guide to London. Sixtieth Edition. [With additonal custom-mounted map.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Sm. 8vo., Sixtieth Edition, with large folding map (coloured in outline) as frontispiece, plates, 2 large folding maps (coloured in outline), double-page map and 17 plans in the text; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip printed and lettered in black, radial corners, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A LONDON UNDERGOUND MAP DATED 1953 IS MOUNTED FACING 57. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, 10pp of advertisements at front and 2pp of advertisements at rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STRAKER Ernest
Wealden Iron. A Monograph on the former Ironworks in the Counties of Sussex, Surrey and Kent. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1931.
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COPPER Bob
Songs and Southern Breezes. Country Folk and Country Ways. With Drawings by the Author. Foreword by John Arlott. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with plates, illustrations and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Stories, songs and poems collected by Bob Copper from the old timers in Sussex and Hampshire. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WOODFORDE Rev. James
The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map; navy cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. 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. Much-needed reissue of the first reprint of 1968. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
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TRASKEY J. P.
Milton Abbey. A Dorset Monastery in the Middle Ages. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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EGERTON Rev. John Coker
Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways. Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature. Edited by the Rev. Henry Wace. With a Preface by the Rev. Harry Jones. New Edition. NEAR FINE COPY OF A SUSSEX CLASSIC
8vo., with frontispiece and 3 plates; blue cloth, boards blocked in blind, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Egerton's well-known account, first published in 1884, is reprinted from papers originally published in 'The 'Sussex Advertiser' and 'The Leisure Hour'. This later issue omits two of the three works present in the first edition: 'Quaint Industries' and 'Interesting Places in Sussex'. Bright copy of a Sussex classic from the sometime rector of Burwash. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MCARTHUR Wilson
The River Windrush. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 45 plates on 32, inscription on front endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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YATES E. M.
Buriton and its People. Written for Petersfield Area Historical Society. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Petersfield Papers No 2. SCARCE.
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BINNALL Peter B. G.
Caistor Church and Town. Some Historical Notes. [Foreword by Rev. A.J. Arch, Vicar of Caistor.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE. Darroch & Taylor 3722.
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SAUNDERS-JACOBS Sylvia
West Chiltington in Sussex. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with photographs and maps (one double-page and one full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright clean copy.
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STEERS J. A.
The Coastline of England and Wales. [With introductory Notes by L. Dudley Stamp and Sir Patrick Abercrombie.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, a coloured frontispiece, fine monochrome photographs, very numerous maps in the text, and many large folding maps, neat signature onj front free endpaper; terracotta buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Bright copy of a standard reference.
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BRUCE J. Collingwood
The Handbook to the Roman Wall. A Guide to Tourists traversing the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus. Ninth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Impression thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations and plans in the text, and large panoramic folding map coloured in outline; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. With four relevant postcards loosely inserted. Bright copy of the standard reference.
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TEIGN CARS. Ltd.
Motor Tours through Glorious Devon. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
8vo., with photographs (a number full-page) and double-page map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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MAXWELL Donald
A Detective in Kent. Landscape Clues to the Discovery of Lost Seas. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and full-page illustrations in monochrome and maps in the text, tiny signature on front paste-down; pale brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, blue top, a near fine copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BYNG John
Rides Round Britain. Edited by Donald Adamson. Engravings by Anne Hayward. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; marbled boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, brown top, brown endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's brown cloth slip-case.
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CURWEN E. Cecil
The Archaeology of Sussex. [Second and Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE REVISED AND BEST EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy. Revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1937.
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LLEWELLYN Sheila
The View from the Bridge. The Story of the Thames-side Villages of Clifton Hampden and Burcot in Oxfordshire. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations, facsimiles and pedigrees in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. SCARCE.
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SUSSEX EXPRESS AND COUNTY HERALD
The War in East Sussex. A Short Account of the main War Events in East Sussex, September 3 1939 - May 7 1945, and the bombing of the County. Compiled and published by the Sussex Express and County Herald.. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., Second Edition, with title-vignette and numerous photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wie-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1945.
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CAVAGHAN Rev. Dennis
Through the Eyes of St. Mary's Taunton, 708 to 2008 AD.. A History of the Formation of Taunton: Church and Town. A Compilation from various Histories and Sources. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo,., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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STOKES Alfred
East Ham. From Village to County Borough. Third Edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, plates and full-page map; pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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CHANTER Charlotte
Ferny Combes. A Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of Devonshire. Third Edition. With a Map of the County. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY wITH ORIGINAL BINDER'S TICKET
8vo., Third Edition, with chromolithographed frontispiece, 8 fine chromolithographed plates of species and double-page map; original coarse-grained green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a most attractive, bright, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and Westley's binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Bright copy of a heavily influential work in the mid-Victorian fashion for ferns and their collection. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MANNING-SAUNDERS Ruth
The West of England. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 116 monochrome plates on 64, 5 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Heritage' series.
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MILLER Drew
Seen from a Windmill. A Norfolk Broads Revue. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, boards and backstrip framed and lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRADLEY A. G.
Highways and Byways in the Lake District. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous charming illustrations in the text and large folding map coloured in outline, endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisements bound in at end.THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHARMOUTH.
Charmouth and District. The Official Guide. Issued under the Auspices of The Charmouth Parish Council. Second Edition. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., Second Edition, with full-page photographs and double-page map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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KNIGHT Charles Brunton
A History of the City of York. From the Foundation of the Roman Fortress of Eboracum AD 71 to the Close of the Reign of Queen Victoria AD 1901. Introduction by Sir John A.R. Marriott. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 3 large folding plans on japon, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, blue coarse-grain leather back lettered in gilt, backstrip mildly chafed at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's binding. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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AMPLEFORTH ABBEY.
Ampleforth and its Origins. Essays on a Living Tradition by Members of the Ampleforth Community. Edited by Abbot Justin McCann [and] Dom Columba Cary-Elwes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates (one folding), some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; maroon cloth, gilt back, maroon top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Quarter-Inch Map of Great Britain. Sheet 2. England, North Central. Fourth Edition with National Grid. [Scale: Quarter-Inch to One Mile]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE 1946 ISSUE
Folding coloured map on paper measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1921 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Quarter-Inch Map of Great Britain. Sheet 3. The Forth, Clyde and Tay. Fourth Edition with National Grid. [Scale: Quarter-Inch to One Mile]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE 1945 ISSUE
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1923 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Quarter-Inch Map of Great Britain. Sheet 6. North Midlands and Lincolnshire. Fourth Edition with National Grid. [Scale: Quarter-Inch to One Mile]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE 1946 ISSUE
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1920 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.
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HOMELAND ASSOCIATION.
Dear Old London. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Published a year after the first edition.
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GRESWELL Rev. William H. P.
Dumnonia and the Valley of the Parret. A Historical Retrospect. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, folding map on japon and 4 maps (3 full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, case a little shaken else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN.
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READER W. J.
Macadam. The McAdam Family and the Turnpike Roads 1798-1861. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DORCHESTER.
Dorchester, Dorset. Official Guide. Issued under the Auspices of the Dorchester Borough Council. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with photographs in the text and large folding street map at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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