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DARTMOUTH
Official Guide to Dartmouth. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs (several full-page) in the text and large folding map coloured in outline; original pictorial wrappers printed in brown and green, wire stitched as issued, a remarkably clean, bright copy. With numerous trade advertisements (several illustrated) at front and rear. THE MAP IS OFTEN MISSING. A RARE SURVIVAL. Not recorded by Brockett.
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DELDERFIELD Eric R.
The Visitor's Brief Guide to the Torbay Area of Devon. Written and compiled by Eric R. Delderfield. Third Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and a double-page map in the text, some light spotting; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. The first edition appeared in 1960. Brockett 17940.
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CHARMOUTH
Charmouth. The Official Guide. Published by Authority of Charmouth Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with photographs and double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
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BRITISH MUSEUM.
A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates and 180 illustrations in the text; original boards lettered in black, neatly rebacked, a very good, bright, clean copy. First edition of this comprehensive guide. 'An attempt has here been made to present a sketch of the origin, the manners and customs, the language, the writing, the literature, the religion, and the burial rites of the peoples of Egypt, and of their history under the successive dynasties; embodying references to the several objects of the Collection which illustrate the different branches of the subject.'
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BRITISH MUSUEM
A General Introductory Guide to the Egyptian Galleries in the British Museum. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. [Preface by H.R. Hall].
8vo., First Edition thus, with 233 photographs, facsimiles, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed boards, , upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Budge, then Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, compiled his original guide in 1909, since which time it has been several times revised and updated. A lovely copy of an extensive edition.
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COLCHESTER
[Official Guide to] Colchester. The Roman City of Camulodonum. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and folding map on japon in red and black; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, small label scar on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. A rare survival. O'Leary 1322.
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EVANS A. A.
Friston Parish Church. St. James the Greater anciently called St. Mary the Virgin. A Short Historical Account of the Church and Parish. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations (a umber full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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EWELME
Guide to St. Mary's Church, Ewelme and to the Almshouse and the School. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 10 plates on 7, full-page plan and pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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GILBERT Edward
A Guide to the Priory Church and Saxon Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 9 plates on 4 and illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1958. The full-page plan appears here for the first time.
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GODFREY, ed. W. H.
Guide to the Church of St. John the Baptist, Kirdford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 4 plates, and photographs and a full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Small neat inscription on front wrapper.
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GUIDES BLEUS. FRANCE.
Les Guides Bleus. English Series. France. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., text in English, with numerous folding maps coloured in outline, and very numerous plans and diagrams in the text; original blue cloth lettered in silver, covers slightly dusty else a very good, clean copy.
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GOSPORT.
Burrows Pointer Guide Map of Gosport including Lee-on-the-Solent & Stokes Bay.
Large folding map printed in red and black on paper measuring 25.0 x 20.0 ins (approx. 63.5 x 51.0 cms) folding in 12 panels to 10.0 x 6.25 ins (approx. 25.5 x 16.0 cms); original printed wrappers, folded as issued, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the original 'pointer' tape mounted on map.'With the aid of the pointer any important street, public building, or any feature of interest may be instantly found'. Copies with the original pointer intact are scarce.
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GOSPORT.
Burrows Pointer Guide Map of Gosport including Lee-on-the-Solent & Stokes Bay. Third Edition.
Large folding map printed in red and black on paper measuring 25.0 x 20.0 ins (approx. 63.5 x 51.0 cms) folding in 12 panels to 10.0 x 6.25 ins (approx. 25.5 x 16.0 cms); original printed wrappers, folded as issued, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the original 'pointer' tape mounted on map. 'With the aid of the pointer any important street, public building, or any feature of interest may be instantly found.' Copies with the original pointer intact are scarce.
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HARBER Clara V.
Footpath Guides No. 59. Forest of Dean. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; original illustrated wrappers with fold-ins intact, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Remarkably well preserved example of a notoriously fragile series.
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HARRIES D. C.
Caldey. Monastery Isle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, staples mildly rusted else a very good, clean copy.
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HATFIELD
The Story of Hatfield Parish Church [St. Etheldreda], Hertfordshire. Tenth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with full-page photographs and a full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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HELLYER Roger
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Third Edition Maps in Colour. England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 12 plates in monochrome; laminated boards, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography of all of third edition coloured maps
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HOWES Rev. A. P.
Guide to Bolton Abbey and Woods. Revised and Corrected by the late Rev. C.F. Tomlinson. 23rd Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and a double-page map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ILFRACOMBE
History and Legend of Chambercombe Manor. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with armorial title and 4 full-page photographs in the text; original wrappers lettered in black, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. A scarce survival. Not recorded by Brockett.
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HUTCHINGS Monica
The Visitors' Brief Guide to Somerset (Mendip and Avalon). No. 17 of the Grey Guide Series. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINGS Richard J.
This Island. A Guide to Romantic and Historic Landmarks of the Isle of Wight. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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MURRAY'S HANDBOOK
A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon, including all British India, The Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Protected Native States. Tenth Edition. SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY IN SIGNED HATCHARDS BINDING
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.
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JOHNSON A.
Byzantium. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, maps and plans (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Published to accompany the two major BBC series 'The Byzantine World' and 'Byzantine Art' broadcast in the same year.
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LITTLE GIDDING
Little Gidding. An Illustrated Guide. BRIGHT COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 9 photographs and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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LUDLOW
Historic Ludlow. For Health, Pleasure and Recreation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition[?], with numerous full-page photographs (one double-page) and a large folding street map on japon; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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LYNTON. LYNMOUTH. LORNA DOONE COUNTRY
Lynton, Lynmouth and the Lorna Doone Country. Homeland Handbook No. 37. A Handbook for Visitors and Residents. With a Chapter upon the Fishing by W. Riddell. [Sixteenth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, with frontispiece, 3 plates, and 18 photographs (several full-page) and a full-page plan in the text but wanting the folding town plan, small neat contemporary signature on front wrappers; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip rubbed but sound, a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. The folding map is often missing. First published in 1904. Not recorded by Brockett
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MATTHEWS W.
The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol, or Complete Guide, 1794 [with] Matthews's New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1793-4. [Facsimile re-issue].
2 works in 1 vol., sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and a large folding street plan, fore-edges lightly browned; original boards, cloth back, paper label on upper board, neatly rebacked with original endpapers preserved, boards slightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy
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MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE
A Guide to Middleton-in-Teesdale and District. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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MIDHURST
Midhurst: Queen's Path. Nature Notes. The Old Town. An Illustrated Historical Guide. [Foreword by E.W. Knight]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrations and 2 full-page maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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NEWNAM W. E.
The Story of Farnham. Illustrations by Philip Sheail. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations and plans in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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NEWTON ABBOT
Official Guide to Newton Abbot. The Ideal Centre. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. With numerous trade advertisements (several illustrated).
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OBORNE
St. Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 8vo., with photographs in the text; photographs wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Redundant Churches Fund, Third Series, No.164. SCARCE.
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OLIVER R.
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Fifth Edition. Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Fifth Edition.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; laminated card covers, a near fine copy. Includes much new material, particularly relating to the Fifth (Relief) Edition.
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OLIVER R.
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch New Popular Edition. Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch New Popular Edition.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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OSBORN J. Lee
The Homeland Handbooks. Volume 91. Worthing with its Surroundings. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 3 sepia-toned plates, numerous illustrations in the text and a double-page street plan, fore-edges and first and last few leaves lightly age-marked; original series binding of photographic wrappers printed in yellow and red, sewed as issued, sewing a little loose (but binding entirely sound), a good, clean copy. Homeland Handbooks, vol. 91. With numerous trade advertisements, many illustrated, at front and rear. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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OTLEY
Official Guide to Otley. Historic Market Town. Issued by Authority of Otley Town Council. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear.
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ALDEN & COMPANY
Alden's Oxford Guide. With Notes on the District and Rivers, Key Plan of the University and City, Map of Central Oxford and numerous Illustrations. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., with numerous illustrations from half-tones (some full-page) and a map in the text, and a folding map at end; original printed wrappers, joints rubbed and upper cover a little browned else an unusually clean, sound copy of a work hard to find in this state. For many years the standard visitor's guide and packed with fascinating views and advertisements.
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PAGDEN Florence
History of Alfriston. [Tenth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with frontispiece and 4 plates; original printed wrappers, covers very lightly spotted else a near fine copy. A lovely copy of Pagden's well-known guide and the first separately published account of the village. It was first issued in this form in 1895.
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POMPEI
Ricordo di Pompei, 32 Vedute. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with 32 glossy plates arranged concertina style, and folding into cloth covers, double-page city plan on paste-downs and coloured illustrated title mounted on upper board, a near fine copy. Each plate is captioned on obverse in Italian with an extended caption on reverse in Italian, French, English and German.
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POLPERRO
Polperro Official Guide. Published under the Authority of the Lansallos Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ROBERTS Henry D.
The Book of Brighton (Official Guide). Seventeenth Edition, revised. Published for the Publicity Committee of the Brighton Corporation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventeenth Edition, with a large folding map as frontispiece (some folds neatly repaired) very numerous colour and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean, firm copy. Deceptively detailed guide with very numerous period trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DANIELS (ed.) G.
A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 12.
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KING, ed. Moses
King's Handbook of New York City. An Outline History and Description of the American Metropolis. With over Eight Hundred Illustrations from Photographs made expressly for this Work. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title in red and black, over 800 photographs (many full-page) and a full-page map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial tan cloth gilt, upper board board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and brown, gilt back, brown top, very neatly recased, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the best nineteenth-century guide to the city, extensive in scope and comprehensive in detail. A second edition was issued in the following year; the original edition is very scarce, especially in this condition.
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DARTMOOR
The Dartmoor Guide including the River Dart. Sixth Edition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
8vo., Sixth Edition, with numerous photographs and 7 maps (one double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout. Bright copy of one of the least common guides to the moor. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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DARTMOUTH
The Story of St. Petrox Church. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition,; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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CHELTENHAM SPA
[Official Guide to] Cheltenham Spa. The Centre for the Cotswolds, the Wye and Severn Valleys and Shakespeare Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With very numerous trade advertisements throughout, and a folding map of Cheltenham town centre loosely inserted.
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ROBINSON K. W.
Wild Lochaber. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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THOMAS COOK & SON
The Traveller's Handbook to Switzerland including French Savoy and the Italian Lakes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a large folding coloured map as frontispiece, 2 large folding coloured maps, 7 double-page coloured maps and plans and a full-page coloured map; original series binding of plum limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, radial corners, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 64pp of trade advertisements at end. Nice copy of the best Thomas Cook traveller's handbook to Switzerland. Uncommon in this condition.
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FAKENHAM
Fakenham Official Town Guide 1992. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and 2 folding street plans; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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FAKENHAM
The Church of St. Margaret, Felbrigg. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. Third (revised) edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with a folding plate as frontispiece, and 2 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The first two editions were published in 1935 and 1959. In this edition the inscriptions on the famous brasses are printed with most of their contractions expanded. Darroch & Taylor 4123.
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