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  1. Barry (Jonathan), and Morgan (Kenneth), editor REFORMATION AND REVIVAL IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. xiv + 183pp, original cloth. Volume 45. Bristol Record Society. 1994. £15.00




  2. Barry (Jonathan), editor THE DIARY OF WILLIAM DYER BRISTOL IN 1762. Frontis, 246pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 64. Bristol Record Society. 2012. £15.00




  3. Bettey (J.H), editor CALENDAR OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SMYTH FAMILY OF ASHTON COURT 1548 - 1642. xxvi + 217pp, original cloth, very slightly faded to edges of boards. Volume 35. Bristol Record Society. 1982. £12.00




  4. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 1. l + 150pp, original cloth. Volume 46. Bristol Record Society. 1995. £5.00




  5. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 2: The Churchwardens' Accounts. viii + 388pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 53. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £10.00




  6. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 3. Wills, The Halleway Chantry Records and Deeds. Frontis, xxviii + 484pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 56. Bristol Record Society. 2004. £18.00




  7. Dresser (Madge), editor THE DIARY OF SARAH FOX n‚e Champion, Bristol 1745-1802 Extracted in 1872 by John Frank. Frontis, 2 illusts, pedigree, xxvi + 286pp, dustwrapper. Volume 55. Bristol Record Society. 2003. £10.00




  8. Flavin (Susan) & Jones (Evan T), editors BRISTOL'S TRADE WITH IRELAND AND THE CONTINENT 1503-1601. The evidence of the exchequer customs accounts. xxv + 1081pp, dustwrapper. Volume 61. Bristol Record Society. Dublin: 2009. £18.00




  9. Fleming (Peter), editor THE MAIRE OF BRISTOWE IS KALENDAR. Coloured plates, 74pp, dustwrapper Volume 67, Bristol Record Society, 2015. £20.00




  10. George (Edwin and Stella) and Fleming (Peter), editor BRISTOL PROBATE INVENTORIES 1657-1689. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Includes index of names. Volume 57, Bristol Record Society, 2005. £12.00




  11. Harlow (Jonathan), editor THE LEDGER OF THOMAS SPEED, 1681-1690. liii + 553pp, dustwrapper, CD of the facsimile images of the ledger in pocket at the rear. Volume 63. Bristol Record Society. 2011. £11.00
    * Speed was a prosperous Bristol Quaker Merchant.





  12. Hayden (Roger), editor THE RECORDS OF A CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BRISTOL, 1640 - 1687. (vi) + 315pp, original cloth. Volume 27. Bristol Record Society. 1974. £15.00




  13. Hollis (D), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565. Part I 1532-1542. Folding frontis, viii + 243pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 14. Bristol Record Society. 1949. £12.00




  14. Jenks (Stuart) ROBERT STURMY'S COMMERCIAL EXPEDITION TO THE MEDITERRANEAN (1457/8) With Editions of the Trial of the Genoeses before King and Council and of other sources. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Volume 58, Bristol Record Society, 2006. £8.00




  15. Knighton (C.S), editor CLIFTON COLLEGE: Foundation to Excavation. Coloured frontis, illusts, maps, lv + 452pp, dustwrapper. Volume 65. Bristol Record Society. 2012. £12.00




  16. Lamoine (Professor Georges), editor BRISTOL GAOL DELIVERY FIATS 1741-1799. xv + (iii) + 158pp, original cloth. Volume 40. Bristol Record Society. 1989. £5.00




  17. Lang (Sheila), and McGregor (Margaret), editor TUDOR WILLS PROVED IN BRISTOL 1546 - 1603. xxiii + 145pp, original cloth, top corners of boards slightly bruised. Volume 44. Bristol Record Society. 1993. £10.00




  18. Large (David), editor THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF BRISTOL 1851 - 1901. 184pp, original cloth. Volume 50. Bristol Record Society. 1999. £8.00




  19. Large (David), editor THE PORT OF BRISTOL 1848 - 1884. xxxix + 221pp, original cloth, covers spotty. Volume 36. Bristol Record Society. 1984. £6.00




  20. Latham (R.C), editor BRISTOL CHARTERS 1509 - 1899. xvi + 254pp, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 12. Bristol Record Society. 1947. £20.00




  21. Leech (Roger H) THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRISTOL. Part I: Property Holdings in the Early Walled Town and Marsh Suburb North of the Avon. Ten maps, xxviii + 220pp, original cloth. Volume 48. Bristol Record Society. 1997. £12.00




  22. Leech (Roger H) THE ST MICHAEL'S HILL PRECINCT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL: Medieval and Early Modern Topography. Frontis, illusts, maps, 4 of which are folding, 133pp, dustwrapper, ownership name to front endpaper. Volume 52. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £8.00




  23. Livock (D.M), editor CITY CHAMBERLAINS' ACCOUNTS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. xxx + 191pp, original cloth-backed paper boards, few small marks to top board, splash marks to rear board. Volume 24. Bristol Record Society. 1966. £8.00




  24. McGrath (Patrick), editor A BRISTOL MISCELLANY. (vi) + 218pp, original cloth. Volume 37. Bristol Record Society. 1985. £8.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Bristol Glassworks; Bishop Secker's Diocese Book; Correspondence from William Miles to John Tharp; Bristol Local Board of Health.





  25. McGrath (Patrick), editor MERCHANTS AND MERCHANDISE IN SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY BRISTOL. xl + 315pp, original cloth-backed boards, slightly soiled, occasional light foxing. Volume 19. Bristol Record Society. 1955. £28.00




  26. McGrath (Patrick), editor RECORDS RELATING TO THE SOCIETY OF MERCHANT VENTURERS OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. lvi + 276pp, original cloth-backed paper boards, covers slightly faded. Bristol Record Society. 1952. £32.00




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  27. Minchinton (W.E), editor POLITICS AND THE PORT OF BRISTOL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. The Petitions of the Society of Merchant Venturers 1698 - 1803. xxxviii + 224pp, original cloth-backed boards. Volume 23. Bristol Record Society. 1963. £20.00




  28. Minchinton (W.E), editor THE TRADE OF BRISTOL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. xxv + 210pp, original cloth-backed paper boards, slightly dusty, couple of small spots, and slightly rubbed to edges. Volume 20. Bristol Record Society. 1957. £28.00




  29. Mortimer (Russell), editor MINUTE BOOK OF THE MEN'S MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN BRISTOL, 1667 - 1686. xxxiv + 260pp, original cloth-backed boards. Volume 26. Bristol Record Society. 1971. £18.00




  30. Neale (Frances), editor WILLIAM WORCESTRE: THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL BRISTOL. x + 302pp, original cloth, short tear to head of slightly creased dustwrapper. Volume 50. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £20.00




  31. Nott (H.E), and Ralph (E), editor THE DEPOSITION BOOKS OF BRISTOL Vol. II 1650-1654. 234pp, original cloth-backed boards, boards partly faded. Volume 13. Bristol Record Society. 1948. £15.00




  32. Orme (Nicholas) and Cannon (John) WESTBURY ON TRYM: MONASTERY, MINSTER, AND COLLEGE. Plates, plans, maps, xii + 276pp, vii + 363pp, dustwrapper. Volume 62. Bristol Record Society. 2010. £8.00




  33. Ralph (Elizabeth), and Hardwick (Nora M), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532 - 1565. Part II 1542 - 1552. xii + 196pp, original cloth, some brown splash marks to top board. Volume 33. Bristol Record Society. 1980. £9.00




  34. Ralph (Elizabeth), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK. Part III 1552-1565. ix + 155pp, original cloth. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1992. £5.00




  35. Ralph (Elizabeth), editor THE GREAT WHITE BOOK OF BRISTOL. (iv) + 152pp, original cloth. Volume 32. Bristol Record Society. 1979. £10.00




  36. Richardson (David), editor BRISTOL, AFRICA AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVE TRADE TO AMERICA. The Years of Expansion 1698-1729 + The Years of Ascendancy 1730-1745 + The Years of Decline 1746-1769 + The Final Years 1770-1807. 4 volumes, complete set. xxix + 203pp and xxv + 157pp and xxiv + 249pp and xxxvii + 279pp, 4 volumes all in the original cloth. Volumes 38, 39, 42 and 47. Bristol Record Society. 1986-1996. £75.00




  37. Richardson (David), editor BRISTOL, AFRICA AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVE TRADE TO AMERICA. Volume 4. The Final Years, 1770-1807. xxxvii + 279pp, original cloth. Volume 47. Bristol Record Society. 1996. £20.00




  38. Ross (C.D), editor CARTULARY OF ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL BRISTOL Frontis, xliv + 326pp, original cloth-backed boards, interesting letter to Ross attached with a paper clip to front endpaper. Volume 21. Bristol Record Society. 1959. £22.00




  39. Sabin (Arthur), editor SOME MANORIAL ACCOUNTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, BRISTOL. Being the Computa of the Manors for 1491-2 and 1496-7 and other documents of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. viii + 221pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 22. Bristol Record Society. 1960. £15.00




  40. Sharp (Margaret), editor ACCOUNTS OF THE CONSTABLES OF BRISTOL CASTLE In the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. lxiii + 128pp, original cloth. Volume 34. Bristol Record Society. 1982. £10.00




  41. Stanford (Maureen), editor THE ORDINANCES OF BRISTOL 1506 - 1598. xxiv + (ii) + 117pp, original cloth. Volume 41. Bristol Record Society. 1990. £9.00




  42. Stembridge (P.K), editor THE GOLDNEY FAMILY A BRISTOL MERCHANT DYNASTY. x + 173pp, original cloth. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1998. £14.00




  43. Vanes (Jean), editor and Angus (John), transcriber THE LEDGER OF JOHN SMYTHE 1538 - 1550. vii + 363pp, original cloth-backed boards. Volume 28. Volume 28, Bristol Record Society. 1974. £15.00




  44. Vanes (Jean), editor DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE OVERSEAS TRADE OF BRISTOL In the Sixteenth Century. (vi) + 196pp, original cloth. Volume 31. Bristol Record Society. 1979. £14.00




  45. Veale (E.W.W), editor THE GREAT RED BOOK OF BRISTOL. Text (Part III). xv + 196pp, cloth backed paper boards, covers rubbed, cloth on outer hinges split and slightly ragged, slightly shaken, tears to fore-margin of front endpaper. Volume 16. Bristol Record Society. 1951. £9.00




  46. Veale (E.W.W), editor THE GREAT RED BOOK OF BRISTOL. Text (Part IV). xv + 142pp, original cloth-backed boards. Volume 18. Bristol Record Society. 1953. £15.00


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