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Addington (A.C) THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. The Descendants of King James VI of Scotland James I of England. Volume 2 of 3 only. Illusts, xiii + 409pp, folio, original cloth, slightly chipped to head of spine. Charles Skilton, London: 1971. £20.00
Alford (D.P) A TALE OF TRESCO, AND THE TAVISTOCK CHIMES, and Other Poems, Mostly of the West Country. 72pp, 12mo, original cloth. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894. £12.00
Alford (D.P) A TALE OF TRESCO, AND THE TAVISTOCK CHIMES, and Other Poems, Mostly of the West Country. 72pp, 12mo, original cloth, pasted onto the front endpaper is a signed hand-written letter by the author. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894. £25.00
Allen (N.V) SOMERSET AND EXMOOR GAZETTEER. v + 210pp, 4to, original cloth backed paper wraps. Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1996. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Arundel REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF ARUNDEL, (Sussex.) Title + pages numbered 666-676, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Associated Industrial Consultants THE ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH WEST. Part 1. Volume 1, Regional Survey, Economic Analysis; Part 1. Part 1. Maps Volume 2, Statistical Data. 3 volumes, 124 pages printed on rectos, and numerous tables, 27 maps, many of which are folding, folio, original card covers, stapled, lacks spines, small stamp to first leaf of each volume. Second Edition, Joint Committee for the Economy of the South West, 1965. £12.00
Baddeley (M.J.B) BATH AND BRISTOL and Forty Miles Round. Through Guide Series. With 18 maps and plans, several of which are folding, xxix + 231 + 48pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, short tear to one map. Thomas Nelson, London: 1908. £9.00
Baring-Gould (S) and Twigge (R) AN ARMORY OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES (Devon & Cornwall) from unpublished manuscripts of the XVI Century. viii + 115pp + errata, roy. 8vo, original cloth, head and foot of cloth rubbed, lacks front endpaper. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1898. £50.00
Bath and West of England Society JOURNAL OF THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION for the encouragement of Agriculture..... Volume 7. Third Series. Illusts in the text, iv + 205 + cxxxvipp, original paper wraps, head of spine slightly chipped. London: William Clowes, 1875. £7.00
* Includes:- Buckman on The Geology of the County of Cornwall; Darby on Sussex Cattle, etc.
Bennett (Francis) THE ROADS OF DEVON AND CORNWALL An historical journey along the tracks and roads of the West Country with the directions and road books of the guide, the maps of the surveyor and itineraries of the travellers. Illusts, vi + 194pp, small 4to, original decorative card covers. Privately Printed for the Author, 2007. £22.00
Bettey (Joseph), editor ARCHIVES & LOCAL HISTORY ON BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Essays in Honour of David Smith. Maps, diagrams, illusts, xiii + 288pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2007. £8.00
Black's GUIDE TO THE COUNTIES OF DORSET, DEVON, AND CORNWALL With Maps and Illustrations. ix + 417 + 96pp adverts, sm. 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, spotting to a few pages. Eighth Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh: 1875. £30.00
Bonser (Wilfrid) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLKLORE As contained in the first eighty years of the publications of the Folklore Society. xiv + (11) + 126pp, original cloth. Folk Lore Society, London: 1961. £10.00
[Botanista (Theophilus)], pseudonym RURAL ELEGANCE; Display'd in the Description of four Western Counties, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, with Additional Remarks. Engraved frontis, and engraved folding map, xxxiv + 314pp, small 8vo, full contemporary calf, raised bands, leather label, couple of small stains to fore-edges. Printed for Staples Steare, London: 1768. £280.00
* This is a reprint, with a different imprint, of the first edition which was published in 1757, and has the title 'Rural Elegance' and is accredited to Theophilus Botanista, a pseudonym. Much of the work is in the form of a Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil. It includes notes on the general history, and archaeology of each county, as well as discussion of tin and copper mining, etc.
Brading REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF BRADING, (Hampshire.) Title + pages numbered 678-682, includes title, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD ESTATES in the Parishes of Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall, comprising the Farms of Liddaton, Telay, Tresoke, Tippaton & Trevivian. In all about 637 Acres, with One-fourth the Manor of Penpont and Treglasta.... To be sold by Public Auction August 24th, 1918. 12pp, folio, original printed wraps. 1918. £20.00
* Included the Chief Rents of the Manor and Mineral Rights over 3,000 Acres of waste land.
Bridgnorth District SOUTH SHROPSHIRE ELECTIONS, 1865 AND 1868. Bridgnorth District. COPY OF THE POLLS. Candidates in 1865. Colonel The Hon. Percy E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart. Robert Jasper More, Esq. Candidates in 1868. Robert Jasper More, Esq. Major-Gen. The Right Hon. Percy E. Herbert, Col. Edward Corbett. 26pp, 12mo, unbound, stitched as issued, title-page slightly dusty. London: Haverson & Martin, (1868) £12.00
British Medical Association A BOOK OF THE SOUTH WEST. Printed for the Seventy-Fifth Annual Meeting of the British Association held at Exeter in 1907. With 3 maps, 2 of which are folding, 1 plan, numerous plates, xx + 219 + civpp, (adverts), full parchment, gilt, slight soiling to covers. William Pollard & Co. Limited, Exeter: (1907) £28.00
* Includes chapters on:- Education in Devonshire and Cornwall; Places of interest in Exeter; Influence of Climate on Health and Disease, etc.
Browne (John Paddy) MAP COVER ART. A pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations. Illusts, 144pp, dustwrapper. Ordnance Survey, London: 1991. £15.00
Burke's Peerage THE BURKE'S PEERAGE WORLD BOOK OF CHESTERS. Illusts, 160pp, roy 8vo, original card covers. Halbert's Family Heritage, U.S.A. 1997. £15.00
Burt (Roger), Waite (Peter) and Burnley (Ray) DEVON AND SOMERSET MINES. Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845-1913. 136pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded. University of Exeter and The Northern Mine Research Society, 1984. £11.00
Canterbury REPORT ON THE CITY OF CANTERBURY. Title + pages numbered 684-711, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Cassan (Rev. Stephen Hyde) LIVES AND MEMOIRS OF THE BISHOPS OF SHERBORNE AND SALISBURY, From the Year 705 to 1824. Engraved plate, three parts bound in one, xxi + 4 page list of subscribers + 292 + 142 + 366pp, + 8pp, early paper boards, slightly marked and rubbed to edges, later cloth spine, with handwritten paper label, internally clean. Printed and Sold by Brodie and Dowding, Salisbury: 1824. £45.00
Chafin (William) A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURNE CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., occasional spotting, untrimmed in early plain paper boards, top outer hinge partly broken, ex-Dorset museum library, with label to front pastedown. London: J. Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1818. £60.00
Chafin (William) A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURNE CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., original qtr cloth, paper boards, with the original label on top board, spine slightly darkened and rubbed to edges, paper on rear board partly cockled, internally clean. Originally published in 1818. Facsimile, privately printed by Lieut.-General Pitt Rivers, Rushmore, 1886. £55.00
Chafin (William) ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBORNE CHASE. Introduction of Desmond Hawkins. xxviii + (3) + 106 + 3 page subscriber's list, dustwrapper, inscription on front endpaper. Limited edition of 500 copies. Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1991. £18.00
[Chapple (William)] THESAURUS ECCLESIASTICUS PROVINCIALIS; or A Survey of the Diocese of Exeter, Respecting all Matters of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Concern: Containing An Accurate List of the several Parish Churches and Chapels within that Diocese, with their respective Dedications, Reprisals, certified and reputed Values, and Augmentations (where they could be procured), Patrons and present Incumbents. With Various other Articles, as Well of General as of Local and Particular Applications. Undertaken and Published at the Request of the Clergy of that Diocese. ii + advertisement leaf + 116 + xi Appendix) + vii (index) + 2pp, 4to, recent half cloth, marbled boards, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Exeter: Printed and Sold by the Editors, B. Thorn and Son, in the Fore-Street. 1782. £255.00
* The Diocese of Exeter covered Cornwall until 1876, when the Archdeaconry of Cornwall became the independent Diocese of Truro. Devon covers the first 86 pages, and Cornwall covers pages 87-116. The Rev. W. Jones is attributed as the author of this work in Halkett and Laing. 'Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature'. Chapple is attributed as the author in Boase and Courtney's 'Bibliotheca Cornubiensis'.
Chattaway (Joseph) AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DANMONII; Or Ancient inhabitants of Devonshire and Cornwall. To which is appended a Short Vocabulary of the Cornish Tongue. vii + (i) + 112pp, 12mo, untrimmed in original paper boards, spine chipped with 1" portion from foot, occasional foxing. London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. £90.00
Chichester REPORT ON THE CITY OF CHICHESTER. (Sussex.) Title + pages numbered 714-730, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Chope (R. Pearse), editor EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. Illusts, folding map, xii + 339pp, early half calf, marbled boards, ex-lib with labels to boards, and front pastedown, no stamps, prelims spotty. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1918. £15.00
* Includes extracts from Leland, Shaw, Maton, Marshall, Defoe, etc. This volume forms Part II of vol IX of Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Christchurch Twyneham REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF CHRISTCHURCH TWYNEHAM, (Southampton.) Title + pages numbered 1252-1256, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Colin (John) THE WANDERER BROUGHT HOME. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF COLIN. An Autobiography. With Reflections by the Rev. B. Richings, M.A. Vicar of Mancetter, Warwickshire. 116 + 3pp, sm 8vo, original embossed cloth, partly faded. Fourth Edition, London: Selley, Jackson and Halliday. 1865. £18.00
* Colin tells abut his early life, in Scotland, and drinking problems. After many drunken episodes in Gloucester and Bristol, a failed marriage, and a time in prison, he signs the pledge in Street in Somerset and even goes on to lecture on Temperance in Gloucester, where before he was known as a notorious drunk.
Collins (J.H) A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. 10 plates showing 246 figs. of crystals. 72 + 108 + [x]pp, slight wear to top of dustwrapper, bookplate to front endpaper. Originally published 1871, Reprinted Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1969. £15.00
Collyns (Charles Palk) NOTES ON THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER IN THE COUNTIES of Devon & Somerset. With an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs & incidents connected with the chase from the year 1780 to the year 1860. Plates and textual illusts., xxviii + 307pp, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt, early inscription on front pastedown, t.e.g. Limited Edition of 50 copies on Japanese vellum. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1902. £65.00
Cornwall and Devon Stannaries SPECIAL REPORT AND REPORTS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON STANNARIES ACT (1869) AMENDMENT BILL; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 28 and 29 July, 1887. Coloured section, xx + 471pp, folio, later paper wraps, title label on top wrap, slight mark to title-page. First edition, London: Printed by Henry Hansard and Son, 1887. £130.00
Cotton (W) and Dallas (J) NOTES AND GLEANINGS: A Monthly Magazine devoted chiefly to subjects connected with the Counties of DEVON & CORNWALL. 5 volumes bound in 2. All published. Textual illusts, 3 folding pedigrees, folding facsimile. Uncut in the original cloth, very slightly rubbed, rear board of one volume partly damp stained, internally sound, top edges gilt, the last 2 volumes are bound without their titles, as usual. Exeter: William Pollard, 1888-1892. £85.00
* With the engraved armorial bookplate of Frederic Wintle. Includes articles:- Sir Francis Drake; Launceston Free School; Dartmoor Antiquities; St. Neot, Liskeard; Moretonhampstead; Pomeray of Tregony; Courtenay family; Okehampton Apparition, etc.
Cox (Rev. Thomas) CAMBRIDGESHIRE Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map by Morden, and a folding map of the Fens, pages numbered 226-270 + leaf of distance table, recent cloth, occasional light foxing, small hole in map of Fens. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £35.00
* Includes sections on:- the various Hundreds; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc.
Cox (Rev. Thomas) CHESHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map by Morden, textual illusts, pages numbered 273-304 + lacks page of distance table, disbound, occasional light foxing. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £30.00
* Includes sections on:- Charity Schools; Roman remains; Ecclesiastical History, etc.
Curson (Frank) LAYS AND LEGENDS OF THE WEST. A Series of Papers on some of the less known of our Local traditions, &c. &c. with Minor Poems of a Miscellaneous Character. 220 + 6 page list of subscribers, sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head of spine, a.e.g. London: Whitaker and Co. Exeter: Curson and Son. Falmouth: Lake, 1846. £38.00
* Listed under Curzon in Brockett and in Boase and Courtney.
Darlington (Ida) and Howgego (James) PRINTED MAPS OF LONDON circa 1553-1850. Illusts, vii + (ii) + 257pp, portions missing from head and foot of worn dustwrapper. First edition, George Philip & Son, London: 1964. £30.00
Davey (Ernest) OUR LOVE OF EXMOOR Exploring Inland Exmoor. Coloured illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2005. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Davies (D.C) A TREATISE ON METALLIFEROUS MINERALS AND MINING. Textual illusts, and folding plates, xxii + 438 + 40 + 16pp of publishers adverts, original cloth, tips of head and foot of spine slightly rubbed, front inner hinge slightly weak. Fourth Edition, London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1888. £48.00
* Includes sections on lead mines in Devon, and tin mining in Cornwall. There is a folding plate illustrating plans and sections of the tin mines on the great flat lode of Redruth.
Davies (J.C) A HISTORY OF BORLASE SCHOOL. Plates, 107 + (iv)pp, original qtr cloth, paper boards, slightly soiled and slightly rubbed to edges. Aylesbury: G.T. De Fraine, 1932. £12.00
* Contains a brief mention of Sir William Borlase's Cornish ancestry.
Day (Joan) A GUIDE TO THE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF AVON. Illusts, maps, 51pp, original pictorial card covers. Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1987. £12.00
De La Beche (Henry T) REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET. With illusts in the text, 12 plates, plans and facsimiles, mostly folding, lacks the folding map, (plate 1). xxviii + 648pp, original cloth, recased with the original spine laid down, some minor marks to margins of 'Contents' leaves, otherwise a sound copy. First edition, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1839. £150.00
* De La Beche was the first Director of the Geological Survey and this is the first work issued by the Geological Survey, and contains much information on Cornish Mines. The plates include:- Section of Main Lode at Dolcoath Mine; Plan of Dolcoath Mine; Surface Plan of Fowey Consols Mine; Transverse Section of Fowey Consols.
Dines (H.G) THE METALLIFEROUS MINING REGION OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. 2 volumes, plates, diagrams, and with 20 folding maps contained in pockets at rear, xviii + 508pp, vi + 509-795pp, dustwrappers. Second impression with amendments, London: H.M.S.O. 1969. £95.00
* Includes chapters on the districts of:- St. Just; St. Ives; Gwinear; Mount's Bay; Wendron and Falmouth; Camborne, Redruth and St. Day; St. Agnes; St. Austell; Wadebridge; Liskeard; Callington and Tavistock; Dartmoor and Teign Valley; Okehampton; North Devon and Somerset.
Donne (Benjamin) THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE, Through England, Wales, and part of Scotland. Containing Distance Measured from Bristol, in the Great and Direct Roads: likewise The Distance Measured from Town to Town. Also, the Distance to other Towns, branching off, and measured from each place of note found on the Direct Roads. To which is added A Copious Index to the Whole. xv + 28pp, sm 8vo, later half calf, cloth boards, with the original printed wraps bound in. Printed and Sold by Joseph Matthews, Bristol: 1829. £120.00
* 'Donne published a plan of Bristol in 1772, from a survey he had made, and also some later plans of Bristol.' see Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Hyett and Bazeley, vol. 3, page 249. Not found on Copac.
Elton (Margaret) ANNALS OF THE ELTON FAMILY Bristol Merchants & Somerset Landowners. Illusts, xii + 258pp, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1994. £28.00
[Erskine (J.F.E.G)] Earl of Mar ANCIENT AND MODERN [A history of the Earldom of Mar by the Claimant, J.F.E.G.E., together with a report of the judgment given in the House of Lords, 25th February, 1875, on the claim of Lord Kellie to the Earldom of Mar.] Folding pedigree, 67 + 19 + xxxviiipp, roy 8vo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, small portions missing from head and foot of spine, inscription on front endpaper. Printed for Private Circulation. 1875. £35.00
Essame (Major-General H) THE 43rd WESSEX DIVISION AT WAR 1944-1945. Plates, 15 folding plans, xi + 292pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, William Clowes, London: 1952. £35.00
Evered (Philip) STAGHUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer On Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas. Illusts, 378pp, recent cloth, lower corner of top board bruised, old spine laid down, private library label to front pastedown. First edition, London: Chatto and Windus. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £18.00
Evered (Philip) STAGHUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer On Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas. With 74 illusts, xv�+ 378pp, original pictorial cloth, spine very slightly darkened, contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Special Edition on Japanese Vellum - ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED FOR SALE. London: Chatto and Windus, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £100.00
Ewing (J.A) THE STEAM-ENGINE AND OTHER HEAT-ENGINES. Textual illusts, xvi + 456pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, lower corner of top board bruised. Stereotyped Edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1899. £10.00
Faraday (M.A), editor THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE LAY SUBSIDY OF 1523-1527. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 23. Map and 3 plates, lix + 548pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of persons and places. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2009. £18.00
Faversham REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF FAVERSHAM. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 960-978, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £8.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Folkestone REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF FOLKESTONE. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 980-984, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Fordwich REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF FORDWICH, (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 986-993, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £5.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Forster (T.E), editor MEMOIR OF THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT AND RELIEF FUND. Prepared by request of the General Committee of the Fund. With 12 plates and illustrations, viii + 133pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, occasional underlining in crayon. Andrew Reid and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1912. £46.00
Foster (Sandys B) THE PEDIGREES OF Dickinson of Gildersome and Coalbrookdale. Darby of Coalbrookdale, Salop. Darby of Stoke Court, Bucks. Fowler of Melksham, Wilts. Rathbone of Liverpool. Pages numbered 51 - 77, 4to, original cloth boards, later cloth spine, corners, and endpapers, titled on top board, boards slightly soiled. Printed for Private Circulation. Christmas, [London:] 1890. £48.00
* 'It is twenty years since my father compiled the first edition of this book.... ' from the Preface. This is an off-print from the larger work.
[Gabb (James Ashe)] DAVIES OF DEVAUDEN; OR A BRIEF MEMOIR OF JAMES DAVIES, MASTER OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL, And Founder of the Church on Devauden Hill, Monmouthshire. With an Account of the Consecration of the Church. To which is appended A Small Tract, written by Himself, entitled Recollections of the Last Days of William James. Portrait frontis, 2 plates, 80pp, 12mo, original cloth, top outer hinge partly split, lacks half of spine, occasional light spotting mainly to prelims. S.P.C.K. London: 1841. £12.00
Gastineau (Henry) NORTH WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS. Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities, &c. Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions. Lacks the vignette title-page, it has 84 engraved plates and descriptive text, lacks 4 plates, the plates are 2 to each page, 4to, light off-setting, disbound. Jones and Co., London: c.1830. £40.00
General Purposes & Works Committee THE RIVER AVON (BRISTOL) CATCHMENT BOARD. Report of the General Purposes & Works Committee for the period May 1931 to 31st March 1935.... With.... FINAL REPORT OF THE BOARD dealing with the period 1st April 1935 to 31st March 1950. 2 volumes, the first with coloured maps, 123pp, the second with large coloured folding maps, frontis and 48 photographic illusts, 88pp, both volumes in the original printed card covers. no imprints, 1935 and 1950. £40.00
Gillig (Charles Alvin) CHARLES ALVIN GILLIG'S LONDON GUIDE. Thirteenth Edition. Frontis, illusts in the text, adverts, 254pp, 12mo, few spots to the original pictorial cloth, partly faded to edges. Charles Alvin Gillig, London: (1898) £16.00
Godalming REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF GODALMING, (Surrey.) Title + pages numbered 734-740, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Grinsell (L.V) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Bideford Bay to Bridgwater. Plates, maps, textual illusts, 242pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Hannay (Robert Kerr), editor, and translator RENTALE SANCTI ANDREE Being the Chamberlain and Granitar Accounts of the Archbishopric in the Time of Cardinal Betoun 1538-1546. Folding frontis, lviii + 246 + 15 + 16pp, original cloth, ex-uni.lib. with a few embossed stamps, and a withdrawn stamp to prelims. Scottish History Society, Edinburgh: 1913. £8.00
Harley (J.B), and O'Donoghue (Yolande), intro. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Scale 1" to 1 mile. A reproduction of the 110 sheets of the survey in early state in 10 volumes. Volume 2. DEVON, CORNWALL AND WEST SOMERSET. Coloured frontis, illusts, xliv + 33 double-page maps, folio, dustwrapper. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1977. £25.00
Harley (J.B), and O'Donoghue (Yolande), intro. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Volume 3. South-Central England (HAMPSHIRE, and THE ISLE OF WIGHT, and parts of BERKSHIRE, DORSET, SOMERSET, SURREY, SUSSEX and WILTSHIRE). Coloured frontis, illusts, liv + 35 double-page maps, folio, dustwrapper. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1981. £18.00
Hart (A. Tindal) and Carpenter (Edward) THE NINETEENTH CENTURY COUNTRY PARSON. (Circa. 1832-1900) Illusts, 201pp, original cloth, couple of small marks to the top board. Wilding and Son, Shrewsbury: 1954. £15.00
Hastings REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF HASTINGS, (Sussex.) Title + pages numbered 996-1004, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £8.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Hastings, Romney, Hithe, Dowver and Sandwich INTRODUCTORY REPORT ON THE CINQUE PORTS Title + pages numbered 920-927, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £8.00
* The ports are in the counties of Kent and Sussex. Sections of the Report cover:- History and Charters, Jurisdiction. etc.
Hawkins (Michael) and Grimley (Roger) A CENTURY OF COACHING ON EXMOOR. 'Horner Woods for Tea'. Illusts, maps, 141pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Exmoor Books, Dulverton: 1998. £15.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Heath (Francis George) PEASANT LIFE IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Fourth Edition, To which is prefixed The Fac-simile of an Autograph Letter of seven pages, addressed to the Author by the Late Earl of Beaconsfield. xi + 400pp, original cloth. London: Sampson Low, Marston.... 1881. £30.00
Higham (John) THE ANTIQUE COUNTY MAPS OF CUMBERLAND. Numerous black and white illusts, 128pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Bookcase, Carlisle: 1997. £10.00
Hissey (James John) THROUGH TEN ENGLISH COUNTIES. Plates, folding map, xiv + (ii)+ 406pp, early half calf, later recase with the original tooled calf spine laid down, marbled endpapers, edges of boards slightly rubbed, few spots to front and rear. Signed presentation inscription by the author on front endpaper. Richard Bentley, London: 1894. £20.00
Holland (Clive) FROM THE NORTH FORELAND TO PENZANCE. Illustrated by Maurice Randall. With 30 coloured illustrations, xvi + 334pp, original cloth, gilt, top board slightly faded, occasional spotting to text and fore-edges. London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. £12.00
Hosking (K.F.G), and Shrimpton (G.J), editor PRESENT VIEWS OF SOME ASPECTS OF THE GEOLOGY OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. (A series of papers compiled to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.) Plates and folding tables. vii + 330pp, roy 8vo, original wraps, some marks to title-page and rear endpaper. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Truro: 1964. £25.00
Hunt (Robert) BRITISH MINING. A Treatise on the History, Discovery, Practical Development and Future Prospects of Metalliferous Mines in the United Kingdom. With upwards of Two Hundred and Thirty Illustrations. Diagrams, some of which are folding, xx + (ii) + 914pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, recased with the original spine laid down and new endpapers, ownership names to half title, some light spotting to prelims. Second Edition, Revised. Crosby, Lockwood and Co., London: 1887. £285.00
* The text for this edition is as the first though the statistical tables have been updated. Includes much on the tin and copper mines of Devon and Cornwall.
Hythe REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF HYTHE, (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 1006-1010, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £5.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Imray (J.C) and Kettle (W.R), editors THE PILOT'S GUIDE FOR THE RIVER THAMES and the Strait of Dover. With 11 folding charts and plans, xvi + 98 + (5) pages of adverts, original cloth, few light damp spots to boards, few pages of prelims slightly browned at edges. Second edition, Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, Ltd., London: 1908. £45.00
Ingemann (W.M) THE MINOR DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Line drawings, and 48 plates, (5)pp, folio, original cloth-backed boards, corners of boards slightly rubbed. London: John Tiranti, 1938. £25.00
Inglis (Henry D) THE CHANNEL ISLANDS: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, &c. [The result of a two years' residence.] 2 engraved maps, 300pp, and 304pp, 2 volumes, bound in one, early half calf, marbled boards, raised bands, spines gilt tooled, covers lightly rubbed to edges, maps slightly off-set. First edition, Whittaker, Treacher, Arnot and Co., London: 1834. £100.00
* Engraved armorial bookplate of John Drummond.
[Jones (John Pike)] A BOTANICAL TOUR THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. 74pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in early paper boards, with a later paper spine and lettering label, edges of boards slightly rubbed, few minor marks to covers. First edition, Printed for J. Treadwin, by W.C. Pollard Exeter: 1820. £150.00
* He lists the plants he finds at the places he visits viz. 'On the walls of the church at Sancreed we found Asplenium lanceolatum and Aspidium dilatatum'. Includes an Appendix listing plants "Growing wild in the Vicinity of Chudleigh, and in various Parts of the adjoining Hundred of Teignbridge."
Jukes (J. Beete) ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GROUPING OF THE ROCKS OF NORTH DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET: xxii + 15pp, coloured map and section, some foxing to plates, disbound. Printed for circulation among the Fellows of the Geological Society of London. Dublin: R.D. Webb, 1867. £12.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE, 1935. Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire are on one map, lacks the map of Berkshire, xix + 450 + vi + 435 + iv + 449pp, last leaf loose and creased, original cloth, inner hinges pulled, cloth slightly dusty, spine darkened, couple of short snags to head of spine. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1935. £30.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE 1930-1. Lacks map of Devon, with long tear to Somerset map, 47 (adverts) + xxvii + 1256 (adverts) + 28 + xvi + 803pp, original cloth, worn, dull and partly faded, top outer hinge partly split, inner hinges pulled. Kelly's Directories, London: 1930. £75.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL, 1939. Lacks maps, original cloth, worn, front board held by tapes, rear board almost loose, spine badly torn with small portions missing, lacks last few leaves of the Cornwall 'Trades' section. £45.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1927. Lacks maps, 28 pages of adverts, xviii + 584 + xxviii + 1175pp, original cloth, partly faded, few splits to spines, inner hinges pulled. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1927. £85.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1902. With the 2 folding maps, lacks Gloucestershire map, large tear to one map, xxxviii + 772 + 542 + 472 + 76 pages of adverts, original cloth, recased with the original spine laid down, some areas of cloth missing and small portion missing from lower corner of top board, cloth dull and partly faded. Kelly's Directories Limited, London: 1902. £70.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1931. With 2 large coloured folding maps, lacks plan of Bristol, xxii + 803 + x + 568 + 13 (adverts) + xxviii + 1192pp, few damp spots to the original cloth. Kelly's Directories, London: 1931. £95.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1939. With 2 folding maps, folding plan, 24 pages of adverts, + xxvi + 814 + x + 580 + 8 + xxx + 1478pp, original cloth, front inner hinge pulled, outer hinges slightly rubbed, small snag to head of rear hinge, one advert leaf ragged and loose, plan loose with approx 3" tear. Kelly's Directories, Ltd., London: 1939. £90.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE, With the CITY OF BRISTOL, 1894. With 2 folding county maps, and a folding plan, xxxii + 764 + 531 + (i) + 401 + 64 pages of adverts, some marks to the original cloth, recased retaining the original endpapers, recent unlettered spine. London: Kelly and Co Ltd., 1894. £185.00
Kerslake (Thomas) SAINT EWEN BRISTOL AND THE WELSH BORDER Circiter A.D. 577 - 916. With some notes on the Ancient Frontier Marts, Chester, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, Chepstow, Etc. and on the National Hagiologies. Pamphlet, 38pp, wraps, signed by the author on the top wrap, slight staining to inner margin of top wrap. Bristol: Thomas Kerslake and Company, 1875.... Bound with.... Taylor (John) THE HOSPITAL OF ST. MARK, COMMONLY CALLED BILLESIKE, OR GAUNT'S HOSPITAL. (Bristol). 14pp. c.1870..... Bound with.... THE DOMINICANS AND DOMINICAN PRIORY (Bristol). Illusts, 9pp. c.1870. Three items bound in one, early qtr roan, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges. Bristol: Thomas Kerslake and Company, 1875. and c.1870. £22.00
Kingsley (D) PRINTED MAPS OF SUSSEX 1575-1900 Frontis and 40 plates, railway map, xxxvii + 439pp, partly faded dustwrapper. Sussex Record Society, Lewes: 1982. £15.00
Lauder (Rosemary Anne) EXMOOR TRAVELLERS. Black and white plates, map endpapers, ix + 142pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £10.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead, in Somerset.
Lawrence (Ivor D) A NAVAL SCHOOLMASTER LOOKS BACK. Illusts, family tree, maps, 285pp, original cloth, ex-ref. lib. with labels to front endpapers stamp to front endpaper. Privately Printed, Cambridge: c.1987. £14.00
* Lawrence was born in Burnham-on-Sea, in Somerset, went to Colston's School in Bristol, joined the navy, and served during the second World War. After retiring he lived at Swanage, in Dorset, and was at one time the secretary of the Swanage Arts Club.
[Leech (J)] THE CHURCH-GOER. Rural Rides: or, Calls at Country Churches. Second Series. xii + 262 + (ii)pp, 12mo, original cloth, recased with a new spine and endpapers, corners of boards neatly reinforced, few spots to prelims. John Ridler, Bristol: 1850. £20.00
* Includes:- Redland Chapel, Frenchay, Butcombe, Coalpit Heath, Stoke Gifford, Almondsbury, Wrington, Uphill, Kelston, Weston super Mare, etc.
Leifchild (J.R) OUR COAL AND OUR COAL PITS. The People in Them and the Scenes Around Them. x + 243pp, original cloth. Originally printed in 1856. Reprinted, Frank Cass & Co., London: 1968. £15.00
Lewes (George Henry) SEA-SIDE STUDIES at Ilfracombe, Tenby, The Scilly Isles, & Jersey. With Illustrations. With 7 plates, x + 428pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, �" split to head of rear outer hinge, small portion missing from fore-edge margin of frontis, Cornwall Record Office stamp to front endpaper, and number to base of spine. Second Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London: 1860. £35.00 --- See sample text
* With the bookplate of John Davies Enys. 'I have endeavoured to furnish the visitor to the sea-side with plain directions, by means of which he may study and enjoy the marvels of ocean life.... ' Preface.
Lipscomb (George) A JOURNEY INTO CORNWALL, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon: Interspersed with Remarks, Moral, Historical, Literary, and Political. xiii + 364pp, later half calf, raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, marbled boards, and endpapers, occasional foxing. Warwick: Printed by H. Sharpe, 1799. £120.00
* Includes a chapter on:- 'Voyage to the Eddistone', as well as visits to Cornish mines, Plymouth docks, and prison, as well as chapters on Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire.
Little (Bryan) THE MONMOUTH EPISODE. Frontis, 16 plates and 4 maps, 3 of which are folding, 268pp, dustwrapper. First edition, London: Werner Laurie, 1956. £12.00
Llewellin (William), Mushet (Mr), and others REPORT ON THE EXMOOR MINERAL PROPERTY, Addressed to Frederic Winn Knight, Esq., M.P., etc., etc. 22pp. 1855..... Bound with.... FREDERIC WINN KNIGHT, M.P. Plaintiff. against HENRY WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, M.P., and ROBERT HANNAY. 61pp, short tear to one margin, some ink underscoring, ink blot to first leaf, not affecting legibility, hole in the last 2 leaves affecting a few words. 1857. Two items bound in one volume, small folio, early cloth, top boards spotty, and with a couple of damped areas, internally sound. Signed inscription by Knight to the top margin of the first leaf. 1855 and 1857. £105.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. The Knight family owned extensive property centered around Simonsbath on Exmoor. Frederick Knight had ambitions to expand mining activity which did not materialise. The reports, in the first item, explored the possibility of mining activity being extended on the moor. The second item is the dispute that arose between Knight and Messrs Schneider and co., iron ore merchants. Pasted in at the rear is a cutting from a newspaper, dated March 1858 about the case.
Lord (N.E. & R.V) "THE SPIRIT OF EXMOOR" A nostalgic look written and illustrated by. Text drawings, 96pp, 4to, original decorative wraps, plastic spiral binding. Norman E. Lord, South Molton (1981) £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Lowe (C.J) THE BUILDING SOCIETY MOVEMENT - A HALF-CENTURY with special reference to The Bristol, West of England and South Wales Permanent Building Society. (Founded 1850.) Illusts, 137 + xxpp, includes a 6 page index, untrimmed in the original original qtr. buckram with cloth boards, spine darkened due to fading, bookplate and early name and date in ink to front pastedown. W. Crofton Hemmons, Bristol: 1901. £65.00
Lydd REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF LYDD. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 1012-1014, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £5.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- Police; Gaol; Officers; Courts, etc.
Lymington REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF LYMINGTON, (Hampshire.) Title + pages numbered 741-748, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
MacDermot (Edward T) THE HISTORY OF THE FOREST OF EXMOOR. Maps and illusts, xii + 480pp, roy, 8vo, original buckram, spine slightly faded as usual, name to front pastedown, small mark to front endpaper, small portions chipped from head and foot of spine. First edition. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, 1911. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Maidstone REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE, (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 750-770, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Major (A.F) EARLY WARS OF WESSEX. Being Studies from England's School of Arms in the West. Maps, plans, diagrams, including two folding maps in pocket at rear, xiv + 238pp, original cloth. First edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1913. £18.00
* With the bookplate of Arthur Bulleid, antiquarian and author, to front pastedown.
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF KENT. With a folding engraved map by Bowen, pages numbered 175-206, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £35.00
* Extracted from his work entitled 'The Natural History of England.... '
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. With a folding engraved map by Bowen, pages numbered 401-410, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £35.00
* Extracted from his work entitled 'The Natural History of England.... '
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX. With a folding engraved map by Bowen, a folding plan of London, a folding plan of the Country round London, and 3 plates, 2 of which are folding, pages numbered 207-322, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £45.00
* Extracted from his work entitled 'The Natural History of England.... '
Maslen (M), editor WOODSTOCK CHAMBERLAIN ACCOUNTS 1609-50. xxx + 274pp, original pictorial card covers. Volume 58. The Oxfordshire Record Society, 1993. £12.00
Matthews (G.F), editor SHROPSHIRE PROBATES in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 1700-1749. 68 + 1 page of publisher's adverts, uncut, in the original wraps. Issued to Subscribers, Privately Printed, Camberley: 1928. £5.00
* Dated 1928 on the title-page and July 1929 on the top wrap.
Matthews (John) & Matthews (George), editors EXTRA VOLUME "YEAR BOOKS OF PROBATES" (from 1630). Sentences and Complete Index Nominum (Probates and Sentences) for the Years 1630-1639. 171pp, original cloth, very slight waterstaining to the top corner of approx. 10 leaves. Issued to Subscribers, London: 1907. £18.00
Matthews (Wm) HARBOUR OF REFUGE INQUIRY. Report by Wm. Matthews, C.M.G. 23rd June, 1906. With 6 large coloured folding plans, 27pp..... Bound with.... Frederick (Commander G.C) APPENDIX No 1. COPY OF MEMORANDUM ON THE QUESTION OF CONSTRUCTING A HARBOUR OF REFUGE ON THE NORTH COAST OF CORNWALL. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. 5pp. London: H.M.S.O. reprinted 1906..... Bound with.... APPENDIX No 2. 3pp. Folio, original qtr cloth printed paper boards. London: H.M.S.O. 1906. £180.00
* The plans are:- Lundy; Clovelly; Port Quin and Padstow; Newquay; St. Ives; and an outline plan of the coast of Devon and Cornwall showing the Harbours concerned.
Michael (D.P.M) THE MAPPING OF MONMOUTHSHIRE A Descriptive Catalogue of pre-Victorian Maps of the County (now Gwent) from Saxton in 1577 with Details of British Atlases published during that Period. Numerous illusts, a few in colour, 112pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Regional Publications, Bristol: 1985. £12.00

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Monmouthshire County Council. A BILL TO CONFER FURTHER POWERS ON THE MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, 1954-55, Acts of Parliament 1954-1956 to confer further powers on the Monmouthshire County Council.... in relation to lands and highways.... improvement health and finances of the county.....and Minutes of Evidence to Select Committee of the House of Lords, etc. With pamphlets and petitions from National Federation of the Building Trade.... Petition of the Newport Butchers and Cattle Dealers.... 32 items in total, includes the Bill, and 3 copies of the Act as it was amended, as well as petitions, relevant pamphlets and reports. Several hundred pages, folio, some spotting to the original cloth. 1954-1956. £25.00
More (Hannah), Shaw (Clare MacDonald) TALES FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE and other Cheap Repository Tracts. Illusts, 178pp, original pictorial card covers. Trent Editions, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. £9.00
* Includes an outline of More's life and work in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Morris's MORRIS'S BUSINESS DIRECTORY LONDON Suburban, Provincial and Foreign Trade Guide 1926. Sixty-Fourth Edition. x + 1503pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed to edges, few marks to boards, inner hinges weak. London: J.R. Stacey, 1926. £65.00
Mowl (Timothy) WILLIAM BECKFORD Composing for Mozart. Plates, xii + 324pp, dustwrapper. John Murray, London: 1998. £8.00
* Beckford built Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Lansdown Tower in Bath.
Munden (M.A), editor THE RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1851. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 29. XV + 428pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of persons. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2015. £24.00
Musgrave (William) BELGIUM BRITANNICUM in Quo Illius Limites, Fluvii, Urbes, Viae Militares, Populus, Lingua, Dii, Monumenta, aliaque permulta clarius & uberius exponuntur. With 17 plates, 15 of which are folding, xxvi + 223 + xixpp, lacks last leaf of index, disbound, occasional light foxing. George Bishop, Iscae Dunmoniorum. (Exeter): 1719. £105.00
* Concerns Roman antiquities in the general area of "Belga" (parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire).nSee Brockett's Devon Union List No 49050.
Musgrave (William) ANTIQUITATUM BRITANNO - BELGICARUM, Volumen Quartum; (Quod Tribus ante editis est Appendix:) With an engraved dedication and 4 engraved plates, 3 of which are folding, 81 + (12)pp, disbound. Typis Geo. Bishop, Iscae Dunmoniorum. (Exeter): 1720. £35.00
* This was issued as a supplement to "Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae". "Belga" covers parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset.
Newport REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF NEWPORT (Isle of Wight.) Title + pages numbered 772-790, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Newtown REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF NEWTOWN (Isle of Wight.) Title + pages numbered 791-790, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £20.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Oliver (Rev. George) COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE COUNTIES OF CORNWALL, DEVON, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET AND GLOUCESTER. In two parts Historical & Biographical. viii + 576pp, original cloth, partly faded, minor spotting to prelims. First edition. London: Charles Dolman, 1857. £30.00 --- See sample text
Otter (R.A), editor CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE Southern England. Numerous illusts, plans, maps, (viii) + 283pp, original pictorial card covers. Published for the Institution of Civil Engineers by Thomas Telford Ltd., 1994. £8.00
Page (Philip), Atherton (Kate) and Hardy (Alan) BARENTIN'S MANOR Excavations of the Moated Manor at Harding's Field, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1976-9. Many diagrams, plans, tables, coloured plates, xvii + 198pp, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards. Oxford University School of Archaeology, Oxford: 2005. £15.00
Paterson (L.J) "ONLY THIRTY BIRTHDAYS" British Marine Mutual, 1876 to 1996. Coloured and black and white illusts, 116pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, presentation inscription on front endpaper. British Marine Mutual Insurance Association, 1996. £10.00
Pearce (Tho.) THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE STANNARIES in the Counties of CORNWALL and DEVON. Revis'd and Corrected according to the Antient and Modern Practice. In Two Parts. The First Containing the Charter of Edw. I..... II. The several Laws and Constitutions, made by the several Parliaments of Tinners.... III. A Compleat Treatise of the Laws of the Stannaries.... IV. The Power of the Lord Warden.... V. The Rights of the Prince as Duke of Cornwall.... VI. The Customs of the Stannary of Blackmore.... PART II. Containing the Laws and Customs of the Stannaries of Devon. I. The Charter of Edw. I.... II. The several Laws and Constitutions.... Folio, contemporary full calf, top outer hinges have short splits at head, couple of worm holes slightly affecting spine and outer hinges, recased with original spine laid down and new endpapers, name(?) crossed through with early ink on title-page. First edition, Printed for D. Browne, without Temple-Bar, and J. Newton, in Little-Britain. 1725. £480.00
* 'Pages 9 to 20 are deficient (mis-printed) in all editions.' see Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubienisis, Volume 2, page 438.
Pennington (Robert R) STANNARY LAW. A History of the Mining Law of Devon and Cornwall. 229pp, some spotting to fore-edges, name and addresses scored through to front endpaper, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £12.00
Peters (Ivo) THE SOMERSET AND DORSET IN THE 'FIFTIES. Part 1. 1950-1954. and Part 2. 1955-1959. Omnibus Edition. Part 1, 231 illusts, part 2, 260 illusts, map endpapers, c.200 unpaginated pages, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Oxford Publishing Co., Poole: 1986. £11.00
Petersfield REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF PETERSFIELD, (Hampshire.) Title + page numbered 798, single leaf, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £5.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Pevensey REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF PEVENSEY, (Sussex.) Title + pages numbered 1016-1020, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Pevsner (Nikolaus) NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL. (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 510pp, original cloth, in worn dustwrapper, with small portions missing from the edges. First edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1958. £15.00
Pevsner (Nikolaus) NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL. (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 514pp, dustwrapper. Reprinted, Yale University Press, London: 2002. £25.00
* Includes Bath and Wells.
Pigot and Co's NATIONAL COMMERCIAL PIGOT'S DIRECTORY FOR 1830. Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire. With 5 folding maps, 282pp, original printed card covers. Originally published 1830. Facsimile reprint, King's Lynn: 1993. £10.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 9-26, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £12.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF BERKSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 27-68, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £18.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE 1839. Lacks map, pages numbered 223-238, recent cloth. Pigot & Co., London & Manchester: 1839. £16.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE 1842. Folding engraved map, 24pp, disbound, top margin of map slightly ragged. Pigot and Co., London and Manchester: 1842, £28.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF RUTLANDSHIRE 1835. Pages numbered 337-342, complete, recent cloth. Pigot & Co., London: 1835. £8.00
[Polwhele (Richard)] POEMS CHIEFLY BY GENTLEMEN OF DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL. In Two volumes. xii + 205pp and 240pp, early half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges, small indelible stamp to titles, small amount of light foxing. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell. 1792. £185.00
Ponting (K.G) THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. With 55 illustrations, x + 214pp, spine of dustwrapper faded, some pencil underscoring to one page, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. £8.00
Portsmouth REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF PORTSMOUTH, (Hampshire.) Title + pages numbered 800-820, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Poynton (Rev. F.J) PEDIGREE OF GIBBES OF BEDMINSTER AND BRISTOL. Allied to Harington of Kelston, Somerset. Coat of Arms, 8pp, 4to, original plain wraps, lacks wraps. c.1880. £10.00
Pugh (Ronald & Margaret), editors THE DIOCESE BOOKS OF SAMUEL WILBERFORCE. xvi + 432pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 66. The Oxfordshire Record Society, 2008. £8.00
[Pulman (G.P.R)] John Trotandot RAMBLES, ROAMINGS AND RECOLLECTIONS. Frontis, 280pp, early morocco boards, with a new morocco spine, later marbled endpapers, a.e.g. inscription signed by Pulman to his wife, on the title-page, Pulman, almost certainly, had this copy bound for his wife, later bookplate to front pastedown, light spotting to prelims. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. £45.00
* Includes chapters on Crewkerne Fair, horse racing at Colyton and Beaminster, Whitelackington and Monmouth's Tree, and visits to Jersey.
Pycroft (J.W) ARENA CORNUBIAE: or The Claims of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to The Sea Coast and Banks of Tidal Rivers in Cornwall and Devon, Examined and Considered. xvii + 49pp, 4to, original printed paper boards, small portions missing head and foot and the rest of the spine chipped, corners rubbed. Third Edition, W.G. Benning, London: 1856. £120.00
* Very Scarce. Presentation inscription on the top board:- "From the Author of the Arena Damnoniae". With recipient's name crossed through.
Raistrick (Arthur) TWO CENTURIES OF INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: The London (Quaker) Lead Company 1692 - 1905. The Social Policy and Work of the "Governor and Company for Smelting down Lead with Pit Coal and Sea Coal", mainly in Alston Moor and the Pennines. With 15 plates and 6 line drawings, 168pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, inscription to front endpaper. Revised Second Edition, Moorland Publishing Company, Buxton: 1977. £10.00
Ravenhill (Mary R) and Rowe (Margery M), editors THE ACLAND FAMILY: Maps and Surveys 1720-1840. Coloured and blank and white plates, map, xv + 154pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 2006. £9.00
* The Aclands owned property in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Ravenhill (W.W) RECORDS OF THE RISING IN THE WEST, A.D. 1655. Plates, facsimile letter, 165pp, contemporary half calf, leather label, original wraps bound in, inner hinges cracked though sound. A signed letter from Ravenhill is tipped in at the front. Devizes: H.F. & E. Bull, 1875. £30.00
* Originally published in volume 14 of the magazine of the Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society.

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Reid (Clement), Barrow (G), and others THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND TAVISTOCK AND LAUNCESTON. With 3 plates, textual illusts, 144pp, original wraps, lacks most of spine, portions chipped from wraps adjacent to hinges. First edition, H.M.S.O. 1911. £32.00
Richardson (A.E) and Gill (C. Lovett) REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Numerous illustrations, xx + 188pp, 4to, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. £50.00
Rickards ((Maurice) THE PUBLIC NOTICE An illustrated history. Numerous illusts, 126 + (2)pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £15.00
* 'features examples from all over the English speaking world.'
Riley (Hazel) and Wilson-North (Robert) THE FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Coloured and black and white illusts, plans, xii + 192pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. English Heritage, Swindon: 2001. £7.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 3 of 4 only. Numerous illusts., 221pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, short tear to cloth at head of spine. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1915. £15.00
* This volume includes churches at :- Little Sodbury; St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol; Litton, Locking, Mells, Martock, Mangotsfield, Nailsea, Paulton, Portbury, Priston, Olveston, Rangeworthy, Siston, Shirehampton, Stowey, etc.
Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. 4 volumes. Numerous illusts., original cloth, cloth not quite uniform, spine of one volume faded, small snag to head of one volume, ownership name to one front endpaper in ink and to the other volumes in pencil. Bristol Times and Mirror, Bristol: 1914-1916. £70.00 --- See sample text
* Covers churches in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Rochester REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF ROCHESTER. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 842-867, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £14.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Rogers (W.H. Hamilton) ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE COUNTIES OF SOMERSET, WILTS., HANTS., AND DEVON. Plates, textual illusts., 4to, contemporary half vellum, cloth boards, spine gilt tooled, t.e.g., few small marks to covers. Reprinted for the Author. 1902. £125.00
* Containing 20 papers, separately paginated, all but one with title-pages. Reprinted from various journals and with 3 papers never before published. Includes: Brook family of Somerset and Devon; Huyshe family of Somerset and Devon; Courtenay and Clyveden families of Somerset; Molyns and Hungerford families of Farleigh Hungerford; Stafford family of Suthwyke in North Bradley, Wilts., and Hoke, Dorset; Tudor Merchants of Tiverton and Cullompton, etc.
Romney Marsh REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF NEW ROMNEY, With ROMNEY MARSH, (Kent.) Title + page 1022, single leaf, with Title + pages numbered 1024-1028, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £8.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Romsey REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF ROMSEY, (Hampshire.) Title + pages numbered 1330-1334, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Rye REPORT ON THE TOWN OF RYE. (Sussex.) Title + pages numbered 1030-1039, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £5.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Salter (Rev. E.H), editor EYNSHAM CARTULARY. Volume 1 of 2 only. With 4 plates, xxxvi+ 441 + (7) publishers adverts, original cloth. Oxford Historical Society, 1907. £7.00
Seaford REPORT ON THE TOWN OF SEAFORD. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 1058-1060, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Charters; Gaol; Revenue, etc.
Sealy (Thomas Henry) editor SEALY'S WESTERN MISCELLANY. Numbers 1-8. January 25, 1845 - October, 1845. Illusts, 348pp, small 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine gilt tooled, morocco label to spine, covers slightly rubbed to edges, relevant newscuttings to front endpapers, neatly recased with the spine laid down and the original endpapers retained. Inscription and signature, to second blank, by William George, (Bristol bookseller) with a note stating that the book was given to him by John Taylor (author of 'A Book About Bristol'). Thomas Henry Sealy, Bristol: 1845. £95.00
* This is the complete run of this very scarce periodical. Includes articles:- Minehead; Redcliffe Church; Weston-super-Mare; Cornish Dialect; Malmesbury Abbey. Sealy edited the Bristol and West of England Architectural and Heraldic Society, and is stated to be an architect in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection.
Seede-Parker (Edward Milward) GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF SEEDE, of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Frontis, 16pp, 4to, in the original, slightly ragged wraps, with the top wrap loose. Mitchell and Hughes, London: 1890. £8.00
* The family resided at Tetbury, Upton Cheyney, Bitton, Bisley, Rodborough, Stroud, Bristol, and Castlecombe.
Sharpe (Henry), printer A CONCISE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF KENILWORTH CASTLE, From its Foundation to the Present Time. The Sixteenth Edition with Additions. Engraved folding plate and folding plan, iv + 36 + iv, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, few small chips to spine, small amount of light foxing. Warwick: Printed by Henry Sharpe, and Sold by the Booksellers in Warwick, Coventry, and at the Principal Inns in Kenilworth. 1825. £25.00
Shaw (Rev. S) A TOUR TO THE WEST OF ENGLAND IN 1788. viii + 602pp, early marbled boards, later calf spine, leather label on spine, boards rubbed, endpapers spotty, London: Robson and Clarke, 1789. £250.00
* Includes sections on Gloucestershire, (Thornbury, Canal at Saperton, Berkeley, Sudely Castle, Lydney and the Forest of Dean, etc.) Somersetshire, (Mendip mines, Combe-Down Quarry, Keynsham, Bath, Wookey Hole, Glastonbury, Bridgwater, North Petherton, Taunton, Wellington, Enmore Castle, etc.) Cornwall, (East Looe, Lanteith, Lostwithiel, Smelting-houses at St Austell, Tin mines at Polgouth, Lostwithiel, Restormel, Liskeard, etc.) Devonshire, (Cullompton, Exeter, Chudleigh, Ashburton, Ivy-bridge, Plymouth, Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth, Beer Alston, etc.) Dorsetshire (Weymouth, Bridport, Dorchester, Blandford, Isle of Portland, etc.) Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire,
Shepherd (T.H) and Britton (H) BATH AND BRISTOL, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views... from Original Drawings by T.H. Shepherd, with Historical & Descriptive Illustrations, by J. Britton. With engraved vignette title, printed title, and with 48 engraved views on 24 sheets, 55pp, 4to, disbound, some light off-setting, and occasional spotting, small waterstain to top of title-page. First edition, London: Jones & Co., 1829. £130.00
Shorter (A.H), Ravenhill (W.L.D) and Gregory (K.J) SOUTHWEST ENGLAND. With 95 textual illusts, 52 plates, 3 tables and a coloured folding map, xii + 340pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, Nelson, London: 1969. £18.00
* Includes chapters on transport, agriculture, Isles of Scilly, Bodmin Moor, the Bovey Basin, the Lizard, etc.
Skinner (John), edited and introduced by Roger Jones WEST COUNTRY TOUR being the Diary of a Tour through the Counties of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in 1797. Map, illusts, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1985. £15.00
Smeaton (John) THE REPORT OF JOHN SMEATON, ENGINEER, CONCERNING THE DRAINAGE OF THE NORTH LEVEL OF THE FENS, and The Outfall of the Wisbeach River. Large folding engraved section:- 'A Chain and Scale of Levels along Wisbeach River and Channel from Peterborough Bridge down to the Eye at Sea. Taken in 1767 by William Elstobb.' 24pp, sm 4to, untrimmed in the original plain wraps, few small spots. (London: 1769) £70.00
* Smeaton was one of several engineers who was asked to submit his scheme for this large project. See Skempton's British Civil Engineering Literature 1640-1840. No 1318.
Smith (G.C. Moore), Revised by P.H. Reaney THE FAMILY OF WITHYPOLL With special reference to their Manor of Christchurch, Ipswich. And some notes on the allied families of Thorne, Harper, Lucar, and Devereux. Frontis, illusts, folding pedigree, 100pp, 4to, original half morocco, cloth boards, spine slightly faded. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Official Publication No 34. 1936. £60.00
Smyth (John) NOTES ON CORNWALL AND NORTH DEVON. Rhyming Records of Recent Rambles. 108pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, page edges gilt. John Warren, Royston: and Paternoster and Hales, Hitchin: 1877. £12.00
Society of Antiquaries of London, publishers ARCHAEOLOGIA: or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Volume 37. With 6 plates, 315pp, 4to, early cloth, occasional foxing mainly to front and rear. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1857. £35.00
* Includes articles:- Bell-Tower of Palace of Westminster; Anglo-Saxon Remains at Kemble, in North Wiltshire; Possessions of the Abbey of Malmesbury, etc.
Society of Antiquaries of London, publishers ARCHAEOLOGIA: or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Volume 34. Part 2 of 2 only. With 21 plates, pages numbered x + 137-467pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original plain paper wraps, couple of short tears to top wrap. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1852. £35.00
* Includes articles:- Life of Sir Walter Raleigh; Tumuli in the East Riding of Yorkshire; British Fleets from 1588 to 1603; Discovery of Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, etc.
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session 1904-1905. vol. III - Fourth Series. Full page and illusts in the text, xlviii + 582pp, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, paper label chipped on spine. Printed for the Society, Edinburgh: 1905. £30.00
* Includes articles:- Stones in Jedburgh; Kirkyard Monuments; Stone Circles in Kincardineshire; Ports on the Poltalloch Estate, Argyll; Scottish Place-Names, etc.

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Southampton REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHAMPTON. Title + pages numbered 870-892, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Spence (Charles) A PAPER ON THE SEPULCHRAL BRASSES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. With 5 plates, extra-illustrated with 13 plates, some of which are pasted onto blanks and some of which are coloured, pages numbered 24-38, complete, 4to, disbound. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, volume 7, 1848. £15.00
* Includes examples from Devon and Cornwall.
Strong (W), Collings (E) etc., publishers THE WEST OF ENGLAND JOURNAL of Science and Literature. Nos. I. II. III. IV. and V. 1835-6. With a coloured folding geological map of Portishead, a plate of the Giant's Cave Clifton and one other folding plate, a few textual illusts, 376 + 254pp, early half calf, cloth boards, new calf spine, with the original calf label on the spine. Slight water staining mainly affecting outer margin of map, and corners to a few prelims, few spots to map and prelims, original owner's (?) name and address in ink to title-page. 5 parts bound in 1. ALL PUBLISHED. Bristol: W. Strong, E. Collings, Bath: 1836. £60.00
* As well as articles of a general nature, many of them of geological interest, it also contains several articles of local interest including a catalogue of plants in the neighbourhood of Bristol and articles on the Geology of Portishead, and the Giant's Cave, Clifton. See Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis. Vol 3, p381.
Sumner (Heywood) ANCIENT EARTHWORK OF CRANBORNE CHASE. Illustrated with 48 plans and maps some of which are folding, xviii + 82pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Original published at the Chiswick Press. 1913. Alan Sutton & Wiltshire County Library, Gloucester: 1988. £22.00
Tanner (William) THREE LECTURES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN BRISTOL AND SOMERSETSHIRE. 148pp, original cloth, partly faded, neat ownership inscription to front pastedown. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1858. £24.00
Taylor (John) ANTIQUARIAN ESSAYS Contributed to the "Saturday Review." With a Memoir of William George and Portrait. liv + 383pp, untrimmed in the original qtr. parchment, covers lightly rubbed, endpapers foxed, spine darkened and spotty, page edges darkened and endpapers spotty. LIMITED TO 180 NUMBERED COPIES. Bristol: W. Crofton Hemmons, 1895. £10.00
* Includes articles on Chepstow, Berkeley, Cleeve Abbey, House of Fortescue, Thornbury Castle, etc.
Tenterden REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF TENTERDEN. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 1062-1069, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Trinder (Barrie) BARGES & BARGEMEN A Social History of the Upper Severn Navigation 1660-1900. Illusts, 178pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 2005. £20.00
Tunnicliff (William) A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTIES OF HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET, DEVON AND CORNWALL, Commonly called the Western Circuit. Containing An accurate and comprehensive Description of all the Principal Direct and Cross Roads.... Embellished with New and Elegantly Engraved Maps of the several Counties.... Also A General Map of the Western Circuit.... And many Hundreds of Elegant Engravings of the Arms of the Subscribers.... With a hand coloured map of the Western Circuit, and with 5 of 6 hand coloured folding engraved maps county maps, lacks the map of Dorset, 3 of the maps have tape repairs to verso, with 7 or 8 pages of engraved coats of arms for each county, 256pp, early half sheep, paper boards, rubbed to edges, uncut. Printed for the Author Salisbury: 1791. £200.00
[Tutchin (John)] THE WESTERN MARTYROLOGY OR, BLOODY ASSIZES. Containing the Lives, Trials, and Dying-Speeches Of all those Eminent Protestants that Suffered in the West of England, and Elsewhere, From the Year 1678, to this Time. Together with the Life and Death of George L. Jeffreys. To which is now added, to make it Compleat, An Account of the Barbarous Whippings of Several Persons in the West. Also the Trial and Case of Mr John Tutchin (the Author of the Observator) with the Cruel Sentence pass'd upon him; and his Petition to King James II. to be hang'd: Never before Printed. Engraved frontis., viii + 340 + 4 pages of publisher's adverts, original cloth slightly rubbed to edges, front inner hinge cracked, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper. Reprinted from the Fifth Edition. London: James Blackwood, 1873. £25.00
Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND PLYMOUTH AND LISKEARD. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 348. With notes on the petrology of the igneous rocks by J.S. Flett. Plates and textual illusts, 156pp, recent cloth, with the original printed wraps bound in. First edition, London: Printed for H.M.S.O. 1907. £30.00
Vaughan (John) THE ENGLISH GUIDE BOOK c.1780-1870. An Illustrated History. With 79 text illusts, 167pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1972. £12.00
[Verstegan (Richard)] RESTITUTION OF DECAYED INTELLIGENCE IN ANTIQUITIES, Concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation By the Study and Travel of R.V. With a vignettte title-page and with several engravings in the text, (18) + 374 + (14) page Index, full early calf, lightly rubbed to the edges, recased with the old, unlettered, spine laid down. Printed for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn and Henry Herringman, London: 1673. £200.00
* Verstegan was an Anglo-Dutch antiquary who was born in London. He studied English history and the Anglo-Saxon Language at Oxford. This work contains sections on the invasions of the Saxons, Danes and the Normans and their influence on the English Tongue.
Walker (John), Rector of St. Mary's the More in Exeter AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS RECOVERING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBERS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, Heads of Colleges, Fellows, Scholars, &c. who were Sequester'd Harrass'd, &c. in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion.... Folio, lvi + (xvii) + 204 + 416pp (includes 12 page index of people), raised bands, early panelled calf, hinges cracked, with boards held firmly by strings, covers rubbed to edges, with a small portions of leather missing, lacks front endpaper and half title, 4 leaves browned, tear to top margin of title-page. London: Printed by W.S. for J. Nicholson, R. Knaplock, R. Wilkin.... 1714. £75.00
* Lists all of the places concerned in England,(West Country places:- Bristol, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Exeter, Gloucester, Salisbury, Somersetshire, Wells, Wiltshire,) and with biographies of the persons concerned. See Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection No 393; Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis, vol 3, page 354; Brockett's Devon Union List No 74770.
Walker (John), Rector of St. Mary's the More in Exeter THE SUFFERINGS OF THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND During The Great Rebellion. Carefully abridged by the Rev. Robert Whitaker. ccxxvi + 184pp, 12mo, original cloth, later spine, couple of spots to cloth, ex-lib with a couple of indelible stamps. Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, London: 1863. £25.00
Waters (Robert Edmond Chester) GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE EXTINCT FAMILY OF CHESTER OF CHICHELEY, Their Ancestors and Descendants. Armorials in the text, xxi + 366 and xxiii-xxxiii + 367-790pp, 2 volumes, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth, later spines, original endpapers retained. With the armorial bookplates of Antony Richard Wagner in each volume. First edition, Robson and Sons, London: 1878. £145.00
Watkins (George) THE STEAM ENGINE IN INDUSTRY. Volume 1. The Public Services. Volume 2. Mining and the Metal Trade. 2 volumes, illusts, 128pp, and 128pp, 4to, original illustrated glazed boards. First editions, Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne: 1978 and 1979. £22.00
Watson (J.N.P) CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND REBEL CHIEF The Life of James, Duke of Monmouth. Foreword by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.T. Plates, maps and diagrams, xxiii + 311pp, dustwrapper. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1979. £18.00
* Signed by the author on the title-page and presentation inscription from him on front endpaper.
Weaver (Frederic Weaver), editor THE VISITATION OF HEREFORDSHIRE. Made by Robert Cooke, Clarencieus In 1569. viii + 107pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, portion torn from spine, partly affecting lettering, neatly repaired with a new portion of cloth. Exeter: Printed for the Editor by W. Pollard, 1885. £50.00
Webb (Cliff), editor WILLS IN THE CONSISTORY COURT OF LICHFIELD. Coloured maps, lxi + 546pp, original cloth. British Record Society, London: 2010. £16.00
Wessex Divisional Journal WESSEX DIVISIONAL JOURNAL Volumes 1 - 5. Five volumes bound in one. Illusts, folding maps and plans. There were 9 issues for volume 1, 12 issues for volume 2, each of 24pp, and 4 issues per volume for volumes 3, 4 and 5, with between 192 and 214pp per volume, 4to, few small marks to contemporary binders cloth. April 1909 - October 1913. £65.00
* Includes many articles with a local interest, as well as many on military tactics and historical subjects.
Western Gazette and Company Limited THE WESTERN GAZETTE ALMANAC AND DIARY FOR 1911. Illusts, adverts, 260pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light brown tinge to pages, lower corner to top cover damp stained, slightly affecting lower inner margin of first few leaves. Western Gazette and Company Limited, Yeovil: 1911. £22.00
* Includes a History of the Somerset Yeomanry.
Whistler (Laurence) THE ENGLISH FOLK FESTIVALS. Illusts, 241pp, slightly dull original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, old price to front endpaper. Reprinted William Heinemann, London: 1947. £7.00
Whitcombe (Mrs Henry Pennell) BYGONE DAYS IN DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL. With Notes on Existing Superstitions and Customs. xv + 276pp, original decorative cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges, neatly recased, with new endpapers and the original spine laid down, some marks to cloth. First edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1874. £65.00
Witham (Henry) A DESCRIPTION OF A FOSSIL TREE DISCOVERED IN THE QUARRY AT CRAIGLEITH, Near Edinburgh, in the month of November, 1830. With 2 coloured plates, 10pp, stitched as usual in the original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. Printed by T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle: 1831. £28.00
* Authors presentation inscription on the title page.
Worth (R.N) THE WEST COUNTRY GARLAND: Selected from the Writings of the Poets of Devon and Cornwall. From the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century, with Folk Songs and Traditional Verses. 12mo, xvi + 176pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, few spots to top covers. First edition, London: Houlston and Co., Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1875. £25.00
Wright (W.H.K), editor THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY or DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTE-BOOK. Volume 1. March, 1881, to March, 1882. Illusts, xvii + (i) + 219pp, includes 3 page list of subscribers, original qtr roan, cloth boards, small portions missing from rubbed spine. Plymouth: Latimer and Son, 1882. £30.00
* Includes articles:- Borlase family; Sir Francis Drake; Bonython Family; Dr John Kitto; Charles Church, Plymouth; Ancient Ridge Tiles; Punishments in Olden Times; Preservation of Dartmoor Antiquities; Gorges Monument, St. Budeaux Church, etc.
Wright (W.H.K), editor THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY or DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTE-BOOK. Volume 2. April, 1882, to April, 1883. Illusts, xvii + 216pp, includes 4 page list of subscribers, 4to, original qtr roan, cloth boards, lacks approx �" to head of spine and small strip at foot. Plymouth: Latimer and Son, 1883. £25.00
* Includes articles:- Lidwell chapel, near Dawlish; Cranmere Pool; Rocks in Devon and Cornwall by William Crossing; Beating the Bounds at St. Columb; Kingsbridge Murder, etc.
Wyndham (The Hon. H.A) A FAMILY HISTORY 1688 - 1837. The Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire. Illusts, 2 folding pedigrees, 387pp, tears and portions torn from dustwrapper. Oxford University Press: 1950. £35.00
* This is the second of two volumes, the first covered the period 1410 - 1688.

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