Bristol Avery (J.R) 'WHILE WE HAVE TIME.... ' 1590-1990. Queen Elizabeth's Hospital's Quarter Centenary "Dum Tempus Habemus Operemur Bonum". Illusts, some in colour, iv + 122pp, dustwrapper. Manor Printing Services, Wotton-under-Edge: 1990. £12.00 Barrett (William) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Large folding map and 30 copperplate engravings, some of which are folding, lacks the 2 plates of the Rowley facsimiles, which are frequently missing, xix + 704pp, 4to, full early calf, small portions of calf missing from boards, lacks portion from head of spine, and a small portion lower down, top board, with the map and a few prelims still attached, is loose. First edition, Printed by William Pine, Wine Street, Bristol: 1789 (dedication leaf.) £140.00 * Copies of this work frequently have the Rowley facsimiles missing, the speculation being that the publisher no longer wished to include them after Chatterton's deception was exposed. Bingham (Rev. Fanshawe) HORFIELD MISCELLANEA. An Account of Horfield From Earliest Times to 1900. Plates, 125 + (2)pp, later cloth. Printed and Published for the Author by W.H. Barrell, Portsmouth. (1905) £80.00 * With the bookplate of T. Sturge Cotterell, Bath. Chamber of Commerce AUTUMNAL MEETING AT BRISTOL Of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1906. Illusts, pages lettered A - W + lxvii + iv + 216pp, original cloth, loosely inserted is a map of Bristol. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1906. £20.00 Chilcott (J), publisher CHILCOTT'S NEW GUIDE TO CLIFTON AND THE HOTWELLS; With Topographical Notices of the Villages, Watering Places, and Other Objects of Interest in the Neighbourhood. With a folding map, &c. vii + 94pp, sm 8vo, recent cloth. Seventh Edition. J. Chilcott, Bristol: c.1846. £40.00 Churchill Hall UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A report of the appeal made on behalf of the University for Halls of Residence and Felowships to commemorate the Chancellorship of Mr Winston Churchill and his services to the country and to humanity. October 1946 to March 1948. 28pp, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1948. £30.00 * Includes a list of the donors and their donations. City Docks Joint Study Team BRISTOL CITY DOCKS LOCAL PLAN. The Opportunities. Plans many of which are folding, 139 + vii + vi + iii + 3 + 2 + iipp, folio, original card covers. Bristol: Nov. 1977. £18.00 [Eagles (Rev. J)] FELIX FARLEY, Rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon. Engraved and printed titles, 12mo, early binders cloth, neatly lettered in ink on spine, partly faded, outer hinges partly split, though sound, slightly chipped to head, light occasional spotting. Bristol: Printed and Published by J.M. Gutch, 1826. £28.00 * 'These verses were written "to expose abuses which had for years existed in several public bodies, especially in the Corporation".' Hyett and Bazeley. Vol 3 page 125. [Eagles (Rev. J)], A Citizen THE BRISTOL RIOTS, Their Causes, Progress, and Consequences. By a Citizen. Frontis, 403pp, original glazed cloth, new spine and endpapers, paper label on spine, few spots to cloth, and circular stain to rear board. Bristol: Gutch and Martin, 1832. £55.00 Evans (John) THE NEW GUIDE, OR PICTURE OF BRISTOL, With the Beauties of Clifton: a Descriptive Arrangement of Excursions in their Vicinities: and an Appendix on their Geology, Botany, &c. &c. With 2 folding maps, and a map of steamer excursions from Bristol, an engraved plate, 2 full page wood engravings, 78 + 62pp, large 12mo, early binders cloth, short tear to one map. Fourth Edition. Bristol: P. Rose, Printer, 1828. £75.00 * The 'Beauties of Clifton' is paginated separately, has its own title-page, it was also issued separately. Fuller (J.G) THE VISITER. iv + 240pp, sm 8vo, early full vellum, decorative tooling on spine and boards, marbled endpapers, lacks front endpaper, and half title(?), portion torn from front endpapers, early ink note to lower margins of two pages, 4 lines of text scored through and now illegible. J.G. Fuller, Bristol: 1823. £70.00 * This periodical was published weekly from Wednesday, January 1, 1823 - Wednesday, July 23, 1823. The thirty numbers, contained in this volume, were all that were published. This work is a curious mixture of Christian homilies and philosophising. Goldwin (W) A DESCRIPTION OF THE ANTIENT AND FAMOUS CITY OF BRISTOL. A Poem. Revised with large Additions by I. Smart, A.M. 40pp, lacks half-title, title-page and last leaf slightly dusty, small hole rubbed in last leaf partly affecting one word on the top line of page 39 and erasing a word on page 40, later half calf, marbled boards and endpapers. Third Edition, London: Printed for R. Lewis; and Sold by J. Robinson.... and by J. Crofton, Bookseller at Bristol. 1751. £90.00 Grant (Father S.J) ADDRESS TO THE OLD CONGREGATION OF ST. JOSEPH AND ST. MARY, On June 27, 1890, The Centenary of the Opening of St. Joseph's, Trenchard Street, Before the Right Reverend Dr. Cifford, Bishop of Clifton, and our Friends, both Clergy and Laity. 31pp, pictorial card covers, spine chipped, some spotting to covers and damp mark to lower corner of top board affecting a couple of prelims. Roehampton: Printed by James Stanley, 1890. £18.00 * Includes a list of the secular clergy who 'ministered to the catholics on the Bristol Mission,' from 1642 onwards. Hayden (Roger), editor THE RECORDS OF A CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BRISTOL, 1640 - 1687. (vi) + 315pp, original cloth. Bristol Record Society. Volume 27. 1974. £20.00 [Heath (George)] THE NEW BRISTOL GUIDE: Containing Its Antiquities, Deducted from the best Authorities: Historic Annals From William the Conqueror 1066 to 1799; Progress, Navigation, Schools, Hospitals.... also Distinct and Improved Accounts of the Hotwells and Clifton.... Brief Biography of some Eminent Natives of Bristol: Memoirs of Chatterton the juvenile Poet, &c. To which are added, Lists of Bankers, Regulation of General and Penny Posts; of Hackney Carriages; and Directions for passing the Severn, at Aust and the New Passage. With a folding map, xii + 187 + (4)pp, 12mo, later paper boards, spine slightly darkened and with small piece missing from head. Second Edition. Printed by and For R. Edwards, Broad Street, Bristol: 1800. £50.00 * Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature does not mention the map. Hutton (Stanley) BRISTOL AND ITS FAMOUS ASSOCIATIONS. Illusts, viii + 406pp, original cloth, lettering feint on spine, name and private ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1907. £22.00 * Includes chapters on the Scientific, Literary and Artistic life of the city, and mentions Hannah More, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chatterton, William Penn, Humphrey Davy, Southey, Landor, George Whitefield, etc., etc. Jones (Rev. A. Emlyn) OUR PARISH: MANGOTSFIELD, INCLUDING DOWNEND. A Brief Account of its Origin and History. Illusts, 308pp including a 2 page list of subscribers, original cloth. Originaly published c.1899. Reprinted Kingsmead Press, Bath: 1978. £20.00 * Reprinted with an Index, and with reproductions of the original illustrations mounted onto blanks. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BRISTOL 1936. With large coloured folding map loosely inserted, 11 (adverts) + xxxi + 1350pp, few splits to folds of map, original cloth, small hole to cloth in spine, rubbed to edges, short split to rear outer hinge, inner hinges split and pulled. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1936. £45.00 King Edward VII. Memorial Infirmary SOUVENIR PROGRAMME AND ILLUSTRATED GUIDE OF THEIR MAJESTIES' VISIT TO BRISTOL To Open the New King Edward VII. Memorial Infirmary. Official Times and Programme of Ceremonies. Friday, June 28th, 1912. Illusts, adverts, 36pp, original printed wraps. Empire Publishing Company, Knowle, Bristol: 1912. £16.00 Large (David), editor THE PORT OF BRISTOL 1848 - 1884. xxxix + 221pp, original cloth, covers spotty. Volume 36. Bristol Record Society. 1984. £14.00 Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century. vi + 552pp, original cloth, neatly recased retaining original endpapers, lacks front endpaper. LARGE PAPER COPY. Tipped onto front endpaper is a manuscript note:- '46 copies printed No 20 (signed) J. Latimer'. W. & F. Morgan, Bristol: 1887. £48.00 Lee (The Rev. Samuel) THE DUTY AND OBLIGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS To Pray For All Men: For Kings and For All That Are In Authority. Stated and Proved in A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, on the The Occasion of the King's Coronation. Disbound, 24pp, title and last leaf slightly dusty, title laid down with loss of lower corner. William Strong, Bristol: 1831. £15.00 * Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography. 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. Volume 52. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £18.00 Locke (F.A.S), illustrated by A. Wilde Parsons SAVAGE AND OTHER SONGS. With 16 tipped in plates, 41pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial paper boards, lacks silk tie to boards. Bristol: Edward Everard, (1904) £40.00 * The Bristol Savages was founded by artists in 1904. This work includes "An Address to the Bristol Savages on their Opening Night.' Mathews's MATHEWS'S ANNUAL BRISTOL DIRECTORY Commercial List. 1839. Local adverts + (ii) + 385pp, 12mo, early cloth, partly faded and unlettered. Forty-first edition, Bristol: Printed and Sold by M. Mathews & Son. 1839. £125.00 Mathews (William S), printer and publisher MATHEWS'S ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL, including Clifton, Bedminster, and Surrounding Villages. 1865. 468pp + adverts, 12mo, original embossed cloth, new spine and front and rear endpapers, small portion missing from top corner of rear board, early ownership name, in ink, to title-page. Bristol: Printed and Published by William S. Mathews, 1865. £70.00 Mathews (William) THE NEW HISTORY, SURVEY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF BRISTOL, OR COMPLETE GUIDE, And informing and useful Companion for the Residents and Visitants of this ancient, extensive and increasing City, The Hotwells and Clifton, Being the most authentic, particular, and comprehensive Account of Bristol hitherto published.... Bound with.... MATHEWS'S NEW BRISTOL DIRECTORY FOR THE YEAR, 1793-4. Containing an Alphabetical List of the Corporation, Clergy, Merchants, &c. &c. of the City of Bristol, with its Environs. To which are added Lists of the Mail Coaches, Waggons.... Lacks the plan, 112 + 193pp, the 2 volumes bound in one, as issued, early qtr calf, marbled boards, rubbed, outer hinges cracked, rubbed at head and foot of spine, fragment of paper label on spine overlapping onto boards, ownership name in ink on title-page. First edition, Bristol: Printed, Published and Sold by William Mathews, 1794. £200.00 * 'In 1793 began one of the longest and most complete series of directories recorded in this catalogue' Norton's Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales. Page 92. Copies of this first edition are extremely scarce, it was reprinted in 1898. McElwain (W.F) BRISTOL AND CLIFTON GOLF CLUB 1891 - 1991. Illusts, 114pp, original cloth, roy 8vo. No printer or publisher. (1991) £20.00 Ralph (Elizabeth), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK. Part III 1552-1565. ix + 155pp, original cloth. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1992. £18.00 Rose (J), printer STRICTURES ON A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED, "An Impartial History of the Late Riots at Bristol," [Published by Messrs, Robinson, Hazard, and Cottle.] Dedicated to Edward Long Fox, M.D. and The Gentlemen who have laudably undertaken to investigate the cause of The Late Melancholy Events. In which The Truth is Set Forth & Falshood Detected; Addressed to the Citizens of Bristol, and All who may have been prejudiced by the Perusal of the "Impartial History." 16pp, disbound, 16pp, small stain to title. Printed (for the Author) and sold by J.Rose, No 24, Broadmead. (1793) £75.00 [Samborne (S)] THE POETIC GUIDE to Clifton, Bristol, and Neighbourhood; with Historical Notes, Legends, and Tales. By a Visitor of Clifton. 54pp, recent unlettered paper boards, half-title and last leaf slightly browned. C.T. Jefferies, Bristol: 1859. £40.00 * There appears to be doubt as to whether this work is by Samborne, see Mathews's Bristol Bibliography, page 301. Not in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. A few ink amendments and with a pencil note on the half-title:- 'Proof copy revised and corrected by the author.' Swete (E.H) FLORA BRISTOLIENSIS. With a double-page plan, a plate and a folding map contained in pocket at rear, xxvi + 138pp + Errata, original cloth, partly faded, cloth slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. Hamilton, Adams, London: 1854. £95.00 Talbot (William) THE REV. MR TALBOT'S NARRATIVE OF THE WHOLE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE TO JONATHAN BRITAIN. Disbound, 93pp, title dusty and with small portion torn from top margin. Bristol: Printed and sold by S. Farley, in Castle-Green.... (1772) £95.00 * 'Britain was hanged at St. Michael's Hill for forging a bill of exchange for the sum of œ10.' See Latimer's Annals for Bristol in the 18th Century, for a full account. Taylor (John) GUIDE TO CLIFTON and Its Neigbourhood, (Excluding Bristol.) Illustrated with an engraved plates and 13 actual photographs pasted onto blanks, 123pp, early half calf, marbled boards, top board loose, lacks 1" from head of spine. J. Wright, Bristol: 1868 £65.00 * The number of photographs in copies of this work varies greatly. We have seen copies with 18 and 24 plates. Hyett & Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature calls for 18 photographs, the B.L. copy on Copac has 34 photographs. The B.L. copy also has red line borders to each photograph, this copy does not. Not in Gernsheim's Incunabula of British Photographic Literature. Includes chapters on north Somerset, the South Wales Railway, Henbury, Westbury on Trym, Wells, Dundry, Chew Magna, etc. Thomas (Gertrude) ? WAIFS AND STRAYS FROM PITCH AND PAY. 16pp, 12mo, original card covers. Privately Printed, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1933. £15.00 * Poetry. Loosely inserted is a printed letter sheet addressed:- 'Pitch and Pay, Stoke Bishop, Bristol,' on which is written:- 'From Gertrude Thomas.' Vincent (Leslie) and others ANNALS OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. MATTHIAS. Illusts, xi + 91pp, original card covers. F. Bailey and Son, Dursley: c.1976. £12.00 Wells (Charles), Chief Reporter "Bristol Times and Mirror." HISTORIC BRISTOL. Frontis and folding plan, 157pp, few small spots to partly faded original cloth, small snags to head and foot of spine, endpapers spotty. T.D. Taylor Sons, Bristol: 1902. £16.00 * With an initialled presentation inscription by the author. White (J.W) THE FLORA OF BRISTOL, being an Account of all the Flowering Plants Ferns and their Allies that have at any time been found in the district of the Bristol Coal-Fields. With introductory sketches of the Topography, Physical Features, Climate etc. Coloured folding map, 3 plates, viii + 722p, short tear to rear of dustwrapper. Originally published Bristol: 1912. Reprinted, Chatford House Press, Bristol: 1972. £20.00 Wilkins (H.J) TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THE "POOR BOOK" OF THE TITHINGS OF WESTBURY ON TRYM, STOKE BISHOP AND SHIREHAMPTON from A.D. 1656-1698 with Introduction and Notes. Plate, xx + 284pp, contemporary full calf, raised bands, morocco label, covers partly faded, morocco endpapers and page edges. With a photograph of Wilkins pasted to the second blank. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1910. £65.00 Wright (J) and Co's MATHEWS' BRISTOL DIRECTORY, 1879. With Adjacent Villages. 480pp, original cloth, neatly recased, retaining the original pastedowns and with a new rear endpaper. £75.00 A further selection of BRISTOL Books on Main Site Back to the Top Cornwall Allen (John) HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD AND ITS VICINITY. Edited and Revised by Councillor William H. Paynter, M.S.A. Liskeard Borough Archivist. With 9 plates, 160pp, couple of short tears to, slightly dusty, dustwrapper. Wordens, Marazion: (1967) £24.00 Andrew (Jane) RECORDED MERCIES: Being the Autobiography of Jane Andrew, living at St. Ive, Liskeard, Cornwall: also reminiscences of her valued friend The Late Mrs Daniel Smart, of Cranbrook. Compiled by her younger daughter, as an affectionate tribute to her mother's memory. 51pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to spine, lacks front endpaper. London: E. Wilmshurst, (1889) £25.00 Barton (R.M) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL. With plates and folding maps, 168pp, dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1964. £22.00 Bishop (George) A PARISH ALBUM OF CALLINGTON Numerous illusts, 2 plans, including one folding panorama, 203pp, small folio, original card covers. Colombian Press, Plymouth: 1988. £40.00 Black (Adam) and (Charles) BLACK'S GUIDE TO THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. With Map and Illustrations. Pages numbered vi + 275-396pp, short tear to folding map, original cloth, old price in ink on front endpapers. Eleventh Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh: 1879. £25.00 Blewett (John), appellant,v. Millett (Humphry), respondent HOUSE OF LORDS. THE RESPONDENT'S AND APPELLANT'S CASE. Between John Blewitt, Esq. the only Son and Administrator of George Blewett, Gentlemen, deceased, Appellant, and Humphrey Millett, Clerk, the Son and residuary Devisee of Humphrey Millett, deceased, Respondent. Folio, unbound as issued, 6pp + 5pp. 1774. £70.00 * Not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, which lists a similar item for the year 1770. Concerns a dispute over mine shares in Breage. Blight (J.T) ANCIENT CROSSES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES IN THE EAST OF CORNWALL. Wood engraved illusts by Blight. vi + 134 (mostly printed on rectos) + 2pp list of subscribers, roy 8vo., original cloth, a.e.g., recased with the original spine laid down and the inner hinges strengthened, covers lightly rubbed to edges. London: Simpkin Marshall, and Penzance F.T. Vibert, 1858. £75.00 Borlase (William) ANTIQUITIES, HISTORICAL AND MONUMENTAL OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL.... with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language. The Second Edition, revised, with several Additions, by the Author. With a folding map, a single-page map, and 25 engraved plates, some of which are folding, and 10 engravings in the letterpress, xvi + 464pp, folio, full early calf, recent calf spine, leather label, small amount of light foxing and off-setting, few small ink marks to title-page, otherwise a clean tall copy. Second Edition, London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J Nichols, 1769. £650.00 * This is the second and best edition, with additions, two more plates, and a folding map of the county. Borlase (William) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL. The Air, Climate, Waters, Rivers, Lakes, Sea and Tides; Of the Stones, Semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the Manner of Mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: Of the Inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Map of the County, 28 copper plate engravings, xix + 326pp + leaf of Errata and Directions to Binder, folio, recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards, map partly lightly stained, and with small portions missing from margins, couple of crude repairs to verso of map. First edition, Printed for the Author, by W. Jackson. Oxford: 1758. £1100.00 Brooke (Justin) THE TIN STREAMS OF WENDRON. Maps, illusts, 95pp, dustwrapper, oblong 8vo, inscription to front endpaper. Twelvehead Press, Truro: 1994. £15.00 Browne (E. Harold) THE GIFTS OF THE ASCENDED SAVIOUR. A Sermon Preached at ST. MARY'S CHURCH, TRURO, on Tuesday, May 27, M.DCCC.LI., at the triennial Visitation of the Right Rev. Henry Lord Bishop of Exeter. Published by Command of the Lord Bishop. 23pp, disbound. London, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro: John Henry Parker, 1851. £15.00 * Browne was the Prebendary of Exeter and Vicar of Kenwyn and Kea. Buckley (J.A) A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROFTY MINE. Illusts, 224pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1997. £18.00 Burt (Roger), editor CORNISH MINING Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and the Cornish Mining Economy. 210pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1969. £25.00 * With a signed presentation inscription from the author on the front endpaper. Byles (C.E) THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF R.S. HAWKER (Sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) by his Son-in-Law, C.E. Byles, with two sketches by the Earl of Carlisle. Lithos by J. Ley Pethybridge & Reproductions from Portraits, Photographs etc. xxviii + 689pp, original embossed cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, lettering feint on spine. Second edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906. £48.00 Camborne Registers, edited by H. Tapley-Soper. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF CAMBORNE, Co. Cornwall. A.D 1538 to 1837. 2 volumes, ix + 1-416pp and 417-432 and 449 - 955pp, uncut, and unbound in the original parts, as issued, a couple of leaves slightly soiled, not affecting legibility. The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 1945. £150.00 Chesher (V.M.) and (F.J) THE CORNISHMAN'S HOUSE. An Introduction to the History of Traditional Domestic Architecture in Cornwall. Plates, line drawings, 142pp, original cloth, short tear to spotty dustwrapper, ownership name to front endpaper. First edition. D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1968. £50.00 Collier (W.F) TALES AND SAYINGS OF WILLIAM ROBERT HICKS, OF BODMIN. With Portrait and Memoir. Third Edition, Enlarged. Frontis, 104pp, original buckram, lightly rubbed cloth slightly dull. Third Edition, London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893. £15.00 Collins (Wilkie) RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS; or Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot. xiii + 298pp, original cloth worn, slightly rubbed to edges, front inner hinge pulled. New Edition. London: Richard Bentley. 1861. £50.00 --- See sample text * This is the first edition to contain the 'Postscript' The Cruise of the Tomtit to the Scilly Islands. With the armorial bookplate of Mary E. Eady-Borlase. Cornwall Parish Registers, edited by Thomas Taylor. CORNWALL PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 23. vi + 145pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1914. £65.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Marhamchurch, St. Stephen's by Launceston, Ladock, Probus, Cornelly, Launcells, & St. Veryan. Courtney (R.A) THE HILL AND THE CIRCLE. 91pp, original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges. Printed for Private Circulation. Penzance: 1912. £65.00 * Signed presentation inscription by author on the front endpaper. Davey (James) A SET OF TABLES SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE OF THE STANDARD AT WHICH COPPER ORES OF VARIOUS PRODUCES USUALLY SELL IN CORNWALL, With the Price of Twenty-one cwts. Affixed. Second Edition with an Appendix. viii + 92pp, sm. 4to, original cloth, soiled and rubbed at edges, outer hinges partly split, portion of cloth torn from lower corner of top board, with the original paper label to top board, Cornwall Record Office stamp to front endpaper and class number to spine. Second Edition, Published and Sold by the Author, and by J. May, Printer, Redruth: 1845. £110.00 * With the bookplate of John Davies Enys. Doble (Rev. Gilbert H) BREAGE in the Eighteenth Century. 26pp, original wraps. First edition, The 'King's Stone' Press Shipston-on-Stour: 1931. £18.00 * Presentation inscription on the top wrap by the author. Douch (H.L) THE BOOK OF TRURO. A Portrait of the Town. Numerous illusts, map endpapers, 140pp, cr 4to, partly faded dustwrapper. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1977. £28.00 Fern (Harold E), editor CORNISH CHAMBER OF MINES YEAR BOOK 1921. With folding tables, 47pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, lettering feint on top board. Chance and Bland, Gloucester: (1921) £55.00 Filbee (Marjorie) CELTIC CORNWALL. Illusts, 176pp, dustwrapper. First edition, London: Constable, 1996. £14.00 Fox (Caroline), of Penjerrick, Cornwall MEMORIES OF OLD FRIENDS. Being Extracts from The Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871. Edited by Horace N. Pym. Portrait frontis, xxvii + 355pp, roy 8vo, contemporary half morocco, cloth boards, outer hinges and edges lightly rubbed, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, slight spotting to prelims. First edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. £75.00 George (Dr Ken) GERLYVER KERNEWEK KEMMYN An Gerlyver Kres. Kernewek - Sowsnek. Sowsnek - Kernewek. Cornish - English. English - Cornish Dictionary. xvi + 317pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. First edition, Kesva an Taves Kernewek, Cornish Language Board, 1998. £18.00 Gilbert (Davies) THE PAROCHIAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL. Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr Hals and Mr Tonkin: with Additions and Various Appendices. 4 volumes, xxxii + 424 and 432 and 470 and 571pp, early half calf, leather labels on spines, marbled boards, lightly rubbed. London: J.B. Nicholls and Son. 1838. £285.00 * Gives a description of each of the 200 parishes in alphabetical order with an abstract of the geology of each parish by Dr. D.S. Boase. Halliday (F.E) THE LEGEND OF THE ROOD with The Three Maries and The Death of Pilate. Done into English Verse with an Introduction. With 5 plates, 142pp, some foxing to dustwrapper. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1955. £18.00 Hamilton Jenkin (A.K) NEWS FROM CORNWALL. With a memoir of William Jenkin. With 6 plates, xi + 202pp, few short tears to slightly rubbed dustwrapper, title spotty. First edition, London: Westaway Books, 1951. £25.00 * William Jenkin, of Redruth was an ancestor of Hamilton Jenkin and was a 'notable figure in the mining world of Cornwall.' Harris (J.R) THE COPPER KING. A Biography of Thomas Williams of Llanidan. Frontis, xviii + 194pp, dustwrapper. Liverpool University Press: 1964. £25.00 * 'He played an important part in the creation of a cartel for buying all the ore of Cornwall, the major producing centre at that period.... ' Haslam (Rev. Wm) PERRAN-ZABULOE; With an Account of the Past and Present State of the Oratory of St. Piran in the Sands, and Remarks on its Antiquity. Frontis, and textual illusts, viii + 151pp, 12mo, original embossed cloth, short split to head of top outer hinge, relevant news cuttings tipped onto front and rear endpapers. First edition, London: John Van Voorst, 1844. £50.00 Hedgeland (J.P) A DESCRIPTION ACCOMPANIED BY SIXTEEN PLATES OF THE SPLENDID DECORATIONS RECENTLY MADE TO THE CHURCH OF ST. NEOT, IN CORNWALL, At the Sole Expense of The Reverend Richard Gerveys Grylls. To which are prefixed Some Collections and Translations respecting St. Neot, and the Former State of His Church, by Davies Gilbert. With 16 hand coloured plates of the windows, 67pp, 4to, recent qtr calf, cloth boards. London: Printed for J.P. Hedgeland. 1830. £500.00 * Hedgeland wrote this work after undertaking the restoration of these beautiful medieval windows. Helston Election REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HELLESTON ELECTION PETITION: together with The SPECIAL REPORT From The Said Committee; And also, The MINUTES of Evidence taken before Them. 55pp, folio, disbound. London: House of Commons, 1813..... With REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE.... Folio, disbound, 9pp. London: House of Commons, 1815. 2 items. London: House of Commons, 1813-1815. £55.00 Hencken (H. O'Neill) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND SCILLY. With 9 maps and 59 illustrations. xvi + 340pp, original cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed and with a few short tears. First edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932. £30.00 --- See sample text Henderson (Charles) and Coates (Henry) OLD CORNISH BRIDGES AND STREAMS. Illustrated with Maps and 58 Photographs. ix + 133pp, dustwrapper. Originally published, 1928. Reprinted, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £20.00 Herring (Peter) and Thomas (Nigel) KIT HILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROJECT Final Report. Maps, plans, some of which are folding, ix + 386pp, original paper wraps, amateur cloth spine, covers slightly soiled. First edition, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 1988. £24.00 Hill (J.B.) and Macalister (D.A) THE GEOLOGY OF FALMOUTH AND TRURO AND THE MINING DISTRICT OF CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales. Explanation of Sheet 352. With 24 plates, diagrams, x + 335pp, original partly discoloured cloth, top outer hinge partly split, occasional foxing. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1906. £90.00 Husband (S. Teague) OLD NEWQUAY. Textual illustrations by A.A. Golding, double-page map, 124pp, original cloth, spine faded. Newquay: F.E. Williams, 1923. £50.00 Hutchison (Rev. Aeneas B) A MONOGRAPH ON THE HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF S. MARY, CALLINGTON. With 3 lithographed plates, textual illusts, 28pp, 4to, original paper wraps, short split to foot of spine. London: J. Masters, Plymouth: G.H. Lidstone, 1861. £40.00 Ivall (Dennis Endean) CORNISH HERALDRY AND SYMBOLISM. With over 50 pages of illusts, including four colour plates, 100pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran, 1988. £26.00 Jago (Rev. W) ANCIENT PAPER. WATER-MARKS FOUND IN BODMIN CHURCH BUILDING ACCOUNTS AND OTHER OLD DOCUMENTS. 2 plates, 6pp. 1881.... Bound with.... Jago (Rev. W) CINERARY URN FOUND IN A BARROW AT HUSTYN, IN ST. BREOCK, CORNWALL. 2 plates, 7pp. R.I.C. 1882.... Bound with.... Jago (Rev. W) THE ECCLESIASTICAL SEALS OF CORNWALL. 3 plates, 52pp. With a 3 page signed handwritten letter from the author regarding seals secured with a pin to the top wrap. Reprinted with additions, Lake & Lake, Truro; 1884.... Bound with.... Peter (Thurstan C) NOTES ON THE CHURCH OF S. JUST-IN-PENWITH. 11 plates, 18pp. R.I.C.... Bound with.... Peter (Thurstan C) NOTES ON S. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. 7 plates, 26pp. R.I.C.... Bound with.... Enys (J.D), Peter (Thurstan C), Whiteley (H.M) MURAL PAINTINGS AND OTHER REMAINS OF COLOUR DECORATION NOW OR FORMERLY EXISTING IN CORNISH CHURCHES. 12 plates, 2 of which are coloured, 28pp. R.I.C..... Bound with.... Collins (Mr. Morley S) ST. PIRAN'S ORATORY, PERRANPORTH. 1 plate, 8pp. R.I.C.... Bound with.... Peter (Thurstan) CORNISH FOLK-LORE NOTES. Pages numbered 117-133, complete. R.I.C. 1915.... Peter (Thurstan) THE HOBBY HORSE. 5 plates, pages numbered 241-273, complete. R.I.C. 1913.... Peter (Thurstan) ST. COLUMB GREEN BOOK. 3 plates, 91pp. R.I.C. 1912. 10 pamphlets bound in one volume, binders, cloth. All reprinted from Journals of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, all with their top wraps, 6 lacking their rear wraps. Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1881-1915. £95.00 Jenner (Henry) HANDBOOK OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE, Chiefly in its Latest Stages with some account of its History & Literature. xvi + 208pp, + 14pp of publisher's adverts, original cloth, few spots to spine slightly affecting lettering. First edition, London: David Nutt, 1904. £50.00 --- See sample text Johns (Rev. C.A) A WEEK AT THE LIZARD. Folding map, numerous woodcut illusts, xvi + 271pp, 12mo, original decorative cloth. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. c.1874. £60.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF CORNWALL 1893. Folding map, pages numbered 1019-1474 + 84 pages of adverts, complete, original cloth, slightly rubbed, spine faded, covers partly damp stained, internally sound, map partly torn. London: Kelly's Co., 1893. £165.00 Kempthorne (John Ley) FALMOUTH PARISH CHURCH. Illustrated by Gilbert S. Sully. 71 + (vi)pp, original cloth-backed boards. Falmouth: Printed by "The Cornish Echo", 1928. £18.00 Liskeard REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD. (Cornwall.) Title + pages numbered 524-530, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. London (Peter) AVIATION IN CORNWALL. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, pictorial laminated boards. Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., Tunbridge Wells: 1997. £20.00 * Author's signed presentation inscription on the title-page. Lysons (Daniel) and (Samuel) MAGNA BRITANNIA; Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties.... CORNWALL. With large folding map and 37 engraved plates and plans, some of which are folding, cclii + 390pp, 4to, early full calf, raised bands, diced calf boards with a blind tooled border, recased with old spine laid down, covers lightly rubbed to edges, retaining original endpapers, usual occasional light foxing. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies. 1814. £300.00 Maclean (Sir John) PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. BREWARD. With 3 plates, textual illusts, pages numbered 345-396, + list of subscribers, complete, 4to, recent limp cloth with the original printed top wrap laid down, top corners of last 2 leaves have been re-margined. London: Nichols and Sons, Bodmin: Liddel and Son, 1871. £75.00 * This forms part III of 'Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall.' Maclean (Sir John) PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. TEATH AND TEMPLE, With 5 plates, 2 of which are tinted lithographs, textual illusts, pages numbered 89-184, complete, 4to, recent unlettered card covers, one plate slightly chipped to fore-edge corners. London: Nichols and Sons, and Bodmin: Liddel and Son, 1876. £78.00 * Forming Part XII of 'Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall.' Manderson (Captain James, R.N) TWELVE LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SPENCER PERCEVAL, Wherein a View is taken of the Present Magnitude of the British Navy. The Royal Establishments for its Equipment and Reception, Compared with those at different periods of its strength and with the demands the Country now has for its services, and must continue with her power: also of the Policy of the Measures about to adopted for the supplying of the evident defects in the Present Anchorages and Royal Dock-Yards. viii + 150pp + errata, contemporary qtr calf, marbled boards, rubbed, hinges cracked, small portion missing from head of spine, and one hinge, some spotting to prelims. First edition, London: Thomas Underwood, 1812. £135.00 * In 1812 whilst the country was at war with France Manderson examines the arguments for building defensive breakwaters. The main argument of these letters was to make a case for building a harbour and naval station at Falmouth in preference to either Plymouth, or Northfleet. See Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, page 335. Melvill (Phillip) MEMOIRS OF THE LATE PHILIP MELVILLE, ESQ. Lieut. Gov. of Pendennis Castle, Cornwall; With An Appendix, Containing Extracts From His Diaries and Letters: Selected By A Friend. Together with Two Letters and A Sermon, Occasioned by his Death. viii + 291 + (xix)pp list of subscribers, full early calf, raised bands, leather label, marbled endpapers, covers very slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, London: J. Bennett, (1812) £90.00 * The only edition to contain the Rev J. Wilcox's Sermon. Moore (George), Archdeacon of Cornwall, and Canon Residentiary of Exeter A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT A VISITATION OF THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF CORNWALL, In May, M,DCCCL. Published at the Request of the Clergy. 22pp, sm 4to, disbound. Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, in the High Street. (1801) £35.00 Nance (R. Morton), editor AN ENGLISH-CORNISH DICTIONARY. ix + 200pp, original cloth slightly spotty, some foxing to prelims, page edges darkened. Printed for the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, Marazion: Worden, 1952. £18.00 Newton (E.W), editor and publisher JOINT MEETING. SCIENTIFIC, MINING, AND ENGINEERING SOCIETIES. Cornwall, July, 1912. Report. Illusts, 162pp + Errata leaf, qtr cloth printed paper boards. Edited and Published by E.W. Newton, for the Cornwall Joint Scientific Reception Committee. £48.00 * Includes:- 'Visit to the St. Ives Consolidated Mines', 'Messrs. Holman Bros., Ltd.,' 'Cornish China Clay and China Stone Industries.' etc., etc. Nicolas (Sir Harris) PEDIGREES OF CORNISH FAMILIES Extracted by Sir Nicolas Harris Nicolas from the Visitation of Henry St. George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Blew-Mantle in the Harl: M.S.S. 1162 and 1164. Coloured heraldic woodcuts, 28pp, covering families A-CA. With a manuscript title-page. (all published, see note below). Tipped onto blanks are sections from Frank & William Kerslake's catalogues which states that only 37 copies survived the others being destroyed by damp, the invoice for this work is tipped onto another blank. On 25 blanks are tipped copies of pages from the Visitations of Cornwall. Folio, early half morocco, marbled boards, very lightly rubbed to edges. London: Pickering, c.1838. £155.00 * Nicolas issued a prospectus for this work which was to be on the last Heraldic Survey of Cornwall made in the year 1640(1620). Only the above 28 pages were printed by Pickering of Piccadilly. They commence with the name Aleigh, or Leigh, and end with Carew, of Anthony. This is a note that was tipped into the only other copy I have seen:- 'It was done about 1830 by Sir Harris Nicolas and W. Pickering, and both dying in the same year was stopped, and this is all that was ever issued. Mar. 26. (18)75.' Noall (Cyril) THE ST. JUST MINING DISTRICT. Illusts, maps, 179pp, original cloth, inscription to front endpaper, very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1973. £22.00 Noall (Cyril), edited, with an introduction by Philip Payton. CORNISH MINE DISASTERS. Illusts, 194pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1989. £32.00 Normington (James), Steam Ship Agent for all parts of the World and Bant (William), Miner A MINER'S LIFE, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENTOMBMENT OF MESSRS, RULE AND BANT IN DRAKE WALLS MINE, CORNWALL. With 2 woodcut portraits, 48pp, 12mo, original cloth. Plymouth: J.H. Harris & Son, Printers, 41 Treville Street. 1889. £285.00 Owners of Land in Cornwall RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN in England and Wales 1873. CORNWALL. Folio, 34pp, disbound. 1875. £30.00 * Cornwall section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH FARMER IN AUSTRALIA. Or Australian Adventure: Cornish Colonists and the Expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian Agricultural Frontier. Illusts, diagrams, xvi + 143pp, dustwrapper, ownership name to front endpaper. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran, 1987. £18.00 * Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Penaluna (W) AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL; to which is added The Borough Boundaries, an account of The Scilly Islands, Mines and Fisheries, and a Cornish-English Vocabulary. Compiled by the Printer. With 6 folding plates, one of which is coloured, 2 volumes, 352pp and 348pp, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, occasional spotting. First edition, Helston: Printed and Published by W. Penaluna. 1838. £300.00 Pole (William) A TREATISE ON THE CORNISH PUMPING ENGINE; Part I. Historical Notice of the Application of the Steam Engine to the purpose of Draining the Mines of Cornwall, and of its improvement in that District. Part II. Description of the Cornish Pumping Engine, and its various peculiarities as contrasted with the ordinary Boulton and Watt Single-Acting Engine. Part III. Analytical Investigation of the Action of the Engine. With 10 folding plates, wood-cut illusts in the text, xii + 236pp, 4to, 3 parts bound in 1 volume, recent full calf, raised bands, morocco label on spine, few neat repairs to verso of plates where folded, couple of short tears to central fold of one plate. London: John Weale, 1844 and 1848. £480.00 * Gives a full account of the historical applications of the steam engine in draining Cornish mines, as well as descriptions and comparisons with other engines. [Polsue (Joseph)] LAKE'S A COMPLETE PAROCHIAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, Compiled from the best authorities & corrected and improved from actual survey. Numerous illustrations and pedigrees, x + 412pp and ix + 411pp and vi + 415+ (1)pp, and 352 + 167 + xpp, 4 volumes, early half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt tooled, leather labels, rubbed to edges, occasional spotting. First editions, William Lake: Truro: 1867-68-70 & 72. £260.00 Robbins (Alfred F) LAUNCESTON, PAST AND PRESENT; A Historical and Descriptive Sketch. Frontis, 3 plates, x + 450pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, inner hinges cracked and slightly weak, presentation inscription to front endpaper. First edition. Launceston: The Cornish and Devon Printing Co., 1884. £85.00 Roddis (R.J) PENRYN The History of An Ancient Cornish Borough. With 2 maps and 8 plates, 166pp, few minor marks to dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1964. £25.00 Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL VOLUME 21. (Journals Nos 69, 70, 71, 72 includes 'A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's FLORA OF CORNWALL.') Illusts, ix + 196 and xiv + 172 and xvi + pages numbered 197-340 and xv + pages numbered 341-477, 4 parts, bound in one volume, amateur plain wraps, with handwritten title on spine, spine partly split though held by cords. Truro: O. Blackford, 1922-24. £28.00 * Includes articles on Men Scrifa; The Bodmin Gospels; Troy Town; Lhud Manuscripts, etc. Sedding (Edmund H) NORMAN ARCHITECTURE IN CORNWALL. A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture. With notes on Ancient Manor Houses. With a chapter on the Old Saints of Cornwall. Illustrated by over 160 plates, folding map, xxii + 464pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original parchment-backed boards, spine slightly darkened, t.e.g., boards slightly water spotty, name and note in ink to title-page, internally clean. LARGE PAPER COPY. First edition, London: Ward and Co., 1909. £140.00 * The subscribers list accounts for only 125 copies. Simcoe (Rev. H.A), editor LIGHT FROM THE WEST; or, The Cornish Parochial Visitor. Volumes 1 and 2. Two volumes bound in 1, illustrated with occasional wood cuts, 286 + (2)pp, and 283 + (1)pp, 12mo, contemporary, unlettered, half calf, marbled boards, rubbed. Cornwall: Rev. H.A. Simcoe, Penheale - Press. 1832 and 1833. £70.00 * Issued in penny monthly numbers, most issues being 24pp. The last one mentioned by Boase & Courtney, being vol xvii, 1848. Mainly of religious interest. Stoate (T.L.), editor and publisher CORNWALL HEARTH AND POLL TAXES 1660-1664. Direct Taxation in Cornwall in the Reign of Charles II. xxiv + 309pp, small folio, original cloth, couple of corners slightly bruised. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1981. £85.00 Symons (R) GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OR GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. With a Treatise on the Geology of Cornwall (and Map) by Brenton Symonds. 2 folding maps one of which is coloured, xvi + 238 + 10pp of adverts, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, and slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, lightly rubbed to edges. Penzance: Printed by F. Rodda. 1884. £135.00 Todd (Arthur Cecil) THE CORNISH MINER IN AMERICA The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by emigrant Cornish miners - the men called Cousin Jacks. Plates, 5 maps, 279pp, dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford, Barton, Truro: 1967. £42.00 Toy (H. Spencer) A HISTORY OF EDUCATION AT LAUNCESTON. 408pp, original cloth, with a partly faded dustwrapper. Wordens, Marazion: 1966. £35.00 * Presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Warner (Rev. Richard) A TOUR THROUGH CORNWALL IN THE AUTUMN OF 1808. With an aquatint frontis, and sketch maps, iv + 363pp, early half roan, paper boards, slightly marked and rubbed to edges, narrow strip missing from head of spine, to edges, top outer hinge partly split, though sound, occasional foxing, some waterstaining to outer margins of title and prelims. Bath: Richard Cruttwell, 1809. £135.00 Willmott (James) THE BOOK OF BODMIN A Portrait of the Town. Illusts, 120pp, includes a page listing Subscribers. cr 4to, partly faded dustwrapper. Barracuda Books, Chesham: 1977. £40.00 A further selection of CORNISH Books on Main Site Back to the Top Devon [Amery (P.F.S)] ASHBURTON: In ye Good Old Times. Robert Prideaux (Attorney-at-Law), His Recollections. 39pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, staples slightly rusty. T. & A. Mortimer, Totnes: 1891. £24.00 * Signed presentation inscription by the author to Rev. S. Baring Gould on the top wrap. Axminster ECCLESIASTICA, Or A Book of Remembrance Wherein the Rise, Constitution, Rule, Order, and Discipline of the Church of Christ, ordinarily Assembling at Wyecroft, in the Parish of Axminster, is faithfully Recorded. Together with the most Remarkable Occurrences and signall Providences which have attendee the same from the first Foundation thereof. By the Order & Appointment of the Church. 131pp, 12mo, original limp cloth, slightly rubbed and with a few damp spots to top corners of boards, internally clean, inner hinges carcked. J. Townsend Printer, Exeter: (1874) £45.00 * Very Scarce. Includes 'a Catalogue of the Names of such as were Members of the Church, Actually in fellowship when it was first Agreed by them that this Church Register should be kept.... ' Besleys DIRECTORY OF EXETER and Suburbs. 1943. (116th Consecutive Year of Publication). xx + 240pp, numerous adverts, small 4to, later unlettered cloth. Exeter: Besley and Copp Ltd., 1943. £38.00 Black's BLACK'S GUIDE TO DEVONSHIRE. With Maps and Illustrations. xiv + 207 + 120 of adverts, map endpapers, original cloth slightly rubbed. Twelfth Edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. £28.00 Boggis (Rev. R.J.E.) A HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. xvi + 635pp, original cloth lightly rubbed and slightly spotty. Exeter: William Pollard, 1922. £50.00 * Loosely inserted is a typed letter, dated March 1973, signed by Margaret Reed to a Mr George requesting help with some research she was doing for her book on Pilton. Her book was published c.1977. Bradninch REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF BRADNINCH. Title + pages numbered 456-460, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. Britton (John) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHURCH OF EXETER: Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Views, Elevations, Sections, and Plan of that Edifice. Including Biographical Anecdotes of the Bishops of the See. With 22 engraved plates, 152pp, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, later calf spine, occasional light spotting. London: M.A. Nattall, 1836. £95.00 [Butcher (Edmund)] THE BEAUTIES OF SIDMOUTH DISPLAYED; Being a Descriptive Sketch of its Situation.... also an account of the Environs within 15 miles round. With a folding aquatint plate, 155pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in the original paper boards, slightly rubbed, original paper label on top board, portions chipped from head and foot of spine, top outer hinge cracked, though sound. First edition, Sidmouth: Printed for J. Wallis, at the Marine Library, 1810. £150.00 Capern (Thomas) THE MIGHTY CURATIVE POWERS OF MESMERISM, Proved in Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Cases of Various Diseases. 120pp, original cloth, partly faded, few marks to covers, lacks front endpaper, private library label to front pastedown. London: H. Bailliere, 1851. £95.00 * Concerns his account of illnesses 'cured' in Tiverton. 'William Pope, yeoman, of Tiverton, aged 50 years, was attacked about four months ago with a severe pain in his right arm.... ' 'James Gill, Tiverton, weaver, in the employ of Mr. Cosway, was afflicted with rheumatism in the left arms and shoulder for three months....' Coleridge (F.G), and others. AN ACCOUNT OF THE CHURCH OF OTTERY ST. MARY. With 8 engraved plates, 107pp, 4to, disbound, water staining affecting mainly the top margin of plates. Exeter: 1842. £75.00 * From the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. Cotton (Richard W) BARNSTAPLE AND THE NORTHERN PART OF DEVONSHIRE DURING THE GREAT CIVIL WAR 1642 - 1646. xiii + 558pp, original cloth, top board slightly creased. Printed for the Author by Unwin Brothers, 1889. £260.00 Crossing (William) FOLK RHYMES OF DEVON. Notices of the Metrical Sayings Found in the Lore of the People. 156pp, original cloth, few spots to fore-edges. First edition, James G. Commin, Exeter: 1911. £48.00 Crossing (William) GEMS IN A GRANITE SETTING: Beauties of the Lone Land of Dartmoor. Numerous illusts, 220 + 4 pages of adverts, roy 8vo, original cloth lightly rubbed, one corner slightly bruised, ownership name to front endpaper. Second Edition. Plymouth: The Western Morning News, 1905. £35.00 Crossing (William) THE ANCIENT CROSSES OF DARTMOOR; With a Description of Their Surroundings. Map and 10 plates, 132 + 4pp of adverts, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, London: C. Elkin Mathews, 1887. £85.00 Cullum (R), printer THE SPIRIT OF ELECTION WIT, AT THE CITY OF EXETER and County of Devon; together with the Burlesque Election at Ide, in the Year 1812.... 152pp, untrimmed in early paper boards, recent cloth spine, paper label to spine, paper boards slightly rubbed. Exeter: Printed by R. Cullum at the General Printing-Office, (1812) £75.00 Dartmouth REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF DARTMOUTH. (Devonshire.) Title + pages numbered 476-483, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. Devonport printing THE MILLER'S MAID. A Tale. 12pp, sm 8vo, disbound, few spots to front and rear. Devonport: Printed and sold by E. Keys, 100, James Street, c1830. £16.00 Dymond (Robert) THE CUSTOMS OF THE MANORS OF BRAUNTON. Pamphlet, one plate, 51pp, qtr roan, marbled boards, slightly chipped at head of spine. Reprinted from the Devonshire Transactions. 1888. £35.00 * Edward Windeatt, the Devon author's, copy, with his signature on front endpaper and a letter tipped-in to him from Dymond's wife, handwritten on four sides. With an 'In Memoriam' card concerning Dymond's death pasted to title-page. Dymond (Robert) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. PETROCK, EXETER, AS SHOWN BY ITS CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS AND OTHER RECORDS. Plan, 2 facsimiles, one of which is folding, plate, 99pp, interleaved with blanks on 3 of which are pasted relevant newscuttings, and 1 illust, on several of the others there are handwritten notes by the author. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. (1882).... Bound with.... PARISH OF ST. PETROCK, Exeter. Scheme confirmed by the Charity Commissioners with the Additional Rules and Regulations. Statement of Annual Income. 16pp. Exeter: William Pollard, 1872. Two items bound in one, half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, t.e.g., marbled boards. With the initials of John Trick Spalding inlaid in leather on top board, and with his bookplate to the front endpaper and with the bookplate of T.N. Brushfield to the front pastedown. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. (1882) and Exeter: William Pollard, 1872. £135.00 Eales (R), Clerk of the Peace DEVON NEW COUNTY RATE of œ943 14s 8¬d. Being One Farthing in the Pound On the Annual Value of the County. Amounting to œ905,984 12s 4¬d. As Returned by the several parishes in the county, pursuant to 55th Geo. III. Cap. 51. Settled and approved of at Epiphany Sessions, 1817, and then ordered to be printed Rd. Eales, Clerk of the Peace. 27pp, sm 4to, unbound, stitched as issued, title-page dusty, split at centre where once folded, neatly repaired to verso, lacks portion of lower corner of title and first leaf, not affecting text, last leaf dusty with a few short tears. Exeter: M. Trewman and Co. High Street. 1817. £25.00 Eddystone Lighthouse THE RE-ERECTION OF THE OLD EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. Laying the Foundation Stone on Plymouth Hoe. Visit to Plymouth of the Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh. Complimentary Banquet to the Mayor of Plymouth. 18pp, with top wrap, lacks rear wrap and spine. Reprinted from the "Western Daily Mercury", Latimer & Son., Plymouth: 1882. £20.00 [Edwards (E)] DEVONSHIRE Containing Historical, Biographical and Descriptive Notices of EXMOUTH & its Neighbourhood, including the Exe, Littleham, Withycombe Raleigh, East Budleigh, Otterton and Bicton, Sidmouth and Sidbury, Gittisham, Ottery St. Mary, Lympstone, and Topsham; with Notices of the Pedigree of the Rolle, Raleigh, and Courtney Families, &c. Contains Notices of some Picturesque and Antiquarian Excursions in the neighbourhood of the Exe Estuary, and along the adjacent coast, including Budleigh Salterton, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torquay, &c. With 2 folding views, 2 folding pedigrees, 362pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, slightly dusty, neat tape repair to head and foot of spine. First edition, Exeter: S. Drayton & Sons (1867) £120.00 Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE PARISH OF CLYST S. GEORGE, DEVON. With 2 double-page pedigrees, 13 plates, some of which are coloured, double-page colored plan, pages numbered 89-158, 4to, original printed card boards. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1865. £50.00 * Article contained in part 2, volume 1, second series of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. The volume also contains articles on Powderham Castle; Churches of Jersey; Morwenstow Church, Cornwall, etc. Everitt (Rev. William) MEMORIALS OF EXMOUTH. Large folding map, which is bound in upside down, 172pp, original cloth, new spine, top cover partly faded/discoloured. Second Edition. Exmouth: T. Freeman, 1885. £75.00 * Includes the Appendix, pages 165 - 172, which takes the history up to 1898, later than the published date on the title-page. Fortescue (Hugh, 4th Earl) A CHRONICLE OF CASTLE HILL 1454-1918. 200pp, original buckram, partly faded, lower boards spotty. Privately Printed by W.H. Smith, London: 1929. £120.00 * Castle Hill is in Filleigh in north Devon. The manor of Filleigh has been held by the Fortescues since the 15th century. A Palladian house, which is still standing, was built on the site in 1730. Presentation inscription by the author to his sister, Lucy S. Aldwyn, on the front endpaper. Gidley (John), Town Clerk NOTICES OF EXETER; COMPRISING A HISTORY OF ROYAL VISITS To the Ancient and Loyal City, from AD 49, to A.D 1863. With Some Additional Matter. 106pp, original cloth, early inscription to the top margin of the title-page. Exeter Henry Besley, (1863) £28.00 Gilbert (Mrs H.A), editor THE EARNEST CHRISTIAN: Memoir, Letters, and Journals of Harriet Maria, Wife of the Late Rev. Mark R. Jukes. Frontis, vi + 340pp, sm. 8vo, few small marks to lightly rubbed original cloth, private library label to front pastedown, few spots to front and rear, light waterstain to top margin of frontis. Sixth Edition, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, London: 1883. £42.00 * Harriet Maria was born at Newport, Devon, and lived in Canada and then Maumee, Ohio in the U.S.A. where she died. Her husband was the Rector there from 1852-1854. Gregory (Ivon L) HARTLAND CHURCH ACCOUNTS, 1597-1706. Transcribed and Edited by Ivon L. Gregory, Vicar of Hartland. A Prefatory Note by Sir Hilary Jenkinson. xx + 372pp, original cloth. First edition, From: Butler and Tanner, 1950. £32.00 Hannaford (John), printer and publisher THE HISTORY OF TOTNES, Its Neighbourhood, and Berry-Pomeroy Castle in Devonshire. Selected chiefly from the Works of ancient and modern Authors. 59pp, 12mo, original paper boards, paper label to top board, slightly rubbed to edges, lacks front endpaper. Alas someone has mistakenly put the wrong date on the half-title and on the label to the top board. Totnes: Printed and Published by John Hannaford, Bookseller, Stationer, &c. c.1825. £90.00 Harding (Lt. Col. W) THE HISTORY OF TIVERTON, in the County of Devon. With a large folding plan and a large folding map, 6 lithographic views, folding facsimile, woodcuts, 2 volumes, iv + 271 + 119 + errata and 280 + 140 + 123 + errata leaf, recent cloth. LARGE PAPER COPY. Tiverton: Published by F. Boyce, Fore Street. 1845-47. £210.00 Hewett (J.W) EARLY WOOD CARVING. TWENTY EXAMPLES SELECTED FROM THE MISERERES In the Choir of the Cathedral of S. Peter, Exeter. Printed at the Anastatic Press, Ipswich, from the original Drawings by The Rev. John William Hewett. 20 plates, 5pp of text and 2pp List of Subscribers, 4to, original cloth, cloth partly damp marked, some foxing to front and rear. Limited to 50 copies on small and 10 copies on large paper. Shoreham: Allever Butler, 1849. £45.00 Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF EDMUND STAFFORD, (A.D. 1395 - 1419); An Index and Abstract Of Its Contents. xvi + 485 + 6pp list of subscribers, original cloth, small portion missing from head of spine, short split to rear outer hinge, London: George Bell, Exeter; Henry S. Eland, 1886. £45.00 Hoare (M.C.B.) THIS JEWEL REMAINS. Illustrated record of the German Baedeker Raid on Exeter, the Cathedral Capital of the West, on May 4th, 1942. Numerous illusts., 64pp, oblong folio, original printed boards. Western Times Co., Ltd., Exeter: (1947) £32.00 Izacke (Samuel) RIGHTS AND PRIVILEDGES OF THE FREEMEN OF EXETER: Being an Account of all Legacies left to the Poor of the said City, From the Year 1164 to 1674 inclusive; Containing An Alphabetical List of the Persons Names by whom such Legacies were left; Also The Sums left by each of them; and The Uses to which they were ordered to be applied by the Donors, being in the whole 132: First printed in the Year 1736, By Samuel Izacke, Gent. From the Manuscript of his Grandfather, Richard Izacke, Esq. Clerk to the Peace for the City and County of Exeter; Interspersed with proper Remarks detecting the Misapplication of some of the said Charities: To which is now added A Copious Index, Pointing out the Situation of the Lands, the Amount of Monies, Annuities, &c. given to each Charity respectively, arranged chronologically. iv + 80pp. Exeter: Reprinted by T. Brice, 1785..... Bound with.... A Citizen of Exeter A TRANSLATION OF A CHARTER, GRANTED TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF EXETER, By King Charles the First: likewise Some Abstracts and Quotations from Charters and Grants to the City of London, Which serve an Explanation of the Part of the Charter, which directs that the Election of the Common-Council for the City of Exeter.... xii + 78pp. Exeter? 1785. Two volumes bound in 1, recent half calf, with earlier marbled boards. Exeter: Reprinted by T. Brice, at the Conduit. 1785. £155.00 [James (Dorothea)] BELSTONE; Some Account of the Parish, Past and Present. With 9 plates, map, 61pp, original wraps, partly faded, short splits to top hinge at head and foot of spine. First edition, Winchester: Warner and Son Ltd., 1911. £35.00 Jones (Mary) THE HISTORY OF CHUDLEIGH IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, and the surrounding Scenery, Seats, Families, etc. Revised and Corrected by William W. Snell. With a mounted photographic frontispiece, 182pp, original cloth, spine and boards slightly faded, rear board spotty, lacks front endpaper, early hand-written notes to rear endpaper. Second Edition. Exeter: S. Drayton, Chudleigh: G.E. Searle, 1875. £65.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 1926. Lacks map, 55 + xxviii + 1281pp, original cloth, partly faded, small hole to top outer hinge, inner hinges cracked and weak. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1926. £55.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORIES OF EXMOUTH 1972-73. Adverts, iv + A4 + 218pp, original card covers. Seventh edition, Kelly's Directories, Kingston upon Thames, 1972. £20.00 Lapford Registers, edited by A.R. Densham THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF LAPFORD Co. Devon A.D. 1567-1850. 276pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. Exeter: The Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 1954. £75.00 Newbery and Carnan A DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Devon section only. With 6 copper plate engravings, pages numbered 124-207, complete, 12mo, later paper wraps, small portion torn from top wrap, handwritten title to top wrap and spine. Printed for Newbery and Carnan, London: 1769. £22.00 [Phillpotts (Henry)] THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. SHORE. A Letter to His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury. 34pp. London: John Murray. 1849.... Bound with.... Shire (Rev. James) THE CASE OF THE REV. JAMES SHORE, M.A. By Himself; In reply to "The Case" as stated by the Bishop of Exeter, in his Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. With an appendix containing The Whole of the Correspondence. 77pp. London: Partridge and Oakey. 1849.... Bound with.... Cosens (W.B) TO THE INHABITANTS OF BERRY-POMEROY. 3pp, lacks wraps which presumably bore the title. 1852.... Shore (Rev. James) THE CASE OF THE REV. JAMES SHORE, M.A. By Himself; In reply to The Misrepresentations and Misstatements by The Rev. W.B. Cosens, Vicar of Berry Pomeroy, In a Letter to his Parishioners. 25pp. London: Partridge and Oakey. 1849.... Bound with.... Eardley (Sir Culling E) AN APPEAL TO MY FELLOW TOWNSMEN IN TORQUAY, AND THROUGH THEM TO THE PEOPLE OF DEVONSHIRE AND OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, ON BEHALF OF THE REV. JAMES SHORE, M.A., of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Minister of the Chapel of H.G. the Duke of Somerset, at Bridgetown, Totnes, now imprisoned for costs in St. Thomas's Ward, Exeter at the suit of the Registrar of the Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Exeter. 24pp. Torquay: Sold by Elliott, Cockrem, Cockrem and Wreyford. London: Partridge and Oakey. 1849.... Bound with.... Binney (Thomas) CONSCIENTIOUS CLERICAL NONCONFORMITY; with Introductory Remarks on the imputed Conduct of the Bishop of Exeter, in the cases of The Rev. J. Shore and the Rev. G.C. Gorham. 16pp. London: Jackson and Walford. 1848.... Bound with.... Ex-Episcopalian CASE OF THE REV. JAMES SHORE, in connexion with "That Crowning Feature of the Character of Antichrist," with the Silencing of the Witnesses. With Illustration by The Late Lord Dover. 16pp, title-page soiled, small 'v' shaped tear to title-page affecting one letter. Rowe, Plymouth: Lloyd, Totnes; Feaston, Tavistock: 1846.... Bound with.... Eardley (Sir C.E.) THE DIOCESE OF EXETER; Its State and its Remedies. An Address Delivered at St. Mary Church, Devon. On April 29th, 1852. With an Introductory Letter to The Earl of Ducie. 32pp. London: James Ridgway. 1852.... Bound with.... Two extracts from an unidentified journal of the case with Pages numbered 609-630 and 769-786.... Bound with.... Shore (Rev. James) THE GLORIOUS LORD THE ONLY SECURITY AND CONSOLATION TO HIS PEOPLE. A Sermon Preached at Great Malvern, by the Rev. James Shore, M.A., (Minister of Bridgetown Church, Totnes, Devon.) 8pp. c.1843.... Bound with.... THE BISHOP OF EXETER versus THOMAS LATIMER, Labourer. REPRINT, For Counsel in the Case.) of the Speech of Lord Seymour, Delivered at Totnes. And Reported in The Western Times, July 25th, 1846, in answer to a charge made against His Grace the Duke of Somerset, by the Bishop of Exeter.... 21pp. Exeter: Printed by T. Latimer, 1847.... THE REV JAMES SHORE AND THE BISHOP OF EXETER. 3pp. 1844. Eleven pamphlets, all bound together in early unlettered qtr cloth, marbled boards, slightly rubbed, occasional foxing, a small number of ink notes and underscoring. The collection was compiled by Edward Windeatt, Mayor of Totnes, and a local history author, with his name to top board, and with his name to several title-pages. Several relevant newscuttings pasted in. 1843-1859. £135.00 * Rev. James Shore attempted to secede from the church and officiate in his own chapel as a nonconformist minister. He was opposed by the Bishop of Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, was tried, and subsequently imprisoned. [Polwhele (Rev. R), and others.] ESSAYS BY A SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN, AT EXETER. With 5 engraved plates, 3 illustrating stone monuments in Drewsteignton and Widdecombe, and 1 an urn found at Haldown, 573pp + Errata, early half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges, short splits to outer hinges at head of spine. Exeter: Printed by and for Trewman and Son. Advertisement leaf dated 1796. £350.00 * A collection comprising 25 poems and essays on a variety of subjects, including "On some of the more remarkable British Monuments in Devon", "On the Valley of Stones and Country near Linton", "Genius of Danmonium. An Ode". Boase & Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, attributes 7 of the essays or poems to Polwhele, although all except 2 of these are initialled 'A.Y' or 'M.N'. Hamilton-Leggatt's 'Dartmoor Bibliography' does not list the essay on Devon/Dartmoor monuments. Somers Cox's 'Devon Topographical Prints' notes 2 of the plates, but does not mention the source. Potts (E), Widow of the late G. Potts., M.P. BARDICK, THE KING OF THE TEIGN. A Lay of South Devon. In Ten Cantos. Frontis and 3 wood engraved plates, 76pp, sm 4to, original cloth. London: Provost & Co., 1869. £40.00 Prideaux (Edith K) THE CARVINGS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN EXETER CATHEDRAL CHURCH. A Photographic Record with Notes and Additional Contemporary Examples. With 18 plates and 36pp, original cloth, top cover damp spotty, internally sound. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1915. £24.00 Pridham (W), Editor of the Plymouth, Herald THE ROYAL VISIT; Being a Full and Circumstantial Account of The Visit of Their Royal Highbesses the Duke & Duchess of Clarence to the PORT OF PLYMOUTH; Containing, Among a great variety of matter, Copies of the various Addresses presented to the Lord High Admiral, and His Royal Highnesses's most gracious Replies.... with the Speeches and names of the distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen present, &c., &c. 36pp, sm 8vo, neat repair to one margin, disbound. Plymouth: Printed and published by Edward Nettleton.... 1827. £48.00 * Not on Copac. Ravenshaw (Thomas F) A NEW LIST OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS GROWING WILD IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON. With their Habitats and Principal Stations. viii + 92pp, 12mo, original cloth, inner hinges strengthened, small amount of pencilled marginalia. First edition, London: Bosworth & Harrison. Ilfracombe: Banfield. Torquay: Croydon, 1860. £55.00 Reichel (Rev. O.J) INDEX OF PERSONAL AND PLACE NAMES in the "Hundreds of Devon". Contributed to the Transactions of the Association. 405pp, few short tears to original wraps, small portions missing from top and lower wraps, spine faded and slightly chipped to edges. Devonshire Association. Torquay: 1942. £28.00 Robartes (Lord) PLYMOUTH & WESTERN COUNTIES LIBERAL CLUB. Banquet to the Right Hon. Lord Robartes. Wednesday, March 11th, 1885. Speeches by Lord Robartes, The Hon. E.F. Leveson-Gower, M.P., Mr W.C. Borlase, M.P., and Admiral Maxse. 8pp, with top wrap, lacks spine and lower wrap. Plymouth: Reprinted from "Western Daily Mercury", 1885. £12.00 Roberts (George), editor DIARY OF WALTER YONGE, ESQ. Justice of the Peace, and M.P. for Honiton, written at Colyton and Axminster,Co. Devon from 1604 to 1628. xxxii + 124pp, original cloth, small portion of cloth missing at head of spine. London: Printed for the Camden Society. 1848. £42.00 Robinson (R.E.R) THE BLOODY ELEVENTH History of the Devonshire Regiment. Volume I: 1685-1815. Maps, plans, illusts, coloured plates, xv + 719pp, dustwrapper. The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Exeter: 1988. £30.00 Rowe (Samuel) PERAMBULATION OF THE ANCIENT AND ROYAL FOREST OF DARTMOOR and the Venville Precincts.... Third Edition, revised and Corrected by J. Brooking Rowe. Illustrated from drawings by F.J. Widgery, 4 folding maps, xvi + 516pp, original cloth, small spot to spine. Bookplate and early ink notes to front pastedown. Third edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, London: Gibbings, 1896. £75.00 Rowe (Samuel) THE PANORAMA OF PLYMOUTH: or Tourist's Guide to the Towns and Vicinity Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse. With 2 folding maps, 226 + 172pp, sm 8vo, early qtr calf boards, later spine, with leather labels, neat repairs to short splits to folds of one map. Second Edition, with Corrections and Additions. Plymouth: Rowes, (1832) £250.00 * This edition not in Brockett's Devon Union List, or on Copac. See Davidson's Bibliotheca Devoniensis page 43. With the bookplate of Dr Butter, and with his signature to front endpaper. Butter was instrumental in setting up the Plymouth Eye Dispensary, later the Plymouth Eye Infirmary, in 1821. Shapter (Thomas) THE CLIMATE OF THE SOUTH OF DEVON; and its Influence upon Health: with Short Accounts of Exeter, Torquay, Babbicombe, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Exmouth, Budleigh-Salterton, Sidmouth, &c. With a coloured geological map, and two other maps, xiv + 282pp + 32 pages of publishers catalogue, original cloth, short narrow damp stain to fore-edge of top board. Second edition, London: John Churchill, 1862. £65.00 Snell (F.J) PALMERSTON'S BOROUGH A Budget of Electioneering Anecdotes, Jokes, Squibs, and Speeches. Mounted portrait photo to title, 141pp, original cloth, gilt lettered to top board, cloth slightly rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, Tiverton War Memorial Library label to front endpaper, some spotting mainly to prelims. Printed & Published by Gregory, Son & Tozer, Tiverton, Devon: (1894) £38.00 Snell (Lawrence S) THE CHANTRY CERTIFICATES FOR DEVON AND THE CITY OF EXETER. Documents Towards a History of the Reformation in Devon. Frontis., 98pp, original cloth. Exeter: James Townsend and Sons, (1960) £22.00 Spanish Armada ARMADA TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATION E.R. 1588 - 1888 V.R. Official Programme of the Inauguration of the National Memorial on Plymouth Hoe. July 14th 1888. Illusts, adverts, 30pp, original printed wrap, lacks spine. White Stevens, Printer, Plymouth: 1888. £20.00 Sprake (C.J.G) THE GATES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF EXETER. With 15 engraved plates, 8pp, early half calf, marbled boards, spine and edges rubbed, some spotting mainly to margins. Exeter: Engraved, Printed, and Published by C.J.G. Sprake, 1832. £60.00 * Sprake originally intended that 21 plates would be produced for this work, but only the 15 in this copy were issued. Tipped in at the rear is the 3 page original printed prospectus listing the proposed 21 plates, and listing 31 subscribers and with a further 6 names added in manuscript. Stabb (John) DEVON CHURCH ANTIQUITES. Being a Description of many objects in the old parish churches of Devon. Illusts., xii + 152pp, original cloth. Volume 1 (all published) London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1909. £26.00 * Loosely inserted is a 3 page hand-written letter by the author. Stoate (T.L), editor DEVON HEARTH TAX RETURN LADY DAY 1674. xvi + 258pp, small folio, original cloth. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1982. £75.00 Taylor (P.T) AN ACCOUNT OF SOME DISCOVERIES MADE IN TAKING DOWN THE OLD BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER TEIGN, and in excavating the ground to the depth of fifteen feet five inches below the surface of the water. 4 engraved plates 3 of which are folding, pages numbered 308-313, article contained in Archaeologia Vol XIX. 4to, untrimmed in the original paper wraps, portions chipped from spine. London: Society of Antiquaries, 1821. £30.00 Tiverton Charters CURSORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARTERS GRANTED TO THE INHABITANTS OF TIVERTON, in the County of Devon.... With Four Short Prefatory Letters: I. To His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. II. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Harrowby, Lord President of His Majesty's Council, Lord High Stewart of Tiverton, Capital Burgess of Tiverton, &c. &c. III. To Sir Henry Carew, Bart, Lord of the Manor of Tiverton. IV. To the Inhabitant Householders of Tiverton. By a Friend to Local Jurisdiction. 192pp. Tiverton: Printed and Sold by T. Parkhouse.... 1823.... Bound with.... A LETTER ADDRESSED TO JOHN GOVETT, JUN. ESQ. MAYOR OF TIVERTON. By a Friend to Local Jurisdiction. To which is subjoined. Proposals for Establishing A Society For the Purpose of Investigating and belonging to Judicial Determination The Right of the Inhabitant Householders of Borough Towns to be Burgesses. And in that Character to Return Members to Parliament. 20pp. Tiverton: Printed and Sold by T. Parkhouse. (1824). 2 items bound in 1 volume, contemporary, half calf, marbled boards, lightly rubbed to edges, back outer hinge slightly cracked, manuscript titled label on top board, occasional foxing. Tiverton: Printed and Sold by T. Parkhouse.... 1823 and (1824) £125.00 * The second item not found in either Davidson's Bibliotheca Devoniensis, or Brockett's Devon Union List. Tor (A.D) AUTUMN AND OTHER MANOEUVRES ON DARTMOOR. 79pp, original printed wraps, lacks spine. London: Houlston and Sons, and Plymouth: W. Brendon an Son, 1873. £25.00 * Tor is almost certainly a pseudonym. The Dartmoor bibliography, and Copac offer no suggestion as to who the author was. [Tracy (John)] A SHORT MEMOIR CRITICALLY ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORIES OF THE NOBLE FAMILIES OF TRACY, AND COURTNEY, Exhibiting Likewise, The Ancient Usage, or Variation, of Coat Armour; in that of Tracy. With a folding table, and a vignette title, 63pp, untrimmed in recent marbled boards, paper label, short split to one fold of the table. Canterbury, printed 1796. £95.00 * Not in Brockett's Devon Union List. Tugwell (Rev. George), editor THE NORTH DEVON HAND - BOOK: Being a Guide to the Topography and Archaeology, and an Introduction to the Natural History of the District. With 2 folding maps one of which is contained in a pocket at the rear, an actual photo frontis which has been pasted down, and with 12 steel vignette engraved plates, xiii + 422pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, decorative gilt view on top board, covers very slightly rubbed, spine slightly dull, couple of small marks to rear board. Name in ink in a contemporary hand to endpapers. Fourth Edition. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Ilfracombe: W. Stewart, "Gazette and Arrival List." Preface dated 1877. £75.00 Tymms (Samuel) DEVONSHIRE. Section extracted from 'Camden's Britannia Epitomized and Continued.' Engraved map, pages numbered 43-91, sm 8vo, recent paper boards, paper label on spine. London: Nichols and Son, (1832) £24.00 Vivian (Lt.-Col. J.L) VISITATIONS OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, and 1620, with Additions. iv + 899pp, 4to, contemporary half morocco, cloth boards, spine rubbed and rubbed to edges, leather label on spine, split to label on spine, recent endpapers, short splits to head and foot of rear outer hinge. For the Author by H.S. Eland, Exeter: (1895) £560.00 Vowell (John) THE ANTIQUE DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF EXETER: In Three Parts. Part I. Containing the Ancient History.... Part II. Containing a large and curious Account of the Antiquity, Foundation, and Building, of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter.... Part III. Contains the Offices and Duties (as of Old) of those particular Sworn Officers, &c. of the City.... All written by John Vowell, alias Hoker, Gent. Chamberlain, and Representative in Parliament of the same. (2) + ii + (4) + 192pp, sm 4to, recent half calf, marbled boards, title slightly spotty otherwise a clean copy. Exon: Now first printed together by Andrew Brice, in Northgate-street. 1765. £165.00 Vowell (John), alias Hoker AN ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGES OF EXETER. The Foundation of the Cathedral Church and the Disputes Between the Cathedral and the City Authorities. by John Vowell alias Hoker. From the Manuscript in the Exeter Muniment Room. Transcribed and Annotated by Walter J. Harte. Coloured folding frontis, coloured folding plan, textual illusts, original cloth. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1911. £70.00 * Listed under 'Hooker' in Brockett's Devon Union List. White (William) HISTORY, GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DEVONSHIRE, and the City and County of the City of Exeter.... with separate Historical, Statistical, & Topographical descriptions of all the Boroughs, Towns, Ports, Bathing Places.... 804pp, without map as usual, original full calf, blind stamped, covers rubbed to edges, short split to top outer hinge. Printed for the Author. Sheffield: 1850. £110.00 Wills (Samuel) SOUTH DEVON SONGS AND SONNETS, And Others. x + 186 + 6pp, 12mo, original cloth. Dartmouth: "Chronicle" Machine Printing Works, 1882. £30.00 Worth (R.N) HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF DEVONPORT, Sometime Plymouth Dock. iv + [ii] + 100 + 6pp adverts, sm 8vo, original bevelled cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges. Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1870. £85.00 * Very Scarce. Worthy (Charles) THE HISTORY OF THE SUBURBS OF EXETER With general particulars of the Landowners, Lay and Clerical, from the Conquest to the present time, and a special notice of the Hamlyn Family. Together with "A Digression" on the Noble Houses of Redvers, and of Courtenay, Earls of Devon. viii + 210pp, early half calf, cloth boards. London: Henry Gray, Exeter: S. Drayton, Plymouth: W.B. Westcott, 1892. £60.00 * With the bookplate of John Tricks Spalding. Wright (W.H.K) DUPREZ'S VISITORS' GUIDE TO MOUNT EDGCUMBE. With 7 actual photographs pasted onto 6 blank sheets, 46pp, disbound, occasional foxing, affecting a few leaves and margins of sheets where photos pasted. Plymouth: Cove Brothers, 1871. £60.00 * Not in Gernsheim's Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875. Wright (W.H.K) SPANISH ARMADA. A Descriptive Historical Poem, In Commemoration of the Opening of the New Guildhall, Plymouth by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, K.G., &c., &c., August 13th, 1874. 32pp, 12mo, original limp cloth. Plymouth: G.P. Friend, 1874. £35.00 * With the bookplate of John Davies Enys. A further selection of DEVON Books on Main Site Back to the Top Dorset Barnes (William) A GLOSSARY OF THE DORSET DIALECT with a Grammar. vii + (i) + 124 + (1)pp, 103pp, 12mo, original card covers. First published 1886. Second Edition. Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1970. £20.00 Brown (H. Rowland) THE BEAUTIES OF LYME REGIS, CHARMOUTH, THE LAND-SLIP &c. 154 + 10 pages of local adverts, sm 8vo, original printed card covers, portions chipped from spine, covers dusty and slightly chipped, hinges partly split. Second Edition, Enlarged and Revised, London: Longman, Brown.... Lyme Regis: F. Dunster, (1860) £45.00 Bysshe (Sir Edward), transcribed and edited by G.D. Squibb. THE VISITATION OF DORSET 1677. Made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knight, Clarenceux King of Arms. xii + 124 + (19)pp, original cloth. Harleian Society, London, 1977. £28.00 Commins (J) COMMINS'S IMPROVED WEYMOUTH GUIDE. 96pp, sm 8vo, original printed card covers, very slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. Weymouth: Printed and Published by J. Commin, (1836) £85.00 * Not on Copac. A note on the top cover indicates that this edition was sold for One Shilling and there was another edition with an engraved frontis which sold for One Shilling and Sixpence. This is the One Shilling edition. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by Nelson M. Richardson PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB. Volume 20. Illusts, lxxiv + 187pp, original cloth. With the separately issued 4 page, foxed, Index loosely inserted. "Dorset County Chronicle", Dorchester: 1899. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- Athelhampton Hall; Powerstock Church and Castle; Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Dorset; Woodsford Castle; etc., etc. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by J.M.J. Fletcher PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From January 1st to December 31st, 1929. Volume 51. With illusts, cii + 279pp, original cloth. F.G. Longman, Dorchester: 1930. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- List of Coleoptera of Dorset; Chettle Down Earthwork; Effigies in Horton Church; Roman Coins from Jordan Hill, Weymouth, etc., etc. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by E.C. Chancellor PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From January 1st to December 31st, 1932. Volume 54. With illusts, lxxvi + 284pp, original cloth. Dorchester: F.G. Longman. 1933. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- Excavations at Jordan and Preston; Dorset Men in London at end of 17th Century; Haworthy Helmet, etc., etc. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by E.C. Chancellor PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From January 1st to December 31st, 1932. Volume 54. With illusts, lxxvii + 260pp, original cloth. Dorchester: F.G. Longman. 1933. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- Bindon Abbey Charter; Excavations at Jordan Hill and Preston; Birds in Dorset; Lady St. Mary Church, Wareham, etc., etc. Legg (Rodney) PURBECK'S HEATH Claypits, nature and the oilfield. Illusts, diagrams, maps, 143pp, pictorial card covers. Dorset Publishing Company, Sherborne: 1987. £22.00 Mansel-Pleydell (J.C) THE MOLLUSCA OF DORSETSHIRE. (Marine, Estuarine, Freshwater, and Land.) and The Brachiopoda. Folding map, xxxii + 110pp, original cloth, few spots to rear board, short tear to map. Dorchester: "Dorchester County Chronicle", 1898. £45.00 * Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper. McQueen (Ian) BOURNEMOUTH ST. PETER'S Illusts, 290pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Sherborne: 1971. £12.00 Moore (Joseph), printed for THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF POOLE; Compiled from Hutchin's History of the County of Dorset; With a Chronological List of Mayors from the Year 1490 to the Present Time. To which is added A Supplement, containing Several Curious and Interesting Particulars; with Many Additions and Corrections, By the Editor. 86pp, lacks errata leaf, recent marbled wraps, with label on top cover. Second edition. Printed for Joseph Moore, Bookseller, Poole. 1788. £155.00 * This edition was published in the same year as the first. Pinnock (W) THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, With Biographical Sketches, &c. With a folding map, vignette title-page, 68pp, sm 8vo, disbound, some spotting, map is off-set, and slightly ragged with a few small holes mainly at fold. London: G. and W.B. Whitaker, c.1825. £25.00 Rylands (John Paul), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, By Henry St. George and Sampson Lennard, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden. With 9 plates, vi + (i) + 115pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. London: Harleian Society. 1885. £78.00 Tarrant Hinton THE REGISTERS OF TARRANT HINTON, Dorset. 1545 - 1812. 75pp, qtr morocco, cloth boards in a library style binding, spine slightly faded. Privately Printed for the Parish Register Society. London: 1902. £38.00 Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Election REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE on the Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Election Petition: Together with the Special Report from the said Committee; And also The Report from the Committee who were appointed to inspect the said Special Report. Folio, 56pp, uncut, original printed wraps, spine chipped. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1 March 1813. £55.00 A further selection of DORSET Books on Main Site Back to the Top Gloucestershire Adlard (Eleanor), With an introduction by H.J Massingham. WINCHCOMBE CAVALCADE or Sidelights on Winchcombe History. Plates and textual illusts, map endpapers, [x] + 123pp, sm 8vo, dustwrapper. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. (1939) £25.00 * Loosely inserted is a signed handwritten letter by the author. Barlow (Jill), editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTER OF APPRENTICES OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1595 - 1700. With 12 tables and 2 plates, xxxii + 343pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 14. 2001. £32.00 Bathurst (Rev. William Hilley) ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT LYDNEY PARK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Being a Posthumous Work of the Rev. William Hiley Bathurst, M.A. With Notes by C.W. King. With 31 plates, a few in colour, vii + 127pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. London: Longmans, Green, 1879. £175.00 --- See sample text Berkeley (Hon. G.F) MY LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS. With 2 engraved portrait frontis., 4 volumes, xi + 383 and xi + 358 and and x + 358 and xi + 361, early marbled boards, with recent half cloth, paper labels on spines, they all lack the front endpaper, library label to front pastedown and half-title, 3 volumes with stamp to title-pages, occasional spotting. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865 and 1866. £68.00 * It is stated as being in 2 volumes on the title-pages of the first 2 volumes, however it was not complete until a further 2 volumes were published in 1866. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Rev. C.S. Taylor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1899. Volume 22. Illusts, 327pp, contemporary half morocco, raised bands, cloth boards, marbled endpapers, covers slightly rubbed to edges. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1898. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Richard Earl of Cornwall; Chavenage House and the Stephens Family; Heraldry of Different Churches Visited by the .... Society During their Visit to Fairford; Cistercian Monastery of St. Mary's Kingswood, etc., etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1923. Volume 45. Illusts, 324 + 21pp, later cloth, some foxing mainly to prelims. Kendal: Printed for the Society by Titus Wilson, 1923. £22.00 * Includes articles on:- Church and Rectory of Buckland; Bromesberrow; Tobacco Pipes of Bristol; Excavations at Sea Mills; Stonehouse, King's Stanley, Woodchester, and Archards; "Chapel Haye", Churchdown, etc., etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1936. Volume 59. Illusts, folding maps, v + 369 + 23pp, original wraps, light stain to foot of spine, internally sound. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1938. £16.00 * Includes articles:- Gloucestershire in the Pipe Rolls; Ancient Woodland in Gloucestershire; Wick Rissington; George Whitefield's Ancestry; Earthworks at Rodborough; Burnett in Somerset, etc., etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Joan Evans TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1950. Volume 69. Illusts, 2 folding plates, 227pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1950. £12.00 * Includes articles on:- Excavations at King's Weston; Wortley; St. Mary, Dymock; Ivy Lodge Round Cairn, Woodchester, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1956 AND FOR 1957. Volumes 75 and 76. Two volumes bound in one, illusts, 232 and 205pp, recent cloth, leather label on spine, small amount of light foxing. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1958. £16.00 * Includes articles on:- Prestbury Moat; Prisoners of War in Stapleton Jail; Ralph Bigland and His Family; Kingswood Abbey; Sir John Cheyne of Beckford, etc.; Akeman Street, Gloucestershire; Brimpsfield Giffards; Temple Street, Sugar House, Bristol, etc. Counsel (G.W) THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.... The Origin and Present State of the Port of Gloucester; The Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, And an Account of the Duties payable thereon, &c. x + 252pp, 12mo, original cloth, approx 1" stain to spine, couple of short splits to rear outer hinge, head of spine chipped, light spotting to front and rear. Printed for and by J. Bulgin, Gloucester: 1829. £55.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Percival Scrope Marling to front pastedown, and with his signature and address, Stanley Park, to verso of title-page. With 'Thos. Phillipps, Kings Pyon, Febry. 1830' in ink to front endpaper. Crawford (O.G.S) THE LONG BARROWS OF THE COTSWOLDS. A description of Long Barrows, Stone Circles and other Megalithic Remains in the area covered by sheet 8 of the quarter inch Ordnance Survey comprising the Cotswolds and Welsh Marches. Photographic and other plates, illusts., diagrams etc. folding map in pocket at rear, xv + 246pp, super roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, light spotting to prelims. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1925. £185.00 Crawley-Boevey (Arthur W) THE 'PERVERSE WIDOW' BEING PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF CATHERINE WIFE OF WILLIAM BOEVEY ESQ. of Flaxley Abbey in the County of Glos. With Genealogical Notes on that Family and others connected therewith. Photographic & other plates, xvi + 365pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed, hand written letter from the author pasted to the front endpaper. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. £200.00 Dobell (C.M) MEMOIRS OF OLD CHARLTON KINGS. A Series of Short Papers Written For the Charlton Kings Parish Magazine. Original printed boards, 57pp. Norman, Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1898. £30.00 Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE PREBENDAL CHURCH OF S. MARY BITTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 12 plates, illusts in the text, 76pp, 4to, original printed card covers, covers slightly dusty, rear cover loose. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1878. £40.00 * Article in part 1, volume 4 of the Transactions of the Exeter Architectural Society. Fisk (Dorothy) DR. JENNER OF BERKELEY. Plates, vii + 288pp, original cloth, edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. First edition, London: Heinemann, 1959. £16.00 * Loosely inserted is a folded pamphlet by E. Ashworth Underwood and A.M.G. Campbell. Edward Jenner The Man and his Work. Jenner Trust, c196- Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 8. vi + (i) + 161pp, original buckram, slightly rubbed to edges. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1902. £60.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Painswick, Kingscote and Cam. Hall (Linda J) THE RURAL HOUSES OF NORTH AVON AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1400-1720. Illusts, diagrams, xix + 316pp, small folio, original card covers, with 4pp 'Addenda' loosely inserted. City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1983. £65.00 Harris (W.L) FILTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Some account of the village and parish. Illusts, double-page map, 318pp, dustwrapper. W.L. and L.N. Harris, Bristol: 1981. £20.00 Hodsdon (James), compiled by AN HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF CHELTENHAM. With 3 folding reproduction plans of Cheltenham by Cossens, Merrett, and Norman, Sawyer and Co., in pocket at rear, xiv + 208pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9. 1997. £42.00 Hughes (Robert) COBBERLEY HALL A Gloucester Tale of the Fourteenth Century. Frontis, and 1 other plate, viii + 91pp, untrimmed in the original unlettered paper boards, spine chipped to edges, top outer hinges partly broken, plates slightly spotty. Printed by S.V. Griffith and Co. Cheltenham: 1824. £75.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Fredrick Sessions, Monkleighton, Gloucester. James (W.E) THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT: A Brief History of its Rise and Progress. Published to mark the centenary of the Sunday School at St. Mary's Hall, Gloucester, 1910. Plate, 44pp, 12mo, original cloth. Gloucester: Wellington and Co., 1910. £30.00 * Mainly relates to Gloucester. Lindsay (Harry) METHODIST IDYLLS. 395 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth pictorial cloth, very slightly rubbed to corners. Third edition, London: James Bowden, 1898. £18.00 * Short fiction stories of Methodist chaple life in Gloucestershire with a smattering of local dialect. Litzenberger (C.J), editor TEWKESBURY CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNT, 1563 - 1624. xix + 163pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 7. 1994. £25.00 North (W), printer, publisher NOTES ON "OLD TEWKESBURY" Past and Present; With Comprehensive History and Description of Tewkesbury Abbey Church.... Interesting Account of THE BATTLE OF TEWKESBURY, Holme Castle, and several Places of Interest near Tewkesbury. With Map of the District, Plan of Tewkesbury and Thirteen Full-Page Views. 16 + 88 + 96 + 55pp, 12mo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. Printed and Published by W. North. Tewkesbury: c.190- £40.00 * This work varies from No 11309 in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection. It appears to be a later and enlarged re-issue. Phillimore (Wm. P.W) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW, Anciently of Kingscote, Uley and Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire. With a folding pedigree and 12 plates, viii + 45pp, 4to, original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges. LIMITED TO 75 NUMBERED COPIES INITIALLED BY PHILLIMORE. Printed for Private Circulation and issued by Phillimore & Co. 1901. £130.00 Sawyer (John) CHELTENHAM PARISH CHURCH Its Architecture and Its History. Illusts, 124 + (ii)pp, original qtr cloth, couple of corners slightly bruised. LARGE PAPER COPY. Norman Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1903. £20.00 Spence (Rose) FRAMPTON ON SEVERN. Portrait of a Victorian Village. Map endpapers, frontis and 63 illusts, x + 150pp, dustwrapper. Chichester: Phillimore, 2000. £18.00 Sturge Gretton (M) A CORNER OF THE COTSWOLDS. Through the Nineteenth Century. With Twelve Illustrations. ix + 289pp, original cloth, front inner hinge tender. First edition, 1914. £16.00 * 'The country I write of.... in the main it is the tableland between the Coln and the Evenlode.... ' Taylor (Charles S) AN ANALYSIS OF THE DOMESDAY SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 348pp, early half morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges. Published for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol: 1889. £45.00 Whitefield (George) A CONTINUATION OF THE REVEREND WHITEFIELD'S JOURNAL, During the Time he was detained in England by the Embargo. iv + 40pp, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board, portion torn from top margin of title-page, removing the letter 'A', remargined with later paper and portions of 'TION' supplied in manuscript, title-page and last leaf slightly dusty, title-page very slightly ragged to edges, and the imprint slightly rubbed. First edition, London: Printed by W. Strahan, and sold by James Hutton at the Bible and Sun, without Temple-Bar, 1739. £240.00 * This work details Whitefields preaching in Gloucestershire and Bristol. After the embargo he headed for America where he spent much time in preaching and where he founded the Bethesda Orphanage. Whitefield was also a slave owner and had slaves working at the orphanage and on his 'Providence' plantation in Georgia. Slavery was abolished in Georgia in the early 18th century, but Whitefield campaigned successfully for it's reinstatement which took place in 1751. Willyams (Cooper) THE HISTORY OF SUDELEY CASTLE IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE With an aquatint frontis, (12)pp, large folio, in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, with a new spine and printed label, lightly rubbed to edges of boards, early note and with a couple of words underlined to one page. London for J. Robson, 1791. £485.00 * Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, volume 2, page 327. Woods (M.K) NEWNHAM ON SEVERN. A Retrospect. With 10 plates, xiv + (i) + 174pp, couple of short tear to slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Second edition. Albert B. Smith (Printers), Longsmith Street, Gloucester: 1962. £20.00 Worth (R.N) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Hill, Vale and Forest. With folding map, plan, 127 + 32pp (adverts), 12mo, original cloth. First Edition, London: Edward Stamford, 1888. £18.00 Wye (Acton) DR. W.G. GRACE. Frontis, 90 + 6pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, lettering on spine feint. Bijou Biographies - No VI. 1901. £22.00 A further selection of GLOUCESTERSHIRE Books on Main Site Back to the Top Somerset Acland (A.H.D.), editor MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR THOMAS DYKE ACLAND. With 16 illustrations, 409pp, original cloth, leather label on spine slightly rubbed and with small hole affecting one word. Tipped in is a compliments slip from Sir C.T.D. Acland and Rt. Hon. A.H.D. Acland. Printed for Private Circulation, London: Chiswick Press, 1902. £85.00 Ashbrittle ASHBRITTLE AT THE MILLENNIUM Researched, written, photographed, edited and designed by people from the parish of Ashbrittle with help from some close neighbours. Illusts, map endpapers, 170pp, oblong 8vo, paperback. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. Ashbrittle Arts, 2000. £10.00 * A history of the manor of Ashbrittle, in Somerset, with photographs, comments and snippets by many of its residents. Balch (H.E) MENDIP The Great Cave of Wookey Hole. With plates and illusts, vii + 108pp. Third edition, Bristol: John Wright, 1947..... Bound with.... MENDIP - Cheddar, its Gorge and Caves. With plates and illusts, vii + 102pp. Second edition, Bristol: John Wright, 1947..... Bound with.... MENDIP, Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. With plates and illusts, [vi] + 156pp. Second edition, Bristol: John Wright, 1948. 3 volumes bound in one, original cloth. Bristol: John Wright, 1947-48. £30.00 Barraclough (Marian) A HISTORY OF YATTON. Folding map, plans, illusts, 105 + xipp, 4to, pictorial card covers. Yatton Local History Society, 1982. £17.00 Bates (Rev. E.H.), editor QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Vol. I. James I. 1607-1625. lii + 386pp, original cloth, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to half-title, and their label to front pastedown. Somerset Record Society Volume 23. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1907. £50.00 Boys, editor THE BATH BUDGET. Edited by Boys. No 1 to No 5, (ii) + 36pp, continuously paginated, few local adverts, disbound, circular stain to title-page. Office: Stall Street, Bath: January 1857 - May 1857. £22.00 * Not found in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis. Includes a biographical sketch of Ralph Allen, but most of the articles are the usual adventure stories including 'Singular Adventures with a Lion.' [Bunn (Thomas)] ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES RESPECTING FROME SELWOOD, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, transmitted by the Editors of the Imperial Cyclopedia, In London, and of the Imperial Gazetteer, In Glasgow. 38pp, disbound, ex-lib. with a stamp to verso of title-page and a couple to lower margins, prelims slightly spotty. Frome: Printed by W.P. Penny, 1851. £45.00 * A detailed description of the town including its institutions, and industries. Bush (Robin) A TAUNTON DIARY 1787 - 1987. Two centuries of gossip, scandal, success and calamity in darkest Somerset. Numerous illusts, 144pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic cover. Numbered Limited Edition. With 2 page 'Subscribers List'. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1988. £28.00 * Signed by the author on the title-page. Chadwyck Healey (Charles E.H) HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare. Maps, folding pedigrees, illustrations some of which are coloured, ix + 557pp, untrimmed in recent half calf, raised bands, leather label, cloth boards, few small marks to covers, tape repair to short split of one map, pencil note to one margin, few spots to half-title. Tipped in at page 152 are 11 photo-copied pages on the Worth Family from 'Devonshire Wills by Worthy', tipped in at page 104 are 8 photo-copied pages on the Coplestone family from the 'Visitation of Cornwall'. LIMITED TO 380 NUMBERED COPIES. 350 of which are for sale. London, Henry Sotheran, 1901. £200.00 --- See sample text Chapman (Henry), printer NEW HANDBOOK TO CLEVEDON and the Neighbourhood. With a folding map, 3 engraved plates, 180 + 36 (adverts)pp, original printed paper boards, partly faded, spine slightly chipped, lower portion of corner of paper on top board missing. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Clevedon: Henry Chapman, c.1870. £45.00 * Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis gives a date of 1868, however it mentions the newly erected pier which was constructed in 1869. Compton (Theodore) WINSCOMBE SKETCHES of Rural Life and Scenery amongst the Mendip Hills. vi + 207pp, original cloth gilt. Second Edition Enlarged. William Poole, London: Preface dated 1882. £45.00 Daniel (W.E), editor THE PARISH REGISTER OF HORSINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 1558 - 1836. 217pp, complete but unbound. Frome-Selwood: Edward Green, 1907. £45.00 Date (James), photographer THE HAND-BOOK OF WATCHET and its Neighbourhood. Including a Geological Description of the Quantock and Brendon Hills, Sea Coast, &c. by D. Mackintock, F.G.S. 52pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, name in ink to top wrap. Watchet: A.K. Baldwin. Preface dated 1867. £90.00 * Rare. Not on Copac, or in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis. Dobbie (B.M. Willmott) AN ENGLISH RURAL COMMUNITY: Batheaston with S. Catherine. Illusts, 2 folding maps, roy 8vo, 170pp, dustwrapper partly torn and creased, name on front endpaper. Bath University Press: 1969. £20.00 Dobson (Dina Portway) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOMERSET. With 7 maps and 58 illustrations. xiv + 272pp, original cloth slightly rubbed, to edges and few letters of title on spine, with a 2" split to top outer hinge. First edition, Methuen & Co., 1931. £10.00 Duck (John N) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PORTISHEAD: Comprising A Guide to the Locality, with An Appendix, Containing An Ornithological, Entomological, and Botanical Catalogue of the Neighbourhood. With 3 engraved views, the folding map is loose in facsimile, 65pp, 12mo, original printed card covers, covers slightly rubbed. Bristol: Evans and Abbot, 29 Clare-Street. 1852. £150.00 * This is an unusual edition it is lettered on the top cover:- 'Hand Book to Portishead; with illustrations and a list of Birds, Lepidoptera, Insects, and Plants, found in the Locality. Bristol: Evans and Abbot, 29 Clare-Street. 1853.' Little is known about John Duck, he joined the Bristol Naturalists' Society in 1845, and gave talks at their meetings. Dwelly (E) DWELLY'S NATIONAL RECORDS VOL 1. Hearth Tax for Somerset 1664-5. With Indices. Copied from the Original Rolls in the Public Record Office by R. Holworthy, F.S.G. 239 + (1)p, original cloth. Originally published 1916, Reproduced by Harry Galloway Publishing, Worle, Weston-super-Mare, 1994. £35.00 Dymond (Charles William) WORLEBURY, an Ancient Stronghold in the County of Somerset, plates and plans. A New Edition. Revised and Partly Re-Written with Additions. With 11 plates, 2 of which are folding, viii + 124pp, untrimmed in the original cloth. LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES. Bristol: W. Crofton, Hemmons, 1902. £85.00 Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE CHURCH BELLS OF SOMERSET. With 14 plates, pages numbered 85-188, 4to, original printed card covers, covers partly faded. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1875. £110.00 * Article in Volume III, Part I. New Series of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. Farbrother (John E) SHEPTON MALLET: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive, and Natural. With 9 lithographic plates, 195pp, original cloth, 2 early ownership names on front pastedown, one dated 1863 scored through. First edition. Shepton Mallet: Albert Byrt, London: G.A. Bartlett, (1859) £75.00 Fussell (L.W) VIA OLD ENGLAND. With 19 illusts, 96pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, few small spots to cloth. First edition, XX Century Pilgrimage to Wellow, Somerset, L.W. Fussell, (1946) £16.00 * Concerns Wellow and includes a list of the vicars from 1312. Green (Emanuel) PEDES FINIUM. Commonly Called Feet of Fines For the County of Somerset. (Fourth Series) Henry IV to Henry VI. xix + 249pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 22. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1906. £48.00 Green (Emanuel) THE SIEGE OF DUNSTER CASTLE, 1645-6. Bye-Paths of Bath and Somersetshire History, Number One. 15pp, original wraps, spine slightly chipped. George Gregory, Bath: 1905. £16.00 Greswell (Rev. William H.P) DUMNONIA AND THE VALLEY OF THE PARRET. A Historical Retrospect. With 5 maps, one of which is folding, 8 plates, xx + 234pp, few small spots to lightly rubbed original cloth. First edition, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1922. £60.00 --- See sample text Hancock (F) MINEHEAD. In the County of Somerset. A History of the Parish, the Manor and the Port. Illusts and folding maps and plans, xiv + 468pp, finely bound in half calf, cloth boards, raised bands spine gilt tooled, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, slight foxing to prelims, few leaves at rear and fore-edges. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES. Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton: 1903. £250.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Charles E.H. Chadwyck Healey. Loosely inserted is a hand-written letter from the author. Harbin (S.W.B) MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 3 plates of Arms, 203pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, couple of neat repairs to verso of top wrap. Taunton: Published for the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society. 1939. £30.00 Hobhouse (Right Rev. Bishop) CHURCH-WARDENS' ACCOUNTS of Croscombe, Pilton, Yatton, Tintinhull, Morebath, and St. Michael's Bath. Ranging from A.D. 1349 to 1560. xxvi + 277pp, recased with new endpapers, with the original, slightly faded spine laid down, withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to title-page, and contents leaf. Printed for Subscribers, by the Somerset Record Society. Volume 4. 1890. £50.00 Hugo (Thomas) HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL OF S. MARGARET, TAUNTON. With 2 plates, xx + 40pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. Limited to 50 copies. J.R. Smith, London: F. May, Taunton: 1860. £40.00 Hylton (Lord) NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF KILMERSDON. In the County of Somerset. Compiled from MSS and other sources. Illusts, folding map and pedigrees, viii + 298pp, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing. First edition, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press. 1910. £95.00 Jennings (James) THE DIALECT OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Particularly Somersetshire; With a Glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect. Second Edition, The Whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged, With Two Dissertations on the Anglo-Saxon Pronouns and other Pieces by James Knight Jennings. xxiv + 167pp, 12mo, original cloth, recent endpapers. Second Edition, London : John Russell Smith. 1869. £60.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE 1927. Lacks map, 28 (adverts) + xx + 829pp, original cloth. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1927. £85.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BATH 1969-70. (Incorporating The Post Office Bath Directory). Lacks plan as usual, 688pp, original paper covers, slightly rubbed and soiled, paper browned to edges as usual. Twenty-sixth edition, Kelly's Directories, Kingston upon Thames: 1969. £30.00 Kemp (B.R), and Shorrocks (D.M.M), editor MEDIEVAL DEEDS OF BATH AND DISTRICT. I. Deeds of St. John's Hospital, Bath. Edited by B.R. Kemp. II. Walker-Heneage Deeds. Edited by D.M.M. Shorrocks. x + 240pp, original cloth, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to front endpaper. Somerset Records Society. Volume 73. 1974. £18.00 Knight (Francis A) A CORNER OF ARCADY. With illusts by the author and friends, xi + 278pp, untrimmed in the original decorative cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges, early ownership name to front endpaper. London: J.M. Dent, 1904. £22.00 * Set mainly in Wintrath, the house and gardens that Knight built, in Shipham. [Lainson (A.E)] THE WILD FLOWERS OF CLEVEDON. By A.E.L. 67pp, original cloth gilt, spine faded. Clevedon: George James Caple, 1877. £65.00 Landon (L), editor SOMERSETSHIRE PLEAS from the Rolls of the Itinerant Justices (for the 8th Year of the Reign of Edward I) Vol IV, Part I (Civil Pleas). x + 415pp, original cloth, spine almost loose. Somerset Record Society Volume 44. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1929. £35.00 Leach (Peter), and others ILCHESTER Volume 1. Excavations 1974-5. Numerous diagrams and plans, 290pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Western Archaeological Trust, 1982. £18.00 Lehane (Brendan) C. AND J. CLARK 1825-1975. Coloured map, illusts, some of which are coloured, 52pp, 4to, original printed wraps, presentation card taped to verso of top cover. Second edition, C. & J. Clark, Street: 1975. £12.00 Lewis (William), publisher A RECORD OF THE GREAT FLOOD IN BATH and the Surrounding District, October 25, 1882. Reprinted from the Bath Herald. 16pp, roy 8vo, few spots. William Lewis and Son, Bath: 1882. £20.00 Maxwell-Lyte (Sir H.C.) A HISTORY OF DUNSTER AND OF THE FAMILIES OF MOHUN AND LUTTRELL. Plates and textual illustrations, 2 volumes, xxi + 328 and 329 - 596pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, slightly rubbed to edges, reference library label to front pastedown and small stamp to title-page. First edition, London: The St. Catherine Press Ltd. 1909. £185.00 Melville (Lewis) BATH UNDER BEAU NASH - AND AFTER. Illusts, xviii + 321pp, original decorative cloth, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, occasional light spotting. First edition, Bath: S.W. Simms, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. £22.00 [Morris (J.W)] NOTES ON THE RESULTS OF A MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SANDS OF THE KING'S BATH and of the Contents of Hazel Nuts collected from the Conduits of the Mineral Baths. 10pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, slightly creased, wraps slightly spotty. Bath: F. Curtis and Sons, c.1897. £12.00 Moss (C.E) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF VEGETATION IN SOMERSET: Bath and Bridgwater District. Illusts, large coloured folding map, 71pp, later cloth, short tape repair to verso of map, few small marks to covers. London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1907 £20.00 Norman (Samuel) AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES OF GEORGE LUKINS, The YATTON DEMONIAC; with A View of The Controversy and A Full Refutation of the Imposture. 45pp, disbound. First edition, Printed by G. Routh.... Bristol: (1788) £420.00 * Samuel Norman was a Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, in London, and a Surgeon, at Yatton. Includes a letter from the Rev. Joseph Easterbrook who was the Vicar of Temple Church in Bristol where he and six other members of the clergy performed an exorcism in the vestry of church on Lukins which they claimed cured him. Palmer (T.F), Arranged by COLLECTANEA I. A Collection of Documents from Various Sources. v + 248pp, original cloth, spine chipped at head and foot and almost loose, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to title-page. Somerset Record Society Volume 39. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1924. £32.00 * Includes articles on Glastonbury Abbey and the Church of West Pennard; Household Roll of Bishop Ralph; Visitation of Religious Houses and Hospitals, etc. Poole (Sharon) WESTON-SUPER-MARE. A Pictorial History. With frontis and 181 photographic illusts, 4to, dustwrapper, small ownership sticker to title-page. Phillimore, Chichester: 1995. £15.00 Porter v Clarke IN CHANCERY. PORTER AND OTHERS, V. CLARKE AND OTHERS. The Plaintiff's Reply to the Defendants' Statement, Called by them "The Case of the Baptist Church, Meeting in Somerset Street, Bath." 38pp + Index leaf, disbound, stitching broken, loose, top leaf slightly soiled with small portions of corners missing, some corners curled, date and names in ink on title-page. Bath: Printed & Sold by E. Smith, 2, Southgate Street. 1829. £30.00 Rawle (Edwin John) THE DOONES OF EXMOOR. Frontis, 75 + 4pp, untrimmed in recent cloth, few spots to margins of prelims. Signed presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper. LARGE PAPER COPY. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Printed for Private Circulation by Barnicott and Pearce, 1903. £85.00 Read (John) CLUSTER=o'=VIVE Stories and Studies of Old World Wessex. Somerset Folk Series No 11. Frontis, xi + 207 + (5)pp, 12mo, original cloth. London: Somerset Folk Press, 1923. £18.00 * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Redwood (Christopher) THE WESTON CLEVEDON AND PORTISHEAD RAILWAY. The detailed study of an independent light railway. Plates, diagrams, 183pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Sequoia Publishing, Weston-super-Mare: 1981. £28.00 Ross (David Melville) LANGPORT AND ITS CHURCH. The Story of the Ancient Borough, with References to Neighbouring Parishes. Illusts, xv + 381pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly soiled and rubbed, two small holes in top outer hinge, inner hinges cracked and weak, top corner of top cover bruised, paper slightly browned to edges as usual. The Herald Press, Langport: 1911. £85.00 Rutter (John) DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed plates, folding coloured map, textual vignettes, xxiv + 349pp, untrimmed in full calf, slightly rubbed, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, couple of short splits to head and foot of top outer hinge, marbled endpapers, occasional foxing, one plate, and opposite text browned. LARGE PAPER COPY. Printed and Published by the Author, Shaftesbury: 1829. £135.00 Savage (James) HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF CARHAMPTON, in the County of Somerset. With a frontis, and a folding hand coloured geological map, xxiv + 662pp, 4to, full contemporary calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, top outer hinge cracked though sound, marbled endpapers, frontis spotty and off-set, map partly off-set. LARGE PAPER COPY. LIMITED TO 12 COPIES. Bristol: William Strong, Clare Street. 1830. £350.00 * With the bookplate of Charles Edward H. Chadwyck Healey and a letter to him loosely inserted. There is a note on the second front endpaper :- 'Largest paper - only 12 copies printed.' it also mentions that the book was bought at a Christie's sale in 1888. See also Green. Bibliotheca Somersetiensis, volume 3 page 229, for verification of the number of copies. Schofield (B) MUCHELNEY MEMORANDA. Edited from A Breviary of the Abbey in the Possession of J. Meade Falkner. xxviii + 210pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, though sound, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to half-title. Somerset Record Society Volume 42. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1927. £38.00 Sheppard (H. Byard) COURTS LEET AND THE COURT LEET OF THE BOROUGH OF TAUNTON. 63pp, original wraps partly faded. From the Somerset Proceedings. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1909. £12.00 Smith (Amy) THE RARER BIRDS OF SOMERSET. 83p, sm 8vo, original cloth, covers damp spotted, internally sound. Taunton: The Wessex Press, 1912. £15.00 Smith (Cecil) BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 643pp, 12mo, original cloth. First edition, London: John Van Voorst, 1869. £65.00 Snell (F.C), editor MEMORIALS OF OLD SOMERSET. Illusts, 192 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original bevelled cloth, inner hinges cracked and weak. First edition, London: Bemrose, 1906. £20.00 Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOLUME 26. At its thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, held at Chard, 1882, under the Presidency of Charles I. Elton. With 7 plates, Illusts, 68pp, original qtr cloth paper boards, covers rubbed, lacking small portions of boards from edges, occasional light foxing. Printed by J.F. Hammond, Taunton: 1881. £22.00 * Includes articles:- Manor Court House; Family of Frye; Whitestaunton Manor House; Wayford Church and Manor House, etc. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME 29. Proceedings during the year 1883. New Series Vol. IX. Illusts, ix + 84 + 138pp, recent cloth. Taunton: J.F. Hammond, 1884. £26.00 * Includes articles on:- Barlinch Priory; Dolbury and Cadbury Camps, etc., etc. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME 42. Proceedings during the year 1896. Illusts, vii + 33 + 98pp, original wraps, later paper tape on spine. Taunton: 1896. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- Cerne Abbey; Sherborne Castle; Barrows on the Brendon Hills, etc., etc. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME 72. Proceedings during the Year 1926. Illusts, xcviii + 166pp, original wraps. Taunton: 1927. £12.00 * Includes articles on:- Glastonbury Abbey; Excavations at Ham Hill; Chelm's Combe, Cheddar; Monumental Effigies in Somerset, etc., etc. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and H.W. Seager. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 9. 160pp, original cloth, some foxing to a few pages at the front and rear. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1907. £65.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry. Contains the Parish of Taunton, St. Mary Magdalene, Part I. 1158-1728. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore, H.W. Seager and E.H. Bates. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 10. 158pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1907. £65.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Taunton, St. Mary's (concluded), Bishop's Hull, and Halse. Spencer (Joseph Houghton) WILTON REGISTERS 1558 to 1837. A Copy of the Registers of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at the Church of St. George, in the Parish of Wilton, adjoining Taunton.... Transcribed from the Originals. xiv + (2) + 343pp, untrimmed in the original cloth. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Son, 1890 £85.00 Spencer (Rev. Thomas) WHAT DAVID DID: A REPLY TO THE QUEEN'S LETTER. Containing Reasons for not urging upon the Parishioners of Hinton Charterhouse a Collection in behalf of the Society for the Building of Churches. 16pp, 12mo, disbound. London: John Green, 1843. £20.00 * Spencer was the perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath. St. Brody (Gustavus) THE FLORA OF WESTON, and its Immediate Neighbourhood, Including the Habitats of Brean-Down, Uphill, Hutton Wood, Worle or Weston Hill, Sand-Point, and Birnbeck Island: With critical remarks on our doubtful species, and Botanical Memoranda of Steep Holm, Chapwick Moor, and Cheddar Cliffs. viii + 174pp, 12mo, original cloth, a.e.g. slightly rubbed to outer edges. Tipped in to the front is a publisher's advertising leaf of other works by St. Brody. Ownership inscription to half-title. Weston-Super-Mare: 1856. £70.00 Stapledon (Richard) EXMOOR. Elegance and Rhythm. Illusts, 79pp, original cloth, slightly worn dustwrapper. Privately Published, Richard Stapledon, c.1967. £18.00 Stoate (T.L), transcribed by WOOTTON COURTENAY. Parish Registers. (iv) + 75pp, 4to, original pictorial wraps. Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, 1995. £10.00 Sweetman (George) THE HISTORY OF WINCANTON, Somerset, From the earliest times to the year 1903. Illusts, 296 + 1 page of publishers adverts, original cloth, light spotting to fore-edges. First edition. Harry Williams, London & George Sweetman, Wincanton: July 1903. £90.00 Thomas (Margaret) THE BOOK OF NAILSEA. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 128pp, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1984. £30.00 Thompson (Marian S. Archer) SELWORTHY 1850 - 1857. With frontis, 8 plates and vignette title-page, 38pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper, private bookplate to front endpaper, and blank portion of paper pasted to verso of front endpaper, later amateur(?) front pastedown, some thinning to verso of title-page where label removed. Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation, 1907. £50.00 University of Bristol Extra-Mural class WRINGTON VILLAGE RECORDS. Studies of the history of a Somerset Village. Compiled by members of a University of Bristol Extra-Mural class. Illusts, folding map, 108pp, original card covers. University of Bristol: 1969. £17.00 Victoria History, edited by William Page THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Volume One. Maps, plates, textual illustrations, xxv + 537pp, 4to, original cloth, spine slightly faded. First edition, Archibald Constable, London: 1906. £75.00 * Includes chapters on Natural History; Botany; Zoology; Early Man; Roman-British Somerset; And Anglo-Saxon Somerset. Vowles (Alfred) THE DOONE VALLEY AND THE WATERSLIDE. Illusts, folding map, and folding plan, 15pp, original wraps. Privately Published? c.1929. £12.00 Wadmore (Rev. J.A.W) SUPPLEMENT TO THE BARROW GURNEY HISTORY. With 2 plates, 39 + 34pp index which covers the both parts, original wraps. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1902. £16.00 * Five leaves of the index are duplicated. Walters (Cuming) BYGONE SOMERSET Illusts, 235pp, original cloth, occasional spotting. London: William Andrews and Co., 1897. £20.00 * Includes chapters on 'Taunton and the Bloody Assize,' 'Lead Mines of the Mendips', and 'Caves and Caverns of Somerset.' Wardle (F.D), editor THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHAMBERLAINS OF THE CITY OF BATH 1568-1602. xx + 251pp, later unlettered paper wraps. Somerset Record Society Volume 38. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1923. £30.00 [Wareham (E.J)] THE VISITOR'S HANDBOOK TO CLEVEDON and the Neighbourhood, Comprising Sketches of Many Places of Historical and Archaeological Interest, within a Walk, Drive, Railway, or Marine Excursion, with Notes on the Natural History of the Neighbourhood. Folding map, iv + 125 + 32 pages of adverts, original qtr cloth printed paper-boards, slightly rubbed at edges, few small marks to covers, paper slightly browned. Edwin J. Wareham and A.H. Ransford, Clevedon: c.1889. £36.00 * Not in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetiensis, or on Copac. [Warner (R)] AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF BATH. and its Environs. 175pp + Errata, untrimmed in later qtr cloth, marbled boards, occasional light waterstaining. Bath: Printed by E. Cruttwell, 1802. £110.00 * Includes a chapter on 'Botany of Country Round Bath.' Watson (W.G. Willis) THE LAND OF SUMMER. Somerset Folk Series No 2. Frontis, 83 + (3)pp, original limp leather. London: Somerset Folk Press, 1921. £16.00 Weaver (Frederic Weaver), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET IN THE YEARS 1531 AND 1575. Together with Additional Pedigrees, chiefly from the Visitation of 1591. xi + 148pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original cloth, partly faded, top outer hinge partly split, though sound. Exeter: Printed for the Editor by W. Pollard, 1885. £85.00 Webb (Adrian James), editor TWO TUDOR SUBSIDY ASSESSMENTS FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET: 1558 AND 1581-82. Map frontis, xxxv + 255pp, original cloth, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to half-title. Somerset Record Society, Volume 88. Taunton: 2002. £16.00 Wells REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF WELLS, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1364-1374, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £18.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc., etc. Western Division REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE ELECTION OF TWO KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE WESTERN DIVISION, 1835. of the County of Somerset. With 132pp, interleaved with blanks, onto which are written some contemporary pencil and ink notes. At the front is an 8 page index, at the rear is a 3 page summary of the poll. Tipped in at the front is a folded printed poster. 'West Somersetshire Election.' which lists the Polling Places, Districts and Booths and the Parishes, short split to one fold of poster. Folio, contemporary unlettered reversed calf, marbled boards and endpapers, a couple of small worm holes to outer hinges, front inner hinge pulled. London: 1834 & 5. £420.00 * Covers the Hundreds of:- Abdick and Bulstone; Andersfield; Cannington; Carhampton; Crewkerne; Roundsborough, Berwick and Coker; Huntspill and Puriton; Kingsbury; Martock; Milverton; North Curry; North Petherton; Pitney; Somerton; South Petherton; Stone; Taunton Dean; Tintinhull; Whitley; Williton and Freemanors. Lists the names of each Voter, 'Place of Abode', 'Nature of Qualification', and 'Street, Lane, or other like Place in the Parish, &c, where the property is situate..... ' The first page of the manuscript summary of the poll states:- 'The Nomination took place at Taunton on the 13th January 1835 when Francis Popham Esq., presided as Sheriff. Mr Sanford (who was absent at Madeira) was proposed by C.B. Portman, Esq., seconded by R. Beadon, Esq. My Tynte was proposed by Sir T.B. Lethbridge, Bart., seconded by Andrew Crosse, Esq., Mr Escott was proposed by Sir Alex Hood Bart., seconded by H. Powell Collins, Esq. The Polling took place at Taunton, Ilchester, Bridgwater and Williton on the 16th & 17th January 1835. The Declaration of the Poll by the High Sheriff was at Taunton on the 19th January.' On the front end paper is a label with a manuscript note:- 'Lord Wharton, Halswell Park, Bridgwater, Somersetshire.' White (Rev. William) THE LIFE OF THE REV. WILLIAM WHITE, (Nephew of the Late William White, Esq, of Sand House, Wedmore), For Some Time Incumbent of Theale Chapel, Wedmore Somerset. Written by Himself. 319pp, original cloth, few minor marks to boards, recent front endpaper. First edition, W. Wells Gardner, London and M. Backhouse, Wells: 1860. £45.00 Wigan (Eve) THE TALE OF GORDANO. With 6 plates, 162pp, dustwrapper. First edition, The Wessex Press, Taunton: (1950) £20.00 Winter (Michael T) THE PORTISHEAD COAL BOATS. A History of Osborn & Wallis Ltd, Bristol. Numerous coloured and black and white illusts, diagrams, 192pp, 4to, original pictorial paper boards. Black Dwarf Publications, Lydney: 2005. £35.00 Wood (Frederick A) COLLECTIONS FOR A PAROCHIAL HISTORY OF CHEW MAGNA. Illusts., folding maps and pedigrees, x + 346pp, ex-lib. later cloth, number to base of spine, slight signs where labels removed from front endpaper, number to title-page. Printed for the Author. Bristol: 1903. £48.00 * Very Scarce. Woodhams (Dowman), printer and publisher GUIDE BOOK TO GLASTONBURY ABBEY. Its History, Antiquity and Ruins. With Ground Plan & Illustrations. Also Interesting Account of the British Lake Village, discovered in 1892. Plates, plan, textual illusts, 78pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, spine slightly chipped to foot, and split at head, wraps slightly spotty. Wells: Dowman Woodhams, Printed and Publisher. c.190- £16.00 Woodward (G.H), editor CALENDAR OF SOMERSET CHANTRY GRANTS, 1548-1603. xxi + 143pp, includes a 17 page index, original cloth, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to the front endpaper. Somerset Record Society. Volume 77. Taunton: 1982. £20.00 Wright (Rev. G.N) THE HISTORIC GUIDE TO BATH. With folding map, frontis, text Illustrations. x + [ii] + 461 + 52 pages of adverts, 12mo, original cloth, few small nicks to head of spine, short split to rear outer hinge. R.E. Peach, Bath: 1864. £68.00 A further selection of SOMERSET Books on Main Site Back to the Top Wiltshire Akerman (John Yonge) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ABBEY OF MALMESBURY in the Days of the Anglo-Saxon Kings; With Remarks on the Ancient Limits of The Forest of Braden. Large folding map mounted on linen, 59pp, 4to, lacks wraps, title slightly dusty and ragged with a few short tears, linen slightly discoloured, occasional light foxing. Reprinted from Archaeologia. London: J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1857. £28.00 Bracey (H.E) SOCIAL PROVISION IN RURAL WILTSHIRE. Frontis, tables, maps, 2 of which are coloured, diagrams, 204pp, dustwrapper. Methuen and Co., 1952. £22.00 Bradley (A.G), Champneys (A.C) and Baines (J.W) A HISTORY OF MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE Now revised and continued by J.R. Taylor, H.C. Brentnall and G.C. Turner. Map endpapers, 18 plates, x + [ii] + 331pp, few small marks to the original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing. London: John Murray, 1923. £22.00 * This is the second enlarged edition. [Britton (John)] THE BEAUTIES OF WILTSHIRE, displayed in Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive Sketches: interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts. Volume 3 only. With engraved and printed titles, folding map, 14 engraved plates, lxi + (iii) + 442pp, bound in 2 volumes, interleaved with blanks, on a few of which are written notes, early half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, contrasting leather labels, rubbed, horizontal cracks to calf across spine to one volume, two outer hinges cracked though sound, foxing mainly to margins of a few plates. London: Printed for the author, 1825. £70.00 * Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1801. With the engraved armorial bookplates of Edward Long Barnwell, Melksham House. Devizes Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES.... PARISHES OF ST. JOHN AND ST. MARY, DEVIZES. Folio, 97pp, stitched as issued, few spots to outer leaves. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £22.00 Dodsworth (William) AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE AND CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SARUM, OR SALISBURY: Comprising Biographical Notices of the Bishops, the History of the Establishment, a Description of the Monuments, &c. With engraved and printed titles, 18 full-page engraved plates, and 2 vignettes, xx + 240pp, small folio, half morocco, cloth boards, raised bands, slightly rubbed to edges, small stamp to front endpaper, front inner hinge cracked though sound, lacks a couple of tissue guards, engraved title-page slightly spotty otherwise a clean copy. Salisbury: Printed by Brodie and Dowding for the author, 1814. £125.00 Firmager (Gabrielle & Douglas), editors SEMINGTON Past and Present. Illusts, plans, maps, 208pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription on half-title. Semington History Project Group, Bradford on Avon: 2002. £15.00 Fry (E.A) A CALENDAR OF THE FEET OF FINES relating to the County of WILTSHIRE, remaining in the Public Record Office, London. From their commencement in the reign of Richard I (1195) to the end of Henry III (1272). 103pp, few small marks to the original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, endpapers slightly spotty. Devizes: George Simpson & Co. 1930. £18.00 Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1891. Thirty-Third Year of Publication. 75 + (34) + (72) pages of adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1891. £25.00 Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1894. 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With 28 engraved plates, textual wood engravings, vii + 35 + (1) + 2 pages of 'Corrections and Additions', + a sheet of text opposite each plate, 4to, original cloth, recased, retaining the original endpapers, ex-ref.-lib., with label to front pastedown, and small stamp to verso of title-page, small amount of light spotting. Salisbury: W.B. Brodie and Co. 1834. £135.00 Haskins (Charles) THE ANCIENT TRADE GUILDS AND COMPANIES OF SALISBURY. With an Introduction by Rev. Canon Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. With Thirty-Two Illustrations. xxxvi + 423pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, few minor marks to cloth, signs where bookplate removed from front pastedown. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers. 1912. £95.00 Hunnisett (R.F), editor WILTSHIRE CORONERS' BILLS 1752-1796. liv + 239pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 36, Devizes: 1981. £18.00 * Lists names of deceased, causes of death and places where found. [Jefferies (Richard)] THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. vi + 216pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. Third Edition, London: Smith Elder & Co., 1879. £20.00 Lansdown (B) and Sons Ltd WARMINSTER, WESTBURY AND DISTRICT DIRECTORY 1960-61. Folding map, xvi + (2) + 272pp, including adverts, 12mo, original printed paper wraps, lightly rubbed and titled in manuscript on spine. Trowbridge: B. Lansdown and Sons Ltd., (1960). £20.00 Mabbs (A.W), editor GUILD STEWARDS' BOOK OF THE BOROUGH OF CALNE 1561 - 1688. xxxiii + 150pp, original cloth. Impression of 300 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 7, Devizes: 1953. £14.00 Marlborough College REPORT OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Nos 42, 43, 44, and 45. For the Years ending Christmas, 1893-1896. Illusts, each issues has approx 140 pages, few marks to early binders cloth. Marlborough: Printed by Chas. Perkins, 1893-1896. £45.00 * At the end of each issue is a table with names of boys, age weight, height, chest size, etc. Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 89-107.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen, pages numbered 108-133. 2 items continuously paginated, the last page of Hampshire is missing and is provided loose in photocopy, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £65.00 * Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... " Michael (W) HISTORY OF BOWOOD. Engraved frontis, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap, slight spotting. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. 1870. £15.00 Michael (W) HISTORY OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. Engraved frontis, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £10.00 Murphy (W.P.D), editor THE EARL OF HERTFORD'S LIEUTENANCY PAPERS 1603 - 1612. Frontis, 235pp, original cloth. Impression of 400 copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 23. Devizes: 1969. £12.00 Nightingale (James Edward) MEMORIALS OF WILTON, and Other Papers. Edited, with some Additional Notes, by Edward Kite. With 8 plates, xv + 215pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, cloth dull, cloth to foot of spine discoloured where number(?) erased, lacks front endpaper, front inner hinge cracked and slightly weak, fore-edges spotty. (150 copies only, printed for private circulation.) Devizes: George Simpson, Gazette Office, 1906. £55.00 Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF WEST KNOYLE. 1719 to 1837. Pages numbered 145 to 149, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1910) £18.00 [Price (Francis)] A DESCRIPTION OF THAT ADMIRABLE STRUCTURE THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SALISBURY, with The Chapels, Monuments, Grave - Stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed An Account of Old Sarum. Illustrated with copper-plates. With 15 engraved plates, 3 of which are folding, vi + 50 + 144pp, 4to, later qtr cloth, paper boards, covers rubbed to edges, recent paper label on spine. London: Printed by R. Baldwin, 1774. £160.00 Ransome (Mary), editor WILTSHIRE RETURNS TO THE BISHOP'S VISITATION QUERIES 1783 viii + 270pp, original cloth. Impression of 400 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 27. Devizes: 1972. £15.00 Smith (Betty) OUR WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. STEEPLE ASHTON. Illustrated by Alan Andrew. Plan, line drawings and coloured plates, 156pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton. Gloucester: 1989. £25.00 * Signed presentation inscription from the author on the title-page. Stone (E. Herbert) DEVIZES CASTLE: Its History and Romance. With 12 plates, 5 of which folding, viii + 201pp, original cloth, spine slightly darkened. Devizes: George Simpson and Co. 1920. £50.00 Victoria County History, edited by R. Pugh and E. Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 1, Part 1. Plates and Illusts, xxi + 279pp, special edition bound in half morocco, cloth boards. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1957. £35.00 * Includes:- Archaeological Gazetteer and List of Barrows. Victoria County History. edited by D.A. Crowley THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 11. Plates and illusts, xxix + 284pp, small folio, original cloth, dustwrapper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1980. £48.00 * Covers Downton Hundred and Elstub and Everleigh Hundred. Victoria County History, edited by D.A. Crowley. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 15. Plates and illusts, xxii + 338pp, small folio, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Published for the Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. 1995. £45.00 * Covers Amesbury Hundred and Branch and Dole Hundred. Warminster United District RULES OF THE WARMINSTER UNITED DISTRICT BRANCH of the Ancient Order of Foresters' Friendly Society held at Warminster in the County of Wiltshire. England. 16pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, short tear to top margin of wraps, and 2 leaves. Printed at the Gazette Office, Devizes. c19- £12.00 Wiltshire Parish Registers, edited by Thos. M. Blagg WILTSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 14. vii + 131pp, original cloth, covers partly damp stained, slightly affecting pastedowns, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1914. £46.00 * Celebrated in the Parish from the first entry up to the year 1837. Contains the Parishes of Salisbury St. Edmund (concluded) and Stratford-sub-Castle. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. VOLUME 3. Plates and plans some of which are folding, folding pedigree, 380p, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, rubbed, lacks spine, boards held by strings, some occasional foxing, pedigree split at fold. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1857. £35.00 * Includes articles on Chippenham; Manor of Castle Combe; Sheriffs of Wiltshire; History of Longleat; Manor of Draycot Cerne; Foster of Marlborough, etc. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. VOLUME 10. Plates, folding pedigree, iv + 328 + lpp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, lacks approx 2" from foot of spine, top board almost loose. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1867. £30.00 * Includes articles on Excavations at Avebury; Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson; Roman station at Baydon; Ambresbury Monastery; Barrow diggings at Collingbourne Ducis, etc. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. VOLUME 22. Plates, plans some of which are folding, 356pp, early half calf, marbled boards, portions chipped from spine, crude tape repairs to head and foot of spine, outer hinges cracked. Devizes: Henry Bull, December 1884-December 1885. £25.00 * Includes articles on Cranborne Chase; Geology in Neighbourhood of Shaftesbury; West Dean; Wiltshire Superstitions, etc. A further selection of WILTSHIRE Books on Main Site Back to the Top General Admiralty A LIST OF THE FLAG OFFICERS AND OTHER COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S FLEET. With The Dates of Their Respective Commissions. By Authority. 365pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, portions of calf missing from spine, covers rubbed, outer and inner hinges partly cracked. William Clowes, London: 1843. £68.00 Associated Industrial Consultants THE ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH WEST. Part 1. Volume 1, Regional Survey, Economic Analysis; Part 1. Volume 2, Statistical Data; Part 1. Maps. 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. £24.00 Britton (John) AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ESSAY RELATING TO REDCLIFFE CHURCH, Bristol: Illustrated with Plans, Views, AND Architectural Details: Including An Account of the Monuments, AND Anecdotes of Eminent Persons Interred within its Walls: Also an Essay on The Life AND Character of Thomas Chatterton.... Bound with.... THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BATH ABBEY CHURCH: Including Biographical Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Persons Interred in that Edifice; with an Essay on Epitaphs, in which Principal Monumental Inscriptions are Recorded. The first work has 12 engraved plates and plans, xxii + 40pp, some spotting mainly to margins of a few plates. The second work has an engraved and printed title-pages, illustrated with 9 engraved plates, xvi + 156pp, some spotting mainly to margins of a few plates. Two works bound in one volume, early half morocco, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled boards, and endpapers, all edges gilt. This is the larger paper, imperial 4to, editions of these works. First editions, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813, and London: Printed for the Author by Longman and Co., 1825. £165.00 Bushe-Fox (J.P) EXCAVATIONS AT HENGITSBURY HEAD, HAMPSHIRE IN 1911-12. With Appendices by G.F. Hiss and Professor W. Gowland. (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No III). Plates and diagrams, some of which are folding, 83pp, recent cloth, ex-university library with a couple of stamps, light waterstaining to th top of a few plates at the rear. Society of Antiquaries, London: 1915. £45.00 Bysshe (Sir Edward), transcribed and edited by G.D. Squibb. THE VISITATION OF SOMERSET AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1672. Made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knight Clarenceux King of Arms. xv + 242pp, original cloth. Harleian Society, London, 1992. £28.00 Charles I BY THE KING. His Majesties Proclamation on the behalfe of Sir Ralph Hopton and his proceedings in the Counties of Cornewall and Devon by virtue of His Majesties Commission. Single sheet, printed on one side only, size approx 17" x 13«", a couple of short tears to top margin, right-hand margin slightly soiled and with a few short tears and creases, portion torn from lower margin, portion torn from left hand margin leading to a 1" tear into the text, without loss, few spots. Printed at, Oxford by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, 1642. (1643) £300.00 * In January 1643 Hopton pushed back the Parliamentary forces at the battle of Braddock Down, near Lostwithiel. This Proclamation was in March of 1643 part of which states:- 'And We farther Will and Command all Our good Subjects of Our Counties of Cornewall, Devon and Somerset, that they be aiding and assisting to the said Sir Ralph Hopton, and use their utmost power of the subduing of the Rebells now in Armes against Us in those parts, under the Command of the Earle of Stamford.... ' In May he defeated the Earl of Stamford at the battle of Stratton which enabled the Cornish Royalists to enter Devon and Somerset. 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. With 18 lithographic plates, folding map, and textual illusts., xvi + 274pp, recent half calf, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional damp spotting. The margins have been trimmed when it was rebound. First edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. £50.00 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. London: Printed by Henry Hansard and Son, 1887. £155.00 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. £80.00 * Includes sections on:- Charity Schools; Roman remains; Ecclesiastical History, etc. Cox (Rev. Thomas) DURHAM Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding county map by Morden, pages numbered 606-646 + leaf of distance table, disbound, occasional light foxing, fore-edges of last 2 text leaves cropped affecting some words. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £65.00 * Includes sections on:- the various Hundreds; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc. Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 10. vi + (i) + 179pp, original cloth, light damp marks to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1912. £25.00 * Contains the parish of Derby, St. Weburgh's from 1558-1837. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall. VOLUME 9. From January 1916 to October 1917. Part I Miscellaneous. With 19 plates, 256pp, recent cloth. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1917. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Prowse Memorials in Chagford Church; Arms of the Family of Manningford; Mercer Family; Anthony Goddard and the Defences of Plymouth; Ayer of Fen Ottery; Thurston Peter, Cornish author; West Country Pewterers; Devon Clay Tobacco Pipes; Arms of the Family of Manningford, etc. etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 18. From January 1934 to October 1935. With 20 plates, 392pp, untrimmed in later cloth, occasional light spotting. James Townsend and Sons. Exeter: 1934-1935. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Crediton underground passages; Woollen industry in and around Great Torrington; Pyles of Talaton; Minchin Court, Aylesbeare; Hugh Peter; Copplestone; Hugh Peter in Devonshire; Heraldic Shields at Wear Giffard, etc., etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to the local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall. VOLUME 20. Illusts, 425pp, untrimmed in later cloth. Exeter: James Townsend and Son. 1939. £34.00 * Includes articles on:- Old Maps of Devon; Dunkeswell Abbey; Newenham Abbey; Arundell family; Valletort family of Trematon and Somerset; Throwleigh; Week, Berry Pomeroy, etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History Archaeology & Antiquities. VOLUME 25. Illusts, 230pp, 8 parts, complete, in the original printed wraps. James Townsend, Exeter: 1952-1953. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Dennys Family; Cornish Miners; Cornish Crosses; Burials in Woollen; Budleigh Salterton; Totnes Church; Arms of Pomeroy; Fowey; Colyton; Ivybridge. etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 28. From January 1959 to October 1961. Illusts, 339pp, untrimmed in later cloth, few marks to covers. Exeter: James Townsend, 1959-1961. £32.00 * Includes articles on:- Cornish Volunteers; Sampford Peverell Church; Northcott family; Eveleigh family; Berry Tower, Bodmin; Mortehoe; Rectors of Beaworthy; Battle of Posbury; Totnes, etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 31. From January 1968 to December 1970. Illusts, 266pp, recent cloth, name to front enpaper, lacks rear endpaper. Torquay and Tiverton: 1968-1970. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Halse family; Ilsington; Murder at Bratton; Cornish crosses; Modbury; St. Breward; Moretonhampstead; Treacle mines; Uffculme; Cornish windmills; Crabtree Limeworks; Honiton Inns and Taverns, etc., etc. Edgcumbe (Sir Edward Robert Pearce), compiled and illustrated by FAMILY RECORDS Relating to the Families of Pearce of Holsworthy; Edgcumbe of Laneast; Eliot of Lostwithiel; Livingstone of Calendar; Reynolds of Exeter; Gayer of Liskeard; And Others. Folio, illusts, 111pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. LIMITED TO 120 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Exeter: Wm. Pollard, 1895. £300.00 * Loosely inserted are 4 handwritten letters from the author to a Dr Drake, and a sketch by Edgcumbe of the panel over Fordington Church Door which he mentions in one of the letters. Not in Brockett's Devon Union List, or in Thomson's Catalogue of British Family Histories. Franklyn (Charles A.H) A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILIES OF PAULET (or PAWLETT), BEREWE (or BARROW), LAWRENCE, AND PARKER. With a continuous descent from Ealhmund, born circa 750, great-grandfather of Aelfred the Great, through four Plantagenet descents to 1963.... With.... Supplement. Addenda, corrigenda, errata, MORGAN OF LLANFABON, CO GLAMORGAN, TURNER OF OLDLAND IN KETMER, CO. SUSSEX, VAVASOUR OF HAZELWOOD, CO, YORK, WALWYN OF LONGWORTH, CO. HEREFORD, AND WORMINGTON OF GRIMLEY AND SHRAWLEY, CO. WORCESTER. 2 volumes. With a folding pedigree, 5 illusts, 186pp, includes a list of subscribers, and plates, 123pp, both volumes are 4to, original cloth, ex-lib., the first with number to base of spine, the second has signs where label removed from spine which overlapped onto boards, and both volumes have a label to front endpaper and stamp to title page. The first volume is a Numbered Limited Edition of 103 copies. The second is a Numbered Limited Edition of 150 copies. Both volumes signed by the author. Privately Printed, Foundry Press, Bedford: 1963. £150.00 * Includes chapters on the Paulets of Nunney Castle, Somerset, Brewe of Newland, Gloucestershire, Parker of Usk, Franklyns of Surrey, Jamaica and Antigua, etc. The first volume has a signed inscription by the author, and an ink note to say that this copy originally belonged to Peter Frank and Lady Diana Tiarks. Fry (Edward Alexander) CALENDARS OF WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS RELATING TO THE COUNTIES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL, Proved in the Court of the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799. and of Devon only proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799.... xxiii + 878pp, contemporary half roan, cloth sides, boards slightly rubbed to edges, marbled endpapers. William Brendon, Plymouth: 1908. £60.00 * A second volume was published in 1914. [Groves (Muriel)], editor SHIPTON UNDER WYCHWOOD. Plates, 61pp, original card covers, slightly rubbed to head of spine. G.R.C. Brook and Co., (1934) £24.00 Harford (John), Treasurer A SCHEDULE OF THE LANDS, HOUSES GROUND AND FEE-FARM RENTS, and other Property, Belonging to The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Bristol. Made Pursuant to an Order of the Council of the said City, On the 25th March, 1877. John Harford, Treasurer of the said City. Small folio, original qtr. roan, printed paper boards, lacks spine, edges rubbed. Gives columns listing:- Commencement of Tenancy, Names of the Parties who now hold or Pay Rents, Description of Premises, Where Situate, Tenure, Remarks, Annual Rents. In MS at the rear in the 'Remarks' section is written "Horfield.... Eight Acres of Land Purchased to erect a new Gaol. Loosely inserted is a sheet listing 'Rents' Bailiffs Salary', 'Surveys & Valuations' for the years from 1848 to 1866 for Woodmancott. There are also similar sheets with more tables for 'Estates at Hinton', 'Manor of Portishead' and 'Premises in the City'. These four sheets are handwritten in a contemporary hand. Bristol: 1877. £55.00 * Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography or Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Also gives details of property at Portishead, Filton, Hinton, Woodmancott, Coombe and at or near Dursley. Harley (J.B) ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS A Descriptive Manual. 40 pages of maps some of which are coloured, text diagrams, 200pp, small folio, original decorative paper boards. Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 1975. £30.00 Harper-Bill (Christopher), editor THE REGISTER OF JOHN MORTON Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500. Volume 2. Two tables, xxi + 246pp, original cloth. Canterbury and York Society. Leeds: Boydell Press, 1991. £18.00 Harris (Rendel) THE NOME. The After-Glow Essays Number Four. Diagrammatic map, 23pp, original paper boards. University of London Press, Ltd. 1934 £20.00 * In this essay Harris tries to prove that Watchet, in Somerset, amongst other place names, and places along the River Otter are derived from Egyptian words. Henwood (G) FOUR LECTURES ON GEOLOGY AND MINING. (i) On the Study of Geology and Mineralogy as Sources of Interesting and Valuable Information. (ii) Observations on Certain Tin Stream Works in the County of Cornwall. (iii) On the Metalliferous Veins or Lodes of Devon and Cornwall, and the Methods of Mining Them. (iv) On the Manipulation of the Ores of Devon and Cornwall to render them Marketable. Large folding plate of diagrams, 23 + 27 + 23 + 21pp, few small marks to the original cloth, outer hinges partly split though sound, later cloth for 1" to head of spine, neat repair to verso of plate, title-page slightly spotty. London: Published at the Offices of the Mining Journal, 1855. £120.00 --- See sample text * Scarce. Mainly concerns mining in Devon and Cornwall. Henwood was born in Penryn. Her Majesty's Inspectors of Mines MINES AND QUARRIES. 1880. SUMMARIES OF THE STATISTICAL PORTIONS OF THE REPORTS OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF MINES. 40pp, small folio, lacks wraps, first and last leaf spotty. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London: 1881. £24.00 * With tables listing:- 'Number of Persons Employed (above and below ground), Mineral Worked, Death rates, etc. Her Majesty's Inspectors of Mines MINES AND QUARRIES. 1882. SUMMARIES OF THE STATISTICAL PORTIONS OF THE REPORTS OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF MINES. 51pp, small folio, lacks wraps, leaves numbered i-iiipp, loose and slightly ragged to edges, first few leaves and last leaf spotty, one leaf partly torn without loss. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London: 1883. £22.00 * With tables listing:- 'Number of Persons Employed (above and below ground), Mineral Worked, Death rates, etc. Her Majesty's Inspectors of Mines MINES AND QUARRIES. 1881. SUMMARIES OF THE STATISTICAL PORTIONS OF THE REPORTS OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF MINES. 49pp, small folio, lacks wraps, lacks prelim. leaves numbered i-vipp, first leaf loose, and slightly ragged to edges, first few leaves and last leaf spotty. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London: 1882. £22.00 * With tables listing:- 'Number of Persons Employed (above and below ground), Mineral Worked, Death rates, etc. 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. £35.00 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. £95.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF HAMPSHIRE, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, WILTSHIRE, DORSETSHIRE, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. 1939. 5 folding maps, 37 pages of adverts + xxviii + 1152 + ix + 440 + ix + 424 + 28 (adverts) + 290pp, original cloth, cellotape repair to verso of one map, rubbed, lacks front endpaper and first couple of pages of adverts. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1939. £105.00 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. £125.00 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 Kelly (W) POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Lacks map, pages numbered 2046-2140, complete, first leaf ragged and loose, waterstaining to head of several leaves, disbound. London: W. Kelly, (1847) £55.00 Kelly (W) POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Lacks map, pages numbered 1759-1843, complete, last leaf ragged and loose, waterstaining to head of several leaves, disbound. London: W. Kelly, (1847) £55.00 Kelly (W) POST OFFICE KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF CAMBRIDGE 1850. Double-page map, pages numbered 1087-1156, possibly lacks the last leaf. The last village mentioned is Witchford. W. Kelly, London: map dated 1850. £35.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF KENT, SURREY AND SUSSEX. 1934. With 3 folding maps, xxxii + 1153 + viii + 794 + 977pp, Sussex map loose and torn, Surrey map loose and slightly ragged to portion of one edge, some tears to Kent map, original cloth, worn, rear hinge partly split, back outer hinge broken, top inner hinge held by tapes, last leaf and rear endpaper loose with a few tears, the last leaf of the Kent section has a small portion torn from inner margin slightly affecting a few words. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1934. £105.00 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, lacks lower wrap. Bristol: Thomas Kerslake and Company, 1875. £18.00 * Signed by the author on the top wrap. Knight (F.A) THE RAMBLES OF A DOMINIE. With Illustrations by E.T. Compton. 193pp, original decorative cloth. First edition, London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1891) £16.00 * Includes chapters on Dartmoor and the Mendips. Lane (J. Tremayne), City Treasurer A SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY Belonging to The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Bristol. Small folio, contemporary cloth, partly faded, cloth slightly chipped at head and foot of spine, 51pp. Gives columns listing:- Commencement of Tenancy, Names of the Parties who now hold or Pay Rents, Where Situate, Annual Rents. Bristol. 29th September, 1888. £50.00 * Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography or Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Also gives details of property at Portishead, Filton, Dyrham and Hinton and Dursley. [Leech (Joseph)] SUPPLEMENTAL PAPERS BY THE CHURCHGOER. Making the Fourth Collection from the same source. x + [ii] + 186pp, few small marks to the original, light spotting to prelims. Bristol: William Georges Sons, 1888. £18.00 * Includes a further selection of chapters on churches mainly in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Lewis (Hubert) THE ANCIENT LAWS OF WALES. xvi + 558 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, few small spots to original cloth. Cheaper Edition. London: 1892. £50.00 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. £125.00 * The Knight family owned extensive property centered around Simonsbath on Exmoor. Frederick Knight had ambitions to expand mining activity which did not materliase. 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. Lloyd (Ven. Archdeacon) NOTES ON ST. MARY'S CHURCH, Shrewsbury. 147pp, original cloth, couple of names in ink to endpapers. Shrewsbury: Adnitt and Naunton, 1900. £20.00 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. Cambridge at the University Press, 1913. £42.00 * With the bookplate of Arthur Bulleid to front pastedown. Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. Cornwall has an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 1-19, and Devon an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate showing 2 views, pages numbered 22-36. Both items complete, and continuously paginated, disbound, few spots the Cornwall map and the adjacent leaf of text partly waterstained and dusty. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £95.00 * Extract from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... " Maton (William George) OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO THE NATURAL HISTORY, PICTURESQUE SCENERY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, Made in the Years 1794 and 1796. With 16 aquatint views. folding mineralogical map, xi + 336 + 216 + (18)pp, 2 volumes, recent qtr calf, cloth boards, some light off-setting, the usual occasional foxing. Printed and Sold by J. Easton, Salisbury: 1797. £500.00 * "In William Maton's Western Counties of England, 1797 we have the first 'regional geology' of any large part of the country." Challinor's History of British Geology, page 79. The map is possibly the first mineralogical map of the area. Miller (J.S) A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CRINOIDEA OR LILY-SHAPED ANIMALS; With Observations on the Genera, Asteria, Euryale, Comatula & Marsupites. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Plates. viii + 2pp subscribers list, 150pp + advert leaf, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, with a later calf spine, and the original labels laid down, occasional light foxing. Bristol: Published for the Author by C. Frost, Broad Street. 1821. £950.00 * 'As the environs of Bristol abound in strata replete with organic remains, I was induced by these considerations to devote a large share of my attention.' Introduction. Miller's excursions also took him to the Mendips, as well as further afield. The subscribers list calls for 140 names which besides many local people, included William Buckland, A. Sedgewick, and Gideon Mantell. Minchinton (W.E), editor FARMING AND TRANSPORT IN THE SOUTH-WEST. vii + 69pp, folio, original wraps, cloth spine. University of Exeter: 1972. £12.00 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. £125.00 [Motor Cycle Magazine staff] ROUTE BOOK FOR THE BRITISH ISLES. With Maps of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. And copious index. 45 pages of maps, 176pp, map endpapers, sm 8vo, few spots to the original cloth. London: Ilife and Sons, c.1910 £20.00 * Titled:- 'The Motor Cycle Route Book' on the front cover. Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN CUMBERLAND IN 1873. Cumberland section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 38pp, disbound. 1875. £18.00 Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN DERBY IN 1873. Derbyshire section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 45pp, disbound. 1875. £18.00 Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN NORTHAMPTON IN 1873. Northampton section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 30pp, disbound. 1875. £17.00 Pearce (Susan) SOUTH-WESTERN BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. With textual diagrams, maps, and illusts, xv + 375pp, laminated boards. Leicester University Press, London: 2004. £65.00 Pevsner (Nikolaus) NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL. (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 510pp, worn dustwrapper, with small portions missing from the edges. First edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1958. £15.00 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. £30.00 Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND RUTLANDSHIRE 1828-9. Lacks map, some spotting mainly to margins, recent cloth. Pigot & Co., London & Manchester: 1829. £25.00 Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 633-664, recent cloth. Pigot & Co., London & Manchester: 1830. £25.00 [Reynolds (Herbert)] ODD WAYS IN OLDEN DAYS DOWN WEST or, Tales of the Reformation in Devon and Cornwall. By VIC. xxiv + 113pp, cr. 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed edges, few small marks to boards, endpapers slightly spotty, occasional light foxing. Printed for the Author by Hudson and Son, Birmingham: 1892. £24.00 Rimmer (Alfred) ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND. With 72 illusts in the text, xii + 159pp, original cloth, some foxing to front endpaper and half-title. London: Virtue, Spalding, 1875. £20.00 Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 1 only of 4. Numerous illusts., 221pp, original cloth, partly faded, spine almost loose. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1914. £16.00 --- See sample text * This volume includes churches at:- Almondsbury, Abbots Leigh, Axbridge, Bristol, Barrow Gurney, Chepstow, Bitton, Bradford on Avon, Corston, Badminton, etc. Rogers (Kenneth) WILTSHIRE AND SOMERSET WOOLLEN MILLS. Illusts, folding plan, 266pp, original cloth, few small tears to dustwrapper. Pasold Research Fund Ltd, Edington: 1976. £30.00 Rolt (L.T.C) and Allen (J.S) THE STEAM ENGINE OF THOMAS NEWCOMEN. Illusts, 160pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, inscription to front endpaper. Moorland Publishing Company, Hartington: 1977. £18.00 Scarth-Dixon (W) DEVON AND SOMERSET STAGHOUNDS. Illusts, 96pp, including adverts, original card covers, private library labels to verso of top cover and rear cover. The Hunts Association, London: 1926-27. £20.00 Seede-Parker (Edward Milward) GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF SEEDE, of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Frontis, 16pp, 4to, original printed wraps. Mitchell and Hughes, London: 1890. £16.00 * The family resided at Tetbury, Upton Cheyney, Bitton, Bisley, Rodborough, Stroud, Bristol, and Castlecombe. Sherborn (Charles Davies) A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF SHERBORN. Frontis, 212pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, short tear to front endpaper, few small marks and some light damp marks to rear board, internally sound. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1901. £55.00 * Mainly deals with the family in Lancashire, and Yorkshire and with a chapter on Norfolk. Snell (Lawrence S) THE SUPPRESSION OF THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. Frontis, 200pp, original cloth. First edition, Wordens of Cornwall Limited, Marazion: 1967. £30.00 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 on:- 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. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, edited by G.W. Saunders and Rev. R.G. Bartelot NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. VOLUME 21. Illusts, 298pp, untrimmed in binders cloth, leather label on spine. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1935. £35.00 * Includes articles on:- Martock Church; Barry family; Canford Church; Blandy family; Chard - Honiton Turnpikes; North Curry feast; Maiden Castle Sports, etc., etc. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, edited by D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. VOLUME 31. Illusts, 476pp, recent cloth. Bridport: C.J. Creed, 1980-1986. £35.00 * Includes articles on:- Shipping in Weymouth; Dorset Windmills; History of Hutton; Shepton Mallet Riot of 1753; Poaching at Wiveliscombe; Orchardleigh Charters; Bridport Textile Industry; Thomas Hardy and the Dorchester Pouncys, etc., etc. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, edited by D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET VOLUME 34. 424pp, 10 parts plus the index volume, all in the original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1996-2000. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- John Stowell; Bruton Manor; Forest of Neroche; Samways in Dorset; Maiden Castle; Bruton Abbey, etc., etc. 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, 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. £85.00 * 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. Tanner (William) MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TANNER, Compiled chiefly from Autobiographical Memoranda. Edited by John Ford. With a real photographic portrait of Tanner pasted to frontis, plate, xii + 257pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to corners, light spotting to prelims. London: F. Bowyer Kitto, 1868. £30.00 * Tanner was born in Sidcot and became a prominent Quaker in the Bristol and Somerset area. He also wrote a book on quakers whilst he was there:- 'Three Lectures on the Early History of the Society of Friends in Bristol and Somerset.' Thurston (Robert H) A HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINE. Centennial Edition. With a Supplementary Chapter by William N. Barnard. Illusts in the text, xii + 555pp, original cloth. Originally published 1878. Cornell University Press: 1939. £25.00 Trevor Family THE FAMILY OF TREVOR OF TRAWSCOED. 8pp, original wraps. A pedigree with an ink note to one entry. n.d. £10.00 * Trawscoed is in Powys, Wales. Trevor (Gerald) THE HISTORY OF THE TREVOR FAMILY. 36pp, original cloth. Printed by Wood & Son, Perth: 1948. £20.00 * Loosely inserted is a hand written letter by Gaynor Trevor from Australia, with the envelope, addressed to R.S.R. Trevor of Builth Wells. [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, rear inner hinge cracked. Reprinted from the Fifth Edition. London: James Blackwood, 1873. £25.00 Warner (Revd. Richard), of Bath A WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES of England. With 2 aquatint plates, engraved sketch maps, 222pp + advert leaf, recent qtr calf, cloth boards, some light foxing. R. Cruttwell, Bath: 1800. £110.00 * Warner travelled from Bath, through Somerset and Devon, eventually crossing into Cornwall on the Tor-point ferry. Warner did not hold back on his assessments of the places he visited. 'Biddeford is a striking contrast to Barnstaple. A large, wretched. and dirty place, with all the filth, inconvenience, and disagreeableness of a sea-port, and little of its bustle and animation.' 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. Welch (F.B.A) and Crookall (R) BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER DISTRICT. With 12 plates, one of which is folding, 86pp, original printed wraps. First edition. H.M.S.O. 1935. £15.00 West (John) VILLAGE RECORDS. With a Foreword by W.G. Hoskins. Illusts, xxii + 248pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1982. £16.00 * 'Gives detailed advice about the materials available for the study of local history.' Western Gazette and Company Limited THE WESTERN GAZETTE ALMANAC AND DIARY FOR 1917. Illusts, adverts, 272pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light brown tinge to pages. Western Gazette and Company Limited, Yeovil: 1917. £30.00 Whitaker (Harold) THE HAROLD WHITAKER COLLECTION OF COUNTY ATLASES, ROAD-BOOKS AND MAPS PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. A Catalogue. Illusts, 143pp, original cloth, partly faded, and lightly rubbed to edges. Leeds: The Brotherton Library, 1947. £16.00 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 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. £45.00 * Includes articles on:- 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 Note-Book for DEVON, CORNWALL and SOMERSET. VOLUME 5. June, 1885, to May, 1886. Illusts, xiv + 314pp, includes 4pp of subscribers, 4to, original qtr roan, cloth boards, recased, retaining endpapers and with old, slightly rubbed spine laid down. London, Plymouth, Exeter: 1886. £45.00 * Includes articles on:- Governorship of Launceston Castle; Shapleighs of Devon; Devonshire Witchcraft; Devonshire Regiment; Places worth seeing near Penzance; Records of the Borough of St. Ives; Rev. Richard Treffry, etc., etc. A further selection of BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY and LOCAL HISTORY Books on Main Site Back to the Top ORDERING Or for further information contact Ivor Cornish :- Tel:- ( 0117 ) 9076899 E-mail :- ambra@localhistory.co.uk AMBRA BOOKS Home page Copyright © Ambra Books - 2012. All rights reserved.