Bristol


1. Arrowsmith Ltd Printer OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, 95pp, roy 8vo, original printed wraps, spine slightly spotty and rubbed to head and foot. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, Bristol: (1921) £16.00
   
   
2. Bristol Commercial Rooms COPY OF RULES AND REGULATIONS, Established at a General Meeting of Subscribers, Held 25th July, 1811; With the Subsequent Alterations therein; and of Act of Parliament, 54 Geo. III. 12mo, 25pp, original plain wrappers. [Printed 1st of January, 1824, by order of the Committee and pursuant to the Resolutions of a General Meeting.] A. Brown, Printer, Bristol Mirror Office. £20.00
   
   
3. Bristol Mechanics Institution RULES AND ORDERS OF THE BRISTOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge among the Working Classes. Established June 20, 1825. Sm 8vo, 23pp, lacks wraps, some light waterstaining. Albion Press: Printed by John Wansborough, 12, Redcliff-Street. 1828. £40.00
   * Not in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. This edition not in Mathews's Bristol Bibiography.

   
   

4. Bristol Patriotic & Constitutional Association THE CENTINEL CHALLENGED: or A Few Gentle Strictures on the "Ineffective of the Regiment," in a Letter Addressed to the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Freemen, of the City of Bristol: By a Member of The Bristol Patriotic & Constitutional Association. Disbound, 8pp, a few spots. Bristol, Printed and Sold by W. Major, St. John's Steps. c1807. £35.00
   * W. Major was a printer in Bristol from 1804 - 1819. See Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, volume 3, page 342.

   
   

5. Bristol Poor Relief AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE OF THE CORPORATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL. For One Year.... A 6 year run from 25th March, 1866 to 25th March, 1872. Each year contains 38pp, is separately paginated, with between 1 and 4 folding tables, oblong 12mo, later cloth, occasional light foxing. T.H. Pengelly, Printer, Castle Street, Bristol. 1866 - 1872. £85.00
   * Lists all of the expenses including the accounts for food, gas, clothing, staff, etc. The various members of staff are listed with their names, the positions they held and the salaries they received.

   
   

6. Evans (Rev. John) THE PICTURE OF BRISTOL; or A Guide to Objects of Curiosity and Interest, In Bristol, Clifton, the Hotwells, and their Vicinity; Including Biographical Notices of Eminent Natives. With a folding plan, and 3 folding plates, 156pp, recent cloth. First edition. Bristol: Printed by and Published by W. Sheppard. 1814. £80.00
   
   
7. Fuller Family FAMILY OF FULLER OF BRISTOL. Pedigree, 3pp, 4to, unlettered wraps. c1920. £10.00
   
   
8. Harrison (Godfrey) BRISTOL CREAM. Plates, 162pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. 1955. £14.00
   * A history of Bristol's connection with the wine trade.

   
   

9. Ison (Walter) THE GEORGIAN BUILDINGS OF BRISTOL. Illusts., 248pp, original cloth, spine very slightly darkened, name to front endpaper. First edition. Faber and Faber, 1952. £20.00
   
   
10. Jones (F.C) "THE GLORY THAT WAS BRISTOL". Illusts, 215pp, original printed card covers. St. Stephen's Bristol Press, 1946. £10.00
    * A general history.

    
    

11. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BRISTOL 1928. Lacks map, xxxii + 1202pp, original cloth, spine faded, lightly rubbed to edges. London: Kelly's Directories, 1928. £48.00
    
    
12. [Kington (J.B)] CITY AND PORT OF BRISTOL. Letters, Essays, and other Documents, Illustrative of the Municipal History of Bristol, and its Port. Written, Collected and Arranged by "A Burgess". With A Dedicatory Preface to the New Town Council. Early half calf, marbled endpapers, slightly rubbed to edges. Bristol: John Wright, Bridge Street, 1836. £80.00
    * This is the complete edition with the separately paginated pamphlets bound in at the rear, see Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Vol 3, page 150.

    
    

13. Lang (Sheila), & McGregor (Margaret), Edited by TUDOR WILLS PROVED IN BRISTOL 1546 - 1603. xxiii + 145pp, original cloth. Volume 44. Bristol Record Society. 1993. £12.00
    
    
14. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Seventeenth Century. 514pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, spine faded, 1" split to head of rear outer hinge. Bristol: William George's Sons. 1900. £32.00
    
    
15. [Leech (J)] BRIEF ROMANCES FROM BRISTOL HISTORY, with a few other papers from the same pen. vii + 262pp, original cloth. Bristol: 1884. £14.00
    
    
16. MacInnes (C.M) BRISTOL: A GATEWAY OF EMPIRE. Plates, maps, 456pp, dustwrapper. First edition 1939. £22.00
    * 'describes the development of the Merchant Venturers and the other trading organisations of the City of Bristol.... '
    With a bookplate showing Cotham Tower to verso of half-title.

    
    

17. Manby (G.W) FUGITIVE SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY AND NATURAL BEAUTIES OF CLIFTON AND THE HOT WELLS AND VICINITY. With 4 etched plans, 2 etched and 12 aquatint plates, 94pp + errata, full morocco, slightly rubbed to edges, a.e.g., few small spots to title-page. First Edition. Bristol & London: (1802) £85.00
    
    
18. Manchee (Thomas John), Edited by THE BRISTOL CHARITIES, being the Report of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales so far as relates to the Charitable Institutions in Bristol. Engraved plan, vii + (ii) + 539 and iv + 497pp, 4to, 2 volumes bound from the original parts with the original printed wrappers bound in at the end, early binders cloth, volume one lacks approx 1" from head of spine, some foxing mainly to prelims, Bristol: Printed by and for T.J. Manchee. 1831. £68.00
    
    
19. 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.... Large folding plan, 112 + 193pp, the 2 volumes bound in one, as issued, recent qtr calf, marbled boards, leather label, a couple of short cellotape repairs to verso of map, few minor spots to text. First edition, Bristol: Printed, Published and Sold by William Mathews, 1794. £385.00
    * '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.

    
    

20. McGrath (Patrick), Edited by MERCHANTS AND MERCHANDISE IN SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY BRISTOL. xl + 315pp, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed to edges, a couple of outer margins torn where carelessly opened. First edition, Bristol Record Society. Volume 19. 1955. £25.00
    
    
21. Merchant Venturers' School, Bristol PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS, 1885. With a frontis and 4 plans of the school, vii + (i) + 85pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges and soiled, light occasional foxing. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1885. £25.00
    * Gives details of courses, fees, tutors names etc.

    
    

22. Morgan (Edwin Thomas) A HISTORY OF THE BRISTOL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. Illusts., 104pp, original cloth, 12mo, occasional light foxing. First edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1913. £12.00
    
    
23. Morris (George R) THE MID FROME VALLEY An Environmental Study of Mangotsfield, Soundwell, Staple Hill, Downend, Frenchay, Winterbourne, Hambrook, Frampton Cotterell. With contributions by Mr H. Galloway and Mrs G.M. Parry. Textual maps, 191pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Privately Published, Downend, Bristol: 1974. £30.00
    * Signed and dated by G.R. Morris on the front endpaper.

    
    

24. Poll Book 1847 THE BRISTOL POLL BOOK; Being a List of the Householders, Freeholders, and Freemen, who voted at the Parliamentary Election, Friday, July 30, 1847; Before A.G.H. Battersby, Esq., Sheriff; Candidates: Hon Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley. Philip William Skynner Miles, Esq. William Fripp, Esq. Apsley Pellatt, Esq. 192pp, contemporary embossed cloth, lightly rubbed, paper label on spine, lower outer hinge split. Bristol: Pr. J.W. Newcombe. 1848. £85.00
    
    
25. Richardson (David), Edited by BRISTOL, AFRICA AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVE TRADE TO AMERICA. Volume 2 The Years of Ascendancy 1730-1745. xxv + 157pp, original cloth. Volume 39. Bristol Record Society. 1987. £20.00
    
    
26. Sabin (Arthur), Edited by SOME MANORIAL ACCOUNTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, BRISTOL. Being the Computa of the Manors for 1491-2 and 1496-7 and other documents of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. viii + 221pp, original cloth-backed boards paper boards, lacks front endpaper. Volume 22. Bristol Record Society. 1960. £20.00
    
    
27. Sanigar (Wm. T) SAINT GEORGE'S IN THE EAST. Records of a Bristol District. Sketch map, 45pp, few small marks to the original printed wraps. Bristol: Wm. T. Sanigar, 1931. £16.00
    
    
28. Spear (H.J), & Arrowsmith (J.W), Edited by ARROWSMITH'S DICTIONARY OF BRISTOL. Folding map, 292pp, original cloth, top boards, almost loose. First edition. Bristol: 1884. £20.00
    * Gives details of numerous places, institutions, as well as events in Bristol's history.
    Signed by Arrowsmith on the title page.

    
    

29. Taylor (John) A BOOK ABOUT BRISTOL; Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, From Original Research. iv + 393 + (vi) pages of adverts, original cloth. 1872. £35.00
    * The cheaper edition without the photographic plates.

    
    

30. Veale (E.W.W), Edited by THE GREAT RED BOOK OF BRISTOL. Text (Part III). 196pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 16. Bristol Record Society. 1951. £16.00
    
    
31. Weare (G.E) A COLLECTANEA RELATING TO THE BRISTOL FRIARS MINORS (Gray Friars) And their Convent, together with A Concise History of the Dissolution of the Houses of the Four Orders of Mendicant Friars in Bristol. Frontis, 111pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, few small marks to boards, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, one preliminary leaf torn without loss. Bristol: W. Bennett, 1893. £25.00
    * With the bookplate of William Wodehouse Veale.

    
    

32. Wells (Charles), Edited and Illustrated by Reece Winstone BRISTOL'S HISTORY. 96pp, original pictorial laminated boards. Third edition. Bristol: Burleigh Ltd., 1980. £10.00
    
    
33. Wilkins (H.J) THE CHURCH REGISTER (A.D. 1559 - 1713) of the Ancient parish of WESTBURY-ON-TRYM. With Introduction by H.J. Wilkins. Frontis, xxx + 217pp, original printed wraps, lacks spine, wraps loose and ragged with some cellotape adhering, occasional light spotting. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1912. £40.00
    
    
34. Wilkins (H.J) THE LETTERS PATENT OF KING EDWARD VI GRANTING HENBURY MANOR AND CHURCH, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park, Pen Park, Olveston, etc., to Sir Ralph Sadleir. Frontis, 68pp, original wraps. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1909. £22.00
    
    
35. Winkles A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BRISTOL. 5 engraved plates, 8pp. (numbered 121-128), recent unlettered cloth. (1841) £18.00
    * Extracted from Winkles 'Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England.'

    
    

36. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1914 - 1900. Over 170 Photographs. Roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, title lightly spotted. Second Edition, Bristol: 1965. £14.00
    
    
37. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1874 - 1866. Over 120 Photographs, 88pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. First Edition, Bristol: 1966. £18.00
    
    
38. Wright (David) MEMORIALS OF STOKE BISHOP; its Church & First Vicar. Illusts, viii + 126pp, few small marks to original cloth-backed, small snag to cloth at head of top board, occasional light spotting, ex-lib with labels to front endpapers, and stamp to verso of front endpaper. First edition. Bristol: John Wright & Co., 1897. £20.00
    
    
39. Wright (J) & Co's BRISTOL & CLIFTON DIRECTORY, 1882. With nearly a hundred adjacent villages. Folding map, xlviii + 415 + (i) + 71 pages of adverts, original cloth, rubbed to edges, small snag to head of spine. Bristol: J. Wright & Co. 1882. £85.00
    
    

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40. Axford (E.C) BODMIN MOOR. Plates, diagrams, maps, 188pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1975. £12.00
    
    
41. Bannister (Rev. John) GLOSSARY OF CORNISH NAMES, Ancient & Modern, Local, Family, Personal &c. 20,000 Celtic & other names now or formerly in use in Cornwall.... xx + 212pp. Includes 2pp list of Subscribers, early half roan, rubbed to edges, outer hinges partly split. Dedication leaf dated. 1871. £95.00
    
    
42. Barrow (George) THE GEOLOGY OF THE ISLES OF SCILLY. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheets 357 and 360. With 7 plates, 37pp, recent cloth, ex-geological lib. with just a label tipped onto front endpaper, occasional pencil note. First edition. London: Printed for H.M.S.O., 1906. £40.00
    
    
43. Barton (D.B) A HISTORY OF TIN MINING AND SMELTING IN CORNWALL. Plates, textual illusts, maps, 302pp, lacks dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1967. £40.00
    
    
44. Barton (D.B) THE CORNISH BEAM ENGINE. A survey of its history and development in the mines of Cornwall and Devon from before 1800 to the present day, with something of its use elsewhere in Britain and abroad. Plates and textual illusts, 285pp, dustwrapper. Republished, Cornwall Books, 1989. £15.00
    
    
45. Barton (R.M), Edited by LIFE IN CORNWALL In the Mid Nineteenth Century. Being extracts from the West Briton Newspaper in the Two Decades from 1835 to 1854. With 8 illustrations, 244pp, dustwrapper. First Edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1971. £25.00
    
    
46. Barton (R.M), Edited by LIFE IN CORNWALL In the Late Nineteenth Century. Being extracts from the West Briton Newspaper in the Two Decades from 1855 to 1875. Illustrations, 280pp, dustwrapper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, Ltd., 1972. £25.00
    
    
47. Bickford Smith & Co. BICKFORD, SMITH & COMPANY LIMITED 1831-1931. Plates, 26pp, few small spots to original paper boards, printed paper label on top board, boards, slightly rubbed to corners, occasional light spotting to text. Tuckingmill, Cornwall, (1931) £28.00
    * William Bickford invented the safety fuse in 1831.

    
    

48. Bizley (Maurice H) FRIENDLY RETREAT. The Story of a Parish. Illusts, 194pp, original cloth, partly faded. First edition. Netherton and Worth. Truro: Preface dated 1955. £44.00 --- See sample text
    * Concerns the Parish of St. Agnes.

    
    

49. Blight (J.T) A WEEK AT THE LAND'S END. Full page and textual illusts., folding map, xi + 233pp, original embossed cloth, slightly rubbed, front endpaper partly stuck to front pastedown, rear endpaper stuck to rear pastedown, occasional spotting to text. First edition, London: Longman Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. £46.00 --- See sample text
    
    
50. Boase (George Clement) COLLECTANEA CORNUBIENSIA: A Collection of Biographical & Topographical Notes relating to the County of Cornwall. xi + 952pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges of boards, outer hinges partly split, inner hinges weak and cracked. LIMITED EDITION OF 130 COPIES. Printed and Published by Netherton and Worth, Truro: For the Author. 1890. £750.00
    
    
51. Bond (Thomas) TOPOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE BOROUGH OF EAST & WEST LOOE, in the County of Cornwall; with an Account of the Natural and Artificial Curiosities and Picturesque Scenery of the Neighbourhood. With a plan, 5 lithographed views, and 2 textual illusts, iv + 308pp, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks label from spine, top board and a couple of leaves loose, portions of calf missing from base of spine, small portions of corners of top boards, missing, fore-edge margins to 3 plates cropped, slight staining to frontis and title, some light spotting to plates. First edition, London: J. Nicholls and Son. 1823. £255.00
    * Very Scarce.

    
    

52. Brett R.L. Edited by BARCLAY FOX'S JOURNAL. With 7 plates, a map, 426pp, dustwrapper. Bell & Hyman, London: 1979. £20.00
    
    
53. Browne (A.L) CORPORATION CHRONICLES. Being some account of the Ancient Corporations of East Looe and of West Looe in the County of Cornwall. Illusts, 199pp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards slightly rubbed, small snag to head of spine, few small spots to top board and prelims. Plymouth: John Smith, Plymouth Limited, 1904. £35.00
    
    
54. Carah (J. Sims), Vicar of Penponds. THE PARISH OF CAMBORNE. Some Notes on its History, its Antiquities and its People. Two parts 44pp and 20pp with CAMBORNE RATE BOOK. 25pp, bound by an amateur in cloth, with paper label on spine, ink rust to some inner margins from original staples. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co. Ltd., 1925 & 1927. £45.00
    * Very Scarce.

    
    

55. Carew (Richard), of Antonie, Esq. THE SURVEY OF CORNWALL, and An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. With the Life of the Author by H*** C***** Esq; [pseud., i.e. Pierre Des Maiseaux]. 160 + (viii) + 13pp, small 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, later spine retaining the original endpapers, leather label on spine. A New Edition. Printed for B. Law, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Hewett, at Penzance: 1769. £230.00
    * This is a reprint of the second edition which was published in 1723.

    
    

56. Cooke (G.A) TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads.... Mines, Minerals.... Illustrated with a Map of the County. With folding map of Cornwall, 166 + (1)pp index, sm 8vo, map partly split at fold and with a tear, disbound. London: Printed by C. Cooke, c1810. £45.00
    
    
57. Dexter (T.F.G) & (Henry) CORNISH CROSSES CHRISTIAN & PAGAN. With some observations on the Tau Cross, Thor's Hammer, and the Cult of the Axe. Illusts, xxxi + 301pp, 4to, original cloth. First edition. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1938. £85.00
    
    
58. Fox (Caroline) THE JOURNALS OF CAROLINE FOX 1835 - 71. A selection edited by Wendy Monk. With 9 illusts, sketch map, 250pp, slightly spotty dustwrapper. Elek, London: 1972. £15.00
    
    
59. George (Ken) GERLYVER KERNEWEK KEMMYN An Gerlyver Meur Kernewk - Sowsnek. Cornish - English Dictionary. 338pp, original laminated boards, spine slightly faded. First edition, Cornish Language Board, 1993. £20.00
    
    
60. Glencross (R.M) & Douch (H.L), Edited by T.L. Stoate THE CORNWALL PROTESTATION RETURNS 1641. From a transcript by R.M. Glencross Revised and with Additional Parishes Transcribed by H.L. Douch. Folio, viii + 324pp, original cloth. Printed and Published by T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1974. £88.00
    
    
61. [Haines (J)] CASE BETWEEN SIR WILLIAM CLAYTON, BART. and the DUCHY OF CORNWALL. viii + 61 + 34 + ix-xxpp, occasional neat ink underlining in text. 1834.... Bound with....
    [Haines (J)] THE HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL, and its Tenants.... For the Purpose of getting the Duchy Lands built upon, and improved at the Tenant's Expense.... and containing a Refutation of all the Arguments of the Lord Chancellor, which he was pleased to make use of in his judgement of the Clayton Case.... 148 + 9pp of Additional Arguments. 1834.... Bound with....
    [Haines (J)] THE JURIDICAL ARGUMENT OF THOMAS GEORGE WESTERN, ESQ. (of the Middle Temple,) Against the decree of The Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, Late Lord High Chancellor of England, upon the case of the late SIR WILLIAM CLAYTON, Bart. and The Duchy of Cornwall; With Mr Western's opinion upon the rights of the younger children of Sir William Clayton, and consequently, upon the rights of all his lessees of the Kennington Estate. 73 + 9pp of Further Observations. 1835.
    Three volumes bound in one, binders cloth, ex-Law Library with a few indelible stamps. 1834-35. £165.00
    
    
62. Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) CORNWALL AND THE CORNISH. The Story, Religion, and Folk-lore of 'The Western Land' With an Introduction by Isaac Foot. With eight pages of Illustrations, 308pp, original cloth slightly marked, lacks front endpaper, some foxing mainly to prelims and fore-edges. First edition, London: J.M. Dent, 1933. £15.00
    
    
63. Hammond (Joseph) A CORNISH PARISH: Being an Account of St. Austell, Town, Church, District & People. Illusts., 377pp, original cloth, few spots to covers, strip torn from top of front endpaper, small hole to cloth on rear board, inner hinges weak, rubbed to edges. First edition. London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. £40.00
    
    
64. Harper (Charles G) THE CORNISH COAST (North). Numerous full page and textual illusts, xi + 280pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, damp spots to top of spine and lower corner of rear board, contemporary inscription to front endpaper, internally sound. First edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1910. £22.00
    
    
65. Harris (T.R) DOLCOATH: Queen of Cornish Mines. Illusts, folding plan, 108pp, original card covers. The Trevithick Society. 1974. £30.00
    
    
66. Harrison (Sir G) SUBSTANCE OF A REPORT ON THE LAWS AND JURISDICTION OF THE STANNARIES OF CORNWALL. By Sir George Harrison, K.C.H. One of His Majesty's Special Commissioners for Managing the Affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall and Auditor of the Revenues and Keeper of the Records of the said Duchy. 178pp, recent qtr cloth, paper boards. London: Longman, Rees, Orme Brown, Green and Longman, 1835. £105.00
    
    
67. Hatcher (John) RURAL ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL 1300-1500. With diagrams and tables, xiv + 322pp, dustwrapper. Cambridge at the University Press, 1970. £50.00
    * Very Scarce.

    
    

68. Henderson (Charles) ESSAYS IN CORNISH HISTORY. Edited by A.L. Rowse & M.I. Henderson. Frontis, textual maps, xxiv + 241pp, includes a list of subscribers, few small marks to original lightly rubbed cloth. First edition. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1935. £36.00
    * Includes chapters on :- Luxulyan; Lostwithiel; Fowey; Buryan; St. Ives; Hundreds of Powder and Pydar, etc., etc.

    
    

69. Hull (P.L), Edited by THE CAPTION OF SEISIN OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL (1337). lxx + 189pp, original printed card covers slightly soiled, foot of spine and portion of covers very rubbed, with small portion missing from foot of spine. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 17. Torquay: 1971. £14.00
    
    
70. Hunt (Robert), Collected and Edited by POPULAR ROMANCES OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND; or The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall. First and Second Series in One Volume. With a frontis and one other plate, 480 + 32 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, few spots to cloth, slightly shaken, prelims foxed. Chatto and Windus. 1903. £18.00
    
    
71. 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. £24.00
    
    
72. Larn (Richard) & Carter (Clive) CORNISH SHIPWRECKS. Volume 1: The South Coast. Plates, textual illusts, 264pp, dustwrapper. New Impression. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. 1971. £28.00
    
    
73. Latham (Bryan) TREBARTHA THE HOUSE BY THE STREAM. Frontis, 190pp, lacks dustwrapper, ex-lib, with label to front endpaper and stamp to title. Hutchinson of London, 1971. £16.00
    * A history of the house and estate and some of its occupants including the Spore and Rodd families.

    
    

74. Maclean (Sir John) PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. TEATH AND TEMPLE, With 5 plates, 4to, original printed stiff card covers, later cloth spine. London and Bodmin: 1876. £75.00
    * Forming Part XII of `Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall.'

    
    

75. Matthews (G. Forrester) THE ISLES OF SCILLY. Illusts, map endpapers, 253pp, laqcks dustwrapper, couple of cellotape marks to endpapers, indelible stamp to half title and sign where label removed. First edition, London: George Ronald, 1960. £12.00
    
    
76. Merewether (H.A) REPORT OF THE CASE OF THE BOROUGH OF WEST LOOE, in the County of Cornwall, tried before A Committee of the House of Commons, April, 18, 1822. With a Preface, Notes, and Cases, Illustrative of the General History of Boroughs, and of the Law relating to them. lii + 254 +(i)pp, recent paper boards, paper label on spine, uncut. London: A. Strahan, 1823. £145.00
    
    
77. Noall (Cyril) and Farr (Grahame) WRECK AND RESCUE ROUND THE COAST OF CORNWALL. I. The Story of the North Coast Lifeboats. With 14 illusts, 126pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1964. £20.00
    
    
78. Noall (Cyril) and Farr (Grahame) WRECK AND RESCUE ROUND THE COAST OF CORNWALL. III. The Story of the South Coast Lifeboats. Plates, textaul maps, 195pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1965. £20.00
    
    
79. Noall (Cyril) CORNISH SEINES AND SEINERS A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry. Plates, 160pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £28.00
    
    
80. Norden (John), Introduction by (William) Ravenhill JOHN NORDEN'S MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF CORNWALL AND ITS NINE HUNDREDS. Reproduced in facsimile by Collotype in colour and gold with an introduction by William Ravenhill Reardon Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter. With 10 double-page coloured maps, a coloured title, and 2 sketch maps in the text, xiv + 44pp, sm folio, original cloth, gilt. University of Exeter: 1972. £45.00
    
    
81. Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH MINER IN AUSTRALIA. (Cousin Jack Down Under). Illusts, xi + 242pp, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Trewirgie: 1984. £35.00
    
    
82. Penneck & Dunkin's PATENT EQUALIZER, A Machine to be attached to Steam Engines working expansive. Folio, 3pp, signs where once folded, portion approx. 1" sq. torn from inner margin of second leaf, affecting a couple of letters. Vigurs, Printers, Penzance: (1820) £45.00
    * Not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.

    
    

83. Peter (Richard) & (Otho Bathurst) THE HISTORIES OF LAUNCESTON AND DUNHEVED, in the County of Cornwall. Illusts., and folding maps, vi + (ii) + 423pp, few small spots to partly faded original cloth. First edition, Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1885. £120.00
    * Presentation inscription, on the title-page, from the authors to Johanna Peter of Kentucky.

    
    

84. Pevsner (Nicholas) CORNWALL. (Buildings of England series). Plates, double-page map, 251pp, original wraps, slightly rubbed to edges, small ink stain to top wrap slightly affecting first leaf. First edition, Penguin. 1951. £14.00
    
    
85. Preen (Harvey) THE GIDDY OX. The Story of a Family Holiday. Illustrations by Carl Thrift and from Photographs by Madeleine Thrift and the Author. xii + 211pp, original cloth. 1900. £30.00
    * Scarce. A humorous account of a holiday at Oakcarne farm, near Delabole.

    
    

86. Provis (John) of Truro TABLES OF THE MOST USEFUL KIND, TO FACILITATE BUSINESS IN SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE COPPER TRADE, Never before Printed, and which will apply to almost every individual concerned therein; from Original Calculations, made with the Greatest Circumspection. 263 + (1)pp, 4to, later qtr calf, spine slightly rubbed and faded, slight spotting to prelims. First edition, Truro: Printed for the Author, by J. Tregoning at the Cornish Press. 1801. £160.00
    
    
87. Quiller-Couch (A.T), Edited by THE CORNISH MAGAZINE. Volume 1 only. Numerous illusts, 488pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial cloth, covers lightly rubbed, few small marks, front inner hinge strained. Truro: Joseph Pollard. 1898. £30.00 --- See sample text
    * Includes stories, poetry and articles on St. Buryan, Port Eliot, Wesleys in Cornwall, Dolcoath, etc., etc.

    
    

88. Rogers (John Jope) OPIE AND HIS WORKS: Being a Catalogue of 760 Pictures by John Opie, R.A. Preceeded by A Biographical Sketch. xv + 247pp, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges. London and Truro: 1878. £95.00
    
    
89. Rowe (John) CORNWALL IN THE AGE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. With introduction by A.L. Rowse and E.V. Thompson. xiv + 375pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Second Enlarged Edition, St. Austell: Cornish Hillside Publications, 1993. £22.00
    
    
90. Rowse (A.L) TUDOR CORNWALL. Portrait of a Society. With 8 plates, 4 folding maps. 462pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. £20.00
    
    
91. Russell (Vivien) WEST PENWITH SURVEY. With 2 maps, 111 pages, oblong 8vo, original card covers. Cornwall Archaeological Society. Truro: 1971. £12.00
    
    
92. Shaw (Thomas) A HISTORY OF CORNISH METHODISM. Plates, 145 + (iii)pp adverts, few nicks to dustwrapper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1967. £30.00
    
    
93. Stannaries LAWS OF THE STANNARIES OF CORNWALL, Made at the Convocation or Parliament of Tinners, at Truro, Sept. 13 Anno 27 Geo. II. In which the Laws made 22 Jac. I. 12 Car. I. 4 Jac. II. Are Recited and Confirmed. To which are added The Laws made at Truro, 2 Annae Reg. 126pp, full contemporary unlettered calf, raised bands, rubbed to edges, small portion of calf torn from top board, top corner torn from front endpaper. A clean copy. Printed by Order of the Convocation. (No place or date given) c1760. £225.00
    * Boase & Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, page 1010 gives the place and date as London 1760.

    
    

94. Step (Edward) A NATURALIST'S HOLIDAY. Idle Hours on the Cornish Coast. With 75 illustrations by Theo Carreras, Mabel E. Step, and the Author. Four of the plates are coloured, 316 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. London: Thomas Nelson, c1905. £24.00
    
    
95. Stockdale (F.W.L) EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry. Remains of Antiquity..... Frontis, engraved and printed title pages, a folding engraved map and 48 plates, xi + 171 + 8pp, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, outer hinges split at head of spine for approx. 1", small portion missing from head of spine, leather label on spine, occasional foxing and off-setting, signs where label removed from front endpaper. LARGE PAPER COPY. First edition, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1824. £155.00
    
    
96. Thomas (Charles) CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES OF CAMBORNE. Plates and textual illusts, 206pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, St. Austell: 1967. £30.00
    * There is a typed letter signed by the author loosely inserted.

    
    

97. Todd (A.C) BEYOND THE BLAZE A Biography of Davies Gilbert. 293pp, original cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to edges with few short tears. D. Bradford Barton Ltd. Truro: 1967. £22.00
    
    
98. Treffry (Rev. Richard) LETTERS ON THE ATONEMENT. 215 + (2)pp of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed, ex-lib. with a couple of indelible stamps to front endpapers, occasional embossed stamp, and signs where label removed from front endpaper. Second Edition, London: John Mason, 1845. £18.00
    * Treffry was born in Camelford, became a Wesleyan Minister, and died in Penzance.

    
    

99. Venning (James) HISTORICAL NOTICES With Illustrations and Map of TWENTY PARISHES IN EAST CORNWALL. Part I. contains Historical Notes and Legends dating from 500 years before the Norman Conquest, to 1901 in the 20th Century (revised). Part II. Historical Notes from 1901 to 1934. Part III. Hymns and poems composed by the Publisher from 1901 to 1934. Part IV. A brief review of the Author's adventurous and strenuous career. Illusts, folding map, 237 + 134 + ivpp, original cloth, partly faded, small nick to top of rear outer hinge. Fourth Edition, with Illustrations. November, Plymouth: 1934. £60.00
    * As usual this copy does not have the minor Parts III and IV found in some copies of the Fourth edition.

    
    

100. Walke (Bernard) PLAYS FROM ST. HILARY. ix + [i] + 38 + 44 + 35, partly faded dustwrapper. First edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1939. £25.00
     
     
101. Walke (Bernard) TWENTY YEARS AT ST. HILARY. vii + 307pp, original cloth, spine and back cover partly faded and slightly spotty. London: Methuen, 1936. £18.00
     
     
102. Wallis (John) THE CORNWALL REGISTER; containing collections relative to the Past & Present State of the 209 parishes; forming the County, Archdeaconry, Parliamentary Divisions and Poor Law Unions of Cornwall. To which is added a brief view of the adjoining towns and parishes in Devon from Hartland to Plymouth. 476pp, original cloth, new spine, and endpapers, occasional spotting. Bodmin: Liddell and Son. 1847. £85.00
     
     
103. Weston (David) 'EPIC' VOYAGE TAMAR TO TRURO. Map, 32 coloured plates, 93pp, 4to, dustwrapper protected by loose plastic cover. Reprinted, Mevagissey: David Weston Gallery, 1994. £14.00
     
     
104. Whitfeld (Rev. H.J) SCILLY AND ITS LEGENDS. With colour printed half-title, and printed title, viii + 224pp, original embossed cloth, lightly rubbed, recent endpapers, signs where number partly erased from verso of title. First edition, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1852. £130.00
     
     
105. William (Charles William) CORNISH BELLS and other Carols and Verses. Portrait frontis, 108pp, original cloth. Netherton and Worth, Truro: 1910. £24.00
     * Williams was the Bishop of Truro.

     
     

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106. Acland (Anne) A DEVON FAMILY The Story of the Aclands. Illusts, map endpapers, xviii + 170pp, partly faded dustwrapper. 1981. £16.00
     
     
107. Andriette (Eugene A) DEVON AND EXETER IN THE CIVIL WAR. Maps and illusts, 237pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1971. £28.00
     
     
108. Arber (E.A. Newell) THE COAST SCENERY OF NORTH DEVON. Being an account of the Geological features of the Coast-Line extending from Porlock in Somerset to Boscastle in North Cornwall. Illustrated by seventy photographs, twelve text-figures and two maps. xxiv + 261pp, short tear to dustwrapper, small stain to fore-edge. First published 1911. Kingsmead Reprints, Bath: 1969. £20.00
     
     
109. Baring-Gould (S) EARLY REMINISCENCES 1834 - 1864. Illusts, xvi + 350pp, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, occasional foxing mainly to prelims. Reprinted, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London: 1924. £35.00
     
     
110. Bearman (Robert), Edited and with an Introduction by CHARTERS OF THE REDVERS FAMILY AND THE EARLDOM OF DEVON 1090-1217. Frontis, sketch maps, xvi + 227pp, paperback. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 37. Torquay: 1994. £15.00
     
     
111. Blood (Rev. William) THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD. A SERMON PREACHED ON THE DESTRUCTION, BY FIRE OF "THE AMAZON," By William Blood, of Clifton Parish Church; and at St. Andrew's Chapel, Plymouth, the first Sunday after his landing, on having escaped from the burning ship. Reported by W.V. Edsall, short-hand writer.... Together with Lines written after the Sermon, by the Rev. Thomas Grinfield, M.A. Frontis, 54pp, 12mo, contemporary full embossed leather, a.e.g. small amount of foxing to prelims. London: Hamilton & Co., Bristol: J.M. Jones, (1852) £65.00
     * Very scarce. It contains a detailed account of the voyage and subsequent disaster of the Amazon in the Bay of Biscay. Blood escaped in a boat with, amongst others, a Lieut. Grylls.
     Not found on the Devon Libraries internet site. The last 2 leaves advertise other works by Blood including an announcement for a pamphlet which 'Shortly will be published' on "The Amazon". It also mentions a pamphlet already in circulation.

     
     

112. Boggis (Rev. R.J) HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S TORQUAY. Illusts, xii + 301pp, original cloth, ex-lib. with paper label, to front pastedown, stamp to verso of title, showing through to title, number to base of spine, slightly shaken. First edition, Torquay: 1930. £16.00
     
     
113. Bourne (John), Ed. and Intro. GEORGIAN TIVERTON. The Political Memoranda of Beavis Wood 1768 - 98. Frontis, xxvii + 180pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 29. Torquay: 1986. £12.00
     
     
114. Burnard (Robert) ROBERT BURNARD'S DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS The Devon Books Facsimile Subscriber Edition. Including a new Foreword by Robert Burnard's granddaughter, Lady Sylvia Sayer. Illusts, (23) + 56 + 60 + 74 + 84pp, dustwrapper. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES. Originally privately published in 1890, 1891, 1893 and 1894. Devon Books. 1986. £65.00
     * 'Illustrated with a number of previously unpublished photographs from Lady Sayer's private collection.'

     
     

115. Chitty (Susan) CHARLES KINGSLEY'S LANDSCAPE. Map, illusts, 48pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1976. £10.00
     
     
116. Crossing's AMID DEVONIA'S ALPS; or Wanderings & Adventures on Dartmoor. Edited and with an Introduction by Brian Le Messurier. 142pp, original cloth, few marks to cloth. Originally published 1888. Reprinted, Newton Abbot: 1974. £10.00
     
     
117. Cruwys (Margaret C.S) A CRUWYS MORCHARD NOTEBOOK 1066-1874. Illusts, 71pp, few small spots to original cloth. Exeter and London: James Townsend, 1939. £28.00
     * Includes lists of Rectors, Overseers and Churchwardens.

     
     

118. Curtis (J. Sydney) DEVONSHIRE: Historical & Pictorial. A Complete Story of Devon from the Earliest Times, together with Views and Reviews of All Places of Interest, and a Concise Gazetteer.... Illustrated with about 200 Photogravures. Folio, 189 + (iii) + viii pages of adverts, original cloth, covers lightly rubbed, damp spotted towards fore-edges of boards. Topographical Publishing Co. Southampton: (1896) £40.00
     
     
119. Dartmouth THE CASE OF THE BOROUGH OF DARTMOUTH, as stated by Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., M.P. in Committee on The Reform Bill, February 23, 1832. 15pp, disbound, ex-lib. with stamp to title, and a couple to verso. London: John Murray. 1832. £35.00
     
     
120. Devon Notes & Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. VOLUME 5. From January 1908 to October 1909. Part I Miscellaneous. Plates, iv + 311pp, cloth, ex-lib with label to pastedowns and a couple of stamps, small strip torn from head of spine. Exeter: 1909. £28.00
     * Includes articles on:- Wrecks in Bigbury and Start Bays; Reynolds Family of Pinhoe; Captain William Cocks of Plymouth; Granville Family; Silk Culture in Devon, etc., etc.

     
     

121. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... [Buckfastleigh, July, 1913.] VOLUME 45. lllusts some of which are folding, 531pp, binders cloth. Plymouth: 1913. £28.00
     * Includes articles on:- Torbay; Freemans of Ashburton; Buckfast Abbey and Kingsbridge; Hatherleigh; Savery, Newcomen and the Steam Engine; Totnes in the Civil War, etc.

     
     

122. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. [Exeter, July, 1915.] VOLUME 47. lllusts some of which are folding, 440pp, original printed wraps. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1915. £25.00
     * Includes articles on:- Walrond Screen in Seaton Church; William Pengelly; Tavistock History, Berry Pomeroy Castle; Manors in Exminster Hundred; Bideford under the Restored Monarchy, etc, etc.

     
     

123. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. [Totnes, July, 1920.] VOLUME 52. lllusts, 399pp, original wraps. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1920. £25.00
     * Includes articles on:- Baptismal Fonts in Devon; Devon Farm-House; Joseph Pitts of Exeter, etc.

     
     

124. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... [Torquay, June, 1936.] VOLUME 68. lllusts some of which are folding, x + 449pp, binders cloth, one section of text slightly loosening. Torquay: 1936. £18.00
     * Includes articles on:- Devonshire Folk-Lore; Huguenots in Exeter; Surnames of Devon; Newton St Cyres and Norton, etc.

     
     

125. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Crediton.] VOLUME 87. lllusts, 397pp, original wraps. Torquay: Devonshire Press. 1955. £12.00
     * Includes articles on:- Fire Beacons in Devon; Devonshire Ball-Clay Trade; John Gay; Coffinswell, Ideford, etc.

     
     

126. Doidge's WESTERN COUNTIES ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL 1938. Illusts, including coloured folding plate, adverts, 461pp, later unlettered cloth. Plymouth: Hoyten and Cole, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1938. £15.00
     * Contains stories and many items of useful information including:- list of fairs in Devon, Medical Practitioners in the Three Towns, Plymouth Councillors, etc., etc.

     
     

127. Doveton (F.B) DELIGHTFUL DEVON Being Ten Sketches of Rambles, Fishing, and Otherwise, in Devon. (Reprinted in part from 'A Fisherman's Fancies'). 64pp, original card covers, spine slightly worn at foot. 1896. £25.00
     
     
128. Duffy (Eamon) THE VOICES OF MOREBATH Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Plates, maps endpapers, xv + (i) + 232pp, dustwrapper. Yale University Press. London and New Haven: 2001. £12.00
     
     
129. Duncan (Alexander G.) THE LONG BRIDGE OF BIDEFORD and Bideford under the Restored Monarchy. Frontis, 70pp, original cloth. First edition. Bideford: 1930. £18.00
     
     
130. Dunstan (G.R), Edited by THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume II. 417pp, original printed wrap, partly faded. Canterbury and York Society. Torquay: Devonshire Press, 1966. £16.00
     
     
131. Dunstan (G.R), Edited by THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. VOLUME III. 398pp, original printed paper wraps, partly faded, lower wrap loose and ragged. Canterbury and York Society with Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1967. £18.00
     
     
132. Fenner (Robin A) TAVISTOCK 1900-1930 The First Thirty Years. With 84 photographic postcard illustrations and 14 artistic postcard illustrations, 102pp, oblong 8vo, original decorative boards. Callington: Penwell, (1985) £10.00
     
     
133. Gover (J.E.B), Mawer (A) and Stenton (F.M) THE PLACE NAMES OF DEVON. lx + 334 and xiv + 335-754pp, 2 volumes, plus a separate slipcase containing maps, few short tears to dustwrappers. First edition. Cambridge at the University Press: 1931-2. £75.00
     
     
134. Gray (Todd), Edited with an Introduction by DEVON HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS, 1627-59: Part 1. Sir Richard and Lady Lucy Reynell of Forde (1627-48), John Willoughby of Leyhill (1644-6) and Sir Edward Wise of Sydenham (1655-9). Frontis, plates, sketch maps, lviii + 285pp, paperback. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 38. Torquay: 1995. £15.00
     
     
135. Gray (Todd), Edited by EXETER The Travellers' Tales, Volume 1. Illusts, xvi + 196pp, dustwrapper. The Mint Press, Exeter: 2000. £12.00
     * 'Contains 52 first-hand accounts of travellers to Exeter'. Includes accounts by Elihu Burritt, Richard Warner, John Skinner, William Maton, Stebbing Shaw, William Stukeley, Celia Fiennes, John Leland, etc.

     
     

136. Harper (Charles G) THE SOUTH DEVON COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts, xiii + 304pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper, with tape repairs to verso. First edition, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907. £50.00
     
     
137. Hemery (Eric) HIGH DARTMOOR Land and People. Numerous plates, maps, xii + 1073pp, original cloth, contained within original cloth slipcase, name to front endpaper. Robert Hale, London: 1983 £75.00
     
     
138. Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF WALTER DE STAPELDON, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1307 - 1326). Folding facsimile frontispiece, xxxiv + 584pp + 7pp list of subscribers, original cloth, rubbed to edges, early library stamp to title, and inscription to front pastedown. London: George Bell, Exeter; Henry S. Eland, 1892. £45.00
     
     
139. Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTERS OF WALTER BRONESCOMBE, (A.D. 1257 - 1280). and PETER QUIVIL (A.D. 1280 - 1291). Bishop of Exeter. With some Records of the Episcopate of Bishop Thomas de Bytton (A.D. 1292 - 1307); also the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. (A.D. 1291 - (Diocese of Exeter). With 2 folding facsimiles and 1 other plate, xxxviii + 504pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, slightly shaken, ownership names in ink to front endpapers. London : George Bell and Sons, Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1889. £40.00
     
     
140. Martin (E.W) DARTMOOR Sketch map and 25 plates, 230pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. First edition, London: Robert Hale, 1958. £10.00
     
     
141. Page (John Lloyd Warden) THE COASTS OF DEVON AND LUNDY ISLAND Their Towns, Villages, Scenery, Antiquities and Legends. With Map and Illustrations. xix + 437pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, recased with original spine laid down, and new endpapers. First edition, London: Horace Cox, 1895. £55.00
     * H.C. Dawkin's copy with his name to front endpaper. Dawkins was for many years the chairman of Lundy Field Society.

     
     

142. Perry-Keene (Rev. C.J) HERRICK'S PARISH DEAN PRIOR, with stories and songs of the Dean Bourn. Frontis, and one other plate, 87pp, original cloth. Plymouth: 1927. £15.00
     
     
143. Phillpotts (Adelaide Eden) ILLYRION and other Poems. 60 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, dustwrapper. First edition, 1916. £18.00
     
     
144. Phillpotts (Henry), Bishop of Exeter REPORT OF THE INQUIRY INSTITUTED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF EXTER, As Visitor of the Orphans Home, established by The SISTERS OF MERCY, At Morice Town, Devonport, into the Truth of Certain Statements Published in the "Devonport Telegraph," February 10th 1849. 80 + ivpp, disbound. Plymouth: Roger Lidstone, 1849. £45.00
     
     
145. Plymouth Institution TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. With coloured folding map, plates some of which are folding, 360pp, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on spine, occasional foxing and off-setting. Plymouth: Printed and Published by Rowe. 1830. £185.00
     * Includes chapters on Geology between the Plym and Tamar by Prideaux; Bridge over the Lary by Rendel; Dartmoor by Rowe.

     
     

146. Polwhele (Rev. R) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. With 24 full page engraved plates and a large folding map by John Cary. With a very comprehensive and hitherto unpublished manuscript index included. Introduction specially written by A.L. Rowse. Folio, 3 volumes, dustwrapper's. Originally published Exeter: 1793-1806. Reprinted, Kohler and Coombes, Dorking: 1977. £350.00
     * Includes a facsimile of the hitherto unpublished manuscript index compiled by the antiquary James Davidson, of Axminster. This index is more comprehensive than the one compiled by Polwhele.

     
     

147. Portman (D) EXETER HOUSES 1400 - 1700. With 39 plates, and 20 textual illusts, x + 133pp, roy 8vo, torn and ragged dustwrapper with pieces missing. University of Exeter: 1966. £32.00 --- See sample text
     
     
148. Prideaux (Edith K) SUTCOMBE CHURCH AND ITS BUILDERS. Folding frontis and other plates, lacks folding pedigrees in pocket at the front, 46pp + 2pp. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913.... Bound with.... Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. Illusts, 200pp. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913. 2 volumes bound in one, ex-lib. with the occasional indelible stamp, blind stamp to top board, label to front pastedown, short tear to one margin, original cloth, spine slightly darkened. Exeter: 1913. £45.00
     * This volume forms Part 2 of vol 8 of Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.

     
     

149. Prince (John), Vicar of Berry Pomeroy DANMONII ORIENTALES ILLUSTRES: or, The Worthies of Devon, wherein the Lives and Fortunes of the Most famous Divines, Statesman, Swordsmen, Physicians, Writers, and other eminent Persons.... With textual woodcut coats of arms, (xvi) + 600pp, folio, full early calf boards, neatly rebacked with raised bands and gilt tooled, leather label, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., boards very slightly marked and rubbed to edges, usual occasional foxing, a few pages at the front and several at the rear lightly browned. First edition, Exeter: Printed by Sam. Farley, for Awnsham and John Churchill... London; and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop in Exon, 1701. £360.00
     
     
150. Pyke (Richard) EDGEHILL COLLEGE: 1884-1957. A Triumph of Faith. Illusts, 74pp, 12mo, portions torn from dustwrapper, ex-lib. with paper label, to front pastedown, stamp to verso of title and number to base of spine. 1957. £10.00
     
     
151. Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF AXMINSTER AND AXMOUTH IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 53pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1931. £18.00
     
     
152. Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF BRAUNTON, SHIRWELL AND FREMINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 136pp, original wraps. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. 1935. £20.00
     
     
153. Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF PLYMPTON AND ERMINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume, 88pp, original printed wraps. Torquay: The Devonshire Press, Ltd. 1933. £22.00
     
     
154. Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF BLACK TORRINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 57pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1932. £18.00
     
     
155. Rowe (J. Brooking), Intro. RICHARD PEEKE OF TAVISTOCK. His Three to One, The Commendatory Verses and the Play of Dick of Devonshire. With an introduction by J. Brooking-Rowe. x + 100pp, recent cloth. Exeter: 1905. £17.00
     
     
156. Rowe (Margery M), and Draisey (John M), Edited by, Trans. and Intro. THE RECEIVERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE CITY OF EXETER 1304 - 1353. Frontis, xxxi + 128pp, paperback with dustwrapper. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 32. Torquay: 1989. £12.00
     
     
157. Rowe (Samuel) PERAMBULATION OF THE ANCIENT AND ROYAL FOREST OF DARTMOOR and the Venville Precincts.... With notices on the Climate and Agricultural Capabilities.... The Illustrations from Drawings by C.F. Williams. With a frontis, and 9 lithographic plates, folding map, iv + 298pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, chipped to head and foot of spine, occasional light foxing, ownership inscription on front endpaper. First Edition. Plymouth: 1848. £90.00
     
     
158. Russell (Percy) A HISTORY OF TORQUAY and the Famous Anchorage of Torbay. Illustrations, 206pp, folding map, 206pp, dustwrapper. Published by The Torquay Natural History Society: 1960. £25.00
     
     
159. Skinner (B.G) HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Brixham's Poet and Priest. With 3 plates, x + 164pp, occasional light spotting to prelim, slightly faded dustwrapper. Exeter: 1974. £18.00
     
     
160. Stanyer (Jeffrey) A HISTORY OF DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL 1889-1989. Illusts, 105pp, original cloth. 1989. £12.00
     
     
161. Tocker (Mary Ann) TRIAL OF MARY ANN TOCKER, for an Alleged Libel, on Mr. R. Gurney, Vice-Warden of the Stannary-Court, Devon, with The Defence Verbatim as Delivered by the Defendant; to which are prefixed, some introductory remarks; together with An Address to the Jury by Miss Tocker. Lacks the frontis, 40pp, disbound, title partly darkened and discoloured. London:- Printed and published at the request, and for the benefit of Miss Tocker, by Henry White, Sen. 287, Strand, and may be had of all Booksellers, in Town and Country. (1818) £65.00
     * Not found on the Devon Libraries internet site.

     
     

162. Torr (C) SMALL TALK AT WREYLAND. First Series. Illusts, 120pp, uncut in the original qtr buckram paper boards, corner slightly rubbed. Reprinted, Cambridge: 1918. £16.00
     * 'Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign.... The land is on the east side of the Wrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh.' Preface.

     
     

163. Torr (Cecil) BOVEY TRACEY CHURCH-RATES AND POOR RATES 1596-1729. 23pp, pamphlet, original printed wraps. For Private Circulation. Plymouth: 1928. £12.00
     
     
164. Victoria County History, Edited by W. Page. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON. VOLUME 1. Maps, plans, illusts, xxv + 630pp, 4to, original cloth, few small light spots to cloth. First edition, London: 1906. £75.00
     
     
165. Warne (Arthur) CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEVON. lllusts, 184pp, original cloth, worn dustwrapper, lacks front endpaper, pencil notes to rear endpaper and pastedown.. First edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1969. £18.00
     
     
166. Watson (Rev. H.W), Rector of Feniton A DEVONSHIRE VILLAGE IN THE OLDEN DAYS. With tipped in frontis, illusts., 40pp, original cloth. Southwoods (Exeter) Ltd. (1929) £20.00
     * The village is Feniton. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Associations.

     
     

167. Whitfeld (Henry Francis) PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT IN TIMES OF WAR AND PEACE. Numerous illusts, xi + 560pp + 48pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed spotty, inner hinges almost broken, small amount of foxing. With a prize label to front pastedown from Tavistock Grammar School. Plymouth and Devonport: 1900. £35.00
     * A cheaper copy than usual.

     
     

168. Wilson & Phillips, Printer and Publisher WHO'S WHO IN DEVONSHIRE. 294pp, uncut in the original cloth, spine slightly soiled. Numbered Limited Edition. Hereford: Wilson and Phillips, 1934. £35.00
     
     
169. Wood (W) Printer and Publisher THE THREE TOWNS' ALMANACK, and Daily Tide Tables for the Year 1863..... Lacks map, 84pp, + several unnumbered local adverts leaves, 12mo, original printed wraps, wraps slightly rubbed, few in marginal figures. Devonport: Printed and Published by W. Wood. 1863. £28.00
     * Includes lists for Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse of M.P.'s, councillors, magistrates, steamers and traders, fairs and market days, tide tables, etc., etc.

     
     

170. Wood (W) Printer and Publisher THE THREE TOWNS' ALMANACK, and Daily Tide Tables for the Year 1872..... With folding map, 86 + 44pp (local adverts), 12mo, original printed wraps, wraps slightly rubbed and partly faded. Devonport: Printed and Published by W. Wood. 1872. £50.00
     * Includes lists for Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse of M.P.'s, councillors, magistrates, steamers and traders, fairs and market days, tide tables, etc., etc.

     
     

171. Worth (R. Hansford) DARTMOOR. Compiled from the author's published works and edited by G.M. Spooner & F.S. Russell. Numerous photographic plates & diagrams, map endpapers, xiv + (ii) + 523pp, torn and creased dustwrapper with some repairs to verso. First edition. Published by the Executors of the late Richard Hansford Worth, Plymouth: 1953. £22.00
     
     
172. Worth (R.N) GUIDE TO THE THREE TOWNS. And Neighbourhood. With a folding map, and textual illustrations, 136pp, sm 8vo, original cloth slightly rubbed to edges with a few spots, recent endpapers. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son, c1886? £70.00
     * There is only one copy listed on the Devon internet site. It is dated 1876 and has 124 pages. This copy appears to be a later enlarged edition. This copy has the following on the front board:- 'Excursion to Plymouth of Colonial & Indian Visitors July 26th to 28th 1886. Guide to the Three Towns Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse.' I have not been able to ascertain whether this edition was produced to coincide with the excursion, or whether this copy was a bespoke copy. No copy found on either the B.L or COPAC internet sites.

     
     

173. Worth (R.N) TOURIST'S GUIDE TO NORTH DEVON and the Exmoor District. Folding map, 119 + 32 pages of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, couple of short tears to map, inner hinges cracked. Fourth Edition, 1886. £17.00
     
     
174. Wrey (Florence) TAWSTOCK CHURCH North Devon. Written and Illustrated by Florence Wrey. 32pp, sm 4to, original boards, some spotting to boards. Barnstaple: Marks Brothers, 107, High Street. 1892. £22.00
     
     
175. Wright (W.H.K) THE BLUE FRIARS: Their Sayings and Doings. Being A New Chapter in the History of Old Plymouth. With Portraits and other Illustrations. Folding frontis, a few plates coloured, viii + 224pp, original cloth, damp marked to top corner of boards, internally sound. 1889. £16.00
     
     

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176. Barnes (William) POEMS OF RURAL LIFE in Common English. xii + 200 + 4pp (publishers adverts), sm 8vo, original cloth, chipped to head of spine and small portion of back outer hinge. First edition, 1868. £42.00
     
     
177. Charities THE CHARITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Selected from the Voluminous Reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales, which began the 58th Year of the Reign of Geo. III. and ended the 7th of Will. IV. Folio, 110pp + 5 - 182pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed, small strips torn from calf on corners, inner hinges partly cracked though sound, some spotting mainly to front and rear. London: Sold by James Newman. 1840. £85.00
     * Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. Consists of 'Report of the Commissioners.... ' and 'Further Report.... ' Originally issued as blue books, this is a re-issue with a new title-page.
     With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker.

     
     

178. Coker (John) (Thomas Gerard) A SURVEY OF DORSETSHIRE. Containing the Antiquities and Natural History of that County. With a Particular Description of all the Places of Note, and Antient Seats, And a Copious Genealogical Account of Three Hundred of the Principal Families. With their Arms fully Described and curiously Engraved.... Publish'd from an Original Manuscript, written by the Reverend Mr Coker, of Mapowder in the said County. With a folding engraved map, 6 plates of arms, 128 + 4 index of persons and places + 16 page Index + 5pp, dustwrapper. Originally published London, Printed for J. Wilcox. 1732. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Reprinted, Dorset Publishing Company, Sherborne: 1980. £35.00
     * Although stated on the title-page as being written by Coker it was actually written by Thomas Gerard in the 1620's. This is the second edition of the first separately published history of the county.

     
     

179. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Edited by J.M.J. Fletcher PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From June to December 1928. VOLUME 50. With illusts, cii + 317pp, original cloth. Dorchester: F.G. Longman. 1929. £20.00
     * Includes articles on:- Disc Barrows of Dorset; Ancient Mural Paintings in Dorset churches; Dorset Deeds, etc., etc.

     
     

180. Good (Ronald) WEYLAND. THE STORY OF WEYMOUTH AND ITS COUNTRYSIDE. With illustrations by the author. 116pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Second Edition. Dorchester: Longmans of Dorchester, The Friary Press, 1946. £20.00
     
     
181. Hutchins (John) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Compiled from the Best and most Ancient Historians, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, and other Valuable Records and MSS.... With a Copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the County: Interspersed with Some Remarkable Particulars of Natural History.... Volume 4 only. Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, and Improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. With 19 full page engraved plates, numerous pedigrees and engravings in the text, 534 + clxiii + (1)pp, folio, uncut in half morocco, cloth sides, couple of leaves and a few plates lightly waterstained, raised bands, penultimate leaf has several tears, is partly waterstained and has been neatly repaired. Westminster: Printed by John Bowyer Nichols, 1870. £255.00
     * With the Indices of Places, Persons, Arms, for the complete set of 4 volumes. Includes the Hundreds of Cerne, Totbury, Modbury, Redlane, Sherborne, Sturminster Newton, Whiteway, and Yetminster.

     
     

182. Hutchins (John) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Compiled from the Best and most Ancient Historians, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, and other Valuable Records and MSS.... Volume 3 only. Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, and Improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. With 33 of 34 full page engraved plates, lacks the plate of Kingston Lacy House, numerous pedigrees and engravings in the text, 755pp, folio, uncut in early buckram, lightly faded and rubbed, leather label on spine, a few plates lightly waterstained to margins. Westminster: Printed by John Bowyer Nichols, 1868. £255.00
     * Includes the Town and Borough of Shaftesbury, and the Hundreds of Badbury, Cogdean, Cranborne, Knowlton, Loosebarrow, Sixpenny Handley; Upwinborne, Wimborne St. Giles, Brownshal, Buckland Newton, Liberty of Gillingham, and Liberty of Sturminster Marshal.

     
     

183. Hyland (Paul) PURBECK The Ingrained Island. With photographs by Bob Groves. 240pp, dustwrapper. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1978. £14.00
     
     
184. Kelly (E.R), Edited by KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1880. xiv + pages numbered 823 - 1047, original cloth, very slightly to edges. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co. 1880. £150.00
     
     
185. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1890. With folding map, pages numbered 1151-1426 + 56 pages of adverts, original cloth. £135.00
     
     
186. Popham (David & Rita) THE BOOK OF BOURNEMOUTH. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 160pp, dustwrapper. Limited Edition. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books Limited. 1985. £24.00
     * Signed by the authors on title-page.

     
     

187. Sibun (Doris) DORSET BRASSES and the people they Commemorate. Illusts, 46 + (4)pp, card covers, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Sherborne: The Abbey Press. 1974. £10.00
     
     
188. Wanklyn (C) LYME REGIS. A Retrospect. Numerous plates, some of which are folding, many coloured, xiv + 284pp, 4to, original cloth. A nice copy. Second edition, revised and enlarged. London: Hatchards, 1927. £135.00
     
     
189. Weymouth Corporation WEYMOUTH The English Naples. Illusts, 48pp, adverts. original bevelled cloth boards. 190- £28.00 --- See sample text
     
     

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190. Bellows (John), Printer. BICENTENARY "GLOUCESTER JOURNAL" 1722-1922. With 4 mounted photographs, 14pp, small 4to, full vellum, uncut, page edges very slightly browned, boards slightly warped. Nine Numbered Copies Only Printed. Bellows, Gloucester 8th April, 1922. £155.00
     * This address was presented to the directors of the "Gloucester Journal". The photographic reproductions include the first page of number 1 of the Journal, and the title of the first book printed in Gloucester.

     
     

191. [Bigland (R)] AN ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF FAIRFORD, in the County of Gloucester; with a Particular Description of the Stained Glass in the Windows of the Church, Engravings of Ancient Monuments, with Inscriptions, &c. &c. With 4 plates, one of which is folding, 39pp, small 4to, early unlettered half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, top board loose, occasional foxing, circular stain to one plate, frontis, laid down, fore-edge of folding plate creased and reinforced to verso, short crease to title, the blank verso of last leaf has some early ink calculations, lacks rear endpaper. London: Printed by John Nichols, 1791. £95.00
     
     
192. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1936. Volume 58. Illusts, folding maps, v + 307 + 23pp, original wraps, spine slightly darkened. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1937. £16.00
     * Includes articles:- Ancient Woodland of Gloucestershire; Gloucestershire voters in 1710; Iron Age and Saxon burials at Foxcote Manor; Lancaut; Will of Robert Huntington, etc., etc.

     
     

193. 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.

     
     

194. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Compiled by Kathleen Morgan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 79-90 (1960-1971). 62pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by Glevum Press, 1974. £10.00
     
     
195. Dent (Emma) ANNALS OF WINCHCOMBE AND SUDELEY. Numerous full page and textual illusts, some of which are coloured, xiv + 341pp, 4to, original cloth, outer hinges partly split, covers rubbed to edges. John Murray. 1877. £150.00
     * Signed by the author on the second front endpaper.

     
     

196. Dobell (C.M) MEMOIRS OF OLD CHARLTON KINGS. A Series of Short Papers Written For the Charlton Kings Parish Magazine. Original printed boards, 57pp. Cheltenham: 1898. £30.00
     
     
197. Elliott (C.H.B) WINTERBOURNE Gloucestershire. Illusts, folding plan, 122 + iiipp, dustwrapper. First published 1936. Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. £16.00
     
     
198. Fendley (John), Edited by BISHOP BENSON'S SURVEY OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER 1735 - 1750. xx + 264pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 13. 2000. £22.00
     
     
199. 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. Ashorth Underwood and A.M.G. Campbell. Edward Jenner The Man and his Work. Jenner Trust, c196-

     
     

200. Fowler (Sir James K) HAYLES AND BEAULIEU A Brief History and Guide to Hayles Abbey. A Daughter-House of Beaulieu. With Maps, Ground Plans and Illustrations, some of which are folding. 12mo, original qtr cloth, paper boards, label on spine very slightly chipped. First edition, London: William Heinemann, 1928. £24.00
     * Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper.

     
     

201. Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) ANGLO-SAXON AND MEDIEVAL GLOUCESTER. Folding plan, 101pp, original wraps. Gloucester: 1952. £15.00
     
     
202. Hart (Cyril E) THE FREE MINERS Of the Royal Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Briavels. With a Foreward by Rev. F.W. Potto-Hicks. With 7 plates, xxi + 527pp, original cloth. Gloucester: 1953. £165.00
     
     
203. Hartland (Edwin Sidney), Edited by GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Pamphlet, original printed wraps, spine chipped with some loss, 58pp, stitching loosening, top wrap partly lightly stained. Published by the Folk Lore Society. 1892. £15.00
     
     
204. Henry (F) MEMBERS OF THE BEAUFORT HUNT PAST & PRESENT. 80pp, original cloth, blank lower portion cut from one leaf. With a photograph of a huntsman and his dog pasted to front pastedown. For Private Circulation Only. Cirencester: 1914. £30.00
     
     
205. Jackson (A.B) CATALOGUE OF THE TREES & SHRUBS In the Collection of the late Lieut.-Col. Sir George Lindsay Holford. Numerous plates, viii + (iv) + 206pp, 4to, original cloth, few marks to foot of lower board. Oxford: 1927. £155.00
     * `Gives a list of all species in School Grounds, Arboretum, and Silkwoods.' Barkley. Trees of Westonbirt. Not in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection.

     
     

206. Jennings (John), Printer & Pub. THE A.M.C. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY AND GUIDE TO THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER, Presented by the Gloucester District of the Independent Order of Odd fellows, Manchester Unity, to the Deputies attending the Annual Moveable Committee, held at Gloucester, Whit-Week, 1888. Illusts, 66pp, + numerous adverts, original printed wraps, small amount of light spotting. Gloucester: Printed and Published by John Jennings, Brunswick Road. 1888. £28.00
     
     
207. Judge (Rev. G.H, Bancroft) THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WESLEYAN METHODISM IN CHELTENHAM AND DISTRICT. A Souvenir of the Cheltenham Wesleyan Circuit Centenary Celebrations Held in 1912. Plates, 88 + errata, 12mo, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges. Cheltenham: S.R. Grove, 1912. £28.00
     * With portraits, and photographic illustrations of chapels in the circuit.

     
     

208. Lindley (E.S) WOTTON UNDER EDGE. Men and Affairs of a Cotswold Wool Town. With plates, textual illusts, a folding map and a folding plan, 344pp, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic sleeve, presentation label on front endpaper. First edition, London: Museums Press, 1962. £30.00
     
     
209. Lysons (Rev. Samuel) GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACHIEVEMENTS.... Religious, Moral, Social & Scientific. Pamphlet, 59pp, lacks wraps. Second Edition, Enlarged. 1862. £18.00
     
     
210. Miller (Celia), Edited by THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THOMAS SMITH OF IRLEY FARM HAILES, GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1865 - 71. xlv + 196pp, original cloth slightly faded. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1985. £18.00
     
     
211. Moody (T) WINTERBOURNE HOUSE. The Collegiate School. Illusts, (v) + 147pp, short tear to slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Privately printed, Dursley: F, Bailey, (1977) £12.00
     
     
212. Newenham (W.T) ANTIQUATED SPOTS ROUND CHELTENHAM. With 3 woodcut illustrations, 143pp, 12mo, original cloth, gilt, cover slightly soiled. (1851) £35.00
     * Includes, Prestbury Camp, Bishop's Cleeve, Seven Springs, Leckhampton, and Winchcombe.

     
     

213. Nicholls (H.G) IRON MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIMES: as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of the Forest of Dean, historically related, on the basis of contemporary records, and exact local investigations: also "The Book of Dennis," now first transcribed from the oldest existing MS, with notes. Frontis, woodcuts, iii + 82pp, original cloth, ex-lib. with label and stamp to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. First edition. 1866. £100.00 --- See sample text
     
     
214. Norman (George) PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, with some account of the Older Lodges of the Province. With 24 plates, xii + 396pp, roy. 8vo, original cloth, spine lightly faded, cloth slightly cockled, top outer hinge has small hole to cloth. Published by Subscription under Authority of Provincial Grand Lodge. Cheltenham: 1911. £55.00
     
     
215. Painter (K.S) THE SEVERN BASIN. Regional Archaeologies. Illusts, 4to, 72pp, original pictorial covers, very lightly rubbed to edges. 1964. £10.00
     
     
216. Purnell (Frances) & Williams (Henry W) JUBILEE HISTORY of the Gloucester Co-operative and Industrial Society Limited. Illusts, xiv + 284pp, original cloth, lettering on spine slightly rubbed. Gloucester: 1910. £22.00
     
     
217. Ripley (Peter), and Jurica (John), Trans. & Edited by A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTERS OF THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1641 - 1838. xxx + 330pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 4. 1991. £24.00
     
     
218. [Roberts (Mary)] THE ANNALS OF MY VILLAGE: Being A Calendar of Nature Every Month in the Year. Frontis, 3 plates, iv + 362 + (2)pp, publishers adverts, uncut in the original cloth, rubbed to edges, and partly faded, outer hinges partly split though sound, plates slightly spotty and off-set. First edition, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. £85.00
     * The village is Sheepscombe.

     
     

219. Saville (Alan), Edited by ARCHAEOLOGY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE From the Earliest Hunters to the Industrial Age. Essays dedicated to Helen O'Neil and the late Elsie Clifford. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 352pp, paperback. Cheltenham: 1984. £12.00
     
     
220. Sibly (T. Franklin) and Lloyd (W) IRON ORES - THE HAEMATITES OF THE FOREST OF DEAN AND SOUTH WALES. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain. Volume 10. Second Edition, Revised by W. Lloyd. Textual illusts, 101 + ix-xiipp, original printed wraps, spine rubbed with small portion missing from foot. Second edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1927. £22.00
     
     
221. 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.... '

     
     

222. Taylor (Charles S) AN ANALYSIS OF THE DOMESDAY SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 348pp, recent cloth. Published for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol: 1889. £45.00
     
     
223. Trotter (F.M) and Rose (W.C.C) GEOLOGY OF THE FOREST OF DEAN COAL AND IRON-ORE FIELD. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Plates and textual illusts, 95pp, original cloth. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1942. £28.00
     
     
224. Whiting (J.R.S) PRISON REFORM IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1776 - 1820. A Study of the Work of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, Bart. Plates, plans, (xiv) + 287pp, dustwrapper. 1975. £30.00
     
     
225. Williams (G.A) WILLIAMS'S NEW GUIDE TO CHELTENHAM: Being a Complete History and Description of that celebrated Watering Place.... together with a sketch of the surrounding country, and an account of Gloucester and its Cathedral. Folding map, plan and 7 plates, 2 of which are folding, 203 + 3pp (adverts), contemporary full calf, spine gilt tooled, rubbed edges, top hinge partly split, marbled endpapers, slight waterstaining mainly to foot of a couple of plates, a.e.g. Cheltenham: Printed for G.A. Williams, Library, (1824) £85.00
     
     

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226. Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) CANONICAL HOUSES OF WELLS. 192pp, few short tears to dustwrapper, occasional pencil marginalia. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982. £18.00
     
     
227. Baker (E.A) & Balch (H.E) THE NETHERWORLD OF MENDIP. Explorations in the Great Caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire & elsewhere. Maps, plans and plates, xii + 172pp, original cloth, usual light foxing, edges slightly rubbed, inner hinges cracked and weak, couple of short splits to head of spine. First edition. Clifton: 1907. £64.00 --- See sample text
     
     
228. Beazer (Cyril H.G) RANDOM REFLECTIONS OF A WEST COUNTRY MASTER CRAFTSMAN. With 23 plates, 3 of which are coloured, several with two illustrations, 158pp, dustwrapper. Published by C.H.G. Beazer, Bath: 1981. £15.00
     * The story of how he worked as a stone mason before the war and then built up his own construction company, working mainly in Bath.

     
     

229. Bellchambers (J.K) SOMERSET CLOCKMAKERS. Folding map, illusts, 79pp, original card covers. Reprinted, Bridgwater: S.A. Kellow, 1986. £16.00
     
     
230. Byam (Edward S) CHRONOLOGICAL MEMOIR OF THE REVERENDS HENRY, JOHN, AND EDWARD BYAM; Sons of the Rev. Lawrence Byam, Rector of Luckham, in Somersetshire during the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I, From A.D. 1574 to A.D. 1604. Frontis, 82pp, disbound, front endpaper and frontis have a chunk torn from top the margin, fore-edge margin of title slightly ragged. Tenby: R. Mason, 1862. £24.00
     * The frontis is an engraving of a coat of arms. A presentation inscription from the author on the front endpaper is slightly damaged.

     
     

231. Chubb (T) A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF SOMERSETSHIRE 1575-1914. With Biographical Notes and Illustrations. With 16 plates, xii + 232pp, original cloth. Taunton: Published by The Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1914. £90.00
     
     
232. Collinson (Rev. John) HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, With a new introduction by Robert Dunning. Folio, the original 3 volumes, the index volume, and the Supplement volume photographically reduced, though with the engraved plates, and the folding map, reprinted in the original size, all in 1 folio volume, dustwrapper, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown stamp to title and slight signs where label removed from spine at foot of dustwrapper. Originally published in 1791, 1898 and 1939. Reprinted, Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1983. £95.00
     * This is the only edition of Collinson since it was first published in 1791. It includes the invaluable index, by Weaver and Bates, which was first published in 1898, and Locke's supplement which was first published in 1939.

     
     

233. Connely (Willard) BEAU NASH Monarch of Bath and Tunbridge Wells. With 13 plates, 184pp, a few small portions missing mainly to head and foot of dustwrapper as well as a few short tears, inscription to front pastedown. First edition. London: Werner Laurie. 1955. £16.00
     
     
234. Cooke (George Alexander) TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET.... Containing an Account of its Situation.... Mines, Minerals, Fisheries.... Natural History.... With a folding map, 191 + (1)pp, sm 8vo, map partly off-set, disbound. London: Printed by C. Cooke, c.1810 £38.00
     
     
235. Coombs (Howard), and Bax (Rev. Arthur N), Edited by A JOURNAL OF A SOMERSET RECTOR. John Skinner, A.M., Antiquary 1772-1839. Parochial Affairs of the Parish of Camerton, 1822-1832. With 15 plates and map endpapers, xxv + 520pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Revised and enlarged, Bath: Kingsmead, 1971. £28.00
     
     
236. Cousins (C.J) BANWELL IN SOMERSET. The Story of Our Village. Illusts, 17 pages of adverts + 32 + 14 pages of adverts, original printed wraps, staples rusty. c.195- £11.00
     
     
237. Dobbie (B.M. Willmott) AN ENGLISH RURAL COMMUNITY: Batheaston with S. Catherine. Illusts, 2 folding maps, roy 8vo, 170pp, few short tears and chips and one lower corner missing from worn dustwrapper which is preserved in a loose fitting plastic cover. Inscription on front endpaper. Bath University Press: 1969. £20.00
     * Loosely inserted is a hand written letter signed by the author.

     
     

238. Dunning (R.W), and Tremlett (T.D), Edited by BRIDGWATER BOROUGH ARCHIVES V 1468-1485. From transcripts originally made by T.B. Dilks. xv + 97pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 70. Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome: 1971. £18.00
     
     
239. [Edwards (John)] of Wrington POEMS HUMOROUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL By Outis, with which are included RHYMES In the West of England District by Agrikler. xiii + 193pp, original decorative cloth. London and Bristol: (1875) £30.00
     * With author's presentation inscription on front endpaper.

     
     

240. Glastonbury and Street REPORT OF THE SURVEY RELATING TO THE GLASTONBURY/STREET AREA. Folio, 3 folding maps, tables, 72 + (19)pp, typescript, stapled, card covers, few small marks to covers, portion cut from top cover. Somerset County Council, County Planning Dept. c1972. £11.00
     
     
241. Greswell (Rev. William H.P) THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF EDINGTON. With 4 plates and 4 maps, 80 + (4)pp, original cloth lightly rubbed with a few small spots and partly faded. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, The Wessex Press. 1910. £45.00
     * The subscribers list calls for only 98 copies.

     
     

242. Greswell (Rev. William H.P) THE LAND OF QUANTOCK. A Descriptive & Historical Account. With 15 plates and 3 maps, x + 308pp, uncut, original cloth, small part of rear outer hinge rubbed, cloth partly faded, spine dull, portion of rear board and spine damp spotted, internally sound. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicoat and Pearce, 1903. £110.00
     
     
243. Greswell (Rev. William H.P) CHAPTERS ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY. With 25 plates, viii + 155pp, includes 2« page list of subscribers, uncut in the original cloth, partly faded. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1909. £65.00
     * The subscribers lists 87 names only.

     
     

244. Hawkins (M.J), Edited by SALES OF WARDS IN SOMERSET, 1603-1641. xxxi + 240pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 65. Frome: Butler and Tanner, 1965. £27.00
     
     
245. Hudson (Kenneth) THE FASHIONABLE STONE. With 39 illusts, viii + 120pp, slightly worn and partly faded dustwrapper. Bath: Adams and Dart, 1971. £18.00
     
     
246. Humphreys (A.L) WHEN I WAS A BOY. A West Country Town In the Seventies. 101pp, original qtr cloth, paper boards, with paper labels to spine and top board, spine slightly darkened. London: Messrs, Bumpus, 1933. £43.00
     * Presentation inscription from the author on front pastedown to C.L.H. Humphreys. Humphreys was an author and historian and this is a very readable insight into his growing up in Wellington in the later part of the nineteenth century.

     
     

247. Jennings (James) OBSERVATIONS OF SOME OF THE DIALECTS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, particularly Somersetshire: with A Glossary of Words now in use there; and Poems and other Pieces exemplifying the Dialect. xxiv + 191pp, 12mo, uncut in the original cloth with chipped paper label on spine, covers lightly rubbed. First edition. Printed by Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, London: 1825. £75.00
     
     
248. Jordan (Margaret) THE STORY OF COMPTON BISHOP AND CROSS. Maps, plates and illustrations by Don Osmond, 99pp, pictorial laminated boards, occasional pencil marginalia. Axbridge: 1994. £16.00
     
     
249. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE 1970. Fifty-fourth edition. viii + 6 + 456pp, original printed covers, paper slightly browned to edges as usual. Kelly's Directories, 1970. £18.00
     
     
250. King (J.E), Edited by INVENTORY OF PAROCHIAL DOCUMENTS IN THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS AND THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. xiv + 400pp, few spots to original buckram. Somerset County Council Records Committtee. 1938. £20.00
     
     
251. Legg (Rodney) STEEP HOLM. Allsop Island.... the story of the adventures of John Fowles and friends in buying an 'inaccessible' offshore island as a tribute to television anchor-man Kenneth Allsop. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper. Wincanton Press: 1992. £14.00
     
     
252. [Lewis (Harold)] THE CHURCH RAMBLER. A Series of Articles on the Churches in the Neighbourhood of Bath. Two volumes, numerous engraved plates, 514pp and 542pp, 12mo, original decorative cloth, rubbed to edges, volume 1 has rear outer hinge split for 2" at head, shorter split half way down, and front inner hinge broken. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co. Bath: William Lewis, The "Herald" Office. 1876 and 1878. £42.00
     * Chapters on most of the churches in the neighbouring villages with an accompanying engraved plate.

     
     

253. Lewis (Rev. L.S), Vicar of Glastonbury GLASTONBURY, "THE MOTHER OF SAINTS." Her Saints A.D. 37 - 1539. 89pp, original cloth. Second and Enlarged Edition. 1927. £10.00
     
     
254. Little (Bryan) THE BUILDING OF BATH 47 - 1947. An Architectural and Social Study. Plates, 176pp, few small tears to dustwrapper. 1947. £18.00
     
     
255. Lowndes (William) THE ROYAL CRESCENT IN BATH. A Fragment of English Life. Plates, 96pp, dustwrapper. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 1981. £12.00
     
     
256. McGarvie (Michael), Edited by SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE'S CHURCH NOTES FOR SOMERSET. Illusts, xxxi + 400pp, dustwrapper. Somerset Record Society. Volume 82. Taunton: 1994. £30.00
     
     
257. Meek (Marion) THE BOOK OF WELLS. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 128pp, dustwrapper. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barrucuda Books Ltd. 1980. £30.00
     
     
258. Monkland (G) SUPPLEMENT TO THE "LITERATURE & LITERATI OF BATH:" Containing Additions, Notes and Emendations. xx + 107pp, sm 8vo, recent cloth, ex-lib with stamp to title and label to verso. Bath: 1855. £20.00
     
     
259. Moore (James), Rice (Roy) & Hucker (Ernest) BILBIE AND THE CHEW VALLEY CLOCK MAKERS. The story of the renowned family of Somerset Bellfounder / Clockmakers. Numerous illusts, diagrams, 412pp, original printed card covers. Signed by the authors on the title-page, couple of small snags to one leaf. Weston super Mare: Published by the Authors, 1995. £60.00
     
     
260. Palmer (Kingsley) THE FOLKLORE OF SOMERSET. Drawings by Gay John Galsworthy, double-page map, 186pp, dustwrapper. London: B.T. Batsford, 1976. £10.00
     
     
261. Palmer (T.F), Arranged by COLLECTANEA II. A Collection of Documents from Various Sources. viii + 258pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, , with label to front pastedown.2" split to cloth at centre of spine, otherwise sound, ex-Wells Cathedral School Library. Somerset Record Society Volume 43. Printed for Subscribers Only. Frome: Butler and Tanner, 1928. £28.00
     
     
262. [Peach (R.E.M)] A CONCISE GUIDE TO BATH. By a Citizen. 46 + (ii)pp, original printed wraps, few small spots to wraps. Bath: RE.B. Cater. 1885. £18.00
     
     
263. Quarter Sessions SOMERSET. MIDSUMMER GENERAL QUARTER SESSION OF THE PEACE, 1830. COPY OF ENROLMENT OF AN ORDER FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF DIVISIONS in the said County. Made in Pursuance of the Statutes 9 George IV. Cap 43, and 10 George IV, Cap 46. 25pp, later (?) plain paper wraps. Taunton: Printed by J.W. Marriott, Taunton Courier Office, 1830. £30.00
     * Not in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis.

     
     

264. Quennell (C.H.B) & (Peter) SOMERSET Shell Guide. With 2 coloured maps, numerous plates, 48pp, sm 4to, original card covers, lightly rubbed, original metal spiral binding. First edition. London: Architectural Press. (1936) £60.00
     
     
265. Raymond (Walter) THE BOOK OF CRAFTS AND CHARACTER 272 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, small snag to head of spine, few spots to prelims and fore-edges. First edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1907. £20.00
     * A series of essays on various Somerset characters and craftsmen.

     
     

266. Raymond (Walter) TRYPHENA IN LOVE With 6 illustrations by I. Walter West, 176pp, 12mo, uncut in the original cloth. First edition, London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1895. £25.00
     * A novel set in Middleney, Somerset.

     
     

267. Rutter (John) A NEW GUIDE TO WESTON-SUPER-MARE, in the County of Somerset, intended as A Visitor's Companion to that favourite Watering Place and its Vicinity; including a Descriptive Account of The Bristol and Exeter Railway, with its stations etc. With two steel-plate engravings, textual wood-cut illustrations, lacks map, 56pp, original printed boards, later cloth spine, frontis slightly off-set. Weston: J. Whereat, Public Library and Reading Room. c1843. £75.00
     
     
268. Sanders (Margery B) BURNHAM A Royal Domain of King Alfred. With one old sepia sketch reproduced and four illustrations by the author, 25pp, original card covers. 192- £12.00
     
     
269. Scrase (Anthony J) and Hasler (Joan), Edited by WELLS CORPORATION PROPERTIES. 241pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 87. Taunton: 2002. £22.00
     
     
270. Shepton Mallet THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING THE CHARITIES IN THE PARISH OF SHEPTON MALLETT. The School and Almshouse founded by George Strode and William Strode. 88pp, the page numbering begins at page 3, possibly only lacks the title. Contemporary qtr sheep, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks approx. 1" from top of spine, one page almost loose and slightly ragged to edges, few spots, last leaf soiled. c.183- £45.00
     * Signed:- 'Thomas Charles Manning, Officer of Inland Revenue, Shepton Mallet.' There are a few manuscript notes which use the same ink as the note by Manning and are presumably by him. Not found in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis.

     
     

271. Shickle (Rev. C.W) ANCIENT DEEDS BELONGING TO THE CORPORATION OF BATH XII - XVI Cent. Translated and Epitomised by The Rev. C.W. Shickle M.A., F.S.A., V.D. Master of St. John's Hospital, Bath. Honorary Chaplain of the Territorial Forces. Frontis, 2 plans, xvi + 165pp, folio, original qtr calf, buckram boards, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and a few small stamps. Published by the Bath Record Society in co-operation with the Bath City Council. 1921. £30.00
     
     
272. Sixsmith (R.A) HISTORY OF THURLBEAR. Maps, illusts, 54pp, couple of small spots to original cloth. Taunton: (1957) £15.00
     
     
273. Smith (R.A.L) BATH. With 84 Illustrations from Engravings, Paintings, and Photographs by Paul Fripp, and others. 118pp, dustwrapper. First edition, B.T. Batsford. 1944. £12.00
     
     
274. Somerset Parish Registers Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and D.M. Ross. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 5. 164pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1904. £65.00
     * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Crewkerne, Swell (up to 1754), Fivehead, and Kingsbury Episcopi.
     With the armorial bookplate William B. Broadmead.

     
     

275. Somerset Year Book 1925. No XXIV. Edited by Douglas Macmillan. Illusts, adverts, original printed wraps, small portion missing from foot of spine. 1925. £12.00
     * Includes articles on:- Chilton Cantelo; Bath; Battle of Sedgemoor; Clevedon, etc., etc.

     
     

276. Thompson (W. Harding) SOMERSET REGIONAL REPORT. A Survey and a Plan. Prepared for Somerset County Council. Numerous plates and plans, some of which are folding, folding plans in pocket at rear, xii + 130pp, original cloth, portion torn from top of spine of dustwrapper. University of London Press, 1934. £38.00
     
     
277. Tipping (H. Avray) THE STORY OF MONTACUTE AND ITS HOUSE. With Notes on the Heraldry at Montacute by Oswald Barron. With 27 illustrations and plans, 36pp, 12mo, original paper boards, London: Country Life, 1933, £12.00
     
     
278. Trayhurn (A.J) DUNSTER IN 1460 A social reconstruction of everyday life in fifteenth-century Dunster. Drawings by Joyce Stevens. Textual illusts, endpaper plans, 23pp, original decorative paper boards. Minehead and Williton: Cox, Sons and Co. 1951. £14.00
     
     
279. Wadmore (Rev. J.A.W) COLLECTIONS FOR A PAROCHIAL HISTORY OF BARROW GURNEY. Illusts, 36pp and 34pp, 2 parts, the first part lacking the wraps and with the stitching loosening. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Bristol: 1897 & 1902. £30.00
     
     
280. Watson (W.G. Willis) A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF SOMERSET (Part Two) Folding frontis, 133-304pp, original printed wraps. Somerset Folk Series no 22. 1925. £10.00
     
     
281. Wigfield (W. Macdonald) THE MONMOUTH REBELS 1685. xxiii + 225pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 79. 1985. £26.00
     * Mainly consists of a Rollcall of the Rebels, giving names, where from, and quite often with details of their punishment.

     
     

282. Wood (John), Architect AN ESSAY TOWARDS A DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF BATH. In Two Parts. Wherein its Antiquity is ascertained: Its Situation, Mineral Waters, and British Works described: The Antient Works in its Neighbourhood, the Gods, Places of Worship, Religion, and Learning of the Britons occasionally consider'd: The Rise of the British Druids demonstrated: The Devastations committed by the Romans at Bath, their Encamping on the Hot-Waters, and their turning their Camp into a City fully set forth: and the Works of the Saxons and their Successors briefly related. Two parts in one volume. With 7 copper-plate engravings, 6 of which are folding, title + (10) + 92 + one folding copper plate engraving, title + contents leaf + 104pp, contemporary unlettered qtr calf, raised bands, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Printed for W. Frederick, Bookseller, in Bath, 1742 and 1742. £365.00
     * This first edition was in 2 parts, which is noted on the title-page, but a third part was issued in 1743. The plates are curiously numbered, all of the folding plates have 2 plate numbers. John Wood was the architect for many of the Georgian buildings in Bath including the Circus, Queen Square and Prior Park. Many of his buildings are embellished with Free Masonry symbols.

     
     

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283. Akerman (John Yonge) WILTSHIRE TALES. vi + 179pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. First edition, London: John Russell Smith. 1853. £30.00
     
     
284. Arnold-Forster (Mary) BASSET DOWN An Old Country House. Forward by Charles Morgan. Plates, 2 pedigrees one of which is folding, 175pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed, ex-lib., with labels to front pastedown, and front endpaper, number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page. Country Life Limited. (1950) £25.00
     
     
285. Aubrey (John) & Jackson (John Edward) WILTSHIRE. THE TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS of John Aubrey, F.R.S., A.D. 1659-70. With Illustrations. Corrected and Enlarged by John Edward Jackson, M.A., F.S.A. With a frontis, and 43 plates, 2 of which are folding, 4to, original embossed cloth, rear outer hinge slightly chipped, small splash mark to rear board, prelims slightly spotty. Published by The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Devizes: 1862. £150.00
     
     
286. Blackford (J.H) THE MANOR AND VILLAGE OF CHERHILL. A Wiltshire Village from Early Times to the Present Day. With plates and textual illusts., xxii + 346pp, original cloth, dustwrapper worn with few tears and a couple of portions missing. First edition. Frome and London. 1941. £50.00
     * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the lower margin of his portrait frontispiece. Two signed hand written letters from the author, one addressed to Captain and Mrs Cunnington, loosely inserted.

     
     

287. Bowles (Rev. W.L) & Nichols (J.G) ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF LACOCK ABBEY, in the County of Wilts.... Including Notices of the Monasteries of Bradenstoke, Hinton and Farley. With 14 plates and 5 pedigrees, 2 of which are folding, 374 + lxiii, plates occasional foxing to plates, frontis and title spotty, attractively rebound in qtr calf, raised bands, leather label, marbled boards. First Edition, London: John Bowyer, 1835. £165.00
     
     
288. Britton (John) MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY, embracing his Autobiographical Sketches, A Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits and an Account of His Works; with Extracts from His Correspondence.... Frontis, xii + 131pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded and slightly rubbed, rear outer hinge partly split, though sound, ex-lib. with small stamp to prelim, and label to front pastedown. Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. First edition. 1845. £60.00
     
     
289. Chandler (J.H), Edited by PRINTED MAPS OF WILTSHIRE 1787 - 1844. A selection of Topographical Road, and Canal Maps in Facsimile. Numerous plates, xxvii + 264pp, dustwrapper. Impression of 1000 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 52. Trowbridge: 1998. £30.00
     
     
290. Cheetham (J.H) & Piper (J) A SHELL GUIDE TO WILTSHIRE. Illusts., plates, double-page map, 198pp, slightly faded dustwrapper with slight creasing to head of spine, name in ink to title. Reprinted, London: Faber and Faber, 1975. £10.00
     
     
291. Clark (Leonard) ALFRED WILLIAMS HIS LIFE AND WORK. Illusts, xi + 206pp, few small spots to original cloth, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Bristol: William George's Sons Ltd. 1945. £22.00
     
     
292. Cox (T) WILTSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With folding map by Morden, textual illust of Stonehenge, pages numbered 47-215 + Distance Table, sm 4to, recent cloth, short tear to map, light waterstaining to a few leaves. In the Savoy, London: E. and R. Nutt, (1720) £85.00
     * Includes sections on the Hundreds, Natural History, etc.

     
     

293. Crowley (D.A), Edited by THE WILTSHIRE TAX LIST OF 1332. xxi + 188pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 45, Trowbridge: 1989. £16.00
     
     
294. Cunnington (M.E) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILTSHIRE, from the earliest times to the Pagan Saxons. With chapters on Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, Woodhenge, Barrows, Earthworks, etc. Illusts, xii + 172pp, original printed wraps, top wrap lightly stained, name to title. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Devizes: 1938. £11.00
     
     
295. Daniell (J.J) THE HISTORY OF WARMINSTER. With a view of the Town & Neighbourhood in 1879. Illusts., xi + 237pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, and slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, prelims lightly foxed. Second Edition. Warminster: Journal Office. (1879) £30.00 --- See sample text
     
     
296. Davies (Maude F) LIFE IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE. An Economic & Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire. Folding map, and plates, 319 + 87 pages of publishers adverts, recent cloth. First edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1909. £70.00
     
     
297. Farquharson (A) A HISTORY OF LONGLEAT Compiled from the Best Authorities. viii + 75 + (1)pp, 61pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, portions missing from foot and head of spine. Frome: W.C. & J. Penny. 1882. £35.00
     
     
298. Fowle (J), Edited by WILTSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS AND ASSIZES 1736. lxv + 213pp, original cloth. Impression of 300 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 11. Devizes: 1955. £20.00
     
     
299. Fry (Edw. Alex.), Edited by ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II. A.D. 1242 - 1326. xv + 505pp, original cloth, head and foot of spine chipped, rubbed to edges, partly waterstained to spine, internally sound, ex-lib. with number to base of spine, and a couple of small stamps, foot of spine torn. London: British Record Society. 1908. £25.00
     
     
300. Gillman's DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER, Business Directory. and Family Almanac for the Year 1871 and 1872. Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Publication. 2 volumes bound in one, 41 + (33)pp, and 50 + (32)pp, 12mo, early half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges, slight spotting mainly to endpapers, with the ownership stamp of 'J.R. Fox' to top margins of a few pages. C. Gillman, Printer, Devizes. (1871 and 1872) £75.00
     
     
301. Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) TUMULI WILTUNENSES; A Guide to the Barrows on the Plains of Stonehenge. With 6 plates, textual illusts, ii + 50pp, roy 8vo, attractively bound in recent qtr calf, raised bands, leather label, marbled boards. Shaftesbury: Printed by J. Rutter, 1829. £235.00
     * With 2 notes both initialled by Richard Colt Hoare on the title-page:- 'From the author May 25 1829, RCH' and 'Only six copies on this paper, R.C.H.' With larger margins than usual.

     
     

302. Jackson (Rev. J.E) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF GRITTLETON, in the County of Wilts. With a map, 3 tinted lithographic plates, and textual engravings, 26pp + 66pp, 4to, patterned library cloth, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, number to foot of spine, number in ink to verso of title, number to foot of spine, small water stain to top margin of a couple of plates and a few pages of text. Tipped in at the front is a single sheet:- REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 3, 1843. First edition. Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. 1843. £35.00
     
     
303. Kelly (E.R.), Edited by THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1875. Lacks map, and front endpaper, xviii + 483-745 + 72 pages of adverts, original cloth, lightly rubbed, few spots to cloth, front inner hinge weak. London: Printed and Published by Kelly and Co. 1875. £165.00
     * Very Scarce.

     
     

304. Lansdown (B) & Sons, Ltd., Printer THE WEST WILTS DIRECTORY 1958-9. Containing County Information and Local Information, Street Directory and Alphabetical List for Residents for Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, and District. Centenary Edition. Folding map, xvi + 261pp, 12mo, original wraps, slightly faded, manuscript title on spine. Trowbridge: B. Lansdown & Sons, Ltd., (1958) £20.00
     
     
305. Richardson (E.M) THE STORY OF PURTON A Collection of Notes and Hearsay. With 13 plates, 144pp, original cloth. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. 1919. £30.00
     
     
306. Richardson (H) LITTLEFIELD ANNALS, MARLBOROUGH 1872-1905. Compiled from The Marlborough College Register, The Marlburian, The School Lists, And other sources of information. 153pp, small folio, original cloth, rear cover marked, some light marking to few leaves at the rear. Marlborough: W. Gale, 1907. £45.00
     
     
307. Shortt (Hugh), Edited by CITY OF SALISBURY. Plates, double-page map, textual illusts, 143pp, dustwrapper. Originally published in 1957. Republished, 1970. £10.00
     
     
308. Slow (Edward), Wilton THE FOURTH SERIES OF WILTSHIRE RHYMES. Containing Twenty-five New Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect, Never Before Published, Also a Glossary of some words now used in Wiltshire and adjoining counties. vii + 128pp, original paper boards, spine slightly chipped at foot, Salisbury and Wilton: 1889. £28.00
     
     
309. Titford (Donald) MOONRAKERS IN MY FAMILY. With 35 illusts, (16) + 284pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Bath: Published by D.G. Titford, 1995. £17.00
     
     
310. Victoria County History. Edited by E. Crittall THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 9. Plates and illusts, xx + 220pp, small folio, dustwrapper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1970. £48.00
     * Covers the Kingsbridge Hundred, includes Swindon and the surrounding area.

     
     

311. Williams (A) LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY. xiii + 315 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, couple of short splits to outer hinges at head of spine, page edges slightly spotty. First Edition. London: Duckworth. 1915. £40.00
     * The author worked for 23 years in the `sheds' at Swindon.

     
     

312. Wilson & Phillips, Printer and Publisher WHO'S WHO IN WILTSHIRE. 140pp, original cloth. Numbered Limited Edition. Hereford: Printed and Published by Wilson and Phillips, 1934. £32.00
     
     
313. Wiltshire Notes and Queries. WILTSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. VOLUME 3. 1899-1901. An Illustrated Quarterly Antiquarian and Genealogical Magazine. Full-page and textual illusts, iv + 625pp, library style qtr morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, signs where number erased from foot of spine. Devizes: George Simpson. 1902. £30.00
     * Includes articles on:- Amesbury Monastery; Goodenoughs of Sherston; Rogers, Courtenay and Huddesfield family of Bradford-on-Avon, Cannington, Somerset and Shillingford, Devon; Goddard of Englesham; Delamere Family and their chantry at Market Lavington, etc., etc.

     
     

314. Wiltshire Parish Registers, Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and others WILTSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Complete Set of 14 volumes. Ex-university lib. with labels to pastedowns, perforated stamp to titles, and numbers to spines, original cloth, lightly rubbed, a couple of small snags to head of one spine, otherwise a good set. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co Ltd. 1905-1914. £520.00
     
     

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315. Agricola (Georgius) DE RE METALLICA. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Process, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law from the earliest time to the 16th Century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. Numerous illusts, xxxi + 638pp, royal 8vo, paperback. New York: Dover Publications, 1950. £18.00
     
     
316. Anderson (J.P) THE BOOK OF BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum relating to Great Britain & Ireland. xvi + 472ÿ+ 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, small indelible stamp to title, light wear to cloth. First edition, 1881. £48.00
     
     
317. Armytage (George J), Edited by ALLEGATIONS FOR MARRIAGE LICENCES Issued by the Vicar=General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, July 1679 to June 1687. 349 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, roy 8vo, original cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, small hole to cloth on top board, few minor marks to cloth, front inner hinge slightly weak, occasional foxing mainly to prelims. London: Harleian Society. 1890. £40.00
     
     
318. Arrowsmith (Josiah), Royds (Mrs C.M) and Brierley (Mrs H), Transcribed, Edited and Indexed by THE REGISTERS OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ORMSKIRK In the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Burials and Weddings 1557-1626. viii + 377 + (2)pp, original cloth, uncut and unopened, small cancelled stamp to front pastedown. Rochdale: Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society. (Volume 13) 1902. £40.00
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319. Bettey (J.H) SUPPRESSION OF THE MONASTERIES In the West Country. Illusts, x + 198pp, dustwrapper. Gloucester: Alan Sutton. 1989. £20.00
     
     
320. Brand (John) and Ellis (Henry) OBSERVATIONS ON POPULAR ANTIQUITIES: Chiefly Illustrating the Origins of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Arranged and Revised, with Additions by Henry Ellis.... xxvi + 486 and xi + 731pp, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, covers rubbed, spine and hinges reinforced with transparent plastic, occasional light spotting. London: F.C. and J. Rivington and others, 1813. £135.00
     * Presentation inscription from the editor on front endpaper.

     
     

321. Cartwright (James Joel), Edited by THE TRAVELS THROUGH ENGLAND OF DR. RICHARD POCOCKE, Successively Bishop of Meath and Ossory during 1750, 1751, and later years. 2 volumes, xv + 239pp and 319pp, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to corners, light foxing mainly to prelims. Printed for the Camden Society. 1888 and 1889. £50.00
     * With the engraved armorial bookplates of Godfrey E.P. Arkwright.

     
     

322. Clarke (Venerable Archdeacon), Transcribed with the permission of THE REGISTERS OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF COCKERHAM, In the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Marriages and Burials 1595 - 1657. Frontis, vi + (ii) + 264pp, original cloth, uncut and unopened, small cancelled stamp to front pastedown. Cambridge: Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society. (Volume 21) 1904. £40.00
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323. Clifton (Robin) THE LAST REBELLION The Western Rising of 1685. With 4 maps, (x) + 308pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Maurice Temple Smith, London: 1984. £14.00
     
     
324. Colwell (Stella) DICTIONARY OF GENEALOGICAL SOURCES in the Public Record Office. xvi + 206pp, dustwrapper. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992. £12.00
     
     
325. Cooke (Robert) WEST COUNTRY HOUSES. An Illustrated Account of some Country Houses and their owners, in the Counties of Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire. Being also a guide to Domestic Architecture from the Reign of Henry II to Victoria. Illusts, 184pp, 4to, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, few water spots to covers, name to pastedown. Published by the Author. Clifton, Bristol: First edition. 1957. £38.00
     * Includes:- Ammerdown; Arnos Court; Ashton court; Bowood; Dodington Park; Dyrham Park; Failand House; Frampton Court; Nailsea Court; Owlpen Manor; Sheldon Manor; Tyntesfield; Wraxall Court, etc.

     
     

326. Cramer (James) THE BOOK OF PORTSMOUTH. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 144pp, dustwrapper. includes 3 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: 1985. £18.00
     
     
327. De La Beche (Henry T) REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET. With coloured folding map and 12 plates, plans and facs., mostly folding, xxviii + 648pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, recased with the original, chipped, spine laid down, occasional spotting to plates, short tear to one leaf without loss, slight wear to fold of one plate. First edition, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1839. £355.00
     * De La Beche was the first Director of the Geological Survey and this is the first work issued by the Geological Survey, and contains much information on Cornish Mines. The plates include:- Section of Main Lode at Dolcoath Mine; Plan of Dolcoath Mine; Surface Plan of Fowey Consols Mine; Transverse Section of Fowey Consols.

     
     

328. Devereux (Roy) JOHN LOUDON MCADAM Chapters in the History of Highways. With 13 plates, xi + 184pp, original cloth, slightly dusty, ex-lib. with stamps to endpapers and title, and label to front pastedown, lacks front endpaper. Oxford University Press: 1936. £15.00
     
     
329. Devon & Cornwall Notes & 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 7. From January 1912 to October 1913. Part I Miscellaneous. Plates, (vi) + 304pp, disbound. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913. £28.00
     * Includes articles on:- Courtenay Arms; Exeter Castle; Bells of North Bovey; Branscombe Church; Bideford Witches, etc, etc.

     
     

330. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History Archaeology & Antiquities. VOLUME 19. From January 1936 to October 1937. Illusts, 392pp, 8 parts bound in 7, complete, in the original printed wraps. Exeter: James Townsend, 1937. £34.00
     * includes articles on:- Ancient Crosses at Torrington; Fitz-Martin family; Exeter banking; Honiton; Launceston Priory; Militia Mutiny, Plymouth; Phoenicians and Cornwall; Peverell family; St. Mawgan, etc., etc.

     
     

331. Domesday Book SUSSEX. Text and translation edited by John Morris, edited from a draft translation prepared by Janet Mothershill. With 4 maps, dustwrapper, neat inscription on half title. Phillimore, Chichester: 1976. £15.00
     
     
332. [Edwards (John)] of Wrington RHYMES In the West Country Dialect, By Agrikler. iv + 124pp. Fourth Edition. c187-.... Bound with..... POEMS Historical and Philosophical. New Series. iv + 140pp. c187-.... Bound with.... Jennings (James) et al "ZUMMERZET" RHYMES. Poems by "Jan." (O.P.Q. Philander Smiff.") and "Tommy Nutty." Second Edition Enlarged. Also a selection from "Poems in the Dialect of the West of England," iv + 123pp. 187-.... Bound with.... NINE DAYS IN DEVON: A Visit to the Channel Fleet, at Weymouth, and other Humorous Sketches in the Somerset Dialect, by Somerset Frank. 64pp. c1879. 4 items bound in one volume, 12mo, half calf, leather label, cloth boards, marbled endpapers. 1879. £78.00
     
     
333. Fellowes (Edmund H) and Poyser (Elisabeth R), Edited by THE BAPTISM, MARRIAGE AND BURIAL REGISTERS OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR. xxii + 331pp, original cloth, small ownership label to front endpaper. Windsor: 1957. £22.00
     
     
334. [Feltham (J)] A GUIDE TO ALL THE WATERING AND SEA BATHING PLACES, Description of the Lakes, Tour in Wales &c. &c. With engraved vignette title, 23 plates each showing 4 views, 21 maps and plans some of which are folding, and a large folding frontis, iv + 402pp, sm 8vo, recent paper boards, some slight foxing. c1823. £125.00
     
     
335. Fisher (E.A) THE GREATER ANGLO-SAXON CHURCHES An Architectural-Historical Study. With 230 plates, textual illusts, 452pp, slightly worn dustwrapper, pages edges and prelims slightly spotty. Faber and Faber Limited, London: 1962. £30.00
     
     
336. Fox (Sir Cyril) and Raglan (Lord) MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUSES. A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House Plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. With 55 illusts on 20 plates, 4 sketch maps, and 54 textual illusts, 114pp and 77 illusts on 21 plates, 3 sketch maps, 52 textual illusts, 135pp, and 118 illusts on 31 plates, 2 maps, and 72 textual illusts, 178pp, 3 volumes, 4to, few short tears to lightly soiled dustwrappers. First Edition. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. 1951. £50.00
     
     
337. Gross (Charles) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MUNICIPAL HISTORY including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation. Second Edition with a Preface by G.H. Martin. dustwrapper. Reprint of 1897 edition. Leicester: 1966. £18.00
     
     
338. Harper (Charles G) THE EXETER ROAD. The story of the West of England Highway. Illustrated by the Author and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures. Numerous full page and textual illusts. xvii + 318pp, original cloth, light foxing mainly to page edges and endpapers. First edition. London: Chapman & Hall. 1899. £95.00
     * The road starts from Hyde Park corner, and goes through Salisbury, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford, Milborne St. Andrews, Charmouth, Axminster. Kilmington, Honiton, Heavitree, etc., etc.

     
     

339. Harper (Charles G) HALF HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN. Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road." 2 volumes, plates, textual illusts, 397 and 396pp, uncut in the original decorative cloth, fore-edges slightly spotty otherwise a nice set. First edition, Chapman and Hall. London: 1908. £95.00
     
     
340. Harper-Bill (Christopher), Edited by THE REGISTER OF JOHN MORTON Archbishop of Canterbury 1486-1500. Volume I. xxviii + 228pp, original printed wraps. Privately Printed for the Canterbury and York Society. Leeds: Duffield Printers, 1987. £15.00
     
     
341. Harrison (S.E) THE TRAMWAYS OF PORTSMOUTH. Illusts, 138pp, original cloth, spine faded, outer hinges rubbed, back outer hinge split. Published by the Light Railway Transport League, London: 1955. £24.00
     * Very Scarce.

     
     

342. Hutton (Edward) A BOOK OF THE WYE. With 20 coloured plates, x + (ii) + 292 + 29 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth First edition, 1911. £18.00
     
     
343. Kelly (Frederic), Printer and Publisher THE SMALL EDITION OF THE POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY, (KELLY'S) 1867. Lacks map, 2904pp, includes nearly 300 pages of adverts, original cloth boards, later crude cloth spine, with paper label, boards rubbed and marked, inner hinges strained, some foxing mainly to prelims. London: Printed and Published by Frederic Kelly, 1867. £320.00
     
     
344. Martin (Charles Trice) THE RECORD INTERPRETER A Collection of Abbreviations, Latin Words and Names Used in English Historical Manuscripts and Records. xv + 464 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. Second Edition, London: Stevens and Sons, 1910. £28.00
     
     
345. Mawer (Allen) THE CHIEF ELEMENTS USED IN ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES Being the Second Part of the Introduction to the Survey of English Place-Names. vii + 67pp, original cloth, partly faded, cloth slightly bubbled. Cambridge at the University Press, 1924. £11.00
     
     
346. Nock (O.S) HISTORICAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. With a coloured frontis and 68 photographs, xii + 162pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1959. £12.00
     
     
347. North (F.J) THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRISTOL CHANNEL with special reference to the coast of South Wales. With 14 plates and 40 textual illusts, 103pp, original printed card covers, light spotting to frontis and prelims, covers slightly rubbed, with few small spots. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1929. £12.00
     
     
348. Pennington (R.R) STANNARY LAW. A History of the Mining Law of Devon and Cornwall. 229pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £32.00
     
     
349. Pigot and Co A POCKET TOPOGRAPHY AND GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND.... HEREFORDSHIRE. Engraved map of the county coloured in outline, engraved sheet with a vignette view of Hereford Cathedral and distance table, 16 pages, includes list of parishes, townships, chapelries and villages, etc., disbound. London: Pigot and Co. c.1842. £20.00
     * Extracted from a larger work.

     
     

350. Pigot and Co A POCKET TOPOGRAPHY AND GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND.... MONMOUTHSHIRE. Engraved map of the county coloured in outline, engraved sheet with a vignette view of Chepstow Church and distance table, 16 pages, includes list of parishes, townships, chapelries and villages, etc., disbound. London: Pigot and Co. c.1842. £20.00
     * Extracted from a larger work.

     
     

351. Pigot's DIRECTORY OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE 1839. Lacks map, recent cloth. £38.00
     
     
352. Pulman (George P.R) THE BOOK OF THE AXE; Containing A Piscatorial Description of that Stream and Historical Sketches of All the Parishes and Remarkable Places Upon its Banks. With Nearly One Hundred Illustrations and a Map. v + 906pp, dustwrapper. Fourth Edition, Re-Written and Greatly Enlarged. Originally published 1875. Kingsmead Reprints, Bath: 1975. £125.00 --- See sample text
     
     
353. Richardson (A.E) & Gill (C. Lovett) REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Numerous illustrations, xx + 188pp, 4to, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition. London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. £62.00
     
     
354. Ritchie (L) THE WYE AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. A Picturesque Ramble. With a vignette title and 11 steel engraved plates, iv + (ii) + 211pp, original embossed cloth, head of spine rubbed, lower outer hinge has short split, some waterstaining to mainly corners of plates, fore-edge of one plate slightly ragged. 1841. £85.00
     
     
355. Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 4 of 4 only. Numerous illusts., 197pp, original cloth, partly faded, approx. «" of cloth badly rubbed at foot of spine, short splits to outer hinges at head and foot, small portions of cloth rubbed from edges. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1916. £20.00
     * Each volume covers churches in alphabetical order, this volume has churches from :- St. John The Baptist, Bristol - Yeovil. Including:- Stapleton, Timsbury, Tormarton, Ubley, Uphill, Wrington, Wickwar, Winford, Wedmore, Wraxall, Yatton, Yate, etc., etc.

     
     

356. Rose-Troup (Frances) THE WESTERN REBELLION OF 1549. An account of the insurrections in Devonshire and Cornwall against religious innovations in the reign of Edward VI. With 6 illustrations, xvi + 520pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, chunk of cloth missing from head of spine, few short splits to cloth at foot of spine. First edition, London: Smith Elder and Co., 1913. £65.00
     
     
357. Shaw (Giles), Transcribed, Edited and Indexed by THE REGISTERS OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF MIDDLETON In the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Burials and Weddings 1541-1663. Frontis, viii + 295 + (7)pp, original cloth, uncut and unopened, small cancelled stamp to front pastedown. Rochdale: Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society. (Volume 12) 1902. £40.00
     * I have many other Lancashire Parish Register Society volumes in stock.
     Please let me know if there are any you are looking for.c

     
     

358. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Edited by Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET VOLUME 4. Illusts, 384pp, in 8 parts, with the original printed wraps, though without the part which contained the title and Index, which was issued separately. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. March 1894 - December 1895. £16.00
     * Includes articles on:- Chewton Mendip Vicarage; Black Dog of Langport; Sherborne School; Squibb family; Yetminster Terrier; Somerset Fairs, etc., etc.

     
     

359. 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, 476 + 39 + 48pp, in the original 12 parts plus the index volume. C.J. Creed, Bridport: 1980-1986. £30.00
     * Includes articles on:- Shipping in Weymouth; Dorset Windmills; History of Hutton; Shepton Mallet Riot of 1753; Poaching at Wiveliscombe, etc., etc.

     
     

360. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Edited by D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET VOLUME 33. Illusts, 432pp, 10 parts in the original printed wraps, plus the index volume. Creeds, Bridport: 1991-1996. £30.00
     * Includes articles on:- Somerset election of 1766; Goldsmiths of Dorset; Flower Family of Somerset; York Hussars in Weymouth, etc., etc.

     
     

361. Storey (R.L), Edited by THE REGISTER OF JOHN KIRBY Bishop of Carlisle 1332-1352, and the Register of John Ross Bishop of Carlisle, 1325-32. Volumes 2. 139pp, original cloth. Canterbury and York Society. 1995. £14.00
     * Index of Names and Places.

     
     

362. Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND PLYMOUTH & LISKEARD. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 348. With notes on the petrology of the igneous rocks by J.S. Flett. Plates and textual illusts, 156pp, recent cloth, ex-geological library with just a label tipped onto front endpaper. First edition, London: Printed for H.M.S.O. 1907. £45.00
     
     
363. Way (R.P) ANTIQUE DEALER 211pp, original cloth, partly faded. 1956. £11.00
     * Way's autobiography, he dealt in and around Bath and Bristol for 40 years.

     
     

364. Willis (Arthur J) Compiled by CANTERBURY MARRIAGE LICENCES 1781-1809. 407pp, few small holes and short tears to dustwrapper, small mark to front pastedown. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Arthur J. Willis, Folkestone. 1969. £35.00
     
     
365. Willis (Arthur J) Compiled by CANTERBURY MARRIAGE LICENCES 1751-1780. 372pp, dustwrapper slightly dusty. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Arthur J. Willis, Folkestone. 1967. £35.00
     
     
366. Woodward (Horace B), Bristow (H.W), Ussher (W.A.E), Blake (J.H) & Rutley (F) GEOLOGY OF EAST SOMERSET AND THE BRISTOL COAL-FIELDS. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) With 8 plates, some coloured, 271pp, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed, short split to top outer hinge, couple of small ownership stamps to endpapers. First edition, London: Longman Green and Edward Stanford, 1876. £95.00
     * Very Scarce. Contains a very comprehensive bibliography of publications on the Geology of the area.