Bristol Arrowsmith Ltd, printer OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, folding maps tipped in to front and rear, xxx + 120pp, original printed wraps, roy 8vo, light damp staining to top outer margins of most leaves. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. Bristol: 1928. £16.00 Arthur (William) THE SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT: Sketches of the Life of Mr Samuel Budgett, late of Kingswood Hill. Engraved portrait frontis, vii + (i) + 290pp, original embossed cloth, small strip of cloth chipped from head of spine, frontis slightly foxed, otherwise a nice copy. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1873. £25.00 Bird (J. Edward) 1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN SOUVENIR COLLECTION OF 15 ETCHINGS OF BRISTOL. With 3 pages of descriptive text, 15 plates, folio, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 125 COPIES. This being one of the 25 Presentation de Luxe volumes bound in full leather, slightly rubbed to edges, marbled endpapers. Edward J. Bird, Wellington Hill, Henleaze, Bristol: 1951. £75.00 Bishop's Knoll Hospital "COO=EE!" The Journal of the Bishops Knoll Hospital, Bristol. Volume 1, 12 issues in all, illusts, roy 8vo, original cloth with an illustrated paper title pasted to top cover. The covers have been protected with a transparent plastic sheet, front inner hinge pulled. All published. Bristol: November 1916 - October 1917. £55.00 * Very Scarce. Includes a list of names of the patients, and articles by George Stone, and many by the patients concerning trips they made and events they held. Introduction issue No 1:- 'This little magazine is published primarily in the interests of our Australian friends who come to Bishop's Knoll Hospital, to have the wear and tear of battle made good'. Bristol Docks Committee STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF BRISTOL. 28 leaves of tables, some of which are folded, with some statistics added in manuscript up to 1900. folio, original qtr cloth, paper boards, private ownership stamp to front pastedown. February, 1896. £32.00 Bristol Riots 1831 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED UNDER THE BRISTOL DAMAGES COMPENSATION ACT and Statement of Actions for Damages and Proceedings had therein under that Act, with their General Results. Folio, 22pp, original cloth, with printed label on top cover, foot of boards stained, foot of text slightly crinkled, rubbed, spine slightly chipped, front inner hinge cracked, endpapers spotty. Bristol: John Taylor, Printer, Mirror Office, 1835. £40.00 * Gives the names of the plaintiffs, subject of their claim, and costs involved. Britton (John) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY, AND CATHEDRAL CHURCH, of Bristol: Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Views, Elevations, Plans, and Details of that Edifice; with Biographical Anecdotes of Eminent Persons connected with the Establishment. With 12 engraved plates and plans, and 2 textual illusts, vii + 74pp, 4to, full early calf, marbled endpapers, bound without list of subscribers and advertisement leaf as usual. First edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme.... 1830. £75.00 Bryant (John Frederick) VERSES BY JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT, Late Tobacco-Pipe Maker at Bristol. Together with His Life Written by Himself. Frontis, (12) + xxxiii + 64pp, full contemporary calf, spine gilt tooled, leather label, tooled border to boards, marbled endpapers, cover slightly rubbed, early ownership inscription to verso of front endpaper, small waterstain to top margin of frontis, otherwise a clean copy. The last 2 leaves of the list of 'Benefactors' have been tipped in possibly where updated. First edition, London: Printed for the Author 1787. £165.00 Building and Party Walls EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT For regulating the Buildings and Party-walls within the City and County of Bristol, and for widening and improving several Streets within the same. With a folding schedule and seven folding plates, 26pp, 12mo, contemporary, unlettered, cloth, 12mo. 1840. £35.00 Charlton (J) and Milton (D.M) REDLAND 791 to 1800. With 8 plates, map end papers, 78pp, 12mo, original cloth. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1951. £16.00 Chilcott (J), published by CHILCOTT'S DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF BRISTOL, Ancient & Modern; or a Guide to Bristol, Clifton & the Hotwells with topographical notices of the neighbourhood villages etc. With 2 folding maps, 1 folding plan, frontis, folding plate and one other plate, wood engravings, 360pp, 12mo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, 1" split to hinge at head of spine, and short split to head of rear outer hinge, original label on spine rubbed, few marks, and stain to outer edge of rear board, internally sound. Sixth Edition, Much Improved. Bristol: J. Chilcott, (1844) £35.00 Clarke (Charles Cyril) SOCIETY OF MERCHANT VENTURERS OF BRISTOL. Being a Lecture given at the Royal Colonial Institute, Bristol, on January 2nd, 1922. Illusts, 60pp, 12mo, untrimmed in the original cloth gilt. Printed for Private Circulation. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1922. £26.00 * A brief outline of the society from its early beginnings in the 15th century. Mentions the slave trade, John Cabot, Edward Colston, America, the North West Passage, etc., etc. Clifton College CLIFTON COLLEGE SCHOOL LISTS. 12 numbers:- Easter, 1887; July, 1887; Easter, 1888; Midsummer, 1888; Christmas, 1888; Easter, 1889; Midsummer, 1889; Midsummer, 1890; Christmas, 1890; Easter, 1891; Midsummer, 1891; Midsummer, 1892. Each issue has between 60 - 70 pages and all but one have their original wraps, bound together in early binders cloth which is now coming adrift, rear outer hinge torn. Clifton: E. Austin & Son, Printers, Chronicle Office. 1887 - 1892. £38.00 Cranidge (John) A MIRROR FOR THE BURGESSES AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL In which is exhibited to their view, a part of the great and many Interesting Benefactions & Endowments, of which the City hath to boast, and for which the Corporation Are Responsible, as the Stewards and Trustees thereof.... 296pp, recent paper boards, paper label on spine, occasional light foxing. Bristol: Printed by Jonathan Baller & Co. No 6, Narrow Wine Street, For the Author, and Sold at his Academy, Upper Easton, And at the Printing Office. (1818) £42.00 Dallaway (Rev. James) ANTIQUITIES OF BRISTOW IN THE MIDDLE CENTURIES; Including the Topography by William Wyrcestre, and the Life of William Canynges. With 4 plates, and illusts of coats of arms in the text, untrimmed in later, unlettered, qtr cloth, paper boards, folio, some of the paper missing from rear board, front endpaper slightly creased and with a small hole, slight water stain to fore-edge margins of last leaf and rear endpaper. LARGE PAPER COPY. Bristol: Mirror Office, 1834. £115.00 * 'Six large paper copies, imp. 4to, were printed on Whatman's paper.' See Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. This copy is larger than one other large paper copy I have seen, it measures 17" x 12«". Ellis (M.J. Hall) THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TELEPHONE SERVICE IN BRISTOL 1879 - 1931. Illusts, 156pp, sm 4to, original decorative card covers. British Telecommunications, London: (1989) £14.00 Evans's THE BRISTOL INDEX, or Evans's Directory, for the Year 1818. Part I. A General List of the Names and Residence of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. Resident in Bristol, Clifton, and the Neighbourhood; Including also The Names of Persons in Trade, &c.... Part II. The Names and Residence of Persons in Professions, Manufactures, Trades, &c. and Public Offices Connected with Trade.... Part III. Carrying-List of Coaches, Waggons, &c.... with A Guide to the Streets, &c. Regulations of Hackney-Coaches and Stamp-Lists. Part IV. The Corporate, and other Public Bodies, Schools, and Charities, &c. [ii] publishers adverts + [iv] + lvi + 96pp, lacks plan, original printed boards, rubbed, top board loose. Bristol: Printed by and for Browne and Manchee, No 19, Clare-Street. 1818. £155.00 * This was the third and last of Evans's directories, the first being in 1816. Felix Farley, sold by BRISTOL. THE CITY CHARTERS. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors, Recorders, Sheriffs, Town Clerks, And all Other Officers whatsoever. As also of a Common Council, and the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with, and Corrected according to the Latin Originals. To which are added, The Bounds of the City, by Land, With the exact Distances from Stone to Stone, all round the City. With the engraved frontis, 297 + (xii)pp + advert leaf, 4to, full early panelled calf, later spine and endpapers, raised bands, boards slightly rubbed to edges, small amount of light spotting. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley, in Castle Green: 1736. £125.00 George (William) THOMAS CHATTERTON AND THE VICAR OF TEMPLE CHURCH, Bristol [A.D. 1768 - 1770.] The Poet's Account of the "Knightes Templaries Chyrche." Three Illustrations, 12pp, 4to, pamphlet, original wraps, few short tears to wraps. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50. Bristol: William George and Sons, 1888. £40.00 Harsell (Richard), printer CERTAIN OBSERVATIONS, UPON THE NEW LEAGUE OR COVENANT, As it was explained by a Divine of the New Assembly, in a Congregation at London. Written and sent to him in a Letter by some of his Auditors. With a Copy of the said Covenant. Title + 44pp, lacks pages 45-52, sm 4to, title neatly re-margined and slightly dusty with a few spots, last leaf dusty, full recent panelled calf, marbled endpapers, outer hinges lightly rubbed. Bristoll, Printed for Rich. Harsell, and are to be sold by him in Bristol, 1643. £60.00 * Loosely inserted is a newscutting, for Nov 1969 concerning the Eberle sale, (where a copy, maybe this copy, was sold,) stating that this work is 'thought to be the first printed in Bristol.' However the first known work printed in Bristol was in 1632, followed by 6 other works printed in 1643. Hollis (D), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565. Part I 1532-1542. Folding frontis, viii + 243pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 14. Bristol Record Society. 1949. £25.00 Hutt (H), editor CLIFTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB 1872 TO 1972. Illusts, 116pp, original cloth. Numbered Limited Edition. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 1972. £15.00 Jennings (Henry J) BINGHAM'S GUIDE TO BRISTOL. Clifton, Cotham, Hotwells, &c., containing Particulars of every Place of interest in and Around the City. Folding map, iv + 233 + numerous adverts, sm 8vo, recent cloth with the original paper wraps bound in. Bristol: R.W. Bingham. 1872. £30.00 Kelly's WRIGHT'S BRISTOL DIRECTORY 1914. Including Westbury-on-Trym, Shirehampton, Horfield, and Part of Henbury. Lacks map, lx + 1000 + 29pp adverts, original cloth boards, new spine retaining the original endpapers. London: Published by Kelly's Directories, 1914. £70.00 [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 boards, recased with the original spine laid down. Bristol: John Wright, Bridge Street, 1836. £120.00 * 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. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Sixteenth Century. xii + 131pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, small amount of light foxing. Bristol: William George's Sons. 1908. £38.00 Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Eighteenth Century. vi + 550pp, original cloth. Printed for the Author. Frome, Butler and Tanner, 1893. £45.00 --- See sample text Lee (Thomas) WHITE-LION CLUB, LATE RIOT AND DOCK TAX. An Address to the Public, Wherein these alarming and disgraceful Topics are discussed. Pamphlet, 32pp, disbound, last leaf slightly dusty. Printed by George Routh, Shannon-Court, Corn Street, Bristol: (1807) £55.00 * This is an attack on the Tory M.P. Bathurst and the Dock Scheme. Manchee (Thomas John), editor 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. 2 volumes, engraved plan, vii + (ii) + 539 and iv + 497pp, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks label from one spine, other label chipped, strip of calf torn from head of one spine, some occasional foxing. Bristol: Printed by and for T.J. Manchee. 1831. £125.00 Mathews (Joseph), printer MATHEWS'S ANNUAL BRISTOL DIRECTORY and Commercial List; For the Year 1828. Containing (in the General List) upwards of 8,000 Names. Containing Alphabetical Lists of the Corporation, Clergy, Merchants, Bankers.... 303 + 7 pages of adverts + 4 engraved adverts, 12mo, original paper boards, slightly rubbed to edges, original printed paper label on top cover. Bristol: Printed and Sold by the Editor, Joseph Mathews, 1828. £135.00 McGrath (Patrick), and Williams (Mary E), editor BRISTOL WILLS 1546 - 1593. ix + 90pp, folio, recent cloth, original wraps bound in. University of Bristol, 1975. £18.00 Nott (John) OF THE HOTWELL WATERS, NEAR BRISTOL: 94 + 1pp (advert leaf), uncut, recent cloth. First edition, Bristol: Printed by S. Booner, Castle Green. 1793. £130.00 Owen (E) OBSERVATIONS ON THE EARTHS, ROCKS, STONES AND MINERALS, FOR SOME MILES ABOUT BRISTOL., and on the nature of the Hot-Well, and the virtues of its water. Frontis, and 2 other plates, 250pp, 12mo, early calf boards, later calf spine, with inner hinges strengthened, corners of boards rubbed, small portions chipped from front endpaper and title-page. London: Printed and Sold by W. Johnston, at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1754. £550.00 * Includes chapters on the Cotham Stone, Clifton 'rough' stones, as well as Bath stone and 'observations on the adjoining parts of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire.' Poll Book 1837 BRISTOL POLL BOOK, No title, as issued (see note below), Confidential preface + iii + 56 leaves, 12mo, contemporary qtr cloth paper, boards, ex-school lib. with stamp to front endpaper, few spots to lower margins of a couple of leaves, dated in ink on spine, and top board. No imprint, 1837. £115.00 * Very Scarce. This was privately issued by the Liberal Association in Dec. 1837, in connection with an Election Petition then pending, and was issued without a title-page. See Hyett & Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature vol. 3, page 153. Pryce (George) NOTES ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN BRISTOL.... With Antiquarian, Historical, Biographical, and Heraldic Elucidations: Copiously illustrated. 230pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. First edition, London: and Bristol: J. Lavars. 1850. £45.00 Skeeters (Martha C) COMMUNITY AND CLERGY Bristol and Reformation c.1530 - c.1570. 3 plans, x + 319pp, dustwrapper. Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1993. £30.00 Spear (H.J), and Arrowsmith (J.W), editor ARROWSMITH'S DICTIONARY OF BRISTOL. Folding map, 292pp, original cloth. First edition. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1884. £35.00 * Gives details of numerous places, institutions, as well as events in Bristol's history. Taylor (John) A BOOK ABOUT BRISTOL; Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, From Original Research. iv + 393 + (vi) pages of adverts, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, few small marks to covers. London: Houlston and Sons, 1872. £35.00 * The cheaper edition without the photographic plates. 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, disbound, first leaf slightly dusty. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1912. £45.00 Winstone (Reece) VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRISTOL from old photographs. With 152 plates, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. First edition, B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1976. £18.00 Wright (David) MEMORIALS OF STOKE BISHOP; its Church & First Vicar. Illusts, viii + 126pp, original cloth-backed, covers dull and slightly soiled, one section of text held by strings, signs where label removed from front pastedown. First edition. Bristol: John Wright & Co., 1897. £20.00 Wright (J) and Co's BRISTOL AND CLIFTON DIRECTORY 1880, With nearly a Hundred Adjacent Villages. Lacks map, 503pp, including adverts, original cloth, rubbed, inner hinges broken, loose in case, short crack and dent to rear board. Bristol: J. Wright & Co. 1880. £78.00 Wright (Lewis) A COMPLETE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. With vignette frontis, 32pp, sm 8vo., original pictorial wraps, wraps slightly dusty. Bristol: J. Wright and Co., 1866. £65.00 A further selection of BRISTOL Books on Main Site Back to the Top Cornwall Allen (John) HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD AND ITS VICINITY. With a map and 17 engraved and lithographed views, xviii + (ii) + 564pp, cr 8vo, original cloth, neatly recased with the old spine laid down, retaining the original endpapers, occasional light spotting. London: William and Frederick G. Cash. Liskeard: J. Philp, 1856. £250.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Darell, Trewornan, Cornwall. Andrews (Dr. C.T) THE FIRST CORNISH HOSPITAL. With a Preface by A.L. Rowse. Plates, 225pp, dustwrapper. Wordens, Penzance: 1975. £18.00 Argall (Annie E) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO CORNWALL and The Scilly Isles. Folding map, 109 + (2) + 9 pages of local adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, small ink splash marks to rear board. Truro: Netherton and Worth. London: Houlston and Sons, 1900. £32.00 Baker (Denys Val) BRITAIN'S ART COLONY BY THE SEA. Illusts, 96pp, roy 8vo, some spots to dustwrapper. First Edition, George Ronald, London: 1959. £30.00 * Mentions amongst others Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leach, Sven Berlin and Nicholson and is mainly concerned with St. Ives. Bizley (A.C) THE SLATE FIGURES OF CORNWALL. Illustrated by the author. viii + 184pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly darkened. Worden Printers, Marazion and Penzance: (1965) £30.00 * Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Blight (J.T) A WEEK AT THE LAND'S END. Full page and textual illusts., folding map, xi + 233pp, early binders cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional spotting to text. First edition, London: Longman Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. £35.00 --- See sample text Blight (J.T) CHURCHES OF WEST CORNWALL; With Notes of Antiquities of the District. Textual illusts, xi + 240pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, contemporary inscription on top margin of title-page. Second Edition. Parker and Co., Oxford & London: 1885. £25.00 Boase (George Clement) COLLECTANEA CORNUBIENSIA: A Collection of Biographical & Topographical Notes relating to the County of Cornwall. xi + 952pp, 4to, original cloth, neatly recased, original spine laid down, with new endpapers. LIMITED EDITION OF 130 COPIES. Printed and Published by Netherton and Worth, Truro: For the Author. 1890. £750.00 * An extensive work with a large number of biographical notes of prominent people in the county. Bolitho (William) NUGAE. A Rhyming Medley. viii + 53pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original half roan, lacks 1" from foot of spine. Presentation inscription to J.D.E., (John Davies Enys whose bookplate is on front pastedown) dated and initialled by Bolitho. Printed for Private Circulation. Plymouth: 1891. £80.00 * Bolitho, of Ponsandane, Penzance, gave this work to his friends. Bonham (Mrs J) CHRISTMAS IN CORNWALL 60 YEARS AGO. 79pp, sm 8vo, original printed paper boars, boards partly faded and slightly rubbed, later inscription to front endpaper. London: The Unicorn Press, 1898. £20.00 * Fiction. Borlase (William) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CORNWALL, 1758. Facsimile Reprint. With an introduction by Dr F.A. Turk. Biographical Essay by P.A.S. Pool. Appendix of additions from MS annotations by the author for a proposed second edition. Folding map, 28 plates, xix + 326pp + 64pp, folio, dustwrapper, in the original cloth slipcase, small portion of paper surface of slipcase torn. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. Originally published in 1758. Reprinted. E. & W. Books (Publishing) Ltd. 1970. £250.00 Breton (Rev. H. Hugh) LAND'S END AND THE LIZARD. Illusts, adverts, [xii] + 94 + [vi]pp, original printed wraps, titled in ink on spine. Plymouth: Hoyten and Cole. (1912) £16.00 Buckley (J.A) A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROFTY MINE. Illusts, 224pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. First edition, Dylansow Truran, Redruth: c.1982. £18.00 Camden (William), translated by Edmund Gibson CORNWALL. Extracted from Camden's Britannia. Lacks map, with an engraved plate, 23pp, folio, disbound. London: R. Ware.... 1753. £20.00 Chegwidden (Jan) THE OWLD CHURCH QUIRE and Other Stories in the Cornish Dialect. First Series. 37pp, orignal printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap and spine, staples rusty, lower corner torn from top wrap, and first few leaves, ink stain to fore-edges. Falmouth: "Cornish Echo." 1901. £12.00 Coate (Mary) CORNWALL IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR AND INTERREGNUM 1642-1660. With 6 illustrations and 5 map, 414pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Second Edition. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1963. £90.00 Cornwall Parish Registers, edited by Thomas Taylor. CORNWALL PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 24. 133pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 1915. £65.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Launceston (St. Mary Magdalene) & St. Keverne. Courtney (R.A) "PASSEL OF OULD TRAADE" being Sundry Papers read at meetings of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 91pp, original cloth, cloth slightly spotty, internally clean. Printed for Private Circulation. Penzance: 1909. £48.00 [Mrs Craik] UNSENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH CORNWALL. With Illustrations by C. Napier Hemy. x + (ii) + 155pp, 4to, original decorative cloth, dull and slightly rubbed to edges, rear board partly damp marked, small ink stain to top margin of approx. 40 pages. London: Macmillan, 1884. £25.00 Doble (Canon G.H) ST. IVES. Its Patron Saint and its Church. With a short Topography by Mr. R. Morton Nance, and a description of the Church by Mr. M.H.N.C. Atchley. "Cornish Parish Histories" Series No. 4. Illusts, 44pp, pamphlet, original, partly faded, wraps, ink note on top wrap. First edition, James Lanham, St. Ives: 1939. £16.00 Donnall (Robert Sawle) THE TRIAL OF ROBERT SAWLE DONNALL, Surgeon and Apothecary, late of Falmouth.... for the Wilful Murder, by Poison of Mrs Elizabeth Downing, Widow, His Mother-in-Law, at the Assize at Launceston, for the County aforesaid, On Monday, March 31, 1817, Before the Honorable Sir Charles Abbott, Knt.... Taken in Short Hand by Alexander Frazer. Engraved plan, xv + 179pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, lacks half of spine, one corner of top board slightly waterstained. Falmouth: Printed by and for James Lake. 1817. £80.00 Douch (H.L) CORNISH WINDMILLS. Frontis and textual illusts., 69pp, few small tears to dustwrapper. Truro: Oscar Blackford, c.196- £35.00 Enys (J.S) REMARKS ON THE INTENSITY AND QUANTITY OF THE JUNCTION CHANGES OF SUSSEX AND CORNWALL CONSIDERED AS MINING DISTRICTS. Folding plate, 33pp, original cloth, first leaf and plate slightly discoloured, ex-lib. with stamp to verso of title-page, label to front pastedown. London: Edward Stafford, 1863. £35.00 * Although the date is 1863 at the foot of title the Appendix has a date of 1869. Ferguson (John) and Thurlow (Charles) CORNISH BRICK MAKING AND BRICK BUILDING. Coloured and black and white illusts in the text, viii + 192 + ix-xvpp, original card covers. Cornish Hillside Publications, St. Austell: 2005. £20.00 Forbes (John) ON THE GEOLOGY OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. 11pp. Penzance: Printed by T. Vigurs. 1822..... Bound with.... Forbes (John) ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE LAND'S - END DISTRICT. Folding hand-coloured map, coloured geological section, 40pp. Penzance: Printed by T. Vigurs. 1822. Two items bound in 1, early half calf, marbled boards and endpapers. Penzance: Printed by T. Vigurs. 1822. £350.00 * Both of these papers were originally published in the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Ford (Colonel A), Her Majesty's Inspector of Explosives REPORT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING AN EXPLOSION WHICH OCCURRED IN A MIXING HOUSE AT THE FACTORY OF THE NATIONAL EXPLOSIVES COMPANY, LIMITED, AT UPTON TOWANS, GWYTHIAN, NEAR HAYLE, CORNWALL, On the 4th September 1894: With 2 coloured plans, 12pp, folio, stitched as issued, lacks wraps(?) London: H.M.S.O. 1895. £48.00 Halliwell (J.O) RAMBLES IN WESTERN CORNWALL BY THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GIANTS; With notes on the Celtic Remains of the Land's End District & the Islands of Scilly. viii + 245pp + advert leaf, original cloth, neatly recased with the original spine laid down and new endpapers. First edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1861. £65.00 Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) THE CORNISH MINER. An Account of his Life Above and Underground from Early Times. Illusts, 351pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. Second edition, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948. £40.00 Hammond (Joseph) A CORNISH PARISH: Being an Account of St. Austell, Town, Church, District & People. Illusts., 377pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, splash marks to top cover, rear cover partly soiled, title-page foxed. First edition, London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. £35.00 Harper (C.G) THE CORNISH COAST (South) And the Isles of Scilly. Numerous full page and textual illusts, xi + 280pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, few light spots to cloth, page edges slightly spotty, early inscription to front endpaper. First edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. £36.00 Harris (T.R) DOLCOATH: Queen of Cornish Mines. Illusts, folding plan, 108pp, original pictorial card covers, private bookplate to half-title. The Trevithick Society. 1974. £30.00 Hawker (Rev. R.S), Preface by J.G. Godwin THE PROSE WORKS OF THE REV. R.S. HAWKER Vicar of Morwenstow. Including Foot-Prints of Former Men in Far Cornwall. Carefully re-edited With Sketches Never Before Published. Frontis, 187 + 32pp (publishers adverts), original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, cloth to head of spine slightly pulled, covers slightly spotty, signs where label partly removed from front pastedown. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1893. £40.00 Helston Election REPORT FROM COMMITTEE TO INSPECT LORDS JOURNALS WITH RELATION TO HELLESTONE ELECTION BILL. Folio, 9pp and drop head title, disbound. 1815. £16.00 Henderson (C) and Doble (Rev. Gilbert H) SOME NOTES ON THE PARISH OF GORAN, otherwise St. Gorans, in Cornwall, Together with a list of Incumbents, and A Description of the Architecture of the Parish Church of Saint Goran, and of the Chapel of Ease of Saint Just. 18pp, original wraps. The 'King's Stone' Press, Shipston-on-Stour: 1927. £15.00 * Presentation inscription, initialled by the author, on the top wrap. [Hext (F.M)] MEMORIALS OF LOSTWITHIEL: Collected & Contributed. Taken from the writings of Leland, Carew, Camden, Hals, Borlase, Lysons, C.S. Gilbert, Davies Gilbert, and others. 226pp, original cloth. Truro: Netherton & Worth, Printers, Lemon Street. 1891. £280.00 * A guide to Lostwithiel published by Lake & Lake in (1901) states that ONLY 25 COPIES of this work were published. Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CONVENTUAL AND PAROCHIAL CHURCH OF ST. GERMANS, CORNWALL. With An Introduction and Chronological Summary by the Right Honble. The Earl of St. Germans. With 4 folding plates, 41pp, original cloth, uncut. Exeter & Truro: 1902. £50.00 * With the contemporary inscription to Constance Philips from St. Germans on front endpaper. Jago (Fred. W.P) AN ENGLISH-CORNISH DICTIONARY. Frontis, 4to, xvi + 211 + 1 (Errata) + 1pp (List of Subscribers), original cloth, partly faded, head and foot of spine rubbed, rear outer hinge partly split. London: Simpkin, Marshall. Plymouth: W.H. Luke, 1887. £150.00 * The Appendix includes:- 'The Lord's Prayer', 'The Creed', 'English changes of Celtic Cornish Names.' There are 70 subscribers listed. Joseph (Peter) CAPE CORNWALL MINE. Illusts, diagrams, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, Sheffield: 2006. £16.00 Lach-Szymra (Rev. W.S), Vicar of Newlyn St. Peter A CHURCH HISTORY OF CORNWALL and the Diocese of Truro. With 2 plates, viii + 142pp, original cloth, partly faded, later spine, lacks front endpaper, front inner hinge strengthened, interesting news cuttings pasted to rear endpapers, private library label to front pastedown. London: Plymouth: and Truro: Netherton and Worth, c.188- £30.00 --- See sample text * Signed by the author on the title-page. [Leifchild (J)] CORNWALL: ITS MINES AND MINERS. With Sketches of Scenery. Designed as a popular introduction to Metallic Mines..... Bound with.... OUR COAL AND OUR COAL-PITS; The People in Them and The Scenes Around Them. Illusts in text, xii + 300pp. and 243pp. 2 works bound in 1 volume, contemporary half calf, raised bands, marbled boards, narrow strip missing from head of spine, rubbed at edges. First editions, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853 and 1855. £135.00 Maclean (Sir John) THE PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE DEANERY OF TRIGG MINOR, IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. With a folding map and 68 lithographed and other plates, several pedigrees, coats of arms etc. 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, occasional light spotting, corners slightly bruised, neat repair to margin of one plate, small number of pencil annotations. London: W. Nichols & Sons, and Bodmin: Liddell and Son, 1873-79. £680.00 --- See sample text and illustration of St. Maybn. * Complete set covering the parishes of Blisland, Bodmin, St. Bruered, Egloshayle, St. Endellion, Forrabury and Minster, Helland, Parish of Lanowe, alias St. Kew, Lanteglos and Advent, St. Mabyn, Michaelstow, St. Minver, St. Teath, Temple, Tintagel, Trevalga and St. Tudy. Matthews (John Hobson) MARTIN COCK'S GUIDE TO SAINT IVES, Its Surroundings, Scenery, Curiosities, Antiquities, History and Traditions. Folding map, illusts, 31 + vpp (adverts), original printed wraps, slightly faded, areas of spine lightly rubbed. Third Edition. St. Ives: Martin Cock, Printer and Publisher, 1906. £30.00 Melvill (Phillip) BRIEF MEMOIR OF PHILIP MELVILLE, ESQ. Lieutenant Governor of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall. Frontis, 147pp, sm 8vo, early half calf, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, frontis spotty. Edinburgh: Printed for James Robertson & Co., 1825. £40.00 * This edition not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. Michell (Elizabeth) THE CORNISH MINER, (A Tale founded on Facts) A Wonderful Dream, and Other Incidents. 17pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps are ragged and loose, few spots. Second Edition, London: Houlston and Sons, Truro: J.R. Netherton: 1873. £15.00 Michell (Frank) NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF REDRUTH. 117pp, original wraps. First edition. J. & M. Roberts, Redruth: 1948. £25.00 Moissenet (Proffessor L) OBSERVATIONS ON THE RICH PARTS OF THE LODES OF CORNWALL, Their Form, and their Relations with the Directions of the Stratigraphic Systems. Translated from the French by J.H. Collins. With 8 plates, 4 of which are folding, xii + 150pp + 2pp list of subscribers, original cloth, spotting to prelims and edges of pages. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Truro: Lake and Lake, 1877. £125.00 Monk (Wendy) JOHN GILL OF PENRYN. Illusts, 76pp, roy 8vo, few short tears and splits to dustwrapper, light spotting to prelims, presentation inscription to front endpaper. E.J. Rickard, Plymouth: (1971) £18.00 * Gill was a quaker and pacifist, he founded the Penryn Advertiser and when he retired he toured round the country preaching non violence. 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. £48.00 Page (W), editor THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Part 8. The Domesday Survey for Cornwall. Introduction, Text and Index. Double-page map, pages numbered 45-113, original paper wraps partly faded, later cloth spine, some foxing. London: Victoria History. 1924. £20.00 Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH MINER IN AUSTRALIA. (Cousin Jack Down Under). Illusts, xi + 242pp, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Trewirgie: 1984. £35.00 Penhale (J) THE MINE UNDER THE SEA. Illusts, 67pp, original printed wraps, wraps foxed. J.H. Lake, Falmouth: 1962. £16.00 * The mine is Levant in St. Just. Penhallurick (R.D) THE BIRDS OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY. Illusts, maps, and diagrams, 200pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1969. £25.00 Penneck and Dunkin PENNECK AND 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) £30.00 * Not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. 'The Patentees through the kind indulgence of Mr Daubus, Mr Batten, Messrs. Bolitho and Captain Chenhalls, were enabled to have an experiment tried at Ding Dong..... ' Perrin (Mrs) 'A MOTHER IN ISRAEL' The Life of Sarah Benney. With an Introduction by Canon Mason. With 4 plates, 94pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, Cornwall Record Office stamp to verso of frontis. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., c.1900. £32.00 * She was the wife of the Truro pilot, and was a prominent member of the Truro cathedral congregation. With the bookplate of John Davies Enys. Pevsner (Nicholas) CORNWALL. (Buildings of England series). Plates, double-page map, 251pp, paperback, spine slightly darkened and rubbed to edges. First edition, Harmondsworth: Penguin books, 1951. £15.00 Pounds (Norman J.G), editor THE PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Part I (Austell Prior - Saltash); Part II (Isles of Scilly - West Antony and Manors in Devon). With 2 folding maps, xxiv + 130pp, and 131-271pp, 2 volumes, original card covers. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volumes. 25 & 27. Torquay: 1982-84. £32.00 Quiller-Couch (A.T), editor THE CORNISH MAGAZINE. Volumes 1 and 2 all published. Numerous illusts, 488 and 400pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial cloth, covers to one volume dull with short tear to head of spine, and recent endpapers, fore-edges to this volume slightly waterstained. Truro: Joseph Pollard. 1898-99. £40.00 --- See sample text * Includes stories, poetry and articles on Dolcoath, Falmouth, Newquay, Sennen, Mount Edgcumbe, smugglers, etc., etc. Quiller-Couch (M. and L) ANCIENT AND HOLY WELLS OF CORNWALL. Illusts., xxxi + 217pp, original cloth, early ownership name to title-page. First edition, London: Chas. J. Clark, 1894. £55.00 Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1888. Original printed wraps, few textual illusts, small areas rubbed from spine. Falmouth: Lake & Co., Truro: Heard & Sons, 1888. £22.00 * Includes articles on:- Tin-deposits in Galicia, Spain; Miners' Electric Safety Lamps; Some Industries of the West; Skates and Rays of Cornwall, etc. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. FORTIETH AND FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORTS Two volumes bound in one, plates, maps, and diagrams, many of which are folding, early binders buckram, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-university lib. with occasional stamp. Falmouth: 1872 and 1873. £40.00 * Includes:- Mining Skills in Devon and Cornwall; Antiquities of Dartmoor; Elvan Courses.... etc. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 9. 18 plates, vii + 242 + Errata. Bound in at the rear are the 51st (1864), 52nd (1865), 53rd (1866), 54th (1867), 55th (1869), 56th (1869), 57th (1870), 58th (1871), 59th (1872), 60th (1873), 61st (1874), 62nd (1875), 63rd (1876), 64th (1877) Annual Reports for the Society, and Le Neve Foster (C) and Barnett (A.K) GUIDE TO THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL, Penzance. 15pp. W. Lake, Truro: 1875. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, leather labels, marbled boards, top outer hinge slightly chipped at short split, lightly rubbed. Penzance: 1878; W. Cornish, Penzance: 1864-1869; F. Rodda, Penzance: 1872-1874; 1875-1877; W. Lake, Truro: 1875. £220.00 * Includes:- Lands End Granite; Geology of Lundy Island; Bones of a Whale found at Pentuan; Tin Lodes in the St. Agnes District; Tin Deposits of East Wheal Lovell, etc. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 18. Parts 1, 3, 4, 5 of 5, without the index volume, all in the original printed wraps, illusts, portions missing from one spine, staples rusty to one volume. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., 1949-1954. £40.00 * Articles include:- Carboniferous Deposits in Cornubia; Cornish "Greenstones"; Tungsten in Cornwall, etc. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Volume 2. 1866-1867. Plates, maps, etc., xvii + 365pp, early half calf, marbled boards, leather label, lacks portions of calf from head and foot of spine. Netherton, Printer, Truro: 1867. £46.00 * Includes articles on:- Celtic Remains on Dartmoor; Jews in Cornwall and Marazion; Twin Storms of 1867; Bishopric of Cornwall; Barrow etc., on Trewavas Head. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. VOLUME 19. Part 1. - 1912 + Supplement. Peter (Thurstan) THE ST COLUMB GREEN BOOK. Plates, viii + 142 + 91 + ivpp, later unlettered cloth. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1912. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Arthurian Place Names; Antiquities at Lewannick; Index to Cornish Transcripts, etc. etc. Saltash REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF SALTASH. (Cornwall.) Title + pages numbered 604-610, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. Scillonian, editor Clive Mumford. THE SCILLONIAN. The Quarterly Magazine of the Isles of Scilly. Nos 173 - 176. Illusts, maps, 276pp, plus numerous unnumbered pages of local adverts, 4 issues all bound in one volume, qtr morocco, cloth boards, ex-lib. with no stamps, but a small section of cloth has been cut from top board, number to base of spine, and signs where label removed from front endpaper. Truro: Oscar Blackford Ltd., Spring 1968 - Winter 1968-69. £20.00 Shaw (Thomas) A HISTORY OF CORNISH METHODISM. Plates, 145 + (iii)pp adverts, dustwrapper protected in loose plastic sleeve. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1967. £30.00 Skues (Keith) CORNISH HERITAGE. Numerous illusts, maps, ix + 692pp, dustwrapper. Werner Shaw, London: 1985. £35.00 * An in depth study of the Cornish mining family of Skues it includes many transcripts from parish registers. The Skewes, Skewis, Skews and Skues family are spread throughout Cornwall, with many of them originating in the Camborne, Redruth, and Helston areas. Several members of the mining branch of the family went to Australia, Chile, Mexico, U.S.A., South Africa, etc. Smith (John R), and others THE LUXULYAN VALLEY Maps, plans, diagrams, 174pp, small folio, original pictorial card covers, couple of creases to covers. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 1988. £22.00 Stithians Parish History Group THE BOOK OF STITHIANS. The Changing Face of a Cornish Parish. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper, ownership name to front endpaper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 1999. £32.00 Tangye (Michael) SCILLY 1801-1821. Through war and peace. 68pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. St. George Printing Works, Camborne: 1970. £15.00 Thomas (John), printer ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF MOUNT'S BAY, with every Civil and Military Transaction, in Saint Michael's Mount, Marazion, Penzance, Paul, Buryan, Saint Levan, Sennen, Saint Just, &c. The Third Edition, Revised and Corrected with Considerable Additions. Frontis, 108pp, 12mo, early paper boards, recent cloth spine, paper label on spine, boards rubbed to corners, frontis and title-page foxed. Penzance: Printed by and for John Thomas. 1831. £150.00 Thompson (W. Harding) CORNWALL. A SURVEY of its Coast, Moors, and Valleys, with Suggestions for the Preservation of Amenities. Prepared by W. Harding Thompson, F.R.I.B.A. for the Cornwall Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. With Notes on the Antiquities of Cornwall by Charles Henderson, and a Preface by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Numerous plates and plans, xix + 130pp, original cloth, top board partly faded and with one corner slightly bruised, with a dustwrapper that is partly split, and with a few tears at top outer hinge and slightly ragged at the top. University of London Press, 1930. £35.00 Tranter (Gladys M), edited THE HUMAN SPRING. The story and character of a School. (Penzance Girl's Grammar School) Illusts, 158pp, original cloth, with a postcard of the school cellotaped to the front pastedown. Penzance Girl's Grammar School, 1980. £12.00 Tregellas (I.T) CORNISH TALES, In Prose and Verse, With a Glossary. 192 + 2pp, sm 8vo, recent qtr cloth, original pictorial card covers pasted down, verso of title-page and first leaf slightly dusty, lower corner of top board rubbed. Truro: Netherton & Worth, c.1880. £18.00 Tregellas (I.T) PEEPS INTO THE HAUNTS AND HOMES OF THE RURAL POPULATION OF CORNWALL. Being Reminiscences of Cornish Character and Characteristics, illustrative of the Dialect, Peculiarities, &c., &c., of the Inhabitants of West & North Cornwall. Illustrated by R.H. Carter and J. King James. Numerous illusts., xvi + 171 + (iv) adverts, original decorative cloth, gilt, few small marks to covers, slightly rubbed to edges, spine faded, inner hinges cracked, though sound. Truro: Netherton & Worth, London: Houlston & Sons, 1894. £28.00 [Trenhaile (J)] DOLLY PENTREATH, and other Humourous Cornish Tales in Verse. With a portrait frontis., of Dolly Pentreath, 46pp, original printed wraps, lightly rubbed to edges, short tear to top wrap has cellotape to verso. Devonport: W. Wood. Plymouth: J. Bond, c.1850. £25.00 Vale (Edmund) THE HARVEYS OF HAYLE. Engine Builders, Shipwrights, and Merchants of Cornwall. With plates, 8 maps and diagrams, 356pp, original cloth, with dustwrapper, ownership name to front endpaper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. 1966. £75.00 Venning (James) AN ILLUSTRATED POSTAL DIRECTORY, with Maps and Historical Notices, of TWENTY PARISHES IN EAST CORNWALL.... Third Edition, with 110 illustrations, Edited by the Rev. J. Birkbeck. In 2 Parts.- Part I. Postal Directory, Pages 1 to 200. Part II. Historical Notices, Pages 1 to 282. Illusts, folding map, 280 + xiii + (3)pp, includes numerous adverts, original cloth, recent endpapers, map neatly repaired to one fold but with old cellotape stains where once repaired. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Callington. J. Venning, Printer and Stationer, Post Office. 1901. £125.00 * Although on the title-page it mentions that part II has 282 pages, this is a mis-print: it ends at page 280. Walke (Bernard) TWENTY YEARS AT ST. HILARY. vii + 307pp, some damp marks to the original cloth, internally sound, few marks to partly faded and frayed dustwrapper. Second Edition, London: Methuen, 1936. £18.00 Whitfeld (Rev. H.J) SCILLY AND ITS LEGENDS. With printed and colour printed half-title, viii + 224pp, original embossed cloth, neatly recased, new front endpaper, pastedowns and rear endpaper slightly waterstained to lower corner. First edition, Penzance: Printed and Published by F.T. Vibert, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1852. £150.00 Willey (Maureen) A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL CORNWALL HOME. Illusts in text, 117pp, small folio, original pictorial card covers, later title in manuscript on spine. 2003. £18.00 * Signed presentation inscription from the author on the front endpaper. [Yonge (Duke John)] CORNISH CARELESSNESS; Poems, Original and Translated by Launcelot Pendennis. viii + 167pp, 12mo, untrimmed in early cloth, partly faded, leather label on spine, lacks 1" from head of spine, the rest of spine almost loose. Plymouth: Rowe, 1830. £140.00 A further selection of CORNISH Books on Main Site Back to the Top Devon Alexander (J.J) and Hooper (W.R) HISTORY OF GREAT TORRINGTON in the County of Devon. With a large folding map, numerous plates, text illusts, xiii + 261pp, 4to, few short tears to slightly spotty dustwrapper. Sutton: Advance Studio, 1948. £125.00 Banfield (J), printer A GUIDE TO ILFRACOMBE, LYNTON, CLOVELLY, and the Neighbouring Towns; Comprehending a General Sketch of the History and Objects most worthy of remark in that part of North Devon: To which is added a Geological and Botanical Account of the Neighbourhood. A New Edition, Illustrated. With a frontis, a folding map, folding plan and 7 steel engraved vignette views, 2 of which are full page the others being in the text, vi + 154pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, with the original printed label on the top board, few small marks to cloth, slightly shaken, some light foxing mainly to prelims, early ownership name in ink to top of title. Ilfracombe: Printed by J. Banfield. c.184- £80.00 Banks (M.L) BLUNDELL'S WORTHIES. Illusts, 220pp, sm 4to, untrimmed in the original qtr parchment, paper boards, spine slightly darkened. Limited to 50 numbered copies on hand-made paper. London: Chatto & Windus. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1904. £75.00 Barnstaple REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF BARNSTAPLE. Title + pages numbered 428-434, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. Bellamy (J.C) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH DEVON. Five maps, eighty engravings, and nine lithographs. xxvi + viii + 455pp, early half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt tooled. Plymouth: Printed and Published by Jenkin Thomas. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1839. £220.00 * Author's presentation inscription to half-title. A nice copy. Besley (T), printer and publisher THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING CHARITIES; containing that part which relates to the COUNTY OF DEVON. viii + 333 and vii + 336 and vii + 312 + 169pp (Appendix and Index), 4 volumes, including the Appendix and Index volume, bound in 2, contemporary qtr cloth, paper boards, short split to cloth on one outer hinge, boards, slightly rubbed, front inner hinge of one volume broken, occasional light spotting to text, bookplates to front pastedown partly removed. Printed and Published by T. Besley, Jun. Cathedral-Yard, Exeter: 1826-28-30-32. £150.00 Billings (M) DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON, containing a descriptive account of every Town, Village, Hamlet, etc. followed by a General Directory. vi + 777 + (iii) + 190pp of local adverts, original cloth, later spine and endpapers, paper label on spine, covers rubbed to edges, an original endpaper and title slightly ragged to outer margins. M. Billings, Birmingham: 1857. £235.00 Boggis (Rev. R.J. Edmund) A HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, BARNSTAPLE. 204 + (9)pp list of subscribers, original cloth, few light marks to boards. Cross and Jackman, Canterbury: 1915. £30.00 Bowring (D. Warrell) ILFRACOMBE Throughout the Ages. Illusts., 119pp, few light marks to the original cloth. Exeter: A. Wheaton, 1931. £28.00 Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Volume 2 only of 4 volumes. Consisting of Sixteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With textual Plans, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. 60pp, original qtr roan, spine lightly rubbed. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and Numbered by Burnard and the printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, George Street, Plymouth: 1891. £80.00 Carrington (H.E) THE PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT GUIDE With Sketches of the Surrounding Scenery. Fifth Edition. With an Appendix. (Corrected to the present time.) With 6 lithographs and a folding map, 326pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. Fifth Edition. Devonport: Byers & Son, c.1840. £155.00 * The views are:- Royal William Victualling Yard; Plymouth Sound and Breakwater; Dock Yard, Devonport; The Breakwater; Mount Edgcumbe; The Laira Bridge and Saltram. Clayden (Arthur W) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE SCENERY. An Essay In Geographical Evolution. With 43 plates, viii + 202pp, original cloth. First edition, Chatto and Windus, London. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1906. £22.00 * This forms part 2 of volume 4 of Devon Notes and Queries. Colby (Frederic T), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON IN THE YEAR 1564, With Additions from the Earlier Visitation of 1531. 249pp, roy 8vo, original cloth partly faded, few spots to prelims, partly unopened, inner hinges professionally strengthened. Exeter: Printed for the Editor by W. Pollard. 1881. £145.00 Colton (Rev. C) HYPOCRISY. A Satire in Three Books. iv + 296pp, contemporary half calf, rubbed, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled boards, 2" split to top outer hinge, though sound, private library label to front pastedown. Tiverton: Printed and Sold by T. Smith. 1812. £45.00 * Colton was for a short period a curate in Tiverton. Cooper (Thomas Henry) A GUIDE CONTAINING A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LYNTON and other Places Adjacent in North Devon, including Ilfracombe. With a copy of the folding map tipped in, a folding pedigree, 5 vignette steel engravings, xvi + 114pp, 12mo, original cloth, new spine, and endpapers. London: John Russell Smith, Barnstaple: G.J. Jenvey, Lynton: W. Richardson, c.1853. £45.00 Cossins (James) REMINISCENCES OF EXETER FIFTY YEARS SINCE. Illusts, viii + 80pp, 12mo, a.e.g. few small spots to the original decorative cloth. Second Edition (with Additions). Printed for the Author, William Pollard, Exeter: 1878. £42.00 Cotton (William) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF PLYMPTON ST MAURICE, OR PLYMPTON EARL; with Memoirs of the Reynolds Family. Folding plan, and a mounted photo, vii + 129 + 1 Appendix leaf, 12mo, recent unlettered qtr cloth, marbled boards. London: John Russell Smith, 1859. £120.00 Cresswell (Beatrix F) EXETER CHURCHES. Notes on the History Fabrics and Features of Interest in the Churches of the Deanery of Christianity Devon. With 36 plates, 224pp, untrimmed in original cloth, t.e.g. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1908. £45.00 Cresswell (Beatrix F) TEIGNMOUTH Its History & Its Surroundings. Illustrated by Gordon Home. Illusts, map in pocket at rear, 126pp, sm 4to, original cloth, early ownership name and Teignmouth address to title-page. Teignmouth: F.R. Bowen, London: Homeland Handbook Association, Ltd., 1901. £28.00 * This is a larger format than the usual Homeland Handbooks. Crossing (William) THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF THE DARTMOOR BORDERS; With Notices of the Scenery and Traditions of the District. With a frontis, a map and 14 full page plates, xiv + 152pp, original cloth, frontis and map slightly spotty. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. £80.00 Croydon (E), and (George H), printers and publishers THE TORQUAY GUIDE, Containing a Description of the Town.... Geology, Climate, Botany, Etc. Etc. By Several Literary Gentlemen. Third Edition, With Additions, and Many Illustrations. Folding map, and 14 engravings, 2 more than is usually found, 160pp, original embossed cloth, partly faded, occasional light foxing, light waterstaining to one corner of a few plates. E. and George H. Croydon, Teignmouth: 1848. £60.00 Curtis (Muriel E) SOME DISPUTES BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CATHEDRAL AUTHORITIES OF EXETER. Folding map, 98pp, original cloth. Manchester University Press: 1932. £24.00 Davidson (James) THE HISTORY OF NEWENHAM ABBEY in the County of Devon. With 6 lithographed plates, v + 250pp, sm 8vo, original embossed cloth, one corner slightly bruised, small amount of foxing. London: Longman and Co. 1853. £75.00 Devon Charities ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS OF CHARITABLE DONATIONS for the Benefit of Poor Persons, Made by the Ministers and Churchwardens of the Several Parishes and Townships in England and Wales. 1786 - 1788. The Devon section. Folio, loose and unbound, top leaf very slightly ragged to fore-edge margins, small amount of spotting, 74pp, (pages numbered 231-314, complete). Ruled in columns:- Name of Hundred, Names of the Persons who Gave the Charity, When Given, Whether by Will or Deed, Description of the Charity, and for what Purpose given, Whether in Land or Money, In Whom Now Vested, Gross Amount, Annual Produce of the Money, Clear Annual Produce of that given in Land, and Observations. 1816. £42.00 Devon County Council AT YOUR SERVICE The Journal of the Devon County Council Staff Association. Volumes 28, No 6 - Volume 34, No 5. Line drawings in the text, 65 issues, each issue comprising usually 12 - 14 (gestetnered ?) pages, cloth. Devon County Council, Exeter: January, 1951 - December, 1956. £75.00 * The usual mix of essays about holidays, articles on sporting and social activities, notices of NALGO meetings, poetry (?), etc., etc. Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. VOLUME 1. From January 1900 to October 1901. Part I Miscellaneous. Plates, vi + 264pp. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1901..... Bound with.... SIR GEORGE CAREW'S SCROLL OF ARMS 1588. With Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579. With 2 plates, 152pp. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1901. Being Volume 1, Part 2. Two items bound in 1, early binders cloth, slightly rubbed, spine faded and slightly spotty, couple of small snags to head and foot of spine. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1901. £52.00 * Includes articles on:- Great Fulford; Barnstaple Mechanics' Institute; Church House Exbourne; Dunsford Church; Exeter Clocks; Littelcote, Copleston, and Morris Families; Ancient Crosses near North Bovey, etc., etc. Chope (R. Pearse) THE DEVONIAN YEAR BOOK. For the Years 1914-1927 inclusive. 14 issues, illusts, adverts, 8vo, the years 1914 to 1918 and 1919, 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1926 have been bound in 2 volumes, recent cloth, ex-lib. with the occasional embossed stamp, the years 1821, 1923, 1925 and 1927 are in the original wrappers. Each year contains a list of members and Associates. The London Devonian Association, 1919 - 1927. £95.00 * They contain numerous interesting articles:- Dialect; Okehampton Castle; Thomas Savery, Engineer; Plymouth China; Religious Houses of Devon; The Devon Farm-house; Worthies of Devon; Sabine Baring-Gould; Last of the Dynhams; Clovelly Dykes; Tavistock Goose Fair; Haydon the Painter; Devonshire Wrestling, etc. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. [Barnstaple, July, 1917.] VOLUME 49. Illusts, 473pp, original wraps, slightly soiled, spine lightly rubbed and chipped at head and foot, small portion missing from top wrap. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1917. £25.00 * Includes articles on:- Sir Richard Grenville; Musical History of Barnstaple; Barnstaple Goldsmiths' Guild; Needlework in Devon, etc. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... [Torquay, June, 1936.] VOLUME 68. Illusts some of which are folding, x + 449pp, original printed wraps, foot of spine slightly chipped, few spots to top wrap. Torquay: Devonshire Press, 1936. £18.00 * Includes articles on:- Devonshire Folk-Lore; Huguenots in Exeter; Surnames of Devon; Newton St Cyres and Norton, etc. Dymond (Francis W) DEVON AND CORNWALL QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. TRUST PROPERTY within the County of DEVON. With Nine Plates. With nine folding plans, xiv + 132pp, roy 8vo, some light spotting to the original bevelled cloth. Pasted onto front pastedown is a hand written letter from Dymond to his friend Henry Harris. Printed for Private Circulation Only, by Headley Brothers, London: 1899. £125.00 Edmonds (E.A), Wright (J.E), and others. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND OKEHAMPTON. (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 324, New Series) With 12 plates, textual illusts, xii + 256pp, dustwrapper. London: H.M.S.O. 1968. £20.00 Edmonds (Rev. F.S) CHRONICLES OF ST. MARY CHURCH. With Notes on Babbacombe, Ilsham, Shiphay Collaton, Kingskerwell and Coffinswell. Frontis, 66pp, 12mo, original cloth. Charles G. Jowitt, Torquay: (1925) £28.00 Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE CHURCH BELLS IN THE TOWERS OF ALL THE PARISH CHURCHES OF DEVONSHIRE. With 18 wood engraved plates, pages numbered 223-410 + 421-427pp, 4to, original printed card covers, spine chipped, slightly shaken. William Pollard, Exeter: 1867. £200.00 * Article contained within Volume I. Part III, Second Series of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. Ellis (Arthur Charles) AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF TORQUAY. From the earliest times, as illustrated by finds in Kent's Cavern, down to the present time. Numerous illustrations, viii + 506pp, 4to, original cloth. Subscribers Edition. Published by the Author. Torquay: (1930) £98.00 * Signed by the author on the title-page. Evans (Rachel) HOME SCENES, OR TAVISTOCK AND ITS VICINITY. Illustrated with mounted photo frontis. and 7 steel engraved vignette views, viii + 176pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, and damped, internally sound. Second Edition Revised and Corrected. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield. 1875. £80.00 Exeter Poll THE LIST OF VOTERS OF THE CITY OF EXETER. Entitled to Vote in the Election of a Member for the said City, between 1st January, 1899 and the 1st January 1900. 328 pages printed on rectos only, 4to, later half cloth on early marbled boards, with part of the original spine laid down, few spots to front and rear. It Gives Names, Addresses, Nature of Qualification and Description of Qualifying Property. With the signature of Lewis D. Thomas, Under Sheriff of Exeter and the dates Nov '98 / Nov '99 to the original front endpaper, this has been repaired with transparent tape. Signed at the end by Geo. R. Shorto, Town Clerk of Exeter., 31st December 1898, and with a page at the rear with a hand-written 'Summary of the Register of Parliamentary Elections for the City of Exeter for the Year 1899.' which is signed by Shorto. Printed by W.J.J. Norton, Exeter: 1898. £250.00 * Not found on Copac, or the Devon Libraries site. Exeter Registers, transcribed and edited by W.U. Reynell-Upham and H. Tapley-Soper. THE REGISTERS OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE CITY OF EXETER. The Cathedral and The Parishes of Alhallows, Goldsmith Street, St. Pancras, St. Paul. 2 volumes, xi + 410pp and xv + 618pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1910 and 1933. £110.00 Falcon (T.A) DARTMOOR ILLUSTRATED. A Series of One Hundred Full Page Plates of its Scenery and Antiquities with some short Topographical Notes. xxxixpp + 100 plates, early half morocco, cloth boards, raised bands spine gilt tooled, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. LARGE PAPER COPY. LIMITED TO 125 COPIES. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1900. £125.00 Fisher (Arthur) THE REGISTER OF BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL. With Introduction and Appendices. Part 1. The Register, 1770 - 1882. With 11 plates, xiii + 252pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. Printed and Published for the Old Blundellian Club Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon. Exeter: 1904. £30.00 --- See sample text Gamlen (Florence Mostyn), editor A CADETSHIP IN THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, 1805. Being a Short Memoir of Edward Blagdon. Born 1788: Died 1806. 43pp, original qtr parchment, paper boards, boards partly faded, private library label to front pastedown. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1931. £30.00 * Blagdon was born at Puddington, Devon, his father owned Smynacott Farm. "He was the first member of his family to seek employment outside Devon. Once embarked on the seas, 'he would not be at Puddington again for the whole world.... '" Halberton, transcribed and edited by C.A.T. Fursdon. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS of the Parish of Halberton. 1605 - 1837. xii + 408pp, lacks the 22 page supplement i.e. 'Corrigenda and Addenda', binders cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, private library label to front pastedown. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1930-1931. £65.00 Hall (John G) BISHOPSTEIGNTON. Its Scenic Attractions, Antiquities and Historical Associations. 10pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from "The Devon & Exeter Daily Gazette." 1931. £20.00 * Presentation inscription by the author on the top wrap. Hamilton (A.H.A) QUARTER SESSIONS UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH. From Original Records. A series of 10 articles taken from Frasers Magazine, 123pp, early cloth. 1876-1877. £35.00 * Author's copy with his name and address, in Devon, on a front endpaper. These articles chiefly relate to Devon. They were published in book form in 1878. Hearder (G. and J), printer and publisher THE SOUTH DEVON MONTHLY MUSEUM. Volumes 1-7, bound in 3. ALL PUBLISHED. Plates and illusts in the text, approx. 700 pages, early half calf, marbled boards, leather labels, slightly rubbed to edges. Plymouth: G. and J. Hearder. 1833 - 1836. £520.00 * Complete sets are rare. Published as a monthly magazine, each volume has between 200 and 283 pages, and contains six issues. Includes articles on:- the Lary Bridge; Babbicombe; Berry Pomeroy Castle; Eddystone Lighthouse; Dartmoor; Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Liskeard, Island of Jersey, etc., etc. Henderson (Charles) and Jervoise (E) OLD DEVON BRIDGES. Illustrated with 43 Photographs. 96pp, original cloth. First edition, Wheaton, Exeter: 1938. £37.00 Hine (James) THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS OF PLYMOUTH; A paper read at the Plymouth Athenaeum December 19, 1860. With 3 real photographs pasted onto blanks, 44pp, full contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, top margin and 'THE' from title cut from title-page, and the title-page neatly laid down. Plymouth: Printed by G.H. Lidstone, 1861. £70.00 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, and to small areas on spine, front inner hinge cracked and weak. London: George Bell, Exeter; Henry S. Eland, 1892. £45.00 [Hodges (S)] LEGENDS OF TORQUAY, &c. Vignette frontis, 56pp, 12mo, original limp embossed cloth, crease to one corner and spotting to edges of frontis, front inner hinge cracked. Torquay: R.T. Wreford, 1850. £35.00 Lord Hunsdon of Hunsdon HISTORY OF GIBBS OF FENTON in Dartington County Devon. With 6 plates, xi + 188pp, with the 'Corrigenda' tipped in, roy 8vo, original cloth partly faded, some damp marks to boards, internally sound. London: The Saint Catherine Press, 1925. £60.00 Jones (Rev. J.P) and Kingston (J.F) FLORA DEVONIENSIS: Or a Descriptive Catalogue of Plants growing wild In the County of Devon.... with an Account of their Geographical Distribution, &c. xlvii + 162 + lxvii + 217pp, ( 2 parts in one volume ), early half morocco, marbled boards, a.e.g., couple of small areas slightly rubbed to covers, light spotting to prelims. First edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme,.... 1829. £95.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 1906. Folding map pasted in at rear, xxviii + 1168 + 60 pages of adverts, later cloth, portion of the original spine with title laid down on the new spine, one top margin crudely repaired, last advertisement leaf pasted to new endpaper. Kelly Directories Ltd., London: 1906. £85.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF EXETER 1958. (Incorporating Besley's Exeter Directory) With a folding plan, xviii + 12 + 544pp, includes adverts, original cloth. Kelly's Directories Limited, Kingston upon Thames: 1959. £15.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORIES OF EXMOUTH 1970. adverts, iv + A4 + 208pp, original card covers, cellotape to a couple of inner margins. Fifth edition, Kelly's Directories, Kingston upon Thames, 1970. £16.00 Kelly's KELLY'S (FORMERLY UNDERHILL'S) POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF PLYMOUTH AND DISTRICT 1935-36. 62 + 774pp, numerous advertisements, poor quality paper browned as usual, original cloth, faded. Kelly's Directories London: 1935. £35.00 Luscombe (Ellen) MYRTLES AND ALOES; OR, OUR SALCOMBE SKETCH BOOK. With some addenda in the shape of Discursive Gossip About KINGSBRIDGE. by F. Young. Illustrated with 8 lithographic plates showing 12 views, some of which are tinted. Early half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled boards, endpapers, and page endpapers. Kingsbridge: G.P. Friend, 1861. £150.00 Lustleigh. transcribed and edited by The Rev. Herbert Johnson, and H. Tapley-Soper. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF LUSTLEIGH 1608 - 1837. xi + 114pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. Exeter. The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1927-1930. £60.00 Moore (Stuart A) and Birkett (Percival) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RIGHTS OF COMMON UPON THE FOREST OF DARTMOOR AND THE COMMONS OF DEVON, With Report of Mr Stuart A. Moore to the Committee and Appendix of Documents. With a folding map, xxxii + 181pp, untrimmed in the original buckram, partly faded as usual, recased with the original spine laid down and endpapers preserved, signs where tape was once applied to board across the spine, and front endpapers. (For Private Circulation) Plymouth: Printed for the Committee. 1890. and Plymouth: 1937. £100.00 Mules (P.H) GEORGE DOGGETT, Keeper, A Story of A Devonshire Manor Thirty Years Ago. With Original Illustrations by P.J. Antoine and J. Thomas. 115pp, original, slightly soiled, cloth, lettering feint on spine, ownership names on second blank. Manchester: Abel Heywood, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1887. £45.00 * The manor is Westcombe which is on the Devon, Somerset border. Oliver (George) ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES IN DEVON, Being Observations on several Churches in Devonshire, with Some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall. Illusts, 252 + (4)pp, and 211 + (2)pp, and 107 + (1)pp, 3 volumes, original cloth, not uniform, partly faded, one front inner hinge almost broken, 2 outer hinges partly split, one board almost loose, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, London: J.B. Nichols, 1839, 1840 and 1842. £150.00 Oliver (George) MONASTICON DIOECESIS EXONIENSIS, being a Collection of Records and Instruments Illustrating Conventual, Collegiate and Eleemosynary Foundations in the Counties of Cornwall & Devon, with Historical Notices and a Supplement. With 2 chromolithographs and 3 lithographic plates, xxiv + 493pp, folio, original cloth, new spine and endpapers, edges of boards rubbed, some foxing mainly to prelims, ownership inscription to title-page and top margin of preface. London: Longman, Brown, Green.... Exeter: P.A. Hannaford, 1846. £155.00 Osborne (Francis Mardon), transcribed by THE CHURCH WARDEN'S ACCOUNTS OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, CHAGFORD 1480 - 1600. Frontis, and 3 facsimile plates, 269pp, original cloth. Private Circulation. Chagford: 1979. £55.00 * Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Pengelly (William), and others EXPLORING KENT'S CAVERN, Devonshire. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th Reports.... Bound with.... ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF ENGLAND.... Bound with.... THE LITERATURE OF KENT'S CAVERN, TORQUAY, PRIOR TO 1859.... Bound with.... THE LITERATURE OF KENT'S CAVERN. Part II. Including the whole of the Rev. J. Mac.Enery's Manuscript.... Bound with.... THE LITERATURE OF KENT'S CAVERN. Part III.... Bound with.... THE CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THE BONES FOUND IN KENT'S CAVERN.... Part III.... Bound with.... ON THE ALLEGED OCCURRENCE OF HIPPOPOTAMUS MAJOR AND MACHAIRODUS LATIDENS IN KENT'S CAVERN, TORQUAY. Containing 13 papers by William Pengelly, with the 7 Reports written by a Committee whose members included Sir John Lyell, Professor Phillips, and Sir John Lubbock, bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, portions of calf missing from top board adjacent to top outer hinge. 1865-1869. £160.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Jonathan Rashleigh, Menabilly. Phillimore (W.P.W) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF SMITH Anciently of SHUTE in Devonshire. With 4 plates, pedigrees, viii + 32pp, 4to, contemporary half calf, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-Law library with label to pastedown and occasional stamp. London: Printed for Private Circulation. Phillimore & Co., 1900. £110.00 * Not in Thomson. A Catalogue of British Family Histories. [Phillpotts (Henry)] A PASTORAL LETTER to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter on the Present State of the Church. By Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter. 126pp, original wraps, couple of short tears to head and foot of spine. London: John Murray, 1851. £24.00 Pole (Sir William) COLLECTIONS TOWARDS A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON. By Sir William Pole of Colcombe and Shute, Knt.; (who died A.D. 1635;) Now first printed from the Autograph in the possession of his lineal descendant Sir John-William de la Pole, Bart of Shute, &c. in Devonshire. xviii + 568pp, 4to, full contemporary calf, neatly recased retaining the original gilt lined spine, and marbled endpapers. A nice copy. London: Printed by J. Nichols. 1791. £550.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of William Edmonds. Polwhele (Rev. Richard) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. With 24 full page copper engraved plates and with the small map by John Cary. (4) + 329 and ii + (4) + 46 + 382 and 383-504 + corrections leaf. 3 volumes bound in one, full calf, early calf boards, later calf spine, original leather label on spine, boards lightly rubbed to edges, slight off-setting, small amount of spotting mainly to margins of a few plates. There are several marginal manuscript notes, and references in an early hand. The chapter on 'Indigenous Plants of Devonshire,' has extensive interesting notes in the margins. With the 3 page 'Postscript' which is frequently missing. Exeter: Printed by T. Trewman, for Cadell, Johnson and Dilly, London: 1797, 1793, 1806. £850.00 Ponsford (Clive N) DEVON CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS. Plates, textual illusts, 360pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1985. £38.00 Pridham (T.L) DEVONSHIRE CELEBRITIES. Illustrated with 12 mounted photographs of portraits, 236pp, sm. 4to, original cloth, a.e.g, cloth lightly rubbed at edges, occasional light foxing. Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1869. £55.00 --- See sample text * The 'celebrities' include Sir Thomas Acland, Sir Nicholas Carew, Lord Edward Courtney, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Earl Fortescue, etc. The photos are of paintings, busts, etc. Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF SHEBBEAR IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra VOLUME. 52pp, original wraps. Torquay: The Devonshire Press, 1938. £18.00 Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDRED OF SULFRETONA OR HAIRIDGE IN EARLY TIMES. Pages numbered 215-257, original, partly faded, wraps. Reprinted from Transactions of Devonshire Assoc. 1910. £15.00 Rhodes (A.J) NEWTON ABBOT: Its History and Development. Illustrated. With Description of Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood. 272pp, including several pages of advertisements, small spots to the original cloth. Printed and Published at the Offices of the "Mid-Devon & Newton Times." c.1904. £35.00 Richardson (R), compiled by THROUGH WAR TO PEACE 1914 - 1918. Being a short account of the part played by Tavistock and Neighbourhood in the Great War. Illusts. 102pp, 12mo, original printed, slightly dusty, wraps, stain to qtr of top wrap, occasional spotting. Tavistock: Jolliffe & Son., 1919. £30.00 Rodd (Richard) A FAITHFUL STATEMENT OF ALL THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH HAVE RECENTLY OCCURED RELATIVE TO THAT PART OF THE BURIAL GROUND, WITHIN THE PARISH OF STOKE-DAMEREL, in the County of Devon, which of right is The Property of the Parishioners; with the Copies of Letters, which have passed on the subject between Dr. Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, his secretary, And Mr Rodd, as the Solicitor of the Parish. 29pp, stitched, untrimmed, and unbound as issued. Devonport: Printed and Published by W. Pollard, 1832. £85.00 Rogers (W.H.H) THE SEPULCHRAL EFFIGIES IN THE PARISH CHURCHES OF SOUTH DEVON. With 25 plates, pages numbered 35-75, 4to, original printed card covers, spine chipped, rear cover loose. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1869. £32.00 * Article contained within Part I, Volume II, Second Series, of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. The volume also includes articles on Bells of the Cathedral and other Churches in Devon; S. Mary Major, Exeter, etc. Salter (Mary) THE SHELLS OF TORBAY AND EXMOUTH. With 3 plates, 23pp, original card covers, spine slightly chipped, light water staining to top cover and prelims. London: Headley Bros., 1904. £16.00 Shapter (Thomas) THE HISTORY OF THE CHOLERA IN EXETER IN 1832. With a folding map, textual illusts, 297 + 32 pages of publisher's adverts, untrimmed in the original cloth, new spine, and endpapers, with paper label, boards slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing. London: John Churchill, Exeter: Adam Holden, 1849. £150.00 Slade (W.J), edited and with a Preface by Basil Greenhill. OUT OF APPLEDORE The autobiography of a coasting shipmaster and shipowner in the last days of wooden sailing ships. Plates and diagrams, 127pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, Percival Marshall, London: 1959. £35.00 St. Andrew's, Plymouth, edited by M.C.S. Cruwys. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREW'S PLYMOUTH Co. Devon A.D. 1581-1618 with Baptisms 1619-1633. 588pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. The Devon & Cornwall Record Society. Exeter: 1954. £85.00 * This item was issued in parts over some years and rarely turns up complete. Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher DEVON LAY SUBSIDY ROLLS 1543 - 5. xii + 232pp, small folio, original cloth. Almondsbury: T.L. Stoate, 1986. £85.00 Travis (John F) THE RISE OF THE DEVON SEASIDE RESORTS 1750-1900. With 8 plates, 5 maps, and 12 tables, 246pp, dustwrapper. University of Exeter Press, 1993. £58.00 Tugwell (G), editor THE NORTH DEVON HAND BOOK: Being a Guide to the Topography and Archaeology, and an Introduction to the Natural History of the District. Lacks map, 13 of 14 steel vignette engraved plates, x + 299 + (1)pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed to edges. Second Edition. Ilfracombe : Published by John Banfield. n.d. c.1868 £50.00 * This edition regularly occurs with one plate missing. Ussher (W.A.E), and others THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND NEWTON ABBOT. Explanation of Sheet 339. Plates, diagrams, 148pp. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) 1st edition. 1913.... Bound with.... Woodward (H.B), Ussher (W.A.E), and others THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY NEAR SIDMOUTH AND LYME REGIS. Explanation of Sheet 326 & 340. Plates, diagrams, vi + 102pp. (Mem. of the Geological Survey.) Second Edition. 1911.... Bound with.... Ussher (W.A.E) and Teall (J.J.H) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND EXETER. Explanation of Sheet 325. Plates, diagrams, 122pp. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) 1st edition. 1902.... Bound with.... Reid (Clement), Barrow (G), Xand others. THE GEOLOGY OF DARTMOOR. Explanation of Sheet 338. Plates, diagrams, 102pp. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) 1st edition. 1912..... Bound with.... Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND TORQUAY. (Explanation of Sheet 350.) Plates, diagrams, 142pp. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) 1st edition. 1903.... Bound with.... Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND KINGSBRIDGE AND SALCOMBE. (Explanation of Sheets 355 and 356.) Plates, diagrams, 82pp. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey.) 1st edition. 1904..... Bound with.... Osman (C.W) THE GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN BORDER OF DARTMOOR. 20pp and with a coloured sketch map and 1 plate. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc. 1924. Seven works bound in one volume, with 5 coloured folding geological maps, being sheets 339, 326/340, 325, 350, these 4 being at a scale of 1" to 1 mile, and sheet 22 which is at a scale of 4 miles to 1", these sheets were issued separately. Binders cloth, outer hinges partly split, slightly rubbed at edges, some light spotting, otherwise sound. H.M.S.O. London: 1902-1924. £200.00 Vancouver (Charles) GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF DEVON; With Observations on the Means of its Improvement. Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture. Folding hand-coloured map, 22 engraved plates, folding tables, xii + 474 + 14 pages of publishers adverts, untrimmed in recent qtr cloth and endpapers, paper boards, paper label on spine, a couple of plates slightly spotted, otherwise a clean copy. First edition, London: Richard Phillips, 1808. £185.00 Warner (Rev. H.J) A HISTORY OF YEALMPTON. (Devonshire) With 4 plates, 93pp, few spots to the original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. Plymouth: Western Morning News. 1907. £60.00 Watkin (Hugh R) A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF TORRE ABBEY Torquay, Devonshire. Illusts, large folding plan, 49pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, No imprint, (1909) £18.00 Watson (J.P) and Abercrombie (P) A PLAN FOR PLYMOUTH. The Report Prepared for the City Council. Numerous illusts, and plans, some of which are folding, coloured folding plan in rear pocket, xvi + 147pp, folio, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, lower corner of top board damp spotted, internally sound. Underhill, Plymouth: 1943. £24.00 Westcote (Thomas), edited by George Oliver & Pitman Jones. VIEW OF DEVONSHIRE IN MDCXXX With a Pedigree of most of its Gentry. Double-page pedigree, 649pp, sm 4to, half morocco, slightly faded, marbled boards and endpapers. Exeter: William Roberts, 1845. £175.00 Whetham (Catherine Durning), and (Margaret), editor A MANOR BOOK OF OTTERY SAINT MARY. With Notes on the History of the Dependent Manor of Cadhay by W.C.D. Whetham. vi + [ii] + 184 + [viii]pp of publishers adverts, original cloth, light foxing to prelims. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1913. £60.00 * Edward Windeatt, the Devon historian's, signature to the front endpaper. Widecombe-in-the-Moor, transcribed and edited by the Rev. E.C. Wood and H. Tapley-Soper. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS of the Parish of WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR. Frontis, xxiii + 316pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, later endpapers. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1938. £85.00 Woolmer (S) A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF EXETER, Its Neighbourhood, and Adjacent Watering Places, Being an Interesting Companion for All Persons residing at, or resorting to this Ancient City: Giving a familiar Narrative of its History, from the earliest Period, to the Present Time. Together with a Variety of Particular Occurences and Anecdotes Compiled from the best Authorities. Engraved frontis, and 1 other plate, 108pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in the original paper boards, with the original printed label on top board, boards rubbed and soiled, crude cloth spine overlapping onto boards, 8 leaves very spotty. Second Edition, with Additions and Improvements. Printed and Sold by S. Woolmer, Exeter: 1811. £32.00 Worthy (Charles) ASHBURTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. or the Antiquities and History of the BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON in the County of Devon, and of the Parishes of Buckland-in-the-Moor and Bickington, (its Ancient Dependencies).... Together with an Account of Several of the Adjacent Manors and Churches. 160 + xxxvpp, sm 4to, later half calf, marbled boards, title-page, and last leaf browned. Ashburton: L.B. Varder, 1875. £110.00 Wyatt (Peter) and Stanes (Peter), edited for the Uffculme Archive Group UFFCULME: A PECULIAR PARISH A Devon Town from Tudor Times. With 22 photographic plates, 8 of which are in colour, map endpapers, double page illust, map, textual illusts, xv + 323pp, original card covers, stamp to title-page. Uffculme Archive Group, 1997. £26.00 * Signed by Stanes on the title-page. A further selection of DEVON Books on Main Site Back to the Top Dorset Bankes (Viola) A DORSET HERITAGE The Story of Kingston Lacy. With 8 plates, 200pp, few small nicks to dustwrapper, few spots to page edges. London: The Richards Press, 1953. £16.00 Bayley (A.R) THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN DORSET 1642-1660. Folding map, xx + 493 +(2)pp, original cloth, contemporary inscription to front pastedown, neat repair to head of spine. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1910. £245.00 * There is a subscribers list which lists 121 subscribers. Camden (William), translated by Edmund Gibson DORSET. Extracted from Camden's Britannia. Lacks map, pages numbered 43-54, folio, disbound. London: R. Ware.... 1753. £18.00 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. Cochrane (C) POOLE BAY AND PURBECK 300 BC - AD 1660. With illusts and maps, 5 sketch maps, 99pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Dorchester: Friary Press, Longmans Ktd., 1970. £12.00 Coulstock (Patricia H) THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF WIMBORNE MINSTER. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 5. Plate, x + 267pp, original cloth. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge: 1993. £32.00 Deacon (Charles William) and Co. THE HANTS AND DORSET COURT GUIDE AND COUNTY BLUE BOOK. A Fashionable Record, Professional Register, and General Survey of the Counties. With 4 folding coloured maps, vi + 665 + over 300 pages of adverts, original cloth, head of spine slightly pulled, spine lightly faded and with a few spots, ex-ref.lib., with label to front pastedown and stamp to half-title. London: Charles William Deacon and co., 1897. £50.00 * Includes articles on Geology, Archaeology, Natural History, etc. Dorchester REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF DORCHESTER. (Dorsetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1271-1280, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £16.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc., etc. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by J.M.J. Fletcher PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From May, 1927 to May, 1928. Volume 49. With illusts, cii + 238 + (3)pp, original cloth. Dorchester: F.G. Longman. 1928. £20.00 * Includes articles on:- Scenery of Dorset; Roofs of Dorset churches; West Woodyates Manor, etc., etc. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by J.M.J. Fletcher PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From 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. [Druitt (Herbert)] CHRISTCHURCH MISCELLANY. Illusts, 624 + 6pp, 4to, recent cloth, short tear to margin of one leaf.... with... Index of Place Names, Personal Names, Subject, on rectos of several leaves, folio, cloth. The 2 volumes are contained in a large slipcase, bound with the same cloth as the 2 volumes. Christchurch: 1996. £125.00 * This work comprises a series of articles which were written between 1919 and 1930, covering a large range of subjects on the history of Christchurch, and which were re-published by the Christchurch Local History Society. The Index was probably produced later and this may either one of a few, or a unique copy. Ellis (George Alfred) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS. Plate, v + 270 + 4 page list of subscribers, later half calf, cloth boards, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled endpapers, light spotting to cloth, occasional foxing. Weymouth: Printed and Published by B. Benson. London: Baldwin and Craddock, 1829. £175.00 Foster (J.J) WESSEX WORTHIES (DORSET) With some account of others connected with the history of the County, and numerous Portraits and Illustrations. With an Introductory Note by Thomas Hardy, O.M. With 31 plates showing 44 illusts, xviii + (ii) + 167pp, roy 8vo, original qtr cloth, paper boards, corners of boards rubbed, splash mark to lower corner of top board, relevant news cutting pasted to rear endpapers. foxing. AUTHOR'S EDITION LIMITED TO 325 NUMBERED COPIES. London: Dickinsons, 1920. £40.00 Haime (John W) THE HAIMES A Dorset Family. Illusts., xiv + 100pp, dustwrapper. Edition Limited to 500 Copies. Published by the Author. 1970. £24.00 Hillier (John) POOLE AFTER WORLD WAR II 1945-1953. Illusts, 139pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Poole Historical Trust, 1992. £14.00 House (H.H) THE SHERBORNE REGISTER 1823 - 1892. With Historical Introduction and Appendices. With two folding coloured plans of the school, lxxii + 328pp, original cloth, slightly spotty and slightly rubbed to edges, stamp to front endpaper. London: William Clowes, 1893. £16.00 Hunt and Co's DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE, with Part of Hants and Wilts; Comprising Comprehensive Lists of the Commercial, Professional and private Residents in Every Village, Town and Hamlet throughout the County of Dorset, Likewise in the CITY OF SALISBURY and the Circumjacent Towns of Christchurch, Downton, Fordingbridge, Hindon, Lymington, Mere, Ringwood, Romsey, and Wilton and in Numerous Intervening Villages; Together with A Descriptive Account of each Town.... (viii) + 248 + 88 + 20pp of local adverts, lacks the title-page, original cloth, lightly rubbed, small mark to top cover, inner hinges slightly weak. Printed for E. Hunt & Co. 1851. £150.00 * This is the first separately published directory for Dorset. 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, untrimmed 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. James (Jude) WIMBORNE MINSTER The History of a Country Town. Numerous illusts, 87 + (9)pp, dustwrapper. The Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1982. £24.00 * Signed inscription from the author on the front endpaper. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSET 1939. With coloured folding map, 37 + xviii + 424pp, library style binding in qtr calf, no labels or stamps, with number to foot of spine, slight staining to lower margins of a few leaves. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1939. £60.00 Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DORSETSHIRE. With an engraved folding map of the county by Bowen, pages numbered 38-52, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £55.00 * Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... " Mayo (C.H) BIBLIOTHECA DORSETIENSIS Being a carefully compiled Account of Printed Books relating to the History and Topography of the County of Dorset. x + 296pp, 4to, original cloth. Limited to 100 copies. Originally published 1885. Reprinted 1996. £25.00 Miles (William Augustus) A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVEREL BARROW, Opened A.D. 1825. Also a Minute Account of the KIMMERIDGE COAL MONEY, A Most Mysterious and Nondescript Article. With two engraved and one printed title, and 8 engraved plates, viii + (3)-53pp, 4to, recent cloth, label on top board, slight spotting mainly to margins of plates. Cockers, Printers, Frome: 1826. £85.00 --- See sample text Moule (H.J) DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES. Vignette title, and textual illusts, 76pp, original cloth, few small spots to cloth, top margin cut from title-page, fore-edge margins trimmed for first 2 leaves. Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1901. £15.00 --- See sample text Nightingale (J.E) CHURCH PLATE OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, With Extracts from the Returns of Church Goods by the Dorset Commissioners of Edward VI. 1552. With 23 illusts, 216pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, a couple of ownership signatures to title-page. Salisbury: Printed by Bennett Brothers, Journal Office. 1889. £35.00 --- See sample text * With a handwritten letter from the author tipped onto front endpaper to Hugh Norris, whose name is on the front endpaper Peters (John), Colling (David and Ridley (Michael) BOURNEMOUTH THEN AND NOW. Numerous illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. Blandford Press, Pool: 1978. £24.00 Pitfield (F.P) THE BOOK OF BERE REGIS. Written and drawn by F.P. Pitfield. 123pp, folio, top cover gilt tooled, record office stamp to front endpaper, few small marks to endpapers. Privately Printed for the Subscribers by Dorset Publishing Company, Milborne Port: 1978. £22.00 * Signed by the author on the title-page. Portland Prison REPORTS OF THE DIRECTORS OF CONVICT PRISON ON THE DISCIPLINE AND MANAGEMENT OF.... PORTLAND PRISON.... For the Year 1851. Pages numbered 149-183, complete, folio, recent card covers. London: H.M.S.O. 1852. £30.00 * This is the Portland Prison section extracted from a larger work. Contains extracts from the Governor's Report, the Chaplain's Report and the Medical Officer's Report. Pridham (Dr. L) THE DORSET COASTLINE. From a personal and photographic point of view. Photography by Edwin Kestin. 126pp, roy 8vo, torn dustwrapper, with small portions missing. Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd. c.195- £15.00 Roberts (George) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE BOROUGH OF LYME REGIS AND CHARMOUTH. With folding hand-coloured geological map, few textual illusts, xiii + 336 + pages numbered 3-36 + (ii) Index + (ii) List of Subscribers, sm 8vo, later cloth, morocco label on spine, splash marks to lower portion of one leaf, short split to one fold of map, neatly repaired to verso. London: Samuel Bagster, 1834. £165.00 * Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis, page 169, states that this is 'A different work from the History published in 1823.' This item collates as Mayo as he does not mention the plate of the 'Ichthyosaurus' which was in the 1823 edition and occasionally appears in this edition, or 'Rules of Practice for the Court of Hustings, of the Borough of Lyme Regis.' pages 3-36, which are in this copy, and which we have seen in other copies. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME TWO SOUTH EAST DORSET. Parts 1, 2, and 3. Folding maps in pockets at rear, 235 plates, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, 3 volumes, lxx + 188 and xviii + 189-418 and ix + 419-701pp, 4to, few short tears to slightly rubbed dustwrappers Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. £125.00 * Includes:- Affpuddle, Corfe Castle, Dorchester, Lulworth, Poole, Portland, Studland, Swanage, Wareham, Weymouth, Winterbourne, Worth Matravers. Sherren (James), printer THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO WEYMOUTH, THE ISLAND OF PORTLAND, and the Adjacent Neighbourhood. With 3 photographic plates, illusts in the text, 131pp, original decorative card covers, slight damage to outer margin of top cover. Weymouth: Sherren and Son, c.1890. £45.00 * This edition not found on Copac. Short (Bernard C) EARLY DAYS OF NONCONFORMITY IN POOLE. Plates, text illusts, [vi] + 76pp, original paper boards, spine rubbed, lacks approx. ¬" from head of spine, ex-record office stamps to prelims. Poole: J. looker, The Wessex Press, 1927. £15.00 Society of Dorset Men THE DORSET YEAR BOOK. 1930. Numerous illusts, 287 +(3) pages of adverts, original printed wraps slightly worn, fore-edge margins of first couple of leaves waterstained. Society of Dorset Men in London, London: 1930. £16.00 * Includes articles:- Sir James Thornhill; Thomas Hardy; Dorset Regiments, etc. Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher DORSET TUDOR SUBSIDIES Granted in 1523, 1543, 1593. xxiv + 256pp, folio, original cloth. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1982. £65.00 Swindall (A.T) and Vizard (G.L), and others STRUCTURE PLAN FOR SOUTH EAST DORSET. Consultative Document. Maps, plans, diagrams, 301 + 16pp, lacks 'Key Diagram' from pocket at rear, small folio, original cloth backed card covers. Dorset County Council, April, 1977. £12.00 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 Widen (Bertil) STUDIES ON THE DORSET DIALECT. Maps, 179pp, slightly spotty original printed wraps. Williams and Norgate, London: 1949. £25.00 A further selection of DORSET Books on Main Site Back to the Top Gloucestershire Agg-Gardner (Rt. Hon. Sir James) SOME PARLIAMENTARY RECOLLECTIONS. With 14 plates, textual illusts, 246pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, few small marks to covers, Ed. J. Burrow, London: (1927) £36.00 * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Belcher (Ernest) RAMBLES AMONG THE COTSWOLDS. With a Preface by Sir John Maclean. 104pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Evesham: W. & H. Smith, 1892. £40.00 Bennett (James) THE HISTORY OF TEWKESBURY. With 10 illusts, 456pp, early full calf, raised bands, slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and page edges, covers slightly rubbed to edges, small amount of light spotting, small waterstain to one plate, front inner hinge cracked though sound. Tewkesbury: Printed by James Bennett. 1830. £185.00 * The list of subscribers accounts for 305 copies. Bigland (Ralph) CHARLTON KING'S or ASHLEY. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. With a copper plate engraving, 6pp, folio, qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board, short tear to one margin, last leaf browned. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £14.00 Bitton, transcribed by P. Carlyon-Britton THE REGISTERS OF BITTON. 1571 - 1674. Baptisms, 1572 - 1674. Burials, 1572 - 1668. Marriages, 1571 - 1674. vii + 150pp, original wraps, ex-lib. occasional stamp. Privately Printed for the Parish Register Society. 1900. £40.00 Bright (G.V) PICTURESQUE GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Being a Series of Exclusive Photographs Illustrating the Ancient & Interesting Towns and Villages of the County, together with a short Historical & General Description. 384pp, 4to, original buckram, covered with a loose plastic cover which has been cellotaped to pastedowns. Cheltenham Newspaper Co., 1928. £40.00 Brimpsfield Parishioners A HISTORY OF BRIMPSFIELD PARISH. A series of essays compiled by interested parishioners for Brimpsfield Parish Council to celebrate the Millennium. Maps, plans, illusts, 158pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Brimpsfield Parish Council, 2000. £12.00 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1884-85. Volume 9. Illusts, 381pp, contemporary half morocco, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, slightly rubbed to edges. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1885. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- St. Briavel's; Buckland Manor; Manor and Borough of Chipping Campden; The Berkeleys of Dursley; Family of Haynes; Cirencester, etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Rev. C.S. Taylor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1894-95. Volume 19. Illusts, 441pp, contemporary half morocco, raised bands, cloth boards, marbled endpapers, covers slightly rubbed to edges, small amount of light foxing. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1895. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Kemberton; Beckford; Domestic Life at Berkeley Castle; Two Bristol Calendars; Harefield Manor and Church; Chantries of Westbury-on-Severn, etc., etc. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1928. Volume 50. Illusts, folding plans and pedigrees, 444 + 23pp, recent cloth, occasional light foxing. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1929. £18.00 * Includes articles on:- Dauntsey, Manor of Coates; Builder of Southam; Gloucestershire Fonts; Scratch dials in Gloucestershire; Lydney, etc., etc. Cheltenham Science Society CHELTENHAM SCIENCE SOCIETY. Pamphlets 1901 - 1906. Being 12 separately paginated papers, each between 8 to 18 pages. Unlettered binders cloth, 12mo, ex-lib with occasional small indelible stamps. Reprinted from the Cheltenham Examiner. 1901 - 1906. £20.00 * Includes:- Richardson. The Vale of Gloucester; Evans. Gloucestershire and Ancient British History; Wilson. Antartica. [Cooke (H)] A GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILD GARDEN by the Curator. Plates, xii + 230pp, original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges. Elliot Stock, London: 1903. £45.00 Cox (Thomas) GLOUCESTERSHIRE, extracted from Magna Britannia. With folding map by Morden. Later half calf, cloth boards, text cropped and browned to 'Tables' at the rear. c.1720. £60.00 Davies (G), editor AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS RAYMOND AND MEMOIRS OF THE FAMILY OF GUISE OF ELMORE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Camden Third Series Vol XXVIII. 184pp, original cloth, covers rubbed and partly faded, short split to top outer hinge, prelims slightly spotty. London: Camden Society, 1917. £18.00 Domesday Book THE GREAT SURVEY OF ENGLAND.... FACSIMILE OF THE PART RELATING TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Photo-Zincographed, folio, vi + 18pp, original cloth, top board loose, lacks spine, rubbed to edges, fragment of label adhering to front pastedown. Ordnance Survey office, Southampton: 1862. £30.00 Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE CHURCH BELLS IN THE TOWERS AND TURRETS OF ALL THE PARISH CHURCHES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 10 plates and textual illustrations, pages numbered 121-215, complete, 4to, original printed card covers, spine slightly chipped, rear cover soiled, stain affecting top corner of plates. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1882. £150.00 * Article in part 2 volume 4 of the Second Series of the Transactions of Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. Fendley (John), editor BISHOP BENSON'S SURVEY OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER 1735 - 1750. xx + 264pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 13. 2000. £24.00 Fry (Edward Alexander), editor ABSTRACTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM. For Gloucestershire, Returned into the Court of Chancery During the Plantagenet Period. Part V. 30 Edward I to 32 Edward III. 1302-1358. ix + 375pp, original cloth. Issued to the Subscribers by The British Record Society Limited. 1910. £45.00 Gethyn-Jones (Eric) TREVISA OF BERKELEY. A Celtic Firebrand. 201pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Dursley: Alan Sutton, 1978. £12.00 * Born in St. Mellion in 1326; vicar of Berkeley 1350 - 1412. G[ib] (T) REMARKS ON THE REVEREND MR. WHITEFIELD'S JOURNAL. Wherein His many inconsistences are Pointed out, and his Tenets Consider'd. The Whole shewing The Dangerous Tendency of His Doctrine. 32pp, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board, couple of very short tears to lower margin of title-page and first leaf, last page slightly dusty. First edition, London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brett, at the Golden-Ball opposite St. Clements Church in the Strand.... 1738. £250.00 * Signed 'G.T.' at end of 'Preface'. Whitefield was born at the Bell Inn, Southgate Street, Gloucester, and went on to influence early Methodist thinkers. He preached extensively in England and America, where he spent much time in preaching and where he founded the Bethesda Orphanage. He was also a slave owner who had slaves working at the orphanage and on his 'Providence' plantation in Georgia. He campaigned successfully for slavery to be re-legalised in Georgia when it was abolished in 1749. Gloucester Schools THE GLO'STRIAN A Record of the Gloucester Schools. Illusts, plan, 113 + 8 + 8pp,. 8 issues, bound in 1. All published. 4to, early qtr cloth, marbled boards, slightly rubbed, outer hinges split for approx 1" at head of spine. January 1, 1889 - May, 1891. £70.00 * 'The Glo'strian was the combined magazine of the three schools at Hempsted court, Suffolk house, and Ribston hall..... In 1890 the school at Suffolk house was closed, and then Hempsted court and Ribston hall published separate magazines.' See Austin. Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection, No 4867. Issues 7 and 8 in this volume were published by Hempsted court. Gregory (Alfred) ROBERT RAIKES: Journalist and Philanthropist. A History of the Origin of Sunday Schools. Frontis and vignette title, 209 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, sm, 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed and with a few small marks, private library label to front pastedown, relevant news cuttings pasted to rear endpapers, inner hinges weak. First edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877. £35.00 Hanbridge (William) THE MEMORIES OF WILLIAM HANBRIDGE AGED 93. 1906. An Autobiography. With Appendices and Chronicles of his Family by his daughter Mary Hanbridge. Plates, pedigrees, maps, 306pp, original cloth, handwritten note, signed by Mary Hanbridge, pasted to front endpaper. For private circulation only. Giles and Bamforth, St Albans: 1939. £38.00 * Traces his fathers family in Donoughmore and the Glen of Imaal, and County Wicklow, in Ireland and other branches in Canada and New Zealand. Approx 100 pages are devoted to the Hanbridge/Hambridges in Gloucestershire, mainly based in Cirencester. Includes transcripts from early books and manuscripts. Hanham & Oldland, transcribed by P. Carlyon-Britton THE REGISTER OF HANHAM AND OLDLAND, Gloucestershire 1584-1681. vii + 98pp, original wraps, lacks spine, wraps partly faded and top wrap slightly chipped, ex-lib. with occasional stamp. Privately Printed for the Parish Register Society. 1908. £40.00 Hart (C) ARCHAEOLOGY IN DEAN. A Tribute to Dr. C. Scott-Garrett. Illusts, 68pp, roy 8vo, original card covers, dustwrapper. Gloucester: 1967. £30.00 Lee (Alan) CHELTENHAM RACECOURSE. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper, foot of pages slightly damp crinkled. Pelham Books. 1985. £10.00 Marshall (Emma) THE TOWER ON THE CLIFF A Story founded on a Gloucestershire Legend. Frontis, 186 + 4pp, original cloth. London: Seeley & Co., 1893. £15.00 * Fiction. Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 332-363.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen, pages numbered 364-400. 2 items continuously paginated, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £85.00 * Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... " M'Cabe (James), M.D. DIRECTIONS FOR DRINKING THE CHELTENHAM WATERS, With a Selection of Cases, Illustrating Their Effects in a Great Variety of Diseases. Second Edition. Corrected and Enlarged. To Which is Annexed. The Result of some Analytical Experiments on the Pittville and Cambray Spas; in a Letter to Dr. M'Cabe by The Rev. George Cooke. 93pp, sm 8vo, original printed glazed cloth, lacks spine, Cheltenham: Introduction dated 1829. £48.00 Moore (J), printer THE GLOUCESTER GUIDE; being A Brief and Methodical Account of Every Thing that is Worthy of Observation, in that Ancient City, Suburbs, &c.... To which is added an Appendix, with an Account of the Neighbouring Roads, Stage Coaches, Waggons, Trows, Barges, Wherries, Posts, &c. Collected and arranged by a Citizen, and Member of the University of Oxford. Folding table, 89 + (13)pp, untrimmed in early marbled wraps, lacks spine, sm 8vo, small portion of lower corner of text from one page overprinted onto lower margin of verso where paper inadvertently folded during the printing process. London: Printed by J. Moore, Drury Lane, and Sold by J.J. Hough, Gloucester, and the Booksellers in the Neighbouring Towns. 1792. £185.00 * The 13 pages at the rear, and the folding table contain details of stage-coaches, waggons, trows, barges, etc., and their routes. Patterson (Robert B), editor THE ORIGINAL ACTA OF ST. PETER'S ABBEY GLOUCESTER c. 1122 to 1263. Edited, with an account of the Scriptorium and its Scribes. With 44 plates, lxi + 354pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 11. 1998. £28.00 Perry (R) WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE Times Past - Time Present. Illusts, xiii + 193pp, dustwrapper. Limited Edition. Privately Published, R. Perry 1986. £25.00 * Signed presentation inscription on the half title by the author and with a hand-written letter from him loosely inserted. Pinnock (W) THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, With Biographical Sketches, &c. &c., With a folding map of the county, vignette title, 72pp, sm 8vo, disbound, some spotting, map off-set. London: Printed for Pinnock and Maunder, c.1825. £35.00 Pooley (Charles) NOTES ON THE OLD CROSSES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 13 tinted lithographic plates and numerous textual illusts., xiii + 76pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, number to foot of spine, corner of top board bruised, small amount of spotting mainly to margins of plates, waterstain to lower corner of frontis slightly affecting title. First edition, Longmans, Green, 1868. £42.00 --- See sample text * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sydenham H.A. Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to front pastedown and a presentation inscription to him from the author on the title-page. Riddelsdell (H.J), Hedley (G.W) and Price (W.R) FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Numerous illusts., 6 folding maps, 4 are in pocket at rear, clxxxii + 667pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 1" tear to head of spine. First edition. Cotteswold Naturalist's Field Club, Gloucester: 1948. £40.00 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume One. Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Plates, diagrams some of which are folding, four folding maps in pocket at rear, lvi + 157pp, 4to, very short tear to rear of dustwrapper, frontis slightly crinkled. London: H.M.S.O. 1976. £22.00 Rudder (S), printer THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF GLOUCESTER: Including the Civil and Military Affairs of that antient City; with a Particular Account of St. Peter's Abbey.... and all other Public Establishments. Folding frontis, xiii + 525 + cxipp, contemporary full calf, spine gilt tooled, raised bands, lightly rubbed to edges, small amount of worming to inner margins of first few leaves, and outer margins of a few leaves at rear. Cirencester: Printed and Sold by the Author, 1781. £200.00 Smith (Alfred), artist TWENTY LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL EDIFICES IN THE BOROUGH OF STROUD by Alfred Smith, Artist, with Short Notices appended to each Drawing. Twenty lithographed views each facing a leaf of text, with a 2pp list of subscribers, oblong folio, early binders cloth, occasional light foxing, mainly to edges of plates. Stroud: Printed and Published by J.P. Brisley. 1838. £280.00 * The plates are attractive usually with figures in the fore-ground and show the following churches:- Amberley, Avening, Bisley, Chalford, Horsley, King Stanley, Leonard Stanley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Oakridge, Painswick, Pithcombe, Randwick, Rodborough, St. Matthews's, Sheepscombe, Slad, Stonehouse, Stroud, Woodchester. Smith (Brian S), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL STUDIES 13. 63pp, small folio, original printed wraps. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1982. £12.00 * Includes articles on Gloucester Quay 1780-1820; Charlton Kings Wills 1547-1553; Poor School, Gloucester; Nursing in the Gloucester Union Workhouse Hospital, etc. Stratford (Joseph) GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. xvi + 360pp, original cloth, gilt, very lightly rubbed to edges. Gloucester: "Journal" Office, 1887. £32.00 * Includes chapters on Sir Robert Atkyns, William Henry Hyett, Archbishop Juxon, etc., etc. Ubank (Sharon) A RING OF ROOKS Stories from Little Stoke Farm. Illusts, 93pp, pictorial card covers. Sharon Ubank, Little Stoke: 2001. £12.00 Victoria County History, edited by C.R. Elrington. VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 7. Plates and textual illusts, xix + 254pp, small folio, dustwrapper. Oxford University Press, 1981. £55.00 * Includes:- Brightwells Barrow Hundred (Bibury, Fairford, Lechlade, etc.) and Rapsgate Hundred. Victoria County History, edited by C.R. Elrington. VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 8. Plates and textual illusts, xxiii + 311pp small folio, original cloth, lacks most of front endpaper. First Edition, Oxford University Press, 1968. £45.00 * Includes the Hundreds of Cleeve, Deerhurst (Colne St. Dennis, Deerhurst, Prestbury, Staverton, etc.) Tewkesbury (Ashchurch, Boddington, Forthampton, Kemerton, etc.) Tibblestone (Ashton under Hill, Beckford, Hinton-on-the Green) and Westminster (Corse, Hasfield). Walters (R.C.S) ANCIENT WELLS, SPRINGS, AND HOLY WELLS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Their Legends, History & Topography. With coloured frontis and 61 black other plates, xiv + 194pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, short split to rear outer hinge, top board partly discoloured, ex-church library stamp, and two ownership names to front endpaper. Bristol: St. Stephens Press, 1928. £40.00 Washbourn (John) BIBLIOTHECA GLOUCESTRENSIS. A Collection of Scarce & Curious Tracts, Relating to the County & City of Gloucester. Illustrative of and Published During the Civil War; With an Historical introduction, Notes, and an Appendix. With an engraved plan, an engraved map, a portrait and one other plate, ccv + 456pp, 4to, recent half calf, early spine laid down, marbled boards and endpapers, marbled edges to papers, slight spotting to prelims. LARGE PAPER COPY. Gloucester: Printed for the Author. 1825. £385.00 * Includes 17 reprinted civil war tracts. Willcox (William Bradford) GLOUCESTERSHIRE A Study in Local Government 1590 - 1640. Folding map, xvi + (ii) + 348pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, New Haven: Yale University, 1940. £45.00 Williams (G.A), printer THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE, Geoffry Wildgoose, in Cheltenham: or a DIS-COURSE on a Race-Course. 23pp, 12mo, original printed wraps are loose and slightly ragged, with a few short tears, wraps slightly off-set. Third Edition. Cheltenham: Printed for G.A. Williams. (1827) £46.00 * This is one of several pamphlets published attacking a sermon preached by Rev. Francis Close denouncing Cheltenham races. Wyatt (Irene), editor TRANSPORTEES FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO AUSTRALIA 1783-1842. Folding map, xx + 181pp, dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Record Series. 1988. £24.00 * Lists the names, ages, addresses, occupations, sentences, transport, etc. A further selection of GLOUCESTERSHIRE Books on Main Site Back to the Top Somerset Balch (H.E) MENDIP, Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. Plates, diagrams, folding table, 156pp, 12mo, original wraps, spine and portion of covers darkened, page edges darkened. Signed and dated by Balch on the front endpaper. Second Edition, Bristol: John Wright and Sons, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1948. £20.00 Balch (H.E) WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Period Restoration and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I. Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory. With 36 plates, and 55 figures in the text, viii + 258pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed printed paper boards, few spots to slightly faded board, few small areas rubbed to edges of boards. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1914. £125.00 Bath Poll 1859 THE BATH POLL BOOK, Being an Alphabetical List in Parishes, of the Names of the Persons who Voted, or were Entitled to Vote, at the General Election of Members for the City and Borough of Bath, April, 30, 1859. Candidates: William Tite, Esq., Arthur Edwin Way, Esq., Thomas Phinn, Esq., Q.C. (The two first were elected.) Disbound, 58pp, sm 8vo, some foxing mainly to front and rear. Bath: Published by R.E. Peach, Bridge Street, 1859. £75.00 Bath and West and West of England Society LETTERS AND PAPERS on Agriculture, Planting &c. selected from the Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society.... VOLUME 4. With 3 plates, xxxvi + 433pp, early half calf, marbled boards, lacks spine, covers slightly rubbed to edges. First Edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1788. £34.00 * Includes articles on the Preservation of the Health of Persons employed in Agriculture, by William Falconer, Physician to the Bath Hospital; Experiments made by Mr Bartley on his Farm, near Bristol. Batten (John) HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF PARTS OF SOUTH SOMERSET, viz Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndston, Preston, Limington, with Notices of West Coker, and Hardington Mandeville. With plates, iii + 200pp, original bevelled cloth, title slightly discoloured as usual. London: & Whitby and Son, Yeovil, 1894. £75.00 Beisly (Philip) THE NORTHMARSH OF SOMERSET. Illusts, plans, 136pp, original pictorial card covers. Weston super Mare Heritage Centre, 1996. £14.00 * 'The Northmarsh is surrounded by the expanding towns of Weston super Mare, Clevedon and Nailsea... ' Billingsley (John) GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, With Observations on the Means of its Improvement: Drawn up in the Year 1795.... Now reprinted with Considerable Additions and Amendments.... With Two folding maps and a plate of Robert Weldon's Caisson Lock at Combe Hay. 320pp, recent qtr calf, raised bands, contrasting leather labels on spine, cloth boards. Second edition. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1798. £165.00 Black (Clementina) THE LINLEYS OF BATH. With 13 plates, With an introduction by George Saintsbury. 300pp, dustwrapper. New Edition. London: Frederick Muller, 1971. £20.00 Bond (L.M. and B) A GUIDE TO MINEHEAD and its Neighbourhood. With a List of the Principal Hotels, Inns and Lodging Houses, with other useful information. With three steel vignette engraved plates, 56pp + (vi)pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original printed card covers, lacks a couple of portions of spine, covers marked, plates slightly spotty. L.M. & B. Bond. Minehead: May 1st, 1879. £95.00 * Rare. Not in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis, or on Copac. Brereton (R.P) SOME CHURCH TOWERS OF SOMERSET. With 60 collotype plates, title, index and 1 leaf of text, 4to, original cloth, edges of spine rubbed, some spotting to prelims, and last few leaves. No imprint, (1905) £35.00 Britton (John), and Peach (R.E.M) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BATH ABBEY CHURCH. Continued to the Present Time, with Additional Notes by R.E.M. Peach. With Six Illustrations. xix + 107pp, original cloth, gilt. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £44.00 Bruton Grammar School SCHEME FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF KING EDWARD THE SIXTH, AT BRUTON, in the County of Somerset, and the Application of the Income Thereof, Approved by Court of Chancery, 30th May, 1859. 23pp, disbound. London: C. Roworth and Sons, 1859. £28.00 Clear (Charles R) JOHN PALMER (Of Bath) Mail Coach Pioneer. Illusts., 109pp, small hole and few short tears to worn slightly soiled dustwrapper, occasional foxing. First edition. London: Blandford Press Ltd., in conjunction with The Postal History Society, 1955. £18.00 Collinson (Reverend John) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, Collected from Authentick Records, and an Actual Survey made by the late Edmund Rack. With a large folding engraved map of the county, 40 engraved plates and one engraving in the letterpress, lii + 45 + 277 and 508 and 648pp, 3 volumes, 4to, later half calf, raised bands, marbled boards, lightly rubbed to edges, with the usual occasional light foxing, fore-edge margins of 2 plates neatly repaired, the map is laid down on linen and contained within a pocket at the rear of volume 3, tipped into one volume is a contemporary transcription from the Bath Chronicle of 1832, last leaf of volume 2 slightly dusty and ragged to fore-edge. First edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell. 1791. £600.00 Compton (Theodore) A MENDIP VALLEY, Its Inhabitants and Surroundings, being an Enlarged and Illustrated Edition of Winscombe Sketches. With Original Illustrations by Edward Theodore Compton, and a Chapter on the Geological History of the Mendips by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan. Numerous full page and textual illusts, 288pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges. London: Edward Stanford: Swindon: W.C. Eddington, 1892. £65.00 Cox (T) SOMERSETSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map of the county by Robert Morden, pages numbered 720 - 911 + engraved table of distances, sm 4to, early qtr roan, cloth boards, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. London: T. Cox, 1724. £95.00 Davis (Charles Edward) ANCIENT LANDMARKS OF BATH, or notes of Pagan and Christian Antiquities in and around Aquae Sulis. With 2 folding plans, iv + 50pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, slight discolouration of top board and endpapers. Bath: William Lewis. London: Goodall and Son. 1864. £30.00 Dwelly (E) DWELLY'S NATIONAL RECORDS VOL 2. XVII CENTURY Directory of Somerset. Copied from the Original Lay Subsidy Rolls in the Record Office by E. Dwelly, F.S.A. Scot., F.S.G. 320pp, in the original 5 parts, original wraps. Only 100 copies printed. First edition, E. Dwelly, Fleet: 1929-1932. £45.00 * 'This is the first attempt to compile a complete and reliable list of all persons living in Somerset in the XVII century.' Easterbrook (Joseph) AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC RESPECTING GEORGE LUKINS, (Called the YATTON DEMONIAC,) Containing an Account of His Affliction and Deliverance, together with A Variety of Circumstances which tend to exculpate him from the Charge of Imposture. Folding frontis, 31pp, disbound. First edition, Bristol: Printed by T. Miler, in Wine Street, (1788) £450.00 * Easterbrook was the Vicar of Temple Church in Bristol where he and six other members of the clergy performed an exorcism in the vestry of the church on Lukins which they claimed cured him. Elworthy (Frederic Thomas) WEST SOMERSET WORD BOOK. A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases used in the West of Somerset and East Devon. xlviii + 876pp, half morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib. with labels to endpapers, stamp and number to verso of title-page. London: For the English Dialect Society. Trubner & Co. 1886. £120.00 Findlay (D.C) THE SOILS OF THE MENDIP DISTRICT OF SOMERSET. [Sheets 279 and 280]. Plates, textual figures, 2 coloured folding maps in pocket at the rear, viii + 204pp, dustwrapper. Agricultural Research Council, Harpenden: 1965. £18.00 Gerard (Thomas), edited by Rev. E.H. Bates THE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 262pp, original cloth, inscription on front endpaper. Somerset Record Society, volume 15, 1900. Reprinted. Castle Cary Press, 1973. £28.00 Green (Emanuel) PEDES FINIUM. Commonly Called Feet of Fines For the County of Somerset. I. Edward II to 20 Edward III. A.D. 1307 to A.D. 1346. xvi + 290pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 12. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1898. £48.00 Greenwood (C) and (J) SOMERSETSHIRE DELINEATED: Being a Topographical Description of each Town, Parish, Chapelry, &c. In the County.... and useful as An Index to a Survey made in the Year 1821. 215 + 7pp, early half calf, marbled boards, later calf spine, raised bands, leather label, original endpapers retained, water stain to inner margin and top margin of some leaves, otherwise a nice copy. First edition, London: Printed by T. Bensley, Published by C. and J. Greenwood, 1822. £105.00 Hall Ellis (M.J) THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE IN BATH. Illusts, 90pp, original pictorial card covers. British Telecom, Bristol: 1986. £25.00 Hancock (Frederick) THE PARISH OF SELWORTHY in the County of Somerset. Some notes on its History. With 9 plates, 6 pedigrees, 5 of which are folding, x + 308pp, original cloth, covers damp spotted, spine faded. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1897. £90.00 Hanham (Frederick) A MANUAL FOR THE PARK; or a Botanical Arrangement and Description of the Trees and Shrubs in the Royal Victoria Park, Bath; combining its history, with much additional, interesting, useful, and appropriate matter. Folding coloured map, vignette title, frontis, liii + 336pp, original cloth, partly faded, couple of short splits to outer hinges and slightly chipped to head of spine. London: Longman, Brown.... Bath: R.E. Peach, 1857. £120.00 Harbin (Sophia W. Bates), editor SOMERSET ENROLLED DEEDS. xvii + 337pp, original cloth, outer hinges slightly rubbed, Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to front endpaper. Somerset Record Society. Volume 51. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1936. £48.00 [Hervey (S.H.A)] Vicar WEDMORE PARISH REGISTERS Baptisms 1561-1812. vii + 380pp, original cloth, spine faded and slightly soiled, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to the front endpaper. Wells: Printed and Published by E. Jackson, Wedmore: W. Pople, 1890. £60.00 Hill-Cottingham (Dr Pat), Briggs (Derek), and others THE SOMERSET WETLANDS An Ever Changing Environment. Coloured illusts, 240pp, CD in pocket at rear, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 2006. £12.00 Historical Manuscripts Commission CALENDAR OF THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF WELLS. 2 volumes, xiv + 700 + xiipp and xiii + 955 + ixpp, original printed wraps, wraps to volume 1 are loose and ragged, wraps to volume 2 chipped, spines chipped, stitching strained to one volume. London: H.M.S.O. 1907 & 1914. £95.00 * Each volume contains extensive indices, giving names and places concerned in the documents catalogued. Hopkins (A.E) A PIONEER BRITISH AIR MAIL. BATH - LONDON, 1912. With 6 plates, 23pp, few small marks to the original cloth. 3 George Street, Bath: 1929. £24.00 Hugo (Thomas) THE HISTORY OF HESTERCOMBE, in the Parish of Kingston, Hundred of Taunton Dean, and County of Somerset. 40pp, qtr morocco, paper boards, covers slightly rubbed to edges, and partly discoloured, endpapers, and title-page slightly discoloured. LIMITED EDITION OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. London: J.R. Smith. Taunton: F. May, 1874. £125.00 * Inscription by his brother on the title-page. Humphreys (Arthur L) SOMERSETSHIRE PARISHES A Handbook of Historical Reference to all Places in the County. xv + 856 + (i)pp errata, cr. 4to, bound in 3 volumes, early half morocco, cloth boards, very lightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing, with Somerset Record Office withdrawn stamp to front endpaper, interleaved with blanks, with interesting manuscript notes to a few blanks. London: [Hatchards], 1905. £185.00 Ilchester Gaol REPORT FROM THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE STATE OF ILCHESTER GAOL. With 6 folding plans. 22pp. 1822.... Bound with.... APPENDIX. 388pp. 1822.... Bound with.... COPIES OF REPORTS OF THE HIGH SHERIFF AND MAGISTRATES OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET; on an Inquiry into Charges preferred against the Keeper of the said Gaol by Mr Henry Hunt, a Prisoner confined therein. 23pp. 1822..... Bound with.... ILCHESTER GAOL:- CORONER'S INQUESTS. -1- On the body of James Bryant; 19th day of January 1822. -2- On the body of Joseph Honniball. 3pp. 20th day of January 1822. 4 items bound in 1, folio, disbound. 1822. £180.00 * The Appendix is an in depth study of the conditions in the prison largely taken from interviews with some of the prisoners, and expands greatly on the original report. Ilchester REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF ILCHESTER. (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1288-1201, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £14.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc. Jewers (Arthur J), transcribed and annotated by THE PARISH REGISTERS OF STREET, in the County of Somerset. Baptisms and Marriages to 1755. Burials to 1762. Later amateur? cloth, marbled endpapers, iv + (i) + 90pp. Exeter: William Pollard, 1898. £45.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF TAUNTON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1944. 40 + 326pp, numerous adverts, original printed card covers, partly faded, paper slightly browned as usual. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1944. £26.00 Knight (Francis A) THE SEA BOARD OF MENDIP. An Account of the History, Archaeology and Natural History of the Parishes of Weston-super-Mare, Kewstoke, Wick St. Lawrence, Puxton, Worle, Uphill, Brean, Bleadon, Hutton, Locking, Banwell and the Steep & Flat Holms. Numerous illusts, folding map, xvi + 547pp, full early calf, spine gilt tooled, leather label, marbled pages edges and endpapers, covers slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, London: J.M. Dent, 1902. £45.00 Knight (Francis A) THE HEART OF MENDIP. Numerous illustrations. xvi + 541pp, original cloth, covers spotty, 1" split to rear outer hinge, cloth chipped to head and foot of spine. First edition, London: J.M. Dent, 1915. £28.00 Lindegaaard (D.P) KILLED IN A COALPIT. Volume II. The Mines of Mendip. Illusts, map, 52 + (9)pp, 4to, paper covers, plastic ring bound. V. Britton, Kingswood, Bristol: c.1990. £15.00 * Includes a list of the miners who were killed in the Mendip mines. Marshall (Edward Shearburn) A SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF SOMERSET. iv + 242pp, original cloth. Taunton: Published by the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1914. £35.00 Maxwell (Donald) UNKNOWN SOMERSET. Being a series of unmethodical Explorations of the County illustrated in line and colour by the Author. 209pp, plates and textual illusts, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth, lightly rubbed, few light damp marks to cloth. First edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927. £24.00 Maxwell-Lyte (H.C.) DUNSTER AND ITS LORDS 1066-1881. With A Descriptive Sketch Of Dunster Castle by G.T. Clarke, and a chapter on The Siege and Surrender Of Dunster Castle by E. Green. Numerous plates and plans, viii + 145pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, gilt, recased retaining the original endpapers, with the old spine laid down, corners slightly rubbed, usual occasional foxing. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Exeter: Printed for Private Circulation, William Pollard, 1882. £220.00 * Presentation slip tipped onto the front pastedown 'With Mrs Luttrell's compliments.' McGarvie (Michael), editor SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE'S CHURCH NOTES FOR SOMERSET. Illusts, xxxi + 400pp, dustwrapper. Somerset Record Society. Volume 82. Taunton: 1994. £30.00 Meyler and Son, printer THE ORIGINAL BATH GUIDE: Containing an Essay on the Bath Waters, with a Description of the City and a Variety of Useful Information. Folding frontis, 8 engraved plates, folding plan, a folding map, 182pp, 12mo, original, slightly dull, cloth, later spine and endpapers. Bath: Printed by and for M. Meyler, Abbey Church-yard. c.1840. £70.00 Mundy (R) THE VISITATION OF SOMERSETSHIRE, 1623. With Additions from earlier Visitations and Continuations. 108pp, folio, untrimmed, in Middle Hill paper board, covers slightly rubbed, head of spine slightly chipped. Typis Medio-Montanis, C. Gilmour 1838. £140.00 * Not in Green. Bibiotheca Somersetensis. Palmer (E.M) and Balance (D.K) THE BIRDS OF SOMERSET. With 17 plates, x + 204pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Longmans, London: 1968. £18.00 Palmer (T.F), arranged by COLLECTANEA II. A Collection of Documents from Various Sources. viii + 258pp, original cloth, spine almost loose, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to the half-title. Somerset Record Society Volume 43. Printed for Subscribers Only. Frome: Butler and Tanner, 1928. £25.00 * Contains chapters on Laudian Documents; Act Book of the Archdeacon of Taunton; List of Escheators for the counties of Somerset and Dorset. Pearce (Patricia) WHERE THE CIDER APPLES GROW. The Story of Shepton Beauchamp. Illusts, 152pp, small folio, original pictorial card covers, inscription from the author's mother to front endpaper. P. & M. Typesetting, Exeter: 1983. £30.00 Pooley (Charles) AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF SOMERSET. With a folding map, 20 lithographed plates, text illusts, xvi + 188pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, lower corners rubbed, slightly shaken. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1877. £50.00 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. Sanford (W.A) ON THE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA OF SOMERSET. Catalogue of Bones in the Museum of the Archaeological and Natural History Society at Taunton. No 1.- Felis. (all published). 4to, unbound, stitched as issued, 60pp, uncut, partly unopened. Taunton 1868.... With the folio volume of 26 lithographed plates on 19 sheets, plates loose as issued, original wraps loose, split at spine and now slightly ragged. Taunton: Printed by F. May, for Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1868. £150.00 * Very scarce. Smith (Rosie) & (Howard) NORTH SOMERSET COAST IN WATERCOLOURS Sand Bay to the Hotwells Lock. Double-page coloured map, numerous coloured illusts, 197pp, pictorial card covers. The Garrett Press, Weston super Mare: 2005. £14.00 Somersetshire Archaeological Society INDEX TO SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUMES XXI - XL of the Society's Proceedings. x + 79pp, early binders cloth, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed, endpapers slightly spotty. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1898. £24.00 * With the engraved armorial bookplate of F. Hancock. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOLUME 27. Proceedings, 1881. Illusts, viii + 78 + 19pp, original cloth, gilt lettering and tooling slightly rubbed on spine. Taunton: J.F. Hammond, 1882. £24.00 * Includes articles on:- Yatton Church, Portbury Priory; Manor of Clevedon; Clevedon Court, etc., etc. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and E.H. Bates. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 4. 159pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1902. £65.00 * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry usually up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Ashill (up to 1815), Ile Brewers, Beer Crocombe, Ilton (up to 1811), Whitestaunton (up to 1811), Stocklinch Magdalen (up to 1776), Stocklinch Ottersey, Barrington, Shepton Beauchamp, Buckland St. Mary, Wraxall, Packington, and Swell. Squibbs (Phillip J) A BRIDGWATER DIARY. Reproduction of a typescript with numerous photographic illusts, 214pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. Privately Published, Bridgwater: 1968. £22.00 Stevens Cox (G), editor THE EARLY CHURCH REGISTERS, (Christenings, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1600) of LONG ASHTON, in facsimile. Title, preface + 60 facsimile pages, narrow folio, unlettered cloth. Limited to 30 copies. Toucan press, Guernsey: 1977. £15.00 * 'These recently discovered church registers.... have been lost to the world since the 18th century.' Sydenham (Dr. G.F) THE HISTORY OF THE SYDENHAM FAMILY, collected from Family Documents, Pedigrees, deeds and Copious Memoranda. Edited by A.T. Cameron. Illusts, folding pedigree, xi + 803pp, 4to, original qtr calf, cloth boards, damp spots to edges of top board, couple of small portions chipped from calf on rear board, light waterstaining to outer margins of last few leaves. LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES. Privately Printed by E. Dwelly, East Molesey, Surrey: 1928. £280.00 Tyte (William) BATH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Its Progress and Life Described. Frontis, (ii) + 128pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, spine faded, couple of relevant news cuttings pasted to front pastedown, manuscript title on spine. Bath: G. & F. Pickering, 1903. £40.00 * Author's inscription on front endpaper. Victoria History, edited by William Page THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Volume Two. Maps, plates, textual illustrations, xv + 649pp, 4to, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, spine very slightly faded. First edition, London: Constable, 1911. £55.00 * Includes chapters on Religious Houses; Political History; Maritime; and Social and Ecclesiastical History; Ancient Earthworks; Agriculture; Hunting, etc. Ward (F. Madeline) SUPPLEMENT TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Extracts from Locke's Survey with a short Biography by R.B. Mowat. Frontis, map, 2 plates, 173pp, folio, original cloth, corners bruised, some slight waterstaining to cloth, internally sound, with cloth lifting on part of lower portion of rear board. Barnicotts Ltd., Taunton: 1939. £85.00 Weaver (Rev. F.W), editor SOMERSET MEDIEVAL WILLS. Few short tears to dustwrapper. Originally published in 3 volumes by the Somerset Record Society in 1901, 1903 and 1905. Microprint edition. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1983. £35.00 * This edition has four of the original pages reproduced on each page, but is still very legible. Western Division THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE WESTERN DIVISION of the County of Somerset, between the 30th of November, 1843, and the 1st of December, 1844. Approx. 350 leaves printed on rectos only, 4to, top wrap loose, lacks spine and rear wrap, small hole in last leaf affecting a couple of words. Contains the Names, Addresses, Nature of Qualification and Description of Qualifying Property. Printed by J. Barnicott, F. May, W. Court, Taunton: 1843. £95.00 * Includes the Polling Districts of:- Bridgwater, Dulverton, Carhampton, Ilchester, Ilminster, Langport, Taunton, Williton, and Wiveliscombe. Williams (W.J) and Stoddart (D.M) BATH - SOME ENCOUNTERS WITH SCIENCE. 110pp, laminated boards. Kingsmead Press, Bath: 1978. £20.00 * Includes chapters on :- William Smith and Bath Geology; William and Caroline Herschel; Hot Mineral Springs, etc. Winstone (Reece) BATH AS IT WAS. With over 200 illusts, 76pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. First edition, Bristol: 1980. £20.00 Yeovil REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF YEOVIL, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1404-1408, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £16.00 * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc., etc. A further selection of SOMERSET Books on Main Site Back to the Top Wiltshire Akerman (J.Y) A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL WORDS AND PHRASES, IN USE IN WILTSHIRE. 60pp, sm 8vo, disbound. First edition. London: John Russell Smith. 1842. £50.00 Baker (T.H) NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MERE. Plates, 114pp,.... Bound with.... Ponting (C.E) THE PARISH CHURCH OF S. MICHAEL, MERE. 54 + (1)pp. Two items bound in one, early half calf, cloth boards, spine slightly rubbed. C.H. Woodward, Devizes: c.1897. £30.00 * Reprinted from Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine. Bristol United District RULES OF THE "GREAT WESTERN PRIDE," No 2279 Branch of the Bristol United District. Ancient Order of Foresters' Friendly Society, held at Chippenham in the County of Wiltshire. 21pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, small portions chipped from corners of wraps. Bristol: br. George Hill, Printer, Stapleton Road, 1910. £12.00 Cave (R), and others GEOLOGY OF THE MALMESBURY DISTRICT. (Explanation of the One-inch Geological Sheet 251, New Series) Coloured folding map, folding table, plates, diagrams, viii + 343pp, dustwrapper protected in a loose transparent sleeve. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1977. £20.00 Cox (T) WILTSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With folding map by Morden, textual illust of Stonehenge, pages numbered 47-215 + Distance Table, sm 4to, early qtr roan, marbled boards, slightly rubbed, with a later printed title-page. In the Savoy, London: E. and R. Nutt, (1720) £90.00 * Includes sections on the Hundreds, Natural History, etc. Cunnington (William), and Godard (Rev. E.H), compiled by CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE MUSEUM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes. Part I. The Stourhead Collection. Numerous textual illusts, 96pp, original printed wraps. Published by the Society at the Museum, Devizes: 1896. £22.00 [Dockree (E)] SALISBURY: George Herbert's Church Bemerton. Byzantine Church Wilton. Amesbury. Stonehenge. Plan of Old Sarum. Illusts, 39 pages printed on rectos only, sm 4to, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, covers slightly rubbed to edges, couple of leaves slightly spotty. Marion & Co., London: 1890. £24.00 Ellis (Rev. John Henry), editor THE REGISTERS OF STOURTON, County of Wilts, From 1570 to 1800. xii + 94pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. London: Harleian Society. 1887. £40.00 Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1884. Twenty-Sixth Year of Publication. 154 + (3)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap, rear wrap loose and slightly ragged. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1884. £25.00 Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) THE HISTORY OF MODERN WILTSHIRE. Hundred of CHALK. Coloured double-page map, and 3 engraved plates, viii + 178pp, folio, untrimmed in the original printed paper boards, lacks spine, stitching broken, and boards and sections loose, board marked and rubbed to edges, portions of surface paper torn from boards, corner of frontis waterstained. London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1833. £70.00 Horn (Joyce M), editor THE REGISTER OF ROBERT HALLUM Bishop of Salisbury 1407-17. xviii + 344pp, original wraps. Canterbury & York Society. Torquay: 1982. £18.00 Jackson (Rev. J.E) MALMESBURY. Five plates including one of which is folding, sm 4to, 39pp, original wraps, spine worn, tear to top wrap repaired to verso, covers spotty, occasional light foxing. H. Bull, Devizes: 1863. £50.00 [Jefferies (Richard)] WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 387pp, original cloth, very slightly rubbed, to edges, light spotting to page edges and the occasional leaf. First Edition, London: Smith Elder & Co. 1879. £25.00 Kerridge (Eric), editor SURVEYS OF THE MANORS OF PHILIP, FIRST EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY 1631-2. xiv + 178pp, original cloth, few spots to rear board. Impression of 300 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 9, Devizes: 1953. £18.00 * The manors are:- Bulbridge, Washerne, South Ugford, Broad Chalke, Dinton, Teffont, Fovany, Fugglestone, Netherhampton, Stanton St. Bernard, Stoke Farthing, West Overton, Wilton, Wylye, Alvediston, Barford, Bishopstone, Chilmark, Ridge, Flamston, Burcombe, South and North Ugfor. Marlborough Burgesses 1869-70. THE BURGESS ROLL of the Borough of Marlborough, in the County of Wilts. 13 pages printed on rectos only, original printed wraps partly faded, spine partly split. Marlborough: Emberlin, Printer, High Street. (1870) £40.00 * Not in Goddard's Wiltshire Bibliography. Gives the names and addresses of the Burgesses. Michael (W) HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF MALMESBURY ABBEY, Engraving, 8pp, original printed top wrap, lacks rear wrap, light spotting. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. 1875. £12.00 Michael (W) HISTORY OF STOURHEAD. Engraving, 8pp, original printed top wrap, lacks rear wrap. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £15.00 Michael (W) HISTORY OF DEVIZES CASTLE. Engraving, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £12.00 North (Allan), printer WILTSHIRE and Some Neighbouring Records: Historical, Biographical and Pictorial. "The Wessex Series." Numerous illusts, and over 400 un-numbered pages, 4to, original parchment-backed cloth, small portion torn from head of spine, covers lightly rubbed, and dusty, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., tissue guards. Published only for Subscribers. London: Allan North, c.190- £85.00 * Contains short biographies of most of the important people in the county at the time, usually with photographic portraits, and occasionally with illustrations of their houses. Noyes (Ella) SALISBURY PLAIN Its Stones, Cathedral City, Villages and Folk. Illustrated by Dora Noyes. With 16 coloured plates, textual illusts, 320pp, original cloth. First edition, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons. 1913. £45.00 Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF ST. PETER'S MARLBOROUGH. 1611 to 1812. 64pp, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1906) £18.00 Pugh (R.B), editor ABSTRACTS OF FEET OF FINES Relating to Wiltshire for the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II. xix + 190pp original cloth. Originally published 1939. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 1. Reprinted, 1966. £16.00 Rogers (Kenneth H), editor EARLY TRADE DIRECTORIES OF WILTSHIRE. Indexed by J.H. Chandler. xiii + 215pp, original cloth, small private label to front endpaper. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 47, Trowbridge: 1992. £35.00 * An invaluable work with comprehensive indices. It comprises the Wiltshire sections reprinted from the following directories:- Pigot's for 1822, 1830 and 1842; Holden's for 1805; Bailey's for 1783; Barfoot and Wilkes' for 1793-1798. Sandell (R.E), editor ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE TITHE APPORTIONMENTS viii + 164pp, original cloth, slightly faded. Impression of 425 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 30, Devizes: 1975. £15.00 Scrope (G. Poulett) HISTORY OF THE MANOR AND ANCIENT BARONY OF CASTLE COMBE in the County of Wilts..... With 4 plates, 2 of which are coloured, textual illusts, x + 404pp, 4to, original cloth boards, later, unlettered spine, covers partly faded. Printed For Private Circulation. London: J.R. Nicholls, 1852. £195.00 * Issued without the map, 150 copies printed, see Lowndes. Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Shute (Henry) MY LORD PEMBROKE'S MANOR OF NETHERHAMPTON. Full page and textual illusts, 320pp, original pictorial wrappers, small private ownership label to title-page. Privately Published by H.R. Shute, 1986. £14.00 Skurray (Francis) BIDCOMBE HILL, A Rural and Descriptive Poem. Second Edition. To which is Added An Essay on Local Poetry. Engraved frontis of Longleat, 2 other engraved plates, 220 + advert leaf, untrimmed in the original paper boards, slightly rubbed, lacks lettering piece. Second Edition, London: Cadell, 1824. £75.00 * The first edition did not contain the author's 100 page essay on the defence of topographical poetry. Skurray was the rector of Winterbourne-Abbas, Dorset. Stevenson (Janet H), editor THE EDINGTON CARTULARY. Frontis, xxxiv + 236pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 42. Devizes: 1987. £16.00 Victoria County History, edited by R.B. Pugh and E. Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 3. Plates and illusts, xix + 424pp, small folio, special edition bound in half morocco, cloth boards. First edition. Oxford University Press, 1956. £50.00 * Covers the Ecclesiastical history of the county. Victoria County History, edited by D.A. Crowley. VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 12. Plates and illusts, xx + 257pp, small folio, original cloth, short tear to dustwrapper. First edition, Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press, 1983. £50.00 * Covers Ramsbury and Selkley Hundreds and the Borough of Marlborough. Warminster LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1858. BYE-LAWS MADE BY THE LOCAL BOARD OF WARMINSTER, in the County of Wilts. 46pp, limp cloth. Warminster: Martin Brothers. 1868. £22.00 Waylen (James) CHRONICLES OF THE DEVIZES, Being a History of the Castle, Parks and Borough of that Name; With Notices Statistical, Parliamentary, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical. Frontis, 362pp, contemporary cloth, recased retaining original endpapers and with the old spine laid down, paper label on spine slightly darkened and chipped, occasional slight spotting. First edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1839. £70.00 West Wilts Printing Co. HISTORIC SPOTS IN WILTSHIRE. Illusts, 146pp, original cloth, spine darkened, inner hinges weak. West Wilts Printing Co. Ltd. Trowbridge: c.190- £20.00 --- See sample text * Includes chapters on:- Westbury White Horse; Farleigh Castle; Malmesbury Abbey; Lacock Abbey; Longleat House; Corsham Court; Avebury; Stonehenge; Bowood, etc., etc. Williams (N.J), editor COLLECTANEA. With a Foreword by T.F.T. Plucknett. xi + 207pp, original cloth. Impression of 350 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch. Volume 12, Devizes: 1956. £12.00 * Includes chapters on:- Royal Mills and castles at Marlborough; Wilton Abbey; Wiltshire deeds; Chippenham, etc. Wiltshire Advertiser, printers and publishers DEVIZES AND DISTRICT ALMANACK AND DIRECTORY FOR 1926. (14) + 202 + (16)pp, numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps partly rubbed and loose, spine chipped and rubbed, signs where label removed from verso of top wrap. Wiltshire Advertiser, Devizes: 1926. £22.00 Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. VOLUME 7. Plates and plans some of which are folding, iv + 334p, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, outer hinges partly split, inner hinges slightly weak. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1862. £35.00 * Includes articles on Silbury; Roman Villa at North Wraxhall; Flora of Wiltshire; Marlborough; and Swindon, etc. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. VOLUME 12. Plates, folding map, folding pedigree, iv + 385 + viipp, contemporary half roan, marbled boards, edges rubbed. Devizes: H.F. & E. Bull, 1870. £35.00 * Includes articles on Stockton; Chippenham; Monumental Brasses in Churches near Chippenham; Flora of Wiltshire, etc. Worth (R.N) TOURIST'S GUIDE TO WILTSHIRE: Its Scenery and Antiquities. With folding map and plan. vi + [ii] + 120 + 32pp of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth. First edition, London: Edward Stanford, 1887. £20.00 A further selection of WILTSHIRE Books on Main Site Back to the Top General Addington (A.C) THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. The Descendants of King James VI of Scotland James I of England. Volume 2 of 3 only. Illusts, xiii + 409pp, folio, original cloth, slightly chipped to head of spine. Charles Skilton, London: 1971. £50.00 Atthill (Robin) THE SOMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY. With contributions on locomotives by O.S. Nock. Plates, some of which are coloured, textual illusts, 200pp, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to edges. Second impression. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £16.00 Barton (D.B) A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE MINES AND MINERAL RAILWAYS OF EAST CORNWALL AND WEST DEVON. Textual illusts and maps, 102pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper at head of spine. Reprinted, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. £14.00 Bellamy (John C) A THOUSAND FACTS IN THE HISTORIES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL, in Chronological Order, Forming an epitomised view of the political development of those counties and making special reference to the history of Plymouth; To which is added an alphabetical list of all works relating to the counties. 59pp, original card covers, with the original printed label to front board, lacks spine, Plymouth: I. Latimer, (1850) £85.00 * With the bookplate of John Davies Enys to front pastedown and in ink just above the inscription:- 'George B. Millett. 1877.' Blizzard in the West THE BLIZZARD IN THE WEST. Being a Record and Story of the Disastrous Storm which raged throughout DEVON & CORNWALL, & WEST SOMERSET on the night of March 9th, 1891. Illusts, 168pp, 12mo, printed card wraps, few small portions missing from one edge and corners of covers, lacks spine, cellotape adhering to covers which overlap on to spine. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. Devonport: A.H. Swiss, c.1892. £25.00 Bristol Area POST OFFICE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY NOVEMBER 1959. Adverts, 420pp, sm 4to, original printed wraps. 1959. £25.00 * Covers Bristol, Bath, parts of Wiltshire, north Somerset and south Gloucestershire. Britton (J) and Brayley (E.W) DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL ILLUSTRATED, from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett etc., with Historical & Topographical Descriptions. With 2 vignette title-pages, 2 maps and 138 views on 69 engraved plates, with an uncalled for lithograph plate of Sidmouth Church bound in, 4to, contemporary full diced calf, slightly rubbed to edges, inner hinges broken, loose in case, marbled endpapers, occasional off-setting and light foxing, small ink stain, and a small waterstain to the margins of a few plates, one text leaf and one leaf of plates slightly ragged to edges. London: H. Fisher, 1832. £200.00 Browne (H), of Amesbury THE GEOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE, Illustrating The Operation of the Deluge, and The Effects of Which It Was Productive: With A Consideration of Scripture History, In Reference to Stonehenge and Abury, In Wiltshire; And To The Caves Of Elephanta and Salsette, And The Wonders of Flora, In Hindoostan; A Statement of New and Important Views Of Geology, Resulting from Information contained in Scripture And An Interesting Tour From Christchurch, along the banks of the River Avon, and across the Wansdyke, to Abury. With 10 plates, 3 of which are coloured, early qtr cloth, paper boards, rubbed to edges, short split to head of top outer hinge, lacks labels on spine, Frome, Pr. J. Penny and Sold by the Author, 1832. £165.00 * Not found in any of the West Country bibliographies. Dedication leaf to Dr. Buckland, and Preface addressed to him. Includes sections on "Granite Torrs of Devon and Cornwall", "Cliffs on the River Avon", etc. Cantuar (Tho.), and others A DECLARATION OF THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBURY, And the Bishops in and near London, testifying their Abhorrence of the Present Rebellion; with An Exhortation to the Clergy and People under their Care, to be Zealous in the Discharge of their Duties to His Majesty King George. Sm 4to, 8pp, disbound, 2 leaves cropped slightly affecting the ends of several words. London: Printed by John Basket. 1715. £60.00 Cary (John) CARY'S NEW ITINERARY: or, an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross throughout England and Wales; With many of the Principal Roads in Scotland. From an Actual Admeasurement by John Cary. Made by Command of His Majesty's Postmaster General, for Official Purposes; Under the Direction and Inspection of Thomas Hasker, Esq. Surveyor and Superintendant of the Mail Coaches. Folding map, (6) + (38) + (418) being 836 numbered double columns + (10) + (62)pp, early half calf, marbled boards, very worn and rubbed, small portion chipped from spine, boards loose, map has some crude repairs to folds, and lacks one portion which covers the sea only and not the land, some browning. Third Edition with Improvements. Published by J. Cary, London: (1806) £30.00 Collings (E), publisher THE BATH AND BRISTOL MAGAZINE; or, Western Miscellany. Volume III. - 1834. 468pp, slight spotting to early cloth. Published by E. Collings. 1834. £35.00 * Mainly of general and literary interest, with some articles of West Country interest including 'Botanical Notices of Somersetshire', and 'Fishing Excursion' (on the Dart). Cox (Rev. Thomas) BEDFORDSHIRE Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding county map by Morden, pages numbered 139-160, lacks leaf of distance table, disbound, portion cut from margin of map, not affecting engraved surface. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £25.00 * Includes sections on:- the various Hundreds; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc. Curson (Frank) LAYS AND LEGENDS OF THE WEST. A Series of Papers on some of the less known of our Local traditions, &c. &c. with Minor Poems of a Miscellaneous Character. 220 + 6 page list of subscribers, sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head of spine, a.e.g. London: Whitaker and Co. Exeter: Curson and Son. Falmouth: Lake, 1846. £45.00 * Listed under Curzon in Brockett and in Boase and Courtney. Davey (Richard), and others REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONDITION OF ALL MINES IN GREAT BRITAIN.... With reference to the Health and Safety of Persons Employed in such Mines with Appendices. xlv + 34pp, includes 16 plates, 14 of which are folding, 4 of them are coloured, lacks wraps, with a facsimile title-page, early binders cloth. London: H.M.S.O. 1864. £200.00 * Very Scarce. Most of the text relates to mines in Devon and Cornwall, and includes a coloured folding plan of Dolcoath Mine. Richard Davey was one of the commissioners, see Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. De La Beche (Henry T) REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET. With coloured folding map and 12 plates, plans and facsimiles, mostly folding, xxviii + 648pp, original cloth, recased with the original, spine laid down, occasional spotting to plates, early ownership names to front endpaper and title-page. 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. De La Beche (Sir Henry T) and Reid (Clement) INDEX TO THE REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET. Index compiled by Clement Reid. 33pp, original printed wraps, few corners slightly curled. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1903. £22.00 Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. VOLUME 4. (v) + 147pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1908. £25.00 * Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the parishes of St. Alkmund, Derby; Quarndon; Tickenhall; and Foremark. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities of the counties of Devon and Cornwall. VOLUME 7. From January 1912 to October 1913. Part I Miscellaneous. Plates, 304pp, original cloth. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Courtenay Arms; Exeter Castle; Bells of North Bovey; Branscombe Church; Bideford Witches; Rectors of Talaton; Coinage Hall of Lostwithiel; Kirkham of Feniton, Westofer of Yardbury, Colyton, and Drake of Yardbury; Family of Pyne; Cornish Folklore: The Piskies, etc, etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities of the counties of Devon and Cornwall. VOLUME 8. From January 1914 to October 1915. Part I Miscellaneous. With 27 plates, 255pp, original cloth, occasional light foxing. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1915. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Dartmoor trees; Prideaux Family; Kingskerswell Church; Topsham Privateer; Totnes Priory; Sidmouth; Tenants of Manor of Okehampton; Yeo family of Bradworthy; British Camp at Exeter, etc., etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History Archaeology & Antiquities. VOLUME 23. With 8 plates, 408pp, untrimmed in later cloth. Exeter: James Townsend, 1949. £34.00 * Includes articles on:- Worth family; Tavistock; Stoke Damerel; Smallpox in Tiverton; Paper Mills in Devon and Cornwall; Land's End; Lundy Island; Camelford; Halberton; Hartland; Ports of Cornwall in the Middle Ages, etc. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History Archaeology & Antiquities. VOLUME 26. From January 1954 to October 1955. With 10 plates, 246pp, untrimmed in later cloth. James Townsend & Sons Ltd. Exeter: 1955. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Umberleigh Weir; Cornish Crosses; Cardinham; Prowse of Prowse; Butcher Row, Exeter; Lundy Lighthouse; Devon and Cornish Canals; Doccombe of Moretonhampstead, etc. Dewey (Henry) SPECIAL REPORTS ON THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. COPPER ORES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. Diagrams, folding section, 76pp, original printed wraps, few short tears to edges of wraps. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. First edition. H.M.S.O. London: 1923. £24.00 Elton (Margaret) ANNALS OF THE ELTON FAMILY Bristol Merchants & Somerset Landowners. Illusts, xii + 258pp, dustwrapper. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994. £50.00 Embrey (P.G) and Symes (R.F) MINERALS OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. Numerous colour plates, diagramatic maps, 154pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper. British Museum (Natural History), London: 1987. £32.00 English Civil War A PERFECT LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE SEVERAL PERSONS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PARLIAMENT 1656. For the several Counties and Corporations within the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging. 8pp, original printed wraps, wraps slightly spotty, short split to foot of spine. Originally Printed by Tho. Newcomb, 1656. Reprinted by Edward Hailstone, 1880. £24.00 [Erskine (J.F.E.G)] Earl of Mar ANCIENT AND MODERN [A history of the Earldom of Mar by the Claimant, J.F.E.G.E., together with a report of the judgment given in the House of Lords, 25th February, 1875, on the claim of Lord Kellie to the Earldom of Mar.] Folding pedigree, 67 + 19 + xxxviiipp, roy 8vo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, small portions missing from head and foot of spine, inscription on front endpaper. Printed for Private Circulation. 1875. £75.00 Evered (Philip) STAGHUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer On Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas. With 74 illusts, xv’+ 378pp, original pictorial cloth, spine very slightly darkened, contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Special Edition on Japanese Vellum - ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED FOR SALE. London: Chatto and Windus, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £180.00 Fortescue (Thomas), Lord Clermont THE WORKS OF SIR JOHN FORTESCUE, Chief Justice of England and Lord Chancellor to King Henry The Sixth. Volume 1. With.... A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF FORTESCUE, in all its Branches. Forming volume 2. With full page engraved plates, some of which are coloured, textual engravings, and pedigrees, xii + 378 + (1) addenda and corrigenda, and xxv + 556 + 119 + (1) directions to binder + (1) corrigenda, two volumes folio, finely bound by Rivere in full green crushed levant morocco, raised bands, spines gilt tooled, gilt lined boarders to boards, spine slightly darkened by fading, a.e.g., Loosely inserted is a letter from Fortescue, signed 'Clermont', sm 8vo, handwritten on 4 sides. First editions, London: Printed for Private Distribution. 1869. £680.00 * Presentation inscriptions by the author on the half-titles. With the engraved armorial bookplates of Charles E.H. Chadwyck Healey. The Fortescues held estates in Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Gerrard (Sandy) THE EARLY BRITISH TIN INDUSTRY. Colour plates, illusts, diagrams, maps, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2000. £14.00 * An account of the tin industry in Devon and Cornwall up to 1700. Gray (Irvine) ANTIQUARIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND BRISTOL. Plates, 210pp, original cloth partly faded. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1981. £16.00 * With chapters on 52 Antiquaries, illustrated with plates showing examples of their handwriting. Includes most of the noted writers such as Atkyns, Rudge, Rudder, Fosbroke, etc. Henwood (William Jory) THE METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Volume 5. With Appendices, 13 folding plates and over 100 tables, many of which are folding, 512pp, recent cloth. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Penzance: J. Pope Vibert, 1843. £220.00 Hunt (Robert) BRITISH MINING. A Treatise on the History, Discovery, Practical Development and Future Prospects of Metalliferous Mines in the United Kingdom. With upwards of Two Hundred and Thirty Illustrations. Diagrams, some of which are folding, xx + (ii) + 914pp, bound in 2 volumes in recent cloth, some light spotting to prelims. Second Edition, Revised. Crosby, Lockwood and Co., London: 1887. £385.00 * The text for this edition is as the first though the statistical tables have been updated. Johnson (Stephen) BURGH CASTLE, Excavations by Charles Green 1958-61. East Anglian Archaeology Report No 20, 1983. Diagrams, plans, some of which are folding, vi + 131pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, spine faded. Norfolk Archaeological Unit, Norfolk Museums Service, Dereham: 1983. £20.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE 1935. With map of Devon, lacks map of Somerset, 29 + xxviii + 1254 + 20 (adverts) + xviii + 796pp, original cloth, dull, worn, top board almost loose, lacks portion of spine which has tears and is almost loose. Kelly's Directories, London: 1935. £55.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1935. With the coloured folding maps of Gloucestershire and Somerset, lacks plan of Bristol, 26 pages of adverts + xxvi + 796 + x + 570 + 9 + xxix + 1313pp, original cloth, rear inner hinge strained, small tear to top outer hinge and a small tear to centre of spine. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1935. £125.00 Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SUSSEX 1905. Lacks map, xxviii + (ii) + 974 + 122 pages of adverts, some spotting to the original cloth, internally sound. Kelly's Directories Ltd, London: 1905. £100.00 Kenney (Cyril Ernest) THE QUADRANT AND THE QUILL. A book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, 'a tryed and trusty sea-man' and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669. Illusts., 166pp, folio, original boards, rubbed at edges, slight signs where labels removed from front endpaper, and from foot of title-page, number in ink to verso of title. LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. London: Merchant and Son Ltd., 1944. £45.00 * Sturmy lived at Pill for a number of years. He died not long after a descent of Pen Park Hole. Kerslake (Thomas) A PRIMAEVAL BRITISH METROPOLIS With Some Notes On the Ancient Topography of the South-Western Peninsula of Britain. 108pp, lacks lower wrap and spine. Bristol: Thomas Kerslake and Company. 1877. £20.00 Knight (Professor), illustrated by Edmund H. New. COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH in The West Country. Their Friendship, Work, and Surroundings. 238pp, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, recent endpapers, occasional light spotting. Elkin Mathews, London: 1913. £48.00 Langdon and Harker, printer THE WEEKLY ENTERTAINER AND WEST OF ENGLAND MISCELLANY: From Monday, July 3, to Monday, December 25, 1820. Volume 2. New Series. 520pp + 3pp Index. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, worn, outer hinges split, lacks portions of spine from head and foot. Printed by Langdon and Harker. Sherborne: 1820. £40.00 * The articles are mainly of a general nature, but they include:- Dorchester Charities; Doulting; Cheddar Cliffs, and other items relating to local topography. Lewes (George Henry) SEA-SIDE STUDIES at Ilfracombe, Tenby, The Scilly Isles, & Jersey. With Illustrations. With 7 plates, x + 428pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, «" split to head of rear outer hinge, small portion missing from fore-edge margin of frontis, Cornwall Record Office stamp to front endpaper, and number to base of spine. Second Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London: 1860. £35.00 --- See sample text * With the bookplate of John Davies Enys. 'I have endeavoured to furnish the visitor to the sea-side with plain directions, by means of which he may study and enjoy the marvels of ocean life.... ' Preface. [Manners (John Henry)] JOURNAL OF A TOUR ROUND THE SOUTHERN COASTS OF ENGLAND. With 2 aquatint plates, 229 + 1 leaf of 'Schedule of Miles,' recent paper boards with paper label on spine. London: J. Triphook, 1805. £250.00 * Manners was the fifth Duke of Rutland and the engravings were taken from drawings by his wife. Contains various observations and historical notes on the places he visits. He starts at Ramsgate then takes a circuitous route via Lands End and finishing at Salisbury visiting places which interest him on the way including various mines viz. Polgooth, Wherry, Cook's Kitchen, as well as Carnon Tin Stream Works, etc. At Plymouth and Southampton he lists the names of the boats in the harbour as well as the number of their guns and the names of their commanders. Mercer and Crocker's MERCER & CROCKER'S GENERAL TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DIRECTORY FOR OXFORDSHIRE. &c. Comprising classified lists of the Nobility, Clergy, Bankers.... with an Alphabetical list of the Inhabitants.... The work commences with an Account of Each Town and Village.... Lacks map, (iv) + 17-197 + 1 page of adverts, complete, disbound. Leicester: Mercer & Crocker, 1874. £45.00 * Extracted from a larger work, hence no title-page. Milward-Oliver (Mrs Frederick Francis) MEMOIRS OF THE HUNGERFORD, MILWARD AND OLIVER FAMILIES. With 4 plates and a folding pedigree, original cloth, cloth damp marked, boards slightly warped, cloth lightly rubbed to edges. LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES. Printed for Private Circulation. Butler & Tanner Ltd. London: 1930. £45.00 * Not in Thomson's Catalogue of British Family Histories. The family lived at various places including Cadenham Manor in Wiltshire, Farley Castle near Bath, and Bristol. Mines MINES. REPORTS OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES, to Her Majesty's Secretary of State, Under The Coal Regulation Act, 1872, with the Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1881; and the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875, with the Slate Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1882; For the Year 1885. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. With 6 folding plans, 6 being coloured and a folding table, xvi + 373pp, small folio, recent card covers, paper label on top cover. London: Houses of Parliament, 1886. £150.00 * Includes reports on mines in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Forest of Dean, and Somerset. None of the plans are of West Country mines. There are numerous tables listing mines, owners agents, minerals raised, ages of persons employed above and below ground, names of persons injured, cause of accidents, tons of material mined, etc. Le Neve Foster, Cadman, and Frecheville were amongst the authorities who gave evidence. Murray's HANDBOOK FOR DEVON AND CORNWALL (1859). With large folding map, lvi + 293 pages, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, name to front endpaper. Reprinted, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971. £18.00 Nelson (T), printer YORK AND ITS CATHEDRAL. With 12 tinted engraved plates, 40pp of text. Oblong 16mo, original decorative cloth, cloth spotty, dull and lifting in parts, front inner hinge cracked. T. Nelson and Sons, London: c.1870. £30.00 Nicholls (J.F) PLEASANT TRIPS OUT OF BRISTOL: Frontis, 202pp, early cloth, slight discoloration to small area of title-page. First edition, Bristol: Arrowsmith, c.1870. £20.00 * The trips include: Bath, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare, Ilfracombe, Totnes, Chepstow, Tintern etc., etc. Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN BERKS. IN 1873. Berkshire section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 21pp, disbound. 1875. £16.00 Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN DURHAM IN 1873. Durham section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 21pp, disbound. 1875. £16.00 Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 9-26, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £25.00 Plymouth Institution ANNUAL REPORTS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society. VOLUME 6, 1876-8. 512pp, early half calf, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges. Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1878. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Plympton Castle; Nonconformity in Plymouth; Trade of Plymouth; Samuel Cook, artist; Cornish Language; Bone Caves of Plymouth District, etc. Poynton (Rev. F.J) PEDIGREE OF GIBBES OF BEDMINSTER AND BRISTOL. Allied to Harington of Kelston, Somerset. Coat of Arms, 8pp, 4to, original plain wraps, lacks a very small portion of top corner of text leaves, not affecting text. c.1880. £17.00 [Pulman (G.P.R)] John Trotandot RAMBLES, ROAMINGS AND RECOLLECTIONS. Frontis, 280pp, original cloth, spine faded. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. £35.00 * Includes chapters on Crewkerne Fair, horse racing at Colyton and Beaminster, Whitelackington and Monmouth's Tree, and visits to Jersey. Pulman (G.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. Fourth Edition, re-written and greatly enlarged. With 15 plates, including lithographs, and textual illusts, large folding map, laid down on linen, vi + [ii] + 906 + [i] advert leaf, original cloth, gilt, cloth lightly rubbed, corners rubbed, few small marks to rear board, recent endpapers, title spotty, occasional light spotting. Fourth edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1875. £280.00 --- See sample text * The best edition. Includes chapters on Beaminster, Chard, Ford Abbey, Broadwindsor, Crewkerne, Axminster, Colyton, Seaton, etc. Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY MANORS. Illusts, vi + 208pp, includes a 2pp list of subscribers, original cloth. Bristol: St. Peter's Press, 1930. £65.00 --- See sample text * Covers 50 manors mainly in Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. Includes chapters and illustrations of Ashton Court; Butcombe Court; Iron Acton Court; Nailsea Court; Tyntesfield, Longleat House, etc. Rogers (Rev. Charles) GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS and of the Scottish House of Burnes. 68pp, original cloth slightly rubbed at edges, cloth chipped at head and foot of spine, title slightly spotty and with private indelible ownership stamp to top margin. London: Printed for the Royal Historical Society. 1877. £25.00 Sealy (T.H), editor THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE OF BRISTOL, BATH, SOUTH-WALES, and the South-Western Counties, in connexion with The Bristol and West of England Architectural and Heraldic Society. Three parts bound in one, a few textual illusts, 120pp, untrimmed in the original wraps, lacks spines. All published. London: Cunningham and Mortimer, May and August, 1843 and January 1844. £35.00 Smeaton (John) THE REPORT OF JOHN SMEATON, ENGINEER, CONCERNING THE DRAINAGE OF THE NORTH LEVEL OF THE FENS, and The Outfall of the Wisbeach River. Large folding engraved section:- 'A Chain and Scale of Levels along Wisbeach River and Channel from Peterborough Bridge down to the Eye at Sea. Taken in 1767 by William Elstobb.' 24pp, sm 4to, untrimmed in the original plain wraps, few small spots. (London: 1769) £155.00 * Smeaton was one of several engineers who was asked to submit his scheme for this large project. See Skempton's British Civil Engineering Literature 1640-1840. No 1318. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, edited by Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. VOLUME 12. Illusts, 402pp, untrimmed in recent cloth, leather label on spine, occasional foxing, title-page and last leaf browned. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1911. £30.00 * Includes articles on:- Sale of Old Cleeve; Glastonbury Abbey Accounts; Somersetshire Dolemoors; Weymouth Bridges, etc., etc. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, edited by T.J. Hunt and J.H.P. Pafford NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET VOLUME 30. Illusts, 459 + 35 page index, complete in the original 13 parts, original printed wrappers, plus the index volume. C.J. Creed, Bridport: 1974-1979. £36.00 * Includes articles on:- Thomas Hardy and the "Social Law"; Murder of Sarah Pope at Toller Whelme; Dorset's Coastal Defences; Dallimores of Nunney; Gollops of Bowood and Strode; Puppet Players at Beaminster; Thorntons of Sherborne; Agriculture in Somerset in 16th Century, etc., etc. Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher SURVEY OF WEST COUNTRY MANORS 1525. The Lands of Cecily Marchioness of Dorset Lady Harington and Bonville in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire. xxx + 163pp, small folio, original cloth covered in a loose plastic cover, neat inscription to front endpaper. Almondsbury: 1979. £75.00 Taylor (John) ANTIQUARIAN ESSAYS Contributed to the "Saturday Review." With a Memoir of William George and Portrait. liv + 383pp, untrimmed in the original qtr. parchment, covers lightly rubbed, endpapers foxed, spine slightly darkened and spotty. LIMITED TO 180 NUMBERED COPIES. Bristol: W. Crofton Hemmons, 1895. £25.00 * Includes articles on Chepstow, Berkeley, Cleeve Abbey, House of Fortescue, Thornbury Castle, etc., etc. Warburton (Elio) MEMOIRS OF PRINCE RUPERT, and the Cavaliers. Including their Private Correspondence, now first Published from the Original Manuscripts. 3 volumes, frontis, x + 539 and frontis, vi + 492 and frontis, vi + 596pp, recent cloth with portion of spines showing volume number and titles laid down, frontispieces slightly spotty and one with water stain to outer margin. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. £150.00 * Rupert became a General of the Horse, for the royalist cause, and early on in the Civil War won a battle at Powick Bridge, but at Edgehill left the battle with his cavalry which may have cost the Royalist forces victory. In 1643 he captured Bristol and in 1644 was involved in the relief of Newark and York, before loosing 1500 men in a fierce battle before he captured Liverpool castle. In November 1644, at Marston Moor, he commanded much of the royalist army when it was defeated. His capture of Leicester was reversed when the royalists lost the Battle of Naseby. He went on to surrender Bristol in 1645, he was then dismissed from the service by Charles and took no further part in the command of the Royalist forces. [Warner (Richard) and Hunter (Joseph)] THE OMNIUM=GATHERUM: or Bath, Bristol, and Cheltenham Literary Repository. By Us Two. To be Published every Fortnight. With 4 plates, 240pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, lettering piece, boards lightly rubbed, small worm hole to margin of most pages. Contains seven numbers, continuously paginated. All published. Bath: Printed and sold by Richard Cruttwell, (1814) £115.00 * Presentation inscription 'From the editor to his friend Dr Charles Parry, 1815.' With the engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Henry Parry to rear pastedown. A curious mixture, including poetry, with little of local interest. Williams (B.H) ANCIENT WEST COUNTRY FAMILIES AND THEIR ARMORIAL BEARINGS. A story of the nobility and gentry of Devon and Cornwall. With notes on their manor-houses and their charities. Volume 1. All published. Containing 48 coats of arms and other full page illusts., xvi + 301 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, few spots to rear board. Penzance: J.A.D. Bridger, 1916. £95.00 Wright (W.H.K), editor THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY or DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTE-BOOK. VOLUME 2. April, 1882, to April, 1883. Illusts, xvii + 216pp, includes 4 page list of subscribers, 4to, original qtr roan, cloth boards, lacks approx «" to head of spine and small strip at foot. Plymouth: Latimer and Son, 1883. £45.00 * Includes articles on:- Lidwell chapel, near Dawlish; Cranmere Pool; Rocks in Devon and Cornwall by William Crossing; Beating the Bounds at St. Columb; Kingsbridge Murder, etc., etc. Wright (W.H.K), editor THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY or Notebook for DEVON, CORNWALL and SOMERSET. VOLUME 6. June, 1886, to May, 1887.... Bound with... VOLUME 7. June, 1887 to June 1888. With an Introductory Article on the "Armada Tercentenary," by Professor J.K. Laughton. Illusts, xviii + 313pp, includes a 5 page list of subscribers, + Illusts, xii + 331pp, includes 4pp of subscribers, 2 volumes bound in 1, 4to, early cloth, lacks spine, top board held by strings, rear board almost loose, some spotting to prelims. Plymouth: W.H. Luke, London and Exeter: 1887 and 1888. £65.00 * Includes articles on:- Dartmoor Crosses; Eddystone Lighthouse; South Devonshire Regiment; Plymouth; Plympton Maudlyn House; Colan Church; Somerset Parish Registers; Lostwithiel Bridge; Medical Worthies of Devon, Pennington Family of Bell Founders; Cornish Bench Ends; Family of Thornborough; Cattewater; Plymouth Citadel; Dartmoor Pixies; Parliamentary history of Grampound; Hatherleigh Moor; Cornwall's affinity to Wales, etc. A further selection of BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY and LOCAL HISTORY Books on Main Site Back to the Top ORDERING Or for further information contact Ivor Cornish :- Tel:- ( 0117 ) 9076899 E-mail :- ambra@localhistory.co.uk AMBRA BOOKS Home page Copyright © Ambra Books - 2012. All rights reserved.