Dorset

Barnes (William) POEMS OF RURAL LIFE in Common English. xii + 200 + 4pp (publishers adverts), sm 8vo, original cloth, chipped to head of spine and small portion of back outer hinge. First edition, 1868. £42.00

Benfield (Eric) THE TOWN OF MAIDEN CASTLE. Illusts, 70pp, dustwrapper. First edition 1947. £18.00

Bettey (J.H) THE ISLAND AND ROYAL MANOR OF PORTLAND Some aspects of its History with particular reference to the period 1750 - 1851. With 16 plates, map endpapers, 155pp, original cloth. 1970. £17.00

Billett (Michael) THATCHED BUILDINGS OF DORSET. Photographs by R.D. Megilley. Double-page map, plates, line drawings, 222pp, dustwrapper. 1984. £18.00

Bond (L.M.G) TYNEHAM A Lost Heritage. Plates, vii + 128pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Dorchester: (1956) £18.00 --- See sample text

Boswell (Edward) THE CIVIL DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, Methodically Digested and Arranged, comprising lists of The Civil Ministerial Officers, Magistrates, and Subordinate Officers; with a complete Nomina Villarum, in Four Parts; A List of the County and other Bridges; together with the Annual Value of Real Property; Amount of the Land-Tax; of the Poor's-Rate, and County Rate; the Population; and the Rules and Orders for Regulation of the Practice of the Quarter Session. Also, An Appendix.... Folding map, viii + ii list of subscribers + 192 + 98 + xxvipp, uncut in the original qtr. cloth paper boards, paper label rubbed on spine, top board partly waterstained. The Second Edition: Corrected, Augmented, and Improved. Dorchester: 1833. £78.00

Brocklebank (Joan) AFFPUDDLE IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. A.D. 987-1953. With 23 plates, folding map, 123pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Bournemouth: 1968. £24.00

Brocklebank (Joan) VICTORIAN STONE CARVERS IN DORSET CHURCHES 1856-1880. With excerpts from the reports of the consecration ceremonies in the Dorset County Chronicle and other Sources. Plates, map endpapers, 72pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Wimborne: 1979. £22.00

Charities THE CHARITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Folio, 110pp + 5 - 182pp, contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, worn, top outer hinge partly split, shaken. 1840. £75.00
* 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. Pasted to a front endpaper is a map of Dorset engraved by 'Neele, Strand' c1820.

Chilver (Kathleen M) HOLDENHURST Mother of Bournemouth. With Illustrations by the Author. iii + (ii) + 112pp, d.w. 12mo. Published by the Author. 1956. £22.00

Climenson (Emily J) STRANGE ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET A.D. 1747. Folding map, illusts, 158pp, uncut in the original qtr cloth, paper boards, occasional foxing, spine slightly darkened. Reading: (1906) £18.00
* A smuggling tale based on fact.

Damon (Robert) HANDBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF WEYMOUTH AND THE ISLAND OF PORTLAND. With Notes on the Natural History of the Coast and Neighbourhood. Accompanied by a map of the District, Geological Sections, Plates of Fossils, Coast Views, and numerous other illustrations, sm 8vo, xii + 199 + 4 pages of adverts, original cloth, partly faded, small ink splash to top board, recased with old spine laid down and new endpapers. First edition. 1860. £65.00

Davies (G.M) THE DORSET COAST. A Geological Guide. With 14 photographs, and 33 figures. vii + 128pp, slightly torn dustwrapper. 1964. £11.00

Dorset 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 Dorset section, folio, loose and unbound, 36pp. 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. £40.00
* Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS VOLUME 15. Illusts, lxx + 211pp, original cloth, a few relevant newscuttings tipped in. Dorchester: 1894. £20.00
* Includes:- Ellingham Church; Reptiles of Dorset; Old Wardour Castle, etc., etc.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS VOLUME 20. Illusts, lxxiv + 187pp, original cloth. Dorchester: 1899. £20.00
* Includes articles on:- Athelhampton Hall; Powerstock Church and Castle; Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Dorset; Woodsford Castle; etc., etc.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS VOLUME 48. With illusts, xcvi + 144 + (iii)pp, original cloth. Dorchester: 1927. £18.00
* Includes articles on:- West Country Bankers, Turnpikes; Dorset Clocks and Clockmakers, etc., etc.

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Douch (Robert) A HANDBOOK OF LOCAL HISTORY: DORSET. 180pp, original card covers, few small spots to covers, spine slightly worn. Bristol: 1952 £10.00

Eyton (Rev. R.W) A KEY TO DOMESDAY.... DORSET SURVEY. 176pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. 1878. £34.00

Grinsell (L.V) DORSET BARROWS. Plates, illusts, folding maps, 192pp, 4to, original printed wraps. Dorchester: 1959. £20.00

Haime (John W) THE HAIMES A Dorset Family. Illusts., xiv + 100pp, dustwrapper. Edition Limited to 500 Copies. Published by the Author. 1970. £20.00

Hammond (G) WEYMOUTH. A Study of the Tourist Trade. Thesis, 92 typed 4to pages, typed on one side only, plus plans, graphs, and 26 tipped in photographs and postcards. Cloth bound. 1966. £28.00
* Includes chapters on the location, sunshine figures, growth, 'Origin of Visitors', accommodation, transport, etc., etc.

Harper (C.G) THE DORSET COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts., xv + 336pp, some silverfish holes to rear endpaper, original cloth. First edition. 1905. £35.00 --- See sample text

Kelly's DIRECTORY OF BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE 1963. Lacks plan, original cloth, outer hinges partly torn, poor quality paper browned to edges. £15.00

Kelly's DIRECTORY OF BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE 1973. Lacks plan, v + 10 + 1720pp, original cloth partly faded. £22.00

Lock (Major H.O) DORSET. Illustrated by Walter Tyndale and A. Heaton Cooper. With 32 coloured illusts, double-page map, ix + 200pp, original cloth, usual occasional foxing. A. & C. Black. 1925. £18.00

Mansel-Pleydell (J.C) THE MOLLUSCA OF DORSETSHIRE. Folding map, xxxii + 110pp, original cloth. Dorchester: 1898. £40.00
* Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper.

Mansel-Pleydell (John Clavell) THE FLORA OF DORSETSHIRE. With a Sketch of the Topography, River System, and Geology of the County. With two folding maps, xxxviii + 245 + xxvpp, original cloth, with a few manuscript notes in ink, mainly giving dates and locations where plants found, couple of inscriptions on front endpaper, cloth rubbed to edges, couple of short splits to outer hinges. Second Edition, Dorchester: 1895. £60.00
* With author's presentation inscription on front endpaper.

Masters (James) SHAFTESBURY The 'Shaston' of Thomas Hardy. Including fourteen wood engravings with a memoir of James Masters and the High House Press by John R. Biggs. Illusts, (44)pp, dustwrapper. Shaftesbury: At the book in Hand. 1983. £15.00
* This is a reprint, with a memoir, of the edition published by The High House Press in 1932.

McQueen (Ian) BOURNEMOUTH ST. PETER'S Illusts, 290pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Sherborne: 1971. £12.00

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Mills (A.D) Ed. THE DORSET LAY SUBSIDY ROLL OF 1332. Folio, xxii + 123pp, original card covers, portions rubbed from rear cover. Dorset Record Society. Dorchester: 1971. £18.00

Mills (A.D) THE PLACE-NAMES OF DORSET. 3 volumes, 2 maps, xxxvii + 384pp and 2 maps, 298pp and 2 maps, 400pp, original cloth, dustwrapper to one volume, ex-lib with small stamps to fore-edges and label to each front pastedown, signs where strip of cellotape once adhered to spines. English Place Name Society 1977-89. £55.00

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. Illusts, 216pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, spine chipped at head, very slightly shaken. 1889. £38.00 --- See sample text
* Signed presentation inscription on front endpaper, with signed manuscript letter from him tipped onto endpaper.

Nuttall (G.F) Ed. LETTERS OF JOHN PINNEY 1679 - 1699. With a Forward by Lady Pinney. Frontis, xxii + 130 + (vi)pp, prelims slightly foxed, slightly worn dustwrapper. with a few short tears. Oxford University Press, 1939. £25.00
* Signed inscription from Hester Pinney on front endpaper.
Mainly relating to John Pinney of Bettiscombe, Dorset, and covers the period 1666 - 1705.

Pike (W.T) A DICTIONARY OF EDWARDIAN BIOGRAPHY - DORSET. Illusts, roy, 8vo, original cloth. Edinburgh: 1983. £12.00
* Reprint of the Dorset section of 'Wilts and Dorset at the Opening of the Twentieth Century.' 1906.

Pitfield (F.P) DORSET PARISH CHURCHES A - D. Described and Depicted by F.P. Pitfield. Line drawings, plans, 232pp, folio, original cloth. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 595 COPIES. Milborne Port: 1981. £22.00
* Signed by author on title-page.

Popham (David & Rita) THE BOOK OF BOURNEMOUTH. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 160pp, dustwrapper. Limited Edition. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: 1985. £22.00
* Signed by the authors on title-page.

Pridham (Dr. L) THE DORSET COASTLINE. From a personal and photographic point of view. Photography by Edwin Kestin. 126pp, roy 8vo, torn dustwrapper. c195- £12.00

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME FIVE EAST DORSET. Maps, plans, plates, textual illusts, xlviii + 155pp, dustwrapper. First edition 1975. £40.00
* Covers the following parishes:- Alderholt, Charlbury, Colehill, Cranbourne, Edmondsham, Gussage All Saints, Gussage Saint Michael, Hampreston, Hinton Parva, Holt, Horton, Long Crichel, Moor Crichel, Pamphill, Pentridge, Shapwick, Sixpenny Handley, Verwood, West Moors, West Parley, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne Saint Giles, Witchampton and Woodlands.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME ONE WEST DORSET. Folding coloured map in pocket at rear, 213 plates, 1 of which is coloured, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, lvii + 333pp, 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper. First edition. 1952. £80.00
* Includes:- Abbotsbury, Bridport, Cerne Abbas, Sherborne, Stratton, Compton Abbas, Thorncombe, Sandford Orcas, etc., etc.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME TWO SOUTH EAST DORSET. Parts 1 , 2 & 3. Folding maps in pockets at rear, 235 plates, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, 3 volumes, 4to, dustwrapper's. First editions, 1970. £110.00
* Includes:- Affpuddle, Corfe Castle, Dorchester, Lulworth, Poole, Portland, Studland, Swanage, Wareham, Weymouth, Winterbourne, Worth Matravers.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME THREE CENTRAL DORSET. Parts 1 & 2. Folding coloured map in pocket at rear of part 2, 216 plates, folding diagrams, and numerous diagrams in the text, lxii + 142 and xx + 143 + 385pp, 2 volumes, 4to, few short tears to dustwrappers, ex-lib with just 2 indelible stamps to title-page. First edition's 1970. £90.00
* Includes the parishes of Alton Pancras, Charmnster, Durweston, Hilton, Iwerne Courtney, Marnhull, Mappowder, Milton Abbas, Piddlehinton, Puddletown, Sturminster Marshall, Winterbourne Clenston, etc., etc.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY DORSET VOLUME FOUR NORTH DORSET. With two folding maps and 3 folding plans in pocket at rear, 80 plates, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, xxxix + 142pp. 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, 1972. £30.00
* Includes:- Ashmore, Bourton, Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Iwerne Minster, Shaftesbury, Silton, Tarrant Hinton, West Stour, etc., etc.

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Stoate (T.L) Ed. & Pub. DORSET TUDOR SUBSIDIES Granted in 1523, 1543, 1593. xxiv + 256pp, folio, original cloth. Almondsbury: 1982. £65.00

Sydenham (Laura) SHAFTESBURY AND ITS ABBEY. Plates and textual illusts, 132pp, original qtr cloth, paper printed boards. Lingfield: 1959. £18.00
* Signed and dated by the author on the title-page.

Tatchell (Leonard) THE HERITAGE OF PURBECK. The Notes of a Lover of its Natural History and Walks. With 8 plates, 166pp, 12mo, paper boards, dustwrapper, spine slightly worn. Dorchester: n.d. £10.00

Traskey (J.P) MILTON ABBEY. A Dorset Monastery in the Middle Ages. Illusts, xi + 268pp, dustwrapper. First edition. Tisbury: 1978. £25.00

Tunnicliff (W) TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTIES OF.... THE DORSET SECTION. Lacks the map, double-page Index Table of distances from Town to Town, 28pp, 8pp of engraved coats of arms of the Gentry, uncut in recent paper boards, paper label on top board. Bath: 1791. £35.00

Warne (Charles) ANCIENT DORSET. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon, and Danish Antiquities of the County, including the Early coinage. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts. Also An introduction to the Ethnology of Dorset and other Archaeological Notices of the County, by Dr. T. William Wake Smart. Engraved plates, [x] + vi + [v] + xxiii + 343 + xiiipp, folio, recent cloth, one leaf slightly ragged to edges and with tear repaired with archival tape, the usual occasional light spotting. Printed for the Author, and Subscribers only. Bournemouth: 1872. £140.00
* With 2 galley proof reviews of the work, by C.A. Smith, tipped in after the title-page.

Weinstock (Maureen) STUDIES IN DORSET HISTORY. 2 folding plans, 137pp, dustwrapper. Dorchester: 1953. £12.00
* Includes chapters on Sherborne tokens; Melcombe Regis; Puddletown; Weymouth, etc.

Weymouth Corporation WEYMOUTH The English Naples. Illusts, 48pp, adverts. original bevelled cloth boards. 190- £28.00 --- See sample text

Wildman (W.B) A SHORT HISTORY OF SHERBORNE. From 705 A.D. Illusts, 167pp, original cloth. Sherborne: 1911. £12.00

Wildman (W.B) A SHORT HISTORY OF SHERBORNE. From 705 A.D. Folding plan, plan, 1 plate, (vi) + 124pp, roy 8vo, full parchment, small area partly rubbed on front board. LARGE PAPER COPY. 1st ed. Sherborne: 1896. £35.00

Worth (R.N) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO DORSETSHIRE: Coast, Rail and Road. With Map. 112 + [24]pp of publishers adverts, 12mo, original cloth, few small marks to cloth, inner hinges cracked though sound. First edition, 1882. £20.00

Worth (R.N) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO DORSETSHIRE: Coast, Rail and Road. With Map. 112 + [32]pp of publishers adverts, 12mo, original cloth, one corner bruised, few spots to top board, lightly rubbed to edges. Third Edition, 1894. £18.00