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  1. Adams (J.W.S) ULRIC AND ILVINA; A Tale of Happiness; and Miscellaneous Poems; Dedicated by Permission to the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Bristol, Francis Adams, Esq. 192pp, 12mo, original cloth, cloth slightly cockled to rear board, front inner hinge cracked though sound. Bristol: Thomas Kerslake & Co., Park Street. 1868. £14.00





  2. Anderson (Charles A CITY AND ITS CINEMAS. Illusts, double-page map, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1983. £6.00
    * 'This book could be sub-titled:- The Rise and Fall of Bristol's Picture Houses.'





  3. Appleby (John B) BRISTOL'S TRAMS REMEMBERED. their story 1875-1941, Plates, maps, 70pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers, corner of top cover creased, title-page spotty. Published by the author, Bristol: 1969. £7.00





  4. Appleby (John B), Butcher (Edward W.A), Gailey (T.H.W), and others. THE PEOPLE'S CARRIAGE 1874 - 1974. The History of the Bristol Tramways Co. Ltd. Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co. Ltd. Bristol Omnibus Co. Ltd. Plates, maps, coloured frontis, 92pp. 4to, original pictorial laminated boards. Bristol Omnibus Co. Ltd., 1974. £12.00





  5. Arrowsmith Ltd, printer OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, lacks map ?, xxviii + (2) + 108 + (6)pp, original printed wraps, roy 8vo, small portion missing from foot of spine, short tear to top wrap, slight staining to wraps from staples, top outer hinge split for 2", with small portion missing from foot of spine. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. Bristol: 1925. £5.00





  6. Arrowsmith Ltd, printers OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, folding map, xxxv + 119pp, roy 8vo, original printed wraps, top wrap slightly dusty. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, Bristol: 1935. £5.00 --- See sample text
    * This is the Silver Jubilee number.





  7. Arrowsmith Ltd, printers OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. 1939. Illusts, adverts, 127pp, roy 8vo, original printed card covers. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, Bristol: 1939. £8.00





  8. Arrowsmith, printers ARROWSMITH 1854 - 1954. Illusts, 36pp, original cloth, partly faded, covers partly soiled, few marks to boards. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1955. £10.00





  9. Arrowsmith, printer COBBLERS' TALE. With 10 plates, 62pp, sm 8vo, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol: Revised Edition, 1958. £4.00
    * The story of G.B. Britton & Sons Ltd.





  10. Arthur (William) THE SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT: Sketches of the Life of Mr Samuel Budgett, late of Kingswood Hill. Engraved portrait frontis, viii (ii) + 392pp, original cloth, frontis and page edges slightly spotty. Fifteenth edition, London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1857. £10.00





  11. Baker (Ethel W) MISS ANN GREEN OF CLIFTON. Second Edition. Illusts. xxi + 195pp, original boards. First edition thus. Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1974. £10.00
    * A novel set in the period leading up to the riots of 1831.





  12. Bantock (Anton), and Malago Society members BISHOPSWORTH, WITHYWOOD AND HARTCLIFFE. (Archive hotographs Series) Illusts, map, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford, Stroud: 1996. £12.00





  13. Barker (Cedric) MOSTLY CLIFTON. Numerous illusts, 112pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Redcliffe Press, Tiverton: 1997. £9.00





  14. Barker (Kathleen) ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NINETIES. Illusts, 20pp, original printed card covers, small area slightly rubbed to top cover. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1973. £4.00





  15. Barker (Kathleen) THE THEATRE ROYAL BRISTOL. The First Seventy Years. Illusts, 19pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1969. £4.00





  16. Bartlett (John) and Penny (John) BRISTOL'S VANISHED GEORGIAN ARMOURY and the Development of Armory Square, Easton. Plans, illusts, 22 leaves printed on one side only, 4to, with a plastic clip on spine. Fishponds Local History Society, Bristol: 2000. £12.00





  17. Beachcroft (S.P), edited for Old Cliftonian Society CLIFTON COLLEGE REGISTER, 1862 to 1962. Centenary Edition. With 4 plates, lx + 507pp, original cloth. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol: 1962. £8.00





  18. Beddow (Neil), Collard (Roy), and others HENGROVE'S HIDDEN HISTORY Historical sketches from Hengrove, Bristol. Illusts, map, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. ACTA Community Theatre, c.2002. £12.00





  19. Bedminster Non-Political Ratepayers' Protection Association THE RATEPAYER. Bristol, Ancient and Modern Its Municipalities, Rascalities, Commonalities, & Generalities, Apart from Personalities. No 1, March 1875. Pamphlet, 20pp, original wraps, spine worn, ink note on top wrap. Bedminster Non-Political Ratepayers' Protection Association. Bristol: March, 1875. £14.00
    * Only vol 1, No 2 is mentioned in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography.





  20. Beeson (Anthony) CENTRAL BRISTOL History Tour. Map, illusts some in colour, c.100 pages, small 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Amberley Publishing, Stroud: 2018. £5.00





  21. Belsey (James) THE FORGOTTEN FRONT. BRISTOL At War 1914-1918. Plates, 76 + (4)pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1986. £5.00





  22. Belsey (James), Jenner (Michael), and others MUDDLING THROUGH. BRISTOL IN THE FIFTIES. 96pp, original decorative covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1988. £5.00





  23. Berkeley (F. Henry F) COLSTON'S ANNIVERSARY. SPEECH OF THE HON. F. HENRY F. BERKELEY, One of the Members of Parliament for the City and County of Bristol, as President of the Anchor Society, Delivered on Colston's Day, 13th November, 1843, in giving the Toast, The Memory of Edward Colston. 14pp, disbound, few spots. Curiously in the text and the imprint it was printed as the 'British Mercury,' these have been amended in ink to 'Bristol Mercury.' Reprinted from the Bristol Mercury. 1843. £15.00
    * Not found in Mathews. Bristol Bibliography





  24. Bettey (J.H), editor CALENDAR OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SMYTH FAMILY OF ASHTON COURT 1548 - 1642. xxvi + 217pp, original cloth, very slightly faded to edges of boards. Volume 35. Bristol Record Society. 1982. £12.00





  25. Bettey (J.H), edited by STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF WHITCHURCH. With 2 illusts, 66pp, stapled in the original printed card covers, lacks unlettered cloth spine. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1976. £10.00





  26. Bettey (Joseph) THE FIRST HISTORIANS OF BRISTOL: WILLIAM BARRETT AND SAMUEL SEYER. With 4 plates, double-page map, 24pp, original printed card covers, top cover partly faded. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 2003. £4.00





  27. Boon (George C) KINGS WESTON ROMAN VILLA Illusts, 22pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly rubbed. Department of Archaeology City Museum Bristol, 1967. £4.00





  28. Boore (Eric J) EXCAVATIONS AT TOWER LANE, Bristol. Illusts, plans, 34pp, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Bristol Threatened History Society, 1984. £4.00





  29. Bowman (W. Dodgson) BRISTOL. With 4 plates, 128pp, 12mo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. London: Geoffrey Bles, c.1927. £4.00





  30. Brace (Keith) PORTRAIT OF BRISTOL. Photographs by W.E. Hall, 208pp, spine faded to dustwrapper, inscription on front endpaper. Robert Hale, London: 1971. £4.00





  31. Briggs (Daniel) THE BRISTOL POST OFFICE IN THE AGE OF ROWLAND HILL 1837-1864. Illusts, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1983. £4.00





  32. Bristol & Avon Family History Society BRISTOL MARRIAGES 1800-1837. Part One. All Saints; Christchurch; St. John the Baptist; St. Mary le Port; St. Nicholas; St. Stephen. Illusts, (266)pp, original printed card covers. Bristol & Avon Family History Society, 1980. £8.00





  33. Bristol & Avon Family History Society BRISTOL MARRIAGES 1800-1837. Part Four. St. James. Illusts, 360pp, original printed card covers. Bristol & Avon Family History Society, 1984. £8.00





  34. Bristol & Avon Family History Society BRISTOL MARRIAGES 1800-1837. Part Six. St. Paul's. Map, 328pp, card covers. Bristol & Avon Family History Society, 1987. £8.00





  35. Bristol Commercial Rooms BRISTOL COMMERCIAL ROOMS. COPY OF RULES AND REGULATIONS, Established at a General Meeting of Subscribers, Held 25th July, 1811; With the Subsequent Alterations therein; and of Act of Parliament, 54 Geo. III. 12mo, 25pp, original plain wrappers. [Printed 1st of January, 1824, by order of the Committee and pursuant to the Resolutions of a General Meeting.] A. Brown, Printer, Bristol Mirror Office. £4.00





  36. Bristol Development Board BRISTOL: The Home of Prosperous Industry. Illusts, maps, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Development Board, c.1930. £8.00





  37. Bristol Development Board DIRECTORY OF BRISTOL INDUSTRIES 1937. Illusts, 164pp, includes numerous local adverts, roy 8vo, original printed paper boards, rubbed to edges, short split to top outer hinge, ex-lib with labels to front endpapers, and stamp to verso of title. Second Edition, Bristol Development Board, 1937. £14.00





  38. 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. £10.00





  39. Bristol Naturalists' Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY New Series, Volume 7, Part 3. Folding plan, textual illusts, pages numbered 141-239, original printed wrappers, spine slightly chipped to head and foot. Printed for the Society. Bristol: 1894. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Rilaetic Rocks of Pylle Hill, Bristol; Brown or Tawny Owls; The Nuthatch; etc.





  40. Bristol Naturalists' Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Fourth Series, Volume 4, Part 1. With 4 plates, textual illusts, 103pp, original printed wrappers, partly faded, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine. Printed for the Society. Bristol: 1914. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Geological Researches in the Bristol District; Carboniferous Limestone of the District between Over and Tytherington, etc.





  41. Bristol Naturalists' Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Fourth Series, Volume 7, Part 3. 1930. Plates, textual illusts, pages numbered 147-221, original printed wrappers. Arbroath: Printed for the Society, 1931. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Wicken Fen; Migration of Birds; Bristol Insect Fauna, etc.





  42. Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by R.A Avery 1975 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Volume 35. With plate and textual illusts, 112pp, original printed wrappers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Burleigh Press, 1976. £4.00
    * Includes the usual reports on the local geology, botany, ornithology, insects and fauna and papers on Whatley Quarry; Gulls on Steep Holm; Building Stone of the Chew Valley area, etc.





  43. Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by T.E. Thompson 1981 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Volume 41. With textual illusts, 91pp, original printed wrappers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Grenfell Printing, 1982. £4.00
    * Includes the usual reports on the local geology, botany, ornithology, insects and fauna and papers on Lead-zinc-silica of the Mendip Region; University Botanic Gardens; Mistletoe, etc.





  44. Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by T.E. Thompson 1982 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Volume 42. With textual illusts, 108pp, original printed wrappers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Grenfell Printing, 1984. £4.00
    * Includes the usual reports on the local geology, botany, ornithology, insects and fauna and papers on Breeding Waders; Impact of Coppicing, etc.





  45. Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by T.E. Thompson 1984 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Volume 44. With textual illusts, 70pp, original printed wrappers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Grenfell Printing, 1986. £4.00
    * Includes the usual reports on the local geology, botany, ornithology, insects and fauna and papers on Phosgenite from Clevedon; Lichen ecology on Steep Holm; Fumaria in Avon, etc.





  46. Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by A.E. Frey PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY, 1989. Volume 49. With maps, illusts and diagrams in the text, 80pp, original pictorial card covers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Grenfell Printing, 1991. £4.00
    * Includes:- Small Mammals in Avon; Early Ordovician Trilobite Beltella, etc.





  47. Bristol Public Libraries EARLY BRISTOL NEWSPAPERS. a detailed catalogue of Bristol newspapers published up to and including the year 1800 in the Bristol Reference Library. 32pp, original decorative card covers. Corporation of Bristol, 1956. £4.00





  48. Brown (Patricia) EIGHT BRISTOL CHURCHES. Illusts, 25pp, oblong 8vo, original printed wraps, staled, lacks cloth spine, 2 small splash marks on top wrap. A BSSA publication, c.197- £4.00





  49. Buchanan (R.A) and Cossons (Neil) INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BRISTOL REGION. With plates and textual illusts, 335pp, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1969. £8.00





  50. Buchanan (R.A) and Cossons (Neil) INDUSTRIAL HISTORY IN PICTURES: BRISTOL. Plates, 112pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, inscription to front endpaper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970. £10.00





  51. Buchanan (R.A) and Williams (M) BRUNEL'S BRISTOL. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, ex-lib. with stamp to verso of title, inner hinge strengthened, ink note on front endpaper, small nick to top cover. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1982. £4.00





  52. Buchanan (R.A) and Williams (M) BRUNEL'S BRISTOL. Illusts, 111pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, New and Revised edition, Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2005. £4.00





  53. Buchanan (R.A) THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 20pp, few small spots to top cover, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1967. £4.00





  54. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 1. l + 150pp, original cloth. Volume 46. Bristol Record Society. 1995. £5.00





  55. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 2: The Churchwardens' Accounts. viii + 388pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 53. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £5.00





  56. Burnside Annie A PALLADIAN VILLA IN BRISTOL Clifton Hill House and the People who lived there. Numerous illusts, many in colour, 136pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Signed by the author on the title-page. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 2009. £6.00





  57. Burrough (T.H.B) BRISTOL. Map, numerous illusts, 96pp, tall 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper. Studio Vista, London: 1970. £5.00





  58. Burrow (Ed. J), publishers BRISTOL & CLIFTON. With district map and 2 street plans, illusts, 32pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, Ed. J. Burrow, Cheltenham: c.1930. £6.00





  59. Burrow (Ed. J), publishers THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL THE CAPITAL OF THE WEST. The Official Handbook of the Corporation of Bristol. Numerous illusts, folding map, adverts, 236pp, few small marks to the original card covers. Ed. J. Burrow, Cheltenham: c.1955. £5.00





  60. Butcher (E.E) BRISTOL CORPORATION OF THE POOR 1696-1898. Illusts, 23pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1972. £4.00





  61. Byard (Herbert) THE BRISTOL MADRIGAL. Illusts, 20pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1966. £4.00





  62. Byrne (Eugene) UNBUILT BRISTOL The city that might have been 1750-2050. Illusts, some in colour, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2013. £9.00
    * Includes:- 'A huge pyramid made from recycled wine bottles. A railway station in Queen Square.... '





  63. Byrne (Tony) and Simons (Paul) BRISTOL MARKETING BOARD. Coloured illusts, 24pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Marketing Board, c.1985. £4.00





  64. Cannon (John) THE CHARTISTS IN BRISTOL. Illusts, 18pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1964. £4.00





  65. Carleton (Don) THE PRINCE'S OF PARK ROW. Illusts, 30pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1983. £4.00





  66. Carter (Ruth M), minister - Introduction. STAPLETON METHODIST CHURCH 1886-1988 Illusts, 28pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol: 1981. £4.00





  67. Charlton (J) and Milton (D.M) REDLAND 791 to 1800. With 8 plates, map end papers, 78pp, 12mo, original cloth lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened, few small spots to cloth. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1951. £6.00





  68. Cheesley (David) BRISTOL TRANSPORT. (Archive Photographs Series) Numerous illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, 1998. £7.00





  69. Christie (O.F) CLIFTON SCHOOL DAYS (1879-1885) Illusts, xiii + 144pp, original qtr. cloth, paper boards, some occasional foxing. First edition, Shaylor, London: 1930. £8.00





  70. Churchill Hall UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A report of the appeal made on behalf of the University for Halls of Residence and Fellowships to commemorate the Chancellorship of Mr Winston Churchill and his services to the country and to humanity. October 1946 to March 1948. 28pp, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1948. £12.00
    * Includes a list of the donors and their donations.





  71. City of Bristol THE BRISTOL BOOK. Coloured illusts, maps, 136pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol District Council, 1984. £5.00





  72. Clee (John) BLUE FEATHER POEMS and Other Verse. 79pp, original card covers, dustwrapper. Bristol: The Burleigh Press, (1960) £4.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.





  73. Cobb (Peter G) THE BUILDING OF ALL SAINTS, CLIFTON. (Bristol) Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol: c.1992. £5.00





  74. [Cottrell (Greg)] THE STORY OF BRISTOL ROUND TABLE No 9. 1929-1962. Illusts, 89pp, original cloth. Signed on the pastedown by members of the Round table, including an ex-Mayor of Bristol. Bristol: B.H. Matthews, (1962) £8.00





  75. Cozens (Henry B) THE CHURCH OF THE VOW. A Record of Zion Congregational Church Bedminster, Bristol, 1830-1930. With 5 plates, and an illust in the text, 68pp, original cloth-backed boards, few old tape marks to covers. St. Stephens Press, Bristol 1930. £15.00





  76. Crick (Clare) VICTORIAN BUILDINGS IN BRISTOL. Photos, drawings, 73pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bristol and West Building Society, 1975. £4.00





  77. Crompton (Mary), edited by James Crompton A JOURNAL OF A HONEYMOON VOYAGE in S.S. Great Britain. Illusts, maps, 25pp, original pictorial; card covers. Peter Ward and the S.S. Great Britain Project, Bristol: 1994. £4.00





  78. Crossley Evans (M.J), editor 'A GRAND CITY; - LIFE, MOVEMENT AND WORK'. Bristol in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Essays in Honour of Gerard Leighton. Illusts, xxv + 428pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol: 2010 £6.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Thomas Goldney; Humphrey Repton's Royal Fort; Kilvert and Bristol; Jane Austen and Bristol, etc.





  79. Davey (Peter) MY FIRST 44 PHOTOGRAPHS Bristol Tramways' Buses. 1945 - 1949. Illusts, 20pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Tram Photographic Collection, Bristol: 1997. £4.00





  80. Downend Local History Society MANGOTSFIELD PICTURE PAST. A collection of old photographs of Mangotsfield, Staple Hill and Downend. Numerous illusts, 98pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Downend Local History Society, 1985. £6.00





  81. Downend Local History Society MANGOTSFIELD PICTURE PAST 2. A collection of old photographs of Downend, Mangotsfield and Staple Hill. Numerous illusts, 104pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, name to verso of top cover. Downend Local History Society, 1987 £6.00





  82. Dreaper (James) BRISTOL'S FORGOTTEN VICTOR. Lieutenant-General Sir William Draper K.B. (1721-1787) With 7 plates, double-page map, 28pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 1998. £4.00





  83. Dresser (Madge), Humphries (Stephen), and others BRISTOL'S OTHER HISTORY. Illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Broadsides, Bristol: 1984. £7.00
    * Includes articles:- Trade Unionism; Bristol Women; Bristol Socialist Society, etc.





  84. Dresser (Madge), editor THE DIARY OF SARAH FOX n‚e Champion, Bristol 1745-1802 Extracted in 1872 by John Frank. Frontis, 2 illusts, pedigree, xxvi + 286pp, dustwrapper. Volume 55. Bristol Record Society. 2003. £8.00





  85. Editorial Division of Bennett Associates THE HEIRLOOM. The Stories of John Harvey & Sons Ltd., and their Whitchurch Project at Bristol. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers, top cover slightly creased. John Harvey & Sons, Bristol: 1960. £6.00





  86. Edwards (Tudor) BRITISH CITIES. BRISTOL Maps, plates, 96pp, 12mo, few spots to slightly faded dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford, London; 1951. £4.00





  87. Elliott (George) & Snell (John) STORIES OF KINGS CHASE (Kingswood). Volume 2. Illusts, 80pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription scored through on title-page. John Snell, Bristol: 1980's. £4.00





  88. Elliott (George) & Snell (John) STORIES OF KINGS CHASE (Kingswood). Volume 1. Double-page map, illusts, 80pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription scored through on title-page. John Snell, Bristol: 1980's £4.00





  89. Ellis (B.M) CAVING REPORT. No 3 The Manufacture of Lightweight Caving Ladders. Illusts, 13pp, original printed wraps, Bristol Exploration Club, May 1958. £4.00





  90. Eveleigh (David J) BRISTOL 1850-1919. Britain in Old Photographs Series. Numerous illusts, 129 + (3)pp, original pictorial card covers. Budding Books, Stroud: 1999 £6.00





  91. [Fairbairns (W.H)] NOTES ON THE CATHEDRALS. BRISTOL. Plates, 16pp, sm 8vo., original printed wraps, spine partly split, ink stain to foot of rear wrap. Photochrom C. Ltd., London: c.1910. £4.00





  92. Fedden (Marguerite) BRISTOL VIGNETTES. Illusts, 126pp, pictorial card covers, partly faded, small portions of transparent covering missing from covers. Burleigh Press, Bristol: c.1957. £4.00





  93. Fedden (Marguerite) THE MEDIAEVAL CHURCHES OF BRISTOL. Frontis, 61pp, sm 8vo, card covers with dustwrapper, small portion of tape to foot of dustwrapper. Burleigh Press, Bristol: c.1965. £4.00





  94. Fells (Maurice) BRISTOL PLAQUES. Illusts, 158 + (2)pp, original pictorial card covers. The History Press, Stroud: 2016 £6.00





  95. Fisher (Janet and Derek) BYGONE BRISTOL. CENTRAL BRISTOL. on old postcards. Illusts, 44pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bygone Bristol: c1997. £4.00





  96. Fleming (D) "ST PHILIPS MARSH THROUGH THE CAMERA" "Memories of st Philips Marsh engine shed" Numerous illusts, with accompanying text, small folio, 46pp. original pictorial card covers. Signed by the author on the title-page. Privately Printed, Bristol: 1989. £10.00





  97. Fleming (Peter) and Costello (Kieran) DISCOVERING CABOT'S BRISTOL. Life in the Medieval and Tudor Town. Illusts, some in colour, 87pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Tiverton: 1989. £7.00





  98. Foot (David) FAMOUS BRISTOLIANS and others having strong associations with the city. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1979. £4.00





  99. Fry (J.S) and Sons Ltd ENGLISH CITY. The Growth and the Future of Bristol. Illusts, unpaginated, thin 4to, original cloth, name to front endpaper, top board has a crack which splits paper on pastedown, lacks dustwrapper. J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd. 1945. £4.00





  100. Fuller Family FAMILY OF FULLER OF BRISTOL. Pedigree, 3pp, 4to, unlettered wraps. c.1920. £4.00





  101. George (Edwin and Stella) and Fleming (Peter), editor BRISTOL PROBATE INVENTORIES Part III. 1690-1804. Folding frontis, xvii + 249pp, dustwrapper. Volume 60. Bristol Record Society, 2008. £10.00





  102. George (Edwin and Stella) and Fleming (Peter) BRISTOL PROBATE INVENTORIES Part 1: 1542-1650. xviii + 172pp, dustwrapper. Volume 54. Bristol Record Society. 2002. £8.00





  103. George (Edwin and Stella) and Fleming (Peter), editor BRISTOL PROBATE INVENTORIES 1657-1689. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Includes index of names. Volume 57, Bristol Record Society, 2005. £8.00





  104. 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. £20.00





  105. Gibbon (B.J) "A CHILD A HUNDRED YEARS OLD" being A History of Old King Street Baptist Sunday School Bristol, from its formation in 1809 to the year 1909. Illusts, 110pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, and shaken. Rankin Bros, Bristol: 1909. £6.00





  106. Gibbs (George H) BRISTOL POSTSCRIPTS being a selection of papers which appeared in the Bristol Evening Post. 12mo, original cloth, illusts, 114pp. St. Stephen's Bristol Press, Bristol: c.1950. £6.00
    * Includes chapters:- Christmas Steps; Mrs Siddons at the Theatre Royal; Bristol Riots, etc.





  107. Gill (Jennifer) THE BRISTOL SCENE. Views of Bristol Artists by Bristol Artists from the Collection of the City Art Gallery. Coloured and black and white Illusts, 32pp, oblong 8vo, original decorative card covers, spine slightly rubbed, small area rubbed to rear cover. Bristol and West Building Society, c.1978. £4.00





  108. Greenacre (Francis) FROM BRISTOL TO THE SEA. Artists, the Avon Gorge and Bristol Harbour. 160pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2005. £12.00





  109. Greenacre (Francis) and Stoddard (Sheena) W.J. MULLER 1812 - 1845. With 44 coloured and 182 black and white plates, 176pp, cr 4to, original card covers. Published by The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery. 1991. £10.00
    * This is the catalogue to a major exhibition which was held in the Bristol Art Gallery, with biographical notes of Muller's work. Includes many reproductions of Muller's paintings in and around Bristol.





  110. Greenacre (Francis) and Stoddard (Sheena) THE BRISTOL LANDSCAPE. The Watercolours of Samuel Jackson 1794-1869. Map endpapers, 77 coloured plates, 112pp, oblong 8vo, original decorative laminated boards. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. £8.00





  111. Gregor (Hugh) THE SS GREAT BRITAIN. Illusts, a few in colour, 32pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial wraps, small mark to a few outer margins. MacMillan Press, 1971. £8.00





  112. Grinsell (L.V) PREHISTORIC BRISTOL. The Prehistory of the Lower Bristol Avon. Plans, 21pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1969. £4.00





  113. Grinsell (L.V) THE BRISTOL MINT. An Historical Outline. Illusts, 24pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1972. £4.00





  114. Hallett (Terry) BRISTOL'S FORGOTTEN EMPIRE. The History of The Empire Theatre. Illusts, 210pp, original pictorial card covers. The Badger Press, Westbury: 2000. £7.00





  115. Harlow (Jonathan), editor THE LEDGER OF THOMAS SPEED, 1681-1690. liii + 553pp, dustwrapper, CD of the facsimile images of the ledger in pocket at the rear. Volume 63. Bristol Record Society. 2011. £11.00
    * Speed was a prosperous Bristol Quaker Merchant.





  116. Harrison (David) and Brooke (Gerry) POST VIEW OF BRISTOL. Evening Post. Illusts, 206pp, folio, dustwrapper. Breedon Books, Derby: 1998. £8.00





  117. Harrison (Godfrey) BRISTOL CREAM. Plates, 162pp, original cloth, dustwrapper has a few short nicks to head of spine. First edition, Batsford, London: 1955. £12.00
    * A history of Bristol's connection with the wine trade and of John Harvey and Sons, one of the most succesful wine merchants in the city.





  118. Hart (Gerald S) WHITCHURCH AIRPORT An Account of the Early Days of Flying in the Bristol Area. Illusts, (viii) + 62pp, original pictorial card covers. Crockerne Books, Pill, Bristol: 1997. £8.00





  119. Harvey (Charles) and Press (Jon) SIR GEORGE WHITE OF BRISTOL 1854-1916. Illusts, double-page plan, 31pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1989. £6.00





  120. Hayden (Roger), editor THE RECORDS OF A CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BRISTOL, 1640 - 1687. (vi) + 315pp, original cloth. Volume 27. Bristol Record Society. 1974. £15.00





  121. Hemmons (W.C), publisher BRISTOL: Illustrated. For the Tourist, Antiquarian, Manufacturer and Buyer. Illusts, 56pp, oblong 8vo, page edges decoratively shaped, original printed wraps, wraps partly faded and spotty. First edition, W.C. Hemmons, Bristol: c.1900. £9.00





  122. Hemmons (W.C), printer THE BRISTOL REVIEW No 2. 81-171pp, lacks top wrap, portions missing from spine. Issued Quarterly. Only 2 parts were published. W.C. Hemmons, printer, Bristol: July, 1882. £10.00
    * Includes sections on the Bristol Docks and William Collins (18th century poet), etc.





  123. Hertslet (Edward L.A), and others ST. MARY REDCLIFFE Bristol Form and Order of Proceeding To the Great Service of Thanksgiving for the Restoration of the Church with some Notes on the History of the Church and an Introduction by the Vicar. Friday, November The Third 1933. 23 + (1)pp, original pictorial wraps, name and address in ink to title-page. No imprint, 1933. £4.00





  124. Heys (Alistair), editor FROM GOTHIC TO ROMANTIC: THOMAS CHATTERTON'S BRISTOL. Illusts, 144pp, dustwrapper. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2005. £5.00





  125. Hill (John C.G) SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION. Illusts, some of which are coloured, viii + 110pp, couple of very short tears to dustwrapper. Second Edition. The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool: c.195- £10.00
    * The history of shipping and shipbuilding in Bristol.





  126. 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. £8.00





  127. Hollis (Denzil), and Ralph (Elizabeth), edited and transcribed by MARRIAGE BONDS FOR THE DIOCESE OF BRISTOL Excluding the Archdeaconry of Dorset. Volume I. 1637-1700. 395pp, original cloth, early ownership inscription to front endpaper by a 'Richmond Herald.' Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1952. £9.00





  128. Hollow (A.R), Head Master DR. BELL'S SCHOOL, FISHPONDS 1850-1950. With 3 tipped in plates, 23pp, original printed wraps. Bristol: Golding Ltd., c.1950. £6.00





  129. Hornsey (Brian) NINETY YEARS OF CINEMA IN BRISTOL. Illusts, 44pp, original decorative card covers. Limited to 75 numbered copies. Hornsey, Bristol: c.2000. £7.00





  130. Hudleston (C. Roy) OUR NATIVE CITY. The Story of Bristol and Her Suburbs. Illusts, 140pp, original printed wraps. Bristol Evening Post, Ltd., Bristol: 1934. £7.00
    * A collection of articles which were originally published in 'The Bristol Evening Post'.





  131. Hudson (John) THE MANSION HOUSE Clifton. Coloured and black and white illusts, (20)pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Guild of Guardians of Bristol, Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1993. £6.00





  132. Hutton (Stanley) BRISTOL AND ITS FAMOUS ASSOCIATIONS. Illusts, viii + 406pp, original cloth, inner margins of front endpapers strengthened, lettering feint on spine, name to front endpaper. First edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1907. £6.00
    * Includes chapters on the Scientific, Literary and Artistic life of the city, and mentions Hannah More, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chatterton, William Penn, Humphrey Davy, Southey, Landor, George Whitefield, etc.





  133. Hutton (W.R) ARROWSMITH'S GUIDE TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL 1947-1948. Folding map, illusts, 96 + (1) + xxx pages of adverts, 12mo, few small marks to the original printed wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol: 1948. £5.00





  134. Ingram (John H) THE TRUE CHATTERTON A New Study From Original Documents. Plates, 344pp, original cloth, spine faded, occasional foxing, ownership names to front endpaper. First edition. T. Fisher Unwin, London: 1910. £5.00





  135. Inspector's Report CITY OF BRISTOL. CHARITIES UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL TRUSTEES. Inspector's Report (Copy.) iv + 159pp, folding tables, original printed wraps, spine chipped, outer hinges partly rubbed, page edges spotty. Bristol: T.H. Mills, 1871. £15.00
    * The copy in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature finishes at page 141, at the end of Appendix 2. This copy has pages numbered 145-150, being Appendices 4 to 14. These Appendices appear to have been printed later.





  136. Ison (Walter) THE GEORGIAN BUILDINGS OF BRISTOL. Plates, and line drawings, 248pp, original cloth, with faded dustwrapper, which has a few short tears to edges, repaired to verso, also small portions chipped from edges, name to front endpaper. First edition. Faber and Faber, London: 1952. £9.00





  137. Jackson (Edward) STUDY IN DEMOCRACY, an Account of the Rise and Progress of Industrial Co-operation in Bristol. Illusts, xiii + 606pp, original embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, inner hinges weak. Co-operative Society's Printing Works, Manchester: 1911. £8.00





  138. Jackson (Reg and Philomena) and Price (Roger) BRISTOL POTTERS AND POTTERIES 1600 - 1800. A Documentary Study. Plans, facsimiles, 235pp, 4to, original wraps. Stoke on Trent City Museums, 1982. £22.00
    * Gives numerous names of potters, and in some cases names of members of the family and apprentices.





  139. Jenks (Stuart) ROBERT STURMY'S COMMERCIAL EXPEDITION TO THE MEDITERRANEAN (1457/8) With Editions of the Trial of the Genoeses before King and Council and of other sources. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Volume 58, Bristol Record Society, 2006. £8.00





  140. Jones (Avril), and others BRUNEL THE GWR AND BRISTOL. Illusts, 50pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, corner of top cover and first leaf slightly creased. Ian Allan, Weybridge: 1985. £4.00





  141. Jones (David) A HISTORY OF CLIFTON Illusts, maps, xii + 196pp, original pictorial card covers. Phillimore, Chichester: 2008. £7.00





  142. Jones (Frederick C) "THE GLORY THAT WAS BRISTOL". Illusts, 215pp, original, partly faded, cloth, spine spotty, owners name and address to front pastedown. St. Stephen's Bristol Press, 1946. £12.00
    * Includes chapters which include :- Slavery, Bristol Smuggling and Piracy; Luftwaffe raids in the 1940's', etc.





  143. Jones (Joshua) FURTHER REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CORPORATION OF BRISTOL, as the late Governors of QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL. 177 + viipp, roy 8vo, unlettered cloth-backed boards, cloth lightly rubbed with a few spots, spotting to prelims. Bristol: Thomas and Henry James Mills, 1840. £10.00





  144. Jones (Rev. Arthur Emlyn) OUR PARISH: MANGOTSFIELD, INCLUDING DOWNEND. A Brief Account of its Origin and History. Illusts, 308pp including a 2 page list of subscribers, original cloth. Originally published c.1899. Reprinted Kingsmead Press, Bath: 1978. £12.00
    * Reprinted with an Index.





  145. King (Roy) THE POOR FABRICATORS An introduction to the History of Trade Unions in Kingswood. No 3 in the Kingswood History Series. Illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Kingswood Borough Council, 1988. £4.00





  146. Lamoine (Professor Georges), editor BRISTOL GAOL DELIVERY FIATS 1741-1799. xv + (iii) + 158pp, original cloth. Volume 40. Bristol Record Society. 1989. £5.00





  147. Lane (John Tremayne), and others CITY OF BRISTOL. ABSTRACT OF ACCOUNTS 1912-1913. ix + 90 + 92 + 160 + 19, small 4to, original qtr cloth, paper boards, boards water stained, slightly affecting a few leaves to front and rear, boards rubbed and lacking most of the paper from the top board, rear outer hinge partly split. Henry Hill, Bristol: 1913. £15.00
    * Lists names of police in receipt of pensions or allowances.





  148. Lang (Sheila), and McGregor (Margaret), editor TUDOR WILLS PROVED IN BRISTOL 1546 - 1603. xxiii + 145pp, original cloth, top corners of boards slightly bruised. Volume 44. Bristol Record Society. 1993. £7.00





  149. Large (David) and Round (Frances) PUBLIC HEALTH IN MID-VICTORIAN BRISTOL. Illusts, 23pp, original printed card covers, partly faded. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1974. £4.00





  150. Large (David) and Whitfield (Robert) THE BRISTOL TRADES COUNCIL. 1873-1973. Illusts, 36pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1973. £4.00





  151. Large (David) RADICALISM IN BRISTOL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 20pp, original card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. Bristol Record Society, 1981. £4.00





  152. Large (David), editor THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF BRISTOL 1851 - 1901. 184pp, original cloth. Volume 50. Bristol Record Society. 1999. £5.00





  153. Large (David), editor THE PORT OF BRISTOL 1848 - 1884. xxxix + 221pp, original cloth, covers spotty. Volume 36. Bristol Record Society. 1984. £6.00





  154. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Sixteenth Century. xii + 131pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. Bristol: William George's Sons. 1908. £10.00





  155. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century. [vi] + 552pp, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed to edges. W & F. Morgan, Clare Street, Bristol: 1887. £20.00





  156. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century (concluded) 1887-1900. 108pp, original printed paper wraps, lacks 2 portions of spine, one approx 1" the other approx. «". Bristol: William George's Sons. 1902. £10.00





  157. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century (concluded) 1887-1900. 108pp, some damp marks to the original cloth. Bristol: William George's Sons. 1902. £22.00





  158. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century. [vi] + 552pp, original cloth, spine chipped to head and foot and almost loose, rear inner hinge pulled. Bristol: W & F. Morgan, Clare Street. 1887. £20.00





  159. Latimer (John) CALENDAR OF THE CHARTERS AND OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL. 198pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, uncut and partly unopened, spine partly faded. Printed under the Authority of the Corporation of Bristol by W.C. Hemmons, 1909. £8.00





  160. Lawrence (Elsie) GROWING UP IN TOTTERDOWN 1922-1936. 30pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1979. £12.00





  161. Laws (G.E) THE ANCIENT CHURCHES OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, 42pp, 12mo, original illustrated wraps. Second edition, T. & W. Goulding, Bristol: 1918. £5.00





  162. 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) £35.00
    * This is an attack on the Tory M.P. Bathurst and the Dock Scheme.





  163. [Leech (J)] BRIEF ROMANCES FROM BRISTOL HISTORY, With a few other papers from the same pen. Being cuttings from the columns of the "Bristol Times," "Felix Farley's Bristol Journal," and the "Bristol Times and Mirror," during a series of years from 1839 to 1883. vii + 262pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, inner hinges weak. William George, Bristol: 1884. £8.00





  164. Leech (Roger H) THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRISTOL. Part I: Property Holdings in the Early Walled Town and Marsh Suburb North of the Avon. Ten maps, xxviii + 220pp, original cloth. Signed by the author on front endpaper. Volume 48. Bristol Record Society. 1997. £12.00





  165. Leech (Roger H) THE ST MICHAEL'S HILL PRECINCT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL: Medieval and Early Modern Topography. Frontis, illusts, maps, 4 of which are folding, 133pp, dustwrapper. Volume 52. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £8.00





  166. Leighton (Wilfrid) ENDOWED CHARITY IN BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 20pp, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1946-7-8. £4.00





  167. Levitt (Sarah) THE RED LODGE Illusts, plans, 31pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1909. £4.00





  168. Lewis (Bruce) THE BRISTOL BREWERY: A Proud Past - A Long Term Future? An explanation to interested parties of the proposals by Courage Limited for the modernisation of The Bath Street Brewery, Bristol. Coloured illusts, plans, 4to, spiral binding contained within thick pictorial card covers, ex-Evening Post library, with a couple of stamps. Courage Brewing Ltd., December, 1983. £20.00





  169. Little (Bryan) CHARTER BRISTOL Surviving Buildings. Illusts, plan, 26pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Civic Society, 1973. £4.00





  170. Little (Bryan) CHURCH TREASURES in Bristol. Illusts, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1979. £4.00





  171. Little (Bryan) CHURCHES IN BRISTOL. Illusts, map, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. Redliffe press, Bristol: 1978. £4.00





  172. Little (Bryan) THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL. A Study in Atlantic Civilisation. Plates, diagrams, xix + 399pp, original cloth, covered in an adhesive plastic sheet, lacks dustwrapper. First edition, Werner Laurie, London: 1954. £4.00





  173. Liversidge (M.J.H) WILLIAM HOGARTH'S BRISTOL ALTAR-PIECE. Illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1980. £4.00





  174. Livock (D.M), editor CITY CHAMBERLAINS' ACCOUNTS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. xxx + 191pp, original cloth-backed paper boards, few small marks to top board, splash marks to rear board. Volume 24. Bristol Record Society. 1966. £8.00





  175. Lodge (E), and Son, printer RULES AND BYE-LAWS of the BRISTOL CLUB, Old Market. 11pp, sm 8vo, original limp cloth. Bristol: E. Lodge & Son, Printers, West Street. 1880. £10.00





  176. Loxton (Samuel) LOXTON'S BRISTOL The city's Edwardian years in black and white. Illusts, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1992. £5.00





  177. Ludlow (Fred) TALES AND SKETCHES OF OLD AND NEW BRISTOL. With Numerous Illustrations. xii + 317pp, original cloth, lacks frontis, ex-lib., ex-uni.lib., with a couple of stamps, label to front pastedown, inner hinges pulled, one leaf slightly ragged to fore-edge, short splits to outer hinges, short tear to head of spine. Frome: Butler and Tanner, c.1912. £8.00





  178. Lyes (John) 'A STRONG SMELL OF BRIMSTONE'. The Solicitors and Attorneys of Bristol 1740 to 1840. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1999. £4.00





  179. Lyes (John) BRISTOL 1901-1913. 52pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 2002. £4.00





  180. Lyes (John) BRISTOL 1914-1919. 40pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 2003. £4.00





  181. Lyes (John) BRISTOL 1927-1933. 35pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 2004. £4.00





  182. Lyes (John) BRISTOL 1934-1939. 36pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, Bristol: 2004. £4.00





  183. Lynch (John) BRISTOL AND THE CIVIL WAR: for King and Parliament. Illusts, 213pp, original pictorial card covers. The History Press, Stroud: 2009. £6.00





  184. Lynch (John) FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT BRISTOL and the CIVIL WAR. Illusts, 213pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Sutton Press, Stroud: 1999. £6.00





  185. MacInnes (C.M) and Whittard (W.F) BRISTOL AND ITS ADJOINING COUNTIES. Plates, maps and diagrams, xiii + 335pp, roy 8vo, lacks dustwrapper. Published for the British Association for the Advancement of Science by the Local Executive Committee. Bristol: 1955. £5.00





  186. MacInnes (C.M) BRISTOL: A GATEWAY OF EMPIRE. Illusts, 456pp, spine faded and 2 short tears to rear of dustwrapper. Reprinted, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £6.00





  187. MacInnes (C.M) CAPTAIN THOMAS JAMES AND THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE. Illusts, double-page map, 28pp, original printed card covers, small area slightly rubbed, and a small splash mark to top wrap. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1967. £4.00
    * James was a Welsh Sea Captain who set sail from Bristol on the Henrietta Maria in 1631 in an attempt to find the North West Passage.





  188. Mackeson (John F) BRISTOL TRANSPORTED. Illusts, 182pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1987. £5.00
    * 'provides a full account of how Australia was chosen as the new penal colony, and examines life there for the 120 convicts from Bristol.'





  189. Major (S.D) NEW ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK TO BRISTOL, CLIFTON, and Neighbourhood. Illusts, 216pp, disbound, lacks frontis. W. Mack, Steam Press, Bristol: 1872. £10.00





  190. Mallory (Keith) THE BRISTOL HOUSE. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1985. £5.00





  191. Manson (Michael) BRISTOL BEYOND THE BRIDGE. The turbulent story of Redcliffe, Temple and St. Thomas from the Middle Ages to today. 112pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1988. £6.00





  192. Marcy (Peter T) EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIEWS OF BRISTOL AND BRISTOLIANS. Illusts, 24pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1966. £4.00





  193. Marshall (Emma) BRISTOL DIAMONDS or The Hot Wells in the Year 1773. A Story. Frontis, 188pp, original cloth, inner hinges cracked and weak, inscription on front pastedown. London: Seeley and Co., 1897. £5.00
    * Fiction.





  194. Marshall (Emma) BRISTOL DIAMONDS or The Hot Wells in the Year 1773. A Story. Frontis, 190pp, original pictorial wraps, these are slightly dusty, head of spine slightly chipped, small portion missing from foot of spine, and corners of top cover. First edition, London: Seeley & Co., 1888. £12.00
    * Fiction.





  195. Marshall (Peter) BRISTOL AND THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. Illusts, 27pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1977. £5.00





  196. Marshall (Peter) BRISTOL AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. The Politics of Emancipation. Illusts, 28 + ivpp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1975. £5.00





  197. Mathews's MATHEWS'S ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL Including, Clifton, Bedminster, and Surrounding Villages. 1859. 418 + (14)pp adverts, original embossed cloth, spine partly split, loose in case, small portion missing from front endpaper. Bristol: Printed and Published by Matthew Mathews, 1859. £65.00





  198. Mathews (Joseph) THE BRISTOL GUIDE; Being a complete Ancient & Modern History of the City of Bristol, The Hotwells and Clifton.... Fourth Edition, Revised and Considerably Enlarged by Bristoliensis. iii + 236pp, untrimmed in later unlettered cloth, new endpapers, front inner hinge pulled, with the pictorial bookplates of F.W. Morris and Donald Parsons. Bristol: Printed, Published and Sold by J. Mathews. 1815. £20.00
    * Lacks the map which is frequently missing.





  199. Mathews (Joseph) THE BRISTOL GUIDE; Being a complete Ancient and Modern History of the City of Bristol, The Hotwells and Clifton.... Lacks the 2 plates and the plan, viii + 236pp, original paper boards, rubbed, lacks half of spine, shaken. Sixth Edition. Bristol: Printed by and Published by J. Mathews. 1825. £10.00





  200. Matthews (Robert), Richards (Frank) IN TRUSTFUL HOPE. Westbury on Trym Village Hall 1969 to 1989. Illusts, 28pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, rear covers slightly spotty, small label to rear cover. 1989. £6.00





  201. Matthews (Robert), Richards (Frank) SOUVENIR PROGRAMME. 120th Anniversary Celebrations Westbury on Trym Village Hall. Illusts, adverts, 8pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, small label to rear cover. 1989. £5.00





  202. McGrath (Patrick) BRISTOL AND THE CIVIL WAR. Illusts, 50pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1981. £4.00





  203. Meller (H.E) LEISURE AND THE CHANGING CITY, 1870 - 1914. Plates, line drawings, 307pp, dustwrapper. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1976. £10.00
    * 'Focusing on a single city - Bristol - Helen Meller studies the new relationships brought about by mass urbanisation, between city and citizen, environment and society.'





  204. Merritt (Douglas), Greenacre (Francis) and Eustace (Katherine) PUBLIC SCULPTURE OF BRISTOL. Numerous illusts, lxv + 306pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Liverpool University Press, 2011. £20.00






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  205. Miller (Alfred H), Secretary STATEMENT MADE BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE MUNICIPAL CHARITIES OF BRISTOL, to the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, Relative to Certain Funds at Present Unavailable, and Proposals for their Appropriation. 27pp, untrimmed in the original plain paper wraps, wraps slightly marked. Bristol: Philip Rose, 1857. £15.00





  206. Milton (Bertha), Edwards (Hilda), and others. BRISTOL AS WE REMEMBER IT. Illusts, 27pp, original pictorial card covers, small mark to fore-edges. Bristol People's Publishing Project, 1970's £4.00





  207. Morgan (Kenneth) COUNTRY CARRIERS in the Bristol Region in the Late Nineteenth Century. Illusts, double-page map, 15pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1986. £4.00





  208. Morgan (Kenneth) JOHN WESLEY IN BRISTOL. With 4 plates, 30pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1990. £4.00





  209. Morley (Averil) BIRD LIFE ON CLIFTON DOWNS. Map endpapers, 40pp, 12mo., original paper covers. J. Baker & Son, Clifton: c.194- £6.00





  210. Muirhead (J.A.O), edited for Old Cliftonian Society CLIFTON COLLEGE REGISTER, 1862 to 1947. Frontis, lxxx + 578pp, original cloth, few minor marks to fore-edges. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1948. £12.00





  211. Muller (George) A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF FACTS Relative to The Ashley Down, Orphanage, Bristol, Originally called The New Orphan Houses, (Founded in 1836).... This Narrative contains the Record of the Period from May 27th, 1939, to May 26th, 1940, and constitutes the ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST REPORT of the Proceedings of the above Institution. 87pp, original printed wraps are slightly spotty, spine chipped. John Wright and Sons, Bristol: 1940. £14.00





  212. Museum Committee CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL THE CITY MUSEUM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE For the year ended 31 December 1958. 20pp, original printed wraps. Corporation of the City and County of Bristol, 1958. £4.00





  213. N (J.C) ALL SAINTS' CLIFTON. Coloured and black and white illusts, 12pp, sm.8vo, original pictorial card covers. Photo Precision Ltd., St, Ives: c.1980. £4.00





  214. Nicholls (J.F) and Taylor (John) BRISTOL PAST AND PRESENT. Volume 2 - Ecclesiastical History. Numerous wood-cut illustrations, volume 2 of 3 only, viii + 308pp, 4to, original cloth. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1881. £16.00





  215. Nicholls (J.F) HOW TO SEE BRISTOL. A Guide for the Excursionist, the Naturalist, the Archaeologist and the Man of Business. Frontis., route maps, lacks folding plan, xiv + 150pp, pages slightly brown tinged to edges, crayon underlining to one page, disbound. First edition, Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1874. £4.00





  216. Nicholls (J.F) THE EARLY BRISTOL CHARTERS AND THEIR CHIEF OBJECT. 8pp, stitched as issued, (lacks wraps ?). Reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1872. £4.00





  217. Nixon (J.A) THOMAS DOVER: Physician and Merchant Adventurer. 9pp, original printed wraps, owners name on top wrap. Reprinted from "The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal, 1909. £4.00
    * Thomas was born in 1682 and was a descendant of Robert Dover the founder of the Cotswold Games. Nixon was a physician at the Bristol Infirmary.





  218. Occasional Visitor CURSORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHURCHES OF BRISTOL. By an Occasional Visitor. With 4 plates, lacks frontis, and the engraved title-page, still retaining the printed title-page, viii + 248pp, original cloth, cloth slightly dull. The Second Edition. Revised and Considerably Augmented. Bristol: Mirror Office. 1843. £8.00
    * Gives descriptions of the cathedral and 16 churches.





  219. Old Cliftonian Society CLIFTON AT BUDE and Butcombe. The Story of a School in Evacuation. Illusts, 76pp, lacks dustwrapper, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges one corner slightly bruised. Old Cliftonian Society, Bristol: 1945. £6.00





  220. Parry (Robert Hughes) UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. Illusts. 163pp, dustwrapper, inscription on front endpaper. Gomerian Press, Llandysul: 1969. £4.00
    * Includes chapters on his life in Bristol as Chief Medical Officer.





  221. Parsons (Richard) THE STORY OF KINGS C.J. King & Sons 1850 to the present day, Illusts, 120pp, dustwrapper. White Tree Books, Bristol: 1988. £10.00
    * They eventually dominated the stevedoring and tug boat scene in Bristol.





  222. Pearce (F.C) EMERALD GREEN WITH A LEMON BORDER. The Story of 75 Years of Scouting at St Marys Fishponds. 45pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol: 1985. £4.00





  223. Penny (John) ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. A Short History of Bristol's Newspapers since 1702. Illusts, 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 2001. £5.00





  224. Penny (John) ON THE AIR. A Short History of Broadcasting to the Bristol Area. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 2001. £5.00





  225. Penny (John) UP, UP AND AWAY! An account of ballooning in and around Bristol and Bath 1784 to 1999. With 11 plates, double-page map, 32pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 1999. £4.00





  226. Perry (C. Bruce) THE VOLUNTARY MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1984. £4.00





  227. Perry (C. Bruce) THE BRISTOL MEDICAL SCHOOL. Illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1984. £5.00





  228. Phillips (James) and Sons THE ROMANTIC BUILDINGS OF BRISTOL HISTORIC INNER CIRCLE. Presented with the compliments of James Phillips and Sons Ltd. Modern Furnishers and Household Removers Full page and textual illusts, 16pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: c.195- £4.00





  229. Philpott (Kathleen) BRISTOL: ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN STITCHES The History Told by the Tapestry and its own History. Illusts, map, 66pp, original card covers, few light spots to covers. Bristol: Kathleen Philpott, 1991. £4.00
    * With a handwritten letter from the author loosely inserted.





  230. Plaster (Gladys) A LIFE IN KNOWLE 1902-1986. Drawings in the text, 48pp, original printed card covers. White Tree Books, 1987. £6.00





  231. Poets Fellowship Bristol A THIRD BOOK OF POEMS by the Poets Fellowship Bristol. Illusts, 84pp, original card cover with paper label on top cover. Bristol: Partridge and Love, Ltd., Printers, 1922. £4.00





  232. Poole (Steve), editor A CITY BUILT UPON THE WATER. Maritime Bristol 1750-1900. Illusts, some in colour, 224pp, original pictorial card covers. University of the West of England and Redcliffe Ltd., 2013. £10.00





  233. Pope (Cecil) A FAMILY IN ST. PAULS 1920-1940. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1985. £4.00





  234. Port of Bristol Authority THE PORT OF BRISTOL Official Handbook of the Port of Bristol Authority 1955. Illusts, double-page maps, adverts, 128pp, roy. 8vo, original wraps, covers slightly rubbed. Printed and Published for The Port of Bristol Authority by F.G. Warne, Bristol: 1955. £12.00





  235. Port of Bristol Authority THE PORT OF BRISTOL Official Handbook of the Port of Bristol Authority 1956. Illusts, double-page map, adverts, 128pp, roy. 8vo, original wraps, covers slightly rubbed. Printed and Published for The Port of Bristol Authority by F.G. Warne, Bristol: 1956. £12.00





  236. Potter (W.R) A VICTORIAN BOY LOOKS BACK AT BRISTOL. 80pp, 12mo, slightly soiled dustwrapper. Arthur H. Stockwell, Ilfracombe: 1960. £10.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page. A chatty narrative. He attended St. James Barton School in the 1890's, and includes details of his visits to various local sporting events such as boxing, wrestling, football, rugby, etc.





  237. Powell (A.G) BRISTOL COMMERCIAL ROOMS 1811-1951, With 7 illusts, 30pp, 12mo, original paper boards. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1951. £6.00
    * Lists the Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers on the end papers.





  238. Press (Jonathan) THE MERCHANT SEAMEN OF BRISTOL 1747-1789. Illusts, 23pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1976. £4.00





  239. Price (Roger) EXCAVATIONS AT ST. BARTHOLOMEWS HOSPITAL BRISTOL. Illusts, plans, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Published for Bristol Threatened History Society, Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1979. £4.00





  240. Priest (Gordon) THE PATY FAMILY. Makers of Eighteenth-century Bristol. Illusts, 190pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 2003. £8.00





  241. Pritchard (John E) BRISTOL ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1900. With 3 plates, 14pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 23. c.1900. £4.00





  242. Pritchard (John E) TOBACCO PIPES OF BRISTOL OF THE XVIIth CENTURY AND THEIR MAKERS. With 6 plates, pages numbered 165-191, complete, original printed wraps, small area to top wrap rubbed. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 45. 1923. £4.00





  243. Quick (Richard), Superintendent BRISTOL ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES. Guide to the Museum Collections. With 2 plans, 22pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, slighty and pencil note. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1909. £4.00





  244. Quinn (David B) SEBASTIAN CABOT AND BRISTOL EXPLORATION. Illusts, 32pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1968. £4.00





  245. Ralph (Elizabeth) and Cobb (Peter) NEW ANGLICAN CHURCHES IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BRISTOL. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1991. £4.00





  246. Ralph (Elizabeth) and Evans (Henley) ST. MARK'S THE LORD MAYOR'S CHAPEL BRISTOL (Formerly the Chapel of the Gaunt's Hospital). Illusts, plan, 28pp, original wraps. Reprinted by the Corporation of Bristol, 1961. £6.00





  247. Ralph (Elizabeth) GUIDE TO THE BRISTOL ARCHIVES OFFICE. xiii + 132pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Bristol Corporation. 1971. £4.00





  248. [Ralph (Elizabeth)] THE DOWNS 1861-1961. Clifton and Durdham Downs. To Commemorate the Centenary of the Corporate Ownership of the Downs 17th May 1861. With 4 plates, 16pp, original printed wraps partly faded. City and County of Bristol: 1961. £6.00





  249. Ralph (Elizabeth) THE STREETS OF BRISTOL. A survey of their repair, cleansing and lighting from the Middle Ages to 1806. Illusts, 19pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1981. £4.00





  250. Ralph (Elizabeth), and Hardwick (Nora M), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532 - 1565. Part II 1542 - 1552. xii + 196pp, original cloth, some brown splash marks to top board. Volume 33. Bristol Record Society. 1980. £9.00





  251. Ralph (Elizabeth), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK. Part III 1552-1565. ix + 155pp, original cloth. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1992. £5.00





  252. Ralph (Elizabeth), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK. Part III 1552-1565. ix + 155pp, original cloth, Bristol University labels to front endpapers. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1992. £8.00





  253. Reid (Helen) BRISTOL & CO. The story of Bristol's long running businesses 1710 to the present day. Illusts, 122pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1987. £6.00
    * Includes 'the oldest jewellers and law practice in the country; the estate agent who founded Bristol's Dogs' Home, Bristol's first woman optician... '





  254. Robinson (Derek)] A SHOCKING HISTORY OF BRISTOL. Six episodes of scandals, swindles, shambles, bungles, ferocity and farce. Illusts, 120pp, original pictorial card covers, lower corner of top cover slightly bruised. Third impression, Abson Books, Bristol: 1987. £4.00





  255. Sabin (Arthur), and others BRISTOL CATHEDRAL 800th Anniversary 1165-1965. An account of the Cathedral, its history, architecture and role in the life of the city and diocese.... Illusts, 32pp, original card covers. Allens (Weston) Ltd., 1965. £4.00





  256. Sabin (Arthur), editor SOME MANORIAL ACCOUNTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, BRISTOL. Being the Computa of the Manors for 1491-2 and 1496-7 and other documents of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. viii + 221pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 22. Bristol Record Society. 1960. £10.00





  257. Sampson (Walter Adam) THE LIFE OF THE REV. THOMAS WHITE D.D. With an Account of the Temple Hospital, Bristol and Sion College, London. With a frontis and one other plate, 88pp, 12mo, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown, and 2 small stamps to verso of title-page, signs where label removed from foot of spine. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, Ltd., 1912. £5.00





  258. Saywell (Ruby J) MARY CARPENTER OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 20pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1964. £4.00





  259. Seyer (Rev. Samuel) CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT, Granted by the Kings and Queens of England to the Town and City of Bristol, newly translated and accompanied by the Original Latin. xviii + 317pp, 4to, untrimmed in contemporary paper boards, boards rubbed and loose, lacks spine, first 8 leaves and front endpaper loose, these leaves have cellotape across some of their margins, occasional spotting. Bristol: Printed for John Mathew Gutch, 1812. £8.00





  260. Sharp (Margaret), editor ACCOUNTS OF THE CONSTABLES OF BRISTOL CASTLE In the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. lxiii + 128pp ,original cloth, light stains to top board, internally fine. Volume 34. Bristol Record Society. 1982. £6.00





  261. Shipsides (Frank) and Sansom (John) FRANK SHIPSIDES' BRISTOL With 8 coloured plates and textual illusts, 80pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, small ownership label and price in pencil scored through in ink to front endpaper. First edition, Bristol: The Redcliffe Press, 1984. £5.00
    * Signed by Shipsides on half title.





  262. Shipsides (Frank) and Wall (Robert) BRISTOL: Maritime City. With plates, 6 of which are coloured, textual illusts, 144pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 1981. £6.00





  263. Shorey (Jeannie) THE OPEN AIR SCHOOLS OF BRISTOL 1913-1957. Illusts, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1992. £4.00





  264. Sketchley. introduction by Bryan Little. SKETCHLEY'S BRISTOL DIRECTORY 1775. One plate, 11 + 126 + 2pp, dustwrapper. Originally published in 1775. Facsimile Reprint, Bath: Kingsmead, 1971. £6.00





  265. Small (A), Strange (G), and others BRISLINGTON Not so long ago. Illusts, map, 36pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. Bristol: 1979. £6.00





  266. Smalley (Donald) BROWNING'S ESSAY ON CHATTERTON Edited with Introductory Chapters and Notes. With a Foreword by William C. De Vane. xi + 194pp, portions torn from head and foot of spine of dustwrapper. Harvard University Press, 1948. £4.00





  267. Smith (A.C.H), dramatist UP THE FEEDER AND DOWN THE MOUTH. The long life and sudden death of Bristol City Docks. Illusts, 95 + (1)pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 2012. £10.00





  268. Smith (J.H) WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE. Memories of a Bedminster Man. Illusts, 21pp, original pictoral wraps. Malago Publications, Bristol: 1979. £10.00





  269. Smith (M.Q) THE STAINED GLASS OF BRISTOL CATHEDRAL. Plates. some in colour, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1983. £6.00





  270. Social Service Committee FACTS OF BRISTOL'S SOCIAL LIFE 1914. 32pp, original printed wraps, with 2 indelible ownership stamps to verso of top wrap, slight signs where once folded. Geo. Gordon & Son, Printers, 1914. £12.00
    * Includes sections on Bristol Housing Problems; Girl Labour in Bristol; Small Holdings and Allotments; etc, as well as local various institutions.





  271. Somerton (W.H), editor of the Bristol Mercury A NARRATIVE OF THE BRISTOL RIOTS, on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of October, 1831, Consequent on the Arrival of the Recorder, Sir C. Wetherell, to Open the Commission of Assize; with full Particulars of the Burning of Bridwell-The Gaol-The Toll-Houses.... 40pp, Fourth Edition. Bristol: (1831).... Bound with.... OPENING OF THE COMMISSION. Monday, January 2, 1832, 28pp..... Bound with.... REPORT OF THE TRIALS. Second Day, January 3 - Twelfth Day, January 14, 1832, 124pp.... Bound with..... COURT MARTIAL ON CAPT. WARRINGTON. 22pp.... Bound with.... BRISTOL RIOTS. TRIAL OF CHARLES PINNEY, ESQ. Late Mayor of Bristol; for Neglect of Duty.... 64pp.... Bound with.... BRISTOL: AN ABSTRACT OF THE CITY CHARTER: Concerning the Institutions of Mayors, Recorders, Sheriffs, Town Clerks.... 22pp. Bristol: Printed and Sold by I.N. Pearce, Bath Street. 1832. Title-page loose, with short tears to inner margin, cellotape stain to inner margin of title, first leaf, and last leaf, occasional foxing, disbound. Fourth Edition, Bristol: Printed and Sold at the Mercury Office, 1832. £45.00





  272. Somerville (John) CHRISTOPHER THOMAS SOAPMAKER OF BRISTOL. The Chistr. Thomas & Bros. 1745-1954. Illusts, 121 + (8) pages of index, dustwrapper. White Tree Books, Bristol: 1991. £8.00





  273. Stanford (Maureen), editor THE ORDINANCES OF BRISTOL 1506-1598. xxiv + (ii) + 117pp, original cloth. Volume 41. Bristol Record Society. 1990. £9.00





  274. Stephenson (David), Jones (Andy), and others OLD MARKET, NEWTOWN, LAWRENCE HILL AND MOORFIELDS. (Images of England Series.) Illusts, map, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2002. £6.00





  275. Stephenson (David), and Willmott (Jilly) THE DINGS AND ST PHILIPS (Images of England Series.) Illusts, plans, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, ex-lib., with covers laid down and covered with a transparent plastic sheet, usual labels to front endpaper and title-page. Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2005. £4.00





  276. Stone (George Frederick) BRISTOL AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A record of 50 years progress. Reprinted with additions from the Bristol Evening News. Illustrated by S.J. Loxton, 231pp + xi + 24pp of adverts, folio, t.e.g. original cloth, light damp marks to fore-edges of boards, small portions torn from head and foot of spine, 3 page letter on Western Daily Press headed notepaper presenting this copy to a 'Mr Moore' pasted to front pastedown, a later bookplate to front endpaper. Walter Reid, Bristol: 1909. £40.00





  277. Street (Doreen) NOT WORTH A PIN Pin Making in the Kingswood Area. No 1 in the Kingswood History Series. Illusts, map, 12pp, original pictorial card covers. Kingswood Borough Council, (1986) £4.00





  278. Tantum (Lance) THE AMES FAMILY and The Divorce that Shocked Bristol. 14pp, original pictorial card covers, label to rear cover, corner of two slightly creased. Privately printed, Lance Tantum, 1983. £10.00
    * The case involved George Acland Ames, of Cote House, and his wife The Countess Henrietta Klara Maris Von Poelzig.





  279. Taylor (John) A BOOK ABOUT BRISTOL; Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, From Original Research. iv + 393 + (vi) pages of adverts, original cloth, rubbed, small hole to cloth on spine, inner hinges strengthened, hinge adjacent to 'Preface' pulled, few small marks to covers. London: Houlston and Sons, 1872. £8.00
    * The cheaper edition without the photographic plates.





  280. Taylor (John) BRISTOL AND CLIFTON Old and New. With 4 illusts, 123pp, lacks the wraps. London: Houlston and Sons. Bristol: John Wright & Co., c.1877 £6.00





  281. Taylor (John) SKETCH OF TEMPLE CHURCH, Bristol. Pamphlet, 8pp, original photograph pasted down to top leaf showing the church tower behind the buildings on Victoria Street. Bristol: c.1870. £10.00





  282. Temple Local History Group BRISTOL PAST Revisited with Sperry Local History Group. A Series of 16 Walks and Talks. Illusts, diagrams, maps, 61 pages, typescript printed on rectos only, small folio, original decorative wraps, plastic spine, few spots to first leaf. Second edition, Temple Local History Group, Bristol: 1982. £4.00





  283. Theatre Royal THEATRE ROYAL, KING STREET, BRISTOL Founded 1766. With 7 illusts on 4 plates, 4pp, original printed wraps with illust pasted to the wrap. Bristol: Burleigh Ltd., 1947. £6.00





  284. Thomas (Ethel) DOWN THE 'MOUTH A History of Avonmouth. Illusts, map endpapers, 128pp, dustwrapper. Second Edition, Ethel Thomas, Avonmouth: 1992. £8.00





  285. Thompson (J.F.A) FORTY YEARS OF THE BARN A history of Downend Folk House known as The Barn. Illusts, 66pp, original pictorial card covers. Downend Local History Society, Bristol: 2010. £4.00





  286. Tomlinson (Charles) ISAAC ROSENBERG OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 19pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1982. £4.00
    * Poet who wrote 'Poems from the Trenches' during the first World War.





  287. Tompkins (John), Drawings by Bratton (Grace D) PORTRAITS OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 43 + (5) page index, original pictorial laminated covers. Kingsmead press, Bath: 1977. £8.00





  288. Tonkin (Marguerite) HENBURY DYNASTIES. Illusts, pedigrees, 158pp,original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2005. £11.00





  289. True North Books MEMORIES OF BRISTOL. Numerous illusts, 132pp, 4to, original pictorial boards. True North Books Ltd., 1999. £6.00





  290. Trymprint THE ANCIENT PARISH WESTBURY-ON-TRYM and the one-time Collegiate Church.... Illust., 13pp, original pictorial paper covers. Trymprint, 1978. £4.00





  291. Underdown (Alderman T.H.J) BRISTOL UNDER BLITZ The record of an ancient City and her people during the Battle of Britain 1940-1. Illusts, 48pp, soiled original pictorial card covers, short split to head of spine, rear cover lacks approx 1" from head, with last illust pasted to it. Second impression, J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1942. £4.00





  292. Vanes (Jean) EDUCATION AND APPRENTICESHIP IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. Illusts, 26pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1982. £4.00





  293. Veale (E.W.W), editor THE GREAT RED BOOK OF BRISTOL. Text (Part III). xv + 196pp, cloth backed paper boards, covers rubbed, cloth on outer hinges split and slightly ragged, slightly shaken, tears to fore-margin of front endpaper. Volume 16. Bristol Record Society. 1951. £8.00





  294. Vinter (Dorothy) THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FRENCHAY. With 4 illusts, 15pp, 12mo, original card covers. F. Bailey, Dursley: 1963. £4.00





  295. Wadley (Thomas Procter) NOTES OR ABSTRACTS OF THE WILLS contained in THE GREAT ORPHAN BOOK and BOOK OF WILLS, (in the Council House, Bristol.) 288pp, card covers. This is a print on demand book, where the text has been reduced. It appears that it was printed froma faulty copy as it lacks several pages of the index. First published in 1886. Reprinted Bibliolife, c.2015. £4.00





  296. Walker (C.H) AN ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, But in Particular to those of Bristol and Colchester, upon the Situation of the Country: Being an Illustration of the early Doctrines of the late Right Honorable William Pitt: With an Exhibition of the Political Principles and Conduct of Sir Samuel Romilly, Knt., Sir John Jervis, Bart. Edward Protheroe, Esq. Richard Hart Davis, Esq. And Mr Henry Hunt, the Candidates to represent Bristol, In Native Nakedness. Pages numbered 3-39pp, lacks title-page, disbound. J. Routh, Bristol: (1812) £16.00





  297. Walker (Iain C) THE BRISTOL CLAY TOBACCO-PIPE INDUSTRY. Illusts, 40pp, original pictorial cards covers. City Museums, Bristol: 1971. £4.00





  298. Warne (F.G) and Bristol Development Board, compiled by THE BOMBING OF BRISTOL. Pictures of Streets and Buildings Damaged in the Raids of 1940-1941. Numerous illusts, 48pp, roy. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. F.G. Warne Limited, Bristol: 1943. £12.00
    * Titled 'Bristol Bombed. Over 170 Raid Pictures' on top cover.





  299. Warne (Fredk G) WARNE'S GUIDE IN AND AROUND BRISTOL Double page map, illusts, 72pp + 18 pages of adverts, original pictorial card covers, fewsmall marks to covers, internally sound. Warne, Bristol: c.1946. £5.00





  300. Watson (Sally) SECRET UNDERGROUND BRISTOL. Illusts, maps, 120pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Junior Chamber, 1991. £5.00





  301. Watts (Martin), editor TWO CEMETERIES FROM BRISTOL'S NORTHERN SUBURBS. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 4. Plans, illusts, diagrams, vi + 95pp, original printed card covers. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2006. £4.00
    * Excavations at Henbury School, and at Hewlett Packard, Filton.





  302. Way (J.P) A SHORT HISTORY OF OLD BRISTOL POTTERY AND PORCELAIN MARKS, &c. With 10 plates, diagram, 32pp, sm 8vo, original printed card covers, occasional foxing. Burleigh Ltd., Bristol: c.1900. £8.00





  303. Wedmore (Edmund T) RICHARD REYNOLDS. Philanthropist. Frontis, 22pp, top wrap loose, lacks lower wrap, last leaf spotty. Scholastic Trading Co., Ltd., Bristol: 1907. £4.00





  304. Wells (C), introduction NOTABLE BRISTOLIANS 1931-2. An Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men. vii + 216pp, roy 8vo, original full leather, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., lightly rubbed to spine and edges. I.C. Gibbons, Bristol: (1932) £15.00





  305. Wells (Charles), edited and illustrated by Reece Winstone. BRISTOL'S HISTORY. 96pp, original laminated boards, ownership signature on front pastedown. First edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1966. £5.00





  306. Wells (Charles), edited and illustrated by Reece Winstone. BRISTOL'S HISTORY. Volume Two. Illusts, 97-192pp, original laminated boards. First edition. Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1975. £5.00





  307. Whitchurch Local History Society STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF WHITCHURCH. Part 2. With illusts, maps, 88pp, stapled in the original printed card covers, plastic clip on spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1995. £15.00





  308. Whitchurch Local History Society, edited by Brian and Margaret Slade WHITCHURCH. More Memories. With illusts, maps, 55pp, stapled in the original printed card covers, plastic clip on spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1997. £15.00





  309. Whitchurch Local History Society, compiled by B. Slade WHITCHURCH AND DISTRICT Wartime Newsletters. Illusts, facsimiles, 100pp, original pictorial card covers, plastic spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1997. £12.00





  310. Whitson (John) EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN WHITSON Alderman of the City of Bristol. 7pp, original printed wraps. Everard, Bristol: 1911. £4.00





  311. Wilkins (H.J) COPY OF THE DEED of the Sale of the next Presentation but one to Henbury Vicarage. 8pp, some spotting to the original printed wraps, and to text, wraps loose. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1909. £10.00





  312. Wilkins (H.J) REDLAND CHAPEL AND REDLAND. Illusts, 98pp, some marks to the partly dusty, original wraps, spine and edges of cloth slightly rubbed, short tear to top outer hinge, occasional light spotting to text, feint hand-written title on spine. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1924. £6.00





  313. Williams (Bruce) EXCAVATIONS IN THE MEDIEVAL SUBURB OF REDCLIFFE, BRISTOL, 1980. Plates, plan, illusts in text, 30pp, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Bristol Threatened History Society, 1981. £4.00





  314. [Williams (Edith E)] S. MARY REDCLIFFE "The fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish Church in England." Frontis, 17 plates, 66 + (1)pp, original paper wraps. No imprint, (1931) £8.00





  315. Williams (Mary E) CIVIC TREASURES OF BRISTOL. Numerous illusts, some in colour, 85pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol, 1984. £6.00





  316. [Williamson (Barry)] WESTBURY PARK Not So Long Ago. Illusts, double-page map, 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Privately Published, B.D.W., Bristol: 1983. £5.00





  317. Willmott (Paul and Jill) THROUGH THE YEARS A Pictorial History of Kingswood and the Surrounding Area. Volume 2. Illusts, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. Enterprise Postcards, Bristol: 1989. £4.00





  318. Wilson (John) JOHN CABOT and the Matthew. Illusts, some in colour, maps, 72pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1996. £4.00





  319. Wilson (R.N) BRISTOL, CLIFTON AND DISTRICT VIEWS AND REVIEWS. Illusts, 57pp, small oblong folio, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, rubbed to edges, short tear to one leaf, inner hinges partly cracked, slightly shaken, short tear to slightly dusty first leaf. Printed and Published by A.W. Ford Ltd., c 190- £15.00





  320. Winkles A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BRISTOL. 5 engraved plates, 8pp, (pages numbered 121-128), later qtr calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed, paper label on top board, plates foxed. (1841) £8.00
    * Extracted from Winkles 'Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England.'





  321. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1850'S. Over 120 Photographs. 72pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, rear outer hinge slightly chipped, short split to head of rear outer hinge. Second Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1978. £8.00





  322. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1866-1860. 120 Photographs, 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Second Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1972. £8.00





  323. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1880's Over 200 Photographs. 104pp, includes numerous local adverts, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1962. £8.00
    * Signed by Reece Winstone on the title page.





  324. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1880's Over 200 Photographs. 104pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly chipped to foot. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1962. £4.00





  325. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1890's. Over 180 Photographs, 64pp, roy 8vo, original cloth with the pictorial card covers pasted down, 'Amendments' sheet loosely inserted. First edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1960. £5.00





  326. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1890'S. Over 180 Photographs, 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Second Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1965. £12.00





  327. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1914-1900. Over 170 Photographs. 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, spine faded. Third Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1972. £6.00





  328. Winstone (Reece) and Duggan (Glyn) BRISTOL CURIOSITIES. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1979. £9.00





  329. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1939-1914. Over 100 Photographs. 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Fourth Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1969. £4.00





  330. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1939-1914. Over 100 Photographs. 80pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers, short tear to top cover, edges of spine slightly rubbed. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1957. £4.00





  331. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1939-1914. Over 100 Photographs. 56pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, spine faded. Fifth Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1978. £6.00





  332. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL TO-DAY. Preface by John Betjeman. With 200 photographs, local adverts, 80pp, pictorial card covers, covers dull with small area of transparent laminated surface missing, short crease to top corner of top cover. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1958. £4.00





  333. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1939-1914. Over 100 Photographs. 56pp, roy 8vo, original card covers, spine and top outer hinge rubbed. Second Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1958. £4.00





  334. Winstone (Reece) VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRISTOL from old photographs. With 152 plates, dustwrapper, inscription to front endpaper. Portman Books, London: 1987. £7.00





  335. Witt (Cleo) CERAMICS IN BRISTOL: THE FINE WARES. 1670-1970. Illusts, 31pp, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1979. £5.00
    * Catalogue of the exhibition at the museum which was held 21st September 1979 - 31st January, 1980.





  336. Wood (J.M), edited by WHITCHURCH Village Memories. With 9 illusts, 42pp, printed on rectos only, original printed card covers, lacks cloth spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1980. £10.00
    * 'The period covered is that from the early part of the (20th) century, through the first World War, the 20's and 30's and then, once again to the way in which war-time conditions affected the village.'





  337. Wood (John), architect A DESCRIPTION OF THE EXCHANGE OF BRISTOL: Wherein the Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of that Structure; Together with That of Opening the Building for Publick Use, Is particularly Recited. With 2 double-page plans, and 6 engraved plates, 3 of which are double-page, 36pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. First published in 1745. Kingsmead Reprint, Bath: 1969. £8.00





  338. Woodhouse (S.M.F) Foreword BRISTOL CITY PARISH CHURCH S. Stephen with S. Nicholas and S. Leonard and All Saints. Illusts, adverts, 59pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. New edition, British Publication Co., Ltd., 1958. £5.00





  339. Woolrich (A.P) PRINTING IN BRISTOL. Illusts, 21pp, original pictorial card covers, bookplate to title-page. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1986. £4.00





  340. Wright (Denis) HORFIELD PARISH REGISTERS OF BAPTISMS, BURIALS AND MARRIAGES 1543-1812. (Research Group Paper) Two illusts, 70pp, original pictorial card covers. Bishopston, Horfield & Ashley Down Local History Society, (2007) £6.00





  341. Wright (J) and Co's MATHEWS' BRISTOL DIRECTORY, 1877. With Adjacent Villages. Lacks map (?), 446 + (1)pp, original cloth, lacks all before title-page, lower board loose, top outer hinge partly split. Bristol: J. Wright & Co. 1877. £40.00





  342. Wright (Lance) OLD BRISTOL A Description of Old Buildings Illusts, plans, folding map, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Compton Dando, London: 1952. £4.00





  343. Wright (Mary) ELIZABETH BLACKWELL OF BRISTOL. The First Woman Doctor. Illusts, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1995. £4.00





  344. Yate District Oral History Project PARNALL'S IN MEMORIAM. We made the planes We made the turrets That won the war. A history of Parnall's created by those who worked there during the war - in memory of those who lost their lives in the bombing of February 1941. Illusts, 70pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Yate District Oral History Project, Bristol: 1990. £10.00




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