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Almy (P.H.W) THE HOMELAND GUIDE TO Torquay - Paignton - Brixham - Dartmouth - Totnes and the River Dart. Illusts, map, plans, adverts, 128pp, original card covers, covers slightly soiled. Homeland Association Ltd., London: c.196- £4.00
Amery (John S) THE ACCOUNTS OF THE RECEIVER OF THE CORPORATION OF TOTNES IN THE YEAR 1554-5. 10pp, lacks lower wrap. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1880. £4.00
Ashton (Ald. Lieut-Col. H), Oliver (Bruce W), and others THE BOROUGH OF A THOUSAND YEARS. 930 - 1930. Being the Official Millenary Souvenir Brochure. 58pp, original wraps, tall 12mo, presentation copy from the Mayor, etc. Published with the authority of the Barnstaple Town Council. (1935) £15.00
* Includes a list of all the Mayors of Barnstaple since 1303.
Ashworth (E) NOTES ON SOME NORTH DEVON CHURCHES. With.... Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) CHIMNEY PIECE AT ALPHINGTON RECTORY. With 4 plates, pages numbered 6-15,... with.... 1 plate + page 16, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1881. £4.00
Ashworth (Edward) THE MANOR HOUSE OF HOLCOMBE COURT, AND THE CHURCH OF HOLCOMBE ROGUS, Devon. With 3 plates, one of which is folding, pages numbered 235-249, 4to, disbound, pages loose, small stain to first leaf, slightly affecting the next 2 leaves. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1859. £8.00
Baker (George), Prebendary of St. Peter's in Exeter THE RESPECT DUE TO A CHURCH OF GOD. Preached Oct. 11. 1733. At the Consecration of St. George's Chapel in Riverton, In the County of Devon, By the Right Reverend Father in God Stephen Lord Bishop of Exon. 32pp, disbound. London: Printed for S. Birt at the Bible in Avemary-Lane, and E. Score over against the Guildhall-Hall in Exeter: 1733. £20.00
Baring-Gould (S) THE BROOM SQUIRE. With 12 plates, vi + (ii) + 384 + 37 pages of publisher's adverts, original cloth, spine slightly faded, and slightly rubbed to edges, few small spots to cloth. Third Edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1896. £15.00
Barlow (Frank), editor EXETER AND ITS REGION. With 36 plates, textual illusts, xvii + 343pp, roy 8vo, slightly used dustwrapper, ex-Geographical Association library, with their label to front endpaper, inner hinges weak, one corner of top board slightly bruised, paper slightly lifting from front pastedown. University of Exeter: 1969. £4.00
* Includes chapters on:- Place-Names of Devon; Geology of Devon; Art in the South West, etc.
Barnstaple Election REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION; together with The Special Report from the said Committee and also The Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Them. 53 + 122pp, folio, untrimmed in the original printed wraps, outer hinge and spine partly split. London: Ordered to be printed 9th March 1819 and 16th December 1819.. £50.00
Barnstaple REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF BARNSTAPLE. Title + pages numbered 428-434, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £8.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Bartholomew (Ch), Incumbent of S. David, Exeter CHURCH PRINCIPLES THE REAL ANTAGONISM TO ROMANISM. A Sermon Preached in The Cathedral Church of S. Peter, Exeter, Thursday, April 24, 1851. At the Visitation of the Lord Bishop. And Published at his Request. 19pp, disbound. London & H.J. Wallis, Exeter: 1851. £10.00
Baxter (Julia & Jonathan) BARNSTAPLE YESTERDAY, Over 160 photographs of Barnstaple from the 1860's onwards. 76pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. H.J. Chard & Sons, Bristol: 1980. £8.00
Beer (Trevor) TREVOR BEER'S WILDLIFE OF NORTH DEVON. Numerous coloured plates, 208pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Devon Books, Tiverton: 2001. £6.00
Bellamy (Reg) POSTBRIDGE The Heart of Dartmoor. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Devon Books and Halsgrove, Tiverton: 1998. £9.00
Berry (Les) and Gosling (Gerald) AROUND EXETER. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1996. £6.00
Besley (H) A VISIT TO EXETER AND ITS VICINITY. Including an Account of The Cathedral, and a direction to the Walks, Rides, and Excursions in the Neighbourhood. With 2 engraved plates, one of which is folding, lacks one plate, 48pp, sm. 8vo, original printed wraps, lightly rubbed, few small marks to top wrap, spine chipped at foot. Extracted from the Route Book of Devon. Printed and Published by Henry Besley, Exeter: c.1860. £16.00
Besley (T), printer and publisher THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING CHARITIES; containing that part which relates to the COUNTY OF DEVON. Volumes 1 and 2 of 4 only. viii + 334 and viipp + 336 and viipp, contemporary qtr calf, marbled boards, lightly rubbed to edges. Printed and Published by T. Besley, Jun. Cathedral-Yard, Exeter: 1826 and 1828. £40.00
* Gives details of the various 'Gifts' and their disbursements in each parish. There are also tables of lands owned by charities with lists of rent, names of lessees, descriptions of tenements, etc.
Besley (T), printer, publisher THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING CHARITIES; containing that part which relates to the COUNTY OF DEVON. Volume 1 only. 334pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, paper label on spine, top board held by strings, head and foot of spine slightly chipped. Printed and Published by T. Besley. Exeter. 1826. £25.00
* Contains the Hundreds of Bampton, Budleigh East, Budleigh West, Cliston, Halberton, Hayridge, Ottery St. Mary, Tiverton, Witheridge, Axminster, Colyton, Clyston, Hemyock, Coleridge, Ermington, Lifton, Plympton, Roborough, Plymouth, Stanborough, and Tavistock.
Boggis (Rev. R.J) HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S TORQUAY. Illusts, xii + 301pp, original cloth, name to front endpaper. First edition, Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1930. £11.00
Boundy (Wyndham S) BUSHELL AND HARMAN OF LUNDY. Illusts, map, 95pp, 12mo, lacks dustwrapper, first few leaves slightly creased. First edition, Grenville, Bideford: 1961. £8.00
Bourne (John), editor GEORGIAN TIVERTON. The Political Memoranda of Beavis Wood 1768 - 98. Frontis, xxvii + 180pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 29. Torquay: 1986. £4.00
Bowden (Tom) AROUND PLYMOUTH. Britain in Old Photographs. Illusts, 126pp, pictorial card covers. Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud: 1996. £6.00
Bracken (C.W) A HISTORY OF THE PLYMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL. Illusts, 75pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, hand written title on spine, ex-lib. with stamp and number to verso of title-page. Underhill (Plymouth) Ltd., c1910. £4.00
Bray (Mrs) THE TALBA. An Historical Romance. Frontis, 272pp, few marks to the original cloth. New and Revised Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884. £12.00
* Historical novel set in Portugal. Mrs Anna Eliza Bray was the wife of Edward Bray, the vicar of Tavistock.
Bray (Mrs) THE WHITE HOODS. An Historical Romance. Frontis, 352 + 32 pages of publisher's adverts, original cloth. New and Revised Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884. £8.00
* Mrs Anna Eliza Bray was the wife of Edward Bray, the vicar of Tavistock.
Bray (Mrs) TRIALS OF THE HEART. Frontis, 304pp, original cloth. New and Revised Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884. £10.00
* Historical novel set in France. Mrs Anna Eliza Bray was the wife of Edward Bray, the vicar of Tavistock.
Brockett (Allan), editor THE EXETER ASSEMBLY The Minutes of the Assemblies of the United Brethren of Devon and Cornwall, 1691-171, as Transcribed by the Reverend Isaac Gilling. Frontis, xvi + 157pp, original card covers, covers partly faded and slightly spotty, crease to lower corner of top cover, front endpaper spotty. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 6. Torquay: 1963. £12.00
Brown (Dorothy and Theo) FAMILY HOLIDAYS AROUND DARTMOOR. From the Logbook of 'The Loiterer', 1913-1930 Illusts, some in colour, xii + 83pp, original pictorial card covers. Devonshire Association, 1995. £6.00
Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Consisting of Sixteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With textual Plans, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. Volume 2 only of 4 volumes. Illusts, 60pp, original qtr roan, spine rubbed, lacking approx. 1" at foot of spine, and missing 'D' and 'A' from title. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and Numbered by Burnard and the printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, George Street, Plymouth: 1891. £30.00
Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Consisting of Eighteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With a Map, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. Volume 3 only of 4 volumes. Illusts, 74pp, original qtr roan, couple of splash marks to front cover, Dartington Hall stamp to front endpaper, and the bookplate of Thurston Peter, the Cornish author to front pastedown. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and numbered by Burnard and the Printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, Plymouth: 1893. £30.00
Burton (S.H) THE SOUTH DEVON COAST. A Guide to its Scenery and Architecture, History and Antiquities. With 16 plates, 181pp, dustwrapper, fore-edges slightly spotty. First Edition. Werner Laurie, London: 1954. £6.00
Capern (Edward), Rural Postman of Bideford POEMS. xii + 215pp, original cloth, partly faded, shaken with one section of text loosening, private library label to front pastedown, and rear board, small portion missing from foot of spine, head of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper. Second Edition, with Additions. London: David Bogue, 1856. £8.00
Carter (G.E.L) BOROUGH ENGLISH AND BURBAGE TENURE. Pages numbered 383-390, complete, original printed wraps, ink note on top wrap. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1939, 1941 and 1933. £4.00
Carter (Jilly) DEVON REFLECTIONS. Illusts, 96pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Padstow: 1996. £4.00
Chanter (John Frederick) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF LYNTON AND COUNTISBURY. Their Antiquities, Manors, Churches and Families, and Some Account of the Natural History of the Neighbourhood. With 8 plates and 7 pedigrees 3 of which are folding, 192pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, partly faded as usual. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1907. £40.00
Chapman (Gordon) DEVON AT THE CINEMA An Illustrated History of Cinema Going. Numerous illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper. Devon Books, Tiverton: 2000. £12.00
Chard (Judy) DEVON MYSTERIES. Plates, map, 88pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1979. £4.00
Chugg (Brian) THE BATSFORD COLOUR BOOK OF DEVON. Coloured plates, 62pp, sm 4to, dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford, London: 1976. £4.00
Church (Steve) THE DEVON LANDSCAPE. An appraisal of Devon's Landscape at the beginning of the 21st Century. Maps, photographic illusts which are mainly in colour, 176pp, dustwrapper, large oblong 4to. Devon Books, Tiverton: 2002. £20.00
Clarke (Kate M) RECORDS OF ST. NICHOLAS' PRIORY, EXETER. 14pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1912. £4.00
Clarke (Kate M) THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. Part 2. 2 plates, 8pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1908. £4.00
Clarke (Miss Kate E) THE BAPTISMAL FONTS OF DEVON. Parts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. 7 parts of 9 only, illusts, in the original printed wraps, signs where small labels removed from top wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1915-1922. £12.00
Clayden (Arthur W) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE SCENERY. An Essay In Geographical Evolution. With 43 plates, 202pp, disbound. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin. London: Chatto and Windus, 1906. £4.00 --- See sample text
Clayden (Arthur W) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE SCENERY. An Essay In Geographical Evolution. With 43 plates, viii + 202pp, original cloth. First edition, Chatto and Windus, London. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1906. £6.00
* This forms part 2 of volume 4 of Devon Notes and Queries.
Cole (W.V) and Sons, printers THE ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL, Exeter, and the Ockenden Convalescent Home, Torquay. 1931 Annual Statements. Folding table of accounts, plates, 14 pages of adverts + 101 + 15 pages of adverts, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap, portions of spine missing from head and foot, top wrap chipped to edges, ex-lib with stamp to top wrap, and label to verso of top wrap. Exeter: Printed by W.V. Cole & Sons, 1932. £9.00
Cooper (Thomas Henry) A GUIDE CONTAINING A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LYNTON and other Places Adjacent in North Devon, including Ilfracombe. With 5 vignette steel engravings, folding pedigree, lacks map, xvi + 114pp, 12mo, original cloth, cloth damp spotted, fragment of label(?) adhering to front pastedown, tear repaired with cellotape to front endpaper, early ownership name with an Ilfracombe address to front endpaper. T. Hearson, printer, Barnstaple: c.1853. £12.00
Coppard (Rev. W.J) AN ACCOUNT OF THE CHURCH OF WEMBURY, IN SOUTH DEVON. 7pp, 4to, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1853. £4.00
Cornish (Rev. S.W) SHORT NOTES ON THE CHURCH AND PARISH OF OTTERY ST. MARY, Devon. New Edition, Revised. 70pp, original printed paper boards, partly faded. New Edition, Exeter: Eland Bros, and R.J. Manley, Ottery St. Mary: c.1929. £5.00
Cossins (James) REMINISCENCES OF EXETER FIFTY YEARS SINCE. Illusts, viii + 80pp, 12mo, a.e.g. few marks to the original decorative cloth, covers rubbed to edges, inner hinges partly broken, top outer hinge partly split, light spotting to prelims. First edition, Printed for the Author, William Pollard, Exeter: 1877. £4.00
County Association COME TO DEVON: Official County Guide. Issued with the approval of the Devon County Council. Illusts, maps, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, staples rusty, covers worn and slightly dusty. County Association, Ltd., c.1950. £5.00
Crabbe (William R) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TOMB OF BISHOP BRONESCOMBE, IN EXETER CATHEDRAL. With 4 folding coloured plates, pages numbered 228-237, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, vol 4, 1852. £6.00
Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF THE DEANERY OF KENN, Devon. Illusts, 192pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, short spilt to top outer hinge, pasted to front pastedown is a large folded sheet titled:- 'Notes on the Families of TRIPE, MARTYN and SWETE, in Devonshire, and their Alliances.' The back of one fold is a presentation inscription to 'Mr G. Kenyon-Fuller with kind regards from W. Tripe, Oct. 1935.' First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin. 1912. £18.00 --- See sample text
Crossing (William), edited, and with an introduction by Brian Le Messurier CROSSING'S DARTMOOR WORKER. Illusts, 163pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1967. £4.00
Crossing's HUNDRED YEARS ON DARTMOOR. Edited, and with an Introduction by Brian Le Messurier. Plates and textual illusts, 206pp, lacks dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1967. £5.00
Crowdy (Joe) THE BOOK OF LUSTLEIGH Portrait of a Dartmoor Parish. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 1998. £15.00
Dartmouth REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF DARTMOUTH. (Devonshire.) Title + pages numbered 476-483, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Devon County Council TOTNES and Dartington Outline Plan. Folding coloured plan, illusts, 16pp., oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, top corner of rear cover bruised. Devon County Council, January, 1972. £6.00
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 2. From January 1902 to October 1903. Part I Miscellaneous. Illusts, [vi] + 268pp, original cloth. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1903.... Bound with.... Crossing (William) THE ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF DARTMOOR and its Borderland. Illustrated by T.A. Falcon. Revised Edition. Plates, lacks the folding map, and the facimile which is frequently missing, xii + 184pp. This forms part 2 of Volume 2. Revised edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. Two items bound in 1, later half calf, cloth boards, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and number to verso of title-page, no stamps, some foxing to prelims. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1902 & 1903. £30.00
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 3. From January 1904 to October 1905. Part I Miscellaneous. Illusts, 276pp, disbound. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1905. £14.00
* Includes articles:- Widecombe Storm, 1638; Conventual Houses of Devon; Family and Manor of Dodderidge; St. Mary's Church, Totnes; Yarde Family, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 4, Part 1. January 1906. Plates, 32pp.... Bound with.... Clayden (A.W) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE SCENERY.... Plates, 48pp. Two items bound in one, original wraps, portions chipped from spine affecting lettering, top wrap loose. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1906. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Aveton Giffard Church; Mohun Chronicle at Haccombe; Inscriptions in Devonshire Churches; Summons to Arms, 1644, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 4, Part 3. July 1906. Plates, pages numbered 65-96.... Bound with.... Clayden (A.W) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE SCENERY.... Plates, pages numbered 97-144. Two items bound in one, original wraps, spine slightly chipped to head and foot. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1906. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Memorial Brasses in churches of Stoke-Fleming, St Saviour and St. Petrock, Dartmouth; Great Fire at Crediton; Chichester family of Widworthy and of Virginia, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 4, Part 7. July 1907. Plates, pages numbered 217-248.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) EXETER CHURCHES.... Plates, 48pp. Two items bound in one, original wraps. James G. Commin, Exeter: 1907. £4.00
* Includes articles:- British Stone Circles; Oak Carving at Ashburton in Tudor Days; Preaux family, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. Part 3, July 1908. With 2 plates, pages numbered 73-104.... Bound with.... Appendix. Cresswell (Beatrix) EXETER CHURCHES. With 6 plates, pages numbered 145-176, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1908. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Early English Bosses; Colyton Marriages in Exeter Cathedral; Ancient Records in Kingsbridge Church, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. Part 4, October 1908. With 6 plates, pages numbered 105-136.... Bound with.... Appendix. Cresswell (Beatrix) EXETER CHURCHES. With 6 plates, pages numbered 177-224, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1908 £4.00
* Includes articles:- Colyton Marriages in Exeter Cathedral; Killed by a Bell in the Church of Axminster; "Yonge" Coffin Plates in Colyton Church; Prowse Family, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. Part 5, January 1909. With 5 plates, pages numbered 137-200, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1909. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Arms of Dartmouth; Granville Family; Prous Family; Wrecks in Bigbury and Start Bay; Heraldry in Exeter Churches, etc.
Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. Part 8, October 1909. With 3 plates, pages numbered 265-311 including index.... Bound with.... Appendix. Prideaux (E.K) and Shafto (G.R. Holt) BOSSES AND CORBELS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. With 6 plates, pages numbered 53-84, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1909. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Exeter Civic Seals; Arms of Dartmouth; Colyton: The Old Parsonage; Bakers Company, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Princetown, July, 1905.] Volume 37. Illusts some of which are folding, 590pp, lacks wraps, ex-lib with small stamp to rear of title-page, and last leaf. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1905. £15.00
* Includes articles:- Lydford; Stone Monuments on Exmoor; Dartmoor; Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt and Princetown; Neighbours of North Wyke; Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Albermarle and Devon, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. [Exeter, July, 1915.] Volume 47. Illusts some of which are folding, 440pp, paper chipped from head and foot of spine, and rear hinge. W. Brendon and Son. Plymouth: 1915. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Walrond Screen in Seaton Church; William Pengelly; Tavistock History, Berry Pomeroy Castle; Manors in Exminster Hundred; Bideford under the Restored Monarchy, etc, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art [Plymouth, July, 1916.] Volume 48. [Volume VIII. Third Series.] Illusts some of which are folding, 400pp, few spots and marks to the original printed wraps, small portion missing from foot of spine, and last leaf. Plymouth: 1916. £18.00
* Includes articles:- Dunstones of Plymouth; Devon Members of Parliament; Baptismal Fonts of Devon; Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Tiverton, July, 1919.] Volume 51. Illusts, 283pp, original wraps, spine faded, small portions chipped from head and foot of spine. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1919. £7.00
* Includes articles:- Haccombe; Cob cottages; Baptismal Fonts of Devon, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Lyme Regis, July, 1921.] Volume 53. Illusts, 280pp, original wraps, foot of spine slightly chipped, signed by E. Lega-Weekes on top wrap. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1921. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Dartmoor; Courtney Tomb in Colyton Church; Haccombe; Saxons in Devon, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Salcombe, July, 1923.] Volume 55. Illusts, 279pp, original wraps, foot of spine, and top wrap slightly chipped to edges. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1924. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Hallsands and Start Bay; Haccombe; Great Torrington; Old Devon Farmhouses; Submerged Forest in Bigbury Bay, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Okehampton, July, 1925.] Volume 57. Illusts, 368pp, original wraps, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine.. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1926. £15.00
* Includes articles:- Totnes Parish Church; Okehampton Grammar School; Devonshire Folk Lore, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Lynton, July, 1928.] Volume 60. Illusts, 365pp, recent cloth, ex-lib., stamp and label to front pastedown, and number in ink to verso of title-page. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son, 1928. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Membury; Okehampton in the Civil War; Nymet Tracy with Broad Nymet; Bishop Grandisson; Exeter Members of Parliament; Devonshire Folk-Lore, etc.
Devonshire Association, compiled by A.A. Fursdon. GENERAL INDEX TO TRANSACTIONS Volumes. 61 - 70. (1929-1939) 204pp, original printed wraps, spine slightly rubbed. Torquay: Torquay Times and Devonshire Press, Ltd., 1951. £8.00
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... [Exeter, 1945.] Volume 77. Illusts, x + 308pp, lacks lower wrap, signs where label removed from top wrap, lacks small portion from foot of spine, ex-school lib., with 2 stamps to top wrap. Torquay: Devonshire Press, 1945. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Dartmoor Hutcircles; Tower on Lynmouth Pier; Morwell; Axmouth Haven, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... [Bideford, 1948.] Volume 80. Illusts some of which are folding, xii + 310pp, original wraps, slightly chipped at head and foot of spine. Torquay: Devonshire Press, 1948. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Devonshire Bank Notes; Bideford Bridge, Barnstaple; Bideford Bay; Tavistock Theatre, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Kingsbridge 1958. Volume 90. Plates and illusts in text, vi + 277pp, original wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1958. £11.00
* Includes articles:- Holy and Notable Wells of Devon (II); Broadhempston; Richard Ford and his Handbook For Travellers in Spain; Saunton Erratics; Yeomanry and Mounted Rifles on Devon, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Ashburton 1959. Volume 91. Illusts some of which are folding, x + 238pp, original wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1959. £11.00
* Includes articles:- Holy and Notable Wells of Devon (III); Ashburton Grammar School; Stoke Hill; Dartington Hall; Dartmouth; County Infantry Units, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Ilfracombe, 1961. Volume 93. Illusts, folding maps, 348pp, original wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1961. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Chittlehamholt; Devonshire Church Houses; Sundials in South Devon; Church in the West Country, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Torrington, 1967. Volume 99. Illusts, vii + 402pp, original printed wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1967. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Devonshire Church Houses; Seyntcleres of Tidwell; Torbryan Caves; Old Doors and Doorways of Barnstaple; Plymouth Quakers, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Paignton, 1968. Volume 100. Illusts, xxvii + 410pp, original printed wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1968. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Devonshire Farmhouses; Monumental Brasses in Devon; Braunton Marshes; Excavation of the South Hams; Reaves on Dartmoor, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Honiton, 1970. Volume 102. Illusts, xxvii + 304pp, original wraps. Latimer Trend, Plymouth: 1970. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Boundary of Uplyme; Field Patterns on Dartmoor; 19th century Chumleigh, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Ashburton, 1977. Volume 109. Illusts, xxviii + 251pp, original wraps. institution stamp to half-title. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1977. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Town Defences of Exeter; Trowlesworthy Warren; Nonconformity in Woodbury and Lympstone; Epidemics in Devon, 1538-1837, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Tavistock, 1978. Volume 110. Illusts, xxx + 260pp, original wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1978. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Exbourne; Wheal Cumpston Tin Mine; Lundy; Thurlestone Families; Duke of Bedford's Tavistock Estates, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science and Literature and Art. Ilfracombe, 1981. Volume 113. Illusts, xxix + 219pp, original wraps, Devonshire Press, Plymouth: 1981. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Settlement Site on Harford Moor; Granite Working on Pew Tor and Staple Tor; Sidmouth Shingle; St. Olave's Trust, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science and Literature and Art. Teignmouth, 1983. Volume 115. Illusts, xxix + 214pp, original wraps, institution stamp to top cover and half-title. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1983. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Devon and Newfoundland Cod Fishery; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Sir Charles Hartley and the Improvement of Sutton Harbour, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science and Literature and Art. Hatherleigh, 1984. Volume 116. Illusts, xxviii + 248pp, original wraps, with 2 small library labels to half-title. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1984. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Devonshire Farmhouses; Blue Coat School, Tiverton; Manor of Cadeleigh; Incidence of Industrial Conflict in Devon 1860-1900, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science and Literature and Art. Crediton, 1997. Volume 129. Illusts, xxv + 378pp, original wraps. Latimer Trend, Plymouth: 1997. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Bridges on the Teign River; Sir Peter Balle of Mamhead (1598-1680); Hannah Cowley (1743-1809); The Giant Graves on the Island of Lundy, etc.
Devonshire Association, Chope (R. Pearse) KEY TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION VOLUMES I-LX. (1862-1928) 90pp, original printed wraps, lacks approx. half of spine Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son, Ltd., 1928. £10.00
Dickinson (Rev. F.B) A LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY OF OTTERY, Delivered at The Church Institute On 4th March, 1897. Illusts, 43pp, original pictorial wraps partly faded. Sixth Edition, revised, Wm. Pollard, Exeter: 1953. £8.00
Doe (George M) OLD TORRINGTON LANDMARKS. One plate, 36 pages printed on rectos only, 12mo, original wraps slightly creased. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. "Bideford Gazette" Limited Printers and Publishers. 1931. £16.00
Doidge's DOIDGE'S WESTERN COUNTIES ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL 1933. Illusts, including coloured folding plate, adverts, 451 + (3)pp, original printed paper boards, portions chipped from spine. Hoyton & Cole, Plymouth: 1933. £9.00
* Contains stories and many items of useful information including:- list of fairs in Devon, Medical Practitioners in the Three Towns, Plymouth Councillors, etc.
Duffy (Michael), Fisher (Stephen), and others, editor THE NEW MARITIME HISTORY OF DEVON. Volume 2: From the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Volume 2 of 2. Illusts, 272pp, 4to, dustwrapper. University of Exeter and Conway Maritime Press. 1994. £25.00
Dunstan (G.R), editor THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume 3. 398pp, original printed wraps. Canterbury and York Society in conjunction with Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1967. £6.00
Dunstan (G.R), editor THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume 5. 253pp, original wraps, private bookplate to verso of top wrap. The Canterbury & York Society and Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1972. £6.00
Erskine (Audrey M), editor THE ACCOUNTS OF THE FABRIC OF EXETER CATHEDRAL, 1279 - 1353. Part 2. 1328 - 1353. Frontis and folding plan, xxxvi + 213 - 349pp, complete, original card covers. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume. 24. Torquay: 1983. £6.00
Evans (Rachel) HOME SCENES, OR TAVISTOCK AND ITS VICINITY. Illustrated with mounted photo frontis. and 7 steel engraved vignette views, viii + 176pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed and damp marked, internally clean, short worm trail affecting letter 't' of 'Corrected' on title-page, inner hinges pulled and weak. Second Edition Revised and Corrected. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield. 1875. £26.00
Exeter City Council HISTORIC EXETER. The Ideal Centre for Touring Glorious Devon. Official Guide. Large folding map, illusts, adverts, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Exeter: 1956. £4.00
Exeter City Council HISTORIC EXETER. The Ideal Centre for Touring Glorious Devon. Official Guide. Illusts, adverts, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Exeter: 1958. £5.00
Exeter City Council HISTORIC EXETER. Official Guide. Folding map, illusts, adverts, 132pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Exeter: c.1931. £6.00
Exeter City Council EXETER ILLUSTRATED. Official Guide. Issued on the occasion of the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute. Folding map loosely inserted, illusts, adverts, (xii) + 88 + (24)pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial wraps, covers slightly dusty, small portion from foot of spine. Published by the Official Information Bureau for the City Council, Exeter: 1913. £12.00
Exeter City Council HISTORIC EXETER. The Ideal Centre for Touring Glorious Devon. Official Guide. Illusts, adverts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Exeter: (1949). £5.00
Exeter Diocesan EXETER DIOCESAN ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY. Report Presented Whitsuntide 1876. 16pp, wraps loose and slightly ragged, some spotting mainly to margins. Exeter: William Pollard, 1876. £4.00
Exeter Education EDUCATION WEEK EXETER 6th-12th June, 1926. Plates, adverts, viii + 102 + ix-xviiipp, original wraps. Executive Committee of Exeter Education Week, 1926. £6.00
* Contains much on the history of education in Devon.
Fleming (Andrew) THE DARTMOOR REAVES Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions. Illustrations, diagrams, plans, viii + 135pp, dustwrapper. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1988. £8.00
Fletcher (Ronald) THE PARKERS AT SALTRAM 1769-89. Everyday Life in an Eighteenth-century House. Illusts, 216pp, dustwrapper. B.B.C. London: 1970. £8.00
Freeman (Edward A) EXETER. (Historic Towns Series). With 4 plans, 3 of which are folding, xiii + 255pp, later qtr morocco, cloth boards. First Edition, London: Longmans, Green, 1887. £10.00
Freeman (Rev. E. Vere) LITTLEHAM CHURCH. With 2 plates, pages numbered 86-97, 4to, disbound, pages loose, 2 leaves have small strip torn from one margin. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1856. £6.00
Furneaux (James) A PAPER ON YEALMPTON CHURCH. Pages numbered 245-249, complete, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, vol. 3, 1853. £4.00
Gaydon (Tina) MY NORTH DEVON OF MYTH & MYSTERY. Illustrations by Judy Barber. 76pp, original decorative card covers. Badger Books, Bideford: 1987. £5.00
Gibbs (Roscoe) and Halliday (Maria) A DELINEATION OF THE COURTENAY MANTELPIECE in the Episcopal Palace at Exeter, with a Biographical Notice of The Right Reverend Peter Courtenay.... to which is added A DESCRIPTION OF THE COURTENAY MANTELPIECE, compiled by Maria Halliday. Plates and large folding frontis., 34pp, 4to, in the original unlettered paper boards, slightly chipped at head and foot of spine, folding frontis has a short split to one fold and is slightly foxed. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Printed for Private Circulation Only. At the Office of the Torquay Directory, 1884. £20.00
* With a 2 page, sm 8vo, handwritten letter from Halliday pasted to front endpaper. The first leaf of the letter is slightly discoloured by the front pastedown.
Gill (Crispin) PLYMOUTH A NEW HISTORY. 1603 to the present day. Plates, textual maps and plans, 239pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1979. £6.00
Gill (Crispin) SUTTON HARBOUR. Coloured frontis, illusts, 64pp, oblong 8vo, few small areas lightly rubbed to edges of dustwrapper. Second revised edition. Published by Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, Plymouth. 1976. £8.00
Gill (Crispin), editor DARTMOOR A New Study. Plates, textual diagrams, double-page map, 314 + 4 pages of publisher's adverts, dustwrapper. Second impression, David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1977. £9.00
* Contributors include Brian Le Mesurier, James Barber and John Somers Cocks.
Gill (Crispin), editor DARTMOOR A New Study. Plates, textual diagrams, double-page map, 314 + 4 pages of publisher's adverts, original pictorial card covers. Second impression, David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1977. £5.00
* Contributors include Brian Le Messurier, James Barber and John Somers Cocks.
Granville (Roger) THE HISTORY OF THE GRANVILLE FAMILY. Traced back to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. With folding frontis, 30 plates, lacks the folding pedigree, vi + (i) + 489 + (i)pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, some small spots to spine, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, rear outer hinge has a short split, front inner hinge cracked though sound, marbled page edges. Ex-Tiverton Memorial library with their donation bookplate to front endpaper, which is signed by the donor, and with his indelible stamp to front endpaper and to title-page, slight signs to front endpaper where old label removed. William Pollard, Exeter: 1895. £100.00
* The pedigree is frequently missing.
Gray (Patricia) THE HAUNT OF GRAVE-ROBBERS AND MURDERERS The History of Stoke Damerel Church, Devonport. Unabridged Edition. 138pp, 4to, cloth backed pictorial card covers, Privately published, n.d. £22.00
Gray (Todd) EXETER UNVEILED. 270 Unknown Images of the City's Past. Coloured and black and white illusts, 135pp, 4to, dustwrapper. The Mint Press, Exeter: 2003. £12.00
* Signed by the author on the title-page.
Gray (Todd), editor DEVON HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS, 1627-59: Part 2. Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath of Tawstock and London, 1637 - 1655. Frontis, plates, sketch maps, liv + 341pp, original card covers, slight crease to foot of top cover. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 39. Torquay: 1996. £8.00
Gray (Todd), edited and with an introduction by THE LOST CHRONICLES OF BARNSTAPLE 1586-1611. Frontis, illusts, maps, xiv + 188pp, square 8vo, decorative card covers. First Edition. Devonshire Association. 1998. £10.00
Green (Christina) BEATRICE CHASE My Lady of the Moor. Illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers, couple of small areas rubbed to top cover. Daw Printers, Dawlish: 1974. £4.00
Greeves (Tom) TIN MINES AND MINERS OF DARTMOOR. A Photographic Record. Illusts, maps, 86pp, original pictorial card covers, spine faded. Devon Books, Exeter: 1986. £7.00
Grey (Rev. William) REMARKS ON SOME TOWERS OF CHURCHES IN THE SOUTH OF DEVON. Text illusts, pages numbered 127-135, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1843. £6.00
Gribble (Joseph Besly) MEMORIALS OF BARNSTAPLE; Being an attempt to supply the want of A History of that Ancient Borough. Lacks folding tables, the plan and the plate, x + 194pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, slightly rubbed, lacks most of spine, lettering piece chipped affecting some characters, some browning to a few leaves. First edition. Barnstaple: Printed by the North Devon Journal Office, by J. Avery. 1830. £15.00
* This is the first part, the second part covered pages 195-640.
Griffith (Frances) DEVON'S PAST An Aerial View. Coloured and black and white illusts, map, 127pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Devon Books, Exeter: 1988. £4.00
Groser (Albert) GLIMPSES IN NORTHERN EUROPE By West Countrymen, The Pen of One But the Thoughts of Five. Peeps at the Capitals of Sweden, Finland, Denmark & Russia. 18pp, lacks spine and lower wrap. Plymouth: Reprinted from the "Western Morning News", 1886. £10.00
* Groser came from Plymouth.
Halberton, transcribed and edited by C.A.T. Fursdon. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS of the Parish of Halberton. 1605 - 1837. xii + 408pp, lacks the 22 page supplement i.e. 'Corrigenda and Addenda', binders cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, private library label to front pastedown. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1930-1931. £65.00
Hamilton-Edwards (Gerald) TWELVE MEN OF PLYMOUTH. With 8 plates, pictorial endpapers, 96pp, lacks dustwrapper, signed by the author/publisher on the title-page. First edition, privately published, Plymouth: 1951. £9.00
* Includes:- Hawkins, Drake, Northcote, Prout etc.
Harper (Charles G) THE SOUTH DEVON COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts, xiii + 304pp, original cloth, First edition, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907. £24.00
Harper (Charles G) THE NORTH DEVON COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts. xiii + 247pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, small hole to rear outer hinge, small snag to head of spine. First edition, London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1908. £22.00 --- See sample text
Harris (Helen) INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF DARTMOOR. With plates and textual diagrams, 239pp, original cloth, dustwrapper covered with loose plastic cover, top of dustwrapper has portion of surface damaged, possibly after removal of label. First edition, Augustus M. Kelley Ne York: 1968. £8.00
Harvey (Hazel) DISCOVERING EXETER. No 5. Sidwell Street. Plans, illusts, 48pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Exeter Civic Society, 1986. £4.00
Harvey (Hazel) EXETER PAST. Map endpapers, illusts, 116pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1996. £5.00
Hawker (George) A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF FRANCIS JAMES BLIGHT, F.R.S.E. PUBLISHER Chairman and Managing Director from 1899 to 1927 of Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd., Publishers. With 32 half-tone plates. xxii + 176pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. Elliot Stock, London: 1931. £16.00
* Includes 2 chapters on the families origins in Devon from the 16th century to the 18th century and their connection with Topsham.
Hele School BORN IN EXETER. By The Historical Society of Hele's School, Exeter. Illusts, 144pp, lacks dustwrapper, original cloth, partly faded, page edges browned. A. Wheaton, Exeter: 1950. £5.00
* Includes chapters on Sabine Baring-Gould; Nicholas Hilliard; Richard Hooker, etc.
Hemyock Registers, transcribed by A.J.P. Skinner. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF HEMYOCK, Devon, 1635 - 1837. With the Bishops Transcripts for the Years 1602, 1606, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, 1636, and a List of the Rectors and Chaplain Priests. 255pp, lacks title, prelims, and index, later unlettered cloth, ex-lib. with labels to endpapers, stamp to top board. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1923. £30.00
Henley (Ellen Pamela), (His sister), WILLIAM CUMMING HENLEY: His Days & Ways. Illusts., xxi + 68pp, small folio, original card covers, slightly worn and chipped dustwrapper. First edition, Dartmouth: R. Cranford, 1953. £7.00
* Henley lived in Dartmouth, was a local ironmonger and part time artist. After his death his sister opened a museum in his old workshop, displaying his pictures, etc. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Ida Walker the caretaker of the collection.
Henry (Lord Bishop of Exeter) A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER on Thursday the 24th of August, 1837, at the Consecration of the New Cemetery by Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, and Published at the Request of the Mayor, The Commissioners of Improvement, and the Clergy of Exeter. 23pp, disbound. Exeter: Printed by Woolmer & Co., Gazette Office; 1837. £12.00
* Contemporary inscription on half-title.
Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF WALTER DE STAPELDON, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1307 - 1326). Folding facsimile frontispiece, xxxiv + 584pp + 7pp list of subscribers, original cloth, rubbed to edges, front inner hinge cracked. London: George Bell, Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1892. £25.00
Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF EDMUND STAFFORD, (A.D. 1395 - 1419); An Index and Abstract Of Its Contents. xvi + 485 + 6pp list of subscribers, original cloth, narrow strip torn from head of spine, short split to head of outer hinges, horizontal split across spine. London: George Bell, Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1886. £25.00
Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1420-1455) Part I,- The Register of Institutions. With Some Account of the Episcopate of John Catrick (A.D. 1419). Frontis, xx + 415pp, original cloth, some discolouration to title-page. London: George Bell & Sons., and Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1909. £25.00
Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF THOMAS DE BRANTYNGHAM Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1370 - 1394). Part II. Folding pedigree, xlii + 575 - 978pp, original cloth, small amount of worming affecting fore-edges of prelims, and endpapers. London: George Bell & Sons., and Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1906. £20.00
Hoskins (W.G) DEVON AND ITS PEOPLE. With 12 illusts, and 6 maps and plans, 176pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, name to front endpaper, paper clip stain to top margin of 3 leaves. Exeter: A. Wheaton, 1968. £4.00
Hoskins (W.G) DEVON AND ITS PEOPLE. With 12 illusts, and 6 maps and plans, 176pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Second impression, Exeter: A. Wheaton, 1959. £4.00
Hutchings (W.J) OUT OF THE BLUE History of the Devon Constabulary. Illusts, xii + 204pp, original printed card covers, lacks portions from head and foot of spine, not affecting title. Privately printed, Forward dated 1956. £8.00
Jacson (Colonel M) THE RECORD OF A REGIMENT OF THE LINE Being A Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment During the oar War. Plates, lacks the 2 maps, which appear never to have been bound in, 226 + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, original cloth, partly faded, some spotting to boards, contemporary inscription on the front endpaper. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. £16.00
Jaine (Tom) THEN & NOW - the architectural heritage of DARTMOUTH, KINGSWEAR & District. Illusts, 32pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Dartington Trust, 1976. £4.00
Joce (T.J) EXETER ROADS AND STREETS. Pages numbered 121-133, complete, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1943. £4.00
Joce (T.J) GOATPATH. (Devon) With 2 plates, and pages numbered 307-310, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1931. £4.00
Joce (T.J) THE EXETER AND DARTMOUTH ROAD. Folding map, 8pp, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1912. £6.00
Joce (T.J) THE ORIGINAL MAIN ROAD WEST OF EXETER. Folding map, 6pp, lacks the wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1918. £6.00
* The road runs over Hackway Down, through Okehampton and west over Broadbury Down.
Joint (Laura) TORQUAY UNITED The first 70 years. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Obelisk Publications, Exeter: 1991. £10.00
* Presentation inscription signed by the author, and others.
Jones (John) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION, DISCIPLINE, AND USAGES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER. By John Jones, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Charles Baratty, Esq. F.S.A. Read 13th March, 1817. Pages numbered 385-416, 4to, lacks wraps, top leaf loose, very browned, and ragged to inner margin. From Archaeologia. London: 1818. £7.00
Jones (Mary) THE HISTORY OF CHUDLEIGH IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, and the surrounding Scenery, Seats, Families, etc. Revised and Corrected by William W. Snell. With a mounted photographic frontispiece, 182pp, original cloth, a.e.g, few spots to prelims. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Edward Keyser. Second Edition. Exeter: S. Drayton, Chudleigh: G.E. Searle, 1875. £60.00
Jubb (Ian) EXETER COLLECTION. 48 illusts, with descriptive text, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Ian Jubb, Exeter: 1993. £4.00
Keene (Peter) & Pearce (Brian) VALLEY OF ROCKS LYNTON. Illusts, 44pp, original pictorial card covers. Thematic Trails, Oxford: 1993. £4.00
King (R.J) FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEVONSHIRE FOLK-LORE. 10pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1876. £4.00
King (Richard John) THE FOREST OF DARTMOOR, and its Borders. A Historical Sketch. xii + 138pp, 12mo, original cloth, occasional light foxing. London: John Russell Smith, 1856. £40.00
King (Richard John) THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY AND OF THE HOLY CROSS, AT CREDITON. With 5 plates, folding plan, pages numbered 81-113, 4to, disbound, plates and plan loose, quarter inch tear to top margin of plates. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1876. £8.00
Kingdom (Anthony R) THE YEALMPTON BRANCH. Illusts, diagrams, maps, 136pp, original pictorial card covers. Oxford Publishing Company, Headington: 1974. £8.00
Knowling (Philip) & Pengelly (Lee) DEVON'S BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS Numerous coloured photographic illusts, 144pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2003. £8.00
Lace (Peter) A GUIDE TO SHORE ANGLING on the North Devon Coast and Lundy. Illusts, maps, adverts, 52pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial wraps, top wrap slightly creased. Thos. W.R. Evans, 1994. £4.00
Lambert (Anthony J) DEVON from old photographs. Illusts, 48pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. The National Trust, London: 1993. £4.00
Lamplugh (Lois) BARNSTAPLE Town on the Taw. Plates, textual illusts, roy 8vo, xv + 174pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1983. £8.00
Lamplugh (Lois) BARNSTAPLE Town on the Taw. Plates, textual illusts, xv + 174pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Second edition revised, Phillimore, Chichester: 2002. £10.00
Lawrence (Rod) THE EXE. A River for Wildlife. 191pp, original pictorial card covers, ex-lib. with small label to last leaf, and slight signs where label removed from half-title. Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1991. £4.00
Lega Weekes (Ethel) COUNTY ARMAMENTS IN DEVON IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 17pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1909. £4.00
* This is a short analysis of the county's preparedness to defend itself.
Lega Weekes (Ethel) GALLANT BOWERS Frontis, pages numbered 237-248, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1929. £4.00
Lega Weekes (Ethel) AN ACCOUNT OF THE HOSPITIUM DE LE EGLE, SOME ANCIENT CHAPELS IN THE CLOSE, AND SOME PERSONS CONNECTED THEREWITH. Plan, pages numbered 480-511, text complete, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1912. £4.00
* Concerns the Close in Exeter.
Lega Weekes (Ethel) THE EARLIEST KNOWN LANDHOLDERS OF THROWLEIGH. Pages numbered 185-189, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1940. £4.00
Lega Weekes (Ethel) THE FREEMANS OF ASHBURTON, BUCKFASTLEIGH, BOVEY-TRACEY, ETC. Pages numbered 450-454, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1913. £4.00
Lega-Weekes (Ethel) RICHARD WEEKES, Gentleman at Arms and Prisoner of the Fleet. Frontispiece, 11 pages, original wraps. 1908. £6.00
* This was an article originally included in Sabine Baring Gould's "Devonshire Characters and Strange Events." which was published in 1908. Richard Weekes was from North Wyke in Devon and was related to many prominent families including the Grenvilles and Stukeleys. He was committed to Fleet prison for debt and died in 1670.
Lega-Weekes (Ethel) THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF SOUTH TAWTON. Parts 1, 2, and 4 only of 4, parts 1 and 4 have the original wraps, part 2 lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1906, 1907, 1909. £10.00
Manaton (Arthur) "YOUR BEAUTIFUL TOWN" being the Interim Report of the Barnstaple Slums and Housing Committee prepared for the consideration of the Burgesses. 16pp, original pictorial card covers, some pencil marginalia. N.D. Journal Herald, Barnstaple: 1944. £8.00
Mate's MATE'S ILLUSTRATED DEVONSHIRE. A Descriptive and Historical Guide to the Health and Pleasure Resorts, and places of Interest.... Numerous illusts, local adverts, folio, original cloth, rubbed, top corners of boards nibbled?, inner hinges pulled. W. Mate & Sons, Ltd., Bournemouth: 1906. £20.00
Mee (A), editor DEVON Cradle of our Seamen. With 400 places and 200 pictures. Plates, map endpapers, 500pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth impression. Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1951. £6.00

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Mozley (T) HENRY VII Prince Arthur and Cardinal Morton. From a Group representing the Adoration of the Three Kings on the Chancel Screen of Plymtree Church. With an Appendix Containing a Notice of "Nicholas Monk, Rector of Plymtree;" "John Land," &c. With a tinted litho. and a folding plate, 149pp, roy 8vo, original cloth lightly rubbed to edges, stitching weak. Printed for T. Mozley, Rector of Plymtree: 1878. £15.00
Nesbitt (F) ILFRACOMBE PARISH CHURCH. Folding plan, and 15 plates, 91pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and stamp to verso of title-page. Second Edition. Ilfracombe: Twiss Bros., 1906. £4.00
Newton (Robert) EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EXETER. With 7 plates, xiii + 192pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. University of Exeter: 1984. £10.00
Newton (Robert) VICTORIAN EXETER 1837-1914. Frontis, illusts, folding map, xxi + 415pp, original cloth, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded with a couple of short tears to foot of spine. Leicester University Press: 1968. £5.00
Norris (Thomas George) A PAPER ON THE STATUE OF S. PETER, North Street, Exeter. Plate, pages numbered 159-162, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1862. £4.00
Oliver (Rev. George) THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF EXETER. With a short Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix of Documents and Illustrations. Folding plan, xiv + 337pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, head and foot of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper, front inner hinge weak, occasional light foxing. Exeter: William Roberts, 1861. £30.00
Oliver (The Rev. George) DIG(NATORIES) OF EXON CATH(EDRAL). Appendix only. Extracted from Oliver's The History of Exeter, 1821. xxxivpp, interleaved with blanks, 12mo, early cloth, leather label, titled as above, cloth damp spotty, occasional foxing and light damp marks, lower portion of first leaf cut away, some ink 'corrections' and marginalia to text, notes in ink to several of the blanks. With the signatures of Edward Windeatt, and Wm Harding to front endpaper, presumably one or both of them contributed to the ink notes. Printed by R. Cullum, Exeter: 1821. £12.00
O'Neill (H.C) DEVONSHIRE IDYLS. Frontis, 219pp, sm 8vo, few spots to original cloth, spine faded. New Edition, London: Andrew Melrose, 1922. £5.00
Owen (D.M), editor JOHN LYDFORD'S BOOK. Frontis, 203pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 20. 1974. £4.00
* Includes 11 page index of persons and places.
Parkham. transcribed by John Ingle Dredge. With introduction by Edward Hensley. THE REGISTERS OF PARKHAM. xxvi + 214pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1906. £40.00
Parry (H. Lloyd) THE HISTORY OF THE EXETER GUILDHALL AND THE LIFE WITHIN. With 12 plates, 174pp, untrimmed in the original cloth. Printed for the Exeter City Council, by John Townsend, Exeter: 1936. £8.00
Parry (H. Lloyd) THE FOUNDING OF EXETER SCHOOL. A History of the Struggle for freedom of Education within the City of Exeter. Illusts, (vi) + 135pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, 2 areas damaged from top outer hinge, one approx 1" long, intruding onto spine, and another small hole. James G. Commin, Exeter and Chatto and Windus, London: 1913. £12.00
Passmore (Dick) THE STORY OF THE THEATRE ROYAL EXETER. Illusts, 118pp, folio, original pictorial boards. Signed by the author on the title-page. The Mint Press, Exeter: 2002. £10.00
Peach (L. Du Garde) UNKNOWN DEVON. Illustrated by Gyrth Russell. With 8 colour plates, and numerous line drawings, vi + 206pp, sm 4to, original cloth, partly faded, spine and prelims spotty, name partly erased on front endpaper. First edition, London: John Lane, 1927. £12.00
Pike (John) and Torquay Natural History Society PAIGNTON. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing Co., 1997. £8.00
Pike (John R) PORTRAIT OF TORBAY. Illusts, 62pp, covers illustrated with a map. Torbay Borough Council. £4.00
Pike (John) TALL SHIPS IN TORBAY. A Brief Maritime History. Illusts, 142pp, original pictorial card covers. Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1986. £8.00
Plymouth Institution ANNUAL REPORTS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society. Volume 19. 1943-44 and 1944-45. With 3 plates, xxiii + 126pp, original wraps, stamp of an institution on top wrap. Underhill, Plymouth: 1947. £8.00
* Includes chapter on Natural History of the Plymouth Rubble Heaps; Plymouth Chantries; Ratter Street Congregational Church; Early Newspapers in Plymouth and the West; Prysten House; Canada and the Empire Air Training Scheme, etc.
Pollard (Sheila H.M) A ROMANO-BRITISH AND POST MEDIEVAL ROAD AT HONEYDITCHES SEATON. Plates, folding diagram, pages numbered 222-226, complete, original card covers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society, 1970. £4.00
Ponsford (C.N), Scott (J.G.M) and Authers (W.P) CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS OF TIVERTON. With 10 plates, 64pp, original card covers. Tiverton: Maslands Limited, 1977. £10.00
Ponsford (Clive N), editor SHIPBUILDING ON THE EXE. The Memoranda Book of Daniel Bishop Davy (1799-1874) of Topsham, Devon. With a biography of Robert Davy (1762-1862) Frontis, illusts, xxix + 105pp, original card covers, dustwrapper, stamp to front endpaper. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 31. Torquay: 1988. £8.00
Prideaux (E.K) and Shafto (G.R. Holt) BOSSES AND CORBELS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. An Illustrated Study in Decorative & Symbolic Design. Illusts, lacks plan, 228pp, disbound. London: Chatto and Windus, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1910. £6.00
Pullen (Sue) & Harding (Jane) ILFRACOMBE. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2003. £5.00
Radford (Arthur Locke) EDMUND AND RICHARD TREMAYNE Plate, 10pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1901. £4.00
Radford (Arthur Locke) ANDREW AND NICHOLAS TREMAYNE 11pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1898. £4.00
Radford (Cecily and Raleigh), editor FIFTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, TWELFTH, FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, & SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS COMMITTEE. 8 Reports. All in the original printed wraps, ex-lib. with a stamp and label to verso of top wrap of a few parts. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1926-1938. £4.00
Radford (Cecily) EARLY DRAMA IN EXETER. Pages numbered 361-370, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1935. £4.00
Radford (Cecily) THREE CENTURIES OF PLAYGOING IN EXETER. Pages numbered 241-269, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1950. £4.00
Radford (Lady) MARGARET BEAUFORT, COUNTESS OF DEVON. Pages numbered 291-298, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1935. £4.00
Radford (Mrs G.H) LADY HOWARD OF FITZFORD. Frontis, folding pedigree, 49pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1890. £7.00
* In the 16th century Lady Howard had a notorious reputation in Tavistock and her ghost was said to run in the shape of a hound from the gateway of Fitzford to Okehampton Park after midnight. She married four times, her last husband was Sir Richard Grenville.
Radford (Mrs G.H) SYDENHAM. 4pp, lacks top wrap, few spots to top margins. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1895. £4.00
Radford (Mrs G.H) THOMAS LARKHAM. (1602-1669). 52pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1892. £4.00
* He was an English Puritan clergyman and became a vicar at Bideford in1626. He moved with his family to Massachusetts in 1640. After returning to England he became a controversial vicar in Tavistock, spent time in prison, and ended up as an apothecary in Tavistock.
Radford (Mrs G.H) THE WYSES AND TREMAYNES OF SYDENHAM. Frontis, 22pp, lacks wraps? Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1909. £4.00
Radford (Ursula) MISS BURNEY IN DEVONSHIRE. Frontis, pages numbered 279-288, lacks the wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1927. £4.00
* 'When Dr. Johnson called Fanny Burney a "character monger" he was thinking of her novels.'
Radford (Ursula) WILLIAM DAVY, PRIEST AND PRINTER. (1743-1826). Frontis, pages numbered 325-339, lacks the wraps, light waterstain to top margin. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1931. £4.00
* Davy was the vicar of Winkleigh, Devon from 1825-6. He wrote a work on 'Divinity' which he printed himself.
Reichel (Rev. O.J) THE HUNDRED OF TIVERTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. 31pp, original printed wraps. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son, 1928. £10.00
Reichel (Rev. O.J) THE CHURCH AND THE HUNDREDS IN DEVON. Pages numbered 331-342, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from Transactions of Devonshire Association, 1939. £4.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF AXMINSTER AND AXMOUTH IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 53pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1931. £10.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF BRAUNTON, SHIRWELL AND FREMINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 136pp, original wraps, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, rear outer hinge partly split, private library labels to covers. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. 1935. £10.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF SOUTH MOLTON AND ROBOROUGH IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. 68pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1930. £12.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF BLACK TORRINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 57pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1932. £12.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF HEMYOCK AND HALBERTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 31pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1929. £8.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF COLYTON AND CLYSTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 53pp, original printed wraps, small label to top wrap. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. 1934. £8.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE ONE-TIME HUNDREDS OF NORTH MOLTON AND MOLLAND IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 11pp, original wraps. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. 1936. £6.00
Richardson (Joan M), foreword CENTRAL CONSERVATION STUDY EXETER. Illusts, 32pp, slight crease to top cover, original pictorial card covers. Exeter City Council, 1977. £4.00
Roberts (Stephen K) RECOVERY AND RESTORATION IN AN ENGLISH COUNTY: Devon Local Administration 1646 - 1670. Textual maps, 232pp, dustwrapper. University of Exeter: 1985. £8.00
Robertson (James), Clements (Pauline) THE DEVON BOOKS Capturing the flavour of Devon in a nutshell. Line drawings, map, 64pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, Clover Press, Dulverton: 1981. £5.00
* Presentation inscription by Robertson on front endpaper.
Robinson (Chris) HARVEST HOME and a hundred other PUBS OF PLYMOUTH PAST & PRESENT. Illusts, maps, 101pp + (15)pp index, original pictorial card covers. Signed by the author on the title-page. Pen & Ink Publishing, Plymouth: 1996. £8.00
Robinson (Chris) VICTORIAN PLYMOUTH Illustrated As Time Draws On. Illusts, map, xiii + 210pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Pen and Ink Publishing, Plymouth: 1991. £8.00
Robinson (Chris), writer and illustrator PLYMOUTH As Time Draws On. Illusts, xi + 210pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Pen and Ink Publishing, Plymouth: 1985. £8.00
* Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper.
Rogers (Rev. John) A SERMON PREACHED IN EXETER CATHEDRAL, AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEVON AND EXETER NATIONAL SCHOOLS, July 28th, 1835. Published at the Request of the General Meeting. 23pp, disbound. Falmouth: Printed and Sold by J. Trathan: 1835. £8.00
* Rogers was the Canon Residentiary of Exeter Cathedral and Rector of Mawnan.
Rogers (W.H. Hamilton) THE SEPULCHRAL EFFIGIES IN THE PARISH CHURCHES OF NORTH DEVON. Illustrated with 19 plates and numerous illusts in the text, 193-542pp, complete, 4to, original cloth backed printed paper boards, few slight marks to covers. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1877. £18.00
* Forming Part II. Volume III. Second Series of Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society.
Rose-Troup (Frances) THE STUDY OF PLACE AND FIELD-NAMES. 4pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1919. £4.00
Rose-Troup (Frances) FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH REPORTS OF THE PLACE-NAME SECTION (Devon) 8 parts each with 2, 4, 5 or 9 pages, original printed wraps, ex-lib. stamp to first leaf of 3 parts. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937 and 1938. £4.00
Rowe (J. Brooking) THE SECOND VOLUME OF JOHN PRINCES "WORTHIES OF DEVON." 8pp, in the original printed wraps, small ex-lib. stamp to top margin of first leaf. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1900. £4.00
Rowe (J. Brooking) THE CISTERCIAN HOUSES OF DEVON. IV. Newenham and V. Dunkeswell; VI. Ford. Illusts, 2 parts, in the original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1877-1878. £8.00
Rowe (J. Brooking), introduction RICHARD PEEKE OF TAVISTOCK. His Three to One, The Commendatory Verses and the Play of Dick of Devonshire. x + 23 + 100pp, includes a 2 page index, disbound. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1905. £8.00
Rowe (J.B) ON THE OCCURRENCE OF CALOSOMA SYCOPHANTA IN DEVONSHIRE. 2pp, in the original printed wraps, occasional light foxing. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1873. £4.00
Rowe (J.B) DEVONSHIRE GILDS. (Guilds) PLYMOUTH and TOTNES. 6pp, in the original printed wraps, occasional light foxing. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1873 £4.00
Rowe (Margery M), and Draisey (John M), editor, trans. and intro. THE RECEIVERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE CITY OF EXETER 1304 - 1353. Frontis, xxxi + 128pp, paperback with dustwrapper. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 32. Torquay: 1989. £4.00
Sambourne (R.C) EXETER A Century of Public Transport. Plates, maps, 104pp, 4to, slightly faded dustwrapper. Glasney Press, Falmouth: 1976. £12.00
Sandford (E.G) THE EXETER EPISCOPATE OF ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE 1869-1885. Frontis and 2 plates, 366pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to outer hinges, short split to foot of top outer hinge, private library label to front pastedown, lacks front endpaper. London: MacMillan and Co. 1907. £12.00
Scott (John) and Gray (Gladys) OUT OF THE DARKNESS. A brief history and description of the Old Quarry, Beer. Illusts, 21pp, original pictorial card covers. Axminster Printing Co. Ltd., c.197- £4.00
Scott (Wilfred) TO A FARMER BORN. Plates, 110pp, 12mo, original pictorial; card covers, private bookplate to verso of top cover. Bristol Broadsides (Co-op) Ltd., 1987. £9.00
* Scott's memories of being bought up on Middle Longcombe, a farm situated between Totnes and Paignton.
Sellman (R.R) ILLUSTRATIONS OF DEVON HISTORY. Maps, plans, illusts, diagrams, 60pp, 4to, original pictorial cloth. Methuen and Co., London: 1962. £4.00
Sharland (E. Cruwys) WAYS AND MEANS IN A DEVONSHIRE VILLAGE. A Book for Mothers' Meetings. 159pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional spotting to text, inner hinges pulled, and weak. S.P.C.K. London: 1886. £4.00
* Fiction. Sharland was a Tiverton author.
Shelly (John), editor EIGHTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF WORKS OF ART IN DEVONSHIRE. 10pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1887. £4.00
Simmons (Jack), editor A DEVON ANTHOLOGY. 285pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Macmillan, London: 1971. £6.00
* Numerous extracts from works by Risdon, Rowse, Williamson, Torr, Gosse etc., etc.
Skinner (A.J.F.) SOUTHCOTT OF DULCISHAYES, KILMINGTON ( Devon ) An Extension of the Pedigree as given by Vivian. 12 pages, in the original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1916. £4.00
South Molton REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF SOUTH MOLTON. (Devonshire) Title + pages numbered 612-616, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
St. Andrew's, Plymouth, edited by M.C.S. Cruwys. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREW'S PLYMOUTH Co. Devon A.D. 1581-1618 with Baptisms 1619-1633. 588pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued, a few leaves partly waterstained at the rear. The Devon & Cornwall Record Society. Exeter: 1954. £75.00
* This item was issued in parts over some years and rarely turns up complete.
Stanes (Robin) A HISTORY OF DEVON. Drawings by Jim Stanes and Judy Stevens. Cartography by Jim Stanes. Maps, diagrams, plates, 128pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1986. £9.00
Steele-Perkis (A. Peter), and others SIGILLVM CIVITATIS EXONIE. Exeter Schools' Octocentenary Celebrations. May 7th to 12th, 1962. Programme of Events. Illusts, adverts, 40pp, 12mo, original card covers. 1962. £4.00
Strong (H.W) INDUSTRIES OF NORTH DEVON. A Reprint with an Introduction and Notes by B.D. Hughes. xxxvi + [viii] + 224pp, dustwrapper. First published 1889. Reprinted, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971. £15.00
Thomas (Peter) A CENTURY OF EXETER. Illusts, 120pp, dustwrapper. Sutton Publishing, Stroud: 1999. £8.00
Thomas (Peter) and Warren (Jacqueline) ASPECTS OF EXETER. Numerous illusts, 334pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Reprinted, Baron Jay, Plymouth: 1981 £10.00
Thomas (Peter) EXETER Yesterday & Today. Illusts, 159pp, original pictorial card covers. Sutton Publishing, Stroud: 2000. £5.00
Thomas (Peter) IMAGES OF DEVON. Numerous coloured illusts, 144pp, oblong small 4to, original pictorial card covers. Westcountry Books, Tiverton: 1995. £4.00
Thomas (Peter) OLD EXETER A Portfolio of Photographs. Illusts, 174pp, original pictorial paper boards, slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, covers covered in a transparent plastic sheet. Baron Jay, Plymouth: 1977. £8.00
Thompson (R.W) HOME IN HAM. With drawings by Gay Thomas, map endpapers, 240pp, dustwrapper. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol: 1938. £12.00
* Concerns Georgeham in North Devon.
Thompson (W. Harding) DEVON, a Survey of its Coasts, Moors & Rivers, with some Suggestions for their Preservation. With 44 plates, 6 coloured folding maps, 3 textual illusts, xx + 144pp, 4to, original cloth, foot of boards rubbed, lacks dustwrapper. University of London Press Ltd. 1932. £12.00
Thomson (Allen) ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE PLYMOUTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, August 15, 1877. 33pp, unbound, stitched as issued, title-page slightly dusty and slightly spotty. London: Taylor and Francis, 1877. £5.00
Tichmarsh (P.A) THE BEST OF SOUTH EAST DEVON. A guide with map and photographs. The Jarrold 'White Horse' Series. Large coloured folding map, surrounded with photographs and descriptions of places indicated on the map, original pictorial card covers. Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich: 1971. £4.00
Tiverton Borough Council TIVERTON The Borough & Rural District. Illusts, adverts, 48pp, original card covers, small portion torn from rear wrap. Third edition, County Associations Ltd., c.1955. £4.00
Tiverton REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF TIVERTON. (Devonshire.) Title + pages numbered 624-630, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Torbay Borough Council BERRY HEAD Official Guide Book. Illusts, 30pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Torbay County Borough, c.198- £4.00
Torbay Official Guide TORBAY Torquay - Paignton - Brixham. For Your Information 1974. Illusts, 15pp, original printed wraps, top wrap spotty. Resort Services Dept, Torquay: 1974. £4.00
Torquay Pottery SCANDY. THE TORQUAY POTTERY COLLECTORS' SOCIETY Magazines a run from April 1989 - Winter 2002. 51 issues in total, each issue is illustrated and contains between 28 and 48 pages. The issue for January 1993 is a photocopy. This run lacks:- April 1994, October 1998, May and August 1998, February 1999, Summer and Autumn 2002. April 1989 - Winter 2002. £25.00
Torr (C) SMALL TALK AT WREYLAND. First Series. Illusts, 120pp, untrimmed in the original qtr buckram paper boards, corners slightly rubbed. Reprinted, Cambridge University Press: 1918. £5.00
* 'Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign.... The land is on the east side of the Wrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh.' Preface.
Torr (C) SMALL TALK AT WREYLAND. Third Series. Illusts, 112pp, 3 volumes, tall 8vo, untrimmed in the original qtr buckram, paper boards, pasted to the front pastedown is a newscutting obituary from The Times in 1928 for Cecil Torr. First edition, Cambridge: 1923. £8.00
* 'Wreyland is land by the Wrey, a little stream in Devonshire. The Wrey flows into the Bovey, and the Bovey into the Teign.... The land is on the east side of the Wrey, just opposite the village of Lustleigh.'
Torr (Cecil) BOVEY TRACEY CHURCH-RATES AND POOR RATES 1596-1729. 23pp, pamphlet, original printed wraps. For Private Circulation. Plymouth: 1928. £8.00
Travis (John) AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH. 1770 - 1914. Illusts, 190pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, signed by the author on the title-page. Breedon Books, Derby: 1995. £12.00
Travis (John) LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH. Glimpses of the Past. Illusts, 190pp, dustwrapper, small ink note to front endpaper. Breedon Books, Derby: 1997. £8.00
Tregoning (Lance) BOVEY TRACEY In Bygone Days. A Portrait of a Dartmoor Town. Photographic illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Devon Books, Exeter, 1989. £14.00
United Devon Association THE BOOK OF FAIR DEVON. Plates and textual illusts, 209pp, original cloth boards, tall 12mo, front inner hinge cracked though sound, few spots to prelims. United Devon Association, Exeter: 1899-1900. £6.00
Ward Lock A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO DARTMOOR, Including Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, Ashburton, Moreton Hampstead, Chagford, Okehampton, Lydford, Tavistock, Yelverton, and Dousland, Princetown, Ivybridge. South Brent. etc. With 3 folding plans, illusts, 144 + 47pp of adverts, sm 8vo, Ninth Edition - Revised, Ward, Lock & Co., c.192- £5.00
Warne (Arthur) CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEVON. Illusts, 184pp, original cloth, dustwrapper, slightly rubbed to edges. First edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1969. £5.00
* 'through the Charity Schools and later through the Sunday Schools, it shouldered almost alone the burden of providing education for the poor....'
Waterhouse (Gordon), and others EDUCATIONAL USE OF DARTMOOR - A Survey. Table, maps, 92pp, small folio, original decorative card covers, spiral binding. Devon County Council, 1977. £6.00
Whale (Rev. T.W) FEES OF EARL HUGH DE COURTENAY. Pages numbered 318-336, complete, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1906. £4.00
Wheeleker (Susannah) and Eyles (Sarah) POOR RELIEF IN DEVON. 38pp, original pictorial card covers. Devonshire Association, Exeter: 1991. £4.00
White (Matt) DARTMOUTH AND THE SOUTH DEVON POTTERIES. With coloured and black and white illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper. The Crowood Press, Ramsbury: 2002. £10.00
Whitfeld (Henry Francis) PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT IN TIMES OF WAR AND PEACE. Numerous illusts, xi + 560pp + 48 + ivpp, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth, top of rear outer hinge split for approx. 3", ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and stamp and numbers to verso of title-page. Second Edition, Plymouth: E. Chapple. Devonport: Hiorns and Miller, 1900. £40.00
* Titled:- 'Subscriber's Copy' on top board.
Whitham (John A) OTTERY ST MARY. Maps, plates, textual illusts, xiii + 124pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1984. £8.00
Williams (T.H), Plymouth PICTURESQUE EXCURSIONS IN DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL. Part I. Devonshire. With a vignette title-page and 22 full page plates, textual illusts, ix + 40 + 107 + (1)pp,, roy 8vo, early half calf, boards loose and very rubbed and chipped, lacks spine, lacks top corner of title-page partly affecting the letter 'E' of 'Picturesque', the first 4 plates partly waterstained, some spotting to margins to plates. J. Murray, London: 1804. £50.00
* See Somers Cocks's Devon Topographical Prints, No S30. This work is divided into 3 sections:- (a) Picturesque Excursions in Devonshire.... (b) Tour to the North of Devon and Excursions in South Devon. This was to be Part 1 of a 2 part work; the second part devoted to Cornwall, was never published.
Wilson (Francis Rought) THE HISTORY OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH BRIXTON SOUTH DEVON. With Five Illustrations by H.W. Goffin. x + 54pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. London: S.P.C.K. 1926. £18.00
* With the signature of C.W. Bracken, the local author, on front endpaper.
Wood (Edwin) THIRTY WALKS AROUND ILFRACOMBE. Maps, 32pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps. North Devon Printing Works, Ilfracombe: c.1956. £4.00
Woolmer (S) A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF EXETER, Its Neighbourhood, and Adjacent Watering Places, Being an Interesting Companion for All Persons residing at, or resorting to this Ancient City: Giving a familiar Narrative of its History, from the earliest Period, to the Present Time. Together with a Variety of Particular Occurences and Anecdotes Compiled from the best Authorities. Engraved frontis, and 1 other plate, 108pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in the original paper boards, with the original printed label on top board, boards rubbed and soiled, crude cloth spine overlapping onto boards, 8 leaves very spotty. Second Edition, with Additions and Improvements. Printed and Sold by S. Woolmer, Exeter: 1811. £28.00
Worth (R. Hansford) DARTMOOR. Compiled from the author's published works and edited by G.M. Spooner & F.S. Russell. Numerous photographic plates & diagrams, 523pp, xiv + (2) + 523pp, original cloth lightly rubbed. Second impression, Published by the Executors of the late Richard Hansford Worth Plymouth: 1954. £15.00
Worth (R. Hansford) DARTMOOR. Compiled from the author's published works and edited by G.M. Spooner & F.S. Russell. New edition with introduction by G.M. Spooner. Numerous photographic plates & diagrams, map endpapers, xiv + (ii) + 523pp, original cloth, few spots to faded spine, lacks dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1967. £6.00
Worth (R. Hansford) WORTH'S DARTMOOR. Compiled from the author's published works and edited by G.M. Spooner & F.S. Russell. New edition with introduction by G.M. Spooner. Numerous photographic plates & diagrams, map endpapers, xiv + (ii) + 523pp, dustwrapper. Third impression, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1981. £7.00
Worth (R. Hansford) MARCHANTS CROSS, MEAVY. With 1 plate, full page illust, pages numbered 203-204, original wraps, ex-lib. label and stamp to verso of top wrap, stamp to first leaf. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1942. £4.00
Worth (R.N) TOURIST'S GUIDE TO SOUTH DEVON: Rail, Road, River, Coast and Moor. With Map and Plan. 135pp + 32pp [adverts], sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly shaken, inner hinges cracked, short tear to map. Fourth Edition, London: Edward Stanford, 1886. £14.00
Worthy (Charles) DEVONSHIRE PARISHES, or the Antiquities, Heraldry and Family History of Twenty-eight Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Totnes. In 2 volumes, xi + 376pp and viii + 390pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. LIMITED TO 225 COPIES on small paper. Exeter: William Pollard, London: George Redway, 1887-9. £150.00
* Covers:- Bickleigh, Sheepstor, Walkhampton, Buckland Monachorum, Meavy, St. Peter Tavy, Maristow, Thrushelon, Lamerton, Lidford, Milton Abbot, Ashprington, Dartmouth, Broad-Hempston, Little-Hempston, Wolborough, Hennock, North Bovey, Lustleigh, Denbury, South Brent, Harford, Shaugh, Kingsteignton, Highweek with Newton Bushel, Tor-Mohun, and St. Mary Church.
Wright (W.H.K) PLEASANTRIES FROM THE "BLUE BOX" Being a Selection of Papers "From grave to gay, from lively to severe" by YE BROTHERS BLUE. xvii + 292 + 2 page list of subscribers, original cloth, damp marked to top corner of boards, internally sound. London: Elliot Stock, and Plymouth: W.F. Westcott, 1881. £16.00

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