AMBRA BOOKS Dorset Clearance List History, Topography and Genealogy Antiquarian and Secondhand Books 10% Discount for 2 items 20% Discount for 4 items 30% Discount for 6 items This is a selection from my stock. Please let me know if there are any other titles you are looking for. .

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1. Barnes (William) TWENTY POEMS IN COMMON ENGLISH. With an introduction by John Drinkwater. Little Nineteenth Century Classics. 43pp, sm 8vo, original printed paper boards, slightly rubbed, pages slightly creased at corners. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1915. £6.00
   
   
2. Benfield (Eric) THE TOWN OF MAIDEN CASTLE. Illusts, 70pp, dustwrapper. First edition 1947. £18.00
   
   
3. Beningfield (Gordon), Zeman (Anthea) HARDY COUNTRY. Coloured and black and white illusts, 141pp, oblong folio, couple of tears to dustwrapper. Allen Lane, London: 1983. £10.00
   
   
4. Brooks (J.A) LYME REGIS Folding map, coloured illusts, 16pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. K. & M. Hurst, Lyme Regis: n.d. c196- £3.00
   
   
5. Dorchester Borough Council DORCHESTER Dorset. Official Guide. Illusts, adverts, folding map, 111pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial card covers. The Friary Press, Dorchester: c.1970. £6.00
   
   
6. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Edited by C.W.H. Dicker PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. VOLUME 32. With illusts, lxxvi + 251pp, original cloth, occasional light foxing. Dorchester: Dorset County Chronicle. 1911. £20.00
   * Includes articles on:- Saxon Saints at Wimborne; Dorchester Gallows; Sir George Somers; Memorial Brasses of Dorset, etc., etc.

   
   

7. Grundy (G.B) DORSET CHARTERS. Pages numbered 239-268, original printed wraps, top wrap slightly soiled. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1933. £7.00
   * Contains the Introduction and Preface and covers:- Almer, Arne, Bradford Abbas, Buckland Newton.

   
   

8. [Grundy (G.B)] DORSET CHARTERS. Pages numbered 110-130, original printed wrappers partly faded. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1934. £7.00
   * Covers:- Cann, Chalbury, and Cheselborne.

   
   

9. Oliver (Vere L) CERNE ABBEY. Heraldry by V.F.M. Oliver. 2 photographic plates and a coloured plate of coats of arms, 11 pages, original printed wrappers, partly faded. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, c.1938. £5.00
   
   
10. Penn (K.J) HISTORIC TOWNS IN DORSET. Monograph Series No 1. Plans, 133pp, folio, original illustrated wraps. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1980. £12.00
    
    
11. Pitfield (F.P) DORSET PARISH CHURCHES A - D. Described and Depicted by F.P. Pitfield. Line drawings, plans, 232pp, folio, original cloth. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 595 COPIES. Milborne Port: 1981. £22.00
    * Signed by author on title-page.

    
    

12. Prideaux (W. De C) AN ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. With 5 illusts, pages numbered 195-208pp, original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1902. £5.00
    
    
13. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Volume Four NORTH DORSET. With two folding maps and 3 folding plans in pocket at rear, 80 plates, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, xxxix + 142pp. 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1972. £30.00
    * Includes:- Ashmore, Bourton, Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Iwerne Minster, Shaftesbury, Silton, Tarrant Hinton, West Stour, etc., etc.

    
    

14. Salmon (Arthur L) DORSET. Cambridge County Geographies. With Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations, 154pp, original cloth, rubbed, REAR outer hinge partly split, spine partly held by tape, ex-lib, with labels to half-title and verso of front endpaper. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1910. £5.00
    
    
15. Selincourt (Aubrey de) DORSET. Drawings and watercolours by Barbara Jones. Plates, drawings, double-page and folding maps, 48pp, lacks dustwrapper, ex-lib, with labels to endpapers and stamp to title-page. First edition, London: Paul Elek, 1947. £6.00
    * Vision of England Series.

    
    

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