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Addington (A.C) THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. The Descendants of King James VI of Scotland James I of England. Volume 2 of 3 only. Illusts, xiii + 409pp, folio, original cloth, slightly chipped to head of spine. Charles Skilton, London: 1971. £20.00
Addyman (P.V) EXCAVATIONS IN YORK, 1972-1973. First Interim Report. Plates, illusts in the text, pages numbered 200-231, complete, original paper wraps, stapled, short tear to top wrap. Reprinted from The Antiquaries Journal, London: 1975. £5.00
Alford (D.P) A TALE OF TRESCO, AND THE TAVISTOCK CHIMES, and Other Poems, Mostly of the West Country. 72pp, 12mo, original cloth, pasted onto the front endpaper is a signed hand-written letter by the author. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894. £25.00
Allen (N.V) THE EXMOOR HANDBOOK. Folding map, plates, 72pp, original pictorial card covers. Fourth edition, Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1979. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Allsop (Niall) IMAGES OF THE KENNET & AVON 100 Years in Camera. Bristol to Bradford-on-Avon. Maps, numerous illusts, original pictorial card covers, bookplate to verso of top cover. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1987. £5.00
Associated Industrial Consultants THE ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH WEST. Part 1. Volume 1, Regional Survey, Economic Analysis; Part 1. Part 1. Maps Volume 2, Statistical Data. 3 volumes, 124 pages printed on rectos, and numerous tables, 27 maps, many of which are folding, folio, original card covers, stapled, lacks spines, small stamp to first leaf of each volume. Second Edition, Joint Committee for the Economy of the South West, 1965. £16.00
Atkin (Alastair Brian) EXMOOR'S GREATEST WALK. Illustrated by the author. 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Exmoor Books, Tiverton: 2000. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Atkinson (Barry) MINING SITES IN CORNWALL AND SOUTH WEST DEVON. Illusts, ix + 86pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1988. £5.00
Atkinson (R.L) COPPER AND COPPER MINING. Shire Album 201. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Shire Publications, Aylesbury: 1987. £4.00
Badcock Family PEDIGREE OF THE BADCOCK FAMILY of Somerset and Devon. 8pp, roy 8vo, unbound, stitched as issued, top leaf spotty. c.1927. £8.00
Baddeley (M.J.B) BATH AND BRISTOL and Forty Miles Round. Through Guide Series. With 18 maps and plans, several of which are folding, xxix + 231 + 48pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, short tear to one map. Thomas Nelson, London: 1908. £9.00
Bath and West of England Society JOURNAL OF THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION for the encouragement of Agriculture..... Volume 7. Third Series. Illusts in the text, iv + 205 + cxxxvipp, original paper wraps, head of spine slightly chipped. London: William Clowes, 1875. £7.00
* Includes:- Buckman on The Geology of the County of Cornwall; Darby on Sussex Cattle, etc.
Beddington (Winifred G) and Christy (Elsa B) IT HAPPENED IN HAMPSHIRE Doings, Sayings, and Interests, Past and Present. Collected from Villages in Hampshire by Members of the Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes. Signed by Beddington on the half-title. 222pp, short tear to top outer hinge of the paper wraps. The Hampshire Federation of Women's Institute, Winchester: (1937) £4.00
Bell (Vicars) TO MEET MR. ELLIS Little Gaddesden in the Eighteenth Century. With 4 plates, line drawings, 160pp, portion chipped from head of dustwrapper. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. £4.00
Bettey (J.H) RURAL LIFE IN WESSEX 1500 - 1900. Plates, 151pp, original pictorial card covers, top corner of top cover slightly creased. First edition, Bradford on Avon: Moonraker Press, 1977. £4.00
Bettey (Joseph), editor ARCHIVES & LOCAL HISTORY ON BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Essays in Honour of David Smith. Maps, diagrams, illusts, xiii + 288pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2007. £8.00
Bewley (Robert) PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENTS. Illustrations, colour plates, diagrams, 144pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford Ltd / English Heritage, London: 1994. £5.00
Bickham (Spencer H) THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, LEDBURY. With 5 plates, 8pp, original printed wraps, small portion cut from lower corner of top wrap. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1920. £4.00
Binding (Hilary) & Pearce (Brian) EXMOOR VILLAGE. Celebrating the Enduring Landscape of Exmoor and its People Over Fifty Years. Illusts, 158pp, small 4to, dustwrapper. Exmoor Books, Dulverton: 2004. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Binding (Hilary) EXMOOR 40 YEARS ON. For the Exmoor National Park Authority in Celebration of the first Forty Years of the Exmoor National Park. Illusts, 102pp, small 4to, original pictorial card covers. Exmoor Books, Tiverton: 1994. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Binding (Hilary), editor THE CHANGING FACE OF EXMOOR. A Changing Community. Illusts, 105pp, small 4to, original pictorial card covers. Exmoor Books, Tiverton: 1995. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Birch (Clive) THE BOOK OF BEACONSFIELD. Cr 4to, 148pp, dustwrapper. Includes 1 page list of subscribers. Second Edition. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1982. £5.00
Bonham-Carter (Victor) THE ESSENCE OF EXMOOR. Illusts, map, 200pp, dustwrapper. The Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1991. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Bonser (Wilfrid) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLKLORE As contained in the first eighty years of the publications of the Folklore Society. xiv + (11) + 126pp, original cloth. Folk Lore Society, London: 1961. £10.00
Bradley (A.G) HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell, double-page map, xiii + 332 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, spine slightly faded, few spots to cloth. Reprinted, London: MacMillan 1908. £12.00
Brake (Ted) MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER A History of the National Union of Street Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers. Illusts, 4446pp, dustwrapper. Lawrence and Wishart, London: 1985. £6.00
Bray (Peter) AROUND AND ABOUT CLAY COUNTRY Cornwall and Devon 1872-1924. "A Glimpse of Yesteryear". Illusts, map, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Corran Publications, St. Ewe: 1988. £6.00
Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD ESTATES in the Parishes of Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall, comprising the Farms of Liddaton, Telay, Tresoke, Tippaton & Trevivian. In all about 637 Acres, with One-fourth the Manor of Penpont and Treglasta.... To be sold by Public Auction August 24th, 1918. 12pp, folio, original printed wraps. 1918. £20.00
* Included the Chief Rents of the Manor and Mineral Rights over 3,000 Acres of waste land.
Bridgnorth District SOUTH SHROPSHIRE ELECTIONS, 1865 AND 1868. Bridgnorth District. COPY OF THE POLLS. Candidates in 1865. Colonel The Hon. Percy E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart. Robert Jasper More, Esq. Candidates in 1868. Robert Jasper More, Esq. Major-Gen. The Right Hon. Percy E. Herbert, Col. Edward Corbett. 26pp, 12mo, unbound, stitched as issued, title-page slightly dusty. London: Haverson & Martin, (1868) £12.00
Bristol and West of England REPORT OF THE BRISTOL AND WEST OF ENGLAND ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY. With 3 plates, 38pp, original printed wraps are soiled, some corners of pages curled, spotting to prelims. Printed by Joseph Leech: 1849. £7.00
* Includes an article on the Bristol High Cross. The plates are architectural details of Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym.
Brown (Martyn) AUSTRALIA BOUND! The Story of West Country Connections 1688-1888. Illusts, maps, 223 +(1)pp, original pictorial card covers, bookplate to verso of front cover. Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1988. £7.00
Burke (Thomas) THE CHARM OF THE WEST COUNTRY. An Anthology, xvi + 244 + (1)pp, original cloth, ownership label to front endpaper. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. London: Simpkin Marshall, 1913 £5.00
Burke's Peerage THE BURKE'S PEERAGE WORLD BOOK OF CHESTERS. Illusts, 160pp, roy 8vo, original card covers. Halbert's Family Heritage, U.S.A. 1997. £15.00
Burt (Roger), Waite (Peter) and Burnley (Ray) DEVON AND SOMERSET MINES. Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845-1913. 136pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded. University of Exeter and The Northern Mine Research Society, 1984. £11.00
Burton (S.H) EXMOOR. Illusts., 175pp, dustwrapper, page edges and prelims spotty. First Edition, Westaway, London: 1952. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Burton (S.H) EXMOOR. Illusts., 192pp, small mark, and slight rubbing to top outer hinge of dustwrapper. Fourth edition, Robert Hale, London: 1984. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Camp (Anthony J), editor AN INDEX TO THE WILLS PROVED IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY 1750-1800. Volume 5. N - Sh. 259pp, original card covers. London: Society of Genealogists. 1992. £6.00
Canon Frome THE REGISTERS OF CANON FROME, Hereford. 1680 - 1812. 58pp, disbound, ex-lib with a few indelible stamps. Privately Printed for the Parish Register Society. 1903. £4.00
Chafin (William) A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURNE CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., occasional spotting, untrimmed in early plain paper boards, top outer hinge partly broken, ex-Dorset museum library, with label to front pastedown. London: J. Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1818. £60.00
Chandler (John) WESSEX IMAGES. Map endpapers, black and coloured photos, 191pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper, minor scratch mark to rear flap of dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1990. £5.00
Chanter (Rev. J.F) and Worth (R. Hansford) THE RUDE STONE MONUMENTS OF EXMOOR AND ITS BORDERS. Part II. Plate, text diagrams, pages numbered 539-552, original wraps, partly faded, first and last leaves browned, short split to foot of spine. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1906. £7.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Chope (R.P) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. A reprint with a new introduction by Alan Gibson. xiv + 339pp, dustwrapper rubbed to edges. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1967. £9.00
* Includes extracts from the works of:- John Leland, William Stukeley, William Marshall, Celia Fiennes, etc.
Clew (K.R) THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL. An Illustrated History. With 30 plates and 20 text illustrations including maps. 206pp, dustwrapper rubbed to edges. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £16.00
Coe (Kenneth), editor SOME ASPECTS OF THE VARISCAN FOLD BELT. The Lectures Delivered to the Ninth Inter-University Geological Congress. Diagrams, folding plans, vii + 163pp, dustwrapper protected in a plastic sleeve. Manchester University Press: 1962. £6.00
* Includes chapters on Devon and the West Country.
Coleman-Cooke (John) EXMOOR National Park Guide No 8. Map, illusts, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. Third impression with amendments, London. H.M.S.O. 1979. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Collings (A.G) ALONG THE SOUTH WEST WAY. Part I. Minehead to Bude. 184pp, dustwrapper. Tabb House, Padstow: 1985. £4.00
Collins (J.H) A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. 10 plates showing 246 figs. of crystals. 72 + 108 + [x]pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, lacks dustwrapper. Originally published 1871, Reprinted Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1969. £11.00
Cooke (David) CHRISTIAN CEMETERIES OF VIZAGAPATAM & WALTAIR. Illusts, map, 381pp, original pictorial card covers. BACSA, Putney, London: 1992. £15.00
Cossons (Neil) INDUSTRIAL MONUMENTS IN THE MENDIP, SOUTH COTSWOLD AND BRISTOL REGION. Field Guide No. 4. 32pp, original decorative card covers, owners name and date on title-page. Bristol Archaeological Research Group, Bristol: 1967. £4.00
Cox (Rev. Thomas) CAMBRIDGESHIRE Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map by Morden, and a folding map of the Fens, pages numbered 226-270 + leaf of distance table, recent cloth, occasional light foxing, small hole in map of Fens. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £35.00
* Includes sections on:- the various Hundreds; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc.
Cox (Rev. Thomas) CHESHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map by Morden, textual illusts, pages numbered 273-304 + lacks page of distance table, disbound, occasional light foxing. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £35.00
* Includes sections on:- Charity Schools; Roman remains; Ecclesiastical History, etc.
Cramer (James) THE BOOK OF PORTSMOUTH. Numerous illusts, 4to, 144pp, dustwrapper. includes 3 page list of subscribers. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1985. £4.00
Davey (Edwin) & Roseff (Rebecca) HEREFORDSHIRE BRICKS & BRICKMAKERS. Illusts, plans, 144pp, original pictorial card covers. Logaston Press, Woonton Almeley: 2007. £8.00
Davey (Ernest) OUR LOVE OF EXMOOR Exploring Inland Exmoor. Coloured illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2005. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Davies (J.C) A HISTORY OF BORLASE SCHOOL. Plates, 107 + (iv)pp, original qtr cloth, paper boards, slightly soiled and slightly rubbed to edges. Aylesbury: G.T. De Fraine, 1932. £12.00
* Contains a brief mention of Sir William Borlase's Cornish ancestry.
Delderfield (Eric R) EXMOOR WANDERINGS. Map, plates, 139pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps. Third edition enlarged, Raleigh Press, Exmouth: (1963) £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Delderfield (Eric R) EXMOOR WANDERINGS. Map, plates, 173pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps. Fourth edition enlarged, Raleigh Press, Exmouth: (1968) £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and R. Jowett Burton DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 1. vi + (i) + 157pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1906. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry usually up to the year 1812. Contains the parishes of Dale Abbey; Stanton-by-Dale; Stanley; Breaston; Sandiacre; Risley; Ockbrook; Boulton; Heath alias Lownd or Lund; Church Broughton; Hault Hucknall; Mackworth; and Allestree.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and F. Strutt DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 2. vi + (i) + 144pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1907. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812 for Brailsford and for Duffield up to 1766.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and others. DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 3. vi + (i) + 146pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1907. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812, and for Mellor up to 1775. Contains the parishes of Duffield, Spondon, Mellor, and Kirk Ireton.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 4. (v) + 147pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1908. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the parishes of St. Alkmund, Derby; Quarndon; Tickenhall; and Foremark.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 5. (v) + 156pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1909. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the parishes of Norton; St. Michael, Derby; Chaddeson; West Halham; and Morton.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 6. (v) + 149pp, original cloth, few small spots to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1909. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the parishes of St. Peter, Derby; Normanton; Osmaston; Alvaston; Willington; Kirk Langley; and Chellaston.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 7. (v) + 152pp, original cloth, light damp marks to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1910. £12.00
* Records the marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812 for all except Kirk Hulham which is 1837. Contains the parishes of Ilkeston; Kirk Halham; Horsley; and Matlock.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 9. vi + (i) + 153pp, original cloth, light damp marks to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1912. £12.00
* Contains the parish of Derby All Saints and records the marriages celebrated up to 1837.
Derbyshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and L.L. Simpson DERBYSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 10. vi + (i) + 179pp, original cloth, light damp marks to boards, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 1912. £12.00
* Contains the parish of Derby, St. Weburgh's from 1558-1837.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 6. Part 4 of 8 only. With 4 plates, pages numbered 97-128pp.... Bound with.... Prideaux (E.K) and Shafto (G.R. Holt) BOSSES AND CORBELS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. Illusts in the text, pages numbered 181-228, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1910. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Knights of the Royal Oak; "Drake" Entries from the Parish Church of Registers of Musbury; Vicars of Townstall and Dartmouth, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 1 of 8 only. With plates, 48pp.... Bound with.... Title + Index, and list of plates for volume 6, original printed wraps, portion missing to head of spine, short split to top outer hinge. James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1912. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Branscombe Church; Devon Armaments in Eighteenth Century; Richard Farrant, the Puritan "Rector"; Bideford Witches; Exeter Castle, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 2 of 8 only. With plates, pages numbered 49-80.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 4 plates, 1-32pp, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1912. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Sir Joshua Reynolds: His Maternal Ancestry; Silver Mines in Devonshire; Hele Family; William Strode of Newnham, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 3 of 8 only. With plates, pages numbered 81-112, complete.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 4 plates, pages numbered 33-64pp, original printed wraps partly faded. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1912. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Courtenay Arms; Mules or De Moelis Family of Kingerswell and Diptford; John Carpenter, Vicar of Branscombe; Yarde Heraldry; Posset Pans; Acland Family; Prideaux of Tavistock, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 4 of 8 only. With 4 plates, pages numbered 113-144.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 5 plates, pages numbered 65-96pp, original printed wraps, with signature and a few notes to top wrap, and with occasional pencil marginalia. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1912. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Folk lore: The Piskies; John Davis, the Navigator and Fulford; Posset Pans; Cock Pit, Truro; Family of Pyne; Kellways and De Esse Families, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 5 of 8 only. With 11 plates, 7 loosely inserted and 6 of these are folding, pages numbered 145-192, original printed wraps are loose, slightly ragged, and lacking 2" from spine, James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1913. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Exeter City Wall; Family of Walters; Rectors of Talaton; Early Charters of Crediton, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 6 of 7 only. With 36 plates, pages numbered 193-224.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 4 plates, pages numbered 97-128, original printed wraps, partly faded, with the signature of E. Lega-Weekes to top wrap and a few marginal notes by her. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1913. £4.00
* Includes articles:- The Luppitt Font; Periam Pole; Dial on Bampton Church; Harris family of Wortham and Pickwell; John Bampfylde, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 7 of 8 only. With 6 plates, pages numbered 225-256.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 5 plates, pages numbered 129-160pp, original printed wraps, partly faded. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1913. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Great Coinage Hall of Lostwithiel; Family of Pyne; West Country Clock and Watch Makers; Vicars of Cadbury, Devon; Notes on William of Worcester's Itinerary of Cornwall; Erisey Family, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. From January 1914 to October 1915. Part I Miscellaneous. With 27 plates, 255pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, short split to foot of rear outer hinge. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1915. £20.00
* Includes articles:- Dartmoor trees; Prideaux Family; Kingskerswell Church; Topsham Privateer; Totnes Priory; Sidmouth; Tenants of Manor of Okehampton; Yeo family of Bradworthy; British Camp at Exeter, etc. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Hugh Wilson Holman.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 3 of 8 only. With 1 plate, pages numbered 65-96, complete.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 2 plates, 32pp, original printed wraps, occasional spotting. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1914. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Dunkeswell Font; Rectors of Southleigh; Hermits and Early History of Badgeworthy; Totnes, etc. With Lega-Weekes signature to front and rear wrap.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 4 of 8 only. With 3 plates, pages numbered 97-128pp, complete.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 5 plates, pages numbered 33-64, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1914. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Vivians of Truro and St. Crantock; Sandford Church Figures; Totnes; John Rattenbury; Raleigh Inscriptions in St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 5 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 129-160pp.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 2 plates, pages numbered 65-96, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1915. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Tenants of Manor of Okehampton; Sidmouth; Topsham Privateer King George; Defaulters at Bishops Tawton; Succession of Vicars of Mevagissey; Vicars of St. Just-in-Penwith, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 6 of 8 only. With 9 plates, 161-192pp.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 2 plates, pages numbered 97-128, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1915. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Inventory of the Ornaments and Jewels delivered to the Archpriest of Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall, 1st October, 1430; Dartmoor Trees; Totnes; British Camp at Exeter; Tokens Issued by James Lackington, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 7 of 8 only. With 3 plates, 193-224pp.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 2 plates, pages numbered 129-160, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1915. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Devon Patriotism and Organisation, 1803; Exeter City Wall; Athelstan's Dyke, Exeter, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 8 of 8 only. With title-page and list of plates for volume, 3 plates, pages numbered 225-255pp.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel) SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 2 plates, pages numbered 161-200, original printed wraps, name of E. Lega-Weekes name, and note by her on Top wraps, and with occasional pencil marginalia by her. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1915. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Ancient Buildings in Exeter; Thomas Larkhan and Benjamin Cox, Exeter, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 1 of 8 only. Plate, 32pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. With 2 plates, 32pp, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1916. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Armory on Pole Monument in Colyton Church; Mayoral Elections held in Churches; Nicholas Izacke, Mayor of Exeter, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 2 of 8 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 33-64pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. Pages numbered 33-64, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, April, 1916. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Ancient Liturgical MS discovered in Exeter Cathedral Library; Arms of the Family of Manningford; Stooke of Waddon and Clifford of Chudleigh, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 3 of 8 only. With 3 plates, pages numbered 65-96pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. Plate, pages numbered 65-96, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1916. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Rev. William Henry Thornton; Parish of Welcombe; Old Fire Hooks at Truro; Gennys of Launceston; Prowse Memorials in Chagford Church, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 4 of 8 only. With 4 plates, pages numbered 97-128pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. With 2 plates, pages numbered 97-128, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1916. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Armorial Bearings at "The Abbot's Lodge," The Close, Exeter; Ashton Parish Church of St. John the Baptist; Ancient Devon Clay Pipes; Hayman Family; Wyke Arms; Derivation of the Name of Heavitree, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 5 of 8 only. With 8 plates, large folding reprint of Morden's Devonshire, pages numbered 129-160pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. With 2 plates, pages numbered 129-160, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: 1917. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Booksellers and Printers in Devon and Cornwall in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; West Country Pewterers; Crest of Strode of Devon, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 9. Part 7 of 8 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 193-224pp.... Bound With.... Appendix. Chope (R. Pearse) EARLY TOURS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. With 1 plate, pages numbered 193-224, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1917. £4.00
* Includes articles:- John Mudge, Printer; West Country Clock and Watchmakers; Seal of the Council for the Affairs of New England in Plymouth, Co. Devon; Stoke Gabriel Sextons; Early Churchwardens Account, St. Mary Major, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 11. Part 1, January 1920 and Part 2, April 1920 With 6 plates, pages numbered 1-48 and 49-80.... Bound with.... Clarke (Kate M) THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. 32pp, later cloth, with the original wraps bound in. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1920. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Norman Corbels at Plympton; Hurling in Cornwall; Cornish Engineers: The Hornblowers; Walrond of Bovey; Bristol Rollers (glass rolling pins); Churchill family, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 11. Part 5 of 8 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 145-192, complete.... Bound with.... Clarke (Kate M) THE PRIORY FOR NUNS OF ST. MARY, CORNWORTHY, DEVON. With 1 plate, pages numbered 1-16, later cloth, original wraps bound in, ink note on top wrap. James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1921. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Boulden family; Booksellers and Printers in Devon and Cornwall; Cary of Cockington, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 13. Part 2 of 8 only. With 3 plates, 49-96pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, mark on top wrap. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1924. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Devon Mathematicians; Manor Mill of Trematon Castle; Tribus Minutis Family; Vicars of Buckfastleigh since the Commonwealth, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 13. Part 6 of 8 only. With 3 plates, 241-288pp, original printed wraps, ink note and few marks to top wrap, few pencil and ink notes in text. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1925. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Pointz Family; Family of de Fissacre and the Murders of Thomas a Beckett; Will of George Hodder of Topsham, 1692, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 14. Part 2 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 49-96pp, original wraps, occasional spotting. James G. Commin. Exeter: April, 1926. £4.00
* Includes articles:- John Cross the Tiverton artist; John Catrick, Bishop of Exeter; Curgeneven Family; Daniel Gumb, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 15. Part 2 of 8 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 49-96, complete, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, April, 1928. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Daniel Defoe and Brixham; Exeter Clergy in 1415; Bishop Conan and St. Buryan; Cheneys in Devon, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 15. Part 3 of 8 only. With 3 plates, pages numbered 97-144, original printed wraps. James G. Commin, Exeter: July, 1928. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Marks on Old Weights; Ancestors of John Hooker; Ugborough Church Bells; Stone Circles at Drewsteignton; Lord Arundell's Rent Roll, 1771-2, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 16. Part 2 of 8 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 49-96, original wraps. James G. Commin, Exeter: April, 1930. £4.00
* Includes articles on:- Kistvaens at Thornworthy; Trackways; Smith of Thornecombe; Pronunciation of some Place-Names in Devon; Rectors of St. Lawrence, Exeter, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. Part 1 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 48pp, original wraps, slight crease to top wrap. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: January, 1934. £4.00
* Includes :- Puritan Ministers of Cornwall under the Commonwealth; Heraldic Shields at Weare Giffard Hall; Early Champernowne History, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. Part 2 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 49-96pp, original wraps. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: April, 1934. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Great-Haldon Duel, 1833; Pyle family of Talaton; Exeter Memorials in Surrey; Old Church Needlework at Marlborough, near Kingsbridge, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. Part 4 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 145-192pp, original wraps. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: October, 1934. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Polsloe Priory; Lands of the Marquis of Exeter; Keble and Cornishes of Shalcombe; Brihtricestan, a Lost Manor; Woollen Industry in Great Torrington, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. Part 7 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 289-336pp, original wraps, wraps faded and slightly chipped to edges. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: July 1935. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Family of Le Daneys; Some Medieval Devon Coroners; Bowhill House, Exeter; Hollands of Bowhill in St. Thomas's Exeter; St. Buryan Charter; Rouse or Royal Oak Goblet, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. Part 8 of 8 only. With title-page and list of plates to volume, 2 plates, 337-392pp, original wraps faded, and slightly chipped to edges, spotting to prelims, ex-lib. with small stamp to front wrap, and to first endpaper. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: 1935. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Hugh Peter and the submission of Eastern Cornwall; Chantry Priests at Plymouth; Exeter in the Civil War and Interregnum, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 18. From January 1934 to October 1935. In the original 8 parts, with 20 plates, 392pp, some fading to original wraps, one spine partly damaged, few small tears to wraps. James Townsend and Sons, Exeter: 1934-1935. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Crediton underground passages; Woollen industry in and around Great Torrington; Pyles of Talaton; Minchin Court, Aylesbeare; Hugh Peter; Copplestone; Hugh Peter in Devonshire; Heraldic Shields at Wear Giffard; Hugh de Courtenay, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 19. Parts 3 and 4 of 8 only, bound in 1. 6 plates, pages numbered 97-192pp, original printed wraps. James Townsend, Exeter: July-Oct. 1936. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Ancient Monuments near Liskeard; Champernowne and Francis Drake; Paignton and Miles Coverdale; Castle Dore, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 19. Part 8 of 8 only. With title-page, and list of plates to volume, 3 plates, pages numbered 337-392pp, original printed wraps. James Townsend, Exeter: October, 1937. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Palmer House, Great Torrington; Pepperell of Massachussetts Bay, New England, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 20. Part 4 of 8 only. With 2 plates, 145-192pp, original wraps, wraps slightly ragged, ink note to top wrap. James Townsend and Sons. Exeter: October, 1938. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Parliament of 1372; Early Arundells; Cox of Farway and Colyton; Pote Family, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 23. Part 6 of 12 only. Plate, pages numbered 161-192, complete, original printed wraps, covers dusty, with some marks. James Townsend, Exeter: April, 1948. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Tavistock Savings Bank; Devonshire Painters in London Exhibitions, 1760-1769; Dabernon, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 23. Part 11 of 12 only. Plate, pages numbered 337-368, complete, original printed wraps. James Townsend, Exeter: July, 1949. £4.00
* Includes articles:- King Athelstan and the Parish of St. Buryan; Culling family of Woodland; Church of St. Germoe, Cornwall; Cornish Cresset Stones, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 24. Part 3 of 8 only. Plate, pages numbered 73-104, complete, original printed wraps. Exeter: James Townsend, July, 1950. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cross at St. Enoder; Surname Tresilian; Hillersdon Roll; Surrender of Pendennis Castle; Surname Rosuggan, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 25. Illusts, 230pp, binders cloth, ex-lib, stamp to top cover, labels to pastedowns, numbers to foot of spine and verso of title-page. James Townsend, Exeter: 1952-1953. £20.00
* Includes articles:- Dennys Family; Cornish Miners; Cornish Crosses; Burials in Woollen; Budleigh Salterton; Totnes Church; Arms of Pomeroy; Fowey; Colyton; Ivybridge; Rohants of Dodbrook and Portlemouth, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 26. Part 2 of 10 only. 2 plates, pages numbered 33-64, complete, original printed wraps. James Townsend & Sons Ltd. Exeter: April, 1954. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Crosses; Thomas Bawden, Parson of Michaelstow and St Wenn; Monument of Sir Peter Carew; Glebe and Tithe of St. Buryan, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 26. Part 4 of 10 only. 6 plates, pages numbered 97-128, complete, original printed wraps. James Townsend & Sons Ltd. Exeter: October, 1954. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Crosses; Demolition of Riverside House, Wadebridge, 1954; Hannah Cowley's Descendants; Butcher Row, Exeter, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 26. Part 8 of 8 only. Title-page for volume, 2 plates, pages numbered 225-246, complete, original printed wraps. James Townsend & Sons Ltd. Exeter: October, 1955. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Crosses; Umberleigh Weir, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 27. Part 3 of 12 only. Plate, pages numbered 65-80, complete, original printed wraps, private library stamp to top wrap. Exeter: James Townsend, July, 1956. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Llanivery Crosses; Rectors of Down Saint Mary; Wreck of the "Postilion", 1732, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 27. Part 4 of 12 only. Plate, pages numbered 81-96, complete, original printed wraps, private library stamp to top wrap. Exeter: James Townsend, October, 1956. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Lansallos Crosses; Poets and Lynmouth; Gulls for Trebarthwith's Lord, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 28. Part 1 of 11 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 1-32, complete, original printed wraps, name to top wrap. James Townsend, Exeter: January, 1959. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Crosses; Giffards of Clovelly; Cornish Volunteers in the 18th Century; Meaning of Barton, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 28. Part 2 of 11 only. With 2 plates, pages numbered 33-64, complete, original printed wraps, library stamp to top wrap. James Townsend, Exeter: April, 1959. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Crosses; Radford Family; Cornish Volunteers in the early Nineteenth Century, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 29. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 only of 11. 9 parts in the original printed wraps. James Townsend, Torquay: 1962-1964. £18.00
* Includes articles:- Tiverton, Cornish Crosses; Surrender of the Scilly in Isles in 1651; North Trewortha; Rowe family; Siege of Plymouth; East Ogwell; Lapford Field Names, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 32. Part 4 of 9 only. Folding plate, pages numbered 97-128, complete, original printed card covers, small library stamp to top wrap. Maslands Limited, Tiverton: Spring, 1972. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Axmouth Haven; Windmills in Devon; Marwoods of Honiton and Colyton, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 32. Part 5 of 9 only. Pages numbered 129-160, complete, original printed card covers, signs where small label removed from top cover. Maslands Limited, Tiverton: Summer, 1972. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Devon Apothecaries in 17th Century Honiton; Cornish Literary Institute in 19th Century; Great Sinns Chapel, Treleigh; Descent of Manor of Wollacombe, through Stowford to Brightley to Cobley to Gifford, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 32. Part 9 of 9 only. Pages numbered 257-292, complete, original printed card covers. Maslands Limited, Tiverton: Winter, 1973. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Education in Cornwall (1840-1870), part 2; Chapel in Landulph Church; Devon Yeomanry Calvary, etc.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 35. Part 5 of 10 only. Illusts, plan, pages numbered 165-200, complete, original card covers. Tiverton: Maslands, Spring, 1984. £4.00
* Includes articles:- 'Plottes of Morden Mylles', Cotehele; Teign Oyster Beds; Alexander Barclay at Ottery St. Mary, etc.
Dewey (Henry) BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY: SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey) Illusts, maps, diagrams, vi + 72pp, original printed wraps, lacks most of spine, top wrap loose and slightly ragged.. Second edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1948. £4.00
Dewey (Henry) SPECIAL REPORTS ON THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. COPPER ORES OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. Diagrams, folding section, 76pp, original printed card covers. Limited to 200 copies. First published 1923, Reprinted Mining Facsimiles, Sheffield: n.d. £8.00
Dickens Press, John Tagholm, editor HOLIDAY HAUNTS IN GREAT BRITAIN 1973. the complete guide to holiday resorts and accommodation. Plates, some in colour, maps, numerous adverts, 678pp, original pictorial card covers. Dickens Press, London: c.1972. £6.00
Dickinson (H.W) JAMES WATT Craftsman & Engineer. With 17 plates, textual illusts, xvi + 207pp, short tear to top dustwrapper, and a small portion torn from top corner of rear of dustwrapper, wraps slightly spotty, few spots to page edges. Cambridge at the University Press: 1936. £9.00
Dod (Charles R) ELECTORAL FACTS, from 1832 to 1852, Impartially Stated; Including The Local Position, Nature of the Constituency.... Registered Electors.... Polls for the Last Twenty Years at every Place Returning a Member of Parliament. 374 + (2)pp, small 8vo., disbound. First edition, Whittaker and Co., London: 1852. £15.00
Domesday Book MIDDLESEX. Text and translation edited by John Morris, edited from a draft translation prepared by Sara Wood. With a map, dustwrapper, neat inscription on half title. Phillimore, Chichester: 1975. £8.00
Eardley-Wilmot (Hazel) YESTERDAY'S EXMOOR. With 36 illusts and maps, xi + 259pp, very short tear to dustwrapper. Exmoor Books, Exmoor: 1990. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Earle (Peter) MONMOUTH'S REBELS. The Road to Sedgemoor 1685. Plates and textual illusts, xi + 236pp, few tears to partly creased dustwrapper. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. £8.00
Edmonds (E.A), McKeown and Williams (M) BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY: SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. Based on previous editions by H. Dewey. Illusts, maps, some of which are folding and coloured, diagrams, 130pp, original pictorial card covers, slightly rubbed to edges. Third edition, H.M.S.O. London: 1969. £7.00
Ellen (Maurice), editor WELLINGTON COLLEGE REGISTER. January, 1859 - December, 1962. Plans, illusts in text, xii + 435 + lxxxpp, original cloth. Eighth Edition. Compiled for The Old Wellingtonian Society. (Berkshire), (1965) £6.00
Elton (Margaret) ANNALS OF THE ELTON FAMILY Bristol Merchants & Somerset Landowners. Illusts, xii + 258pp, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1994. £28.00
[Erskine (J.F.E.G)] Earl of Mar ANCIENT AND MODERN [A history of the Earldom of Mar by the Claimant, J.F.E.G.E., together with a report of the judgment given in the House of Lords, 25th February, 1875, on the claim of Lord Kellie to the Earldom of Mar.] Folding pedigree, 67 + 19 + xxxviiipp, roy 8vo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, small portions missing from head and foot of spine, inscription on front endpaper. Printed for Private Circulation. 1875. £55.00
Essex Record Office THE ART OF THE MAP-MAKER IN ESSEX 1566-1860. Coloured and black and white plates, xvpp, 4to, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Essex County Council, Chelmsford: 1947. £8.00
Evered (Philip) STAGHUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer On Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas. Illusts, 378pp, recent cloth, lower corner of top board bruised, old spine laid down, private library label to front pastedown. London: Chatto and Windus. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £25.00
Exmoor National Park Committee EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK Consultative Draft. 12 folding maps, 102pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, rear cover slightly creased, last 2 leaves have some silver-fish damage affecting margins only. Exmoor National Park Committee, August, 1976. £6.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Exmoor National Park EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK PLAN. Second Review 1991-1996. Plates, maps, diagrams, 132pp, 4to, original card covers, name on top cover. Exmoor National Park Authority, Dulverton: 1991. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Exmoor National Park TREES AND WOODLAND ON EXMOOR. A guide to their conservation and management. Consultation copy. Maps, 71 + (25)pp appendices, oblong 8vo, plastic spiral binding, short tears to first and last leaf where attached to binding. Exmoor National Park, March, 1996. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1970. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 11. Supplement, the Trees and Woods of Exmoor. Illusts, adverts, maps, 116pp, original pictorial covers, ink price to top cover, and 2 corners of covers slightly creased. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1970. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- Hill Farming on Exmoor; Birds of Exmoor; Port of Watchet, etc.
Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1971. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 12. Supplement, Exmoor Greenway. Illusts, maps, adverts, 116pp, original pictorial covers. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1971. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- Climbing Exmoor's Sea Cliffs; Taunton Barnstaple Railway Line; Hunting on Exmoor; Trouting on Exmoor; etc.
Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1991. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 32. Illusts, some in colour, maps, adverts, 88pp, original pictorial covers, lightly rubbed. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1991. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- The Lee Abbey Community; Baptists in West Country; Climbing the Cleeves behind Countisbury, etc.
Faraday (M.A), editor THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE LAY SUBSIDY OF 1523-1527. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 23. Map and 3 plates, lix + 548pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of persons and places. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2009. £18.00
Fenner (Robin A) DEVON AND CORNWALL ILLUSTRATED Through the lens of a Postcard Photographer. Illusts, 122pp, 4to, original printed card covers, top corner of top cover creased and with a tear reinforced to verso, Stannary Press, Callington: 1986. £4.00
Foden (John), and others BUILDING IN EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK. Illusts, 34pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Exmoor National Park Authority, Dulverton: 1977 £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Fordham (Sir Herbert George) STUDIES IN CARTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY British and French and in the Bibliography of Itineraries and Road-Books. vii + 180pp, original cloth. First published 1914, reprint, Dawsons, London: 1969. £9.00
Forster (T.E), editor MEMOIR OF THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT AND RELIEF FUND. Prepared by request of the General Committee of the Fund. With 12 plates and illustrations, viii + 133pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, occasional underlining in crayon. Andrew Reid and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1912. £46.00
Fox (Aileen) SOUTH WEST ENGLAND. 98 Photographs, 36 Line Drawings, 15 Maps, 254pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a few short tears. First edition, London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. £5.00
Fox (Aileen) SOUTH WEST ENGLAND. With photographs plates, line drawings, maps, 232pp, spine of dustwrapper. Revised edition, David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £5.00
Friedman (Jerome) MIRACLES AND THE PULP PRESS DURING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION The Battle of the frogs and Fairford's Flies. Facsimiles, xv + 394pp, original decorative card covers. UCL Press Ltd., London: 1993. £6.00
Furneaux (Rob) THE TAMAR A Great Little River. (West Country Rivers). Map, illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Ex Libris, Bradford on Avon: 1992. £5.00
Gastineau (Henry) NORTH WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS. Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities, &c. Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions. Lacks the vignette title-page, it has 84 engraved plates and descriptive text, lacks 4 plates, the plates are 2 to each page, 4to, light off-setting, disbound. Jones and Co., London: c.1830. £50.00
Gibson (Alan & Anthony) WEST COUNTRY TREASURY: A Compendium of Lore and Literature, People and Places. 302pp, original decorative card covers. Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1989. £6.00
* Includes chapters:- People, Ships and the Sea; Railways, Literature, etc.
Glennie (E.A) FURTHER NOTES ON OGOF FFYNNON DDU. Plates, illusts in the text, 47pp, lacks top wrap, rear wrap loose and slightly ragged. Cave Research Group of Great Britain, Leamington Spa: c195- £10.00
* This volume constitutes one of the Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain. Ogof Ffynnon Ddu is in the Brecon Beacons.
Graham (E) MEMORIALS OF WESSEX. 97pp, original cloth-backed boards, covers slightly dusty. F.G. Longman, The Priory Press, Dorchester: 1933. £4.00
* Includes chapters on Wessex in the Civil War, and Domestic Houses in Wessex.
Gray (Irvine) and Ralph (Elizabeth) GUIDE TO THE PARISH RECORDS OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Frontis, xxviii + (ii) + 315pp, original cloth. Printed for the Records Section of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1963. £4.00
Greenwood (Douglas) WHO'S BURIED WHERE IN ENGLAND. Illusts, map, 352pp, dustwrapper. Revised, Constable, London: 1994. £8.00
Grigson (Geoffrey) WEST COUNTRY: About Britain No 1. Black and white and coloured illusts, maps, 92pp, dustwrapper slightly chipped at head of spine. Collins for the Festival of Britain Office, London: 1951. £5.00
Grinsell (L.V) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Bideford Bay to Bridgwater. Plates, maps, textual illusts, 242pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Grinsell (Leslie) PREHISTORIC SITES IN THE MENDIP, SOUTH COTSWOLD, AND BRISTOL REGION. Field Guide No 1. 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Archaeological Research Group, Bristol: 1966. £4.00
Gross (Charles) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MUNICIPAL HISTORY including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation. xxxiv + 461pp, lacks dustwrapper, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprint of 1897 edition. Burt Franklin, New York: (1968). £6.00
H.M.S.O. CENSUS 1961. ENGLAND AND WALES, POPULATION DWELLINGS HOUSEHOLDS. Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire. 26pp, small folio. H.M.S.O. London: 1963. £6.00
Hanmer (Jack) EXPLORE CHESHIRE BY CAR. Illusts, maps, 62pp, oblong 8vo, few small spots to original pictorial card covers, small stain to fore-edge margins of several pages, not affecting text. Dalesman Books, 1973. £4.00
Hanmer (James W) THE WESTERN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE 1837-1987. 23pp, original card covers. no imprint. 1987. £4.00
Hannay (Robert Kerr), editor, and translator RENTALE SANCTI ANDREE Being the Chamberlain and Granitar Accounts of the Archbishopric in the Time of Cardinal Betoun 1538-1546. Folding frontis, lviii + 246 + 15 + 16pp, original cloth, ex-uni.lib. with a few embossed stamps, and a withdrawn stamp to prelims. Scottish History Society, Edinburgh: 1913. £8.00
Hannigan (Des) DARTMOOR AND EXMOOR Aerofilms Guides. Coloured illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Ian Allan, Shepperton: 1993. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Hannigan (Des) DARTMOOR AND EXMOOR. Aerofilms Guides. Coloured illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Ian Allan, Shepperton: 1993. £6.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Harley (J.B), and O'Donoghue (Yolande), intro. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Volume 3. South-Central England (HAMPSHIRE, and THE ISLE OF WIGHT, and parts of BERKSHIRE, DORSET, SOMERSET, SURREY, SUSSEX and WILTSHIRE). Coloured frontis, illusts, liv + 35 double-page maps, folio, dustwrapper. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1981. £18.00
Harper (Duncan) WILTS & SOMERSET A Railway Landscape. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 111pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Millstream Books, Bath: 1987. £6.00
Harrison (S.E) THE TRAMWAYS OF PORTSMOUTH. Illusts, 138pp, original cloth, spine faded, outer hinges rubbed, back outer hinge split. Published by the Light Railway Transport League, London: 1955. £8.00
Havinden (M.A.), Thornton (D.S) and Wood (P.D) ESTATE VILLAGES. A study of the Berkshire villages of Ardington and Lockinge. Plates, maps, 214pp, few short nicks to dustwrapper, with a record office stamp to the title-page. Lund Humphries for the University of Reading, 1966. £10.00
Hawkins (Desmond) CRANBORNE CHASE. Map endpapers, plates, 192pp, dustwrapper, private ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Victor Gollancz Ltd., London: 1980. £6.00
* Cranborne Chase spreads over 3 counties, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
Heard (Ian) CLASSIC BOATS OF THE WEST COUNTRY. Drawing on our Maritime Tradition. Coloured illusts by the author, 48pp, oblong 8vo, pictorial laminated boards. Bossiney Books, Launceston: 2002. £5.00
Herefordshire Family History Society INDEX TO THE 1851 CENSUS OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. 98pp, original card covers, splash mark to foot of top wrap. Herefordshire Family History Society, c.1980 £4.00
Higham (Robert), editor LANDSCAPE AND TOWNSCAPE IN THE SOUTH WEST. Maps, illusts, 130pp, original pictorial card covers. University of Exeter, 1989. £5.00
Hissey (James John) THROUGH TEN ENGLISH COUNTIES. Plates, folding map, xiv + (ii)+ 406pp, early half calf, later recase with the original tooled calf spine laid down, marbled endpapers, edges of boards slightly rubbed, few spots to front and rear. Signed presentation inscription by the author on front endpaper. Richard Bentley, London: 1894. £20.00
Holland (Clive) FROM THE NORTH FORELAND TO PENZANCE. Illustrated by Maurice Randall. With 30 coloured illustrations, xvi + 334pp, original cloth, gilt, top board slightly faded, occasional spotting to text and fore-edges. London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. £12.00
Home (Beatrice and Gordon) NORTH DEVON WITH WEST SOMERSET. The Coast, The Moors, and the Rivers from Dunster to Hartland Bay. Illusts, folding map in pocket at rear, 220 + 14 pages of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth. Homeland Pocket Books. c.1910. £4.00
Horton (Barry) WEST COUNTRY WEATHER BOOK. Centred on Bristol and Bath including South Gloucestershire and West Wiltshire. Illusts, 159pp, original pictorial card covers. Privately published, Bristol: 1995. £6.00
Hudson (Kenneth) THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, and Gloucestershire east of the Severn) Plates, textual illusts, maps, 218pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. First edition, David and Charles, Dawlish: 1965. £10.00
Hurley (Jack) LEGENDS OF EXMOOR. Illusts, map, 64pp, original card covers. Reprinted, Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1988. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Hurley (Jack) MURDER AND MYSTERY ON EXMOOR. Illusts, map, 72pp, original pictorial card covers, outer hinges slightly rubbed. Second enlarged edition, Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1972. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Jacobs (Michael) & Warner (Malcolm) ART IN THE WEST COUNTRY. Jarrold Regional Guide Book 6. Coloured and black and white illusts, 32pp, original card covers. Phaidon Press, Oxford: 1980. £4.00
Jay (Bill) VICTORIAN CAMERAMAN, Francis Frith's Views of Rural England 1850-1898. 112pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £6.00
* Contains many views of the West Country.
Jefferies (Richard) RED DEER. A New Edition Illustrated by Neil McReddie. Illusts, 148pp, includes a 2 page list of subscribers, original cloth, with a loose transparent plastic cover which has been partly cellotaped to pastedowns. Limited to 500 copies. Originally published in 1884. The Signet Press, Salisbury: 1989. £6.00
* Many of Jefferies observations of deer were on Exmoor.
Johnson (Stephen) BURGH CASTLE, Excavations by Charles Green 1958-61. East Anglian Archaeology Report No 20, 1983. Diagrams, plans, some of which are folding, vi + 131pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, spine faded. Norfolk Archaeological Unit, Norfolk Museums Service, Dereham: 1983. £16.00
Jowitt (R.L.P. and Dorothy) DISCOVERING WALKS IN WESSEX TOWNS. Maps, plates, 144pp, sm 8vo, original decorative card covers. Shire Publications, Aylesbury, 1974. £4.00
[Joyce (W.W)] ECHOES OF EXMOOR. A Record of the Discussion and Doings of the Men-of-Exmoor Club. First Series. With 8 illustrations, 98 + (2)pp, original printed card covers, lacks spine, shaken, few marks to top cover, name to front endpaper. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. London: 1923. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Jukes (J. Beete) ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GROUPING OF THE ROCKS OF NORTH DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET: xxii + 15pp, coloured map and section, some foxing to plates, disbound. Printed for circulation among the Fellows of the Geological Society of London. Dublin: R.D. Webb, 1867. £12.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE 1930-1. Lacks map of Devon, with long tear to Somerset map, 47 (adverts) + xxvii + 1256 (adverts) + 28 + xvi + 803pp, original cloth, worn, dull and partly faded, top outer hinge partly split, inner hinges pulled. Kelly's Directories, London: 1930. £75.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL, 1939. Lacks maps, original cloth, worn, front board held by tapes, rear board almost loose, spine badly torn with small portions missing, lacks last few leaves of the Cornwall 'Trades' section. £45.00
Kent Archaeological Society ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA. Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent. Volume CXIV (114). 1994. Plates, illusts, diagrams, 495pp, original cloth. Produced for the Society by Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1995. £4.00
* Articles include:- Defences of the Second Anglo-Dutch War at Gravesend; Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles; Kent Yeoman in the 17th century; Excavations at Boys Hall Moat, etc.
Knight (F.A) BY LEAFY WAYS. Brief Studies from the Book of Nature. Illustrated by E.T. Compton. 197pp, untrimmed in the original decorative cloth, few spots to top boards, rear outer hinge rubbed, and with a couple of short splits, ownership name to front endpaper, and a private bookplate to pastedown. First edition, London: Elliot Stock, 1889. £6.00
* Contains references to Dartmoor and Somerset.
Knight (Francis A) IN THE WEST COUNTRY. With full-page and textual illusts. x + 269pp, original decorative cloth, dull, and rubbed to edges, head and foot of spine chipped, rear inner hinge cracked, few spots to rear cover, internally clean. First edition, Bristol: W. Crofton Hemmons, c.1898. £8.00
* Includes chapters on Brean Down, Exmoor and Dartmoor.
Lauder (Rosemary Anne) EXMOOR TRAVELLERS. Black and white plates, map endpapers, ix + 142pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £10.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead, in Somerset.
Lawrence (F.G), editor WELLINGTON COLLEGE REGISTER. January, 1859 - December, 1933. xxxi + 504pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed, small mark to fore-edges of a few pages. Charles T. Hunt, Wellington College, Berks. (1933) £12.00
Lawrence (Ivor D) A NAVAL SCHOOLMASTER LOOKS BACK. Illusts, family tree, maps, 285pp, original cloth, ex-ref. lib. with labels to front endpapers stamp to front endpaper. Privately Printed, Cambridge: c.1987. £14.00
* Lawrence was born in Burnham-on-Sea, in Somerset, went to Colston's School in Bristol, joined the navy, and served during the second World War. After retiring he lived at Swanage, in Dorset, and was at one time the secretary of the Swanage Arts Club.
Le Messurier (Brian) THE WEST COUNTRY. (Regional Guides to Britain) Maps, illusts, 160pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Ward Lock, London: 1982. £4.00
Leech (Joseph), Edited with an introduction by Alan Sutton. RURAL RIDES OF THE BRISTOL CHURCHGOER. Illusts, folding map, xxvi + 326pp, original pictorial card covers are covered with a transparent plastic sheet. Originally published in 3 vols, 1845 - 1851. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1982. £8.00
Leifchild (J.R) OUR COAL AND OUR COAL PITS. The People in Them and the Scenes Around Them. x + 243pp, original cloth. Originally printed in 1856. Reprinted, Frank Cass & Co., London: 1968. £15.00
Little (Bryan) ARCHITECTURE IN NORMAN BRITAIN. Illusts, 191pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, name and private ownership label to front endpaper. B.T. Batsford, London: 1985. £6.00
Little (Bryan) THE MONMOUTH EPISODE. Frontis, 16 plates and 4 maps, 3 of which are folding, 268pp, dustwrapper. First edition, London: Werner Laurie, 1956. £12.00
Lock (Harold F) HIKE-TRACKS IN THE WEST being detailed descriptions (with maps) of twenty-five rambles round Bristol, Bath, and Weston-super-Mare.... Sketch maps, 111pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers with a spiral wire binding. Early ownership name and date, 'Sept. 37' on title-page. Henry Hill Ltd, Bristol c.1930's £6.00
Longley (F.E) SOMERSET AND DORSET. Pamphlet, 16pp, textual engravings, lacks top wrap. c.188- £4.00
Lord (N.E. & R.V) "THE SPIRIT OF EXMOOR" A nostalgic look written and illustrated by. Text drawings, 96pp, 4to, original decorative wraps, plastic spiral binding is split horizontally into 2, some ink marginalia. Norman E. Lord, South Molton (1981) £6.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Lothian (Elizabeth) COUNTRY HOUSE COOKERY FROM THE WEST. Illusts, 96pp, laminated boards. David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1978. £5.00
Lothian (Elizabeth) COUNTRY HOUSE COOKERY FROM THE WEST. Line drawings, 96pp, original laminated boards. Second impression, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1979. £5.00
Loverseed (D.E) GASWORKER ANCESTORS: How to find out more about them. A guide to the genealogical sources for the British Gas Industry. Illusts, facsimiles, 64 leaves printed on one side only, folio, original pictorial paper covers. Stockport: 1994. £8.00
MacDermot (Edward T) THE HISTORY OF THE FOREST OF EXMOOR. Maps and illusts, xii + 480pp, roy, 8vo, original buckram, spine slightly faded as usual, name to front pastedown, small mark to front endpaper, small portions chipped from head and foot of spine. First edition. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, 1911. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Maddison (Arthur) THE WEST COUNTRY'S MARITIME STORY. Coloured and black and white illusts, 84pp, original pictorial card covers. Heritage Publications, Tavistock: 1982. £4.00
Major (A.F) EARLY WARS OF WESSEX. Being Studies from England's School of Arms in the West. Maps, plans, diagrams, including two folding maps in pocket at rear, xiv + 238pp, original cloth. First edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1913. £18.00
* With the bookplate of Arthur Bulleid, antiquarian and author, to front pastedown.
Manning (S.A) NATURE IN THE WEST COUNTRY. 160pp, original pictorial card covers, top cover partly faded. Illusts, double-page map, Windmill Press, Tadworth: 1979. £4.00
Marshall (W) THE RURAL ECONOMY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND: including Devonshire; and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall.... Volume 2 of 2 only. lacks half-title, xxiv + 358 + (30) index pages + (3) publishers adverts, uncut in the original paper boards, top board partly stained and held by one cord, lacks spine. First edition, London: G. Nicol, 1796. £24.00
Maslen (M), editor WOODSTOCK CHAMBERLAIN ACCOUNTS 1609-50. xxx + 274pp, original pictorial card covers. Volume 58. The Oxfordshire Record Society, 1993. £12.00
Mason (Edmund J) and (Dorrien) AVON VILLAGES. Photographs by John H. Barrett. With 63 illustrations and a double-page map, 192pp, dustwrapper. Robert Hale, London: 1982. £5.00
Matthews (G.F), editor SHROPSHIRE PROBATES in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 1700-1749. 68 + 1 page of publisher's adverts, uncut, in the original wraps. Issued to Subscribers, Privately Printed, Camberley: 1928. £5.00
* Dated 1928 on the title-page and July 1929 on the top wrap.
Matthews (John) & Matthews (George), editors EXTRA VOLUME "YEAR BOOKS OF PROBATES" (from 1630). Sentences and Complete Index Nominum (Probates and Sentences) for the Years 1630-1639. 171pp, original cloth, very slight waterstaining to the top corner of approx. 10 leaves. Issued to Subscribers, London: 1907. £18.00
Maxim (James L) A LANCASHIRE LION. Illusts, 79pp, dustwrapper. Published by the Trustees of the late James L. Maxim. Leeds: 1965. £6.00
* Concerns a causeway at Blackstone Edge.
McGrath (Patrick), and Cannon (John), editor ESSAYS IN BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORY. The Centenary Volume of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. With 33 plates, xviii + 300pp, dustwrapper. Bristol: Western Printing Services, 1976. £8.00
* Includes chapters on Cotswold architecture; Economic development of Bristol; Gloucestershire Spas; Brunel in Bristol, etc.
McHardy (A.K), editor ROYAL WRITS ADDRESSED TO JOHN BUCKINGHAM Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398. xxix + 197pp, original cloth. Canterbury and York Society. 1997. £8.00
Michael (W) HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF WINDSOR CASTLE. Engraving, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £8.00

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Miles (Roger) FORESTRY IN THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE. Plates, diagrams, maps, 303pp, slightly worn dustwrapper. Faber & Faber, London: 1967. £4.00
* 'The writing of this book began eight years ago with a forestry survey in Exmoor.... ' author's foreword.
Miles (Roger) THE TREES AND WOODS OF EXMOOR. Illusts in text, 64pp, original card covers. The Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1972. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
More (Hannah), Shaw (Clare MacDonald) TALES FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE and other Cheap Repository Tracts. Illusts, 178pp, original pictorial card covers. Trent Editions, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. £9.00
* Includes an outline of More's life and work in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Morris's MORRIS'S BUSINESS DIRECTORY LONDON Suburban, Provincial and Foreign Trade Guide 1926. Sixty-Fourth Edition. x + 1503pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed to edges, few marks to boards, inner hinges weak. London: J.R. Stacey, 1926. £65.00
Mowl (Timothy) WILLIAM BECKFORD Composing for Mozart. Plates, xii + 324pp, dustwrapper. John Murray, London: 1998. £8.00
* Beckford built Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Lansdown Tower in Bath.
Newcomen Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEWCOMEN SOCIETY. for the study of the history of Engineering and Technology. Volume 69, no 2 1997-98. Numerous illusts, and diagrams, pages numbered 177-308pp, original printed card covers. London: 1998. £6.00
* Includes:- Rainton to Seaham Railway 1820-1840; Thomas Tredgold; Doble Steam Power Concept to Railway Traction, etc.
Newcomen Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEWCOMEN SOCIETY. for the study of the history of Engineering and Technology. Volume 70, no 1 1998-99. Numerous illusts, and diagrams, 152pp, original printed card covers. London: 1999. £6.00
* Includes:- James Watt's Rotary Steam Engines; Gas Turbine in Railway Traction; Steam Road Carriages of the 1830's, etc.
Nicholls (J.F) PLEASANT TRIPS OUT OF BRISTOL: Lacks frontis, 202pp, disbound. First edition, Bristol: Arrowsmith, c.1870. £6.00
* The trips include: Bath, Lansdown, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare, Ilfracombe, Totnes, Chepstow, Tintern etc.
Nock (O.S) HISTORICAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. With a coloured frontis and 68 photographs, xii + 162pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1959. £6.00
Oliver (Rev. George) COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE COUNTIES OF CORNWALL, DEVON, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET AND GLOUCESTER. In two parts Historical & Biographical. viii + 576pp, original cloth, partly faded, minor spotting to prelims. First edition. London: Charles Dolman, 1857. £30.00 --- See sample text
Orwin (C.S) THE RECLAMATION OF EXMOOR FOREST. Illusts, folding map, xiv + 172pp, original buckram, spine darkened, page edges browned, ex-uni.lib. with labels to front and rear pastedowns and front endpaper, no stamps. First edition, Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, 1929. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Oswald (Felix) THE POTTERY OF A CLAUDIAN WELL AT MARGIDUNUM With 6 plates, pages numbered 114-126, complete, light spotting to the original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Journal of Roman Studies, London: 1923. £5.00
Otter (R.A), editor CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE Southern England. Numerous illusts, plans, maps, (viii) + 283pp, original pictorial card covers. Published for the Institution of Civil Engineers by Thomas Telford Ltd., 1994. £8.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN ANGLESEY IN 1873. Anglesey section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 8pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £8.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN CARDIGAN IN 1873. Cardigan section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 15pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £6.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN CARMARTHEN IN 1873. Carmarthen section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 20pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £10.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN DENBIGH IN 1873. Denbigh section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 16pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £6.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN FLINT IN 1873. Flint section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 10pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £6.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN LEICESTER IN 1873. Leicestershire section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 32pp, disbound, occasional light spotting mainly to margins. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £10.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN MONTGOMERY IN 1873. Montgomery section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 14pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £6.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN NORFOLK IN 1873. Norfolk section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 67pp, disbound, some spotting. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £8.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN NOTTINGHAM IN 1873. Nottingham section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 31pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £10.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN YORK, EAST RIDING, IN 1873. York, East Riding section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 30pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £16.00
Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN YORK, WEST RIDING, IN 1873. York, East Riding giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 114pp, disbound. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £16.00
Page (James) FORGOTTEN RAILWAYS OF SOUTH WALES. Plates, maps, 192pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1979. £4.00
Palmer (Derek) THE WEST COUNTRY AND THE SEA. Illusts, map, x + 246pp, small snag to head of spine of dustwrapper. Longmans, London: 1980. £6.00
Parker (Derek) THE WEST COUNTRY AND THE SEA. Line Drawings by Peter Green. Plates, textual illusts, x + 246pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Longman, London: 1980. £9.00
Pasmore (W.S) TALES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. 91pp, original wraps, top wrap loose, and lacks large portion of top corne, not affecting text. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Exeter: Besley and Dalgleish, 1900. £5.00
Paterson (L.J) "ONLY THIRTY BIRTHDAYS" British Marine Mutual, 1876 to 1996. Coloured and black and white illusts, 116pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, presentation inscription on front endpaper. British Marine Mutual Insurance Association, 1996. £10.00
Patten (R.W) EXMOOR CUSTOM AND SONG. Illusts, folding map, 64pp, few spots to the original card covers. Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1974. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Pearce (Susan M) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH WEST BRITAIN. Plates, diagrams, maps, 268pp, dustwrapper, slight bruise to top cover. Collins, London: 1981. £4.00
Pearson (A) ROBERT HUNT., F.R.S. (1807 - 1887) With 6 plates, 133pp, original pictorial card covers. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1976. £12.00
* Hunt was born in Devonport and spent his early life there and in Penzance.
Peel (J.H.B) PORTRAIT OF EXMOOR. Illusts, double-page map, 221pp, dustwrapper, page edges slightly spotty, inscription to front end paper. Robert Hale, London: 1970 £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Pennington (Robert R) STANNARY LAW. A History of the Mining Law of Devon and Cornwall. 229pp, some spotting to fore-edges, name to front endpaper, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £12.00
Peters (Ivo) THE SOMERSET AND DORSET IN THE 'FIFTIES. Part 1. 1950-1954. and Part 2. 1955-1959. Omnibus Edition. Part 1, 231 illusts, part 2, 260 illusts, map endpapers, c.200 unpaginated pages, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Oxford Publishing Co., Poole: 1986. £11.00
Pevsner (Nikolaus) NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL. (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 510pp, original cloth, in worn dustwrapper, with small portions missing from the edges. First edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1958. £15.00
Phillips (K.C) WESTCOUNTRY WORDS AND WAYS. 144pp, spine faded to dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1976. £4.00
Pigot and Co's NATIONAL COMMERCIAL PIGOT'S DIRECTORY FOR 1830. Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire. With 5 folding maps, 282pp, original printed card covers. Originally published 1830. Facsimile reprint, King's Lynn: 1993. £8.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 9-26, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £12.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF BERKSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 27-68, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £18.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF NORFOLK 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 527-607, complete, disbound. London: Pigot & Co., 1830. £15.00
Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF RUTLANDSHIRE 1835. Pages numbered 337-342, complete, recent cloth. Pigot & Co., London: 1835. £8.00
Ponting (K.G) THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. With 55 illustrations, x + 214pp, spine of dustwrapper faded, some pencil underscoring to one page, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. £8.00
Porter (Jeffrey), editor EDUCATION AND LABOUR IN THE SOUTH-WEST. 77pp, folio, original wraps, cloth spine. University of Exeter: 1975. £8.00
Post (Desmond) AROUND HISTORIC DEVON AND CORNWALL. Drawings by Stuart Richmond, 128pp, oblong 8vo, pictorial laminated boards. Midas Books, Tunbridge Wells: 1978. £4.00
Pudney (John) BRUNEL AND HIS WORLD. With 140 illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper Reprinted Thames and Hudson, London: 1975. £6.00
Pugh (Ronald & Margaret), editors THE DIOCESE BOOKS OF SAMUEL WILBERFORCE. xvi + 432pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 66. The Oxfordshire Record Society, 2008. £8.00
Quinborough REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF QUINBOROUGH OR QUEENBOROUGH. (Kent.) Title + pages numbered 822-840, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £6.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Radford (C.A. Ralegh) and Swanton (Michael J) ARTHURIAN SITES IN THE WEST. Folding map, illusts, 62pp, card covers with pictorial dustwrapper. University of Exeter, 1975. £6.00
Ravenhill (Mary R) and Rowe (Margery M), editors THE ACLAND FAMILY: Maps and Surveys 1720-1840. Coloured and blank and white plates, map, xv + 154pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 2006. £9.00
* The Aclands owned property in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Reid (Andy) THE UNION WORKHOUSE A Study Guide for Teachers and Local Historians. Illusts, 94pp, original pictorial card covers. Phillimore and Co., Chichester: 1994. £8.00
Rhoden (Maxwell) GOLDEN CAP AND TWENTY MILES AROUND. Map, illusts, 83pp, original wraps. Covers a 20 mile area from Seaton extending into Somerset and Dorset. C.J. Creed, Bridport: 1974, £4.00
Richardson (A.E) and Gill (C. Lovett) REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Numerous illustrations, xx + 188pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed to edges, couple of corners bruised, short tear to head of spine, cloth slightly creased on spine. First edition, London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. £6.00
Riley (Hazel) and Wilson-North (Robert) THE FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Coloured and black and white illusts, plans, xii + 192pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. English Heritage, Swindon: 2001. £7.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Robertson (James), Clements (Pauline) THE AVON BOOKS Capturing the flavour of Avon in a nutshell. Line drawings, map, 64pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Clover Press, Dulverton: 1982. £4.00
Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 3 of 4 only. Numerous illusts., 221pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, short tear to cloth at head of spine. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1915. £15.00
* This volume includes churches at :- Little Sodbury; St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol; Litton, Locking, Mells, Martock, Mangotsfield, Nailsea, Paulton, Portbury, Priston, Olveston, Rangeworthy, Siston, Shirehampton, Stowey, etc.
Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 1 only of 4. Numerous illusts., 221pp, original cloth, two small areas of cloth missing rom rear board. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1914. £8.00 --- See sample text
* This volume includes churches at:- Almondsbury, Abbots Leigh, Axbridge, Bristol, Barrow Gurney, Chepstow, Coalpit Heath, Berkeley, Bitton, Bradford on Avon, Corston, Badminton, etc.
Rogers (Alan) THIS WAS THEIR WORLD Approaches to Local History. Plates, illusts in text, 284pp, dustwrapper. British Broadcasting Corporation, London: 1972. £6.00
Rogers (W.H.H) THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES AND DAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST. Illustrated by Roscoe Gibbs. Plates, (x) + 212 + (ii)pp, original cloth, 1" split to head of top outer hinge, small hole to rear outer hinge, cloth has few spots and is dull and lightly rubbed. First edition, J.G. Commin, Exeter: 1890. £18.00
Row (Prescott), editor WHERE TO STAY IN THE WEST COUNTRY (Dorset, Somersetshire, Devon & Cornwall) Vol. 1. (London & South Western Railway Section) comprising Where to Live and What to See. Illusts, adverts, lacks map, 159pp, original pictorial paper boards, outer hinges and corners rubbed. First edition, Homeland Handbooks, Ltd., 1908. £6.00
Ruck (Ruth) REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD COUNTRY. Historical Sites Exceptional Scenery Healthful Attributes. Plates, 184pp, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. London: John Ouseley, 1910. £6.00
* Include chapters on the Cotswolds, Badminton, Peak District, North Wales.
Salter (Rev. E.H), editor EYNSHAM CARTULARY. Volume 1 of 2 only. With 4 plates, xxxvi+ 441 + (7) publishers adverts, original cloth. Oxford Historical Society, 1907. £7.00
Saunders (Andrew) DEVON AND CORNWALL (Exploring Englands Heritage) Double-page map, coloured and black and white plates, x + 117pp, original pictorial card covers. London: H.M.S.O. 1991. £4.00
Seede-Parker (Edward Milward) GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF SEEDE, of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Frontis, 16pp, 4to, in the original, slightly ragged wraps, with the top wrap loose. Mitchell and Hughes, London: 1890. £8.00
* The family resided at Tetbury, Upton Cheyney, Bitton, Bisley, Rodborough, Stroud, Bristol, and Castlecombe.
Shorter (A.H), Ravenhill (W.L.D) and Gregory (K.J) SOUTHWEST ENGLAND. With 95 textual illusts, 52 plates, 3 tables and a coloured folding map, xii + 340pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, Nelson, London: 1969. £18.00
* Includes chapters on transport, agriculture, Isles of Scilly, Bodmin Moor, the Bovey Basin, the Lizard, etc.
Smith (Brian S) and Ralph (Elizabeth) A HISTORY OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Cartography and drawings by E.B. Middleton. Maps, plates, textual illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper. Third Edition, Phillimore, Chichester: 1996. £8.00
Smith (Reginald A) ON LATE-CELTIC ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT WELWYN, HERTS. Reprinted from Archaeologia vol. LXIII Illusts, 30pp, title and last leaf slightly dusty, original paper wraps loose, and with a few tears to edges, narrow strip torn from top wrap. Oxford: Printed by Horace Hart for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1912. £4.00
Smyth (John) NOTES ON CORNWALL AND NORTH DEVON. Rhyming Records of Recent Rambles. 108pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, page edges gilt. John Warren, Royston: and Paternoster and Hales, Hitchin: 1877. £14.00
Snell (F.J) THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY. With 50 full page illustrations from photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward. Folding map, 288pp, half calf, raised bands, cloth boards, raised bands, covers rubbed, top board loose, rear board held with strings, marbled endpapers, private library label to verso of front endpaper. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. With the bookplates of T.N. Brushfield and John Tricks Spalding, and with Spalding's monogram inlaid in the centre of the top board in calf.
Snell (F.J) THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY. With 50 full page illustrations from photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward. Folding map, 288pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Snell (F.J) THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY. With 50 full page illustrations from photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward. Folding map, 288pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and embossed stamp to title-page, one plate held in place with cellotape. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND One Hundred and Twenty-First Session 1901-1902. vol. XII - Third Series. Full page and illusts in the text, li + 775pp, few damp marks to the slightly rubbed original cloth, internally sound, spine darkened, paper label chipped on spine. Printed for the Society, Edinburgh: 1902 £30.00
* Includes articles:- Cairns of Arran; Roman Station at Inchtuthil, Perthshire; Douglas Percy, and the Cavers Ensign; Kirkard Monuments; Stone Circles in Aberdeenshire, etc.
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session 1904-1905. vol. III - Fourth Series. Full page and illusts in the text, xlviii + 582pp, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, paper label chipped on spine. Printed for the Society, Edinburgh: 1905. £30.00
* Includes articles:- Stones in Jedburgh; Kirkyard Monuments; Stone Circles in Kincardineshire; Ports on the Poltalloch Estate, Argyll; Scottish Place-Names, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 4. Illusts, 384pp, in 8 parts, with the original printed wraps, though without the part which contained the title and Index, which was issued separately, ink lines to spines of some parts. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. March 1894 - December 1895. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Chewton Mendip Vicarage; Black Dog of Langport; Sherborne School; Squibb family; Yetminster Terrier; Somerset Fairs, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 5. Illusts, vii + 376pp, including index, early cloth. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1897. £15.00
* Includes articles:- Worth Matravers Registers; Wimborne Grammar School; Castle Cary Court Roll; Witchcraft in Dorset, Thick family; Cerne Abbas; Norton-sub-Hamdon Accounts; Clarke family; Fire at Weymouth, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 6. 7 parts of 8 only. 7 parts all in the original printed wraps. J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. Sherborne: March, 1898-December, 1899. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Churchwardens' Accounts of Kingsdon, Somerset; Bruton Registers; Marnhull Terrier; Craucombe Deeds; Courtenay-Clyvedon, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 7. Illusts, iv + 378pp, complete in the original 8 parts in the printed wraps, handwritten notes to some spines. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, March 1900 - December 1901. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Poole Deeds; Roman villa, Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 14. 368pp, complete in 8 parts, all in the original printed wraps. Sherborne: March 1914 - December 1915. £12.00
Somerset and Dorset and Dorset, editors G.W. Saunders and Charles Hebert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 15. 5 parts of 8 only. 5 parts all in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CXIV (114), CXVIII (118), and CXIX (119). Sherborne: March 1916 - December 1917. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Marnhull Tithes; Leachcraft in Dorset; Merriott Scratch Dials; Rev. John Collinson; Symonds Arms, Chardstock, etc.
Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 20. 9 parts of 12 only. 9 parts in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CLXV (165), CLXVIII (168), and CLXXI (171). Sherborne: March 1930 - December 1932. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Martocks Wardens Account (1675-1617); Somerset Ships; West Bay in July-August, 1690; Damer Family; Pitt Family, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors G.W. Saunders and R.G. Bartelot NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 21. 10 parts of 12 only. 10 parts in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CLXXXIII (183), and CLXXXV (185). Sherborne: March 1933 - December 1935. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Martock; Barry family; Anabaptists in Dorset; Blandford; Chard-Honiton Turnpikes; Maiden Castle Sports, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors T.J. Hunt and T.A. Brocklebank NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 29. 8 parts of 12, with Index volume. 9 parts and the Index volume all in the original printed wraps, lacks parts 289, 290, 291 and 292. Hammetts, Taunton: March 1968 - September 1973. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Storm of 1824 in Dorset; Perambulation of Buckland Newton, 1758; Descent of Manors of Langford Budville and West Runnington; John Oldmixon and the Family of Admiral Blake; Bridport Shipping, etc.
Southampton University College WESSEX An Annual Record of the Movement for a University of Wessex. Vol II No 1. Illusts, 106 + [viii] adverts., original printed wraps. Published by The Oxford University Press for University College, Southampton. 1931. £7.00
Stanes (Robert) THE OLD FARM A History of Farming Life in the West Country. Plates, drawings in the text, 174pp, dustwrapper. Devon Books. Exeter: 1990. £8.00
Sussex Archaeological Society, edited by Mary S. Holgate. SUSSEX NOTES AND QUERIES A Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society. Volume 3, 1930, 1931. Illusts, 272pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, top corners of boards bruised, couple of splash marks to top board. Sussex Archaeological Society, 1931. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Sussex Manors of Francis Carew; Black Death in Sussex; Churchwarden's Accounts of West Tarring; Mounds on Camp Hill and Stone Hill, Ashdown Forest; Roman Site at Wiggonholt, etc.
Taylor (Royston F), editor CALENDAR OF THE COURT BOOKS OF THE BOROUGH OF NEW WOODSTOCK 1588-1595. l + 158pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 63. The Oxfordshire Record Society, 2002. £8.00
Thornycroft (L.B) THE STORY OF THE DOONES in fact, fiction and picture. Illusts, folding plan, vi + 72pp, few small marks to the slightly rubbed pictorial wraps. Fourth edition, Barnicotts Ltd, Taunton: 1964. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Tooley (R.V) MAP COLLECTORS' SERIES No 78: A Dictionary of Mapmakers including cartographers, publishers, engravers, etc., from the earliest times to 1900. Part VI, Hutchinson - Kruse. Pages numbered 263-300, complete, few small marks to the original printed card covers. Map Collectors' Circle, London: 1971. £5.00
Trewin (J.C), editor THE WEST COUNTRY BOOK. Coloured plates, 222 + (2)pp, dustwrapper. Webb & Bower, Exeter: 1981. £6.00
University of Bristol Reconstruction Research Group GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET AND WILTSHIRE. Land Classification. Coloured folding map, diagrammatic maps in text, 40pp, folio, original wraps. Published for the University of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1947. £8.00
University of Bristol Reconstruction Research Group GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET AND WILTSHIRE, A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS. With 3 folding coloured maps, each laid down on linen, inserted in pockets at the front and rear, 12pp, folio, original card covers. Published for the University of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd. 1949. £9.00
Van der Pole (K) DESCRIPTION OF THE CRUQUIS STEAM PUMPING ENGINE. With 2 double-page plates, text illusts, 12pp, original decorative wraps. Holland: 1982. £4.00
Vaughan (John) THE ENGLISH GUIDE BOOK c.1780-1870. An Illustrated History. With 79 text illusts, 167pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1972. £12.00
Verner (Coolie) MAP COLLECTORS' SERIES MAPS BY JOHN ARROWSMITH IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 35pp, original card covers. Map Collectors' Circle, London: 1971. £4.00
Verney (Sir Ralph), edited by John Bruce VERNEY PAPERS. NOTES OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE LONG PARLIAMENT, Temp. Charles I. Printed from Original Pencil Memoranda Tables in the House by Sir Ralph Verney, Knight, Member for the Borough of Aylesbury; and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney. xii + 192 + 36pp, original cloth, small snag to head of spine, slight foxing to prelims. London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1845. £9.00
Walling (R.A.J) THE WEST COUNTRY. Plates, endpaper maps, 368pp, worn dustwrapper, some repairs to verso, and with small portion torn from one lower corner, covers slightly bruised, bookplate to verso of front endpaper, and private ownership stamp to half title. Blackie & Son Limited, London: 1935. £4.00
Ward (C.S) and Baddeley (M.J.B) SOUTH DEVON (including W. Dorset Coast from Weymouth) AND SOUTH CORNWALL With a Full Description of Dartmoor and the Scilly Isles. Through Guide Series. With 10 maps and plans, some showing more than 1 plan, and many of which are folding, xvi + 224 + 64pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light spot to top cover. Third Edition, Revised, London: Dulau and Co. 1889. £8.00
Ward (C.S) and Baddeley (M.J.B) SOUTH DEVON (including W. Dorset Coast from Weymouth) AND SOUTH CORNWALL With a Full Description of Dartmoor and the Scilly Isles. Through Guide Series. With map endpapers and 10 of 11 maps and plans, some showing more than 1 plan, many of which are folding, xvi + 225 + 84pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, spine slightly faded, head and foot of spine rubbed, foot of 2 prelims slightly ragged, and with one lacking portion of lower corner, with loss of small amount of text. Fourth Edition, Revised, London: Dulau and Co. 1892. £5.00
Warren (A.S) A LIFE IN GLOUCESTER AND SOMERSET. With illustrations by his daughter Margaret Frewin. Textual illusts, 99pp, original card covers. Gloucester: Thornhill Press, 1973. £9.00
Watkins (George) THE STEAM ENGINE IN INDUSTRY. Mining and the Metal Trade. Illusts, 128pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne: 1994. £8.00
Watkins (George) THE STEAM ENGINE IN INDUSTRY. Volume 1. The Public Services. Volume 2. Mining and the Metal Trade. 2 volumes, illusts, 128pp, and 128pp, 4to, original illustrated glazed boards. First editions, Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne: 1978 and 1979. £22.00
Webb (Cliff), editor WILLS IN THE CONSISTORY COURT OF LICHFIELD. Coloured maps, lxi + 546pp, original cloth. British Record Society, London: 2010. £16.00
Welch (F.B.A) and Crookall (R) BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER DISTRICT. Second Edition by G.A. Kellaway and F.B.A. Welch. With 12 plates, one of which is folding, 96pp, lacks top wrap, lacks portions of spine. London: H.M.S.O. 1948. £4.00
Westell (W. Percival) HISTORIC HERTFORDSHIRE. Folding map, plates, textual illusts, xiii + 198pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed at edges. Stephen Austin, Hertford: 1931. £7.00
Whitaker (Harold) THE HAROLD WHITAKER COLLECTION OF COUNTY ATLASES, ROAD-BOOKS AND MAPS PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. A Catalogue. Illusts, 143pp, original cloth, partly faded, and lightly rubbed to edges. Leeds: The Brotherton Library, 1947. £8.00
Williams (Michael), editor BOTH SIDES OF TAMAR. Illusts, 124 + (3)pp, partly faded and rubbed original pictorial card covers, some spotting to rear cover. Bossiney Books, 1975 £4.00
* Includes chapters by John Betjeman, and Charles Causley.
Williams (Teresa) SOMERSET & DORSET ABSCONDERS From "The Hue & Cry" 1801 to 1858. 119pp, original card covers. Somerset & Dorset Family history Society, Weymouth: 1999. £5.00
Winbolt (S.E) HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. With 8 pages of coloured maps, 157 + 3 pages of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, paperback. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1949. £4.00
Windle (Bertam C.A) REMAINS OF THE PREHISTORIC AGE IN ENGLAND. (Antiquary's Book Series.) Illustrated by Edith Mary Windle. xv + 320pp + 40pp of publisher's adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges and outer hinges, light spotting to prelims and fore-edges, publisher's adverts foxed. First Edition, Methuen & Co. 1904. £15.00
Wreford (Hilary), Clinch (Rosemary) & Williams (Michael) SECRET WEST COUNTRY Illusts, 96pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1986. £4.00
Wright (C.N) DIRECTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE Including the Boroughs of Leicester & Loughborough and Market Towns of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Melton Mowbray, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Oakham &c. xvi + 766pp including adverts, lacks map, original cloth, worn, lacks spine, boards almost loose, shaken with several pages loose, cellotape stains to inner margins of a few prelims. Leicester: Printed for the Compiler by Edward Shardlow, 1897. £20.00
Wyley (Graham) STRANGE WEST COUNTRY HAUNTINGS. Illusts, 96pp, original decorative card covers, ownership name to title-page. G. & T. Books, Brixham: c.1990. £4.00
Yeates (John) AN ENDLESS VIEW The Artist and Exmoor. Illusts, some of which are coloured, 126pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, slight crease to top cover. Exmoor Books, Dulverton: 1995. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Youth Hostels Association YOUTH HOSTELS ASSOCIATION: Devon and Cornwall Regional Handbook. Illusts, maps, 50pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps, spine partly split, small tear to first leaf. Youth Hostels Association, c.1950 £6.00
Youth Hostels Association DEVON AND CORNWALL YHA Regional Handbook. Illusts, plans, 50pp, original pictorial wraps, stapled, short split to foot of spine, short tear to lower margin of first leaf. Devon and Cornwall Regional Group, YHA, c.1955. £8.00

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