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  1. Bax (Clifford) W.G. GRACE With four plates. 64pp, original cloth, inscription on front endpaper. First edition, Phoenix House, London: 1952. £8.00




  2. Bigland (Ralph) ADLESTROP. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  3. Bigland (Ralph) ASCHURCH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £7.00




  4. Bigland (Ralph) BADGEWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 6pp, folio, few short tears to margins. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £12.00




  5. Bigland (Ralph) BOXWELL. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  6. Bigland (Ralph) BROCKWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  7. Bigland (Ralph) BROMESBERROW. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, new paper wraps slightly creased. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  8. Bigland (Ralph) CHURCHAM. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  9. Bigland (Ralph) CHEDWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  10. Bigland (Ralph) CHURCHDOWN OR CHURCH-DENE. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Copper plate engraving in the text, 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £10.00




  11. Bigland (Ralph) AWRE. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 10pp, folio, few short tears to margins. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £10.00




  12. Bigland (Ralph) BADGEWORTH. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. Half-page copper plate engraving, 6pp, folio, few short tears to margins. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £12.00




  13. Bigland (Ralph) BROMESBERROW. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, new paper wraps slightly creased. London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £8.00




  14. Brill (Edith) and Turner (Peter) THE MINOR PLEASURES OF COTSWOLD. Map and 54 photographic illusts, xiii + 64pp, dustwrapper. First edition, 1971. £10.00




  15. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1927. Volume 49. Illusts, 392 + 24pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellow, 1928. £18.00
    * Includes articles on:- Berkeley Castle; Deerhurst Priory Church; Campden Mystery; Gloucestershire Fonts; Campden Mystery; Flaxley Grange, etc., etc.





  16. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1930. Volume 52. Illusts, folding plans, 323 + 23pp, original wraps, spine slightly darkened. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1931. £18.00
    * Includes articles on:- Gloucestershire Maps; List of Bristol Ships 1571 and 1572; Belas Keep Long Barrow; Roman Roads; Elkstone Church; Warksworth; Woodchester; Robert de Todeni and his heirs, etc., etc.





  17. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Joan Evans TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1955. Volume 74. Illusts, 3 folding pedigrees, 228pp, original wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1956. £11.00
    * Includes articles on:- Tidenham Chase; Kingswood Abbey; Old Catholic Families of Gloucestershire; Parliamentary Burgesses for Bristol and Gloucester 1422-1437, etc., etc.





  18. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Kathleen Morgan TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 79-90 (1960-1971). 62pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by Glevum Press, 1974. £10.00




  19. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by H.S. Gracie TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1970. Volume 89. Illusts, 223pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Cheltenham: Printed for the Society by Norman Brothers, 1971. £6.00
    * Includes articles on:- Gloucestershire Grammar Schools; Shirehampton 1851 census; John Desborough; John Trevisa; Berkeley Churches; Henry Ryder, etc., etc.





  20. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1982. Volume 100. Illusts, 282pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Gloucester: 1982. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Birdlip Cemetery; Excavations of a Romano-British settlement at Barnsley Park; Early Policing Methods in Gloucestershire, etc.





  21. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1990. Volume 108. Illusts, 240pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Gloucester: 1990. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Lypiatt Cross; Goldsmiths of Gloucestershire; St James's Church, Lancaut, etc.





  22. Chatwin (A) CHELTENHAM'S ORNAMENTAL IRONWORK. A Guide and History. Illusts, (93)pp, original card covers. Published by the author, Cheltenham: 1974. £10.00




  23. City of Gloucester SOUTH END DRAINAGE. TENDER FOR CONSTRUCTION, of Stone Ware Pipe Sewers, and Brick Culverts, along the Valley of the Still Ditch, from Stroud Road, to the River Severn. 18 pages printed on rectos only. 1884. £16.00
    * Gives listing of the construction with tables giving in manuscript the names of the tenderers and the prices submitted.





  24. Dent (Emma) ANNALS OF WINCHCOMBE AND SUDELEY. With 70 of 72 plates, some of which are coloured, textual illusts, pages numbered xi-xiv + 341pp, 4to, disbound lacking title and prelims, binding broken and some pages loose, few short tears to one page listing illustrations. London: John Murray, 1877. £45.00




  25. Enright (Dawn) and Watts (Martin), and others A ROMANO-BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT SITE AT STOKE ROAD BISHOP'S CLEEVE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 1. Plans, diagrams, 80pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2002. £7.00




  26. Essex (Sir R.W) COTSWOLD SAINTS AND OTHERS. A Romance. 272pp, original cloth, boards spotty, and very slightly warped. London: Epworth Press, 1926. £12.00




  27. Evans (J.T), editor THE CHURCH PLATE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 21 plates, and 2 textual illusts, xxiv + 264pp, original cloth, roy 8vo. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1906. £35.00




  28. Finberg (H.P.R) GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An Illustrated Essay On The History Of The Landscape. With illustrations and sketch maps, 128pp, dustwrapper has a few tears. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. £18.00




  29. Finberg (H.P.R), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE STUDIES. With 7 illustrations and 4 maps, one of which is folding, 304pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, Leicester The University Press: 1957. £24.00
    * Includes chapters on Winchcombe Abbey and the Manor of Sherborne; Cotswolds; Berkeley, Kingscote and Holder families; Sir George Onesiphorous Paul; Richard Ameryck, etc., etc.





  30. Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) ROMAN GLOUCESTER. 56pp, original wraps, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprinted, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1950. £6.00




  31. Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) ROMAN GLOUCESTER. Plates, 81pp, original pictorial card covers, relevant newscutting pasted to verso of top wrap. Rewritten. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1968. £6.00




  32. Gethyn-Jones (Rev. J.E) DYMOCK. The Ann Cam School, Gloucestershire. Illusts, 12pp, original pictorial wraps. Albert E. Smith, Gloucester: 1965. £8.00




  33. Gibbs (J. Arthur) A COTSWOLD VILLAGE. Or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. With Illustrations, 431pp, original cloth, few pages carelessly opened. Third edition, 1923. £12.00
    * The author lived at Ablington, near Bibury.





  34. Gilbert (Edward) A GUIDE TO THE PRIORY CHURCH AND SAXON CHAPEL DEERHURST, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Plates, plan, 12pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted with additional illustrations, Newman, Printer, Tewkesbury: 1958. £6.00




  35. Glynne (Sir Stephen R), edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and J. Melland Hall. GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHURCH NOTES. With title-page and preface and pages numbered 33-172, disbound. London: Phillimore & Co., 1900. £12.00




  36. Greene (Kevin T) THE ROMANO=CELTIC HEAD FROM THE BON MARCHE SITE, GLOUCESTER: A Reappraisal. Plates, pages numbered 338-345pp, name to top of original printed card covers. Reprinted from The Antiquaries Journal, 1975. £6.00




  37. Hall (Malcolm) FILTON AND THE FLYING MACHINE. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1995. £8.00




  38. Heighway (Carolyn) ANCIENT GLOUCESTER. With 6 plans, 13pp, small folio, original pictorial card covers. Gloucester City Museums, 1976. £5.00




  39. Hubner (Dr.) GLOUCESTER, The Roman Glevum. Map, 2 coloured plates, 13pp, original printed wraps, wraps slightly soiled with a few short tears, 2 holes to inner margins where item placed at one time in a ring binder, occasional foxing. From the Transactions of the Cotteswold Club, John Bellows, c187- £5.00




  40. Hyett (Francis A) GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN NATIONAL HISTORY. With a folding frontis, and 9 other plates, 282pp, original cloth, partly faded. Third edition, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1924. £15.00




  41. Jennings (John), printer ELMORE COURT. An illustrated Survey of The Gloucestershire Home of the Guise Family. Illusts, 16pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. John Jennings, Gloucester: c.197- £4.00




  42. Johnson (J) STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper, ex-lib. with stamps to verso of title-page. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1980. £12.00




  43. Johnson (Joan) TUDOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, viii + 184pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1985. £6.00




  44. Mann (Malcolm D) THE ROMAN VILLA AT WOODCHESTER Gloucestershire. An Account of the Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodchester, with special reference to the great "Orpheus" pavement. With 4 coloured plates, 8 pages of adverts + 16 + 8 pages of adverts, original printed wraps. 1963. £4.00




  45. Marshall (William) THE RURAL ECONOMY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE; including its Dairy together with the Dairy Management of North Wiltshire; and the management of Orchards and Fruit Liquor, in Herefordshire. Volume 1 of 2 only. Lacks map, xxviii + 332pp, disbound. First edition, Gloucester: Printed by R. Raikes, 1789. £20.00




  46. McWhirr (Alan) ROMAN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Photographic illusts, plans, diagrams, 183pp, original pictorial card covers. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1981. £10.00






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  47. Moody (T) WINTERBOURNE HOUSE. The Collegiate School. Illusts, (v) + 147pp, edges of dustwrapper strengthened with tape. Privately printed, Dursley: F, Bailey, (1977) £12.00




  48. Painter (K.S) THE SEVERN BASIN. Regional Archaeologies. Illusts, 4to, 72pp, original pictorial covers, very lightly rubbed to edges. Cory, Adams & Mackay, London: 1964. £10.00




  49. Platts (A) and Hainton (G.H) EDUCATION IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Short History. Illusts, 128pp, original cloth, partly faded. Published by Gloucestershire County Council 1954. £14.00




  50. Postance (J) and Salmon (A.E) SUDELEY CASTLE. An Illustrated Guide. Coloured illusts, 20pp, roy 8vo, pictorial card covers. Sudeley Castle Ltd., 1977. £5.00




  51. Powell (Geoffrey) THE BOOK OF CAMPDEN. History in Stone. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 120pp, lacks dustwrapper. This copy seems to have been used to advise the printers on a new edition, note taped to front endpaper, subscribers list, information on verso of title-page and illust on half title scored through with pencil, Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1982. £10.00




  52. Richards (M.E) GLOUCESTERSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY. With 5 photographic plates, 74 pages, original printed card covers. Gloucestershire County Council, 1983. £4.00




  53. Riddelsdell (H.J), Hedley (G.W) and Price (W.R) FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Numerous illusts., 6 folding maps, 4 are in pocket at rear, clxxxii + 667pp, original cloth, front inner hinges pulled, and held by tapes, ex-Bristol University label to verso of top cover, small stamp to verso of title-page and foot of last leaf, number to base of spine. First edition. Cotteswold Naturalist's Field Club, Gloucester: 1948. £22.00




  54. Ryder (T.A) GLOUCESTERSHIRE THROUGH THE AGES. With 12 plates, maps in text, 125pp, original cloth, transparent plastic cover to covers. Littlebury & Company Ltd., Worcester: 1950. £5.00




  55. Sayce (Robert) THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. CIRENCESTER. An Independent College. Illusts including coloured plates, xii + 370pp, dustwrapper. roy 8vo. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1992. £18.00




  56. Smith (Brian S), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN THE 18TH CENTURY. 3 maps, graph, 10 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 18 + 7 + 3 leaves printed on rectos only, original printed wraps, ex-Bristol University label to title-page, tape across top of spine. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1966. £15.00
    * Includes articles on Charles Coxwell of Ablington; Farming at Oxenhall; Vagrancy in Gloucestershire (1730-1834), etc.





  57. Stonham (Jessie M) DAUGHTER OF WYEDEAN AND KERNOW. Notes from a West Country Childhood. Illusts, 152pp, dustwrapper. Thornhill Press, Gloucester: 1978. £10.00




  58. Taylor (Charles S) AN ANALYSIS OF THE DOMESDAY SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Pages numbered 113-348 only, parts 2, 3 and 4 of 4 original parts in the original printed wraps. lacks 2" from foot of one spine, and 2" tears to top wrap and first leaf. Published for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol: 1889. £12.00




  59. Thomas (Alan), Holbrook (Neil) and Bateman (Clifford), and others LATER PREHISTORIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH BURIAL SETTLEMENT AT HUCCLECOTE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE EXCAVATIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE GLOUCESTER BUSINESS PARK LINK ROAD, 1998. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 2. Plans, diagrams, 74pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2003. £7.00




  60. Victoria County History, edited by William Page VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, xv + 448pp, original cloth, small folio, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown, and number to base of spine, and verso of half-title. Reprint, Oxford: 1972. £30.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Ecclesiastical, Social and Economic History, Agriculture, Forestry, Sports, Ancient and Modern including Stag and Fox-hunting.





  61. White (Hope Costley) GLOUCESTERSHIRE STORY. Map endpapers, 127pp, few small nicks to dustwrapper. British Publishing Company, Gloucester: 1956. £8.00


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