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  1. Akerman (John Yonge) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ABBEY OF MALMESBURY in the Days of the Anglo-Saxon Kings; With Remarks on the Ancient Limits of The Forest of Braden. Large folding map mounted on linen, 59pp, 4to, lacks wraps, title slightly dusty and ragged with a few short tears, linen slightly discoloured, occasional light foxing. Reprinted from Archaeologia. London: J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1857. £10.00




  2. Alexander (Rev. E.C) EDINGTON CHURCH, WILTS. (St. Mary. St Katharine, and All Saints), Notes on Church and Monastery. 12pp, original pictorial wraps, partly faded and edges slightly chipped. R.J. Massey & Co., Printers, Trowbridge, c192- £4.00




  3. Atkinson (R.J.C) STONEHENGE AND AVEBURY and Neighbouring Monuments, an Illustrated Guide. Plates, diagrams, 64pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. H.M.S.O. London: 1959. £4.00




  4. Baker (T.H) NOTES ON ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH AND PARISH. (Salisbury) With 3 plates, viii + 167pp, prelims and rear endpapers browned and spotty, original cloth, rubbed to edges, portion of spine torn across and held at one hinge, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, stamps to title-page, front endpaper torn across, and to last leaf. Salisbury: Brown and Co., 1906. £4.00




  5. Benham (W. Gurney) A STORY OF STOURTON and other Wiltshire Tales Told in Verse. 113pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed, slightly shaken, spine appears to be glued down. First edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall.... 1883. £10.00




  6. Bingham (Rev. W.P.S) JAMES LEY, Earl of Marlborough. Folding pedigree, 14pp, original printed wraps, wraps slightly soiled and loose and split at spine. Presentation inscription by the author on first leaf. Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. H.F. Bull, Devizes: n.d. £4.00




  7. Bowood House DETAILS OF THE BOWOOD PICTURE COLLECTION in the Orangery and Chapel. 12pp, original printed card covers, ink note to rear cover. Taylor & Sons, Minety: c.1980. £4.00




  8. Bristol United District RULES OF THE "GREAT WESTERN PRIDE," No 2279 Branch of the Bristol United District. Ancient Order of Foresters' Friendly Society, held at Chippenham in the County of Wiltshire. 21pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, top wrap loose and slightly chipped to edges. Bristol: George Hill, Printer, Stapleton Road, 1910. £4.00




  9. Brown (Sarah) SUMPTUOUS AND RICHLY ADORN'D The Decoration of Salisbury Cathedral. (Royal Commission of Historical Monuments of England). Plans, coloured and black and white illusts, xii + 218pp, original pictorial card covers, corners of covers slightly bruised, name to front endpaper. The Stationery Office, London: 1999. £16.00




  10. Brown's BROWN'S STRANGERS HANDBOOK AND ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SALISBURY CATHEDRAL Being A full Historical and Descriptive Account of the Buildings and Monuments. With wood engravings, original limp cloth, 94 + (10)pp, small portion torn from front endpaper, lacks small portion from head and foot of spine and foot of top cover. Brown and co., Salisbury: 1889. £4.00




  11. Burnett (David) SALISBURY: The History of an English Cathedral City. Illusts, 91 + (iii)pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Compton Press, Tisbury: (1978) £6.00




  12. Calne REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF CALNE, (Wiltshire.) Title and pages numbered 1230-1234, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £10.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  13. Carr (David R), editor THE FIRST GENERAL ENTRY BOOK OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY 1387 - 1452. Frontis, xxxvi + 316pp, dustwrapper. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 54. Trowbridge: 2001. £14.00




  14. Cave (R), and others GEOLOGY OF THE MALMESBURY DISTRICT. (Explanation of the One-inch Geological Sheet 251, New Series) Coloured folding map, folding table, plates, diagrams, viii + 343pp, dustwrapper protected in a loose transparent sleeve. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1977. £12.00




  15. Chadburn (Amanda) and Pomeroy-Kellinger (Melanie) ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE AVEBURY WORLD HERITAGE SITE. Illusts, maps, 101pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Trust for Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury: 2001. £10.00




  16. Chandler (John) ENDLESS STREET A History of Salisbury and its People. Illustrated by Alison Borthwick. Plates, textual illusts, ix + 342pp, dustwrapper. Salisbury: The Hobnob Press, 1983. £12.00




  17. Chandler (John) MARLBOROUGH AND EASTERN WILTSHIRE. Wiltshire A History of its Landscape and People 1. Maps, illusts, xiii + 274pp, dustwrapper. Hobnob Press, Salisbury: 2001. £7.00




  18. Chew (H.M), editor HEMINGBY'S REGISTER xi + 288pp, original cloth. Impression of 350 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 18, Devizes: 1963. £8.00




  19. Child (Mark) SHIRE COUNTY GUIDE: WILTSHIRE. Map, illusts, 56pp, original pictorial card covers. Shire Publications, Aylesbury: 1984. £4.00




  20. Colley (Robert), editor DEVIZES DIVISION INCOME TAX ASSESSMENTS, 1842-1860. Frontis, xxxvi + 294pp, dustwrapper. Impression of 500 copies. Wiltshire Record Society, Volume 55, Trowbridge: 2002. £16.00




  21. Conyers (Angela), editor WILTSHIRE EXTENTS FOR DEBTS Edward I - Elizabeth I. viii + 196pp, original cloth, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and stamp to title-page. Impression of 400 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 28. Devizes: 1973. £4.00




  22. Crabbe (Rev. George), Trowbridge THE CHURCH RESTORED, Including by permission, The Church, a Poem, by The Rev. George Crabbe, L.L.B. late Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts. With 7 steel engravings, iv + 49pp, sm 4to, original partly faded cloth, lacks portions of spine, front inner hinge cracked, ex-lib labels and tear to front endpaper, there are no stamps. London: John Murray, 1848. £9.00
    * Includes a short history of Trowbridge and its charities.




  23. Crampton (Patrick) STONEHENGE OF THE KINGS. A People Appear. Diagrams in the text, 171pp, short tear to dustwrapper. The Scientific Book Club, 1967. £5.00




  24. Crampton (Patrick) STONEHENGE OF THE KINGS. A People Appear. Map endpapers, plates, textual diagrams, 171pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. First edition, London: John Baker, 1967. £6.00




  25. Crowley (D.A), editor THE WILTSHIRE TAX LIST OF 1332. xxi + 188pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Volume 45, Wiltshire Record Society, Trowbridge: 1989. £12.00




  26. Cunnington (Mrs M.E), and Godard (Rev. E.H), compiled by CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE MUSEUM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes. Part II. Numerous illusts, xiv + 294pp, original paper boards, top outer hinge split at head, titled in ink on spine. Published by the Society at the Museum. 1934. £10.00
    * This is an enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1911.




  27. Cunnington (William), and Godard (Rev. E.H), compiled by CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE MUSEUM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes. Part I. The Stourhead Collection. Numerous textual illusts, 96pp, original printed wraps, lacks spine shaken, date in ink on top wrap. Published by the Society at the Museum, Devizes: 1896. £8.00




  28. Domesday Book, edited by Caroline and Frank Thorn WILTSHIRE Maps, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1979. £8.00




  29. Drinkwater (Paul) WARD'S MOTORS OF DEVIZES. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Ward's Motors Publications, Stowmarket: 1996. £8.00




  30. Edwards (Kathleen), editor THE REGISTERS OF ROGER MARTIVAL Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330. Vol I. The Register of Presentations and Institutions to Benefices. xvi + 430pp, original wraps. Canterbury & York Society. Oxford: 1959. £10.00




  31. Firmager (Gabrielle & Douglas), editors SEMINGTON Past and Present. Illusts, plans, maps, 208pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription on half-title. Semington History Project Group, Bradford on Avon: 2002. £12.00




  32. Francis (Evelyn) AVEBURY. Illusts, 58pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial wraps. Wooden Books, Presteigne: 2000. £5.00




  33. Fry (Edw. Alex.) ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II. A.D. 1242 - 1326. xv + 505pp, untrimmed in early half calf, raised bands, leather label on spine, cloth boards, slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, ex-lib, with number to base of spine and label to front endpaper, small stamp to title-page. Issued to the Subscribers by the British Record Society, 1908. £28.00




  34. Fry (George S) and (E.W) ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles the First. vii + 304pp, lacks pages 305-501pp, early cloth, marbled endpapers. London: British Record Society. 1893. £12.00




  35. Gillings (Mark), Peterson (Rick) and Pollard (Joshua) AN INTERIM REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE LONGSTONES PROJECT on the line of the West Kennet Avenue and the site of Falkner's Circle. Illusts, plans, diagrams, 18pp, small folio, original wraps, cloth spine. University of Leicester.... February 2003. £4.00




  36. Goodrich (Rev. P.J) TROWBRIDGE AND ITS TIMES, A Tribute. With 24 plates, ix + 217pp, original cloth, spine faded, page edges browned, some foxing to prelims, name to front endpaper. First edition, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1932. £12.00




  37. Grace (M.E) POEMS. 63pp, 12mo, original qtr cloth, paper boards, Holloway Brothers, Westbury, Wilts., 1957. £4.00
    * Some of the poems were written in Wiltshire, including one written 'For the Bratton W.I. Poem Competition, September 17th, 1952.'




  38. Grose (F) WILTSHIRE section from the Antiquities of England & Wales. With 6 engraved plates, lacks map, pages numbered 29-44, complete, roy 8vo, disbound, occasional light spotting. 179-. £9.00 --- See sample text




  39. Haskins (Charles) THE SALISBURY CORPORATION PICTURES AND PLATE. With 10 plates, xxii + 227 + (11)pp, original cloth, includes a 10 page list of subscribers. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers. 1910. £8.00




  40. Haycock (Lorna) JOHN ANSTIE OF DEVIZES 1743-1830. An Eighteenth-Century Wiltshire Clothier. Illusts, 116pp, original pictorial card covers. Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 1991. £10.00




  41. Heath (Frank R) WILTSHIRE. Plates, map endpapers, folding map, 336pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, partly faded. Fourth edition, Methuen & Co., 1918. £4.00




  42. Hembry (Phyllis), editor CALENDAR OF BRADFORD-ON-AVON SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS AND REMOVAL ORDERS 1725-98. Frontis, xxii + 164pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Volume 46, Wiltshire Record Society. Trowbridge: 1990. £15.00




  43. Heytesbury Hospital SCHEME FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF HEYTESBURY HOSPITAL, and the Application of the Income Thereof, Approved by Order of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Dated the 15th April, 1880. 20pp, original cloth covers, with original paper label on top board, front inner hinge broken. London: Roworth and Sons, 1880. £15.00




  44. Hoare (Sir Richard Colt), and Harris (Richard) THE HISTORY OF MODERN WILTSHIRE. Hundred of WESTBURY. Lacks the 3 plates, textual illusts, viii + 92pp, folio, later unlettered thin paper boards, crude cloth spine, loose in case, spine torn, boards rubbed, the top 3" of all leaves browned, not affecting legibility. London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1830. £20.00




  45. Jackson (R.H) SOME GLIMPSES OF THE WEST TISBURY STORY. 16 + (1)pp, small folio, typescript, stapled, title leaf slightly dusty, some small marks to a couple of leaves. March, 1975. £10.00




  46. [Jefferies (Richard)] THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. vi + 216pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. Third Edition, London: Smith Elder & Co., 1879. £8.00




  47. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1935. Lacks map, 31 (adverts) + xx + 437pp, original cloth, spine faded, rubbed to edges, short tear to front endpaper. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1935. £30.00




  48. Kirby (J.L), editor THE HUNGERFORD CARTULARY Part Two. A Calendar of the Hobhouse Cartulary of the Hungerford Family. xvii + 190pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 60. Wiltshire Record Society, Chippenham: 2007. £10.00




  49. Lacock Abbey LACOCK ABBEY PAGEANT Saturday September 3rd 1932 - From 2 to 11. With double-page plan, 32pp, includes many local adverts, large 8vo, original pictorial paper covers. Spinke's Printing Works, Chippenham: 1932. £15.00




  50. Leete-Hodge (Lornie) COUNTY GUIDE WILTSHIRE. Illusts, 64pp, 12mo, original card covers. Johnston & Bacon, Edinburgh and London: 1976. £4.00




  51. Lock (Anne) CORSHAM. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1997. £4.00




  52. Main (Laurence) WALKS IN MYSTERIOUS WILTSHIRE. Maps, illusts, 111pp, original pictorial card covers. Sigma Leisure, Wilmslow: 1998. £4.00




  53. Marlborough College REPORT OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY For the Year ending Christmas, 1909. Illusts, 56 + (52)pp, original printed wraps, portions chipped from head and foot of spine, short tear to rear wrap. Marlborough: "Times Printing Office", 1910. £6.00




  54. Marlborough College REPORT OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Nos 42, 43, 44, and 45. For the Years ending Christmas, 1893-1896. Illusts, each issues has approx 140 pages, few marks to early binders cloth. Marlborough: Printed by Chas. Perkins, 1893-1896. £20.00
    * At the end of each issue is a table with names of boys, age, weight, height, chest size, etc.




  55. Meaden (Terence) STONEHENGE. The Secret of the Solstice. Illusts, some in colour, diagrams, plans, 168pp, dustwrapper. Revised and reprinted, Souvenir Press, London: 1997. £6.00




  56. Mee (Arthur) WILTSHIRE. Cradle of Our Civilisation. Plates, xi + 393pp, dustwrapper slightly ragged. Fourth impression, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1950 £4.00






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  57. Mohen (John-Pierre) STANDING STONES. Stonehenge, Carnac, and the World of Megaliths. Coloured illusts, diagrams, plans, 175pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Thames and Hudson, London: 1999. £4.00




  58. Mountford (Eric R) SWINDON GWR REMINISCENCES. 112pp, original pictorial card covers. Bradford Barton, Truro: c.1980. £6.00
    * The reminiscences of the town where he was born, and the Great Western Railway works, where he worked during the 1920's and 1930's.




  59. Murphy (W.P.D), editor THE EARL OF HERTFORD'S LIEUTENANCY PAPERS 1603 - 1612. Frontis, 235pp, original cloth. Impression of 400 copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 23. Devizes: 1969. £8.00




  60. Nightingale (J.E) CHURCH PLATE OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, Including that part of the County now in the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. From returns made by J.E.Nightingale and the Rev. E.H. Goddard. With 33 illusts, 256pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, prelims and fore-edges of text leaves spotty. Salisbury: Printed by Bennett Brothers, Journal Office. 1891. £20.00




  61. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF WEST KNOYLE. 1719 to 1837. Pages numbered 145 to 149, complete, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1910) £8.00




  62. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF ST. PETER'S MARLBOROUGH. 1611 to 1812. 64pp, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1906) £10.00




  63. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF YATTON KEYNELL. 1653 to 1812. Pages numbered 127 to 136, original cloth, with paper label on top board, embossed stamp of Phillimore to front endpaper. Phillimore. (1909) £10.00




  64. Phillipps (Thomas), edited by Peter Sherlock, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS OF WILTSHIRE. An edition, in facsimile, of Monumental Inscriptions in the County of Wilton. By Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1822. Frontis, xxii + 458pp, original cloth. Impression of 750 Copies. Wiltshire Record Society Volume 53. Trowbridge: 2000. £16.00




  65. Pike (W.T) A DICTIONARY OF EDWARDIAN BIOGRAPHY - WILTSHIRE. Illusts, roy, 8vo, original cloth. Peter Bell, Edinburgh: 1983. £8.00
    * Reprint of the Wiltshire section of 'Wilts and Dorset at the Opening of the Twentieth Century.' 1906.




  66. Pitt (F.C) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JAMES TROWBRIDGE. A Brief Historical and Descriptive Guide. Plates, plan, 31pp, original printed wraps. B. Lansdown and Sons, 1932. £4.00




  67. Pitts (Mike) HENGEWORLD. Life in Britain 2000 BC as revealed by the latest discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Stanton Drew. Plates, diagrams, maps, plans, 404pp, dustwrapper, pencil notes to front endpaper. Century, London: 2000. £10.00




  68. Ponting (Kenneth G) WILTSHIRE PORTRAITS. Biographies of Twelve Famous People of Wiltshire. 167pp, dustwrapper. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon: 1975. £4.00
    * Includes:- John Aubrey, Henry Hoare, Jane Seymour, George Crabbe, etc.




  69. Pugh (Ralph B), editor WILTSHIRE GAOL DELIVERY AND TRAILBASTON TRIALS 1275 - 1306. ix + 273pp, original cloth, partly faded. Impression of 475 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 33. Devizes: 1978. £8.00




  70. Ramsay (G.D), editor TWO SIXTEENTH CENTURY TAXATION LISTS 1545 and 1576. xxiv + 242pp, original cloth. Volume 10, Wiltshire Records Branch, Originally published, 1954. Second impression, 1969. £8.00




  71. Reeves (Marjorie) SHEEP BELL AND PLOUGHSHARE. The Story of Two Village Families. Illusts, pedigrees, 180pp, dustwrapper. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon: 1978. £6.00
    * Concerns the Whitaker and Reeves families of Bratton.




  72. Rickard (R.L), editor PROGRESS NOTES OF WARDEN WOODWARD for the Wiltshire Estates of New College Oxford 1659-1675. Frontis, xx + 114pp, original cloth. Impression of 325 Copies. Volume 13, Wiltshire Records Branch, Devizes: 1957. £4.00
    * The lands were at Alton Barnes, Colerne, and Stert.




  73. Rogers (Helen), editor THE DIARY OF WILLIAM HENRY TUCKER. 1825-1850. Frontis, illusts, xxiii + 260pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 62. Wiltshire Record Society, Chippenham: 2009. £9.00




  74. Rolston Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES.... PARISH OF ROLSTON, otherwise ROLLESTONE. Folio, 5pp, stitched as issued, small stamp to top leaf. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £6.00




  75. Rousell (Chris) WILTON Towns and Villages of England. Photos and diagrams, 83pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £5.00
    * Signed presentation inscription on half title.




  76. Royal Commission of Historical Monuments CHURCHES OF SOUTH-EAST WILTSHIRE. Plates, textual diagrams, 259pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1987. £8.00
    * A definitive study.




  77. Sawyer (Rex) LITTLE IMBER ON THE DOWN Salisbury Plain's Ghost Village. Illusts, maps, viii + 168pp, d.w. Author's signed presentation inscription on front endpaper. Hobnob Press, Salisbury: 2001 £12.00




  78. Shemilt (Philip), and others SALISBURY 200 The Bi-centenary of Salisbury Infirmary 1766 - 1966. By Members of the Hospital Staff. Frontis and 27 plates, 162pp, dustwrapper. Published by the Salisbury General Hospital, 1967. £8.00




  79. Slow (Edward) WILTSHIRE RHYMES For the West Countrie. Part II. Pages numbered 185 - 372pp + 4 pages of adverts, original paper printed boards. R.R. Edwards, Salisbury: c.1903. £10.00




  80. Smith (Betty) OUR WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. STEEPLE ASHTON. Illustrated by Alan Andrew. Plan, line drawings and coloured plates, 156pp, oblong 8vo, slightly faded dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1989. £8.00




  81. Smith (Betty) OUR WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. STEEPLE ASHTON. Illustrated by Alan Andrew. Plan, line drawings and coloured plates, 156pp, oblong 8vo, short tear to rear of dustwrapper. Alan Sutton. Gloucester: 1989. £8.00




  82. Smith (Rev. A.C) ON THE OLD PORCH-HOUSE AT POTTERNE. 20pp, 12mo, lacks wraps, small mark to title-page. Sheppard & St. John, London: 1887. £6.00




  83. Stead (I.M) THE SALISBURY HOARD. Illusts, plans, coloured plates, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2000. £4.00




  84. Stearn (L.F) SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF WILTSHIRE. With 7 illusts, map endpapers, xvi + 150pp, roy, 8vo, some holes and damage to the dustwrapper. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1975. £7.00




  85. Stevenson (Janet H), editor THE EDINGTON CARTULARY. Frontis, xxxiv + 236pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Volume 42, Wiltshire Records Branch. Devizes: 1987. £10.00




  86. [Stokes (Ethel)] ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Edward III. A.D. 1327 - 1377. iv + 461pp, in the original 6 parts and in the original wrappers, couple of spines slightly chipped, waterstaining to top margins of two parts, spotting to one top wrap. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Devizes: 1909-1914. £8.00




  87. Thomson (T.R) THE PLACE NAMES OF CRICKLADE. 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps. Cricklade Historical Society, 1957. £4.00




  88. Timmins (T.C.B), editor THE REGISTER OF JOHN CHANDLER DEAN OF SALISBURY 1404-17. xxxix + 248pp, original cloth. Impression of 550 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 39. Devizes: 1984. £8.00




  89. Upton (Roger) O FOR A FALCONER'S VOICE Memories of the Old Hawking Club. Illusts, 208pp, loose plastic cover to dustwrapper, ex-lib., with label to title-page, and signs where label removed from front pastedown, number to foot of spine of dustwrapper, rear inner hinge weak. Ramsbury: Croswood Press, 1987. £5.00
    * The Old Hawking Club was based for many years at Shrewton on Salisbury Plain.




  90. Vernon (T.E) NOTES ON THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CRUDWELL, WILTS. Illusts., 36pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Limited Edition of 250 copies. Colin Venton (The Uffington Press) Melksham: 1962. £7.00




  91. Victoria County History, edited by R.B. Pugh and E. Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 3. Plates and maps, xix + 424pp, small folio, original cloth, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, small stamp and short ink note to foot of title-page. Reprinted, Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical research, Folkestone: 1989. £20.00
    * Covers the Ecclesiastical history of the county.




  92. Victoria County History, edited by Pugh (R.B) and Crittall (Elizabeth) THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 7. Plates and illusts, xix + [ii, corrigenda] + 241pp, small folio, original cloth, ex-BBC library with a stamp to title-page and stamps to front endpaper, label to top cover, otherwise a good copy. First edition. Oxford University Press. 1953. £15.00
    * Covers the Hundreds of Bradford, Melksham, Potterne and Cannings.




  93. Victoria County History. edited by E. Crittall THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 9. Plates and illusts, xx + 220pp, small folio, light wear, 2 short tears and small portion torn from head of dustwrapper, ex-lib with just a stamp to front endpaper, and to page edges at foot. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1970. £20.00
    * Covers the Kingsbridge Hundred, includes Swindon and the surrounding area.




  94. Wainwright (F.T) THE CRICKLADE EXCAVATIONS OF 1953-54. Pages numbered 162-166, complete, original wraps, couple of small spots to top wrap, top corner slightly creased. Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, vol lvi. £4.00




  95. Ward (Thomas Rawdon) A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE PROVOST AND FELLOWS OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Relative to the Non-Renewal of Some Copyhold Lands at Ogbourne St. Andrew, Wilts. 16pp, unbound, stitched as issued. Egham: C.C. Wetton, 1844. £18.00




  96. Warminster RULES OF COURT OAK, No. 1859 of the Ancient Order of Foresters. 7pp, original printed wraps, pencil notes to one leaf, loosely inserted are several single sheets of 'Partial Amendment of Branch Rules.' Warminster: Coates & Parker, c1933. £4.00




  97. Warneford (F.E), editor STAR CHAMBER SUITS OF JOHN AND THOMAS WARNEFORD. xix + 108pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 48. Devizes: 1993. £6.00




  98. Warneford (F.E), editor STAR CHAMBER SUITS OF JOHN AND THOMAS WARNEFORD. xix + 108pp, original cloth, ex-lib., with stamp to half title. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 48. Devizes: 1993. £4.00




  99. Watkin (Bruce) A HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Cartography and Illustrations by Jacqueline McCain and Tom Murrow. Maps, plates, textual illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper. Darwen Finlayson, Beaconsfield: 1989. £4.00




  100. Watts (Ken) FIGURES IN A WILTSHIRE SCENE Historical studies connected by birth, residence or particular empathy with Wiltshire relating them to the places which they are associated. Illusts, maps, viii +280pp, large 8vo, dustwrapper. Hobnob Press, East Knoyle: 2002. £10.00
    * Includes chapters:- William Beckford of Fonthill; Stourhead and the Hoares; Coate and Richard Jefferies; Seymours of Wolf Hall, etc.




  101. West Wilts Printing Co. HISTORIC SPOTS IN WILTSHIRE. Illusts, 146pp, original cloth, spine darkened and slightly rubbed. West Wilts Printing Co. Ltd. Trowbridge: c.190- £10.00 --- See sample text
    * Includes chapters on:- Westbury White Horse; Farleigh Castle; Malmesbury Abbey; Lacock Abbey; Longleat House; Corsham Court; Avebury; Stonehenge; Bowood, etc.




  102. Whitlock (Ralph) SAILSBURY PLAIN. Double-page map, viii + 271pp, lacks dustwrapper, few spots to prelims and page edges. B.T. Batsford, London: 1976. £5.00




  103. Whitlock (Ralph) WILTSHIRE. Plates, map, 208pp, dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford, London: 1976. £4.00




  104. Williams (N.J), editor COLLECTANEA. With a Foreword by T.F.T. Plucknett. xi + 207pp, original cloth. Impression of 350 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch. Volume 12, Devizes: 1956. £8.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Royal Mills and castles at Marlborough; Wilton Abbey; Wiltshire deeds; Chippenham, etc.




  105. Williamson (Barry) THE ARUNDELLS OF WARDOUR, from Cornwall to Colditz. Map, pedigree, illusts, 242pp, original pictorial card covers, crease to lower corner of rear cover. Hobnob Press, Salisbury: 2011. £8.00




  106. Wiltshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and John Sadler. WILTSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 12. vi + [ii] + 147pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co Ltd. 1912. £20.00
    * With the armorial bookplate of William Gundry. Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Bratton, Fuggleston with Bemerton, Boyton, Sherrington, Latton, Collingbourne Ducis.




  107. Wiltshire Parish Registers, edited by Thos. M. Blagg WILTSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 14. vii + 131pp, original cloth, covers partly damp stained, slightly affecting pastedowns, internally sound. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1914. £20.00
    * Celebrated in the Parish from the first entry up to the year 1837. Contains the Parishes of Salisbury St. Edmund (concluded) and Stratford-sub-Castle.




  108. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 1. No II. Plates, pages numbered 97-216, original wraps. Devizes: Henry Bull. London: G. Bell, June, 1854. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Leland's Journey through Wiltshire; Waylen's History of Marlborough, Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Harnham, etc.




  109. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 5. Plates and plans some of which are folding, lacks geological map, 390p, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, rubbed, lacks most of spine, 2 portions of tape crudely attached to spine, hinges partly split, some occasional foxing. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1859. £12.00
    * Articles include:- Broughton Gifford; Edington; Geology of Wiltshire; Druidism; Bradford-on-Avon, etc.




  110. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 7. Plates and plans some of which are folding, iv + 334p, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, lacks 2" from head of spine, and with crack to calf between raised bands, outer hinges split, inner hinges partly cracked. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1862. £7.00
    * Includes articles:- Silbury; Roman Villa at North Wraxhall; Flora of Wiltshire; Marlborough; and Swindon, etc.




  111. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 8. Plates and plans some of which are folding, 341pp, contemporary half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled boards and endpapers, rear board loose, small portion of calf missing from head of spine. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1864. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Architecture of Malmesbury Abbey; Fungi of Wiltshire; Flora of Wiltshire; Danish Cromlechs; Charles, Lord Stourton, and the Murder of the Hartgills, etc.




  112. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 10. Plates, folding pedigree, iv + 328 + lpp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, lacks approx 2" from foot of spine, top board loose. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1867. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Excavations at Avebury; Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson; Roman station at Baydon; Ambresbury Monastery; Barrow diggings at Collingbourne Ducis, etc.




  113. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 12. Plates, folding map, folding pedigree, iv + 385 + viipp, early half calf, marbled, boards, and endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt tooled. Devizes: H.F. & E. Bull, 1870. £18.00
    * Includes articles:- History of Parish of Stockton; History of Chippenham; Monumental Brasses in Churches near Chippenham; Flora of Wiltshire, etc.




  114. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 17 No L. Plates, pages numbered 129-254, original printed wraps. Devizes: H.F. E. Bull, October, 1877. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Stonehenge; Wiltshire Regiment; Bishops of Old Sarum, etc.




  115. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 19. Plates and plans some of which are folding, includes folding map of Savernake Forest, iv + 362 + viii + (1)pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, rubbed, outer hinges partly split, inner hinges slightly weak, small portions chipped from spine, lacks label from spine, short tear to margin of one leaf, occasional foxing. Devizes: H.F. Bull, 1881. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Cricklade Mint; Savernake Forest; Abbesses of Wilton; Earthworks on Marlborough Downs, etc.




  116. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 24. No LXXI. Plates, pages numbered, 131-256pp, lacks rear wrap, top wrap, spine and fore-edge margins of the first few leaves partly waterstained. Devizes: Henry Bull, July, 1889. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Calne; Seals of the Bishops of Salisbury, etc.




  117. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 25. Plates and plans some of which are folding, iv + 364pp, complete in 3 parts, 2 parts with the partly faded original printed wraps, one part lacks lower wrap, and the top wrap is loose and ragged. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, 1890-1891. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- James Ley. Earl of Marlborough; Edington Church; Roman Remains at Hannington Wick; Geology of Devizes; Excavations at Rotherley, Woodcuts and Bokerly Dyke, etc.




  118. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 28. No LXXXV. Plates, pages numbered 279-366pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, portions chipped from foot of spine. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, June, 1896. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Fall of the Wiltshire Monasteries; Lacock Church, etc.




  119. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 30. No XCII. Plates, pages numbered, 291-362pp, original printed wraps. Devizes: Henry Bull, December, 1899. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Vessel found at Latton; Wiltshire Tokens; English Medieval Embroidery in Churches of Sutton Benger and Hullavington, etc.




  120. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 36. Plates and plans some of which are folding, iv + 706pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, rubbed, brown tape crudely applied to spine, some occasional foxing. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, 1910. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Tisbury Church; Trinity Hospital, Salisbury; Marlborough Chantries; Barrowsat Longhill and Heddington, etc.




  121. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 47. No CLXIII. Plates, pages numbered, 169-312pp, original printed wraps, few marks to rear wrap. Devizes: Henry Bull, December, 1935. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Totney Hill, Kingsdown, Box; Representatives in Parliament from 1295-1832 for the County and Burroughs of Wiltshire, etc.




  122. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 50. Nos CLXXXI. Plates and plans, pages numbered 425-523pp, original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, December 1944. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Wardour Castle; Some Wiltshire Cases in Star Chamber; Decanal and other Houses in the Close of Sarum; Notes on the Court Books of the Manors of Lacock, Charlton, Liddington, with Cote and Nethermore, etc.




  123. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 50. Nos CLXXIX. Plates, pages numbered ii + 207 + 307, original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, December 1943. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Sarum Illuminater; Vegetation of Coate Water; Hundreds of Wiltshire, etc.




  124. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 54. Nos CXCIV. Plates and plans, pages numbered 122pp, original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, June 1951. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Battle of Meretune, 871; Wiltshire Fonts; Geology of the Corallian Ridge near Wootton Bassett and Lyneham, etc.




  125. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 56. Nos CCII. Plates and plans, 85pp, original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, June 1955. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Strip Lynchets at Bishopstone; Curlew; Botanical Survey of Colerne Park; Choir of Old Sarum, etc.




  126. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 60. 1965. With 4 plates, diagrams, and plans, iv + 229pp, original printed card covers. Headley Brothers Ltd., London: 1965. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Bell Barrow, Avebury; Earthwork Enclosures in Wiltshire; James Townsend and Family at Great Cheverell and Stratford Sub Castle; Cross-Dyke on Buxbury Hill, Sutton Mandeville; St. Mary's Church, Cricklade, etc.




  127. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 61. 1966. With 4 plates, plans, diagrams, iv + 145pp, original printed card covers. Headley Brothers Ltd., London: 1966. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- St. Mary's Church, Cricklade; Norton Manor; Salisbury Preaching Controversy, 1798-1799; Pagan Saxon Burials and Boundaries in Wiltshire, etc.




  128. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 63. 1968. With 8 plates and plans, diagrams, iv + 162pp, original printed card covers. Headley Brothers Ltd., London: 1968. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Medieval Settlements in Whiteparish; Cherhill Barn; Contents of Lacock House, 1575; Kennet Valley Sarsen Industry; Anglo-Saxon Sculpture at Knook, etc.




  129. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 64. 1969. With 3 plates, diagrams, and plans, iv + 199pp, original printed card covers. pencil note on top cover. Headley Brothers Ltd., London: 1969. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Bury Wood Camp; Water-Mills in West Wiltshire; Henry St. John, Wootton Bassett; Lands at Avon and Collingbourne, etc.




  130. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 72/73 for 1977/1978. With plates, diagrams, and plans, 215 + (4)pp, original printed card covers, one corner creased to top cover. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1980. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Bell-Barrow at Sutton Veny; Defences of Devizes; Lionel Ducket, Member for Calne; Warren Hastings; Clay Tobacco Pipes; Parliamentary Enclosures in Wiltshire by Public General Acts, etc.




  131. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 76 for 1981. With plates, diagrams, and plans, 186pp, original printed card covers. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1982. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Iron Age Enclosure at Groundwell Farm, Blunsdon St Andrew; Aerial Photography in Wiltshire 1975-81; Cruck Building at Potterne; North Meadow, Cricklade; Figsbury Rings; Jurassic Reptiles from Wiltshire, etc.




  132. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 78 for 1983. With plates, diagrams, and plans, 152pp, original printed card covers. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1983. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Manor of Brixton Deverill; St. Katherine's Hospital, Heytesbury; Edward Kite, Antiquary of Devizes; Marlborough Grammar School; Cult and Tombs of St Osmund at Salisbury, etc.




  133. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 81. 1987. With plates, diagrams, and plans, 163pp, original printed card covers. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1987. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Box Roman Villa; Bewley Court, Lacock; Maddington Priory; Wiltshire Apothecaries' Tokens and Their Issuers, etc.




  134. Wiltshire County Council WILTSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS 1889-1989. Illusts, 32pp, small folio, original printed wraps. Wiltshire County Council, 1989. £4.00




  135. Wiltshire Family History Society WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Nos 51, 52 and 54-60 inclusive. 9 issues in all. Original printed wraps, numbered in ink on top wrap. October 1993 - January 1996. £8.00




  136. Wiltshire Family History Society THE BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS AND PARISH REGISTERS OF NORTH BRADLEY. BAPTISMS Part 2. 1767-1837. 68pp, small folio, original printed wraps, clip-on plastic spine, few pages slightly creased. Wiltshire Family History Society, 1990. £8.00




  137. Wiltshire Folklife WILTSHIRE FOLKLIFE Volume One, No 3, Autumn 1977. Illusts, diagrams, 54pp, original printed card covers. Wiltshire Folk Life Society, 1977. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Devizes Wharf; Mystical Topography; Wilton Sheep Fair; Folklore of Cley Hill; Wiltshire Farm Buildings, etc.




  138. Wiltshire Folklife WILTSHIRE FOLKLIFE Volume Three, No 2, Winter 1980/81. Illusts, diagrams, 40pp, original printed card covers. 1980-81. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Mormon Church in Steeple Ashton; Cruse Family of Imber; Great Barn, Avebury, etc.




  139. Wiltshire Folklife WILTSHIRE FOLKLIFE Volume Two, No 3, Spring 1979. Illusts, diagrams, 63pp, few spots to the original pictorial card covers. Wiltshire Folk Life Society, 1979. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Sheep in Wiltshire; Gunmaking in Warminster 1800-1860; Keeper's Year on the Longleat Estate; Wiltshire Medieval Villages from the air, etc.




  140. Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust A TOUR OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES. With 101 plates, double-page map, 82pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, spine lightly rubbed, top corner of top cover creased. Friary Press, Dorchester: c.1975. £4.00




  141. Wiltshire Local History Forum A GUIDE TO WILTSHIRE NEWSPAPERS. Sketch maps, 24pp, original card covers. Wiltshire Local History Forum, 2003. £4.00




  142. Wiltshire Times CASTLE COMBE Picturesque Wiltshire Series - No 4. With 5 illusts, 14pp, 12mo, original printed wraps. "Wiltshire Times", Trowbridge, c.192- £4.00




  143. Wood (Peter) and Whittington (Graeme) THE INVESTIGATION IN 1957 OF STRIP LYNCHETS NORTH OF THE VALE OF PEWSEY. 9pp, 5 diagrams including 3 folding, original wraps. Reprinted from Wiltshire Archae. Mag. Volume 17. £4.00


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