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  1. Bankes (Rt. Hon. George), M.P. for the County of Dorset. THE STORY OF CORFE CASTLE, and of many who lived there. Collected from Ancient Chronicles and Records; also from the Private Memoirs of a Family Resident there in the time of the Civil Wars.... Frontis, and 4 plates, 340pp, original cloth, partly faded, short split to head of top outer hinge, head of spine slightly chipped, occasional light spotting. London: John Murray, 1853. £80.00




  2. Barnes (William) A GLOSSARY OF THE DORSET DIALECT with a Grammar. vii + (i) + 124 + (1)pp, 103pp, 12mo, original card covers, light stain to rear cover. First published 1886. Second Edition. Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1970. £15.00




  3. Barton (Colonel L.C) TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL GUIDE TO CORFE CASTLE in the Island of Purbeck, Dorset. With a folding frontis, and 2 folding plans, 48pp, sm 8vo, original printed paper card covers, neat repair to one marginal tear, pasted to front endpaper is a label for 'E.M. Miller & Co., General Drapers & Outfitters, Corfe Castle.' First edition, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1885. £24.00




  4. Barton (R.N.E) HENGISTBURY HEAD. DORSET. Volume 2. The Late Upper Palaeolithic & Early Mesolithic Sites. Monograph No 34. Plates, diagrams, plans, and microfiche in pocket to rear, xii + 299pp, original pictorial laminated boards. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1992. £35.00




  5. Battrick (Jack), Lawson (Gail) BROWNSEA ISLANDER Maps, illusts, 175pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, stamp to title-page. Poole Historical Trust. 1978. £6.00




  6. Beamish (Derek), Dockerill (John), Hillier (John) and Smith (Graham) AN ALBUM OF OLD POOLE. With 226 illusts, dustwrapper. Poole Historical Trust. 1975. £6.00




  7. Beaton (David) DORSET MAPS. Numerous illusts, many of which are in colour, 11pp, oblong 4to, couple of small nicks to head of spine of dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by the author on half-title. First edition, The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne: 2001. £25.00




  8. Benfield (Eric) THE TOWN OF MAIDEN CASTLE. Illusts, 70pp, endpapers partly faded, dustwrapper. First edition, Robert Hale, London: 1947. £8.00




  9. Brocklebank (Joan) VICTORIAN STONE CARVERS IN DORSET CHURCHES 1856-1880. With excerpts from the reports of the consecration ceremonies in the Dorset County Chronicle and other Sources. Plates, map endpapers, 72pp, 4to, slightly faded dustwrapper. Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. 1979. £24.00




  10. Camden (William), translated by Edmund Gibson DORSET. Extracted from Camden's Britannia. Lacks map, text pages numbered 43-54 complete, folio, disbound. London: R. Ware.... 1753. £12.00




  11. Charities THE CHARITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Selected from the Voluminous Reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales, which began the 58th Year of the Reign of Geo. III. and ended the 7th of Will. IV. Folio, 110pp + 5 - 182pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed, small strips torn from calf on corners, inner hinges partly cracked though sound, some spotting mainly to front and rear. London: Sold by James Newman. 1840. £30.00
    * Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. Consists of 'Report of the Commissioners.... ' and 'Further Report.... ' Originally issued as blue books, this is a re-issue with a new title-page. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker.




  12. Ching (Mark) THE BLIZZARD OF 78. The Snowstorm that Buried Dorset. Illusts, 178pp, original pictorial card covers. Mark Ching, Winfrith Newburgh: 2008. £10.00
    * Presentation inscription from the author on the title-page.




  13. Cox (Benjamin G) THE BOOK OF BLANDFORD FORUM. The Story of the Town's Past. Numerous illusts, 192pp, dustwrapper. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1983. £10.00




  14. Cox (Rev. Thomas) DORSETSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. Lacks the map, pages numbered 548-604, lacks the leaf of distance table as usual, disbound, occasional light foxing. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £30.00
    * Includes sections on:- the various Boroughs; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc.




  15. Cutler (Rev. R) ORIGINAL NOTES OF DORCHESTER AND THE DUROTRIGES. 131 + (1)pp, 12mo, early cloth with the original card covers bound in, early ownership names to front endpaper and front cover, bookplates to front endpaper. Printed at the Dorset County Chronicle Office, Dorchester: 1865. £45.00




  16. Dewar (H.S.L), editor THE THOMAS RACKETT PAPERS 17th - 19th Centuries. With 7 illusts, 97pp, folio, paper wraps, label on top wrap. Publication No 3 of the Dorset Record Society. Dorchester: 1965. £10.00




  17. Dorset Charities ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS OF CHARITABLE DONATIONS for the Benefit of Poor Persons, Made by the Ministers and Churchwardens of the Several Parishes and Townships in England and Wales. 1786 - 1788. The Dorset section, folio, loose and unbound, 36pp. Ruled in columns:- Name of Hundred, Names of the Persons who Gave the Charity, When Given, Whether by Will or Deed, Description of the Charity, and for what Purpose given, Whether in Land or Money, In Whom Now Vested, Gross Amount, Annual Produce of the Money, Clear Annual Produce of that given in Land, and Observations. 1816. £15.00
    * Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis.




  18. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, edited by J.M.J. Fletcher PROCEEDINGS OF THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD CLUB. From June to December 1928. Volume 50. With illusts, cii + 317pp, original cloth. Dorchester: F.G. Longman. 1929. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Disc Barrows of Dorset; Ancient Mural Paintings in Dorset churches; Dorset Deeds, etc.




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  19. Dorset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and Edmund Nevill. DORSETSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 3. 152pp, original buckram, partly faded, private bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 Copies, initialled by Phillimore. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 1908. £45.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Beaminster (up to 1685), Lyme Regis, Broadwindsor, Great Toller, Halstock, Frome Vauchurch, Wraxall, Cerne Abbas, Up Cerne (up to 1811).




  20. Draper (Jo) A DORCHESTER CAMERA. With 211 illusts, 4to, dustwrapper, neat private ownership label to front endpaper. The Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1984 £8.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.




  21. Draper (Jo), photographs by David Bailey DORSET BARNS. Numerous coloured photographs, 144pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. The Dovecote Press, Stanbridge, Wimborne: 2010. £18.00




  22. Dugdale (Giles) WILLIAM BARNES OF DORSET. With 9 plates, xii + 306pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, lettering feint on spine, news cutting concerning the death of the author pasted to front endpaper, inscription on front endpaper. First edition, Cassell & Company Ltd. 1953. £10.00




  23. Eyton (Rev. R.W) A KEY TO DOMESDAY, Showing The Method and Exactitude of its Mensuration, and the Precise Meaning of its More Usual Formulae. The Subject Being Specially Exemplified By An Analysis and Digest of the DORSET SURVEY. 176pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, private ownership label to front pastedown. Taylor and Co., London: 1878. £20.00




  24. Farr (Grahame) WRECK AND RESCUE ON THE COAST OF DORSET. The Story of the Dorset Lifeboats. Illusts, 136pp, few light spots to rear of dustwrapper. D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. £10.00




  25. Fowler (Joseph) MEDIAEVAL SHERBORNE. Taken for the most part from original Sherborne documents at S. Mary's Abbey church. the Castle, the Almshouse, the School, and the Digby Estate..... Illusts., 409pp + xvi, roy 8vo, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, head of spine partly faded, repair to one lower margin, portions missing from head and foot of dustwrapper which is in a protective sleeve. Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd., 1951. £45.00 --- See sample text




  26. Fowler (Joseph) SHERBORNE BEHIND THE SEA. A Description of Sherborne Scenery, Its Nature and History In Its Relation to the Underlying Rocks.... The Origin of Dry Valleys; The History of the River Yeo and the Formation of its Valley at Sherborne. Illustrated by Hubert Jones. 87pp, 4to, original qtr cloth paper boards, few spots to top of top board. J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, Ltd., Sherborne: 1936. £15.00 --- See sample text




  27. Gibb (J.H.P) THE BOOK OF SHERBORNE. Numerous illusts, 144pp, cr. 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. Includes 3 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books Ltd. 1981. £20.00




  28. Good (Ronald) and Robinson (K.L) A GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK OF THE DORSET FLORA. Including a Chapter on The Soils of Dorset With frontispiece and 42 maps, 255pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, ex-ref.lib. with label to front pastedown, and to title-page, number to spine. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorchester: (1948) £10.00




  29. Good (Ronald) WEYLAND. THE STORY OF WEYMOUTH AND ITS COUNTRYSIDE. With illustrations by the author. 116pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Second Edition. Dorchester: Longmans of Dorchester, The Friary Press, 1946. £10.00




  30. Green (Martin A LANDSCAPE REVEALED 10,000 Years on a Chalkland Farm. Illusts, diagrams, maps, plans, 160pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers, name to title-page. Tempus, Stroud: 2000 £10.00




  31. [Hall (P)] AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE TOWN OF WIMBORNE MINSTER.... With a Particular Account of the Collegiate Church of St. Cuthberge, Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, The Chapel of St. Margaret.... With a frontis and two plates, 60pp, original cloth partly faded. Second Edition. Wimborne: Alfred Purkis, Church Street. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Co. 1853. £75.00




  32. Hawkins (Desmond), editor THE GROVE DIARIES The Rise and Fall of an English Family 1809-1925. Map, plates, 274ppp, includes 3 page subscriber's list, dustwrapper, name on front endpaper. Dovecote Press, Wimbourne: 1995. £24.00
    * The Grove family resided at Ferne House, near Shaftesbury. The diaries started with Harriet Grove who had an affair with Percy Bysshe Shelly. The other diaries in this work are by Harriet's sister Charlotte and their nephew Thomas.




  33. Hawkins (Jennifer) THE POOLE POTTERIES Illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. Barrie and Jenkins, London: 1980. £22.00




  34. Hutchins (John), Shipp (W) and Hodson (J.W) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. With a new Introduction by Robert Douch. With plates, numerous pedigrees and textual illusts, folio, 4 volumes, neat repair to verso of short tear in one dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is the original 8 page prospectus. Originally published 1861 - 1870. Facsimile reprint. E.P. Publishing Ltd, Wakefield: 1973. £400.00




  35. Huxtable (Rev. A) A LECTURE ON THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATION OF MANURES; With an Appendix. 50pp, later half cloth, marbled endpapers, paper label on spine, ex-ref.lib with labels to front endpapers. Second Edition, London: James Ridgway, 1847. £20.00
    * Huxtable was the Rector of Hutton Waldron, Dorset when he wrote this work.




  36. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1939. With coloured folding map, 37 + xviii + 424pp, library style binding in qtr calf, no labels or stamps, with number to foot of spine, slight staining to lower margins of a few leaves. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1939. £30.00




  37. Legg (Rodney) THE BOOK OF LULWORTH. A Changing Village. Numerous illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2002. £16.00




  38. Legg (Rodney) THE BOOK OF LYME REGIS the Story of Dorset's Western Spa. Illusts, 151pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2003. £25.00




  39. Lyme Regis REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF LYME REGIS. (Dorsetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1302-1316, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £18.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  40. Mansel-Pleydell (J.C) THE MOLLUSCA OF DORSETSHIRE. (Marine, Estuarine, Freshwater, and Land.) and The Brachiopoda. Folding map, xxxii + 110pp, original cloth, few spots to rear board, short tear to map. Dorchester: "Dorchester County Chronicle", 1898. £30.00
    * Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper.




  41. Mansel-Pleydell (John Clavell) FLORA OF DORSETSHIRE, or A Catalogue of Plants found in the County of Dorset. With Sketches of its Geology and Physical Geography. With folding map, ii + 320pp, original buckram, lightly rubbed to edges, few marks to rear board, private bookplate to front pastedown, early ownership name, and date, to front endpaper. First Edition. London & Blandford: 1874. £35.00




  42. Masters and Boys of Sherborne School A GUIDE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SHERBORNE AND YEOVIL. With 8 plates and a folding map in pocket at rear, (8) pages of adverts, xi + (1) + 125 + (8) pages of adverts, original cloth, 12mo, few small spots to cloth. Sherborne School Archaeological Society, Sherborne: 1925. £8.00




  43. Mayo (Charles Herbert), editor THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS OF THE BOROUGH OF DORCHESTER. Issued to the Subscribers by Charles Herbert Mayo and Arthur William Gould. With a double-page plan, and 3 views of Dorchester, one of which is double-page, lxvii + 756pp, including a 3« page list of subscribers, original qtr parchment, cloth boards, top board partly faded. William Pollard, Exeter: 1908. £85.00






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  44. Miles (William Augustus) A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVEREL BARROW, Opened A.D. 1825. Also a Minute Account of the KIMMERIDGE COAL MONEY, A Most Mysterious and Nondescript Article. With two engraved and one printed title, and 8 engraved plates, viii + (3)-53pp, 4to, original paper boards, portions chipped from spine, endpapers spotty, frontis spotty and and waterstained to inner margins, otherwise internally clean. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Holland House to front pastedown. Cockers, Printers, Frome: 1826. £70.00 --- See sample text




  45. Miles (William Augustus) A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVEREL BARROW, Opened A.D. 1825. Also a Minute Account of the KIMMERIDGE COAL MONEY, A Most Mysterious and Nondescript Article. With two engraved and one printed title, and 8 engraved plates, viii + (3)-53pp, in the original paper boards, boards rubbed, affecting lettering on top board, portions missing from spine, water stain to top portion of top margin of frontis, endpapers spotty, otherwise clean. Cockers, Printers, Frome: 1826. £40.00 --- See sample text




  46. Mills (A.D) THE PLACE-NAMES OF DORSET. Part 2. The Hundreds of Cogdean, Loosebarrow, Rushmore, Combe Ditch, Pimberne Badbury, Cranborne, Wimborne St Giles, Knowlton, Monkton Up Wimborne. With 2 maps, xxxvii + 298pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. English Place Name Society, Nottingham: 1980. £15.00




  47. Mills (A.D) THE PLACE-NAMES OF DORSET. Part 1. The Isle of Purbeck, The Hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown, St. George. With 2 maps, xxxvii + 384pp, original cloth, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic sleeve, bookplate to front pastedown. English Place Name Society, Nottingham: 1977. £20.00




  48. Moore (Joseph), printed for THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF POOLE; Compiled from Hutchin's History of the County of Dorset; With a Chronological List of Mayors from the Year 1490 to the Present Time. To which is added A Supplement, containing Several Curious and Interesting Particulars; with Many Additions and Corrections, By the Editor. 86pp, lacks errata leaf, recent marbled wraps, with label on top cover. Second edition. Printed for Joseph Moore, Bookseller, Poole. 1788. £135.00
    * This edition was published in the same year as the first.




  49. Moule (H.J) DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES. Plate, illusts in text, 96pp, original cloth, top cover spotty and partly faded, prelims foxed. Second edition, Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1906. £18.00
    * This edition has 20 more pages than the first edition, and contains a 'Memoir' by Thomas Hardy.




  50. Moule (H.J) DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES. Vignette title, and textual illusts, 76pp, original cloth, covers partly faded, one corner on rear board slightly bruised. First edition, Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1901. £14.00 --- See sample text




  51. Murphy (John) DORSET AT WAR! Illusts, 302pp, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. Dorset Publishing Co., Milborne Port, Sherborne: 1979. £10.00
    * 'For Dorset 1939-45 was the people's war. It was a struggle that spilled across the divisions in society, bringing to court the Lord Lieutenant of the county for buying blackmarket butter, and a baronet for hoarding gold.... '




  52. Peters (John), Colling (David and Ridley (Michael) BOURNEMOUTH THEN AND NOW. Numerous illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Blandford Press, Pool: 1978. £6.00




  53. Pevsner (Nikolaus) and Newman (John) DORSET (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 554 + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, dustwrapper. Reprinted Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1993. £15.00




  54. Pitfield (F.P) THE BOOK OF BERE REGIS. Written and drawn by F.P. Pitfield. Numerous illusts, maps, 123pp, folio, top cover gilt tooled, small neat bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by the author on the title-page. Privately Printed for the Subscribers by Dorset Publishing Company, Milborne Port: 1978. £28.00




  55. Popham (David and Rita) THE BOOK OF BOURNEMOUTH. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 160pp, dustwrapper. Limited Edition. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books Limited. 1985. £12.00
    * Signed by the authors on the title-page.




  56. Portland Prison REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF CONVICT PRISON ON THE DISCIPLINE AND MANAGEMENT OF.... PORTLAND PRISON.... For the Year 1875. Pages numbered 353-428, complete, folio, recent card covers, London: H.M.S.O. 1876. £30.00
    * This is the Portland Prison section extracted from a larger work. Contains extracts from the Governor's Report, the Chaplain's Report and the Medical Officer's Report.




  57. Pridham (Dr. Llewellyn) THE DORSET COASTLINE. From a personal and photographic point of view. Photography by Edwin Kestin. Map endpapers, plates, 126pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, small mark to edge of dustwrapper, presentation inscription to front endpaper. Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd. c.195- £15.00




  58. Purdy (Richard Little) THOMAS HARDY A Bibliographical Study. With 7 plates, iv + 388pp, spotty dustwrapper which has a short strip torn from the top, and a split where folded, page edges spotty. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1954. £10.00

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  59. Robinson (C.E) THE ROYAL WARREN, or Picturesque Rambles in the Isle of Purbeck. Illustrated by A. Dawson. 10 plates, etched and 'photograved' and numerous textual illusts, 4to, xiv + 186pp, original buckram, t.e.g. others uncut, occasional light off-setting and foxing. London: Typographic Etching Company, 1882. £85.00




  60. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Volume Four NORTH DORSET. With two folding maps and 3 folding plans in pocket at rear, 80 plates, folding diagrams and numerous diagrams in the text, xxxix + 142pp. 4to, slightly worn to head of spine of dustwrapper, book contained in a cardboard slipcase. First edition, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1972. £25.00
    * Includes:- Ashmore, Bourton, Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Iwerne Minster, Shaftesbury, Silton, Tarrant Hinton, West Stour, etc.




  61. Russell (Una) and Grindrod (Audrey) THE MANOR HOUSES OF DORSET. With nearly 200 coloured photographs, and black and white illusts, 286pp, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. The Dovecote Press, Stanbridge, Wimborne: 2007. £26.00




  62. Rylands (John Paul), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, By Henry St. George and Sampson Lennard, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden. With 9 plates, vi + (i) + 115pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, spine faded, and slightly rubbed, shaken, stitching pulled. With the armorial bookplate of Herbert Hanbury Smith Carington, and one other bookplate. London: Harleian Society. 1885. £32.00




  63. Saunders (Samuel) THE DEATH OF MINISTERS IMPROVED. A SERMON PREACHED AT WEYMOUTH, November 6, 1819, on the Lamented Death of The Rev. Thomas Flint, Pastor of the Baptist Church in that Town. Including a Brief Memoir of His Life and Character. 59pp, 12mo, lacks wraps. Bath: Printed and Sold by T.Smith, (1820) £20.00




  64. Short (Bernard C) EARLY DAYS OF NONCONFORMITY IN POOLE. Plates, text illusts, [vi] + 76pp, half calf, cloth boards, spine rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib., with small stamp to title-page. J. Looker, The Wessex Press, Poole: 1927. £8.00




  65. [Smart (T.W.W)] A CHRONICLE OF CRANBORNE, Being an Account of the Ancient Town, Lordship, and CHASE OF CRANBORNE, in the County of Dorset. Collected from original records and other authentic sources of information. With a folding map and an engraved plate, 316pp. 1841.... Bound with.... Mansel-Pleydell (J.C) A BRIEF MEMOIR OF THE GEOLOGY OF DORSET. Pamphlet, 22pp. 1873. Two items bound in one, recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards. First edition, Nichols and Son.... London: 1841 & Off-print from Geological Magazine, 1873. £125.00
    * Loosely inserted is a 2 page note, initialled, and dated 1881, by Smart, on which is an illustration. It concerns a copper figure found in the Knolton Woodlands.




  66. Smith (H.O) H.O. PIONEER AND APOSTLE OF PHOTOTYPESETTING. The memoirs of H.O. Smith. Illusts, 99pp, original cloth, stamp to verso of title-page, presentation inscription from the author on the title-page. The Dorset Press, Dorchester: 1998. £10.00
    * Smith was born and went to school in Dorchester.




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  67. Stevenson (William) GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET; with Observations on the Means of its Improvement, Drawn up for the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Folding hand-coloured map, xi + 487+ (3)pp Index + (3)pp List of Board of Agricultures publications + (2)pp Catalogue of Agriculture Seeds, &c. sold by Thomas Gibbs & Co. untrimmed in early boards, later cloth spine, label on spine. Printed by B. McMillan, for Sherwood. Neely & Jones, London: 1815. £135.00




  68. Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher DORSET TUDOR SUBSIDIES Granted in 1523, 1543, 1593. xxiv + 256pp, folio, original cloth. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1982. £24.00




  69. Stukeley (Rev. William) OF THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATER AT DORCHESTER. Large folding plan, viii + 16pp, folio, original wraps, recent cloth spine. Two Hundred Copies Printed in Facsimile. Originally published 1723. Reprinted 1925. £18.00




  70. Sturminster Marshall, transcribed by Edith Hobday REGISTERS OF STURMINSTER MARSHALL, Dorset. 1563-1812. 326pp, library style, early half morocco, cloth boards, spine slightly faded, with the original paper wraps bound in. Issued to Subscribers by Edward Alex. Fry and George S. Fry, 1901. £35.00




  71. Tribe (Tom) and Whatmoor (Philip) DORSET CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS. Map endpapers, 38 plates, 234pp, dustwrapper. Oswestry: Tanat Books, 1981. £18.00




  72. Victoria County History, edited by R.B.Pugh VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Volume 3. With Index to Volume 2. With a frontis and double-page map, 189pp, small folio, slightly spotty dustwrapper, few small marks to endpapers. Oxford University Press, 1968. £26.00
    * Mainly concerned with the Dorset Domesday and Geld Rolls.




  73. Wake Smart (T.W.) A CHRONICLE OF CRANBORNE, and The Cranborne Chase. Introduction by Desmond Hawkins. Frontis and folding map, xxvi 316pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Limited to 500 copies. Originally published 1841. Reprinted, Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1983. £25.00




  74. Walbridge (A.A.G) ST. MARY BEAMINSTER A HISTORY. Illusts, 144pp, original pictorial card covers, a few amendments in ink, made by the original owner of the book, whose bookplate is to verso of top cover. Tipped in at the rear is a copy of a letter sent by him to the author with a note of the corrections. Walbridge Publications, Beaminster: 2002. £16.00




  75. Wanklyn (C) LYME REGIS. A Retrospect. Numerous plates, some of which are folding, many coloured, xiv + 284pp, 4to, original cloth. Second edition, revised and enlarged. London: Hatchards, 1927. £90.00




  76. Wareham Guide Committee compiled by AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT TOWN OF WAREHAM, Containing: 25 Photographic Reproductions and Descriptive Letterpress of its General History, Geology, Churches, Earthen Ramparts, Flowers, Sports and Pastimes. Etc. Illusts, adverts, 50pp, original printed boards. Bournemouth: Wareham Guide Committee, c.1900. £21.00




  77. Wareham REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF WAREHAM. (Dorsetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1358-1362, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  78. Warne (Charles) THE SAXON, DANISH AND NORMAN MINTS OF DORSETSHIRE. With 4 plates, pages numbered 277-331 + xiv-xvpp, 1 page of publishers adverts, folio, original cloth, rubbed to edges, some marks, and some staining to lower corner of boards, affecting a few leaves, inner hinges cracked, occasional foxing. Printed for the Author, and Subscribers Only, by D. Sydenham, Bournemouth. 1872. £28.00
    * This formed a part of the larger work on Ancient Dorset. Being complete in itself, only a few were printed.




  79. Warne (Charles) THE CELTIC TUMULI OF DORSET: An Account of Personal and other Researches in the Sepulchral Mounds of the Durotriges. With 13 engraved plates, textual illusts, [viii] + 63 + 76pp, folio, original cloth, small portion missing from head of spine, partly faded, usual occasional spotting to plates, text clean, private ownership label to front pastedown. First edition, Printed for the Author: Published by John Russell Smith, London: 1866. £270.00




  80. Warne (Charles) THE CELTIC TUMULI OF DORSET: An Account of Personal and other Researches in the Sepulchral Mounds of the Durotriges. With 13 engraved plates, textual illusts, [viii] + 63 + 76pp, folio, original cloth, slightly dull, partly faded and with a few spots, plates slightly spotty, with water stains mainly to margins of plates, prelims spotty, text clean, small hole to front endpaper. First edition, Printed for the Author: Published by John Russell Smith, London: 1866. £180.00




  81. Warren (Frank), edited by Antony Bird HONOUR SATISFIED A Dorset Rifleman at War 1916-1918 2nd Lieutenant Frank Warren. 109pp, dustwrapper, stamp to front endpaper. The Crowood Press, Swindon: 1996. £8.00




  82. Weinstock (Maureen), editor WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS Minute Book 1625-1660. Dorset Record Society. Publication No 1. 108pp, stapled, original paper wraps, label on top wrap, lacks cloth spine. Publication No 1 of the Dorset Record Society, Dorchester: 1964. £8.00




  83. Western Chronicle, printers RECORDS OF THE DORSET MILITIA From 1757 to 1887. With Descriptive Introduction by a Local Editor. 28pp, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, occasional foxing. Yeovil: Printed by the Western Chronicle Company, Limited, 1889-89. £22.00




  84. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS, (Dorsetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1382-1395, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £15.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  85. Weymouth Corporation WEYMOUTH The English Naples. Folding frontis, illusts, 48pp, adverts. original bevelled cloth boards. Hodd and Co., Middlesborough: c.1904. £25.00 --- See sample text




  86. Widen (Bertil) STUDIES ON THE DORSET DIALECT. Maps, 179pp, pages partly unopened, original printed wraps, top wrap slightly spotty. Williams and Norgate, London: 1949. £12.00


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