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  1. Akerman (J.Y) A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL WORDS AND PHRASES, IN USE IN WILTSHIRE. 60pp, sm 8vo, disbound. First edition. London: John Russell Smith. 1842. £50.00




  2. Akerman (John Yonge) WILTSHIRE TALES. vi + 179pp, sm 8vo, few spots to the original cloth, covers lightly rubbed to edges, some spotting to rear board. First edition, London: John Russell Smith. 1853. £40.00
    * With the signature of the children's writer Juliana Horatia Ewing, Aldershot Camp. dated October 1872 on front endpaper.





  3. Annable (F.K) and Simpson (D.D.A) GUIDE CATALOGUE OF THE NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE COLLECTIONS IN DEVIZES MUSEUM. With a foreword by Professor Stuart Piggott. Plates, textual illusts, 133pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Devizes: 1964. £16.00




  4. Archaeological Institute MEMOIRS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF WILTSHIRE AND THE CITY OF SALISBURY. Communicated to the Annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at Salisbury, July, 1849. With a folding map and numerous plates, viii + 314 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, recent cloth, ex-lib., stamp to title-page, and slight signs where label removed from front endpaper. London: George Bell. 1851. £25.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Silbury Hill; Avebury; Sculptures at Wilton House; Stonehenge, etc.





  5. Arnold-Forster (Mary) BASSET DOWN An Old Country House. Forward by Charles Morgan. Plates, 2 pedigrees one of which is folding, 175pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed, ex-lib., with labels to front pastedown, and front endpaper, number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page. Country Life Limited. (1950) £25.00




  6. Baker (T.H) NOTES ON ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH AND PARISH. With 3 plates, viii + 167pp, prelims and rear endpapers browned and spotty, original cloth, inner hinges cracked though sound. Salisbury: Brown and Co., 1906. £14.00
    * St. Martins church is in Salisbury.





  7. Benham (W. Gurney) A STORY OF STOURTON and other Wiltshire Tales Told in Verse. 113pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed, slightly shaken, spine glued down, lacks all before title, possibly just a front endpaper, indelible private ownership stamp and pencil note to front pastedown. London: Simpkin, Marshall.... 1883. £12.00




  8. Bennion (John), Vicar of Malmesbury MOSES'S CHARGE TO ISRAEL'S JUDGES, OPENED IN AN ASSIZE SERMON Preached at Salisbury, Feb. 27. 1680. Before the Right Honourable Sr Thomas Jones Judge of Assise. Published by Command of Mr. High Sherif. Title + (iv) + 20pp, disbound, title and last leaf slightly dusty with small ink stain on title. Printed at Oxford and are to be sold by Francis Dollif, Bookseller near the Mare-maid Tavern, 1681. £45.00




  9. Bowles (Charles) MODERN WILTS. HUNDRED OF CHALKE. 371pp, includes several pedigrees some of which are folding, contemporary cloth with paper label on spine, light occasional foxing. Shaftesbury: Printed for the Author, by Clarence Rutter. (1830) £105.00




  10. Bowles (Rev. W.L) HERMES BRITANNICUS A Dissertation on the Celtic Deity Teutates.... in further proof and corroboration of the Origin and Designation of the GREAT TEMPLE AT ABURY, in Wiltshire. Textual illusts, 149 + 1pp (advert), uncut in early qtr cloth, paper boards, lacks label on spine, spine slightly rubbed to edges, with a couple of short splits, small portion chipped from foot. One of only 250 copies printed. First edition, London: Printed by and for J.B. Nichols, 1828. £200.00




  11. Bracey (H.E) SOCIAL PROVISION IN RURAL WILTSHIRE. Tables, maps, and diagrams, 204pp, dustwrapper. 1952. £22.00




  12. Bradby (Edward) THE BOOK OF DEVIZES. The Life of an Ancient Borough. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 144pp, dustwrapper, ex-lib. with small stamp to title and signs where label removed from margin of front endpaper, loose covered protective cover to dustwrapper. Limited Edition. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1985. £12.00




  13. Bradley (A.G), Champneys (A.C) and Baines (J.W) A HISTORY OF MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE Now revised and continued by J.R. Taylor, H.C. Brentnall and G.C. Turner. Map endpapers, 18 plates, x + [ii] + 331pp, few small marks to the original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing. London: John Murray, 1923. £22.00
    * This is the second enlarged edition.





  14. Britton (John) MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY, embracing his Autobiographical Sketches, A Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits and an Account of His Works; with Extracts from His Correspondence.... Frontis, xii + 131pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded and slightly rubbed, rear outer hinge partly split, though sound, ex-lib. with small stamp to prelim, and label to front pastedown. Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. First edition. 1845. £60.00




  15. Broome (J.R) JOHN WARBURTON Servant of a Covenant of God. Plates, maps, drawings, 274pp, dustwrapper. Harpenden: 1996. £12.00
    * Warburton was a Baptist minister in Trowbridge from 1815, until his death in 1857.





  16. Burnett (David) SALISBURY: The History of an English Cathedral City. Illusts, 91 + (iii)pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. (1978) £10.00




  17. Bushell (T.L) THE SAGE OF SALISBURY: THOMAS CHUBB 1679 - 1747. Frontis, 159pp, loose plastic cover to dustwrapper, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, and stamp to title-page, number to foot of dustwrapper. London: Vision, 1967. £10.00




  18. Calne REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT AN ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF CALNE, in the County of Wilts, Between the 30th Day of November, 1852, and the 1st Day of December, 1853. 7pp, 4to, recent half vellum, with vellum lettering piece on top board titled in manuscript. Calne: C. Fowler, Printer 1852. £42.00




  19. The Earl of Cardigan THE WARDENS OF SAVERNAKE FOREST. With 16 plates, 8 sketch maps, 5 genealogical tables, 351pp, original cloth lightly rubbed, and partly faded. First edition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1949. £18.00




  20. Cattell (John) and Falconer (Keith) SWINDON: The Legacy of a Railway Town. Illusts, maps, 181pp, wto, original laminated boards, ex-lib. with labels to front endpapers, and small stamp at front. London: H.M.S.O. 1995. £15.00




  21. Chandler (John) ENDLESS STREET A History of Salisbury and its People. Illustrated by Alison Borthwick. Plates, textual illusts, ix + 342pp, dustwrapper, ex-lib. with labels to front endpapers, label to foot of dustwrapper. Salisbury: The Hobnob Press, 1983. £12.00




  22. Charity Commission ENDOWED CHARITY COUNTY OF WILTS. 2 volumes containing the reports of the commissioners for all of the charities in the various parishes in Wiltshire, except for those in Salisbury and Fisherton Anger. There are 308 parishes in total the number of pages in each report varies from between 1 and 97, most being in the region of 5 pages long. Each report was issued and paginated separately with a docket title. At the front of each volume is list of the parishes, and a handwritten number denoting its position in the volume. Folio, uncut in contemporary cloth slightly rubbed to edges, marbled endpapers, volume one contains the parishes A-H and volume 2 the parishes I-Z. London: H.M.S.O. 1901-1907. £120.00
    * Each report lists the charities and almshouses, in each parish with a brief history and details of benefactors and finances.





  23. Charity Commissioners FURTHER REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.... Concerning Charities. County of WILTSHIRE section. Pages numbered 301-438, folio, early half roan, cloth boards, rubbed to edges, leather label on top board, some spotting to prelims. Bound in at the rear are several blanks and 4 leaves, hand written on rectos concerning Somerset Hospital and Revd. Charles Mayo's Trust Deed. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 13 August 1834. £55.00
    * Extracted from the blue papers.
    Covers:- Hundreds of Chippenham; Hundred of North Damerham; Hundred of Elstub and Everley; Hundred of Kinwardstone; Hundred of Melksham; Hundred of Potterne and Cannings; hundred of Swanboroug; Hundred of Warminster; and General Charities.





  24. Clark (Geo. T) REPORT OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH ON A PRELIMINARY INQUIRY into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanitary Conditions of the Inhabitants of the Municipal Borough of Calne, in the County of Wilts. 20pp, stitched as issued, title and last leaf dusty, few short tears to tile and last leaf, some pencil marginalia, signs where once folded. London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1850. £45.00




  25. Clark (Leonard) ALFRED WILLIAMS HIS LIFE AND WORK. A Reprint with a New Introduction by the Author. Illusts, xv + 206pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. David & Charles. Newton Abbot: 1969. £15.00




  26. Clark (Leonard) ALFRED WILLIAMS HIS LIFE AND WORK. Illusts, xi + 206pp, few small spots to original cloth, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Bristol: William George's Sons Ltd. 1945. £22.00




  27. Colman (Pamela) THE BAKER'S DIARY Life in Georgian England from the Book of George Sloper, a Wiltshire baker, 1753 - 1810. Illusts, folding pedigree, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Wiltshire County Council, and Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1991. £12.00




  28. Cooke (G.A) COOKE'S TOPOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY, or British Traveller's Pocket County Directory. WILTSHIRE. Coloured folding map of the county, and 4 engravings on two pages, 142pp, sm 8vo, early cloth, lacks spine, boards and first few leaves almost loose, tape to inner margins of endpapers. c.1820. £20.00




  29. Coward (Henry), Printed for A NEW DESCRIPTION OF THE Pictures, Statues, Bustos, Basso Relievos, and other Curiosities in the Earl of Pembroke's House at WILTON. In the Antiquities of this Collection, are contained the whole of Cardinal Richelieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's and the greatest Part of Earl of Arundell's.... 149pp, 12mo, disbound, occasional small indelible stamp of the G.W.R. Mechanics Institution, Swindon, small water stain to top margin of last couple of leaves. The Ninth Edition. Corrected and Enlarged. Salisbury: Printed by E. Easton, for Henry Coward, at Wilton-House. 1779. £55.00




  30. Cox (T) WILTSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With folding map by Morden, textual illust of Stonehenge, pages numbered 47-215 + Distance Table, sm 4to, recent cloth, short tear to map, light waterstaining to a few leaves. In the Savoy, London: E. and R. Nutt, (1720) £85.00
    * Includes sections on the Hundreds, Natural History, etc.





  31. Cunnington (B. Howard) SOME ANNALS OF THE BOROUGH OF DEVIZES. Being a Series of Extracts from the Corporation Records, 1555 to 1791. With 3 plates. xx + 247pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, name and small ownership label to front endpapers. Devizes: George Simpson, 1925. £35.00.
    * A second volume was issued in 1926 for the period 1791 to 1835.





  32. Cunnington (M.E) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILTSHIRE, from the earliest times to the Pagan Saxons. With chapters on Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, Woodhenge, Barrows, Earthworks, etc. Illusts, xii + 172pp, original printed wraps, wraps partly faded. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Devizes: 1938. £12.00




  33. Cunnington (M.E) THE POTTERY FROM THE LONG BARROW AT WEST KENNET, WILTS. With 13 plates, textual illusts, 19pp, original qtr cloth printed paper boards, slightly darkened to top edge of boards. Printed for Private Circulation, Devizes: George Simpson, 1927. £45.00
    * Very Scarce.





  34. 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. £15.00
    * This is an enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1911.





  35. 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, original paper wraps, worn, a few spots to wraps, spine worn, stitching loosening. Published by the Society at the Museum. First edition. 1911. £10.00




  36. 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, stitching loose. Published by the Society at the Museum, Devizes: 1896. £22.00




  37. Daniell (J.J) THE HISTORY OF WARMINSTER. With a view of the Town & Neighbourhood in 1879. Illusts., xi + 237pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, and slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, prelims lightly foxed. Second Edition. Warminster: Journal Office. (1879) £30.00 --- See sample text




  38. Davies (W. Harry) BROUGHTON ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, MELKSHAM. CHURCH SOUVENIR AND BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE Containing Interesting Information concerning the History of the Church from 1669 to 1909. Illusts, 91 + xiipp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, lacks rear endpaper, small area of paper missing from top board, front endpaper partly stuck to front pastedown. Trowbridge: Massey & Co. 1909. £20.00




  39. [Davis (James)] ORIGINES DIVISIANAE. Or the Antiquities of the Devizes: In some Familiar Letters to a Friend. Wrote in the Years 1750 and 1751. 90pp, nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, covers rubbed at edges, title-page and last leaf slightly dusty, title, waterstain to lower inner margins of last couple of leaves, title slightly bound in 'askew, with a contemporary date in ink to top margin. London: Printed and Sold by J. Flint, at the Turk's Head..... 1754. £145.00
    * This work was a satire on the works of Stukeley and others. Davis was a physician in Devizes who died a year after the work's publication.





  40. Devizes Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES.... PARISHES OF ST. JOHN AND ST. MARY, DEVIZES. Folio, 97pp, stitched as issued, few spots to outer leaves. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £22.00




  41. Drinkwater (Paul) WARD'S MOTORS OF DEVIZES. Illusts, 96pp, original card covers. Ward's Motors Publications, Stowmarket: 1996. £11.00




  42. Duke (Rev. E) THE DRUIDICAL TEMPLES OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Portrait frontis, 11 plates, 5 of which are folding, viii + 203 + 12 pages of publishers adverts, 12mo, original cloth, one corner bruised, recased with new endpapers and old spine laid down, plates slightly spotty. London: John Russell Smith. Salisbury: W.B. Brodie. 1856. £100.00




  43. Duke (Rev. Edward) PROLUSIONES HISTORICAE; OR ESSAYS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HALLE OF JOHN HALLE, Citizen, and Merchant, of Salisbury, in the Reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV.,: with Notes, Illustrative and Explanatory. With 5 plates, 2 of which are coloured and 2 folding, xxxv + 622pp, original cloth, head, foot and back outer hinge chipped, lightly rubbed, some light foxing. Vol 1. (all published) Salisbury: Printed for the Author. W.B. Brodie. 1837. £65.00




  44. Duke (Rev. R.E.H), Compiled by REGISTERS OF WILSFORD AND LAKE in the County of Wilts. [Reprinted from "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica"] 21pp, original paper wrappers, few short tears to wraps, holes punched though inner margins. Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1905. £28.00




  45. Elrington (C.R), Edited by THE REGISTERS OF ROGER MARTIVAL Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330. Volumes I & II. The Register of Divers Letters. vi + 354 and lx + 355-712pp, one volume in original wraps, the other in cloth. Canterbury & York Society. Oxford and Torquay: 1963 & 1972. £30.00




  46. Erchfont A PARTICULAR OF THE MANOR OF ERCHFONT IN THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Taken in May, 1784. 23pp, folio, docket title, ex-lib. with label to front endpaper, couple of small stamps to first leaf, later cloth, number to base of spine, inner margins, fore-edge margins, and a few top margins neatly reinforced with transparent paper. The centre of the last few leaves have a few small holes occasionally affecting a few words of text, where once folded, these have also been reinforced. Some pencil notes to verso of last leaf, light stains to a few leaves. 1784. £145.00
    * Rare.





  47. Estridge Mr. A.W.), Civil Engineer REPORT ON THE DRAINAGE OF CALNE, In the County of Wilts. 9pp, small folio, original printed wraps, wraps slightly dusty, lower corner of top wrap slightly stained, internally sound. Printed by Order of the Calne Local Board of Health, 1875. £20.00




  48. Fletcher's FLETCHER'S WARMINSTER, WESTBURY AND DISTRICT DIRECTORY 1963-4. Folding map, xvi + (2) + 191pp, including adverts, 12mo, short tear and small portion missing from one corner of original printed paper wraps, ink note to rear endpaper. Grimsby: Grimsby Directories Ltd., 1963. £20.00




  49. Frampton (Matthew) A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE ROBERT LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, AT HIS CONSECRATION. By Virtue of a Common Commission from John Lord Bishop of Sarum, of the Parish Church of Harden-Huish in the Diocese of Sarum and County of Wilts. On Thursday November IV. MDCCLXXIX. viii + 18 + (1)pp, 4to, early plain unlettered marble wraps, very slightly rubbed, a couple of early ink amendments in the text. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell (1779) £80.00




  50. Gillman's DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER, and Family Almanack for 1870. Twelfth Year of Publication. 130pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, lacks spine. C. Gillman, Printer, Devizes. (1870) £40.00




  51. Gillman's DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER, Business Directory. and Family Almanac for the Year 1871 and 1872. Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Publication. 2 volumes bound in one, 41 + (33)pp, and 50 + (32)pp, 12mo, early half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges, slight spotting mainly to endpapers, with the ownership stamp of 'J.R. Fox' to top margins of a few pages. C. Gillman, Printer, Devizes. (1871 and 1872) £75.00




  52. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1882. Twenty-Fourth Year of Publication. 140 + (2)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, short tear to rear wrap, small portion torn from outer margin of top wrap, wraps spotty, spine darkened. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1882. £25.00




  53. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1883. Twenty-Fifth Year of Publication. 144 + (2)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap, occasional spotting to prelims and fore-edges. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1883. £25.00




  54. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1884. Twenty-Sixth Year of Publication. 154 + (3)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap, rear wrap loose and slightly ragged. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1884. £25.00




  55. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1885. Twenty-Seventh Year of Publication. 149 + (1)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1885. £25.00




  56. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1889. Thirty-First Year of Publication. 187 + (1)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap, spine darkened and foot slightly chipped,top hinge partly split. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1889. £25.00




  57. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1891. Thirty-Third Year of Publication. 75 + (34) + (72) pages of adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1891. £25.00




  58. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1892. Thirty-Fourth Year of Publication. 80 + (34) + (66) pages of adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap, rear hinge partly split. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1892. £25.00




  59. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1894. Thirty-Sixth Year of Publication. 69 + (32) + (72) pages of adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened, lower corner torn of rear wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1894. £25.00




  60. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1896. Thirty-Eighth Year of Publication. 154pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, lacks wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1896. £25.00




  61. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1898. Fortieth Year of Publication. 188pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, ex-lib., with stamp to top wrap and first leaf, wraps loose and ragged with portions missing, small portion missing from top margin of first advert leaf. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1898. £25.00




  62. Goddard (Canon H), Edited by WILTSHIRE BIBLIOGRAPHY A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets,, and Articles Bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County. 276pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, corners bumbed, 2 splits to rear outer hinge, ex-ref. library, with label to front pastedown, stamp to title-pages. Wiltshire Education Committee. (1929) £20.00




  63. Goldney (Frederick Hastings) RECORDS OF CHIPPENHAM Relating to the Borough From its Incorporation by Queen Mary, 1554.... Comprising Extracts From The Minute Books and Registers of Accounts &c. &c.... xxviii + 348pp, 4to, few light marks to the original cloth, slightly pulled to head of spine and lightly rubbed to edges, rear inner hinge weak, short split to rear outer hinge. For Presentation Only. Diprose, Bateman, London: 1889. £50.00 --- See sample text
    * Presentation inscription from the author on the title-page, hand written letter, signed by the author, pasted to front pastedown.





  64. Goodrich (Rev. P.J) TROWBRIDGE AND ITS TIMES, A Tribute. With 24 plates, ix + 217pp, original cloth. First edition, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1932. £26.00




  65. Green (Rosemary A.M) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS RELATING TO WILTSHIRE 1920 - 1960. xxii + 162pp, original cloth. Trowbridge: Wiltshire county Coucil, 1975. £20.00




  66. Grose (F) WILTSHIRE section from the Antiquities of England & Wales. With 6 engraved plates and 16pp, lacks map, roy 8vo, disbound, occasional light spotting. 179-. £18.00 --- See sample text




  67. Hall (Rev. Peter) PICTURESQUE MEMORIALS OF SALISBURY. A Series of Original Etchings and Vignettes, Illustrations of the Most Interesting Buildings, and Other Remains of Antiquity in that City and Neighbourhood. To which is Prefixed, a Brief History of Old and New Sarum. With 28 engraved plates, textual wood engravings, vii + 35 + (1) + a sheet of text opposite each plate, + 2 pages of 'Corrections and Additions', 4to, contemporary half calf, paper boards, rubbed, marbled endpapers, small amount of light spotting, light water staining to lower corner of last few leaves. Salisbury: W.B. Brodie and Co. 1834. £165.00




  68. Harrison (W. Jerome) GREAT STONE MONUMENTS OF WILTSHIRE. A Bibliography of STONEHENGE and AVEBURY. [Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine.] Frontis, 169pp, recently bound in qtr morocco, cloth boards, small area rubbed to head of spine. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, (1902) £75.00




  69. Haskins (Charles) THE ANCIENT TRADE GUILDS AND COMPANIES OF SALISBURY. With an Introduction by Rev. Canon Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. With Thirty-Two Illustrations. xxxvi + 423pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, few minor marks to cloth, signs where bookplate removed from front pastedown. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers. 1912. £95.00




  70. 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. £30.00




  71. Hatcher (Henry) THE ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF OLD AND NEW SARUM, OR SALISBURY. With a Statement of the circumstances connected with the publication of that work. lvpp. London: John Van Voorst. 1843..... Bound with....
    Benson (Robert) FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING MR. HATCHER AND THE HISTORY OF SALISBURY: Being an Answer to His Recent Pamphlet on that Subject. 84pp. William Pickering. 1843..... Bound with....
    Lee (Samuel) A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GOULBURN, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and Member for the University of Cambridge, on the Question of Rating Tithes, and Tithe Rent Charges, to The Relief of the Poor. 30 + (1)pp. London: Printed for the Author. 1842..... Bound with....
    Hook (Walter Farquhar) ON THE MEANS OF RENDERING MORE EFFICIENT THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE. A LETTER TO THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. 71pp. John Murray. 1846..... Bound with....
    Maskell (Rev. William) and Jenkyns (Rev. Henry) A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REV. WILLIAM MASKELL, M.A., AND THE REV. HENRY JENKYNS, D.D. RELATING TO SOME STRICTURES BY THE FORMER On the Oxford Edition of Cranmer's Remains. 31pp. Durham and London: 1846..... Bound with....
    Robinson (Rev. John Travers) A PASTORAL LETTER TO THE PARISHIONERS OF SAINT ANDREW, HOLBORN. 20 + (1)pp. Second Edition. London: Edwards and Hughes. (1843).... Bound with....
    Jackson (Thomas)y THE SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF SAINT PETER'S COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, GLOBE ROAD, MILE END, Before..... to which are appended a Report of the Preliminary Proceedings and Sketch of the Educational Course. 24 + (viii)pp. London: J.G.F. & J. Rivington. 1841.... Bound with....
    CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS. The Authenticated Report of the Discussion between Edward Miall, Esq. and Joseph Baylee, at Liverpool, On 26th February, and 1st March, 1847. 83pp. London: Hatchard and Son, Birkenhead: Law and Pinkney, 1847..... Bound with....
    SPEECH OF E. HORSMAN, ESQ. M.P. ON THE BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER BILL, July 13th, 1847. 32pp. Second edition, London: James Ridgway, 1847.... Bound with....
    Mayow (Mayow Wynell) DR. HAMPDEN'S THEOLOGY OTHER THAN THE CATHOLIC FAITH. A Letter to the Venerable the Archdeacon of Wilts. 51pp. London: T.B. Sharpe, 1847..... Bound with....
    Trenow (Rev. F.W) THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES No Test of Heresy. A Brief Examination of the Pamphlet of the Rev. William Goode, entitled "A Defence of the Thirty-nine Articles," etc. With An Appendix.... 40pp. London: Joseph Masters, 1858.
    11 items bound in one, early half calf, marbled boards, occasional light foxing. London and Salisbury: 1843 and 1858. £355.00
    * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Francis Wyatt.





  72. Hoare (Richard Colt) REGISTRUM WILTUNENSE, Saxonicum et Latinum, In Museo Britannico Asservatum, AB Anno Regis Alfredi 892, AD Annum Regis Eadwardi 1045.... Engraved plate, (xii) + 56pp, folio, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, stamp to verso of title, later cloth, with hand written label to top board, front inner hinge almost broken, few spots to boards, water staining to lower margin of plate and a couple of leaves. Londini, Typis Nicholsianis. 100 Exemplaria Impressa. (LIMITED TO 100 COPIES.) Anno 1827. £180.00
    * The hand written label reads:- 'Ancient Monastic Chartulary of the Lands Belonging to the Monastery of Wilton'





  73. Hoare (Sir Richard Colt), Offer (Rev. John) and Matcham (George) THE HISTORY OF MODERN WILTSHIRE. Hundred of BRANCH and DOLE. Hundreds of EVERLEY, AMBRESBURY, and UNDERDITCH. Hundred of DOWNTON. 3 volumes bound in one. With an engraved portrait frontispiece not called for in the list of plates, engraved map, 11 engraved plates, textual plans, and engravings, in the text, xii + 229pp; Double-page map, 15 of 16 engraved plates called for, with an extra engraved plate of armorial bearings, textual plans, xiv + 203pp; With a hand-coloured engraved map, 2 engraved plates, textual plans, double-page pedigree, iii + (i) + ii + 72pp, folio, recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards and page edges, occasional foxing and off-setting. London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1825, 1826, and 1834. £180.00
    * This forms volume 2 of 'The History of Modern Wiltshire.'





  74. 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. £25.00




  75. Huxley (Elizabeth) GALLIPOT EYES. A Wiltshire Diary. xiii + 198pp, inscription on front endpaper, dustwrapper. First edition, Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1976. £10.00
    * Concerns the time that she spent at Oaksey. Signed presentation inscription from the author on the title-page.





  76. Jefferies (Richard) THE TOILERS OF THE FIELD. vi + 337 + 24 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing, small ownership label to front endpaper. New edition, London: Longmans, Green, 1894. £15.00




  77. Jones (Rev W.H) BRADFORD ON AVON; A History and Description. Annotated & brought up to date by J. Beddoe. With plates and textual illusts, xvi + 275pp, uncut, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. LARGE PAPER COPY. First edition, Bradford-on-Avon: Wm. Dotesio, 1907. £65.00 --- See sample text




  78. Jones (Rev. William Henry) AN ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF BRADFORD-ON-AVON. With 11 of 15 plates, lacking 4 plates, textual illusts, 2 folding pedigrees, 194pp, uncut in early half roan, cloth boards, spine and edges rubbed, original printed dusty wraps bound in, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown, stamp to foot of title, number to foot of spine, occasional foxing. Presentation inscription from the author on the title-page. [From the "Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine"] Devizes: Henry Bull, 1859. £18.00




  79. Jones (W.H. Rich), Edited by VETUS REGISTRUM SARISBERIENSE Alias Dictum Registrum S. Osmundi Episcopi. The Register of S. Osmund. With 2 folding frontispieces, xxxix + 393 + 30 + (2)pp and cxliv + 322 + (2) + 30 + (2)pp, 2 volumes, original qtr roan, cloth boards, spines rubbed. 1883-84. £85.00




  80. Jones (William Henry) DOMESDAY FOR WILTSHIRE Extracted from Accurate Copies of the Original Records Accompanied with Translations, Illustrative Notes, Analysis of Contents, and General Introduction. lxxvii + 255 + 2pp list of subscribers, 4to, original cloth, later endpapers. Bath: 1865. £55.00




  81. Keith (W.J) RICHARD JEFFERIES A Critical Study. 199pp, worn dustwrapper, light spotting to prelims. University of Toronto Press and Oxford University Press. 1965. £20.00




  82. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1903. Map mounted on linen and loosely inserted, xxiv + 386 + 76 pages of adverts, original cloth, partly faded, few spots to cloth, small snag to top outer hinge. Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1903. £105.00




  83. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1923. With coloured folding map, 55 pages of adverts + xx + 428pp, original cloth, rubbed, and partly faded, inner hinges almost broken, short tear to map. Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1923. £70.00




  84. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1927. With coloured folding map, 23 + xviii + 439pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, short split to foot of top outer hinge. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1927. £75.00




  85. 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. £60.00




  86. Ladd (Frederick J) ARCHITECTS AT CORSHAM COURT A Study in Revival Style Architecture and Landscaping, 1749-1849. With 90 illustrations, xv + 184pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. 1978. £30.00




  87. Lansdown (B) and Sons Ltd WARMINSTER, WESTBURY AND DISTRICT DIRECTORY 1960-61. Folding map, xvi + (2) + 272pp, including adverts, 12mo, original printed paper wraps, lightly rubbed and titled in manuscript on spine. Trowbridge: B. Lansdown and Sons Ltd., (1960). £20.00




  88. Le Neve (John) FASTI ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE 1300 - 1541. III Salisbury Diocese. Compiled by Joyce M. Horn. x + 117pp, short tear to slightly rubbed dustwrapper, bookplate and ownership labels to endpapers. University of London: 1962. £25.00




  89. [Ledwich (E)] ANTIQUITATES SARISBURIENSIS: or, the History and Antiquities of Old and New Sarum: Original Records, and early Writers. With an Appendix. With 2 folding engraved plates, 307 + (3)pp, recent full calf, raised bands, leather label. New Edition. Salisbury: Printed and Sold by E. Easton. 1777. £125.00




  90. [Ledwich (E)] ANTIQUITATES SARISBURIENSIS: or, the History and Antiquities of Old and New Sarum: Original Records, and early Writers. With an Appendix. With 2 folding engraved plates, 307 + (3)pp, library style qtr morocco, cloth boards, ex-lib., with labels to front pastedown and front endpaper, number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page, ink note to title and contemporary dated signature. New Edition. Salisbury: Printed and Sold by E. Easton. 1777. £45.00




  91. Longleat BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PORTRAITS AT LONGLEAT in the County of Wilts the Seat of the Marquis of Bath x + 369pp, uncut in the original cloth boards, worn, lacks spine, rear board loose, ex-lib., with labels to front pastedown and front endpaper, stamp to title. London: Elliot Stock, 1881. £20.00




  92. Longstaff (John C) NOTES ON WILTSHIRE NAMES. Vol 1 - Place Names. v + 166pp, original cloth, some spotting to boards, inner hinges cracked and weak. All published. Bradford-on-Avon: 1911. £15.00




  93. Luce (Major-General Sir Richard H) PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BENEDICTINE MONASTERY OF MALMESBURY. Folding plan, 12 plates, 64pp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, partly faded. First edition, Devizes: George Simpson, 1929. £15.00




  94. Maddington Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES... PARISH OF MADDINGTON. Folio, 7pp, stitched as issued, small stamp to top leaf. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £10.00




  95. Marlborough Burgesses 1869-70. THE BURGESS ROLL of the Borough of Marlborough, in the County of Wilts. 13 pages printed on rectos only, original printed wraps partly faded. Marlborough: Emberlin, Printer, High Street. (1870) £40.00
    * Not in Goddard's Wiltshire Bibliography. Gives the names and addresses of the Burgesses.





  96. Meaden (George Terence) THE CIRCLES EFFECT AND ITS MYSTERIES. Illusts, diagrams, 134pp, dustwrapper. Artech Publishing, Bradford-on-Avon: 1989. £12.00




  97. Mee (Arthur), Fully revised and edited by C.L.S. Linnell. THE KING'S ENGLAND. WILTSHIRE. Plates, 237pp, dustwrapper. Second impression, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1973. £12.00




  98. Melksham Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES... PARISH OF MELKSHAM, including the Parishes of Melksham Without, and the Parish formerly the Chapelry of Seend. Folio, 31pp, stitched as issued, mark to lower margin of top leaf, not affecting text. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £16.00






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  99. Moffatt (Rev. J.M) THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MALMESBURY, and of its adjacent Abbey.... together with Memoirs of eminent Natives, and other distinguished Characters who were connected with the Town or Abbey: to which is added an Appendix. With a frontis, 2 other plates, a plan, and a folding Table of the Charities, 249 + errata, later cloth, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown, and a couple of stamps, number to foot of spine, table laid down on linen, tear to table repaired to verso, occasional light foxing. Tetbury: Printed (for the Editor) by J.G. Goodwyn. 1805. £70.00




  100. Moody (Henry) NOTES AND ESSAYS, Archaeological, Historical, and Topographical, relating To the Counties of Hants and Wilts. xvi + 271pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed and partly faded, inner hinges cracked though sound, signs where bookplate removed from front pastedown. Winchester: Published by the Author. 1851. £35.00




  101. Morgan (Kathleen E) EVERGREEN TALES of Wilshire Volk. 106pp, 12mo, original printed wraps partly faded, some occasional foxing. Marlborough: 'County Paper' Offices, 1938. £10.00




  102. [Newbery and Carnan] WILTSHIRE. Contained within volume 10 of 'A Description of England and Wales.' The Wiltshire section has 3 copper-plate engravings, and covers pages 3 - 75. 12mo, disbound, occasional foxing. 1770. £30.00
    * This volume also contains the counties of Worcestershire pages 76 - 118, with 2 plates; Yorkshire pages 119 - 228, with 11 plates, and the Index to the set of 10 volumes.





  103. 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, disbound. Salisbury: Printed by Bennett Brothers, Journal Office. 1891. £20.00




  104. North (Allan), Printer WILTSHIRE and Some Neighbouring Records: Historical, Biographical and Pictorial. "The Wessex Series." Numerous illusts, and over 400 un-numbered pages, 4to, original parchment-backed cloth, small portion torn from head of spine, covers lightly rubbed, and dusty, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., tissue guards. Published only for Subscribers. London: Allan North, c.190- £85.00
    * Contains short biographies of most of the important people in the county at the time, usually with photographic portraits, and occasionally with illustrations of their houses.





  105. Northern Division of Wiltshire THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER OR MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Between the Thirtieth Day of November, 1864, and the First Day of December 1865. 125 pages printed on one side only, 4to, slightly dusty original printed wraps, spine worn with portions missing, stitching almost broken. Salisbury: Printed by the of the late James M.B. Bennett, at the Journal Office, Canal, 1864. £95.00
    * Arranged in tables listing full names, place of abode, nature of qualification, (i.e. description of property), occupier, and address. Includes the Polling Districts of Chippenham, Devizes, Malmsbury, Marlborough, Melksham and Swindon.





  106. Northern Division of Wiltshire THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER OR MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Between the Thirtieth Day of December, 1872, and the First Day of January 1874. 178 pages printed on one side only, 4to, slightly dusty original printed wraps, small portions missing from rubbed spine. Salisbury: Printed by the of the late James M.B. Bennett, at the Journal Office, Canal, 1872. £95.00
    * Arranged in tables listing full names, place of abode, nature of qualification, (i.e. description of property), occupier, and address. Includes the Polling Districts of Box, Bradford, Brinkworth, Calne, Castle Combe, Chippenham, Corsham, Cricklade, Devizes, Highworth, Malmsbury, Market Lavington, Marlborough, Melksham, Minety, Ramsbury, Sherston Magna, Steeple Ashton, Sutton Benger, Swindon, Trowbridge, Wanborough, Woodborough, and Wootton Bassett.





  107. Parker (James) A MARSH FAMILY FROM WILTSHIRE 304pp, original card covers, very slightly soiled, spine rubbed affecting lettering, ex-lib. with a couple of stamps, and a cellotape stain to half-title. Melbourne: Universal Multi-owners, 1979. £16.00
    * Marsh was James Parker's mother's maiden name.





  108. [Pease (A.E)] A PRIVATE MEMOIR OF SIR THOMAS FOWLER, BART. Born August 12, 1868, Killed in Action, April 20, 1902. With 17 plates and maps, 194pp, uncut in the original cloth, soiled, few creases to cloth, later endpapers, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, stamp to veso of title-page, half-title and front endpaper slightly dusty. Privately published, No imprint (1906?) £35.00




  109. Penruddocke (Charlesana Posthema) SKETCHES DONE FOR CHARITY. Title + 10 plates, each plate is hand-coloured, possibly by an amateur at a later date, oblong 8vo, later unlettered cloth boards, slightly rubbed to corners, few minor marks to boards. Each plate has a title and a one line humourous comment. No imprint. 1860. £120.00
    * Charlesana was possibly a member of the Penruddocke family of Compton Chamberlayne.





  110. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF HEYTESBURY. 1654 to 1837. Pages numbered 97 to 124, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1910) £18.00




  111. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF MARKET LAVINGTON, alias Lavington Forum, 1673 to 1812. Pages numbered 63 to 91, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1909) £18.00




  112. Phillimore's Parish Register Series THE MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF WEST KNOYLE. 1719 to 1837. Pages numbered 145 to 149, original cloth with paper label on top board. Phillimore. (1910) £18.00




  113. Ponting (Kenneth G) WOOL & WATER. Bradford-on-Avon and the River Frome. With 24 illusts, 66pp, laminated boards head of spine slightly snagged. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon: 1975. £15.00




  114. Preston (Rev. T.A) THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF WILTS With Sketches of the Physical Geography and Climate of the County. With a coloured folding map, 436pp, recent cloth, lxix + 436pp, recent cloth, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown and front endpaper, number to foot of spine, map reinforced at folds. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1888. £30.00




  115. [Price (Francis)] A DESCRIPTION OF THAT ADMIRABLE STRUCTURE THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SALISBURY, with The Chapels, Monuments, Grave - Stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed An Account of Old Sarum. Illustrated with copper-plates. With fifteen engraved plates, 3 of which are folding, vi + 50 + 144pp, 4to, ex-lib., library style qtr morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed, number to base of spine, with small stamp to title-page and to verso, and label to front pastedown. London: Printed by R. Baldwin, 1774. £135.00




  116. Price (Francis) A SERIES OF PARTICULAR AND USEFUL OBSERVATIONS MADE WITH GREAT DILIGENCE AND CARE, UPON THAT ADMIRABLE STRUCTURE, THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SALISBURY. Calculated for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen, and other curious Persons, as well as for the Assistance of such Artists, as may be employed in Buildings of the like kind:.... With folding view of the cathedral and 13 other engraved plates, v + 78pp including a 9pp list of the original subscribers, 4to, dustwrapper. Originally published 1753. Facsimile Edition. Salisbury & Stonehenge Edition Facsimiles. 1997. £25.00




  117. Prokhovnik (R.M) A RELUCTANT PIONEER The Story of William Spikeman His Life and Times. Illusts, maps, xiv + 167pp, pictorial laminated boards, spine partly faded, signs where label removed from front endpaper. Northland Historical Publications Society, Kerikeri: 1991. £12.00
    * William Spikeman was born in Wiltshire in 1800, was transported to Botany Bay when he was 18, then brought to New Zealand as a herdsman. Includes a chapter on the Spackmans of Clyffe Pypard.





  118. Redman (D.A.K) THE REDMANS OF HALFWAY HOUSE. The Story of a Wiltshire Family. Illusts, large folding family portrait, map endpapers, viii + 128pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper, part of rear of dustwrapper re-newed with similar paper. Ramsbury: Clodagh O'Grady, 1978. £28.00
    * Halfway House Farm is at Beanacre near Melksham.





  119. Roe (Edward), Printer THE STRANGER'S HANDBOOK TO SALISBURY, and its Neighbourhood; Containing a Sketch of its History and Antiquities, A Descriptive Walk through the streets, and a Visit to the Cathedral. Stonehenge, Wilton, Old Sarum, and other Objects of Interest in the Vicinity. With 6 steel engraved plates, 107pp, disbound, light water stain to top margin of plates. Salisbury: Edward Roe, Publisher, Queen Street. (1860) £50.00
    * Not found on Copac.





  120. 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. £10.00




  121. Rowe (C.M) SALISBURY'S LOCAL COINAGE (Seventeenth Century Trade Tokens). The coins of Amesbury area, Downton and Wilton are included. Plates, 88pp, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Salisbury: 1966. £20.00
    * A study of the coinage that was in circulation in Salisbury and area during the Civil War.





  122. Salisbury Diocese THE SARUM ALMANACK and Diocesan Kalendar for the Year of Our Lord God 1874. With Table of Lessons, &c. Some Account of the Diocese and the Church Societies. The Magistrates of the Counties of Wilts & Dorset. A Complete List of the Clergy of the Diocese. 174 + 31 + 36 + (2)pp, small 8vo, few marks and small tear to rear of original printed wraps. Salisbury: Brown and Co., London: Rivington, 1874. £25.00




  123. Scharf (George) DESCRIPTION OF THE WILTON HOUSE DIPTYCH, Containing a Contemporary Portrait of King Richard the Second. Frontis, textual illusts, 99pp, large 8vo, ex-lib. later cloth, label to front pastedown, stamp to verso of title, number to base of spine London: Printed for the Arundel Society, 1882. £22.00




  124. Scrope (G. Poulett) THE COMMON CAUSE of the Landlord, Tenant, and Labourer, and the Common Cure of Their complaint in a Letter to the Agriculturists of the South of England. Folio, 15 + 1 page of publishers adverts, recent unlettered qtr calf, marbled boards. London: James Ridgway, 1830. £40.00




  125. 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. £20.00




  126. Shortt (Hugh), Edited by CITY OF SALISBURY. Plates, double-page map, textual illusts, 143pp, small portion torn from top of dustwrapper. 1957. £15.00




  127. Shortt (Hugh), Edited by CITY OF SALISBURY. Plates, double-page map, textual illusts, 143pp, dustwrapper. Originally published in 1957. Republished, 1970. £10.00




  128. Shrewton Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES... PARISH OF SHREWTON. Folio, 13pp, stitched as issued, small stamp to top leaf. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £14.00




  129. Shrubshall (Dennis) W.H. HUDSON Writer and Naturalist. xiii + 127pp, dustwrapper. Tisbury: Compton Press. 1978. £15.00
    * Signed presentation inscription on the front endpaper from the author.





  130. Silto (J) THE RAILWAY TOWN A Description of Life and Events in Swindon from 2 January 1901 to 11 November 1918. Illusts, 86 page typescript, printed paper wraps with clip on plastic spine, short split to plastic. Privately Published, J. Silto, Swindon: 1980. £18.00




  131. Skurray (Francis) BIDCOMBE HILL, A Rural and Descriptive Poem. Second Edition. To which is Added An Essay on Local Poetry. Engraved frontis of Longleat, 2 other engraved plates, 220 + advert leaf, uncut in the original paper boards, slightly rubbed, lacks lettering piece. Second Edition, London: Cadell, 1824. £75.00
    * The first edition did not contain the author's 100 page essay on the defence of topographical poetry. Skurray was the rector of Winterbourne-Abbas, Dorset.





  132. Skurray (Francis) BIDCOMBE HILL; With other Rural and Descriptive Poems. Third Edition. xxi + 331pp, 12mo, original cloth, partly faded, few spots to cloth. Third Edition, London: Cadell, 1844. £35.00
    * Skurray was the rector of Winterbourne-Abbas, Dorset.





  133. Slow (Edward) WILTSHIRE RHYMES For the Wiltshire Countrie. Part II. Pages numbered 185 - 372pp + 4 pages of adverts, original paper printed boards. Salisbury and London: c.1903. £22.00




  134. Smith (Betty) OUR WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. STEEPLE ASHTON. Illustrated by Alan Andrew. Plan, line drawings and coloured plates, 156pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton. Gloucester; 1989. £25.00
    * Signed presentation inscription from the author on the title-page.





  135. Smith (James) WILTON AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. With illustrations on wood by W.F. Tiffin. xiv + 222pp, original cloth, partly faded and slightly rubbed, few small spots to cloth, small hole to spine, signs where label removed from front endpaper, number to base of spine. Salisbury: George Brown, and London: J.B. Nicholls, 1851. £22.00 --- See sample text




  136. Smith (Rev. A.C) A SKETCH OF THE PARISH OF YATESBURY. With 3 mounted photographs, plate and textual illusts, 41pp, sm 4to, recent cloth, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown, and a couple of stamps, number to foot of spine, occasional light spotting, small water stain to lower margin of frontis. [Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. xviii] Devizes: H.F. and R. Bull, 1879. £30.00




  137. Southern Division of Wiltshire THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER OR MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS. Between the Thirtieth Day of November, 1860, and the First Day of December 1861. 94 pages printed on one side only, 4to, slightly dusty original printed wraps. Salisbury: Printed by M.B. Bennett, at the Journal Office, Canal, 1860. £95.00
    * Arranged in tables listing full names, place of abode, nature of qualification, (i.e. description of property), occupier, and address. Includes the Polling Districts of Downton, Everley, Great Bedwyn, Hindon, Salisbury, Warminster and Westbury.





  138. Spencer (Aubrey) THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER, ENGLAND. REPORT BY MR. AUBREY SPENCER (ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER), UPON THE POOR LAW UNION OF PEWSEY (Wiltshire) Title + 10pp, pages numbered 36-45, small folio, later paper covers, with paper label on top board. Houses of Parliament, London: 1893. £22.00
    * Extract from British Parliamentary papers. A detailed report on the conditions, wages, housing, hours worked of Wiltshire agricultural workers.





  139. Stearn (L.F) SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF WILTSHIRE. With 7 illusts, map endpapers, xvi + 150pp, roy, 8vo, loose plastic cover to dustwrapper, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, stamp to title and number to foot of spine of dustwrapper. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1975. £12.00




  140. Stedman (A.R) MARLBOROUGH AND THE UPPER KENNET COUNTRY. With 14 plates, 398pp, original cloth, ex-lib. with labels to front endpapers. Marlborough: 1960. £10.00




  141. Stedmond (Kay) ST. MARY'S SCHOOL CALNE 1873-1986. Illusts, 224pp, original card covers, very slight crease to top cover. B.A. Hathway, Nailsworth: (1987) £12.00




  142. Stevens (Edward T) JOTTINGS ON SOME OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE STONEHENGE EXCURSION; Thursday, August 24, 1876. Textual illusts, folding plan frontis, xii + 236pp, later binders cloth slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, one fold of map reinforced to verso. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers, Printers, Journal Office. c.187- £40.00
    * The edition of this work usually encountered was published by Brown of Salisbury in 1882 on 181 pages. With the bookplate of John E. Pritchard.





  143. 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, binders cloth slightly rubbed, chipped leather label on spine, front inner hinge cracked and weak, ex-lib., with label to front pastedown and stamps to verso of title-page. London: British Record Society, 1914. £25.00




  144. Stone (E. Herbert) THE STONES OF STONEHENGE. A full description of the Structure and of its Outworks. Illustrated by numerous photographs, diagrams, and plans drawn to scale. xv + 150pp, 4to, original cloth, small hole to top outer hinge, top board partly faded. London: Robert Scott, 1924. £60.00




  145. Stratford (Jenny) CATALOGUE OF THE JACKSON COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY WINDSOR CASTLE With a Memoir of Canon J.E. Jackson and a List of his Works. Frontis, 10 plates, xiii + 106pp, original cloth. London: Academic Press, 1981. £18.00




  146. Stratton (J) RURAL REMINISCENCES. 42pp, 12mo, original printed wraps partly faded, light stain to top wrap affecting the front endpaper and last few leaves. Winchester: Fred. Smith, Printer and Publisher, (1901) £15.00
    * Concerns his time in Wiltshire.





  147. Strickland (John), Pastor of the Church at St Edmunds in New Sarum IMMANUEL, OR THE CHURCH TRIUMPHING IN GOD WITH US. A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey of Westminster, at their publique Thanksgiving, November 5th 1644. Licence leaf, (vi) + 38pp, woodcut border to title, small 4to, stitching broken, sections loose, some fore-edges slightly damp stained. London; Printed by Matthew Simmons, for Henry Overton, at his Shop in Popes-head-Alley, 1644. £65.00




  148. Tanner (Heather and Robin) WILTSHIRE VILLAGE. By Heather Tanner with illustrations by Robin Tanner. 177pp, 4to, neat inscription on first blank, dustwrapper. Third Edition, Robin Garton, 1978. £32.00
    * 'Kington Borel is not to be found on the map, for it is not any one village, but rather an epitome of some of the villages of North-West Wiltshire.' Preface.





  149. Titford (Donald) MOONRAKERS IN MY FAMILY. With 35 illusts, (16) + 284pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper. Bath: Published by D.G. Titford, 1995. £17.00




  150. 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, later cloth, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page, residue to label on spine, frontis slightly spotty with small waterstain to one corner. London: John Murray, 1848. £24.00
    * Includes a short history of Trowbridge and its charities.





  151. 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. Melksham: 1962. £12.00




  152. 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 slight signs where label removed from front endpaper. Reprinted, Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical research, Folkestone: 1989. £40.00
    * Covers the Ecclesiastical history of the county.





  153. Victoria County History, Edited by Elizabeth Crittall A HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE VOLUME 6. Plates and Illusts, xx + 239pp, small folio, some minor soiling to the original cloth. First edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1962. £52.00
    * Covers the Borough of Wilton, Borough of Salisbury, City of New Salisbury, Hundred of Underditch.





  154. 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-Bristol University label to verso of top cover otherwise a good copy. First edition. Oxford University Press. 1953. £45.00
    * Covers the Hundreds of Bradford, Melksham, Potterne and Cannings.





  155. Victoria County History, Edited by E. Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 7. Plates and illusts, xix + [ii, corrigenda] + 241pp, small folio, original cloth. Reprinted, Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1985. £48.00
    * Covers the Hundreds of Bradford, Melksham, Potterne and Cannings.





  156. Victoria County History. Edited by E. Crittall THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 9. Plates and illusts, xx + 220pp, small folio, light wear and short tear to dustwrapper, lacks most of front endpaper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1970. £38.00
    * Covers the Kingsbridge Hundred, includes Swindon and the surrounding area.





  157. Victoria County History. Edited by D.A. Crowley THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 11. Plates and illusts, xxix + 284pp, small folio, original cloth, dustwrapper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1980. £48.00
    * Covers Downton Hundred and Elstub and Everleigh Hundred.





  158. Victoria County History. Edited by D.A. Crowley THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 11. Plates and illusts, xxix + 284pp, small folio, original cloth, dustwrapper, ex-Bristol University stamp to foot of prelim and last leaf, small label to front endpaper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1980. £35.00
    * Covers Downton Hundred and Elstub and Everleigh Hundred.





  159. Victoria County History, Edited by D.A. Crowley. VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 12. Plates and illusts, xx + 257pp, small folio, original cloth, short tear to dustwrapper. First edition, Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press, 1983. £50.00
    * Covers Ramsbury and Selkley Hundreds and the Borough of Marlborough.





  160. Victoria County History, Edited by D.A. Crowley. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 15. Plates and illusts, xxii + 338pp, small folio, original cloth, dustwrapper. Published for the Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. 1995. £45.00
    * Covers Amesbury Hundred and Branch and Dole Hundred.





  161. Ward (T), Printer and Publisher. THE MELKSHAM GUIDE: Containing an Account of the Saline Aperient and Chalybeate Spa; The Hot, Tepid, and Cold Baths; The Disorders in which the Waters Have been found Efficaceious; and the Best Method of using them. To which is added A Descriptive Account of the Town, The Principal Seats, Picturesque Situations, Antiquities, Market Towns, &c. within the Distance of Twenty Miles. Embellished with Two Engravings. iv + 92pp, 12mo, ex-lib., early calf boards, later spine, boards slightly rubbed and darkened to edges, with label to front pastedown and endpaper, and a few stamps, light water staining to lower portion of most leaves. Melksham: Printed and Published by T. Ward. c.1815. £95.00
    * Very Scarce.





  162. 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. £25.00




  163. [Wareham (James)] TROWBRIDGE CO-OPERATIVE, INDUSTRIAL & PROVIDENT SOCIETY LIMITED. Jubilee Souvenir. Short History of the Society. 1861-1911. Illusts, 54pp, original cloth, partly faded, stitching loosening. Trowbridge: F.A. Slugg, The Electric Printing Works, Market Place. 1911. £20.00




  164. Warminster LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1858. BYE-LAWS MADE BY THE LOCAL BOARD OF WARMINSTER, in the County of Wilts. 46pp, limp cloth. Warminster: Martin Brothers. 1868. £22.00




  165. Webb (Edward Doran), Architect THE HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF RAMSBURY in the County of Wiltshire. Part I. The Parish of Ramsbury. (All Published.) With 5 plates, viii + 64pp, folio, ex-lib. with label to front endpaper, stamps to a few leaves and verso of plates, recent cloth, number to base of spine. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers, Printers, Journal Office, 1890. £55.00




  166. White (George A.H) CHIPPENHAM IN BYGONE DAYS. With 20 plates, 3 maps 2 of which are folding, 33pp, thin roy 8vo, original printed wraps, top wrap loose, water stained and slightly ragged, lacks spine, stitching strained, ink stain to rear wrap, early inscription on title-page. Devizes: George Simpson and Co., 1924. £14.00




  167. Williams (A) LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY. xiii + 315 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, couple of short splits to outer hinges at head of spine, page edges slightly spotty. First Edition, London: Duckworth. 1915. £40.00
    * The author worked for 23 years in the 'sheds' at Swindon.





  168. Williams (Alfred) ROUND ABOUT THE UPPER THAMES. With Four Photographs and a Map. 319pp, original cloth partly faded, pencil notes to rear endpapers, occasional light foxing, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition. London: Duckworth & Co. 1922. £25.00




  169. Williams (Alfred) VILLAGES OF THE WHITE HORSE. Frontispiece map, xiii + (2) + 290 + 24 pages of adverts, lacks front endpaper, few small marks to original cloth, partly faded, pencil notes to rear endpapers, some foxing mainly front and rear. Reissued. London: Duckworth & Co. 1918. £20.00




  170. Williams (Alfred) NATURE AND OTHER POEMS. 95 + (1)pp, uncut in the original cloth, few short tears and small hole to slightly rubbed dustwrapper, occasional light foxing. First edition, London: Erskine MacDonald. 1912. £85.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.





  171. Williams (Dorian) THE CLASSICAL RIDING MASTER The Wilton House Collection. With 55 coloured plates, with accompanying text, few short tears to dustwrapper. oblong 8vo. 1979. £15.00
    * A study of the gouache pictures commissioned by the 10th Earl of Pembroke which show all the exercises of classical equestrianism.





  172. Williams (J. Anthony) CATHOLIC RECUSANCY IN WILTSHIRE 1660 - 1791. Folding frontispiece map, xviii + 407pp, original cloth, slight crease to spine. First edition, Catholic Record Society, 1968. £24.00




  173. Wiltshire Notes and Queries. WILTSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. VOLUME 2. 1896-1898. An Illustrated Quarterly Antiquarian and Genealogical Magazine. Full-page and textual illusts, 637pp, library style half morocco, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, number to foot of spine, few marks to title Devizes: 1899. £22.00
    * Includes articles on:- Fawconer of Salisbury; Southwick Court; Heddington and the Child Family; Estcourt of Swinley; Great Somerford; Nonsuch House, Bromham, etc., etc.





  174. Wiltshire Notes and Queries. WILTSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. VOLUME 3. 1899-1901. An Illustrated Quarterly Antiquarian and Genealogical Magazine. Full-page and textual illusts, iv + 625pp, binders cloth, rubbed to edges, inner hinges weak, cellotape to front inner hinge and one tear, couple of short tears to title-page. Devizes: George Simpson. 1902. £30.00
    * Includes articles on:- Amesbury Monastery; Goodenoughs of Sherston; Rogers, Courtenay and Huddesfield family of Bradford-on-Avon, Cannington, Somerset and Shillingford, Devon; Goddard of Englesham; Delamere Family and their chantry at Market Lavington, etc., etc.





  175. Wiltshire Parish Registers, Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and John Sadler. MARRIAGES Volume 2. vi + [ii] + 152pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co. 1906. £65.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Marlborough - St. Peter's, Marlborough - St. Mary's, Yaton Keynell and Durrington.





  176. 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. £65.00
    * 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.





  177. 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. £46.00
    * 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.





  178. Wiltshire Gazette, Printers and Publishers DEVIZES AND DISTRICT DIRECTORY FOR 1954-55. Folding map, xii + 236pp, numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, few letters rubbed to title on spine, ex-lib. with a couple of stamps to first leaf. Wiltshire Gazette, Devizes: 1954. £22.00





    Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazines.
    A selection of volumes currently in stock.






  179. Wiltshire Family History Society THE BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS AND PARISH REGISTERS OF NORTH BRADLEY. BAPTISMS Part I. 1603, 1621-29, 1631, 1634, 1636-38, then a few to 1667-1766. 49 leaves printed on rectos, small folio, original printed wraps, clip-on plastic spine, few pages slightly creased. Wiltshire Family History Society, 1989. £10.00




  180. 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. £15.00




  181. 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. £10.00





    Wiltshire Record Society.
    A selection of volumes currently in stock.






  182. Wordsworth (Rev Canon Chr) and Haskins (Charles) THE CHARTER OF HENRY III (1227) With a Translation of the Nine other Royal Charters in the Corporation Muniments. New Sarum in the Middle Ages and The History of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury. With Twelve Illustrations. 62 + 4pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges and partly faded, couple of short splits to outer hinges, top of spine, where once loose, has been crudely glued down. Salisbury: Salisbury Times, 1927. £15.00 --- See sample text




  183. Wyndham (Henry Penruddocke) WILTSHIRE, Extracted from Domesday Book: To which is added a Translation of the Original Latin into English. With An Index, in which are Adapted the Modern Names to the Antient; and with A Preface in which is included A Plan for a General History of the County. xlii + 535pp, full later calf, raised bands, leather label on spine, marbled endpapers, rubbed to edges, top board loose, ex-lib., number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page. Salisbury, Printed by J. Easton. 1788. £45.00



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