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Arrowsmith Ltd, printers OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, folding map, xxxv + 119pp, roy 8vo, original printed wraps, top wrap slightly dusty. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, Bristol: 1935. £5.00 --- See sample text
* This is the Silver Jubilee number.
Arrowsmith, printer COBBLERS' TALE. With 10 plates, 62pp, sm 8vo, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol: Revised Edition, 1958. £4.00
* The story of G.B. Britton & Sons Ltd.
Baker (Ethel W) MISS ANN GREEN OF CLIFTON. Second Edition. Illusts. xxi + 195pp, original boards. First edition thus. Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1974. £10.00
* A novel set in the period leading up to the riots of 1831.
Bartlett (John) and Penny (John) FISHPONDS, ITS BOUNDARIES, CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. Maps, illusts, 81pp, 4to, loose pages, lacking the plastic clip on spine. Fishponds Local History Society, Bristol: 2001. £14.00
Bedminster and Clifton RADICAL PURITY!!! A REPORT OF CERTAIN CASES AT BEDMINSTER, As Taken Before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, and the Assessors, at the Bristol Municipal Revision, in the Guildhall, October, 1838. 40pp, lacks top wrap, title and rear wrap slightly dusty, Printed by John Gover Powell, the Younger at his Place of Abode, 19, East Street, St. Paul's Bristol: 1838. £30.00
* Includes a section on 'Radical Purity at Clifton.' This pamphlet was part of a campaign to oppose Bristol becoming a 'pocket borough' where inhabitants had no choice but to elect their landowner as the Member of Parliament.
Bettey (J.H), editor CALENDAR OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SMYTH FAMILY OF ASHTON COURT 1548 - 1642. xxvi + 217pp, original cloth, very slightly faded to edges of boards. Volume 35. Bristol Record Society. 1982. £12.00
Bristol & Avon Family History Society BRISTOL MARRIAGES 1800-1837. Part Six. St. Paul's. Map, 328pp, card covers. Bristol & Avon Family History Society, 1987. £8.00
Bristol Corporation Acts of Parliament BRISTOL CORPORATION ACTS 1895, 1897, 1904, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1926, 1930 & 1938. 10 Acts of Parliament. 600 pages approx, each Act separately paginated, folio, original cloth, lacks spine, rubbed to edges, rear cover loose, top cover held by strings, a few inner joints slightly pulled. The Acts cover:- extensions to the City boundaries, works on the port and docks, the cattle market, roads and tramroads, burial grounds, etc. 1895-1938 £70.00
Bristol Naturalists' Society, edited by T.E. Thompson 1982 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY Volume 42. With textual illusts, 108pp, original printed wrappers. Printed for the Society. Bristol: Grenfell Printing, 1984. £4.00
* Includes the usual reports on the local geology, botany, ornithology, insects and fauna and papers on Breeding Waders; Impact of Coppicing, etc.
Brook (Alastair), City Planning Department OLD MARKET BRISTOL Main Study. With 17 plans 7 of which are folding, and 19 actual photographs of the buildings in Old Market, with short descriptions. The photographs, and 10 of the plans are pasted to thick card, 53 pages of text printed on rectos only, 4to, plastic spiral binding. Loosely inserted is a typed letter to Brook thanking him for the loan of the study from a member of an architectural and planning practice. City Planning Department, Bristol: 1978. £85.00
* A unique item which gives a brief synopsis of the architecture and history of the area and the planning proposals.
Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 1. l + 150pp, original cloth. Volume 46. Bristol Record Society. 1995. £5.00
Byrne (Eugene) UNBUILT BRISTOL The city that might have been 1750-2050. Illusts, some in colour, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 2013. £9.00
* Includes:- 'A huge pyramid made from recycled wine bottles. A railway station in Queen Square.... '
Charlton (J) and Milton (D.M) REDLAND 791 to 1800. With 8 plates, map end papers, 78pp, 12mo, original cloth lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened, few small spots to cloth. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1951. £6.00
George (Edwin and Stella) and Fleming (Peter), editor BRISTOL PROBATE INVENTORIES 1657-1689. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Includes index of names. Volume 57, Bristol Record Society, 2005. £8.00
[Hulme (Rev. T. Ferrier)] HISTORICAL TABLETS. JOHN WESLEY'S CHAPEL IN BROADMEAD BRISTOL. Called by him The New Room in the Horsefair. With 2 plates, 91pp, original wraps, occasional light foxing, spine slightly chipped to head and foot. Epworth Press, London: 1930. £14.00
Jenks (Stuart) ROBERT STURMY'S COMMERCIAL EXPEDITION TO THE MEDITERRANEAN (1457/8) With Editions of the Trial of the Genoeses before King and Council and of other sources. Folding frontis, (xii) + 191pp, dustwrapper. Volume 58, Bristol Record Society, 2006. £8.00
Kelly (E.R), editor THE POST OFFICE KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BRISTOL 1866. 195pp, recent cloth, without the map. Extracted from a larger work with the title-page and Bristol Street index in facsimile. £65.00
* Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography.
Large (David), editor THE PORT OF BRISTOL 1848 - 1884. xxxix + 221pp, original cloth, covers spotty. Volume 36. Bristol Record Society. 1984. £6.00
MacInnes (C.M) and Whittard (W.F) BRISTOL AND ITS ADJOINING COUNTIES. Plates, maps and diagrams, xiii + 335pp, roy 8vo, lacks dustwrapper. Published for the British Association for the Advancement of Science by the Local Executive Committee. Bristol: 1955. £5.00
MacKenna (F. Severne) CHAMPION'S BRISTOL PORCELAIN. Coloured and other plates, 107pp, cr 4to, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Limited Edition of 500 Numbered Copies. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1947. £30.00
Mathews (M) and Son, printers and publishers MATHEWS'S ANNUAL BRISTOL DIRECTORY and Almanack: 1843. 360 + (14) adverts + 18 + 22pp, 12mo., original cloth, neatly recased, with a new spine and front endpaper, original paper label on top board very rubbed. Bristol: M. Mathews and Son, 1843. £90.00
Nicholls (J.F) HOW TO SEE BRISTOL. A Guide for the Excursionist, the Naturalist, the Archaeologist and the Man of Business. Frontis., route maps, lacks folding plan, xiv + 150pp, pages slightly brown tinged to edges, crayon underlining to one page, disbound. First edition, Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1874. £4.00
Old Resident THE PARISH OF KNOWLE, Bristol, by an Old Resident (Reprinted from the Knowle Parish Magazine). June, 1865 to July, 1927. 14pp, original printed wraps, which are slightly faded. Presentation inscription on top wrap by Edmund Feltham to Mrs Durnford. St. Stephen's Press, Bristol: c.1928. £10.00
Orme (Nicholas) and Cannon (John) WESTBURY ON TRYM: MONASTERY, MINSTER, AND COLLEGE. Plates, plans, maps, xii + 276pp, vii + 363pp, dustwrapper. Volume 62. Bristol Record Society. 2010. £8.00
Ralph (Elizabeth) GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVES OF MERCHANT VENTURERS OF BRISTOL. x + 80pp, dustwrapper. Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, 1988. £14.00
Reid (Helen) BRISTOL & CO. The story of Bristol's long running businesses 1710 to the present day. Illusts, 122pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1987. £6.00
* Includes 'the oldest jewellers and law practice in the country; the estate agent who founded Bristol's Dogs' Home, Bristol's first woman optician... '
Richardson (David), editor BRISTOL, AFRICA AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVE TRADE TO AMERICA. The Years of Expansion 1698-1729 + The Years of Ascendancy 1730-1745 + The Years of Decline 1746-1769 + The Final Years 1770-1807. 4 volumes, complete set. xxix + 203pp and xxv + 157pp and xxiv + 249pp and xxxvii + 279pp, 4 volumes all in the original cloth. Volumes 38, 39, 42 and 47. Bristol Record Society. 1986-1996. £75.00
Small (A), Strange (G), and others BRISLINGTON Not so long ago. Illusts, map, 36pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. Bristol: 1979. £6.00
Smith (Rev. Sydney) BALLOT. 48pp, disbound. Third Edition. London: Longman, Orme, Brown.... 1839. £25.00
* Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography, or Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Smith was Prebendary of Bristol and was well known as a local reformer.
Stone (George F) and Wells (Charles) BRISTOL AND THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919. Illusts, xv + 399pp, including 5 page list of subscribers, original cloth, top corners of boards bruised, bookplate to front pastedown. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Quay Street. 1920. £60.00 --- See sample text
Tindal (Rt. Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham) CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE GRAND JURY of the County of the City of Bristol, By the Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, On Monday, the 2d of January, 1832. Under the Special Commission Issued into that County. 16pp, disbound, slight waterstain to top corners. Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, Bristol: 1832. £25.00
Veale (E.W.W), editor THE GREAT RED BOOK OF BRISTOL. Text (Part III). xv + 196pp, cloth backed paper boards, covers rubbed, cloth on outer hinges split and slightly ragged, slightly shaken, tears to fore-margin of front endpaper. Volume 16. Bristol Record Society. 1951. £8.00
Watson (Sally) SECRET UNDERGROUND BRISTOL. Illusts, maps, 120pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Junior Chamber, 1991. £5.00
Wells (C), introduction NOTABLE BRISTOLIANS 1931-2. An Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men. vii + 216pp, roy 8vo, original full leather, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., lightly rubbed to spine and edges. I.C. Gibbons, Bristol: (1932) £15.00
Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1937-1939. 273 Photographs. 80pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1987. £16.00
Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1939-1914. Over 100 Photographs. 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Fourth Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1969. £4.00
Witt (Cleo) CERAMICS IN BRISTOL: THE FINE WARES. 1670-1970. Illusts, 31pp, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1979. £5.00
* Catalogue of the exhibition at the museum which was held 21st September 1979 - 31st January, 1980.
Wood (John), architect A DESCRIPTION OF THE EXCHANGE OF BRISTOL: Wherein the Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of that Structure; Together with That of Opening the Building for Publick Use, Is particularly Recited. With 2 double-page plans, and 6 engraved plates, 3 of which are double-page, 36pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. First published in 1745. Kingsmead Reprint, Bath: 1969. £6.00

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Acton (Viv) A HISTORY OF TRURO. Volume 1 From Coinage Town to Cathedral City. Illusts, maps, 221pp, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1997. £8.00
Barton (D.B) ESSAYS IN CORNISH MINING HISTORY. Volume 1. Illusts, 198pp, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic cover. Truro: Bradford Barton, 1968. £12.00
* Includes chapters on water-engines in Cornish mining, Australian copper mining, New Trumpet and Lovell United, etc.
Barton (D.B) THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY 1824 - 1915. A history of the Cornish mineral railway and port which served the Great Gwennap copper mines. Plates, maps, 102 + (2)pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Revised and extended edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1966. £12.00
Best Harris (W) THE LIZARD COASTLINE. Plates, textual illusts, 56pp, original pictorial card covers. W. Best Harris, Plymouth, c.1980. £4.00
Bodmin APPORTIONMENT OF THE RENT CHARGE IN LIEU OF TITHES, in the Borough and Parish of BODMIN, in the County of Cornwall. 1842. 57pp, folio, unlettered thin card covers, lacks approx. 6" of cloth spine, fore-edges of covers slightly torn and ragged, folded vertically, title-page slightly dusty. Printed in columns giving names of Landowners and Occupiers, Description of premises and land, Cultivation, Quantity, Rent-charge. No. on Plan. Plans were not issued with these apportionments. No imprint, possibly:- Liddell and Son, Printers, Bodmin: 1842. £50.00
Brown (Kenneth) and Acton (Bob) EXPLORING CORNISH MINES. Consols & United - Kitty & Blue Hills Tywarnhayle - Basset - Dolcoath Botallack to Boswedden. Plates, plans diagrams, 144pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Landfall Publications, Truro: 1994. £6.00
Carne (Tony) CORNWALL'S FORGOTTEN CORNER. Including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, St. John & Sheviock. Folding map, illusts, 143pp, original pictorial card covers. Revised edition, Lodenack Press, 1985. £10.00
Coate (Mary) CORNWALL IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR AND INTERREGNUM 1642-1660. With 6 illustrations and 5 maps, 414pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, ex-college lib., with stamp to half-title, and verso of title-page, otherwise sound. Second Edition. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1963. £50.00
Collins (Rev. C. Trelawney) PERANZABULOE, The Lost Church Found: or, the Church of England not a new Church but Ancient, Apostolical, and Independent, and a Protesting Church nine hundred years before the Reformation. Frontis, xxviii + 281pp, original cloth partly faded, and chipped to head of spine, front inner hinge broken, frontis foxed mainly to edges, ownership name to front endpaper and early inscription to title-page scored through, slightly later ownership name to front pastedown. First edition, London: J.G. & F. Rivington, 1836. £30.00
Esquiros (Alphonse) CORNWALL AND ITS COASTS. 304pp, original cloth, recased retaining the original endpapers, and the old spine laid down. Chapman and Hall, London: 1865. £50.00 --- See sample text
* Contains much on the Isles of Scilly.
Fern (Harold E), editor CORNISH CHAMBER OF MINES YEAR BOOK 1919. With 3 folding tables, folding chart, folding map, 73pp, original cloth, cloth partly damp stained, inner hinges partly broken. Mining Publications Ltd, London: (1919) £25.00
* Dated 1918 on top board, and 1919 on title-page.
Gale (Matthew) ALFRED GALE: St Ives Artists Series. Coloured illusts, 80pp, original pictorial card covers. Tate Publishing, St. Ives: 1998. £10.00
Johnson (Nicholas), Payton (Philip) and Spalding (Adrian), editors THE CONSERVATION VALUE OF METALLIFEROUS MINE SITES IN CORNWALL. Plan, illusts, 54pp, 4to, metal ring binding, original pictorial card covers. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: c.1996. £5.00
Lambert (J.W) CORNWALL. With 8 pages of coloured maps, 154 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, original pictorial paper covers. Third and Revised edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1954. £5.00
Langdon (Arthur G) OLD CORNISH CROSSES. With an article on their ornament by J. Romilly Allen. Folding map, and numerous full page and textual illustrations, 4to, xxviii + 439pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, and to covers, rear inner hinge cracked though sound. First edition, Joseph Pollard, Truro: 1896. £80.00
Launceston, Kensey Vale KENSEY VALE, LAUNCESTON, PARTICULARS of Valuable Freehold Property, Garages and Accommodation Land for Sale by Auction... November 7th, 1933. Single leaf, printed on one side only, folio, one lower corner creased. Lists 4 lots, including a Creamery, 13 lock up garages, Bridge Meadow. 1933. £6.00
Lean (Thomas) and (J) HISTORICAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT MADE IN THE DUTY PERFORMED BY THE STEAM ENGINE IN CORNWALL. from the Commencement of the Publication of the Monthly Reports. Tables, one of which is folding, vii + 152pp, small tear to dustwrapper, ownership inscription to front pastedown. First published 1839. Reprinted, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1969. £6.00
Marazion History Group THE CHARTER TOWN OF MARAZION. Illusts, 156pp, original pictorial card covers. Marazion Town Trust, 1995. £8.00
Matthews (John Hobson) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF ST. IVES, LELANT, TOWEDNACK AND ZENNOR. Illusts., xvi + 560pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original bevelled cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, top outer hinge split for almost half its length, inner hinges pulled, cloth rubbed to part of spine, slightly affecting the titling, and part of rear board. First edition, London: Elliot Stock. 1892. £80.00
Newquay Press ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE CORNISH RIVIERA The charm of Cornwall portrayed in picture and story. Illusts, adverts, 48pp, small square 8vo, original coloured covers. Newquay Press, Newquay: c.1960's £4.00
Noall (Cyril) CORNISH SEINES AND SEINERS A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry. Plates, 160pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £10.00
Page (John Lloyd Warden) THE NORTH COAST OF CORNWALL. Its Scenery, its People, its Antiquities & its Legends. With an appendix on the Geology by W.A.E. Ussher. Illusts, lacks folding map, xiii + 283pp, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed. Truro: Joseph Pollard, Preface dated 1897. £15.00 --- See sample text
Page (William), editor THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Part 8. The Domesday Survey for Cornwall. Double-page map, pages numbered 45-113, 4to, recent cloth. Victoria History. London: 1924. £16.00
Payton (Dr Philip) THE CORNISH OVERSEAS. Numerous illusts, x + 420pp, 4to, dustwrapper protected in a transparent plastic sleeve. Fowey: Alexander Associates, 1999. £22.00
* Signed by the author on the half-title.
Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH FARMER IN AUSTRALIA. Or Australian Adventure: Cornish Colonists and the Expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian Agricultural Frontier. Illusts, diagrams, xvi + 143pp, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1987. £10.00
Penzance PENZANCE (Official Guide) Illusts, some in colour, numerous adverts, 108pp, original pictorial card covers, private ownership label to first leaf, short split top head of top outer hinge, light wear to covers. Official Information Bureau, Penzance: c.1953 £5.00
Peter (Richard) and (Otho Bathurst) THE HISTORIES OF LAUNCESTON AND DUNHEVED, in the County of Cornwall. Illusts., and folding maps, vi + (ii) + 423pp, few small spots to partly faded original cloth. First edition, Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1885. £75.00
* Presentation inscription, on the title-page, from the authors to Johanna Peter of Kentucky.
Pool (P.A.S) THE PLACE-NAMES OF WEST PENWITH. With 2 maps, 93pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, few spots to top cover. Second edition, P.A.S. Pool, Penzance: 1985. £11.00
Rendell (Joan) A PARISH ALBUM OF WERRINGTON. Numerous illusts, map, 111pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Signed by the author on the title-page. Columbian Press, Plymouth: 1990. £15.00
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1901. Frontis, folding diagram, lacks wraps. Falmouth: Cornish Echo & Lake & Co, Truro: Heard and Sons, 1901. £5.00
* Includes articles:- Artificial Culture of Oysters and Lobsters, etc.
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1959. Original wraps, staples slightly rusty affecting top wrap. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1959. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Parsons and Parsonages of the XVII Century; Cornish Mammals, etc.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 9. Part. 1. With 2 coloured maps, vii + 164pp, original printed wraps dusty, slightly shaken, spine chipped. Penzance: 1875. £8.00
* Includes:- Geology of Lundy Island; Geology of Penzance Bay; Bones of a Whale found at Pentuan, etc.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 4. Diagrams, 180-220pp, original printed wraps are slightly spotty, staples rusty. Penzance: 1946. £6.00
* Articles include:- Geology of Carn Brea; Great Wheal Vor; Pillow Lavas at Port Isaac; Mineral Rights, etc.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. Volume 20, Part 1. 1965-66. Illusts, original wraps, top wrap partly rubbed, and with small rust stains, ownership name to top wrap. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1968. £4.00
* Includes articles on Dartmoor and Lundy.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 1. Illusts, diagrams, 96pp, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1978. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Humphrey Davey's Geological Lectures, etc.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 2. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 97-112, original printed card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1982. £4.00
* Contains article on:- Geology of Launceston and Lydford area.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 3. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 113-152, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1985. £4.00
* Contains article on:- Ore Genesis in South West England.
Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 1. Part 2. Illusts, pages numbered 81-148, original wraps, small mark to top cover, staples rusty. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1952. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Philip Rashleigh; Archaeological Survey of the Roseland Peninsula; Log of the Brig "Hopewell", etc.
Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 102. New Series Volume 5. Part 1. Illusts, 108pp, original wraps, light splash marks to the top wrap. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1965. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Parochial Life in Eighteenth Century Cornwall; Lazar Houses in Cornwall; Coast and Cliff Names of Gwithian, etc.
Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 168-235pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1971. £5.00
* Includes articles:- Tour in Cornwall in 1780 by Rev. John Swete; Penzance Harbour Charter of 1512; Sir Richard Grenville, etc.
Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 4. Illusts, pages numbered 237-322pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1972. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Ludgvan in 1770 by William Borlase; Arundell Lions; Location of Ictis; Irish Settlements in Post-Roman Western Britain, etc.
Saint Ives APPORTIONMENT OF THE RENT CHARGE IN LIEU OF TITHES, of the Parish of SAINT IVES, in the County of Cornwall. 1839. 35 leaves, printed on one side only, folio, unlettered thin card, cloth spine, lacks approx. 5" of spine, covers slightly dusty, place-name on top cover as well as ownership name. Printed in columns giving names of Landowners and Occupiers, Description of premises and land, Cultivation, Quantity, Rent-charge, No. on Plan. Plans were not issued with these apportionments. E. Rowe, Printer, Penzance: 1839. £65.00
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge AVIS LEWARNE; A West Country Story. Frontis, 95pp, sm 8vo, original cloth boards, cloth damp marked, internally sound. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c.1876. £5.00
* Fiction set in Cornwall.
Stoker (Hugh) SEA FISHING IN CORNWALL. Charts, 73pp, original pictorial card covers, name to title-page. Fifth impression, Ernest Benn, London: 1972. £6.00
Tregarthen (J.C) THE STORY OF A HARE. Illusts, viii + 199 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, slight spotting to fore-edges, t.e.g. First edition, London: John Murray, 1909. £20.00
* With a presentation inscription to Thurston C. Peter from the author on the front endpaper and a note signed by the author to Peter tipped in at the rear.
Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 38. August 1982. Illusts, 8pp, sm folio, stapled. 1982. £4.00
* Includes articles on Botallack Appeal; Trinity House Depot, Penzance, etc.
Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 41. May 1983. Illusts, 8pp, sm folio, stapled. 1983. £4.00
* Includes articles on Cornish Coastal Trade; Cornish enginehouse at Scott's Pit, Wales; Submarine Telegraph, etc.
Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 67. November 1989. Illusts, 15pp, original card covers, ink note to one leaf. 1989. £4.00
* Includes articles on Levant Whim; King Edward Mine Museum,; Delabole in 1851, etc.
Trewin (Carol), photography by Adam Woolfit CORNISH FISHING AND SEAFOOD. Coloured illusts, 256pp, original pictorial card covers. Alison Hodge, Penzance: 2006. £5.00
Williams (Michael) TINTAGEL. Plates, plan, 28pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Camborne: 1971. £4.00

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Alexander (J.J) and Hooper (W.R) HISTORY OF GREAT TORRINGTON in the County of Devon. With a large folding map, numerous plates, text illusts, xiii + 261pp, 4to, few short tears to slightly spotty dustwrapper. Sutton: Advance Studio, 1948. £82.00
Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Consisting of Sixteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With textual Plans, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. Volume 2 only of 4 volumes. Illusts, 60pp, original qtr roan, spine rubbed, lacking approx. 1" at foot of spine, and missing 'D' and 'A' from title. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and Numbered by Burnard and the printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, George Street, Plymouth: 1891. £30.00
Capern (Edward), Rural Postman of Bideford POEMS. xii + 215pp, original cloth, partly faded, shaken with one section of text loosening, private library label to front pastedown, and rear board, small portion missing from foot of spine, head of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper. Second Edition, with Additions. London: David Bogue, 1856. £8.00
Chanter (John Frederick) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF LYNTON AND COUNTISBURY. Their Antiquities, Manors, Churches and Families, and Some Account of the Natural History of the Neighbourhood. With 8 plates and 7 pedigrees 3 of which are folding, 192pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, partly faded as usual. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1907. £40.00
Church (Steve) THE DEVON LANDSCAPE. An appraisal of Devon's Landscape at the beginning of the 21st Century. Maps, photographic illusts which are mainly in colour, 176pp, dustwrapper, large oblong 4to. Devon Books, Tiverton: 2002. £16.00
Cornish (Rev. Sidney W) SHORT NOTES ON THE CHURCH AND PARISH OF OTTERY ST. MARY, Devon. 64pp, original printed card covers, lacks most of spine, clear tape on spine. First edition. Exeter: William Pollard, 1869. £9.00
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Salcombe, July, 1923.] Volume 55. Illusts, 279pp, original wraps, foot of spine, and top wrap slightly chipped to edges. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1924. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Hallsands and Start Bay; Haccombe; Great Torrington; Old Devon Farmhouses; Submerged Forest in Bigbury Bay, etc.
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Bideford, 1976. Volume 108. Illusts, xxviii + 228pp, original wraps, spine slightly faded, number in ink and stamp of Royal Geological Society of Cornwall to top cover. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1976. £6.00
* Includes articles:- North Molton; Crab pots in the South Hams; Braunton marsh; North Molton; Administration of Lundy by Sir John Borlase Warren; Charles Kingsley in Bideford, etc.
Doidge's DOIDGE'S WESTERN COUNTIES ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL 1933. Illusts, including coloured folding plate, adverts, 451 + (3)pp, original printed paper boards, portions chipped from spine. Hoyton & Cole, Plymouth: 1933. £9.00
* Contains stories and many items of useful information including:- list of fairs in Devon, Medical Practitioners in the Three Towns, Plymouth Councillors, etc.
Dunstan (G.R), editor THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume 3. 398pp, original printed wraps. Canterbury and York Society in conjunction with Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1967. £6.00
Exeter City Council EXETER ILLUSTRATED. Official Guide. Issued on the occasion of the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute. Folding map loosely inserted, illusts, adverts, (xii) + 88 + (24)pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial wraps, covers slightly dusty, small portion from foot of spine. Published by the Official Information Bureau for the City Council, Exeter: 1913. £12.00
Gray (Todd), editor DEVON DOCUMENTS Frontis, and 4 coloured plates, xxiii + 228pp, original pictorial card covers. Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries, Special Issue, 1996. £10.00
Hearder (G. and J), printer and publisher THE SOUTH DEVON MONTHLY MUSEUM. Volumes 1-7, bound in 3. All published. Plates and illusts in the text, 7 volumes, early half calf, marbled boards, edges slightly rubbed, later half calf, raised bands, leather labels on spines, marbled boards. Plymouth: G. and J. Hearder. 1833 - 1836. £200.00
* Published as a monthly magazine. The 7 volumes, consist of 6 issues, and between 200 and 283 pages. Includes articles:- the Lary Bridge; Babbicombe; Berry Pomeroy Castle; Eddystone Lighthouse; Dartmoor; Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Liskeard, Island of Jersey, etc.
Hoskins (W.G) INDUSTRY, TRADE AND PEOPLE IN EXETER 1688-1800. With 4 maps, 189pp, original cloth, dustwrapper partly faded and rubbed to hinges., name to front pastedown. Second Edition. University of Exeter. 1968. £22.00
Jones (John) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION, DISCIPLINE, AND USAGES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER. By John Jones, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Charles Baratty, Esq. F.S.A. Read 13th March, 1817. Pages numbered 385-416, 4to, lacks wraps, top leaf loose, very browned, and ragged to inner margin. From Archaeologia. London: 1818. £5.00
Parry (H. Lloyd) THE FOUNDING OF EXETER SCHOOL. A History of the Struggle for freedom of Education within the City of Exeter. Illusts, (vi) + 135pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, 2 areas damaged from top outer hinge, one approx 1" long, intruding onto spine, and another small hole. James G. Commin, Exeter and Chatto and Windus, London: 1913. £12.00
Reichel (Rev. O.J) INDEX OF PERSONAL AND PLACE NAMES in the "Hundreds of Devon". Contributed to the Transactions of the Association. 405pp, few short tears to original wraps, small portions missing from top and lower wraps, spine faded and slightly chipped to edges. Devonshire Association. Torquay: 1942. £28.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF BLACK TORRINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 57pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1932. £12.00
Stoyle (Mark) PLYMOUTH IN THE CIVIL WAR. Illusts, maps, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. Devon Archaeology No 7. Exeter: 1998. £10.00
Vowell (John) THE ANTIQUE DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF EXETER: In Three Parts. Part I. Containing the Ancient History.... Part II. Containing a large and curious Account of the Antiquity, Foundation, and Building, of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter.... Part III. Contains the Offices and Duties (as of Old) of those particular Sworn Officers, &c. of the City.... All written by John Vowell, alias Hoker, Gent. Chamberlain, and Representative in Parliament of the same. (2) + ii + (4) + 192pp, sm 4to, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, title slightly dusty, with the inner margin re-margined, last leaf dusty, couple of lower corners at rear slightly stained. Ownership signature dated 1805 to verso of title-page. Exon: Now first printed together by Andrew Brice, in Northgate-street. 1765. £85.00
Westcote (Thomas), edited by George Oliver & Pitman Jones. VIEW OF DEVONSHIRE IN MDCXXX With a Pedigree of most of its Gentry. Double-page pedigree, 649pp, sm 4to, qtr calf, marbled boards, rubbed, top outer hinge split, rear board and last 3 leaves loose, fore-edges of boards have an early repair, along with later endpapers, spotting mainly to few pages at front and rear. Exeter: William Roberts, 1845. £60.00
Wilson (Francis Rought) THE HISTORY OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH BRIXTON SOUTH DEVON. With Five Illustrations by H.W. Goffin. x + 54pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. London: S.P.C.K. 1926. £18.00
* With the signature of C.W. Bracken, the local author, on front endpaper.
Youings (Joyce) TUCKERS HALL EXETER. The History of a Provincial City Company Through Five Centuries. Frontis, and 11 plates, xiv + 258pp, original cloth, slight wear to edges of dustwrapper, few spots to rear of dustwrapper. University of Exeter: 1968. £20.00

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Ashley (Harry and Hugh) THE DORSET VILLAGE BOOK. Illusts, map, 224pp, original pictorial card covers New expanded edition, Countryside Books, Newbury: 2000. £4.00
Burnett (David) A DORSET CAMERA 1914-1945. With 135 illusts, 4to, spine faded to dustwrapper, private ownership label to front endpapers. First edition, The Dovecote Press, Wimborne: 1975. £6.00
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
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.
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
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
Hyland (Paul) PURBECK The Ingrained Island. With photographs by Bob Groves. 240pp, dustwrapper. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1978. £14.00
Pigot and Co's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 273 - 303pp, complete, disbound with some pages loose. £12.00
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

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Baddeley (W.St. Clair) FURTHER EARLY DEEDS, HITHERTO UNPRINTED, RELATING TO ST. PETER'S ABBEY, GLOUCESTER Pages numbered 47-68, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1915. £4.00
Bigland (Ralph) BRIMPSFIELD. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 4pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £4.00
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1890-91. Volume 15. Part 1 of 2. Illusts, 225pp, original printed wraps, portions chipped from head and foot of spine, label with handwritten number on top wrap, lower wrap loose and ragged. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1891. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Cirencester Castle; Refugee Settlements at Bristol; Ecclesiastical Bristol; Monumental Effigies of the Family of Berkeley, etc.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, compiled by Eileen M. Richardson TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - GENERAL INDEX to Volumes 61-70 (1939-1951). 112pp, original printed wraps. Gloucester: Printed for the Society by John Bellows, 1956. £6.00
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1939. Volume 61. Illusts, folding maps, v + 341 + 23pp, original printed wraps, spine slightly darkened. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1940. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Swordbearers of Bristol; Excavations at Sea Mills; Stone Coffins Gloucestershire; Spillman Cartulary; Bristol Poll Tax 1666; Deerhurst Priory Church, etc.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by H.S. Gracie TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1970. Volume 89. Illusts, 223pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. Cheltenham: Printed for the Society by Norman Brothers, 1971. £6.00
* Includes articles:- Gloucestershire Grammar Schools; Shirehampton 1851 census; John Desborough; John Trevisa; Berkeley Churches; Henry Ryder; Whitelaw & Stirrat Turbines at Frocester Court, etc.
Brown (Dorothy), Manco (Jean) REDISCOVERING ACTON COURT AND THE POYNTZ FAMILY. Illusts, some in colour, pedigrees, 31pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Visual & Environmental Group, Bristol: (2009) £4.00
Burrow (Edward J) ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS AND CAMPS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Numerous illusts, lacks the folding map, 176pp, 4to, original cloth-backed paper boards, gilt, slightly rubbed to edges, covers slightly dusty, lower corners rubbed and bruised, inner hinges cracked and weak. Numbered Limited Edition, signed by the Author. Ed. J. Burrow and Co. Ltd. Cheltenham: 1924. £18.00
Cheltonian THE CHELTONIAN 1931. New Series. Vol. LVII (57). Illusts, 420pp, binders cloth. Darter's College, Cheltenham: 1931. £6.00
* Includes details with names of competitors in various sports, including football, boxing, shooting, athletics, fencing, rugby, etc.
Clarke (John) A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE INTERESTING PRIORY OF LLANTHONY, near Gloucester; with Notices of Its Original Foundation in Wales, and Subsequent Removal to England; also Additional Notices of Contemporaneous Buildings in Gloucester, and Introductory Remarks on the Monastic System. Illusts, x + 97pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, outer hinges partly split, frontis and title-page spotty. George Bell, London and J.W. Needham, Gloucester: 1853. £30.00
Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF BITTON, in the County of Gloucester. With 17 plates, 11 plans, 5 of which are coloured and 7 of which are folding, text illusts, two 4to volumes, , vi + [ii] + 224pp, and xx + 225-389pp, colour of boards not quite uniform. volume 1 has top board slightly spotty, rear board loose, internally sound, volume 2 is in the original qtr cloth, slightly shaken, lacks paper label on spine, rear board and index leaves loose, rear board partly stained, only causing slight spotting to last few leaves, title-page and endpapers spotty. Limited to 125 Copies. Privately Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1881-3. £500.00
* Ellacombe was a curate of St. Mary's Bitton from 1817 to 1835, he then became the vicar until 1850, when he was succeeded by his son H.N. Ellacombe. Whilst at Bitton he developed a garden that became famous when his son took on the custody and went on to write 2 books on it. H.T. Ellacombe wrote several works and papers on church bells, as well as a History and Antiquities of Clyst St. George, in Devon. Ellacombe moved back to Devon in 1850, where he was born, and succeeded his brother as vicar of Clyst St. George. He died there in 1885.
Fendley (John), editor BISHOP BENSON'S SURVEY OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER 1735 - 1750. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 13. xx + 264pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2000. £8.00
Fullbrook-Leggatt (L.E.W.O) ROMAN GLOUCESTER. (Glevum) 56pp, 12mo, original wraps, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprinted, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1950. £4.00
Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 6. vi + (i) + 155pp, original buckram, partly faded, ex-reference library, with label to front endpaper, and occasional stamp. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1900. £16.00
* Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Batsford, Beverston, Standish, Quinton, Elkstone, Ebrington, Stinchcombe, and Weston Birt.
Greet (Carolyn S) SIX YEARS 1856-1861 The Diaries of Edward Welch of Arle. Illust, plans, double-page pedigree, 229pp original pictorial card covers, short crease to top corner of top cover. Carmichael Books, Cheltenham: 1997. £8.00
* Includes chapters on Crimea, India, Canada, as well his life in Gloucestershire.
Hadley (Mary), printer and publisher CHELTENHAM: An Old Story for a New Year. 28pp, 12mo, disbound. Cheltenham: Mary Hadley, Journal Office, c.185- £12.00
Hodsdon (James), compiled by AN HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF CHELTENHAM. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9. With 3 folding reproduction plans of Cheltenham by Cossens, Merrett, and Norman, Sawyer and Co., in pocket at rear, xiv + 208pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 1997. £30.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF CHELTENHAM. 1967. With Charlton Kings, Leckhampton, and Prestbury. Lacks map as usual, 8 + 716pp, original limp card covers, slightly rubbed to edges, printed on poor quality paper which is slightly browned at edges. Kingston upon Thames: Kelly's directories Ltd, 1967. £22.00
Kimball (Elisabeth Guernsey), editor ROLLS OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SESSIONS OF THE PEACE 1361-1398. 185pp, original printed wraps, slight bruise to center of spine, ex-school lib., with stamp to half-title,and label to verso of top cover. Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1942. £6.00
* Forming Volume 62 of the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
Madge (Sidney J), editor ABSTRACTS OF INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Returned into the Court of Chancery During the Plantagenet Period. Part IV. 20 Henry III. to 29 Edward I. 1236-1300. xvi + 241pp, in the original 4 parts, 3 parts lack wraps, one part has top wrap, few tears to 2 top margins. Issued to the Subscribers by the British Record Society, Limited. 1903. £8.00
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 332-363.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen, pages numbered 364-400. 2 items continuously paginated, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £40.00
* Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... "
Nicholls (H.G) IRON MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIMES: as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of the Forest of Dean, historically related, on the basis of contemporary records, and exact local investigations. Illusts, xii + 82pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Facsimile reprint, Douglas McLean, Coleford: 1981. £5.00 --- See sample text
Playne (Arthur Twisden) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF MINCHINHAMPTON AND AVENING. With 24 plates, viii + 188pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Gloucester: John Bellows, 1915. £45.00
Purnell (Frances) and Williams (Henry W) JUBILEE HISTORY of the Gloucester Co-operative and Industrial Society Limited. Illusts, xiv + 284pp, original cloth, faded, few marks to top board. Gloucester: John Jennings, 1910. £10.00
Ripley (Peter), and Jurica (John), transcriber and editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTERS OF THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1641 - 1838. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 4. xxx + 330pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 1991. £18.00
Roper (Ida M) THE MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND BRISTOL. With 40 plates., xvi + 730pp, original half morocco, cloth boards, spine and edges slightly rubbed. Limited to 100 copies signed by the author. Privately Printed for the Author by Henry Osborne, Gloucester: 1931. £110.00
Royce (Rev. D), Vicar of Lower Swell. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF STOW: A Paper Read in the Assembly Room, Stow, January 31st, 1861. With a folding pedigree and a folding table, 96pp, original cloth, lacks approx 1" from head of spine, rear outer hinge partly split, top outer hinge has small holes, endpapers spotty, with early ownership stamp to front endpaper and portion of bookplate to front pastedown. Published by Request. Stow on the Wold: 1861. £35.00
Rudder (Samuel) A NEW HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Comprising the Topography, Antiquities, Curiosities, Produce, Trade, and Manufactures of that County.... with a Copy of Domesday for Gloucestershire.... With a folding map, 16 engraved plates, mostly folding, and one engraving in the letterpress, xii + 854 + lxviiipp, folio, dustwrapper, page edges slightly tinged, inner hinges pulled and weak, rear of dustwrapper creased, and with a couple of sort tears. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Cirencester: 1779. Reprinted, Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1986. £45.00
* 'In this reprint the text has been reduced by 10 per cent.'
South Cerney Local History Group SOUTH CERNEY Old and New. Material for a History of the Parish. Illusts, 89pp, orignal pictorial card covers, cloth spine, covers partly dusty. South Cerney Trust, Cirencester: c.1971. £10.00
Stephens (Leslie) CIRENCESTER QUAKERS 1655 - 1973. With an introduction by L. Hugh Doncaster. Illusts, roy 8vo, 58pp, original wraps. Third printing, Cirencester Preparative Meeting, Cirencester: 1973. £5.00
Tucker (Joan) FERRIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE Maps, illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2008. £6.00
Way (Albert) NOTES ON A BRONZE RELIQUE Assigned to the late Roman or the Saxon Age, discovered at LECKHAMPTON, Gloucestershire. Plate, illusts in the text, 17pp, lacks wraps(?) Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, (1855) £8.00
Wells-Furby (Bridget), editor A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKELEY CASTLE. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 17. lxxxix + 574pp dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004. £30.00
Wise (Meg) AROUND THORNBURY REVISITED. (Images of England) Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Tempus, Stroud: 2006. £5.00
Wratten (Nigel) and Richards (Margaret), editor GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL STUDIES 13. With 2 full-page plans, and 1 plan in text, 63pp, small folio, original printed wraps, ex-Bristol University label and stamp to verso of top wrap. University of Bristol Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1982. £10.00
* Includes articles on The Poor School, Gloucester; Charlton Kings Wills 1547-1553; Tewkesbury Local Board of Health 1848 - 1853; The Cloth Mills, Painswick, etc.

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Andrews (Ken) MR BOWLER OF BATH Victorian Entrepreneur and Engineer. Maps, illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. Ken Andrews, Bristol: 1998. £6.00
Arlett (Mike) THE SOMERSET AND DORSET AT MIDFORD. Maps, diagrams, illusts, 112pp, dustwrapper. Millstream Books, Bath: 1986. £9.00
Ashton Court NATURE TRAIL. ASHTON COURT ESTATE. Textual illusts, map, 20pp, original pictorial card covers, few spots to text. Public Works Committee of the Corporation of Bristol, c.1970. £4.00
Atthill (Robin) OLD MENDIP. With 43 plates, 7 line drawings, and 7 maps, 204pp, dustwrapper. Second edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1971. £7.00
Bath REPORT ON THE CITY OF BATH, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1109-1130, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £10.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Binding (Hilary) DISCOVERING DUNSTER. A History and Guide. Illusts, some in colour, plan, 94pp, original pictorial card covers. The Exmoor Press, c.1990. £4.00
Black (Clementina) THE LINLEYS OF BATH. With 13 plates, With an introduction by George Saintsbury. 300pp, dustwrapper. New Edition. London: Frederick Muller, 1971. £6.00
Bowdler (Miss) POEMS AND ESSAYS, By the Late Miss Bowdler. The Ninth Edition. Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. 274pp, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, lacks lettering piece, title-page slightly browned and spotty, 3 leaves loosening. Ninth Edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1797. £18.00
Bulleid (Arthur) and Gray (H. St. George) THE GLASTONBURY LAKE VILLAGE. A Full Description of the Excavation and the Relics Discovered, 1892-1907. With plans, some of which are folding, and illusts. 2 volumes, xxvi + 351 and xl + pages numbered 353-724, 4to, original green buckram, gilt, t.e.g, boards slightly rubbed to edges, recased with old spines laid down, retaining the original endpapers, inner margins of 2 prelims, to volume 2, have some staining where cellotape once applied. First edition, Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911-1917. £110.00
Bush (Robin) A TAUNTON DIARY 1787 - 1987. Two centuries of gossip, scandal, success and calamity in darkest Somerset. Numerous illusts, 144pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. With 2 page 'Subscribers List'. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1988. £10.00
* Signed by the author on the title-page.
Chapman (Chris) SECRETS OF THE LEVELS. Illusts, maps, 84pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, one corner slightly bruised, name to title-page. Somerset Books, 1996. £5.00
Chard History Group CHARD IN 1851. Publication No. 5. 92pp, original pictorial card covers, few marks to rear cover. Chard History Group c.1995. £9.00
* Contains an analysis of the Chard census in 1851.
Chubb (T) A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF SOMERSETSHIRE 1575-1914. With Biographical Notes and Illustrations. With 16 plates, xii + 232pp, original cloth, few spots to top corner of top board. Taunton: Published by The Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1914. £25.00
Church (Rev. C.M) FOUR SOMERSET BISHOPS 1136 - 1242. From Documents in Possession of the Dean and Chapter of Wells. (iv) + 97pp, original wraps, lacks portions of spine, tape applied to base of spine. London: T. Burleigh, 1909. £6.00
Congresbury History Group THE CONGRESBURY ARSONIST AND OTHER TALES. Illusts, 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Congresbury History Group, 1989. £6.00
Cox (T) SOMERSETSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. With a folding map of the county by Robert Morden, pages numbered 720 - 911 + engraved table of distances, sm 4to, later cloth, the Distance Table for Shropshire has been pasted to the first leaf causing some glue staining. London: T. Cox, 1724. £65.00
Cunliffe (Barry) ROMAN BATH DISCOVERED. Illusts, plans, diagrams, xvii + 232pp, 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper. Revised Second edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1984. £10.00
Dix (Angela) NORTH CURRY A Place in History. Plates, diagrams, Illusts, 239pp, small folio, original pictorial laminated boards, signed by author on title-page. First edition, Angela Dix, North Curry: 2006. £12.00
Fisher (W. Bro. Wilfred G) THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SOMERSET. With 7 plates, ix + 209pp, original cloth. Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, 1962. £20.00
[Goldsworthy (E.F)] RECOLLECTIONS OF TAUNTON. by An Old Tauntonian. 62 + (2)pp, original cloth,, original owners name to top margin of title-page. Second Edition: Barnicott and Son, Taunton: 1883. £9.00
Hall (W.G), editor MAN AND THE MENDIPS With plates, some of which are in colour, maps, diagrams, 167pp, oblong 8vo, slightly dusty dustwrapper. The Mendip Society, 1971. £5.00
Haskell (Tony) BY WATERWAY TO TAUNTON A history of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal and the River Tone navigation. Illusts, maps, plans, x + 145pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1994. £8.00
Hendy (E.W) SOMERSET BIRDS and some other folk. Plates, illusts, in the text, 165pp, small portion torn from top of dustwrapper, crude repair to verso. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London: 1944. £5.00
Holmes (Thomas Scott) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND MANOR OF WOOKEY; being a contribution towards a future History of the County of Somerset. Frontis., 2 plans, 164pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, spine darkened, endpapers discoloured, contemporary inscription to front pastedown. First edition, Bristol: C.T. Jefferies and Son, c.1885. £22.00
Hunt (William) THE SOMERSET DIOCESE, BATH AND WELLS. Folding map, viii + 261 + (ii)pp, sm 8vo, original decorative cloth, map, title-page and page edges foxed. S.P.C.K. London: 1885. £5.00
Ives (A.G) KINGSWOOD SCHOOL IN WESLEY'S DAY AND SINCE. Plates, xiii + 264pp, couple of short tears to dustwrapper. Epworth Press, London: 1970. £8.00
King (Edward J) YEARS BEYOND MEMORY The Story of a South Somerset Village in its wider setting. With 10 plates, 134pp, few tears to ragged and partly faded dustwrapper, waters stain to portion of spine slightly overlapping onto top of dustwrapper, name to partly faded front endpaper. First edition. B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Oxford: 1954. £10.00
* The village is Misterton.
Landon (L), editor SOMERSETSHIRE PLEAS from the Rolls of the Itinerant Justices (for the 8th Year of the Reign of Edward I) Vol IV, Part I (Civil Pleas). x + 415pp, original cloth, spine loose. Somerset Record Society Volume 44. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1929. £10.00
Lehane (Brendan) C. AND J. CLARK 1825-1975. Coloured map, illusts, some of which are coloured, 52pp, 4to, original printed wraps, presentation card taped to verso of top cover. Second edition, C. & J. Clark, Street: 1975. £8.00
Madge (Robin) RAILWAYS ROUND EXMOOR. Illusts, plates, folding map, 72pp, original card covers. Exmoor Press, Dulverton: 1971. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Maggs (Colin) THE WESTON, CLEVEDON AND PORTISHEAD RAILWAY. Illusts, plans, 45pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Oakwood Press, Lingfield: 1964. £6.00
Mayberry (Tom) and Binding (Hilary), editor SOMERSET The Millenium Book. Coloured and black and white plates, 144pp, small folio, dustwrapper. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1999. £5.00
McCann (John and Pamela) THE DOVECOTES OF HISTORICAL SOMERSET. Coloured and black and white illusts, 231pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers, top corner slightly bruised, private bookplate to verso of top cover. Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group, 2003. £15.00
Meek (Marion) THE BOOK OF WELLS. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 128pp, includes 2 page list of subscribers, slightly faded, dustwrapper. Buckingham: Barrucuda Books Ltd. 1980. £10.00
Miller (James) FERTILE FORTUNE The Story of Tyntesfield. Coloured and black and white plates, 192pp, 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, The National Trust, London: 2003. £8.00
Nott (Anthony) and Hasler (Joan), editor WELLS CONVOCATION ACTS BOOKS 1589-1665. Part 2: 1629-444; 1662-65. 493-1080pp, original cloth, ex-ref lib. with small stamps to front endpaper. Somerset Record Society, Volume 91. Taunton: 2004. £8.00
Olivey (Hugh P) NORTH CURRY; Ancient Manor and Hundred. Notes on the History of three Parishes: North Curry, Stoke St. Gregory, West Hatch, contained therein. Illusts, folding table, xiv + 348pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, some damp spotting to foot and edges of boards, internally sound, foxing to fore-edges, head and foot of spine slightly bruised. Numbered Limited Edition of 250 copies. First edition, Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, Athenaeum Press, 1901. £28.00
Poole (Sharon) WESTON-SUPER-MARE. A Pictorial History. With frontis and 181 photographic illusts, 4to, dustwrapper, small ownership sticker to title-page. Phillimore, Chichester: 1995. £12.00
Popham (Hugh) THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. (Prince Albert's) (The 13th Regiment of Foot) Illusts, 149pp, dustwrapper. Hamish Hamilton, London: 1968. £5.00
Powell (Rev A.H) BRIDGWATER IN THE LATER DAYS. Map and Illusts, viii + 296pp, includes 5� pages of subscribers, untrimmed in the original cloth, endpapers browned as usual. Bridgwater: Page and Son, 1908. £14.00
Rogers (T.E) RECORDS OF YARLINGTON: Being the History of a Country Village. 94pp, sm 4to, uncut, original cloth, ex-university lib. with label, and small stamp to front pastedown, presentation inscription to front endpaper. First edition, London: Elliott Stock, 1890. £20.00
Savage (James) HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF CARHAMPTON, in the County of Somerset. With a frontis, xxiv + 662pp, original cloth. This reprint does not include the large folding map that was in the original edition published in 1830. Reprinted Higginson Book Company, Salem: n.d. £28.00
Shorrocks (Derek), editor BISHOP STILL'S VISITATION 1594 AND THE 'SMALE BOOKE' OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR SOMERSET 1593-5. 193pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 84. Taunton: 1998. £15.00
Skrine (H.D) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BELGIC CAMP ON HAMPTON DOWN. A Paper Read to the Members of the Bath Selborne Society on the Site of the Belgic Camp, April 8, 1897. Map, 10pp, 12mo, original wraps. Signed by the author on the top wrap. Privately Printed, Bath: 1897. £10.00
Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. GENERAL INDEX To Vols. I. to XX. of the Society's Proceedings and Index to Wells Chapter Records. x + 113 + xvi + 70pp, original wraps, spine worn. Charles T. Jefferies, Bristol: 1876. £8.00
Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 57. Proceedings during the year 1911. Illusts, xi + 132 + 169 + 15-54pp, original wraps, lacks lower wrap, spine chipped and rubbed. Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton: 1912. £10.00
* Includes articles:- Boring for Coal at Puriton; Roman Remains at Puckington; Barrow Gurney Church; Monmouth at Philip's Norton; Glastonbury Abbey, etc.
Somerset Year Book SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1932. No XXXI (31). Illusts, adverts, 132pp, original printed wraps, short tear to top wrap. Society of Somerset Folk, 1932. £8.00
* Includes articles:- Combe Sydenham; Geological History of Somerset; John Locke; Whatley; William Wallwyn - Parish Warden, Kilmersdon, etc.
Spencer (Joseph Houghton) WILTON REGISTERS 1558 to 1837. A Copy of the Registers of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials at the Church of St. George, in the Parish of Wilton, adjoining Taunton.... Transcribed from the Originals. xiv + (2) + 343pp, untrimmed and loose in the original cloth, outer hinges partly split, tears to front endpaper, and last leaf. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Son, 1890 £20.00
Squibbs (Phillips James) BRIDGWATER VICTORIAN DAYS. Reproduction of a typescript with numerous photographic illusts, 112pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, couple of staples to binding are slightly rusty. Privately published, Bridgwater: 1957. £18.00
Stephenson (Joseph Henry) FRIENDSHIP and Other Poems. 53pp, 12mo, original cloth, spine slightly faded. A.C. Coome, Lymsham; Robbins, Weston-super-Mare and Hamilton Adams & Co, London: 1883. £14.00
* Stephenson was the Rector of Lymsham, Prebendary of Wells and Rural Dean.
Stevens Cox (J), editor SOMERSET DIALECT POEMS The Somerset Man's Complaint. 17th C. and Doctor Cox: a Blanscue. Early 19th C. 12pp, 12mo, original printed wraps. The Toucan press, Guernsey: 1970. £4.00
Storer (B) SEDGEMOOR: Its History and Natural History. Numerous illusts, diagrams and maps, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1972. £8.00
Taylor (M.J), editor THE STORY OF SOMERTON. Compiled by members of the Somerton Women's Institute. With 23 illusts, 3 maps one of which is double-page, 96 + (1)pp, roy 8vo, original cloth boards, titled and with an illustration pasted onto the top board, later, amateur, front pastedown, and with the name and address of the editor on the front endpaper. Somerton Women's Institute, (1953) £15.00
[Watson (Lawrence G)] OFFICIAL SOUVENIR Issued on the occasion of the presentation by The Most Hon. The Marquess of Bath, R.G., P.C., C.B. of the Charter of Incorporation granted to the Burgesses of WESTON-SUPER-MARE by His Most Gracious Majesty King George VI in the First Year of His Reign. Plates, 40pp, few spots and a couple of splash marks to the original decorative, slightly dusty, wraps, internally sound. Lawrence Bros., Weston-super-Mare: 1937. £22.00
West Huntspill THE BOOK OF WEST HUNTSPILL. A Millenium Celebration. Compiled by People of the Parish. Illusts, 160pp, includes a 3pp list of subscribers, 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2001. £14.00

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Baker (T.H) NOTES ON ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH AND PARISH. (Salisbury) With 3 plates, viii + 167pp, prelims and rear endpapers browned and spotty, original cloth, rubbed to edges, portion of spine torn across and held at one hinge, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, indelible stamps to title-page, front endpaper torn across, and to last leaf. Salisbury: Brown and Co., 1906. £4.00
Brown's BROWN'S STRANGERS HANDBOOK AND ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SALISBURY CATHEDRAL Being A full Historical and Descriptive Account of the Buildings and Monuments. With wood engravings, original limp cloth, 94 + (10)pp, small portion torn from front endpaper, lacks small portion from head and foot of spine and foot of top cover. Brown and co., Salisbury: 1889. £4.00
Carr (David R), editor THE FIRST GENERAL ENTRY BOOK OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY 1387 - 1452. Frontis, xxxvi + 316pp, dustwrapper. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 54. Trowbridge: 2001. £14.00
Chadburn (Amanda) and Pomeroy-Kellinger (Melanie) ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE AVEBURY WORLD HERITAGE SITE. Illusts, maps, 101pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Trust for Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury: 2001. £10.00
Chandler (John) ENDLESS STREET A History of Salisbury and its People. Illustrated by Alison Borthwick. Plates, textual illusts, ix + 342pp, dustwrapper. Salisbury: The Hobnob Press, 1983. £12.00
Cowan (M), editor THE LETTERS OF JOHN PENISTON, SALISBURY ARCHITECT, CATHOLIC, AND YEOMANRY OFFICER 1823 - 1830. xx + 270pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 50. Devizes: 1996. £15.00
Cunnington (William), and Godard (Rev. E.H), compiled by CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE MUSEUM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes. Part I. The Stourhead Collection. Numerous textual illusts, 96pp, original printed wraps, lacks spine shaken, date in ink on top wrap. Published by the Society at the Museum, Devizes: 1896. £8.00
Devizes REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF DEVIZES. (Wiltshire.) Title and pages numbered 1260-1270, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £14.00
* Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.
Dodsworth (William) AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE AND CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SARUM, OR SALISBURY: Comprising Biographical Notices of the Bishops, the History of the Establishment, a Description of the Monuments, &c. With engraved and printed titles, 18 full-page engraved plates, and 2 vignettes, xx + 240pp, small folio, half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, outer hinges partly cracked though sound. Salisbury: Printed by Brodie and Dowding for the author, 1814. £45.00
Firmager (Gabrielle & Douglas), editors SEMINGTON Past and Present. Illusts, plans, maps, 208pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription on half-title. Semington History Project Group, Bradford on Avon: 2002. £12.00
Francis (Evelyn) AVEBURY. Illusts, 58pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial wraps. Wooden Books, Presteigne: 2000. £5.00
Fry (Edw. Alex.) ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II. A.D. 1242 - 1326. xv + 505pp, untrimmed in early half calf, raised bands, leather label on spine, cloth boards, slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, ex-lib, with number to base of spine and label to front endpaper, small stamp to title-page. Issued to the Subscribers by the British Record Society, 1908. £28.00
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, lacks rear wrap. G. Gillman, Devizes: 1892. £15.00
Goodrich (Rev. P.J) TROWBRIDGE AND ITS TIMES, A Tribute. With 24 plates, ix + 217pp, original cloth, spine faded, page edges browned, some foxing to prelims, name to front endpaper. First edition, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1932. £12.00
[Jefferies (Richard)] THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. vi + 216pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges. Third Edition, London: Smith Elder & Co., 1879. £8.00
Kirby (J.L), editor THE HUNGERFORD CARTULARY A Calendar of the Earl of Radnor's Cartulary of the Hungerford Family. xix + 300pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 49. Trowbridge: 1994. £12.00
Lear (Francis) A SERMON Preached in The Parish Church, Warminster, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Wilts Friendly Society, Thursday, April 11th, 1844. Pamphlet, disbound, 16pp. Warminster: R.E. Vardy. 1844. £10.00
Main (Laurence) WALKS IN MYSTERIOUS WILTSHIRE. Maps, illusts, 111pp, original pictorial card covers. Sigma Leisure, Wilmslow: 1998. £4.00
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, spine partly split. Marlborough: Emberlin, Printer, High Street. (1870) £10.00
* Not in Goddard's Wiltshire Bibliography. Gives the names and addresses of the Burgesses.
Maslen (Kate) THE LIFE OF FRANCIS FREEMAN of Marlborough. (c1600-1671) Pedigree, 79pp, original cards. Includes an index of people and places. c.1994. £10.00
Pitts (Mike) HENGEWORLD. Life in Britain 2000 BC as revealed by the latest discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Stanton Drew. Plates, diagrams, maps, plans, 404pp, dustwrapper, pencil notes to front endpaper. Century, London: 2000. £10.00
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, name to front endpaper. Originally published 1753. Facsimile Edition. Salisbury & Stonehenge Edition Facsimiles. 1997. £8.00
Simmonds (Sarah), editor AVEBURY WORLD HERITAGE SITE Residents' Pack. Containing:- 'Values and Voices' Reflections, scholarly views, anecdotes, and recollections of life in the Avebury World Heritage Site. Numerous black and white and coloured illusts, 102pp.... with.... Nine card leaflets on 4 illustrated pages, from each of the organisations who manage the site. Oblong 8vo, all contained in paper covered card pictorial folder. Avebury World Heritage Site, 2008. £25.00
Victoria County History, edited by Elizabeth Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 10. Plates and illusts, xix + 347pp, small folio, original cloth, slightly dusty dustwrapper, couple of short tears to head and foot of spine of dustwrapper, lacks most of front endpaper. First edition, Oxford University Press: 1975. £25.00
* Covers the Swanborough Hundred and the Borough of Devizes.
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 31. Nos XCIII, XCIV, XCV. Plates and plans some of which are folding, complete in the original 3 parts, 118pp and 119-270 and 271-371pp, all in the original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, June 1900-June 1901. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Common Lands in and around Durrington; Amesbury Church; Churches of Bulford, Enford, and Fittleton; Lacock Abbey; Durrington; Great Somerford; Churches of Sherston, Corston, and Netheravon, etc.

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Alford (D.P) A TALE OF TRESCO, AND THE TAVISTOCK CHIMES, and Other Poems, Mostly of the West Country. 72pp, 12mo, original cloth, pasted onto the front endpaper is a signed hand-written letter by the author. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894. £25.00
Baddeley (M.J.B) BATH AND BRISTOL and Forty Miles Round. Through Guide Series. With 18 maps and plans, several of which are folding, xxix + 231 + 48pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, short tear to one map. Thomas Nelson, London: 1908. £9.00
Binding (Hilary), editor THE CHANGING FACE OF EXMOOR. A Changing Community. Illusts, 105pp, small 4to, original pictorial card covers. Exmoor Books, Tiverton: 1995. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Bray (Peter) AROUND AND ABOUT CLAY COUNTRY Cornwall and Devon 1872-1924. "A Glimpse of Yesteryear". Illusts, map, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Corran Publications, St. Ewe: 1988. £6.00
Cavenagh-Mainwaring (G), (Late Captain in the Regiment) "THE ROYAL MINERS." A History of the Stannaries Regiment of Miners late Cornwall and Devon Miners Royal Garrison Artillery Militia, commonly called "The Royal Miners." Including a Short Account of Contemporary Military Events affecting Cornwall and Devon and the Militia generally. With 14 plates, 129pp, 4to, original cloth, slight crease and few marks to top board, later endpapers. First edition, Harrison and Sons, London: 1913. £135.00
Chafin (William) A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURNE CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., occasional spotting, untrimmed in early plain paper boards, top outer hinge partly broken, ex-Dorset museum library, with label to front pastedown. London: J. Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1818. £60.00
Chanter (Rev. J.F) and Worth (R. Hansford) THE RUDE STONE MONUMENTS OF EXMOOR AND ITS BORDERS. Part II. Plate, text diagrams, pages numbered 539-552, original wraps, partly faded, first and last leaves browned, short split to foot of spine. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1906. £7.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Collyns (Charles Palk) NOTES ON THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER IN THE COUNTIES of Devon & Somerset. With an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs & incidents connected with the chase from the year 1780 to the year 1860. Plates and textual illusts., xxviii + 307pp, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt, early inscription on front pastedown, t.e.g. Limited Edition of 50 copies on Japanese vellum. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1902. £65.00
Cramer (James) THE BOOK OF PORTSMOUTH. Numerous illusts, 4to, 144pp, dustwrapper. includes 3 page list of subscribers. Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1985. £4.00
Davey (Ernest) OUR LOVE OF EXMOOR Exploring Inland Exmoor. Coloured illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2005. £12.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 1 of 8 only. With plates, 48pp.... Bound with.... Title + Index, and list of plates for volume 6, original printed wraps, portion missing to head of spine, short split to top outer hinge. James G. Commin. Exeter: January, 1912. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Branscombe Church; Devon Armaments in Eighteenth Century; Richard Farrant, the Puritan "Rector"; Bideford Witches; Exeter Castle, etc.
[Erskine (J.F.E.G)] Earl of Mar ANCIENT AND MODERN [A history of the Earldom of Mar by the Claimant, J.F.E.G.E., together with a report of the judgment given in the House of Lords, 25th February, 1875, on the claim of Lord Kellie to the Earldom of Mar.] Folding pedigree, 67 + 19 + xxxviiipp, roy 8vo, original cloth, rubbed to edges, top outer hinge partly split, small portions missing from head and foot of spine, inscription on front endpaper. Printed for Private Circulation. 1875. £35.00
Evered (Philip) STAGHUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer On Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas. With 74 illusts, xv�+ 378pp, original pictorial cloth, spine very slightly darkened, contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Special Edition on Japanese Vellum - ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED FOR SALE. London: Chatto and Windus, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £100.00
Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1968. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Illusts, maps, adverts, 120pp, original pictorial covers, few spots to foot of top cover. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1968. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- Withypool Common; Parracombe Mill; Antique Dealing on Exmoor; Walter Raymond at Nether Stowey, etc.
Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1980. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 21. Illusts, adverts, maps, 96pp, original pictorial covers. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1980. £4.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- West Somerset Railway in 1979; Black Grouse; Quaker Farmer in the Brendons in the 17th century, etc.
Faraday (M.A), editor THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE LAY SUBSIDY OF 1523-1527. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 23. Map and 3 plates, lix + 548pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of persons and places. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2009. £18.00
Hanmer (James W) THE WESTERN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE 1837-1987. 23pp, original card covers. no imprint. 1987. £4.00
Her Majesty's Inspectors of Mines MINES AND QUARRIES. 1881. SUMMARIES OF THE STATISTICAL PORTIONS OF THE REPORTS OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF MINES. xxxvi + 49pp, small folio, lacks wraps and prelim. leaves i-vi, first and last leaf spotty, top leaf loose, and slightly ragged. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London: 1882. £16.00
* With tables listing:- 'Number of Persons Employed (above and below ground), Mineral Worked, Death rates, etc. Includes C. Le Neve Foster's Report of Metalliferous Mines in North Wales and Shropshire.
Ingemann (W.M) THE MINOR DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Line drawings, and 48 plates, (5)pp, folio, original cloth-backed boards, corners of boards slightly rubbed. London: John Tiranti, 1938. £25.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL, 1939. Lacks maps, original cloth, worn, front board held by tapes, rear board almost loose, spine badly torn with small portions missing, lacks last few leaves of the Cornwall 'Trades' section. £45.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE, With the CITY OF BRISTOL, 1894. With 2 folding county maps, and a folding plan, xxxii + 764 + 531 + (i) + 401 + 64 pages of adverts, some marks to the original cloth, recased retaining the original endpapers, recent unlettered spine. London: Kelly and Co Ltd., 1894. £185.00
Major (A.F) EARLY WARS OF WESSEX. Being Studies from England's School of Arms in the West. Maps, plans, diagrams, including two folding maps in pocket at rear, xiv + 238pp, original cloth. First edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1913. £18.00
* With the bookplate of Arthur Bulleid, antiquarian and author, to front pastedown.
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF KENT. With a folding engraved map by Bowen, pages numbered 175-206, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £35.00
* Extracted from his work entitled 'The Natural History of England.... '
Oliver (Rev. George) COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE COUNTIES OF CORNWALL, DEVON, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET AND GLOUCESTER. In two parts Historical & Biographical. viii + 576pp, original cloth, partly faded, minor spotting to prelims. First edition. London: Charles Dolman, 1857. £30.00 --- See sample text
[Polwhele (Richard)] POEMS CHIEFLY BY GENTLEMEN OF DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL. In Two volumes. xii + 205pp and 240pp, early half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed to edges, small indelible stamp to titles, small amount of light foxing. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell. 1792. £185.00
Shorter (A.H), Ravenhill (W.L.D) and Gregory (K.J) SOUTHWEST ENGLAND. With 95 textual illusts, 52 plates, 3 tables and a coloured folding map, xii + 340pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. First edition, Nelson, London: 1969. £18.00
* Includes chapters on transport, agriculture, Isles of Scilly, Bodmin Moor, the Bovey Basin, the Lizard, etc.
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND One Hundred and Twenty-First Session 1901-1902. vol. XII - Third Series. Full page and illusts in the text, li + 775pp, few damp marks to the slightly rubbed original cloth, internally sound, spine darkened, paper label chipped on spine. Printed for the Society, Edinburgh: 1902 £30.00
* Includes articles:- Cairns of Arran; Roman Station at Inchtuthil, Perthshire; Douglas Percy, and the Cavers Ensign; Kirkard Monuments; Stone Circles in Aberdeenshire, etc.
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 14. 368pp, complete in 8 parts, all in the original printed wraps. Sherborne: March 1914 - December 1915. £12.00
Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 250. Pages numbered 61-80, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1952. £4.00
* Includes articles:- Dorset Inventory from Syndercombe Papers; Paper Mills in Somerset, etc.
Sumner (Heywood) ANCIENT EARTHWORK OF CRANBORNE CHASE. Illustrated with 48 plans and maps some of which are folding, xviii + 82pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Original published at the Chiswick Press. 1913. Alan Sutton & Wiltshire County Library, Gloucester: 1988. £22.00
Telegraph Guide THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH GUIDE TO HOLIDAY AND HEALTH RESORTS of Great Britain and Ireland with Lists of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Apartments, Schools, etc. 1930. Illusts, adverts, 436pp, original pictorial card covers, covers worn and slightly creased and soiled. The Telegraph, London: 1930. £18.00
Trollope (Rev. William) A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL With an Account of the Plan of the Education, the Internal Economy of the Institution and memoirs of Eminent Blues. Preceded by a Narrative of the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Convent of the Grey Friars in London. With 10 engraved plates, 358 + cxviii (Addenda and Corrigenda) + (10) page index, 4to, later cloth, occasional light foxing. London: William Pickering, 1834. £30.00
[Verstegan (Richard)] RESTITUTION OF DECAYED INTELLIGENCE IN ANTIQUITIES, Concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation By the Study and Travel of R.V. With a vignettte title-page and with several engravings in the text, (18) + 374 + (14) page Index, full early calf, lightly rubbed to the edges, recased with the old, unlettered, spine laid down. Printed for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn and Henry Herringman, London: 1673. £285.00
* Verstegan was an Anglo-Dutch antiquary who was born in London. He studied English history and the Anglo-Saxon Language at Oxford. This work contains sections on the invasions of the Saxons, Danes and the Normans and their influence on the English Tongue.

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