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    Bristol




  1. Bartlett (John) and Penny (John) BRISTOL'S VANISHED GEORGIAN ARMOURY and the Development of Armory Square, Easton. Plans, illusts, 22 leaves printed on one side only, 4to, with a plastic clip on spine. Fishponds Local History Society, Bristol: 2000. £12.00 reduced to £9.00




  2. 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 reduced to £9.00




  3. 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 reduced to £40.00




  4. Canadian and American Journalists. VISIT OF CANADIAN AND AMERICAN JOURNALISTS TO BRISTOL, September, 1910. Detailed Programme and General Information. Illusts, adverts, 240pp, 12mo, original full leather, rubbed to edges and spine, top outer hinge partly split, front inner hinge cracked, though sound. James W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1910. £18.00 reduced to £12.00




  5. Cozens (Henry B) THE CHURCH OF THE VOW. A Record of Zion Congregational Church Bedminster, Bristol, 1830-1930. With 5 plates, and an illust in the text, 68pp, original cloth-backed boards, few old tape marks to covers. St. Stephens Press, Bristol 1930. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  6. Felix Farley, sold by BRISTOL. THE CITY CHARTERS. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors, Recorders, Sheriffs, Town Clerks, And all Other Officers whatsoever. As also of a Common Council, and the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with, and Corrected according to the Latin Originals. To which are added, The Bounds of the City, by Land, With the exact Distances from Stone to Stone, all round the City. With the engraved frontis, 297 + (xii)pp + advert leaf, 4to, early calf boards, calf very chipped, later spine and endpapers, raised bands, boards slightly rubbed to edges, couple of leaves at rear partly waterstained, some browning to margins of a few leaves at front and rear. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley, in Castle Green: 1736. £90.00 reduced to £50.00




  7. Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Nineteenth Century. [vi] + 552pp, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, W & F. Morgan, Clare Street, Bristol: 1887. £20.00 reduced to £15.00




  8. Lee (Thomas) WHITE-LION CLUB, LATE RIOT AND DOCK TAX. An Address to the Public, Wherein these alarming and disgraceful Topics are discussed. Pamphlet, 32pp, disbound, last leaf slightly dusty. Printed by George Routh, Shannon-Court, Corn Street, Bristol: (1807) £25.00 reduced to £15.00
    * This is an attack on the Tory M.P. Bathurst and the Dock Scheme.





  9. Manby (G.W) FUGITIVE SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY AND NATURAL BEAUTIES OF CLIFTON AND THE HOT WELLS AND VICINITY. With 4 etched plans, 2 etched and 12 aquatint plates, 84pp, lacks errata slip, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, top board loose, lacks approx. «" from head of spine, occasional foxing, some off-setting, with the ownership stamp of Charles H. Cave, of the banking family, to front endpaper. First Edition. Printed for Norton & Son, Bristol: (1802) £70.00 reduced to £50.00




  10. Mathews (Joseph) MATHEWS'S BRISTOL GUIDE; Being a Complete Ancient & Modern History of the City of Bristol, The Hotwells and Clifton.... Fifth Edition, Revised and Carefully Corrected to the present Time. Lacks plan, 231pp, untrimmed in later qtr cloth, paper boards, some staining to title-page, and foot of Preface. Bristol: Printed, Published and Sold by J. Mathews. (1819) £18.00 reduced to £14.00
    * No plan is called for in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature.





  11. Pryce (George) NOTES ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN BRISTOL.... With Antiquarian, Historical, Biographical, and Heraldic Elucidations: Copiously illustrated. 230pp, sm 8vo, original cloth. First edition, London: and Bristol: J. Lavars. 1850. £35.00 reduced to £24.00




  12. Ross (C.D), editor CARTULARY OF ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL BRISTOL Frontis, xliv + 326pp, original cloth-backed boards, 2" tear to front endpaper. Volume 21. Bristol Record Society. 1959. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  13. Royal Albert Dock Avonmouth VISIT OF THEIR MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTIES KING EDWARD VII AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA. On the Occasion of the Opening of the Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, July 9th, 1908. Edward B. James, Lord Mayor. Illusts, 35pp, imp. 8vo, original decorative wraps, loosely contained within full calf folder, which is rubbed to edges, on the front cover in gilt is the coat of arms for the city of Bristol, and 'With the Compliments of The Lord Mayor of Bristol.' Inscribed on the front pastedown of this is :- 'With J.H. Reid's good wishes, secretary Royal Visits.' W.S. & A. Robinson, Bristol: 1908. £28.00 reduced to £20.00




  14. Smith (Rev. Sydney) BALLOT. 48pp, disbound. Third Edition. London: Longman, Orme, Brown.... 1839. £25.00 reduced to £15.00
    * 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.





  15. 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 reduced to £40.00 --- See sample text




  16. Stone (George Frederick) BRISTOL AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A record of 50 years progress. Reprinted with additions from the Bristol Evening News. Illustrated by S.J. Loxton, 231pp + xi + 24pp of adverts, folio, t.e.g. original cloth, light damp marks to fore-edges of boards, small portions torn from head and foot of spine, 3 page letter on Western Daily Press headed notepaper presenting this copy to a 'Mr Moore' pasted to front pastedown, a later bookplate to front endpaper. Walter Reid, Bristol: 1909. £30.00 reduced to £24.00




  17. 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 reduced to £15.00




  18. Warne (F.G.) and Bristol development Board THE BOMBING OF BRISTOL Pictures of Streets and Buildings Damaged in the Raids of 1940-1941. Illusts, 48pp, original decorative paper covers, few small tears to rear wrap. First edition, Bristol: F.G. Warne, 1943. £22.00 reduced to £14.00




  19. White (J.W) THE FLORA OF BRISTOL, being an Account of all the Flowering Plants Ferns and their Allies that have at any time been found in the district of the Bristol Coal-Fields. With introductory sketches of the Topography, Physical Features, Climate etc. Coloured folding map, 3 plates, viii + 722p, short tear to rear of dustwrapper. Originally published Bristol: 1912. Reprinted, Chatford House Press, Bristol: 1972. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  20. Wright (J) and Co's BRISTOL AND CLIFTON DIRECTORY, 1896. With upwards of a hundred and fifty adjacent villages. xxiv + 683 + (i) + 79 pages of adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed, loose in case, couple of prelims loose and slightly ragged. Bristol: J. Wright, 1896. £50.00 reduced to £40.00

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    Cornwall




  21. Andrew (Jane) RECORDED MERCIES: Being the Autobiography of Jane Andrew, living at St. Ive, Liskeard, Cornwall: also reminiscences of her valued friend The Late Mrs Daniel Smart, of Cranbrook. Compiled by her younger daughter, as an affectionate tribute to her mother's memory. 51pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to spine, lacks front endpaper. First edition, London: E. Wilmshurst, (1889) £22.00 reduced to £16.00




  22. Barton (D.B) A HISTORY OF TIN MINING AND SMELTING IN CORNWALL. Plates, textual illusts, maps, 302pp, short tears to top outer hinges of dustwrapper, page edges and rear of wrapper browned. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1967. £10.00 reduced to £8.00




  23. Barton (R.M), editor LIFE IN CORNWALL At the End of the Nineteenth Century. Being extracts from the West Briton Newspaper in the Years from 1876 to 1899. 174pp, dustwrapper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1974. £18.00 reduced to £14.00




  24. Barton (R.M), editor LIFE IN CORNWALL In the Late Nineteenth Century. Being extracts from the West Briton Newspaper in the Two Decades from 1855 to 1875. Illustrations, 280pp, dustwrapper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, Ltd., 1972. £26.00 reduced to £12.00




  25. Bizley (Maurice H) FRIENDLY RETREAT. The Story of a Parish. Illusts, 194pp, few marks and spots to the original cloth, partly faded, name to front endpaper. First edition. Netherton and Worth. Truro: Preface dated 1955. £15.00 reduced to £10.00 --- See sample text
    * Concerns the Parish of St. Agnes.





  26. Boase (George Clement) COLLECTANEA CORNUBIENSIA: A Collection of Biographical & Topographical Notes relating to the County of Cornwall. xi + 952pp, 4to, original cloth, neatly recased, original spine laid down, with new endpapers. LIMITED EDITION OF 130 COPIES. Printed and Published by Netherton and Worth, Truro: For the Author. 1890. £350.00 reduced to £220.00
    * An extensive work with a large number of biographical notes of prominent people in the county.





  27. 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 reduced to £40.00




  28. Bunn (Cyril) THE BOOK OF ST. AUSTELL. The Story of a China Clay Town. Map endpapers, numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, includes a 2 page list of subscribers. dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition, signed by the author. Buckingham: 1978. £35.00 reduced to £25.00




  29. Camelford Elections REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CAMELFORD ELECTION: together with The Special Report From the Said Committee; and also the Minutes of Evidence taken before them. 3 volumes, (complete, bound in one), 187pp + 62pp + 21pp, folio, recent cloth, untrimmed with the original printed wraps bound in, one top wrap has neat repair to tear. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 June, and 5 July, 1819. £80.00 reduced to £60.00




  30. 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 reduced to £18.00




  31. Constantine, Wendron PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Desirable Freehold Properties which Messrs Hocking & Johns will offer for Sale by Auction.... 30th day of July, 1902.... 6pp., folio, folded. One large folding coloured plan and one full page one. Details 24 Lots, in Wendron and Constantine and one field in Helston. 1902. £26.00 reduced to £18.00
    * Includes Gweek Hotel, School Building at Gweek, Gweek Wollas Wharf, Wheelwright's Shop, Tenements of Mellanoweth, Naffean Downs, parts of Crahan Bowling Green, etc.





  32. Davey (James) A SET OF TABLES SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE OF THE STANDARD AT WHICH COPPER ORES OF VARIOUS PRODUCES USUALLY SELL IN CORNWALL, With the Price of Twenty-one cwts. Affixed. Second Edition with an Appendix. viii + 92pp, sm. 4to, original cloth, soiled and rubbed at edges, outer hinges partly split, portion of cloth torn from lower corner of top board, with the original paper label to top board, Cornwall Record Office stamp to front endpaper and class number to spine. Second Edition, Published and Sold by the Author, and by J. May, Printer, Redruth: 1845. £80.00 reduced to £50.00
    * With the bookplate of John Davies Enys.





  33. Earland (Ada) JOHN OPIE AND HIS CIRCLE. With 51 illustrations. xvi + 376pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, and partly faded, with a 1" split to rear outer hinge, short scuff to cloth on rear board, occasional light foxing. First edition, London: Hutchinson, 1911. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  34. 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 reduced to £20.00
    * Dated 1918 on top board, and 1919 on title-page.





  35. Folliott-Stokes (A.G) THE CORNISH COASTS AND MOORS. Illustrations from Photographs by Alex. Begbie, John C. Douglas, and the Author. Illusts, folding map, 367pp, original cloth, spine faded, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprinted, London: Stanley Paul, c.1923. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  36. Gaskell (Ernest) LEADERS OF CORNWALL. Social and Political. Numerous photographic portraits, not paginated, 4to, half roan, a.e.g., covers slightly rubbed to edges, lacks 1" from foot of spine. Published for Private Circulation. London: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co., c.190- £35.00 reduced to £24.00
    * Lists 101 'leaders' usually with a 2 page biography, and quite often with a photographic portrait.





  37. Glenbervie (Baron Sylvester Douglas) THE CASE OF THE BOROUGH OF ST. IVES in the County of Cornwall. Pages numbered 391-419, untrimmed in recent cloth boards, paper spine, last few leaves lightly waterstained. Printed for G. Robinson, London: 1775. £28.00 reduced to £20.00
    * An extract from 'History of the Controverted Elections which were tried and determined.... 15 Georg. III.'





  38. Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL. 2. St. Agnes-Perranporth. Illusts, folding map, 60pp, original pictorial card covers. First published 1962, Reprinted Forge Books, Bracknell, 1978. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  39. Hammond (Joseph) A CORNISH PARISH: Being an Account of St. Austell, Town, Church, District & People. Illusts., 377pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, few spots to prelims, small label, with ownership name in biro, pasted to front endpaper. First edition, London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. £45.00 reduced to £32.00




  40. Helston Elections THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE at any Election of a Member to Serve in Parliament for the BOROUGH OF HELSTON, between The First Day of January, 1883, and the First Day of January, 1884. 24pp, 4to, original, partly faded wraps, signs where once folded. Helston: Printed by J. Cunnack, Market Place, 1882. £20.00 reduced to £14.00




  41. Henwood (George), edited by Roger Burt. CORNWALL'S MINES AND MINERS. Nineteenth Century Studies by George Henwood. 239pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £26.00 reduced to £18.00




  42. Husband (S. Teague) OLD NEWQUAY. Illustrations by A.A. Golding. + 124pp, original printed card boards, later amateur cloth spine, presentation inscription on top board, boards lightly rubbed, lacks endpaper. Tipped onto rear pastedown is a letter to Ashley Rowe, Cornish artist. First Edition, Newquay: F.E. Williams, 1923. £16.00 reduced to £12.00




  43. Jackson (Kurt) KURT JACKSON The Thames Project. Coloured plates, 90pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Lemon Street Gallery, Truro: 2006. £55.00 reduced to £35.00
    * Jackson has a gallery in St. Just.





  44. Lach-Szyrma (Rev. W.S) A SHORT HISTORY OF PENZANCE, S. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, S. IVES AND THE LAND'S END DISTRICT. With frontis, 3 maps, one of which is folding, 196pp, sm 4to, original cloth, gilt, a.e.g. edges of covers lightly rubbed, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, some damp spotting to boards, slightly shaken, usual occasional foxing. First edition, Truro: Lake and Lake, London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1878. £80.00 reduced to £60.00




  45. 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 reduced to £60.00




  46. Maclean (Sir John) THE PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE DEANERY OF TRIGG MINOR, IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Volume 1 only. With tinted lithographic and other plates, pedigrees, coats of arms, etc., viii + 710 + 4 page list of subscribers, 4to, original cloth, recased with the original spine laid down, and new endpapers. small tear to one margin neatly repaired, some spotting and light water stains to one plate and with its fore-edge neatly reinforced. London: Nichols & Son, 1878. £150.00 reduced to £105.00
    * This volume covers the parishes of Blisland, Bodmin, St. Breward, Egloshayle, St. Endellion, Forrabury and Minster.





  47. 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 reduced to £55.00




  48. Miller (John) SEEING IS BELIEVING John Miller's edited conversations with Heather Corbett. Coloured illusts, 159pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Truran, Redruth: 2001. £22.00 reduced to £15.00
    * Miller painted mainly beach scenes around West Penwith and Tresco in the Scilly Isles.





  49. Palmer (Marilyn) and Neaverson (Peter) THE BASSET MINES Their History and Industrial Archaeology. British Mining No 32. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 68pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, slight wear to edges of covers, plastic clip on spine. Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society. Sheffield: 1987. £20.00 reduced to £16.00




  50. Payton (Dr Philip) THE CORNISH OVERSEAS. Numerous illusts, + 420pp, 4to, dustwrapper protected in a transparent plastic sleeve. Fowey: Alexander Associates, 1999. £22.00 reduced to £15.00
    * Signed by the author on the half-title.





  51. Peter (Richard) and (Otho Bathurst) THE HISTORIES OF LAUNCESTON AND DUNHEVED, in the County of Cornwall. Illusts., and folding maps, vi + (ii) + 423pp, few marks to partly faded original cloth, cloth slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, inner hinges cracked and weak. First edition, Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1885. £30.00 reduced to £20.00




  52. [Polwhele (Richard)] FLORAL OFFERINGS; PRESENTED TO THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL: Whose Meeting was held at Truro, On the Twenty-Ninth Day of June, 1832. 24pp, lacks wraps, pasted to the verso of the title-page are early newscuttings of poetry by Polwhele and others. A presentation by 'the author' has been scrawled through in ink on the title-page, light stain to inner margin of title-page and last leaf. Truro: Printed at the Royal Cornwall Gazette Office by T.R. Gillet, jun. 1832. £20.00 reduced to £15.00




  53. Provis (John), of Truro TABLES OF THE MOST USEFUL KIND, TO FACILITATE BUSINESS IN SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE COPPER TRADE, Never before Printed, and which will apply to almost every individual concerned therein; from Original Calculations, made with the Greatest Circumspection. 263 + (1)pp, 4to, later qtr calf, spine slightly rubbed and faded, slight spotting to prelims, marbled endpapers which have their surfaces damaged with the removal of labels. First edition, Truro: Printed for the Author, by J. Tregoning at the Cornish Press. 1801. £125.00 reduced to £80.00
    * Provis was the first person to be employed by the Cornish Metal Company, which was instituted in the year 1785.





  54. Rabey (Ivan) THE BOOK OF ST COLUMB AND ST MAWGAN. The Story of Two Ancient Parishes. Numerous illusts, 144pp, includes a 2 page list of subscribers, 4to, dustwrapper faded. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1979. £45.00 reduced to £35.00




  55. Ratcliffe (Jeanette) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCILLY. An assessment of the resources and recommendations for its future. With 14 folding maps, illusts, 213pp, pictorial card covers, name to title-page. Second edition, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: 1989. £12.00 reduced to £9.00




  56. 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 reduced to £10.00




  57. [Sandys (W)], Uncle Jan Treenoodle SPECIMENS OF CORNISH PROVINCIAL DIALECT, collected & arranged by Uncle Jan Treenoodle, with some introductory remarks and a glossary by an antiquarian friend. Also a selection of songs and other pieces connected with Cornwall. Frontis, 108pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, couple of short splits to outer hinges, with the original paper label, which is slightly chipped to edges, on top board, edges of frontis spotty, name in a contemporary hand to front endpaper. First edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1846. £85.00 reduced to £50.00




  58. Simcoe (Rev. H.A), editor LIGHT FROM THE WEST; or, The Cornish Parochial Visitor. Volumes 1 and 2. Two volumes bound in 1, illustrated with occasional wood cuts, 286 + (2)pp, and 283 + (1)pp, 12mo, contemporary, unlettered, half calf, marbled boards, rubbed. Cornwall: Rev. H.A. Simcoe, Penheale - Press. 1832 and 1833. £50.00 reduced to £30.00
    * Issued in penny monthly numbers, most issues being 24pp. The last one mentioned by Boase & Courtney, being vol xvii, 1848. Mainly of religious interest.





  59. Tangye (Sir Richard) SOME PECULIAR BEGGARS, Illusts, 26pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps, spine neatly reinforced with brown paper. Privately Printed. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham: 1897. £20.00 reduced to £15.00
    * Tangye relates his encounters with beggars in Birmingham and Cornwall. Tangye was born in Illogan, went to the quaker school at Sidcot, and with his brothers started a large engineering company in Birmingham. He travelled widely and wrote books on his travels. He bought Glendorgal, from the Vivians, and from 1882 spent most of his summers there.





  60. Wyrall (Everard) THE HISTORY OF THE DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY 1914-1919. With twenty-one illustrations and twenty-one maps, many of which are folding, xvi + 514pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, few small spots and light marks to covers, cloth slightly rubbed to edges, inner hinges cracked and weak. First edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1932. £70.00 reduced to £50.00

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    Devon




  61. 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 reduced to £62.00




  62. Ashton (Ald. Lieut-Col. H), Oliver (Bruce W), and others THE BOROUGH OF A THOUSAND YEARS. 930 - 1930. Being the Official Millenary Souvenir Brochure. 58pp, original wraps, tall 12mo, presentation copy from the Mayor, etc. Published with the authority of the Barnstaple Town Council. (1935) £15.00 reduced to £12.00
    * Includes a list of all the Mayors of Barnstaple since 1303.





  63. Baker (George), Prebendary of St. Peter's in Exeter THE RESPECT DUE TO A CHURCH OF GOD. Preached Oct. 11. 1733. At the Consecration of St. George's Chapel in Riverton, In the County of Devon, By the Right Reverend Father in God Stephen Lord Bishop of Exon. 32pp, disbound. London: Printed for S. Birt at the Bible in Avemary-Lane, and E. Score over against the Guildhall-Hall in Exeter: 1733. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  64. Besley (T), printer and publisher THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING CHARITIES; containing that part which relates to the COUNTY OF DEVON. Volumes 1 and 2 of 4 only. viii + 334 and viipp + 336 and viipp, contemporary qtr calf, marbled boards, lightly rubbed to edges. Printed and Published by T. Besley, Jun. Cathedral-Yard, Exeter: 1826 and 1828. £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Gives details of the various 'Gifts' and their disbursements in each parish. There are also tables of lands owned by charities with lists of rent, names of lessees, descriptions of tenements, etc.





  65. Boggis (Rev. R.J) HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S TORQUAY. Illusts, xii + 301pp, original cloth, name to front endpaper. First edition, Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1930. £11.00 reduced to £9.00




  66. Branscombe, transcribed and edited by H. Tapley-Soper and Elijah Chick. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF BRANSCOMBE, DEVON, 1539-1812. Frontis, + errata + 308pp, qtr calf cloth boards, small marks to top margin of 2 leaves. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1913. £45.00 reduced to £35.00




  67. Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Consisting of Eighteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With a Map, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. Volume 3 only of 4 volumes. Illusts, 74pp, original qtr roan, couple of splash marks to front cover, Dartington Hall stamp to front endpaper, and the bookplate of Thurston Peter, the Cornish author to front pastedown. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and numbered by Burnard and the Printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, Plymouth: 1893. £30.00 reduced to £24.00




  68. Cannon (Richard) HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE TWENTIETH, or the East Devonshire Regiment of Foot; Containing An Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent Services to 1848. With 2 hand coloured and 1 lithographed plates, xxxiii + 79pp, original cloth, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Parker, Furnival and Parker, London: 1848. £60.00 reduced to £45.00




  69. Capern (Edward), Rural Postman of Bideford, Devon BALLADS AND SONGS. xi + 188pp, original cloth, slightly faded, Tiverton War Memorial Library label to front pastedown. W. Kent, London: 1858. £35.00 reduced to £20.00




  70. 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 reduced to £10.00




  71. Cock (John) RECORDS OF YE ANTIENT BOROUGH OF SOUTH MOLTON. in ye County of Devon. Illusts, (vii) + 255pp, original cloth. Printed by James Townsend, Exeter. Published by the Author, at Woodville, South Molton: 1893. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  72. Cresswell (Beatrix F) NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF THE DEANERY OF KENN, Devon. Illusts, 192pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, short spilt to top outer hinge, pasted to front pastedown is a large folded sheet titled:- 'Notes on the Families of TRIPE, MARTYN and SWETE, in Devonshire, and their Alliances.' On the back of one fold is a presentation inscription to 'Mr G. Kenyon-Fuller with kind regards from W. Tripe, Oct. 1935.' First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin. 1912. £18.00 reduced to £14.00 --- See sample text




  73. Crossing (William) THE ANCIENT CROSSES OF DARTMOOR; With a Description of Their Surroundings. Map and 10 plates, 132 + 4pp of adverts, original cloth, half-title browned as usual. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, London: C. Elkin Mathews, 1887. £25.00 reduced to £20.00




  74. Devon County Council AT YOUR SERVICE The Journal of the Devon County Council Staff Association. Volumes 28, No 6 - Volume 34, No 5. Line drawings in the text, 65 issues, each issue comprising usually 12 - 14 cyclostyled pages, cloth. Devon County Council, Exeter: January, 1951 - December, 1956. £55.00 reduced to £35.00
    * The usual mix of essays about holidays, articles on sporting and social activities, notices of NALGO meetings, poetry (?), etc.





  75. Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 2. From January 1902 to October 1903. Part I Miscellaneous. Illusts, [vi] + 268pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, fore-edges spotty. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1903. £30.00 reduced to £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Monmouth Rebellion; Honeychurch; Dartmoor; Haydon Family; Carew and Pole Letters; Prisoners of War at Ashburton; Arms in Silverton Church, etc.





  76. Doe (George M) OLD TORRINGTON LANDMARKS. One plate, 36 pages printed on rectos only, 12mo, original wraps slightly creased. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. "Bideford Gazette" Limited Printers and Publishers. 1931. £16.00 reduced to £12.00




  77. Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE PARISH OF CLYST S. GEORGE, DEVON. With 2 double-page pedigrees, 13 plates, some of which are coloured, double-page coloured plan, pages numbered 89-158, complete, 4to, original printed card boards, top cover and first leaf loose. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1865. £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Article contained in part 2, volume 1, second series of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. The volume also contains articles on Powderham Castle; Churches of Jersey; Morwenstow Church, Cornwall, etc.





  78. Ellis (Arthur C) SOME ANCIENT CHURCHES AROUND TORQUAY With other Notes on the respective Parishes. Illusts, 160pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, ex-lib. with number to foot of spine, and stamp and numbers to verso of title-page. No imprint. (1936) £14.00 reduced to £10.00
    * Covers:- Abbotskerswell, Alphington, Ashburton, Ashcombe, Berry Pomeroy, Bickington, Bishopsteignton, Bovey Tracey.'The following eight articles were originally meant to be the first of a longer series written for the Torquay Directory. As it appears unlikely that the entire series can be completed within a reasonable time, it seems desirable that these should be issued in book form now.' Preface. Not found on the Devon Libraries internet site.





  79. Gray (Patricia) THE HAUNT OF GRAVE-ROBBERS AND MURDERERS The History of Stoke Damerel Church, Devonport. Unabridged Edition. 138pp, 4to, cloth backed pictorial card covers, Privately published, c.2000 £22.00 reduced to £16.00




  80. Harper (Charles G) THE NORTH DEVON COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts. xiii + 247pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, small hole to rear outer hinge, small snag to head of spine. First edition, London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1908. £22.00 reduced to £16.00 --- See sample text




  81. King (Richard John) THE FOREST OF DARTMOOR, and its Borders. A Historical Sketch. xii + 138pp, 12mo, original cloth, occasional light foxing. London: John Russell Smith, 1856. £35.00 reduced to £22.00




  82. Moore (John), of Tiverton THE CALM DEFENCE OF THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST, Continued and Maintain'd; Against The Reasonings and Exceptions of the Author of the Letter to a Dissenter in Exeter: Being A Reply to his Plain Christianity Defended, Third and Fourth Parts. 140pp, lacks half-title(?), 12mo, recent cloth, slight signs where label removed from front endpaper. London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry, near Cheapside, 1721. £35.00 reduced to £25.00




  83. Oliver (Rev. George) THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF EXETER. With a short Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix of Documents and Illustrations. Folding plan, xiv + 337pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, head and foot of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper, front inner hinge weak, occasional light foxing. Exeter: William Roberts, 1861. £30.00 reduced to £24.00




  84. Parkham. transcribed by John Ingle Dredge. With introduction by Edward Hensley. THE REGISTERS OF PARKHAM. xxvi + 214pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1906. £40.00 reduced to £25.00




  85. [Phillpotts (Henry)] A PASTORAL LETTER to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter on the Present State of the Church. By Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter. 126pp, original wraps, couple of short tears to head and foot of spine. London: John Murray, 1851. £16.00 reduced to £10.00




  86. Pile (W), editor AN HISTORIC PARISH. Being some account of the Parish and Church of S. SIDWELL, in the City of Exeter. With 10 plates, 18pp, original paper boards, slightly soiled, endpapers browned as usual, signs where label removed from front endpaper. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter: 1912. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  87. Plymtree, transcribed and edited by The Venerable Edgar Hay. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF PLYMTREE, A.D. 1538 to 1837. With 5 illusts, xix + 188pp, lack pages xv to xix from Preface, untrimmed, partly unopened, in recent cloth. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1940. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  88. Polwhele (Mr), Of Polwhele, In Cornwall HISTORICAL VIEWS OF DEVONSHIRE. In Five Volumes. Volume 1 only, all published. xix + 214pp, sm 4to, later half calf, cloth boards, qtr morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, short split to top outer hinge, front inner hinge cracked though sound. Printed by Trewman and Son, Exeter, for Cadell, Dily and Murray, London: 1793. £105.00 reduced to £80.00
    * Includes chapters on the first inhabitants of Danmonium, the Romans, the Saxons, and the Normans.





  89. Polwhele (Rev. R) THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. Volume 2 of 3 only. With illusts, 46 + 382 + (1)pp, folio, small water stain to foot of dustwrapper. Originally published Exeter: 1793-1806. Reprinted, Kohler and Coombes, Dorking: 1977. £35.00 reduced to £22.00
    * Covers the Diocese of Exeter (Deanery of Cadbury to Deanery of Tiverton)





  90. Potts (E), Widow of the late G. Potts., M.P. BARDRICK, THE KING OF THE TEIGN. A Lay of South Devon. In Ten Cantos. Frontis and 3 wood engraved plates, 76pp, sm 4to, original cloth. London: Provost & Co., 1869. £22.00 reduced to £15.00




  91. Reynolds (Herbert) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT DIOCESE OF EXETER. From the Conquest to the Church Congress of 1894. With Appendix. xi + 458pp + xxvii, original cloth, partly faded, ex-lib. with stamp to verso of title-page, and residue of label to front pastedown. Exeter: H. Besley, 1895. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  92. Robinson (R.E.R) THE BLOODY ELEVENTH History of the Devonshire Regiment. Volume I: 1685-1815. Maps, plans, illusts, coloured plates, xv + 719pp, dustwrapper. The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Exeter: 1988. £18.00 reduced to £12.00




  93. Snell (Lawrence S) THE CHANTRY CERTIFICATES FOR DEVON AND THE CITY OF EXETER. Documents Towards a History of the Reformation in Devon. Frontis., 98pp, original cloth. Exeter: James Townsend and Sons, (1960) £17.00 reduced to £10.00




  94. Stewart (Robert) HANDBOOK OF THE TORQUAY FLORA; Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns Growing In and Around Torquay. With Their Respective Habitats. iv + 187pp, sm 8vo, original embossed cloth, cloth split across spine, outer hinges partly split to head and foot of spine, otherwise sound. Torquay & London: 1860. £24.00 reduced to £15.00




  95. Tiverton REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF TIVERTON. (Devonshire.) Title + pages numbered 624-630, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £12.00 reduced to £8.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.





  96. Tuckett (John) DEVONSHIRE PEDIGREES. Recorded in the Herald's Visitation of 1620; With Additions from the Harleian Manuscripts, and the Printed Collections of Westcote and Pole. Parts 1-6, with Index, (iv) + 96 + Parts 7-12, with Index, (iv) 97-216pp, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, outer hinges partly split though sound, portions chipped from head of spine, lacks lettering piece from spine, bookplate to front pastedown, and private embossed ownership name to front endpaper. Limited to 200 copies. John Russell Smith, London: 1859-61. £80.00 reduced to £62.00




  97. Ussher (W.A.E), and others THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND TORQUAY. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales. Explanation of Sheet 350. With textual illusts, 142pp, original printed wraps. First edition, London, H.M.S.O. 1903. £28.00 reduced to £16.00

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  98. Brocklebank (Joan) VICTORIAN STONE CARVERS IN DORSET CHURCHES 1856-1880. With excerpts from the reports of the consecration ceremonies in the Dorset County Chronicle and other Sources. Plates, map endpapers, 72pp, 4to, slightly faded dustwrapper. Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. 1979. £24.00 reduced to £18.00




  99. Charities THE CHARITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Selected from the Voluminous Reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales, which began the 58th Year of the Reign of Geo. III. and ended the 7th of Will. IV. Folio, 110pp + 5 - 182pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed, small strips torn from calf on corners, inner hinges partly cracked though sound, some spotting mainly to front and rear. London: Sold by James Newman. 1840. £30.00 reduced to £24.00
    * Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. Consists of 'Report of the Commissioners.... ' and 'Further Report.... ' Originally issued as blue books, this is a re-issue with a new title-page. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker.





  100. Hawkins (Desmond), editor THE GROVE DIARIES The Rise and Fall of an English Family 1809-1925. Map, plates, 274ppp, includes 3 page subscriber's list, dustwrapper, name on front endpaper. Dovecote Press, Wimbourne: 1995. £24.00 reduced to £18.00
    * The Grove family resided at Ferne House, near Shaftesbury. The diaries started with Harriet Grove who had an affair with Percy Bysshe Shelly. The other diaries in this work are by Harriet's sister Charlotte and their nephew Thomas.





  101. Lyme Regis REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF LYME REGIS. (Dorsetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1302-1316, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: 1835. £18.00 reduced to £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.





  102. Rylands (John Paul), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, By Henry St. George and Sampson Lennard, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden. With 9 plates, vi + (i) + 115pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, spine faded, and slightly rubbed, shaken, stitching pulled. With the armorial bookplate of Herbert Hanbury Smith Carington, and one other bookplate. London: Harleian Society. 1885. £32.00 reduced to £25.00




  103. Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher DORSET TUDOR SUBSIDIES Granted in 1523, 1543, 1593. xxiv + 256pp, folio, original cloth. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1982. £24.00 reduced to £19.00

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  104. Allen (Sam), Harris (Jenny), Hawkins (June), and MacCarthy (Audrey) 'A MONUMENT TO HAWKESBURY' A Village Remembered. Plan, photo illusts and line drawings, 68pp, small folio, original printed card covers, small stain to rear cover and few spots to covers. Pennington D & P Ltd., Wotton-under-Edge, 1994. £12.00 reduced to £10.00




  105. Baddeley (W. St. Clair) HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY, AT PAINSWICK. With 11 plates, vii + (1) + 70pp, sm 4to, original buckram. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd., 1902. £28.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Inscription by the author to verso of frontispiece.





  106. Bennett (James) THE HISTORY OF TEWKESBURY. With 10 illusts, 456pp, early full calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, crudely recased, resulting in a gap between spine and boards, later endpapers, covers rubbed, signs where tape was once in place across spine to hold it in place, some foxing, early name to title-page. Tewkesbury: Printed by James Bennett. 1830. £35.00 reduced to £20.00
    * The list of subscribers accounts for 305 copies.





  107. Bitton, transcribed by P. Carlyon-Britton THE REGISTERS OF BITTON. 1571 - 1674. Baptisms, 1572 - 1674. Burials, 1572 - 1668. Marriages, 1571 - 1674. vii + 150pp, untrimmed in the original wraps, lacks spine. Privately Printed for the Parish Register Society. 1900. £22.00 reduced to £15.00




  108. Blakeway (George Sheffield) THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER Its Royal Charters Of Liberties and Varying Fortunes. Frontis, double-page map and 4 plates, vii + 133pp, original cloth, fore-edges untrimmed. L.A. Smart and Son, Gloucester: 1924. £24.00 reduced to £18.00




  109. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Roland Austin TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1922. Volume 44. Illusts, folding plans, 336 + 20pp, original wraps, top outer hinge rubbed and partly split with small portion of paper missing, wraps spotty. Kendal: Printed for the Society by Titus Wilson, 1922. £16.00 reduced to £10.00
    * Includes articles on Millerd's Plan of Bristol; Excavation at Cirencester; Bristol Medical Institutions; Stanley St. Leonards; Gloucestershire Fonts, etc.





  110. Chubb (T) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1577-1911. With Biographical Notes. With 12 plates, 238 + 15 + 7pp, original printed wraps, portions missing from spine affecting title. Printed for the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1912. £20.00 reduced to £14.00




  111. 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, + 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 reduced to £24.00




  112. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. Volume 13. Illusts and diagrams, some of which are folding, 322pp, original printed wraps bound in at the rear, half calf cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib. label to front endpaper, couple of leaves slightly foxed. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1898-1901. £24.00 reduced to £16.00
    * Includes articles:- Camps at Minchinhampton; Upton Saint Leonards; Wye Valley; Roman Architecture in Britain, etc.





  113. Dyde (W) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TEWKESBURY, The Second Edition, with Considerable Additions and Corrections. Vignette engraved title-page, plan, and 4 plates, one of which shows 2 views, xxiv + (ii) + 243pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, few ink marks to top boards, covers rubbed to edges, edges of spine rubbed, lacks paper lettering piece from spine. Pasted to the rear pastedown is the label for E. Reddell, No 7. High Street, Tewkesbury, A Circulating Library. Second Edition, Tewkesbury: Printed for the Editor. 1798. £90.00 reduced to £70.00




  114. 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. £370.00 reduced to £250.00
    * 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.





  115. Fowler (Sir James K) HAYLES AND BEAULIEU A Brief History and Guide to Hayles Abbey. A Daughter-House of Beaulieu. With Maps, Ground Plans and Illustrations, some of which are folding, 84pp, 12mo, original qtr cloth, paper boards, label on top board, lacks label on spine. First edition, London: William Heinemann, 1928. £20.00 reduced to £16.00




  116. 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 reduced to £12.00
    * 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.





  117. 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 reduced to £18.00




  118. Hunter (Andrew Alexander), editor CHELTENHAM COLLEGE REGISTER 1841 - 1889. Bound without plates, xv + 469pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in early unlettered binders cloth. George Bell, London: 1890. £22.00 reduced to £14.00




  119. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1919. With short tear to map with small amount of loss, original cloth, spine faded, slightly rubbed, few small snags to head and foot of spine, short splits to outer hinges, poor quality paper browned to edges as usual. Kelly's Directories, Ltd., London: 1919. £38.00 reduced to £30.00




  120. Lee (Edwin) CHELTENHAM AND ITS RESOURCES: Mineral Waters, Climate, etc. Considered chiefly in a Sanative Point of View. 135pp + 76pp adverts, few small marks to original cloth, new spine and endpapers. London: Whitaker, 1851. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  121. 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 reduced to £30.00
    * Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... "





  122. Michell (George B) PAGES FROM THE PAST at Frampton on Severn. With 8 plates, 64pp, original printed wraps and fore-edges spotty, top wrap loose, lacks large portions from spine. Ex-lib. Soc. of Genealogist with their stamp and with 'Donor Rev. Sir Henry Denny' written to top cover. Printed by Crypt House Press, Gloucester: 1929. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  123. [Moreau (Simeon)] A TOUR TO CHELTENHAM SPA; or Gloucestershire Display'd. Containing An Account of Cheltenham, its Mineral Waters, Amusements, Public Walks, Environs, &c. the Natural History of the County of Gloucester, the City of Gloucester, and the Towns of Cirencester, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Fairford, &c. with a Correct Itinerary from Cheltenham, and a new and easy Mode of knowing The Hours for Passing the Severn at Aust and the New Passages.... 174pp + Addenda leaf, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, small light splash mark and 'Moreau' in ink to lower margin of title, small engraving pasted to verso of title-page, lacks half-title(?) First edition. Bath: Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell. 1783. £60.00 reduced to £40.00




  124. Newenham (W.T) ANTIQUATED SPOTS ROUND CHELTENHAM. With 3 woodcut illustrations, 143pp, 12mo, original cloth, gilt, cover slightly soiled, early inscription on front endpaper. Simpkin, Marshall, London: (1851) £25.00 reduced to £18.00
    * Includes:- Prestbury Camp, Bishop's Cleeve, Seven Springs, Leckhampton, and Winchcombe.





  125. 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 reduced to £35.00




  126. Richardson (L) A HANDBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF CHELTENHAM and Neighbourhood. Illusts, xii + 303pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, and pulled to head of spine, large folding map in pocket at rear, few tears and splits crudely repaired to verso, tipped onto last free endpaper is a small envelope which contains some relevant news cuttings. First edition, Cheltenham: Norman Sawyer and Co., 1904. £25.00 reduced to £15.00




  127. [Roberts (Mary)] THE ANNALS OF MY VILLAGE: Being A Calendar of Nature Every Month in the Year. Frontis, 3 plates, iv + 362 + (2) pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, recased, spine laid down, original endpapers preserved, some off-setting, early ownership inscription to front endpaper, and recipient's name to title-page, later bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. £58.00 reduced to £45.00
    * "My Village" is Sheepscombe, and not Painswick as has been sometimes stated.' see Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. 2, page 263.





  128. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume One. Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Plates, diagrams some of which are folding, four folding maps in pocket at rear, lvi + 157pp, 4to, very short tear to rear of dustwrapper, frontis slightly crinkled. H.M.S.O. London: 1976. £18.00 reduced to £14.00




  129. Rushen (Percy C) OLD TIME INVENTION In the Four Shires. Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick and Oxford. 4to, 63 + (4) page index, original cloth, partly faded, prelims spotty. Published by the author, c.1916. £38.00 reduced to £25.00
    * Not in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection. No, date, printer or publisher is given. Gives details of the various patents held such as, 'Patent No 709, dated 27 May 1756, was granted to John Wright of Lower Redbrooke, in the county of Gloucestershire, refiner, for "A New Method of Raising Steam for Working Fire Engines." The latter term was that given to steam engines before the days of Watt.... ' Includes Indices of Places, Persons and Subjects.





  130. Sawyer (John) CHELTENHAM PARISH CHURCH Its Architecture and Its History. Illusts, 124 + (ii)pp, original qtr cloth, couple of corners slightly bruised. LARGE PAPER COPY. Norman Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1903. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  131. Victoria County History, edited by William Page VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, xv + 448pp, 4to, recent cloth. First edition, Archibald Constable, London: 1907. £48.00 reduced to £35.00
    * Contains chapters on Ecclesiastical, Social and Economic History, Agriculture, Forestry, Sports, Ancient and Modern including Stag and Fox-hunting.





  132. 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 reduced to £22.00




  133. Williams (Adin) LECHLADE: Being the History of the Town, Manor, and Estates, The Priory and the Church. Frontis, xii + 118pp, sm 8vo, untrimmed in the original half cloth, marbled boards, head of spine chipped, foot of spine has approx. 1" missing. Cirencester: E.W. Savory, Steam Press, St. John Street. 1888. £40.00 reduced to £32.00

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  134. Balch (H.E) WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Period Restoration and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I. Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory. With 36 plates, and 55 figures in the text, viii + 258pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed printed paper boards, partly rubbed to edges, edges of boards lightly stained, signs where label removed from front endpaper. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1914. £75.00 reduced to £60.00




  135. Batten (John) HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF PARTS OF SOUTH SOMERSET, viz Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndston, Preston, Limington, with Notices of West Coker, and Hardington Mandeville. With plates, folding pedigree, iii + 200pp, original bevelled cloth, title slightly discoloured as usual. First edition, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London: & Whitby and Son, Yeovil, 1894. £25.00 reduced to £20.00




  136. Britton (John) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS; Including Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of the Bishops of the See of Bath & Wells. (iv) + 154pp, 8vo, original printed paper boards, lacks portions of spine, early ownership name to front pastedown. Francis & John Rivington, London & Thomas Green, Wells: 1847. £24.00 reduced to £19.00
    * This is a pocket edition of his larger illustrated work.





  137. Britton (John), and Peach (R.E.M) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BATH ABBEY CHURCH. Continued to the Present Time, with Additional Notes by R.E.M. Peach. With Six Illustrations. xix + 107pp, later half calf, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top outer hinges partly cracked, though sound, few spots and small water stain to outer edge of frontis. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £28.00 reduced to £20.00




  138. Bulleid (Arthur) and Gray (Harold St George) THE MEARE LAKE VILLAGE.... Excavations and the Relics from the Eastern Half of the West Village, 1910-33. Complete Set. Numerous plates some of which are folding. 3 volumes, xv + 105pp and xi + 108-280pp and ix + 281-419pp, 4to, original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Privately Printed at Taunton Castle: 1948-1966. £70.00 reduced to £55.00




  139. Chadwyck Healey (Charles E.H) HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare. Maps, pedigrees some of which are folding, illustrations some of which are coloured, ix + 557pp, untrimmed in the original buckram, covers partly faded, couple of corners slightly bruised. Limited to 380 Copies. 350 of which are for sale. Henry Sotheran, London: 1901. £90.00 reduced to £60.00 --- See sample text




  140. Daniel (W.E), editor THE PARISH REGISTER OF HORSINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 1558 - 1836. 217pp, loose and unbound. Frome-Selwood: Edward Green, 1907. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  141. 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 reduced to £9.00




  142. Dobbie (B.M. Willmott) AN ENGLISH RURAL COMMUNITY: Batheaston with S. Catherine. Illusts, 2 folding maps, roy 8vo, 170pp, few shorts tears to slightly worn and crinkled dustwrapper, short split and a few small portions missing to fold-over of dustwrapper. Internally sound. Bath University Press: 1969. £17.00 reduced to £14.00




  143. Easton Ladies' Guild YESTERDAY IN EASTON. To Commemorate their Ruby Anniversary. Plans, one of which is double-page, photos, and illustrated with line drawings by Michael Stewart and Sheila Barker, 80pp, original printed card covers. Easton Ladies' Guild, March,, 1980. £22.00 reduced to £14.00




  144. [Elton (A.M)] SKETCHES AND SCRAPS. Une Soiree Musicale. Une Soiree Litteraire. Une Soiree Dansante. Le Bois De Boulogne. An Ecclesiastical Scrap. 32pp, original printed card covers, covers slightly worn, lacks spine. Upper Clevedon: George Caple, "Mercury" Office, 1863. £22.00 reduced to £14.00




  145. [Falconer (Rev. Thomas)] A LETTER TO THE REV. RICHARD WARNER. 43pp, disbound. With Falconer's name added in ink by an early hand to title-page. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1804. £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Falconer questions Warner's sermon which was printed earlier in the year titled:- 'War inconsistent with Christianity.'





  146. Farbrother (John E) SHEPTON MALLET: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive, and Natural. With 9 lithographic plates, 195pp, original cloth, small portions missing from head and foot of spine, rear outer hinge split, though sound. First edition. Shepton Mallet: Albert Byrt, London: G.A. Bartlett, (1859) £20.00 reduced to £14.00




  147. Flower (J.B), printer RULES OF THE SOMERTON RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS. Established A.D. 1860. 7pp, 12mo, original slightly dull printed wraps, pencil notes to verso of wraps. Somerton; J.B. Flower, (1860) £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * With a list of the names of Captains, Sergeants and Corporals. Not in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis.





  148. George (W) and (R), printer SOMERSET. COPY OF THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE. Dated the 7th of October, 1864. Acting Justices are distinguished by asterisks prefixed to their names. 47pp, original cloth, top outer and front inner hinge partly split, some slight spotting. W. and R. George, Wells: 1864. £22.00 reduced to £12.00




  149. Hamilton (Archibald) THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. With Notes on those who hunted them. Illusts, xvii + 363pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, few ink spots to rear board, relevant news cuttings tipped on to front endpapers First edition, London: Horace Cox, 1907. £25.00 reduced to £20.00




  150. Hancock (Frederick) THE PARISH OF SELWORTHY in the County of Somerset. Some notes on its History. With 9 plates, 6 pedigrees, 5 of which are folding, + 308pp, original cloth, covers damp spotted, spine faded. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1897. £70.00 reduced to £50.00




  151. Harbin (S.W.B) MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 3 plates of Arms, 203pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, couple of neat repairs to verso of top wrap. Taunton: Published for the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society. 1939. £25.00 reduced to £16.00




  152. Hugo (Thomas) HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL OF S. MARGARET, TAUNTON. With 2 plates, xx + 40pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. Limited to 50 copies. J.R. Smith, London: F. May, Taunton: 1860. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  153. Jeboult (Edward) A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF WEST SOMERSET. Description of the Valley of the Tone & the History of the Town of Taunton. Illustrated by a New process of Photography and Heliotype. Illusts, [iv] + 132 + [ii] + 121 + 94pp, 4to, original cloth boards, later cloth spine and endpaprs, usual occasional foxing. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £32.00 reduced to £25.00




  154. Jennings (James) OBSERVATIONS OF SOME OF THE DIALECTS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, Particularly Somersetshire: with A Glossary of Words now in use there; and Poems and other Pieces exemplifying the Dialect. xxiv + 191pp, 12mo, untrimmed in early paper boards, slightly rubbed to edges, small strip missing from head and foot of spine, lacks lettering piece from spine, later endpapers. First edition. Printed by Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, London: 1825. £55.00 reduced to £40.00




  155. MacMullen (Mrs Frederic) TAUNTON, or the Town We Live In. An Historical Sketch with Conversations. For the Use of Young Persons. With 6 engraved plates, iii + 175pp, 12mo, original cloth, partly faded, cloth chipped to head of spine, rear outer hinge split for most of its length, slightly shaken, name to front endpaper. First edition, Longmans & Co, London: Frederick May, Taunton: 1858. £22.00 reduced to £16.00




  156. Maxwell-Lyte (H.C.) DUNSTER AND ITS LORDS 1066-1881. With A Descriptive Sketch Of Dunster Castle by G.T. Clarke, and a chapter on The Siege and Surrender Of Dunster Castle by E. Green. Numerous plates and plans, viii + 145pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, usual occasional foxing, slightly shaken, small record office stamp to front endpaper. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. First edition, Exeter: Printed for Private Circulation, William Pollard, 1882. £65.00 reduced to £50.00




  157. 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 reduced to £10.00




  158. Penley (Belville S) THE BATH STAGE: A History of Dramatic Representations in Bath. Illustrated. xv + 196pp including 14pp. of adverts, original cloth. London: William Lewis & Son, and Bath: 1892. £12.00 reduced to £9.00




  159. Rawle (E.J) ANNALS OF THE ROYAL FOREST OF EXMOOR. Compiled Chiefly from Documents in the Record Office together with some Account of the Forest Laws and Charters and Officers. Frontis, plate, coloured double-page map, xi + 165pp, folio, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed boards, lacks spine, edges slightly rubbed, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and stamp and numbers to verso of title-page. LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED LARGE PAPER COPIES. Initialled by the publishers. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1893. £35.00 reduced to £20.00




  160. Rogers (T.E) RECORDS OF YARLINGTON: Being the History of a Country Village. 94pp, sm 4to, uncut, original cloth, partly faded. Tipped in at the front is a handwritten letter, signed by the author, on one side of an 8vo leaf. First edition, London: Elliott Stock, 1890. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  161. Ross (David Melville) LANGPORT AND ITS CHURCH. The Story of the Ancient Borough, with References to Neighbouring Parishes. Illusts, xv + 381pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, early ownership inscriptions to front endpaper. First edition, The Herald Press, Langport: 1911. £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  162. Rutter (John) DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. And of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with A Geological Sketch of the District. Illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed plates, folding coloured map, vignettes, 349pp, later qtr calf, leather label on spine, paper boards. Firset edition, Printed and Published by the Author, Shaftesbury: Longman, Rees and Co., London: 1829. £80.00 reduced to £65.00




  163. 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 reduced to £20.00




  164. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and Douglas LL. Hayward. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 1. 159pp, original cloth, short split to cloth on top outer hinge, bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 copies. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1898. £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Aller, Charlton Adam, Charlton Mackrell, High Ham, Huish Episcopi, Kingsdon, Long Sutton, Muchelney, Northover, and Langport.





  165. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and E.H. Bates. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 4. 159pp, original cloth, with an armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 copies. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1902. £30.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry usually up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Ashill (up to 1815), Ile Brewers, Beer Crocombe, Ilton (up to 1811), Whitestaunton (up to 1811), Stocklinch Magdalen (up to 1776), Stocklinch Ottersey, Barrington, Shepton Beauchamp, Buckland St. Mary, Wraxall, Packington, and Swell.





  166. Weaver (Rev. F.W), and Bates (Rev. E.H), editor INDEX TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Including a Supplementary Index (Alphabetical and Ordinary) to all the Armorial Bearings mentioned in the work. Contributed by Lt-Col. J.R. Bramble. iv + (4) + 325pp, 4to, fore-edges untrimmed in the original cloth, endpapers and title-page spotty, few black marks to spine, edges lightly rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, Athenaeum Press, Fore Street. 1898. £75.00 reduced to £50.00
    * An invaluable work that unlocks the wealth of information in Collinson's work.





  167. Woodward (G.H), editor CALENDAR OF SOMERSET CHANTRY GRANTS, 1548-1603. xxi + 143pp, includes a 17 page index, original cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 77. Taunton: 1982. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  168. Worth (R.N) TOURISTS' GUIDE TO SOMERSETSHIRE: Rail and Road. With folding map, plan, 168 + 32pp of publishers adverts, 12mo, original cloth. Fourth Edition, London: Edward Stamford, 1890. £18.00 reduced to £12.00




  169. Yeovil Corporation THE REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. Appointed by the Inhabitants of the Town to further Municipal Reform.... to which is added an Appendix. Pamphlet, 26pp, stitched as issued, slight evidence of once being folded. Printed and Published by W. Porter, Yeovil: 1835. £24.00 reduced to £12.00

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  170. 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, original cloth, recased with spine laid down and new endpapers. London: George Bell. 1851. £25.00 reduced to £16.00
    * Includes chapters on:- Silbury Hill; Avebury; Sculptures at Wilton House; Stonehenge, etc.





  171. 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), untrimmed 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. £120.00 reduced to £80.00




  172. Brooke (Henry), intro. ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY Volume 1. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England) With 3 folding maps in pocket at rear, 104plates, numerous figures. 3 folding illusts, lxiv + 199pp, 4to, few short tears and small portion from rear of dustwrapper. H.M.S.O. 1980. £16.00 reduced to £12.00




  173. 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 reduced to £10.00




  174. Crabbe (Rev. George), Trowbridge THE CHURCH RESTORED, Including by permission, The Church, a Poem, by The Rev. George Crabbe, L.L.B. late Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts. With 7 steel engravings, iv + 49pp, sm 4to, original partly faded cloth, lacks portions of spine, front inner hinge cracked, ex-lib labels and tear to front endpaper, there are no stamps. London: John Murray, 1848. £9.00 reduced to £7.00
    * Includes a short history of Trowbridge and its charities.





  175. 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) £40.00 reduced to £30.00




  176. [Ingram (Rev. James)] MEMORIALS OF THE PARISH OF CODFORD ST. MARY, in the County of Wilts; containing Particulars of the Church. With frontis and 6 plates, 2 of which are mounted and with cut down margins, iv + 50pp, later cloth, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, small stamp to title, and number to foot of spine. Oxford: Printed by T. Combe for the Author. 1844. £26.00 reduced to £18.00




  177. 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 reduced to £9.00




  178. 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, early half calf, later calf spine, leather label, marbled boards, edges of boards lightly rubbed, frontis, title and table browned and spotty, otherwise clean. Includes 4pp list of subscribers. Tetbury: Printed (for the Editor) by J.G. Goodwyn. 1805. £75.00 reduced to £58.00




  179. Smith (James) WILTON AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. With illustrations on wood by W.F. Tiffin, xiv + 222pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, partly faded, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper with name of presenter scribbled over. Salisbury: George Brown, and London: J.B. Nicholls, 1851. £18.00 reduced to £14.00 --- See sample text




  180. Snell (Michael) CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS OF SALISBURY: 600 years of skill and invention, Illusts, xix + 280pp, 4to, worn dustwrapper, signs where large label removed from front endpaper. Hobnob Press, Salisbury: 1986. £16.00 reduced to £12.00




  181. Swayne (H.J.F) CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF S. EDMUND AND S. THOMAS, SARUM 1443 - 1702. With other documents. Large folding frontis, xl + 403pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, verso of frontis partly browned. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers. 1896. £25.00 reduced to £20.00




  182. Victoria County History, edited by R.B. Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, 245pp, small folio, original cloth, university label to front pastedown and signs where 2 small labels removed from front endpaper. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1955. £25.00 reduced to £18.00
    * Includes chapters on:- The Wiltshire Domesday; Anglo Saxon Art; Anglo Saxon Wiltshire, etc.





  183. Wheeler (W.A) SARUM CHRONOLOGY. A Brief Record of the Most Salient Events in the History of Salisbury. 80pp, sm 8vo, few small spots to the original cloth. Reprinted from the Salisbury and Winchester Journal. Salisbury: 1889. £20.00 reduced to £15.00




  184. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 6. Plates, pages numbered, 396pp, early half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled boards and endpapers, top board just held by strings. Devizes: Henry Bull, 1860. £20.00 reduced to £15.00
    * Articles include:- Great Bedwyn; Ornithology of Wilts; Bishop Canning's; Broughton Gifford; William Darell of Littlecote; Duchy of Lancaster Manors in Wiltshire, etc.


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  185. Addington (A.C) THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. The Descendants of King James VI of Scotland James I of England. Volume 2 of 3 only. Illusts, xiii + 409pp, folio, original cloth, slightly chipped to head of spine. Charles Skilton, London: 1971. £20.00 reduced to £16.00




  186. Alford (D.P) A TALE OF TRESCO, AND THE TAVISTOCK CHIMES, and Other Poems, Mostly of the West Country. 72pp, 12mo, original cloth. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  187. Bradley (A.G) HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell, double-page map, xiii + 332 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, spine slightly faded, few spots to cloth. Reprinted, London: MacMillan 1908. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  188. Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall PARTICULARS OF FREEHOLD ESTATES in the Parishes of Brentor, Devon, and Davidstow, Cornwall, comprising the Farms of Liddaton, Telay, Tresoke, Tippaton & Trevivian. In all about 637 Acres, with One-fourth the Manor of Penpont and Treglasta.... To be sold by Public Auction August 24th, 1918. 12pp, folio, original printed wraps. 1918. £15.00 reduced to £20.00
    * Included the Chief Rents of the Manor and Mineral Rights over 3,000 Acres of waste land.





  189. Brett (Colin J), editor CROWN REVENUES FROM SOMERSET AND DORSET, 1605 333pp, original cloth, in a pocket at the rear is an accompanying CD. Somerset Record Society Volume 96. Printed for Subscribers Only. 2012. £16.00 reduced to £12.00




  190. 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 reduced to £40.00




  191. Collins (J.H) A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. 10 plates showing 246 figs. of crystals. 72 + 108 + [x]pp, slight wear to top of dustwrapper, bookplate to front endpaper. Originally published 1871, Reprinted Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1969. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  192. 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 reduced to £50.00




  193. Cotton (W) and Dallas (J) NOTES AND GLEANINGS: A Monthly Magazine devoted chiefly to subjects connected with the Counties of DEVON & CORNWALL. 5 volumes bound in 2. All published. Textual illusts, 3 folding pedigrees, folding facsimile. Uncut in the original cloth, very slightly rubbed, rear board of one volume partly damp stained, internally sound, top edges gilt, the last 2 volumes are bound without their titles, as usual. Exeter: William Pollard, 1888-1892. £85.00 reduced to £65.00
    * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Frederic Wintle. Includes articles:- Sir Francis Drake; Launceston Free School; Dartmoor Antiquities; St. Neot, Liskeard; Moretonhampstead; Pomeray of Tregony; Courtenay family; Okehampton Apparition, etc.





  194. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 7. From January 1912 to October 1913. Part I Miscellaneous. Plates, some of which are folding, 304pp, untrimmed in original cloth. Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913. £16.00 reduced to £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Courtenay Arms; Exeter Castle; Bells of North Bovey; Branscombe Church; Bideford Witches; Rectors of Talaton; Coinage Hall of Lostwithiel; Kirkham of Feniton, Westofer of Yardbury, Colyton, and Drake of Yardbury; Family of Pyne; Cornish Folklore: The Piskies, etc, etc.





  195. 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. Illusts, 378pp, recent cloth, lower corner of top board bruised, old spine laid down, private library label to front pastedown. First edition, London: Chatto and Windus. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1902. £18.00 reduced to £12.00




  196. 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 reduced to £14.00




  197. Forster (T.E), editor MEMOIR OF THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT AND RELIEF FUND. Prepared by request of the General Committee of the Fund. With 12 plates and illustrations, viii + 133pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, occasional underlining in crayon. Andrew Reid and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1912. £46.00 reduced to £25.00




  198. Foster (Sandys B) THE PEDIGREES OF Dickinson of Gildersome and Coalbrookdale. Darby of Coalbrookdale, Salop. Darby of Stoke Court, Bucks. Fowler of Melksham, Wilts. Rathbone of Liverpool. Pages numbered 51 - 77, 4to, original cloth boards, later cloth spine, corners, and endpapers, titled on top board, boards slightly soiled. Printed for Private Circulation. Christmas, [London:] 1890. £48.00 reduced to £30.00
    * 'It is twenty years since my father compiled the first edition of this book.... ' from the Preface. This is an off-print from the larger work.





  199. Harley (J.B), and O'Donoghue (Yolande), intro. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Scale 1" to 1 mile. A reproduction of the 110 sheets of the survey in early state in 10 volumes. Volume 2. DEVON, CORNWALL AND WEST SOMERSET. Coloured frontis, illusts, xliv + 33 double-page maps, folio, dustwrapper. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1977. £25.00 reduced to £20.00




  200. Jukes (J. Beete) ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GROUPING OF THE ROCKS OF NORTH DEVON AND WEST SOMERSET: xxii + 15pp, coloured map and section, some foxing to plates, disbound. Printed for circulation among the Fellows of the Geological Society of London. Dublin: R.D. Webb, 1867. £12.00 reduced to £8.00




  201. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE 1930-1. Lacks map of Devon, with long tear to Somerset map, 47 (adverts) + xxvii + 1256 (adverts) + 28 + xvi + 803pp, original cloth, worn, dull and partly faded, top outer hinge partly split, inner hinges pulled. Kelly's Directories, London: 1930. £75.00 reduced to £50.00




  202. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY 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 reduced to £100.00




  203. 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 reduced to £25.00
    * Extracted from his work entitled 'The Natural History of England.... '





  204. Matthews (John) & Matthews (George), editors EXTRA VOLUME "YEAR BOOKS OF PROBATES" (from 1630). Sentences and Complete Index Nominum (Probates and Sentences) for the Years 1630-1639. 171pp, original cloth, very slight waterstaining to the top corner of approx. 10 leaves. Issued to Subscribers, London: 1907. £18.00 reduced to £12.00




  205. Morris's MORRIS'S BUSINESS DIRECTORY LONDON Suburban, Provincial and Foreign Trade Guide 1926. Sixty-Fourth Edition. x + 1503pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed to edges, few marks to boards, inner hinges weak. London: J.R. Stacey, 1926. £65.00 reduced to £45.00




  206. Munden (M.A), editor THE RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1851. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 29. XV + 428pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of persons. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2015. £24.00 reduced to £14.00




  207. Pevsner (Nikolaus) NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL. (Buildings of England Series) Photographic Illusts, double-page map, 514pp, dustwrapper. Reprinted, Yale University Press, London: 2002. £25.00 reduced to £15.00
    * Includes Bath and Wells.





  208. [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 reduced to £95.00




  209. Sharpe (Henry), printer A CONCISE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF KENILWORTH CASTLE, From its Foundation to the Present Time. The Sixteenth Edition with Additions. Engraved folding plate and folding plan, iv + 36 + iv, sm 8vo, original printed wraps, few small chips to spine, small amount of light foxing. Warwick: Printed by Henry Sharpe, and Sold by the Booksellers in Warwick, Coventry, and at the Principal Inns in Kenilworth. 1825. £25.00 reduced to £15.00




  210. Skinner (John), edited and introduced by Roger Jones WEST COUNTRY TOUR being the Diary of a Tour through the Counties of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in 1797. Map, illusts, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon: 1985. £15.00 reduced to £10.00




  211. Smith (G.C. Moore), Revised by P.H. Reaney THE FAMILY OF WITHYPOLL With special reference to their Manor of Christchurch, Ipswich. And some notes on the allied families of Thorne, Harper, Lucar, and Devereux. Frontis, illusts, folding pedigree, 100pp, 4to, original half morocco, cloth boards, spine slightly faded. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Official Publication No 34. 1936. £60.00 reduced to £20.00




  212. Society of Antiquaries of London, publishers ARCHAEOLOGIA: or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Volume 37. With 6 plates, 315pp, 4to, early cloth, occasional foxing mainly to front and rear. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1857. £35.00 reduced to £25.00
    * Includes articles:- Bell-Tower of Palace of Westminster; Anglo-Saxon Remains at Kemble, in North Wiltshire; Possessions of the Abbey of Malmesbury, etc.





  213. Ussher (W.A.E) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND PLYMOUTH AND LISKEARD. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 348. With notes on the petrology of the igneous rocks by J.S. Flett. Plates and textual illusts, 156pp, recent cloth, with the original printed wraps bound in. First edition, London: Printed for H.M.S.O. 1907. £30.00 reduced to £20.00




  214. [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. £200.00 reduced to £160.00
    * 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.





  215. Weaver (Frederic Weaver), editor THE VISITATION OF HEREFORDSHIRE. Made by Robert Cooke, Clarencieus In 1569. viii + 107pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, portion torn from spine, partly affecting lettering, neatly repaired with a new portion of cloth. Exeter: Printed for the Editor by W. Pollard, 1885. £50.00 reduced to £40.00

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