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  1. Anderson (Charles A CITY AND ITS CINEMAS. Illusts, double-page map, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press Ltd., Bristol: 1983. £6.00
    * 'This book could be sub-titled:- The Rise and Fall of Bristol's Picture Houses.'

  2. Ayres (William F) THE HIGHBURY STORY. Highbury Chapel Bristol. The First Fifty Years. Illusts, 103pp, original card covers. Independent Press, Ltd., London, 1963. £8.00
  3. Ball (Roger), Parkin (Di) and Mills (Steve) 100 FISHPONDS RD Life and Death in a Victorian Workhouse. 182pp, original pictorial card covers. British Radical History Group, 2015. £8.00
  4. Barry (Jonathan), and Morgan (Kenneth), Village editor REFORMATION AND REVIVAL IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL. xiv + 183pp, original cloth. Volume 45. Bristol Record Society. 1994. £9.00
  5. Board (M.E.) THE STORY OF THE BRISTOL STAGE 1490 - 1925. Frontis, 57pp, 12mo, original cloth, endpapers browned as usual. Loosley inserted is small sheet printed on one side stating the aims of the 'Actors Church Union - Bristol Branch.' with contacts details for R. Castle, Queen Square. The Fountain Press, London: (1925) £12.00
  6. Brown (Harold G) BRISTOL ENGLAND. With 25 plates, 232pp, original cloth partly faded and slightly rubbed, lacks dustwrapper. Rankin Bros, Bristol: Preface dated, 1946. £4.00
  7. Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 2: The Churchwardens' Accounts. viii + 388pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Volume 53. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £5.00
  8. Burroughs (R) EBENEZER 1795 - 1895. A Centenary History of Old King Street Wesleyan Chapel, Bristol. Frontis, folding tables, 95 + (16)pp, 12mo, original wraps, lacks most of spine and rear wrap. W. Crofton Hemmons, Bristol: 1895. £8.00
  9. Cheesley (David) WAR ON THE HILL The Bristol Blitz and its effect on the people of Barton Hill. Illusts, map on rear cover, 52pp, original pictorial card covers. R.P. Printing, 1987. £8.00
  10. Downend Local History Society ALL OUR YESTERDAYS Memories of Downend, Mangotsfield, and Staple Hill. Maps, illusts, 225pp, original pictorial card covers. Downend Local History Society, 198-. £8.00
  11. Grinsell (L.V) PREHISTORIC BRISTOL. The Prehistory of the Lower Bristol Avon. Plans, 21pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1969. £4.00
  12. Hudson (John) THE MANSION HOUSE Clifton. Coloured and black and white illusts, (20)pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Guild of Guardians of Bristol, Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1993. £6.00
  13. Jackson (Edward) STUDY IN DEMOCRACY, an Account of the Rise and Progress of Industrial Co-operation in Bristol. Illusts, xiii + 606pp, original embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, inner hinges weak. Co-operative Society's Printing Works, Manchester: 1911. £8.00
  14. Matthews (W) THE NEW HISTORY, SURVEY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF BRISTOL, OR COMPLETE GUIDE, 1794.... With.... Matthews's NEW BRISTOL DIRECTORY FOR THE YEAR, 1793-4. Containing an Alphabetical List of the Corporation, Clergy, Merchants, &c. &c. of the City of Bristol, with its Environs. To which are added Lists of the Mail Coaches, Waggons.... Portrait frontis, folding plan, 112 + 105pp, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, 2 ownership names to front endpapers. Facsimile Reprint. Bristol: (1898) £18.00
  15. Matthews (Robert), Richards (Frank) SOUVENIR PROGRAMME. 120th Anniversary Celebrations Westbury on Trym Village Hall. Illusts, adverts, 8pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, small label to rear cover. 1989. £5.00
  16. Owen (Hugh) TWO CENTURIES OF CERAMIC ART IN BRISTOL: Being a History of the Manufacture of 'The True Porcelain' by Richard Champion.... with an Account of the Delft, Earthenware and Enamel Glass Works, from Original Sources. With engraved plates, one of which is coloured, facsimiles, wood-engravings in text, xxiv + 420pp, roy 8vo, early half morocco, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, recased with the spine laid down, retaining endpapers. First edition, London: Bell and Daldy. 1873. £120.00
  17. Ponsford (M.W) EXCAVATION AT GREYFRIARS BRISTOL Illusts, plan, (20)pp, original pictorial card covers. City of Bristol Museum, c.1973. £4.00
  18. Saywell (Ruby J) MARY CARPENTER OF BRISTOL. Illusts, 20pp, original printed card covers. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1964. £4.00
  19. Stembridge (P.K), editor THE GOLDNEY FAMILY A BRISTOL MERCHANT DYNASTY. x + 173pp, original cloth. Volume 43. Bristol Record Society. 1998. £14.00
  20. Stephenson (David), and Willmott (Jilly) THE DINGS AND ST PHILIPS (Images of England Series.) Illusts, plans, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, ex-lib., with covers laid down and covered with a transparent plastic sheet, usual labels to front endpaper and title-page. Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2005. £4.00
  21. Vinter (Dorothy) SOME COALPITS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRISTOL AND KINGSWOOD. With 4 plates, map, 24pp, original card covers. Printed by F. Bailey, Dursley: 1964. £10.00
  22. Whitchurch Local History Society STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF WHITCHURCH. Part 2. With illusts, maps, 88pp, stapled in the original printed card covers, plastic clip on spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1995. £15.00
  23. Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL PAST AND PRESENT. A pictorial record of the ancient City of Bristol. Numerous illusts, (51)pp, small folio, original pictorial card covers, crease to lower corner of top wrap. Oxford Illustrated Press Ltd and Reece Winstone. 1976. £12.00

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    Cornwall --- 50% DISCOUNT when 3 or more items purchased
  24. 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. £220.00
    * An extensive work with a large number of biographical notes of prominent people in the county.

  25. Bond (Thos.) NOTE ON ROHESIA DE LA POMERAI. 3pp, original wraps. Reprinted from No. 33 Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1887. £4.00
  26. Cameron (Dex) WHERE ARE YOU TO? The true story of a family's new life in Cornwall. 377pp, original pictorial card covers, lower corner of top cover creased, signed by the author on the title-page. Clear Water Books, Liskeard: 2002. £8.00
    * They settled in a valley in south-east Cornwall in 1998.

  27. Fairclough (A) THE STORY OF CORNWALL'S RAILWAYS. Illusts, 47pp, original pictorial card covers, slight damage to surface of rear cover where label partly removed. Tor Mark Press, Truro: (1970). £4.00
  28. Frost (Terry) TERRY FROST Prints 1948-1990. Coloured illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books, London: 1990. £6.00
  29. Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL. 3. Around Redruth. Illusts, folding map, 52pp, original pictorial card covers. Originally published 1962. Reprinted, Forge Books, Bracknell: 1979. £15.00
  30. Ince (Catherine), selected and edited by LIFE IN CORNWALL 1939-42. Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper; Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Truran, Truro: 2001 £6.00
  31. Ivey (W.F) MEMORIES OF OLD HELSTON AND PORTHLEVEN. Photographic illusts with descriptive captions, (88)pp, oblong folio, original pictorial card covers, name to top cover, foot of title-page spotty. Helston Printers, c.197- £12.00
  32. 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. £60.00
  33. Moncrieff (E.R), editor BLACK'S GUIDE TO CORNWALL. Folding map in pocket at rear, x + 188 + 88pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth. lightly rubbed, couple of short tears and some splits to folds in maps. Twenty-first edition, Adam and Charles Black, London: 1911. £6.00
  34. Monk (Wendy) JOHN GILL OF PENRYN. Illusts, 76pp, roy 8vo, few short tears and splits to dustwrapper, light spotting to prelims, presentation inscription to front endpaper. E.J. Rickard, Plymouth: (1971) £16.00
    * Gill was a Quaker and pacifist, he founded the Penryn Advertiser and when he retired he toured round the country preaching non violence.

  35. Newquay Old Cornwall Society NEWQUAY'S PICTORIAL PAST. With map, and 65 illusts, with captions, one per page, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, some spotting to first, last leaf, and fore-edges. Newquay Old Cornwall Society, c.1990. £4.00
  36. [Paris (J.A)] A GUIDE TO THE MOUNT'S BAY AND THE LAND'S END; Comprehending the Topography, Botany, Agriculture, Fisheries, Antiquities, Mining, Mineralogy and Geology of Western Cornwall. Second Edition To which is added a dialogue on the peculiar advantages of the climates of Penzance, Devonshire, and the Southern Parts of Europe. By a Physician. Engraved and printed title-pages, textual illusts, frontis, ix + 272pp, 12mo, early marbled boards, leather label on spine, light water stain of approx. 1" to foot of frontis and engraved title-page. London: Printed and Published by W. Phillips, 1824. £80.00
  37. Payton (Philip) CORNWALL. Coloured and black and white illusts, coloured double-page map, vii + 310pp, 4to, dustwrapper, ink note to front endpaper. Alexander Associates, Fowey: 1996. £16.00
  38. Perranporth PERRANPORTH A spot in the Sun North Cornwall. Illusts, adverts, 64pp, 12mo, slightly dusty original pictorial card covers, small address label to title-page. Perranporth Chamber of Commerce, n.d. c.195- £6.00
  39. Pollock (John) A VERY CORNISH PRACTICE. a discursive story of a firm of lawyers, now known as Nalders, over 200 years. Illusts, 131pp, original pictorial card covers. J.B. Pollock, Truro: 2001. £12.00
  40. Pool (P.A.S) THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF PENZANCE. With 19 plates, textual illusts, [xii] + 291pp, dustwrapper covered with a loose plastic sleeve. Published by the Corporation of Penzance: 1974. £16.00
  41. Pounds (Norman J.G), editor THE PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Part II. (Isles of Scilly - West Antony and Manors in Devon). With folding map, 131 - 271pp, original card covers. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 27. Torquay: 1984. £6.00
  42. Prynn (Edward) NO PROBLEM The Story of a Cornishman. Part II. Illusts, 92pp, original pictorial card covers, slightly rubbed, short crease to top corner of top cover. Tabb House, Padstow: 1982. £6.00
    * He Lived at St Merryn, near Padstow.

  43. Riddle (Christopher) 'SO USEFUL AN UNDERTAKING' A History of the Royal Cornwall Show 1793 - 1993. With a Foreword by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. Numerous illusts, ix + 361pp, dustwrapper, ex-lib. stamp to foot of title-page and fragment of label stuck to front endpaper. Published by the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association. 1993. £4.00
  44. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1884. Folding tables and plates, original printed wraps, partly faded, name in ink on top wrap, spine partly chipped. Falmouth: Lake & Co, Truro: Heard & Sons, 1884. £12.00
    * Includes:- Florida Main-Lode, Cardiganshire, etc.

  45. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1890. Original wraps partly faded, name on top wrap, one section loosening. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1890. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Decline of Fisheries; Education, etc.

  46. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 1, Part 3 - 1911. Plates, original wraps, spine darkened and slightly chipped at head and foot. Penryn: F. Chegwidden, 1911. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Mining Industry of Western Australia; Cornwall and Brittany; Macro-Lepidoptera of Falmouth and District, etc.

  47. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. New Series Volume VI. Part I - 1927. Illusts, original printed wraps, spotting and staple stains to wraps, top corner of top wrap missing, few marks to wraps. Camborne Printers: 1927. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- China Clay Industry; War Prisoners at Falmouth and District, etc.

  48. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1955. Plate, original wraps, name in ink to top wrap. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1955. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Falconry in Cornwall; Archaeology in Cornwall, etc.

  49. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1960. Original wraps, staples slightly rusty. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., Ltd. 1960. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Fishing in West Cornwall; Cornish Mammals; Percy Seymour. A Biography, etc.

  50. Royal Institution of Cornwall FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. xvipp, original printed wraps. Truro: Heard and Sons, 1865. £4.00
    * This is the introduction only.

  51. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, xviiipp, original printed wraps. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1868. £4.00
    * This is the introduction only.

  52. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Radford (Charles Ralegh) JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 1. Appendix 1951. REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT CASTLE DORE. Illusts, 119pp, lacks wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1951. £16.00
  53. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL No 96. New Series Volume 3. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 101-279, original wraps, wraps have been glued down ta inner margin later, foot of top wrap ragged. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1959. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Ornithology in Cornwall; Wheal Alfred; Cornish Agriculture; Penheleg Manuscript, etc.

  54. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL Supplement, 1960. Map, plans, illusts, 26pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1960. £8.00
    * Contains articles on:- Treliske, and Pendeen Earthworks.

  55. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 104. New Series Volume 5. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 205-296pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1967. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Engines; Animal Remains from Nor-Nour, Isles of Scilly; Coast and Cliff-Names of Gwithian, etc.

  56. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 1. Illusts, 80pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1969. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Potters and Pewterers; Sara Gregor of Trewarthenick, etc.

  57. Royal Institution of Cornwall, compiled by P.A.S. Pool JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL INDEX 1907-1977. 31pp, original wraps, top corner of top wrap slightly creased. R.I.C., Truro: 1979. £5.00
  58. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 9, part 1, 1982. Plate, 82pp, original vard covers, slightly rubbed to edges, top cover creased. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1982. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- The Railway in Cornwall 1835-1914; Cornish Chartists; Education by Charity in 18th century Cornwall, etc.

  59. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series 2, Volume 1, part 1, 1991. Plates, plan, 99pp, original card covers, short crease to top cover. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1991. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Bench-ends; Arundell Archive; Runaway Apprentices in the 18th and 19th centuries, etc.

    * 'The protestors hit on the inspired and romantic idea of sending their petition for the survival of the village directly to the Houses of Parliament on board a Newlyn fishing boat, the Rosebud.'

  60. Smith (Emma) THE GREAT WESTERN BEACH A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars. 261pp, original pictorial card covers. Bloomsbury, London: 2008. £4.00
  61. St Ives BOROUGH OF ST. IVES St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Lelant. Guide 1958. Illusts, some in colour, including folding map loosely inserted, adverts, 128pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, small private ownership stamp to title-page. St. Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1958. £4.00
  62. St Ives ST IVES The gem of the Cornish Riviera. Borough of St Ives Carbis Bay and Lelant Official Guide. Coloured and black white illusts, adverts, 163pp, original pictorial card covers. St Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1967. £4.00
  63. [Trenhaile (J)] RECREATIONS IN RHYME, by a Cornubian. With a portrait frontis., of Dolly Pentreath, 264 + 4pp list of subscribers, recent half calf, cloth sides, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, marbled endpapers. With the label of John Blowey to front pastedown. Longman, Rees, Orme.... London, and W. Byers, Devonport: 1834. £85.00
  64. Trevithick (Richard) RICHARD TREVITHICK 13 April, 1771 - 22 April, 1833. Service in Truro Cathedral 13 April 1971. 8pp, original card covers. Service arranged by The Trevithick Society, 1971. £5.00
  65. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 30. August 1980. Illusts, 9pp, sm folio, stapled. 1980. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Wheal Jane; Stannary Law, etc.

  66. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 7. 1979-80. Illusts, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 1979-80. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Angarack smelting House; Cornish Copper Company; South Wheal Francis, etc.

  67. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 27. 2000. Illusts, 105pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 2000. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- St. Michael's Mount Tramway; Morvah Consols Mine; Giew Mine; Severn Tunnel pumping Engines, etc.

  68. Vaughan (John) THE NEWQUAY BRANCH and its Branches. Illusts, 192pp, 4to, slightly crinkled dustwrapper. Haynes Oxford Publishing Co., 1991. £20.00
  69. West (James) ST. BREOCK AND WADEBRIDGE. A Contribution to a History of Parish and Town. 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1991. £15.00
  70. Williams (H.V) CORNWALL'S OLD MINES. Illusts, 46pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription to front endpaper. Tor Mark Press, Truro: c.1973. £4.00

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  71. Axminster ECCLESIASTICA, Or A Book of Remembrance Wherein the Rise, Constitution, Rule, Order, and Discipline of the Church of Christ, ordinarily Assembling at Wyecroft, in the Parish of Axminster, is faithfully Recorded. Together with the most Remarkable Occurrences and signall Providences which have attended the same from the first Foundation thereof. By the Order & Appointment of the Church. 131pp, 12mo, original limp cloth, slightly rubbed and with a few damp spots to top corners of boards, internally clean, inner hinges cracked. First edition, J. Townsend Printer, Exeter: (1874) £28.00
    * Includes 'a Catalogue of the Names of such as were Members of the Church, Actually in fellowship when it was first Agreed by them that this Church Register should be kept.... '

  72. Besley (H) A VISIT TO EXETER AND ITS VICINITY. Including an Account of The Cathedral, and a direction to the Walks, Rides, and Excursions in the Neighbourhood. With 2 engraved plates, one of which is folding, lacks one plate, 48pp, sm. 8vo, original printed wraps, lightly rubbed, few small marks to top wrap, spine chipped at foot. Extracted from the Route Book of Devon. Printed and Published by Henry Besley, Exeter: c.1860. £16.00
  73. Besley (T), printer, publisher THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING CHARITIES; containing that part which relates to the COUNTY OF DEVON. Volume 1 only. 334pp, untrimmed in the original paper boards, paper label on spine, top board held by strings, head and foot of spine slightly chipped. Printed and Published by T. Besley. Exeter. 1826. £25.00
    * Contains the Hundreds of Bampton, Budleigh East, Budleigh West, Cliston, Halberton, Hayridge, Ottery St. Mary, Tiverton, Witheridge, Axminster, Colyton, Clyston, Hemyock, Coleridge, Ermington, Lifton, Plympton, Roborough, Plymouth, Stanborough, and Tavistock.

  74. Boggis (Rev. R.J.E.) A HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. xvi + 635pp, original cloth lightly rubbed and slightly spotty. Exeter: William Pollard, 1922. £45.00
    * Loosely inserted is a typed letter, dated March 1973, signed by Margaret Reed to a Mr George requesting help with some research she was doing for her book on Pilton. Her book was published c.1977.

  75. Boundy (Wyndham S) BUSHELL AND HARMAN OF LUNDY. Illusts, map, 95pp, 12mo, lacks dustwrapper, first few leaves slightly creased. First edition, Grenville, Bideford: 1961. £6.00
  76. Bray (Mrs) THE BORDERS OF THE TAMAR AND THE TAVY; Their Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, Scenery, Antiquities, Eminent Persons, etc. In a series of letters to the late Robert Southey, Esq. Textual illusts, 2 volumes, xiii + 457 & (iv) + 444pp, original cloth, edges of boards rubbed, approx two 1" portions missing from spine of volume 1, partly affecting title and a 1cm portion chipped from foot of spine, cloth on outer hinges split, though sound, head of spine of volume 2 has portions missing, and foot of spine rubbed, short split to foot of top outer hinge. New Edition. London: W. Kent, 1879. £40.00
  77. Brushfield (T.N) PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 134pp, original printed wraps, wraps loose and slightly ragged. First edition, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association... 1893. £25.00
    * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the top wrap. His address is on the 'Literature of Devon'. Brushfield went on to reprint it privately in the same year.

  78. Bush (Robin) THE BOOK OF EXMOUTH. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, partly faded dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1978. £20.00
    * Signed by the author on title-page.

  79. Cluer (Andrew) PLYMOUTH AND PLYMOTHIANS Photographs & Memories. Plates, 146 unnumbered pages, 4to, original pictorial covers. First edition, Lantern Books, Plymouth: 1974. £8.00
  80. Daw (John) REMINISCENCES OF SIR JOHN DAW covering the period 1866-1957. Illusts, 84pp, original cloth boards, bookplate, and contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper. Printed for Private Circulation. 1957. £15.00
  81. Devon Notes and Queries DEVON NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. Part 3, July 1908. With 2 plates, pages numbered 73-104.... Bound with.... Appendix. Cresswell (Beatrix)y EXETER CHURCHES. With 6 plates, pages numbered 145-176, original printed wraps. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1908. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Early English Bosses; Colyton Marriages in Exeter Cathedral; Ancient Records in Kingsbridge Church, etc.

  82. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Princetown, July, 1905.] Volume 37. Illusts some of which are folding, 590pp, lacks wraps, ex-lib with small stamp to rear of title-page, and last leaf. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1905. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Lydford; Stone Monuments on Exmoor; Dartmoor; Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt and Princetown; Neighbours of North Wyke; Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Albermarle and Devon, etc.

  83. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. [Exeter, July, 1915.] Volume 47. Illusts some of which are folding, 440pp, paper chipped from head and foot of spine, lacks rear wrap, with the rear hinge chipped. W. Brendon and Son. Plymouth: 1915. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Walrond Screen in Seaton Church; William Pengelly; Tavistock History, Berry Pomeroy Castle; Manors in Exminster Hundred; Bideford under the Restored Monarchy, etc, etc.

  84. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. [Tiverton, July, 1919.] Volume 51. Illusts, 283pp, original wraps, spine faded, small portions chipped from head and foot of spine. Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son. 1919. £7.00
    * Includes articles:- Haccombe; Cob cottages; Baptismal Fonts of Devon, etc.

  85. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Tavistock, 1978. Volume 110. Illusts, xxx + 260pp, original wraps. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1978. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Exbourne; Wheal Cumpston Tin Mine; Lundy; Thurlestone Families; Duke of Bedford's Tavistock Estates, etc.

  86. Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION For the Advancement of Science and Literature and Art. Ilfracombe, 1981. Volume 113. Illusts, xxix + 219pp, original wraps, Devonshire Press, Plymouth: 1981. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Settlement Site on Harford Moor; Granite Working on Pew Tor and Staple Tor; Sidmouth Shingle; St. Olave's Trust, etc.

  87. Dicker (George) A SHORT HISTORY OF DEVONPORT ROYAL DOCKYARD. 69pp, duplicated typescript, original printed wraps, wraps spotty and slightly ragged to edges, name to top wrap. Second Edition George Dicker, 1969. £10.00
    * Includes the names, guns and tons of all the ships built at Devonport, from the first in 1694.

  88. Doveton (F.B) DELIGHTFUL DEVON Being Ten Sketches of Rambles, Fishing, and Otherwise, in Devon. (Reprinted in part from 'A Fisherman's Fancies'). 64pp, original card covers, spine slightly worn at foot. Elliot Stock, London: 1896. £20.00
  89. Drake (Frederick) THE ANCIENT STAINED GLASS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. With 4 plates, pages numbered 321-327, 4to, disbound, pages loose. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1879. £8.00
  90. Duffy (Michael), Fisher (Stephen), and others, editor THE NEW MARITIME HISTORY OF DEVON. Volume 2: From the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Volume 2 of 2. Illusts, 272pp, 4to, dustwrapper. University of Exeter and Conway Maritime Press. 1994. £18.00
  91. Dunstan (G.R), editor THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume V. 253pp, original card covers, partly faded, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, bookplate to verso of top wrap. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1972. £8.00
  92. Evans (Rachel) HOME SCENES, OR TAVISTOCK AND ITS VICINITY. Illustrated with mounted photo frontis. and 7 steel engraved vignette views, viii + 176pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed and damp marked, internally clean, short worm trail affecting letter 't' of 'Corrected' on title-page, inner hinges pulled and weak. Second Edition Revised and Corrected. Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield. 1875. £26.00
  93. Exeter City Council HISTORIC EXETER. The Ideal Centre for Touring Glorious Devon. Official Guide. Illusts, adverts, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Exeter: 1958. £5.00
  94. Greeves (Tom) TIN MINES AND MINERS OF DARTMOOR. A Photographic Record. Illusts, maps, 86pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Revised, Halsgrove and Devon Books, Exeter: 2001. £11.00
  95. Gregory (Alfred T), editor DEVONSHIRE VERBAL PROVINCIALISMS. As Collected by Members of the Devonshire Association for Advancement of Science, Literature, & Art etc. 1877 to 1908. (viii) + 196pp, original cloth, fore-edges spotty. Tiverton: Gregory Son, Exeter: S. Drayton, (1909) £30.00
  96. Gregory (Ivon L) HARTLAND CHURCH ACCOUNTS, 1597-1706. Transcribed and Edited by Ivon L. Gregory, Vicar of Hartland. A Prefatory Note by Sir Hilary Jenkinson. xx + 372pp, original cloth. First edition, From: Butler and Tanner, 1950. £28.00
  97. Harvey (Hazel) EXETER PAST. Map endpapers, illusts, 116pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1996. £5.00
  98. Hemyock Registers, transcribed by A.J.P. Skinner. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF HEMYOCK, Devon, 1635 - 1837. With the Bishops Transcripts for the Years 1602, 1606, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, 1636, and a List of the Rectors and Chaplain Priests. 255pp, lacks title, prelims, and index, later unlettered cloth, ex-lib. with labels to endpapers, stamp to top board. Exeter: The Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1923. £28.00
  99. Henry (Lord Bishop of Exeter) A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER on Thursday the 24th of August, 1837, at the Consecration of the New Cemetery by Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, and Published at the Request of the Mayor, The Commissioners of Improvement, and the Clergy of Exeter. 23pp, disbound. Exeter: Printed by Woolmer & Co., Gazette Office; 1837. £12.00
    * Contemporary inscription on half-title.

  100. Hoskins (W.G) DEVON AND ITS PEOPLE. With 12 illusts, and 6 maps and plans, 176pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper, name to front endpaper, paper clip stain to top margin of 3 leaves. Exeter: A. Wheaton, 1968. £4.00
  101. Jubb (Ian) EXETER COLLECTION. 48 illusts, with descriptive text, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Ian Jubb, Exeter: 1993. £4.00
  102. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORIES OF EXMOUTH 1972-73. Adverts, iv + A4 + 218pp, original card covers. Seventh edition, Kelly's Directories, Kingston upon Thames, 1972. £20.00
  103. Lega Weekes (Ethel) THE FREEMANS OF ASHBURTON, BUCKFASTLEIGH, BOVEY-TRACEY, ETC. Pages numbered 450-454, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1913. £4.00
  104. Newton (Robert) EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EXETER. With 7 plates, xiii + 192pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. University of Exeter: 1984. £10.00
  105. Parry (H. Lloyd) THE HISTORY OF THE EXETER GUILDHALL AND THE LIFE WITHIN. With 12 plates, 174pp, untrimmed in the original cloth. Printed for the Exeter City Council, by John Townsend, Exeter: 1936. £8.00
  106. Peach (L. Du Garde) UNKNOWN DEVON. Illustrated by Gyrth Russell. With 8 colour plates, and numerous line drawings, vi + 206pp, sm 4to, original cloth, partly faded, spine and prelims spotty, name partly erased on front endpaper. First edition, London: John Lane, 1927. £12.00
  107. Prideaux (E.K) and Shafto (G.R. Holt) BOSSES AND CORBELS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. An Illustrated Study in Decorative & Symbolic Design. Illusts, lacks plan, 228pp, disbound. London: Chatto and Windus, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1910. £6.00
  108. Prideaux (Edith K) THE FIGURE SCULPTURE OF THE WEST FRONT OF EXETER CATHEDRAL CHURCH. A Complete Photographic Record with Notes. 23 plates, 38pp, original cloth, partly faded. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1912. £26.00
  109. Pridham (T.L) DEVONSHIRE CELEBRITIES. Illustrated with 12 mounted photographs of portraits, 236pp, sm. 4to, original cloth, a.e.g, cloth lightly rubbed at edges, occasional light foxing. Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1869. £35.00
    * The 'celebrities' include Sir Thomas Acland, Sir Nicholas Carew, Lord Edward Courtney, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Earl Fortescue, etc. The photos are of paintings, busts, etc.

  110. Prince (John) DANMONII ORIENTALES ILLUSTRES: or THE WORTHIES OF DEVON. A Work Wherein the Lives and Fortunes of The Most Famous Divines, Statesmen, Swordsmen, Physicians, Writers, and Other Eminent Persons, Natives of that most noble Province..... A New Edition With Notes. With frontis, 5 plates of portraits and 5 plates of heraldic arms, xxxvii + 785pp + vipp, 4to, recent half calf, marbled boards, some plates spotty. Printed for Rees and Curtis, Plymouth. Edward Upham, Exeter. and Longman, Hurst Rees and Orme, London: 1810. £135.00
  111. Radford (Cecily and Raleigh), editor FIFTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, TWELFTH, FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, & SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS COMMITTEE. 8 Reports. All in the original printed wraps, ex-lib. with a stamp and label to verso of top wrap of a few parts. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1926-1938. £4.00
  112. Ravenhill (Mary R) and Rowe (Margery M) DEVON MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS: Manuscript Maps Before 1840. With 16 coloured plates, 2 sketch maps, 2 volumes, xi + 214pp, and 215-433pp, original card covers, the 2 volumes contained within the original cloth slip-case. Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Series, Volume 43. Exeter: 2002. £40.00
  113. Reichel (Rev. Oswald) THE HUNDREDS OF BRAUNTON, SHIRWELL AND FREMINGTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 136pp, original wraps, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, rear outer hinge partly split, private library labels to covers. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. 1935. £10.00
  114. Richardson (P.H.G) MINES OF DARTMOOR AND THE TAMAR VALLEY after 1913. Illusts, diagrams, 160pp, original pictorial card covers. Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society, Sowerby Bridge: 1992. £20.00
  115. Roberts (Stephen K) RECOVERY AND RESTORATION IN AN ENGLISH COUNTY: Devon Local Administration 1646 - 1670. Textual maps, 232pp, dustwrapper. University of Exeter: 1985. £8.00
  116. Rowe (J.B) DEVONSHIRE GILDS. (Guilds) PLYMOUTH and TOTNES. 6pp, in the original printed wraps, occasional light foxing. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1873 £4.00
  117. Russell (Lady Rachel) LETTERS OF LADY RACHEL RUSSELL; From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is prefixed, An Introduction, indicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. The Second Edition, Corrected. lxxii + 216pp, 4to, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed. Second Edition, London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. £50.00
    * Rachel was the wife of William Russell, M.P. for Tavistock, who was executed as a conspirator in the Rye House Plot. These letters are mainly letters to her husband.

  118. Shears (R.T) CONSERVATION OF DEVONSHIRE COTTAGES. Thin roy 8vo, illusts, large portion torn from dustwrapper, few tears to dustwrapper, ex-lib. with stamp and residue of labels to front endpapers, stamp and numbers to verso of title-page. Gazette Printing Services, Bideford: (1968) £6.00
  119. Snetzler (Marjorie F), editor DEVON EXTRACTS 1665-1850. Volume 1, Part 2, L-Z. Pages numbered 100-158 + (6) page index, typescript, folio, plastic comb binding, laminated card covers. Devon Family History Society, 1987. £12.00
    * These extracts are taken from the London Gazette. Contains much on the various vessels sailing in and out of Plymouth.

  120. Stabb (John) DEVON CHURCH ANTIQUITIES. Being a Description of many objects in the old parish churches of Devon. Illusts., xii + 152pp, original cloth. Volume 1 (all published) London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1909. £12.00
  121. Stone (Avril), (nee Barthram) THE BOOK OF BARNSTAPLE Volume 2. From Coronation to Millenium. Illusts, 160pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2003. £20.00
  122. Strong (H.W) INDUSTRIES OF NORTH DEVON. A Reprint with an Introduction and Notes by B.D. Hughes. xxxvi + [viii] + 224pp, dustwrapper. First published 1889. Reprinted, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971. £15.00
  123. Thomas (Peter) and Warren (Jacqueline) ASPECTS OF EXETER. Numerous illusts, 334pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper. Reprinted, Baron Jay, Plymouth: 1981 £8.00
  124. Torquay Pottery SCANDY. THE TORQUAY POTTERY COLLECTORS' SOCIETY Magazines a run from April 1989 - Winter 2002. 51 issues in total, each issue is illustrated and contains between 28 and 48 pages. The issue for January 1993 is a photocopy. This run lacks:- April 1994, October 1998, May and August 1998, February 1999, Summer and Autumn 2002. April 1989 - Winter 2002. £25.00
  125. Vivian (Lt.-Col. J.L) VISITATIONS OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, and 1620, with Additions. iv + 899pp, 4to, half morocco, raised bands, spine slightly dull, with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, inner hinges strengthened, with the bookplate of F.T. Colby, who edited books on Devon genealogy, pasted to front pastedown. For the Author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter: (1895) £450.00
  126. Wade (Z.E.A) THE VERY ANCIENT CHURCH OF ILFRACOMBE. A Curious Mosaic A.M. and A.D. Pictorial title-page, 124 + (iv)pp, 12mo, original cloth. Ilfracombe: Gazette and Observer Offices. 1891. £25.00
  127. Warner (Rev. H.J) A HISTORY OF YEALMPTON. (Devonshire) With 3 of 4 plates, 93pp, few spots to the original cloth, rubbed to edges, outer hinges partly split, few horizontal splits to spine, shaken. Includes 2 Yealmpton engravings to the endpapers at the rear, as well as manuscript transcriptions from the Yealmpton parish registers, along with other notes, concerning the Alger family to the endpapers, and 3 pages concerning the family in the 'Taxation Returns in Public Record Office 1524 to 1674'. Plymouth: Western Morning News. 1907. £22.00
  128. Watkin (Hugh R) DARTMOUTH. Volume 1. Pre-Reformation. (Parochial Histories of Devonshire No 5). Illusts, large folding map, xvi + 498pp, With SUPPLEMENT map, scale 1/1250, folded and tipped in at the rear, original printed card covers, crease to top corner of top cover. Devonshire Association. 1935. £12.00
  129. Watkins (John) AN ESSAY TOWARDS A HISTORY OF BIDEFORD in the County of Devon. 280pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, inner hinges cracked and weak, top board has several creases to cloth where corner has been bent. Carefully Reprinted by Frederick Perkin, Bideford: 1883. £25.00
    * Includes chapters on local Witches, the Bridge and Quay, the Granvilles etc.

  130. Welch (Ann) THE WOOLACOMBE BIRD. Frontis, and illusts in the text by Joseph Acheson, 143pp, dustwrapper covered in a loose plastic sleeve, ex-lib with plain paper label pasted to verso of title-page, no stamps. First edition, Jonathan Cape, London: 1964. £6.00
  131. White (J.T) THE HISTORY OF TORQUAY. With 13 litho. plates including one of which is folding, a few illusts in the text, xi + 403pp + 17pp of adverts, slightly shaken, original embossed cloth, 2" split to rear hinge and with a short split to top of hinge, front inner hinge slightly cracked, rear inner hinge cracked and pulled. internally clean, 2 early ownership names to second front blank. First edition, Printed at the "Directory Office", Torquay: 1878. £40.00
  132. Widecombe Storm THE TWO WIDECOMBE TRACTS, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the Great Storm, reprinted with an introduction by J. Brooking-Rowe. With vignette illust to title-page, frontis, vi + 14 + Title page + (3) + 37pp, disbound. Originally published in 1638. Reprinted, Exeter: James G. Commin. 1905. £12.00
  133. [Wolcot (John)] THE ROYAL VISIT TO EXETER; A Poetical Epistle, By John Ploughshare, A farmer of Moreton Hampstead in the County of Devon. Published by Peter Pindar, Esq. 4to, 32pp, some numbers cropped at top margin, later half roan, cloth boards, some spotting to cloth. London: Printed for J. Walker, 1795. £85.00
  134. Wollocombe (John B) TETCOTT HUNT WEEK. Antecedents and Consequences. With Fifteen Illustrations, 74pp, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed to edges. London: Skeffington & Son, 1895. £38.00
  135. Woodward (F.W) CITADEL. A History of the Royal Citadel, Plymouth. Illusts, plans, 150pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Devon Books, Exeter: 1987. £25.00
  136. Worth (R.N) CALENDAR OF THE TAVISTOCK PARISH RECORDS. Frontis, viii + 135pp, original cloth. Privately Printed by William Brendon and Son, Plymouth: 1887. £35.00
  137. Wright (W.H.K) PLEASANTRIES FROM THE "BLUE BOX" Being a Selection of Papers "From grave to gay, from lively to severe" by YE BROTHERS BLUE. xvii + 292 + 2 page list of subscribers, original cloth, damp marked to top corner of boards, internally sound. London: Elliot Stock, and Plymouth: W.F. Westcott, 1881. £16.00

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  138. Ashley (Harry) EXPLORE DORSET Its Coast, Countryside and Heritage. With photographs by David Golumb. Illusts, 104pp, original printed card covers. Second edition, Countryside Books, Newbury: 1988. £4.00
  139. Beamish (Derek), Dockerill (John), Hillier (John) and Smith (Graham) AN ALBUM OF OLD POOLE. With 226 illusts, dustwrapper. Poole Historical Trust. 1975. £6.00
  140. Benfield (Eric) THE TOWN OF MAIDEN CASTLE. Illusts, 70pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Robert Hale, London: 1947. £4.00
  141. Beningfield (Gordon), Zeman (Anthea) HARDY COUNTRY. Coloured and black and white illusts, 141pp, oblong folio, couple of tears to dustwrapper. Allen Lane, London: 1983. £10.00
  142. Bournemouth Natural Science Society BOURNEMOUTH NATURAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS Volume 49. Session 1958-59. Double-page illust, 47pp, original paper wraps, name and address on top wrap. Published by the Society, Bournemouth: 1959. £4.00
  143. Bournemouth Natural Science Society BOURNEMOUTH NATURAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS Volume 52. Session 1961-62. Double page illust, 47pp, original paper wraps. Published by the Society, Bournemouth: 1959. £4.00
  144. Ching (Mark) THE BLIZZARD OF 78. The Snowstorm that Buried Dorset. Illusts, 178pp, original pictorial card covers. Mark Ching, Winfrith Newburgh: 2008. £10.00
    * Presentation inscription from the author on the title-page.

  145. County Associations DORSET COUNTY HANDBOOK (Formerly published as "Come to Dorset") Double-page map, plans, illusts, adverts, 88pp, original card covers, with 2 private ownership labels to title-page. 10th edition, The County Associations, London: c.1952. £6.00
  146. Cox (Rev. Thomas) DORSETSHIRE. Extracted from Magna Britannia. Lacks the map, pages numbered 548-604, lacks the leaf of distance table as usual, disbound, occasional light foxing. London: E. and R. Nutt, c.1720. £30.00
    * Includes sections on:- the various Boroughs; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History, etc.

  147. Davies (G.M) THE DORSET COAST. A Geological Guide. Illusts, 126 + 16 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. First edition, Thomas Murray, London: 1935. £9.00
  148. Dorchester Borough Council DORCHESTER. Dorset. Official Guide. Folding plan, illusts, adverts, maps, 107pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps. The Friary Press, Dorchester: c.1962. £4.00
  149. Dorchester Borough Council DORCHESTER Dorset. Official Guide. Illusts, adverts, folding map, 111pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial card covers. The Friary Press, Dorchester: c.1970. £4.00
  150. Dorset Charities ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS OF CHARITABLE DONATIONS for the Benefit of Poor Persons, Made by the Ministers and Churchwardens of the Several Parishes and Townships in England and Wales. 1786 - 1788. The Dorset section, folio, loose and unbound, 36pp. Ruled in columns:- Name of Hundred, Names of the Persons who Gave the Charity, When Given, Whether by Will or Deed, Description of the Charity, and for what Purpose given, Whether in Land or Money, In Whom Now Vested, Gross Amount, Annual Produce of the Money, Clear Annual Produce of that given in Land, and Observations. 1816. £15.00
    * Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis.

  151. Douch (Robert) A HANDBOOK OF LOCAL HISTORY: DORSET. 139pp, original card covers, partly faded and spotty, ink not to rear cover. University of Bristol: 1952. £4.00
  152. Draper (Jo), photographs by David Bailey DORSET BARNS. Numerous coloured photographs, 144pp, oblong 4to, dustwrapper, private bookplate to front pastedown. The Dovecote Press, Stanbridge, Wimborne: 2010. £18.00
  153. Drew (Lt.Col C.D) and Collingwood Selby (K.C) THE EXCAVATIONS AT COLLITON PARK, DORCHESTER, 1937-38. First Interim Report. Plates, 2 folding plans, 14pp, original printed wrappers partly faded. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1938. £6.00
  154. Farr (Grahame) WRECK AND RESCUE ON THE COAST OF DORSET. The Story of the Dorset Lifeboats. Illusts, 136pp, few light spots to rear of dustwrapper. D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. £10.00
  155. Gibb (J.H.P) THE BOOK OF SHERBORNE. Numerous illusts, 144pp, cr. 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. Includes 3 page list of subscribers. Buckingham: Barracuda Books Ltd. 1981. £20.00
  156. Guttridge (Roger) THE VILLAGES OF DORSET. Photographs by Roger Holman and Lane (Roger) Numerous coloured plates, map endpapers, 134 + (2)pp, oblong 8vo, dustwrapper. Ensign Publications, Southampton: 1993. £6.00
  157. Hawkins (Jennifer) THE POOLE POTTERIES Illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. Barrie and Jenkins, London: 1980. £22.00
  158. Hawkins (Tim) DORSET Photographers' Britain. Map, illusts, ix + 142pp, original pictorial card covers, private ownership label to verso of top cover. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1991. £5.00
  159. Haysom (David) and Parker (Julien) THE LAST DAYS OF STEAM IN DORSET AND BOURNEMOUTH. Numerous illusts, vi + 144pp, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £6.00
  160. Irvine (Peter) VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN DORSET from Old Photographs. With 143 illusts, roy 8vo, original pictorial card covers. B.T. Batsford, London: 1977. £4.00
  161. March (Rosemary March) SHERBORNE CASTLE. Coloured and black and white illusts, 48pp, original pictorial card covers. Sherborne Castle Estates, 1979. £4.00
  162. Masters and Boys of Sherborne School A GUIDE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SHERBORNE AND YEOVIL. With 8 plates and a folding map in pocket at rear, (8) pages of adverts, xi + (1) + 125 + (8) pages of adverts, original cloth, 12mo, few small spots to cloth. Sherborne School Archaeological Society, Sherborne: 1925. £8.00
  163. McQueen (Ian) BOURNEMOUTH ST. PETER'S Illusts, 290pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Dorset Publishing Company, Sherborne: 1971. £4.00
  164. Mee (A), editor DORSET. Thomas Hardy's Country. With double-page map, plates, x + 359pp, lacks dustwrapper, cover partly faded, front inner hinge slightly pulled, inscriptions to front endpapers. Reprinted, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1945. £4.00
  165. Morshead (Sir Owen) DORSET CHURCHES. Illusts, 64pp, original pictorial card covers, short crease to lower corner of top cover Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 1975. £4.00
  166. Moule (H.J) DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES. Plate, illusts in text, 96pp, original cloth, top cover spotty and partly faded, prelims foxed. Second edition, Dorchester: Henry Ling, 1906. £18.00
    * This edition has 20 more pages than the first edition, and contains a 'Memoir' by Thomas Hardy.

  167. Peters (John), Colling (David and Ridley (Michael) BOURNEMOUTH THEN AND NOW. Numerous illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Blandford Press, Pool: 1978. £6.00
  168. Phillips (John) ON A FOSSIL FRUIT FOUND IN THE UPPER PART OF THE WEALDEN DEPOSITS IN SWANAGE BAY, Isle of Purbeck. Frontis, title and 3pp, disbound, frontis loose, stamp to verso of frontis. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1859. £8.00
  169. Purdy (Richard Little) THOMAS HARDY A Bibliographical Study. With 7 plates, iv + 388pp, spotty dustwrapper which has a short strip torn from the top, and a split where folded, page edges spotty. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1954. £10.00
  170. Saunders (Samuel) THE DEATH OF MINISTERS IMPROVED. A SERMON PREACHED AT WEYMOUTH, November 6, 1819, on the Lamented Death of The Rev. Thomas Flint, Pastor of the Baptist Church in that Town. Including a Brief Memoir of His Life and Character. 59pp, 12mo, lacks wraps. Bath: Printed and Sold by T.Smith, (1820) £20.00
  171. Smith (H.O) H.O. PIONEER AND APOSTLE OF PHOTOTYPESETTING. The memoirs of H.O. Smith. Illusts, 99pp, original cloth, stamp to verso of title-page, presentation inscription from the author on the title-page. The Dorset Press, Dorchester: 1998. £10.00
    * Smith was born and went to school in Dorchester.

  172. Society of Dorset Men THE DORSET YEAR BOOK. 1930. Numerous illusts, 287 +(3) pages of adverts, original printed wraps slightly worn, fore-edge margins of first couple of leaves waterstained. Society of Dorset Men in London, London: 1930. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Sir James Thornhill; Thomas Hardy; Dorset Regiments, etc.

  173. Trades' Directory, Ltd, publisher SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND TRADES' DIRECTORY 1958 - 59. The DORSET SECTION only. 28pp, recent cloth, ex-ref. lib. with label to front pastedown and stamp to title-page. Trades Directories Limited, Manchester: 1959. £5.00
  174. Victoria County History, edited by R.B.Pugh VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Volume 3. With Index to Volume 2. With a frontis and double-page map, 189pp, small folio, slightly spotty dustwrapper, few small marks to endpapers. Oxford University Press, 1968. £26.00
    * Mainly concerned with the Dorset Domesday and Geld Rolls.

  175. Walbridge (A.A.G) ST. MARY BEAMINSTER A HISTORY. Illusts, 144pp, original pictorial card covers, a few amendments in ink, made by the original owner of the book, whose bookplate is to verso of top cover. Tipped in at the rear is a copy of a letter sent by him to the author with a note of the corrections. Walbridge Publications, Beaminster: 2002. £16.00
  176. White (Howard) STONE AND SALVATION. The Comprehensive Centennial Story of Portland's Salvation Army. 151pp, original pictorial card covers, few small spots to top covers, small area rubbed to rear cover. c.1984. £8.00
    * Includes a list of officers stationed at Portland from 1885.


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  177. Adlard (Eleanor) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE POSTLIP MILL WINCHCOMBE. Illusts, 32pp, uncut, original qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on top board. Produced for Evans, Adlard & Co. Ltd., Reprinted B.A.S. Printers Ltd., Wallop: 1968. £10.00
  178. Agg-Gardner (Rt. Hon. Sir James) SOME PARLIAMENTARY RECOLLECTIONS. With 14 plates, textual illusts, 246pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, few small marks to covers, Ed. J. Burrow, London: (1927) £20.00
    * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Agg-Gardner was a Brewery owner, and elected an M.P. for Cheltenham in 1874, he was defeated in 1880. He was re-elected in 1885, stood down in 1885. Stood for the Cheltenham seat again in 1911 and held it until his death in 1928.

  179. Anstis (Ralph) THE STORY OF PARKEND A Forest of Dean Village. Illusts, 88pp, original pictorial wraps, ink note to top margin of title-page. First edition, Forest Bookshop, Coleford: 1982. £12.00
  180. Belcher (Ernest) RAMBLES AMONG THE COTSWOLDS. With a Preface by Sir John Maclean. 104pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Evesham: W. & H. Smith, 1892. £30.00
  181. Berkeley (Hon. G.F) MY LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS. With 2 engraved portrait frontis., 4 volumes, xi + 383 and xi + 358 and and x + 358 and xi + 361, early marbled boards, with recent half cloth, paper labels on spines, they all lack the front endpaper, reference library label to front pastedown and half-title, 3 volumes with stamp to title-pages, occasional spotting. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865 and 1866. £105.00
    * It is stated as being in 2 volumes on the title-pages of the first 2 volumes, however it was not complete until these further 2 volumes were published in 1866.

  182. Bick (David E) THE OLD INDUSTRIES OF DEAN. Illusts, plans, diagrams, 80pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted by Douglas Mclean, Coleford: 1989. £8.00
  183. Bigland (Ralph) ASCHURCH. 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
  184. Bigland (Ralph) BATSFORD AND BAUNTON AND BECKFORD. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 10pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £6.00
  185. Bigland (Ralph) BOXWELL. Extracted from Bigland's Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to Gloucestershire. 6pp, folio, recent paper wraps. First edition, London: Printed by John Nichols for Ralph Bigland, 1791. £5.00
  186. Bigland (Ralph) BROCKWORTH. 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
  187. Bigland (Ralph) CERNEY NORTH. 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
  188. Bigland (Ralph) CERNEY SOUTH. 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
  189. Bright (G.V) PICTURESQUE GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Being a Series of Exclusive Photographs Illustrating the Ancient & Interesting Towns and Villages of the County, together with a short Historical & General Description. 384pp, 4to, original buckram, covered with a loose plastic cover which has been cellotaped to pastedowns. Cheltenham Newspaper Co., 1928. £30.00
  190. Brill (Edith) COTSWOLD CRAFTS. Illusts, 184pp, spine of dustwrapper faded. First edition, B.T. Batsford, London: 1977. £4.00
  191. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, John Jurica editor TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 2000. Volume 118. Illusts, 235pp, roy 8vo, original wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 2001. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Daneway and Lodge Park Gloucestershire Houses; Africa Trade and the Bristol Gunpowder Industry; Thomas Gambier Parry and the Gloucester Schools of Science; Two Stonehouse Mills, etc.

  192. Clift (Major J.G.N) LECKHAMPTON MOAT. Plan, diagrams, Pages numbered 235-248, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1933. £4.00
  193. Collins (Norman), Planning Officery Downs (R.A), County Surveyor and others KINGSWOOD TOWN CENTRE POLICY MAP Numerous coloured maps and plans, several of which are folding, diagrams, 14pp, 4to, original printed card boards, slightly spotty, ink note to top cover, plastic spiral spine. Gloucestershire County Council, 1969. £10.00
  194. Cook (G.H) THE STORY OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. With 41 photos., and 2 plans, 16 pages of text, original decorative paper boards. First edition, Phoenix House, London: 1952. £6.00
  195. Corbet (John) HISTORICALL RELATION OF THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF GLOUCESTER: From the Beginning of the Civill Warre betweene King and Parliament to the Removal of Colonell Massie from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces. To which is prefixed the Author's Life. With an engraved portrait and an engraved plan, viii + 152 + 3pp, 4to, untrimmed in early paper boards, lacks spine, plates spotty. Originally published in 1645. Reprinted, Gloucester: Washbourn and Son, Gloucester and Charles Baldwyn, London: 1823. £40.00
    * This forms part 1 of Washbourn's Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis.

  196. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club PROCEEDINGS. Volume VII. Plates and diagrams, 242pp, few small marks to early binders cloth, leather label on spine, ex-lib with a few stamps. John Bellows, Gloucester: 1880. £22.00
    * Includes:- E. Witchell. Section of Stroud Hill.... ; G.S. Boulger. Report on Progress towards completion of Flora of Gloucestershire etc., etc.

  197. Couzens (P.A) ANNALS OF A PARISH viz YATE. Illusts, 63pp, original card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. P.A. Couzens, Yate: 1990. £10.00
  198. Daubeny (J.F), Representative of The Lady of the Manor of Bishop's Cleeve. CLEEVE COMMON, Gloucestershire. Rights and Regulations Over This Common. Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1890, under the Commons Act, 1876. With 4 plans, 120pp, original cloth, inner hinges cracked. London: Army and Navy Co-operative Society, 1900. £22.00
    * Not in Austin's Catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection.

  199. Deacon's THE GLOUCESTER COURT GUIDE AND COUNTY BLUE BOOK. A Fashionable Record, Professional Register, and General Survey of the County and of the Cities of Bristol and Bath. Lacks map, 608 + 318pp adverts, original cloth partly faded, short split to both outer hinges. London: Charles Wlliam Dacon & Co., 1899. £16.00
    * Includes articles on the Geology, Archaeology, Natural History etc., etc. of the area.

  200. Ditchfield (P.H), editor MEMORIALS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With Many Illustrations. xiv + 304pp, original cloth, worn, rubbed to head and foot of spine, staining to edges of boards, internally sound. London: George Allen, 1911. £5.00
  201. Dobell (C.M) MEMOIRS OF OLD CHARLTON KINGS. A Series of Short Papers Written For the Charlton Kings Parish Magazine. Original printed boards, 57pp. Norman, Sawyer and Co., Cheltenham: 1898. £16.00
  202. Elliott (C.H.B) WINTERBOURNE Gloucestershire. Illusts, folding plan, 122 + iiipp, dustwrapper, ownership inscription to front endpaper. First published 1936. Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. £18.00
  203. Elrington (C.R), editor ABSTRACTS OF FEET OF FINES RELATING TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1360-1508. Gloucestershire Record Series Volumes 27. xxx + 268pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2013. £25.00
  204. Garrett (Eric) & Harper (Les), chosen and compiled by YESTERYEAR Collected Papers of Olveston Parish Historical Society. Illusts, 145pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Corrected and reprinted, Tockington Press, 2011. £11.00
  205. Gethyn-Jones (Rev. J.E) DYMOCK. The Ann Cam School, Gloucestershire. Illusts, 12pp, original pictorial wraps. Albert E. Smith, Gloucester: 1965. £4.00
  206. Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS MARRIAGES. Volume 4. vi + (i) + 153pp, 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., 1898. £40.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Hinton-on-the-Green, Aston Somerville, Kemerton, Lemington Parva, Buckland, Saintbury, Preston-upon-Stour, Stanton, Snowshill, Temple Guiting, Wormington, Childswickham, Weston Subedge, Guiting Power, Sutton-under-Brailes, and Todenham.

  207. Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 8. vi + (i) + 161pp, original buckram, slightly rubbed to edges. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1902. £30.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Painswick, Kingscote and Cam.

  208. Gloucester Election REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS Appointed under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual to Inquire into the Corrupt Practises in the City of Gloucester. I.- Report. Coloured folding map, 37pp, folio, unbound, stitched as issued, stitching now broken, title-page and last leaf slightly ragged, ex-lib. stamps to title-page. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, H.M.S.O. 1881. £12.00
    * Includes 18pp schedules listing the people who were guilty of corrupt practises at the 1880 and 1874 elections.

  209. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by Rev. B.H. Blacker. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 1. xvi + 475pp, contemporary half calf, lacks label on spine, cloth boards, covers rubbed, top of outer and inner hinge partly split, though sound, rear outer hinge cracked though sound. Wm. Kent, London: and others, 1881. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Index to Monumental Inscriptions, Cheltenham; Tomes Family; Manor of Owlpen; Longevity in Cheltenham; Notgrove Parish Church; Bathurst Family, etc.

  210. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by Rev. B.H. Blacker. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES Volume 2. Frontis, xix + 674pp, half morocco, marbled boards. Wm. Kent, London: and others, 1884. £30.00
    * Includes articles:- Lord Northwick's Collection of Pictures; Extracts from Dyrham Parish Registers; Rectors of Uley; Daunt Family; Rudder Family; Nash court and The Steps; Marriages in Hampnett, 1737-1754; Extracts from Dyrham Parish Registers, etc.

  211. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 5. 1891-1893. Illusts, x + (i) + 590pp, original cloth boards, spine faded, slight spotting to frontis and front endpapers. Bristol: William George, and others, 1894. £38.00
    * Includes articles on the Arrowsmith Family; Trotman Family; Earldom of Berkeley; Stiffs of Hawkesbury; Maisemore Bells; Family of Longden; Family of Clutterbuck, etc.

  212. Greene (Kevin T) THE ROMANO-CELTIC HEAD FROM THE BON MARCHE SITE, GLOUCESTER: A Reappraisal. Plates, pages numbered 338-345pp, complete, name to top of original printed card covers. Reprinted from The Antiquaries Journal, 1975. £4.00
  213. Gregory (Alfred) ROBERT RAIKES: Journalist and Philanthropist. A History of the Origin of Sunday Schools. Frontis and vignette title, 209 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, sm, 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed and with a few small marks, private library label to front pastedown, relevant news cuttings pasted to rear endpapers, inner hinges weak. First edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877. £24.00
  214. Halliwell (David) AN UNJUST HANGING Sent to the gallows by folly, ignorance, and a doctor's selfish cruelty. Coloured and black and white illusts, 103pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Memoirs, Cirencester: 2012, £8.00
    * The story of John Horwood, born in Bitton, where he killed his ex-girlfriend, by throwing a stone at her, for failing his advances.

  215. Handford (Michael) THE STROUDWATER CANAL. Plates, 337pp, dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1979. £10.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page.

  216. Harrison (C.N) EBLEY VILLAGE Notes and Poems. Illusts, 83pp, original pictorial card covers. Privately published, 1989. £14.00
  217. Harte (G.W), and others HANDBOOK BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CENTENARY, TEWKESBURY, GRAND COSTUME BAZAAR. To be held in the George Watson Memorial Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 4th and 5th, 1910. Illusts, 20pp, original printed paper wraps, staples rusty. Printed by Gardner's, Tewkesbury: 1910. £4.00
  218. Hartland (Edwin Sidney), editor COUNTY FOLK-LORE. PRINTED EXTRACTS NO. 1. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 58pp, untrimmed in the original printed wraps, spine chipped with some loss, and partly split, top wrap partly lightly stained, top wrap and first few leaves slightly crinkled. Published by the Folk Lore Society. 1892. £8.00
  219. Hodsdon (James), editor THE COURT BOOKS OF THE MANOR OF CHELTENHAM. 1692-1803. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9. With plate and 2 maps, xxxviii + 621pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 2010. £20.00
  220. Howse (Carrie) RURAL DISTRICT NURSINGIN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1880-1925. Illusts, 208pp, original pictorial card covers. Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham: 2008. £6.00
  221. Hudson (John) THORNBURY TO BERKELEY in Old Photographs. Illusts, 160pp, original pictorial card covers, name to half-title. Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1987. £4.00
  222. Hull (Edward) THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND CHELTENHAM. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.) With 2 plates, one of which is folding, textual illusts, 104pp, few short tears to the original printed wraps, lacks most of spine, top wrap loose. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1857. £40.00
  223. Huntley (R.W) CHAVENAGE. A Tale on the Cotswolds, MDCXLVIII. Lacks frontis, vi + ix + 158pp, original cloth, few splits to rear outer hinge, cloth chipped to head and foot of spine, circular stains to top board, double page pedigree of Stephens has few small ink marks. There are two parts for Chavenage, and one part for Hawkesbury Manor, a fourth part is a poem titled "Squire Matthew". First edition. James Burns, London: 1845. £15.00
    * The story relates to the obtaining by Ireton of Nathaniel Stephens' assent to the execution of Charles I.' Hyett & Bazeley. Vol II. page 216.

  224. Hyett (Francis A) GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN NATIONAL HISTORY. With a folding frontis, and 9 other plates, 282pp, original cloth, partly faded. Third edition, John Bellows, Gloucester: 1924. £15.00
  225. Icely (H.E.M) BLOCKLEY Through Twelve Centuries. Annals of a Cotswold Parish. Numerous iIllusts, xx+ 260pp, dustwrapper. First edition, The Roundwood Press, Kineton: 1974. £10.00
  226. Johnson (Joan) STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. Illusts, map, 160pp, dustwrapper, ex-college lib. with stamps to verso of title-page, otherwise a nice copy. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1980. £4.00
  227. Johnson (Joan) TUDOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, viii + 184pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton and Gloucestershire County Library, 1985. £4.00
  228. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1902. Lacks map, original cloth, lightly soiled and faded, outer and inner hinges crudely strengthened with tape, lacks all before title-page. Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1902. £38.00
  229. Lewis (June R) THE COTSWOLDS AT WAR. x + 237pp, dustwrapper, inscription on half-title. Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud: 1992. £8.00
  230. Loe (Yvonne) editor THE POACHING AFFRAY of 1816. Map, 10pp, original printed card covers. Thornbury Society, c1962. £4.00
  231. Lysons (Samuel) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROMAN VILLA, DISCOVERED IN THE PARISH OF GREAT-WITCOMBE, In the County of Gloucester. Read before the Society of Antiquaries, on the 30th of April, 1818, and the 4th of February, 1819. Published in the First Part of the Nineteenth Volume of the Archaeologia. With 7pp and a double-page folding plan, 4to, pamphlet, original printed wraps. Henry J. Cochrane, printer, Cheltenham: (1819) £28.00
  232. Masefield (G.B), editor WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE. A Century of Change. Illusts, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Alan Sutton, Gloucester: 1980. £10.00
  233. Masse (H.J.L.J) THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF GLOUCESTER A Description of its Fabric and a Brief Description of the Episcopal See. Bell's Cathedral Series. Illusts, double-page plan, 132 + (1)pp, 12mo, some splash stains to the original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. G. and Sons, London: 1910. £4.00
  234. Masters (Brian) and Pollock (Adam) SUDELEY CASTLE. Illusts, plans, 32pp, original pictorial card covers, some spotting to covers. Printed by Balding & Mansell, London: 1970. £4.00
  235. McCall (H.B) THE PARISH REGISTER OF SYSTON OR SISTON in the County of Gloucester From 1576 - 1641. 80pp, later cloth, with original top cover pasted to front board, a couple of pages at rear crudely opened. Privately Printed and Published by the Editor. Barton End Court, Nailsworth: 1901. £32.00
  236. [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.... Lacks half-title and title page, 174pp + Addenda leaf, 12mo, early half calf, rubbed, spine chipped, boards loose, text block in 2 halves. First edition. Bath: Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell. 1783. £16.00
  237. Mowl (Timothy) HISTORIC GARDENS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Illusts, plates, plans, 192pp, original pictorial card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. First edition, Tempus Publishing, Stroud: 2002. £10.00
  238. Nicholls (H.G) FOREST OF DEAN.... AND IRON MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIMES. New edition with introduction by Dr Cyril Hart. Illusts., folding map, xii + 286 and 92 + (6)pp, dustwrapper, couple of school stamps to endpapers. Originally published in 1858 and 1866. Reprinted David and Charles, Dawlish: 1966. £20.00
  239. Norman (D.D.R) REMINISCENCES OF UPTON CHEYNEY. Illusts in the text, original pictorial card covers, small folio, with a platic spiral spine, 43 + 2pp, waterstain crinkling to top margin of most pages, similar stain to lower margins affecting a few pages at rear, relevant news cutting loosely inserted. D.D.R. Norman, Upton Cheyney: 1992. £9.00
  240. Painter (K.S) THE SEVERN BASIN. Regional Archaeologies. Illusts, sm. 4to, 72pp, original pictorial covers, very lightly rubbed to edges. Cory, Adams & Mackay, London: 1964. £4.00
  241. Peake (David, Susanna, & Edward) & Thomas (Graham) SEZINCOTE HOUSE. Near Moreton-in-Marsh. Coloured and black and white illusts, 17pp, original pictorial card covers. c.2012. £4.00
  242. Pigot's PIGOT'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1830. Lacks map, pages numbered 304-399 complete, 2 leaves loose, disbound. London: J. Pigot & Co., 1830. £20.00
  243. 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. £35.00
  244. Powell (Geoffrey) THE BOOK OF CAMPDEN. History in Stone. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 120pp, lacks dustwrapper. This copy seems to have been used to advise the printers on a new edition, note taped to front endpaper, subscribers list, information on verso of title-page and illust on half title scored through with pencil, Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1982. £6.00
  245. Prinknash THE HISTORY OF PRINKNASH. From the immemorial to the present day. Frontis, 20pp, original printed wraps, small area rubbed on top cover. Alleluia, Castle Cary: 1970. £5.00
  246. Rampton (Norman), County Property Services Manager LITTLEDEAN GAOL. Freehold for Sale. Illusts, map, plans, 6pp, 4to, on single folded sheet. Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucester: 2003. £8.00
  247. Rector LETTERS TO THE PARISHES FROM THE RECTOR. Parishes:- St. James the Elder Church, Horton and the Church of St. Adeline, Little Sodbury. 267pp, original pictorial card covers. No imprint, 1993 £4.00
  248. Richards (Roger C) THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER, ENGLAND. REPORT BY MR. ROGER C. RICHARDS (ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER), UPON THE POOR LAW UNION OF CIRENCESTER, (Gloucestershire.) Title + 11pp, pages numbered 51-61, complete, small folio, later paper covers, with paper label on top cover. Houses of Parliament, London: 1893. £18.00
    * Extract from British Parliamentary papers. A detailed report on the conditions, wages, housing, hours worked of Gloucestershire agricultural workers.

  249. Roberts (Daniel) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN ROBERTS Frontis, One of the early Friends, By his son. Facsimile reproduction with a new introduction by Christopher Hill. 98pp, sm 8vo, originally printed card covers. This edition originally published 1859. Friends Home Service Committee, London: 1973. £8.00
  250. Rushworth (G. McNeil) WARKWORTH. Pages numbered 265-274, complete, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1930. £4.00
  251. Shaw (E.S) CROSS HANDS HOTEL Old Sodbury, Glouestershire, England. One of Britain's fine Historic Inns in the heart of Beaufort Hunt and Cotswold Country. Illusts, adverts, folding map, 48pp, original printed card covers, partly faded, oblong 8vo. First edition, Ed. J. Burrow, Cheltenham: 1953. £10.00
  252. Swain (E.J), director K.A.A. 1975-77 SEASONS THE CHESSALLS EXCAVATIONS KINGSCOTE. Plans, diagrams, 28pp, folio, original pictorial card covers. Loosely inserted is a large folded plan of the 'Kingscote Roman Excavations'. Kingscote Archaeological Association, (1977) £7.00
  253. Thomas (Alan), Holbrook (Neil) and Bateman (Clifford), and others LATER PREHISTORIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH BURIAL SETTLEMENT AT HUCCLECOTE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE EXCAVATIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE GLOUCESTER BUSINESS PARK LINK ROAD, 1998. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report No 2. Plans, diagrams, ii + 74pp, original printed wraps. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2003. £4.00
  254. Tymms (Samuel) GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Section extracted from 'Camden's Britannia Epitomized and Continued.' Engraved map, 43pp, 12mo disbound, short tear to inner margin of map neatly repaired to verso. Nichols & Son, London: (1833) £22.00
  255. Vinter (Dorothy) TRAPPED IN THE PIT and other Kingswood Stories. 20pp, 12mo, original printed card covers. Central Press, Kingswood: 1951. £12.00
  256. Waring (Michael) 100 YEARS OF ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AT KINGSWOOD A commemoration by Bendix Limited. Numerous illusts, 24pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Limited Numbered Edition. Bendix Limited, Kingswood: (1985) £8.00
    * The story of how Bendix, an American company, supplied air brakes, etc, forthe production of motorbikes and other vehicules for William Douglas.

  257. Waters (Ivor) BEACHLEY BETWEEN THE WYE AND THE SEVERN. With 2 folding plans, plates, 22pp, recent cloth with original paper cover pasted to top cover, ex-lib., with stamps to verso of title-page, labels to front endpaper. The Printing Club, Army Apprentices College, Chepstow: 1977. £4.00
  258. Were (F) INDEX TO THE HERALDRY IN BIGLAND'S HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Compiled for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Pages numbered 147-510pp + viii page index, later cloth, bound without the wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1905. £16.00
    * Forming Volume XXVIII (28). Part 2 of the Society's Transactions.

  259. White (Senior Officer Bryan) PRO H.M. PRISON BARRACK SQUARE GLOUCESTERSHIRE The Murderers of Gloucestershire, Hangings in Gloucester Prison 1872 to 1939. (and others). Illusts, viii + 65pp + 3 blanks, folio, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bryan White, H.M. Prison Service, 1985. £15.00
  260. Wilson (Andy), compiler STUMP HIGH! Cricket Miscellany. Illusts, adverts, 61 + 6pp, lacks spine and rear wrap, small portion torn from inner margin of top wrap, some spotting to first 3 leaves. Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1953. £5.00
  261. Woodman (Marian) PRISON AT THE CROSSROADS (Northleach House of Correction) Illusts, 12pp, original pictorial wraps. Corinium Museum, Cirencester: (1981) £8.00
  262. Webb (Alf) CIVIL WAR IN DEAN The History and Archaeology of the English Civil Wars in Forest of Dean and Gloucestershire. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 62pp, original pictorial card covers. Dean Archaeological Group, 2001. £10.00

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  263. Andrew (Martin) PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES. FRANCIS FRITH'S SOMERSET. Numerous illusts, dustwrapper. Frith Book Company, Salisbury: 2000. £5.00
  264. Arlett (Mike) & Peters (Ivo) STEAM AROUND BATH. With 281 illusts, usually 2 to a page, 4to, dustwrapper. Millstream Books, Bath: 1987. £8.00
  265. Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) WELLS MANOR OF CANON GRANGE. xxvii + 224pp, dustwrapper. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985. £6.00
  266. Balch (H.E) MENDIP, Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. Plates, diagrams, folding table, 156pp, 12mo, original wraps, spine and portion of covers darkened, page edges darkened. Signed and dated by Balch on the front endpaper. Second Edition, Bristol: John Wright and Sons, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1948. £20.00
  267. 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, iii + 200pp, untrimmed in the original bevelled cloth, slightly rubbed, lettering on spine feint, title slightly browned. Whitby and Son, Yeovil: and Simpkin Marshall, London: 1894. £25.00
  268. Beisly (Philip) THE NORTHMARSH OF SOMERSET. Illusts, plans, 136pp, original pictorial card covers, corner of lower corner of rear board creased. Weston super Mare Heritage Centre, 1996. £6.00
    * 'The Northmarsh is surrounded by the expanding towns of Weston super Mare, Clevedon and Nailsea... '

  269. Bell (Rev. A.H) & (Rev. R. Corrin) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF YEOVILTON in Somerset. Two plates, 21pp, page loose in the original printed wraps. Western Gazetter & Co., 1949. £4.00
  270. Binding (Hilary) and Stevens (Douglas) THE BOOK OF MINEHEAD With Alcombe. Illusts, 160pp, includes a 3pp list of subscribers, dustwrapper. First edition, Halsgrove, Tiverton: 2000. £10.00
  271. Black (Clementina) THE LINLEYS OF BATH. With an introduction by George Saintsbury. With 13 plates, 300pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed spine slightly faded. New Edition (revised and reset) London: Martin Secker. 1926. £8.00
  272. Boys, editor THE BATH BUDGET. Edited by Boys. No 1 to No 5, (ii) + 36pp, continuously paginated, few local adverts, disbound, circular stain to title-page. Office: Stall Street, Bath: January 1857 - May 1857. £15.00
    * Not found in Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis. Includes a biographical sketch of Ralph Allen, but most of the articles are the usual adventure stories including 'Singular Adventures with a Lion.'

  273. Bristol Exploration Club BELFRY BULLETIN The Journal of the Bristol Exploration Club. Volume 50. No 12. Number 505. Illusts, diagrams, 49pp, small folio, in original printed wraps. The Bristol Exploration Club, December, 1999. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Caving in Burrington in the 1960's; Stock's House Shaft, Chewton Minery; Lost Caves of Mendip, etc.

  274. 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, original cloth, gilt, frontis partly waterstained, slight spotting to title-page, lightly rubbed to corners and to top outer hinge. Charles Hallett, Bath: 1887. £32.00
  275. Brooke (Leslie) THE BOOK OF YEOVIL. A Portrait of the Town. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, partly faded dustwrapper. Includes 2 page list of subscribers. Signed by the author on the title-page. First edition, Barracuda Books Limited, Chesham: 1978. £10.00
  276. Brown (Bryan J.H.) and Loosley (John) THE BOOK OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. The Story of the Town's Past. Numerous illusts, cr 4to, 148pp, includes 2 page list of subscribers, dustwrapper. Second Impression, Barracuda Books, Buckingham: 1983. £8.00
  277. Brown (Martyn) SOMERSET RURAL LIFE MUSEUM. Illusts, map, 20pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury: 1982. £4.00
  278. Buchanan (Brenda), editor BATH HISTORY. Volume 6. Illusts, maps, 176pp, original pictorial card covers. Bath Archaeological Trust, 1996. £4.00
    * Includes:- The Barton of Bath; Avon Navigation; Cloth-Industry of Twerton, etc.

  279. Bush (Robin) JEBOULT'S TAUNTON. A Victorian Retrospect. Numerous illusts, 116pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. With 4 page 'Subscribers List'. Signed by the author on the title-page. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1983. £10.00
  280. Chard REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF CHARD. (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1236-1242, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.

  281. Church (Rev. C.M) THE EPISCOPATE OF REGINALD, BISHOP OF BATH (1174-1191), and his share in the Building of the Cathedral Church of Wells. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. 66pp, 4to, original printed wraps, later cloth tape spine, short tear to top wrap. Westminster: 1887. £15.00
  282. Coles (J.M) and Orme (B.J) PREHISTORY OF THE SOMERSET LEVELS. Illusts, diagrams, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. Somerset Levels Project, 1980. £7.00
  283. Connely (Willard) BEAU NASH Monarch of Bath and Tunbridge Wells. With 13 plates, 184pp, a few small portions missing mainly to head and foot of dustwrapper as well as a few short tears, inscription to front pastedown. First edition. London: Werner Laurie. 1955. £4.00
  284. [Conwy (Alwen)] THE PENNY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BATH AND DISTRICT. Numerous adverts and illusts, 84pp, original pictorial wraps, covers lightly rubbed and creased, lacks spine. H.J. Harding, Bath: c.1898. £10.00
  285. Cooper (Cicely Elaine) MEMOIRS OF SELWORTHY. Numerous photographic illusts, vii + 235pp, dustwrapper, original cloth. Reprinted, E.P. Publishing Ltd., Wakefield: 1972. £9.00
  286. Corner (Dennis) THE NEW BOOK OF PORLOCK. Past and Present. Numerous illusts, 160pp, includes a list of subscribers, 4to, dustwrapper. First edition, Halsgrove, Wellington: 2014. £12.00
  287. Coysh (A.W), Mason (E.J) and Waite (V) THE MENDIPS. With 25 plates, line drawings, x + 232pp, name on front endpaper, few short tears to dustwrapper which is protected with a plastic sleeve. Second edition, Robert Hale, London: 1962. £8.00
  288. Coysh (A.W), Mason (E.J) and Waite (V) THE MENDIPS. With 25 plates, line illusts, x + 232pp, dustwrapper chipped to top edge, few spots to endpapers. Reprinted, Robert Hayle, London: 1954. £8.00
  289. Danks (Warwick), editor CLAVERTON PUMPING STATION (A Definitive Study) Illusts, 67pp, original cloth with the original pictorial card covers pasted down. Twenty five copies bound as a special edition. Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Devizes: (1984) £10.00
  290. Dan'l Grainger (David J. Gass) MORE DOWN=ALONG TALKS By "Dan'l Grainger". Somerset Folk Series No 24. Frontis, 48 +pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, 2 leaves slightly ragged, presumably where carelessly opened. London: Folk Press, 1926. £4.00
  291. Davis (Fred) AROUND SHEPTON MALLET. Numerous illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2001. £5.00
  292. Dunning (R.W), and Tremlett (T.D), editor BRIDGWATER BOROUGH ARCHIVES V 1468-1485. From transcripts originally made by T.B. Dilks. xv + 97pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, with the withdrawn stamp of Somerset Record Office to the front endpaper. Somerset Record Society Volume 70. Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome: 1971. £18.00
  293. Dwelly (E), transcribed, & prepared by Webb (Adrian James) EXCHEQUER DEPOSITIONS BY COMMISSION 1565 - 1610 FOR SOMERSET. viii + 36pp, original pictorial card covers. Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1992. £8.00
  294. Eckhart (Sheila) BROWSING IN THE BRENDON HILLS. Illusts, maps, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1995. £4.00
  295. Elton (Arthur & Margaret) CLEVEDON COURT Avon. Plan, plates, 32pp, original printed card covers. Revised edition, The National Trust, 1974. £4.00
  296. Gadd (David) GEORGIAN SUMMER Bath in the Eighteenth Century. Full page and text illusts, xi + 195pp, couple of short tears to lightly rubbed dustwrapper. First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. £8.00
  297. George (William) LYTES CARY MANOR HOUSE, SOMERSET, And its Literary Associations. With notices of Authors of the Lyte Family, from Queen Elizabeth to the Present Time. With mounted photo frontis, and one other mounted photo, 14pp, contemporary qtr roan, marbled boards, lacks small portion from head of spine, original wraps bound in, occasional light foxing. Bristol: William George, (1879) £20.00
  298. Glastonbury REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF GLASTONBURY. (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1282-1286, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £16.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.

  299. Gough (J.W) MENDIP MINING ORDERS 1683-1749. 21pp, original wraps, stamp of a Record Office to title-page. Issued as a supplement to volume 45 which was published in 1931. Somerset Record Society. 1973. £8.00
  300. Green (Emanuel) BIBLIOTHECA SOMERSETENSIS: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Single Sheets, and Broadsides in some way Connected with the County of Somerset. Volumes 2 and 3 of 3 only. 2 volumes, 559pp and 523pp, 4to, original cloth, rubbed and with some marks and damp spots, volume 2 lacks spine, the spine to volume 3 is loose, pages edges dusty. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1902. £90.00
    * The major bibliography of the county and an invaluable reference work. These 2 volumes contain books on the county only. Volume 1 is devoted to Bath.

  301. Green (Emanuel) PEDES FINIUM. Commonly Called Feet of Fines For the County of Somerset. Richard I to Edward I. A.D. 1196 to A.D. 1307. xxv + 397 + 41 page index, later cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 6. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1892. £22.00
  302. Greenwood (Charles) WALKING IN BATH. Illusts, 64pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Kingsmead Press, Bath: 1978. £4.00
  303. H.M.S.O. CENSUS 1971. ENGLAND AND WALES, COUNTY REPORTS. Somerset. Preliminary Report and parts 1, 2, 3 and Advance Analysis. 4 volumes, 45 and 74 and 126 and 88 and 19pp, small folio, all have original wraps. H.M.S.O. London: 1972 and 1973. £22.00
  304. Handley (Chris) RADSTOCK COAL & STEAM. The Somerset & Dorset at Radstock and Writhlington. Volume 1: History, and Volume 2: Buildings, Locomotives and Workings. Numerous illusts, diagrams, 2 volumes, 160pp and 160pp, dustwrappers, bookplate to front pastedowns. Millstream Books. Bath: 1991 and 1992. £28.00
  305. Harding and Curtis, Ltd. printer and publisher GUIDE THROUGH AND ROUND BATH Illusts, folding plan, xxxviii + 178 + 28 pages of adverts, original printed cloth covered card covers, foot of top outer hinge split.. Eleventh Edition, Bath: Printed and Published by Harding & Curtis, Ltd. c1903. £10.00
  306. Haslam (Malcolm) ELTON WARE The Pottery of Sir Edmund Elton. Illusts, some in colour, 59pp, original pictorial card covers. Richard Dennis, Shepton Beauchamp: 1989. £8.00
  307. Hasler (Joan), editor WOOKEY MANOR AND PARISH 1544-1841. Folding map in pocket at rear, xvi + 228pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 83. Taunton: 1995. £6.00
  308. Hawkins (Desmond) AVALON AND SEDGEMOOR. Plates, double-page map, 262pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £6.00
  309. Hill-Cottingham (Dr Pat), Briggs (Derek), and others THE SOMERSET WETLANDS An Ever Changing Environment. Coloured illusts, 240pp, CD in pocket at rear, oblong 4to, dustwrapper, loosely inserted is a copy of the original prospectus. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 2006. £15.00
  310. Howell (Chris) MEMORIES OF CHEDDAR. Numerous illusts, 126pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, few spots to fore-edges, bookplate to front endpaper. Published by the Author. Chilcompton: 1984. £7.00
  311. Howell (Chris) ROUND HERE, IN THEM DAYS. Illusts, map endpapers, 140 unpaginated pages, oblong octavo, original pictorial card covers, private bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Printed by Fosseway Press Ltd., Radstock: 1980. £20.00
    * This is the second volume where Howell interviews people from villages in North Somerset including:- Timsbury, Camerton, Dunkerton, Wellow, Writhington, Radstock, Kilmersdon, Stratton on the Fosse. Chilcompton, High Littleton, Midsomer Norton, etc.

  312. Hugo (Thomas) HISTORY OF MYNCHIN BUCKLAND PRIORY AND PRECEPTORY, In the County of Somerset. With 4 plates, 112pp, roy 8vo, original qtr roan, paper boards slightly rubbed, occasional foxing. Taunton: F. May, 1861. £35.00
  313. Jeboult (Edward) A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF WEST SOMERSET. Description of the Valley of the Tone & the History of the Town of Taunton.... Lacks plates, [iv] + 132 + [ii] + 121 + 94pp, 4to, original cloth, covers rubbed, and damp marked, front inner hinge almost broken, rear inner hinge pulled, text clean, presentation inscription from Jeboult on the front endpaper. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £9.00
  314. Jefferies (Richard) SUMMER IN SOMERSET Illusts with line drawings by his friend J.W. North, 12pp, complete, (pages numbered 35-46), disbound extracted from the 'New English Illustrated Magazine.' London: 1888. £20.00
    * Jefferies wrote this after staying on Exmoor for a fortnight in 1882. It was first published in 1888 after his death.

  315. Jones (Charles) THE HISTORY OF CHARLES JONES, The Footman. Written by Himself. From the Cheap Repository Tracts. 16pp, disbound. New Edition, J.G. & F. Rivington, London: 1833. £12.00
    * He resided at King's Charlton.

  316. Jones (Sally) MYSTERIES IN THE SOMERSET LANDSCAPE. Illusts, 96pp, large oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1986. £4.00
  317. Joyce (Walter W), editor MOORSIDE TALES AND TALK. Illusts, 254 + 2 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, spine of dustwrapper is faded with short tears and with small portions missing from head and foot. First edition, George Allen & Unwin, London: 1935. £16.00
    * Exmoor interest.

  318. Kenworthy-Browne. and others DYRHAM PARK. Gloucestershire. Plan, pedigree, 64pp, tall 8vo, original pictorial card covers. First edition, The National Trust, 1981. £5.00
  319. Knight's Companion BATH. Engraved title and 24pp, disbound. (1851) £6.00
    * See Green's Bibliotheca Somersetensis Vol 1, page 301. Intended as a guide for travellers on the railway, includes 2pp table of villages etc on the railway line with distances from Paddington and Bristol.

  320. Laurence (Godfrey) BATHFORD Past and Present. Black and white illusts, 67pp, original cloth. First edition, Bathford Local History Society, 1985. £12.00
  321. Leach (Peter), and others ILCHESTER Volume 1. Excavations 1974-5. Numerous diagrams and plans, 290pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Western Archaeological Trust, 1982. £18.00
  322. Little (Bryan) and Aldrich (Andrew) AMMERDOWN The House and the Centre. Illusts, 22pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, bookplate to verso of front cover. Governors of the Ammerdown Study Centre, 1977. £4.00
  323. Little (Bryan) BATH PORTRAIT. The Story of Bath, its Life and its Buildings. Plates, folding map to rear pastedown, x + 118pp, short tear to dustwrapper. Burleigh Press, Bristol: 1961. £5.00
  324. MacMillan (A.S) SOMERSET EPITAPHS Second Series. "How" and "When" Death Came. Somerset Folk Series No 25. Frontis, xi + 181pp, 12mo, original cloth. London: Folk Press, 1926. £16.00
    * Signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper.

  325. Maggs (Colin G) BRANCH LINES OF SOMERSET. Numerous illusts, vi + 154pp, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Alan Sutton, Stroud: 1993. £7.00
  326. Maggs (Colin G) THE WESTON, CLEVEDON AND PORTISHEAD LIGHT RAILWAY. Illusts, maps, 160pp, tall 8vo, dustwrapper, bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Second Enlarged Edition, Oakwood Press, Headington: 1990. £20.00
  327. Malden (R.H) THE STORY OF WELLS CATHEDRAL. Illusts, 80pp, 12mo, few spots to the original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth edition, Raphael Tuck & Sons, London: 1955. £4.00
  328. Melville (Lewis) BATH UNDER BEAU NASH - AND AFTER. Illusts, xviii + 321pp, original decorative cloth, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, occasional light spotting. First edition, Bath: S.W. Simms, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. £15.00
  329. Michael (W) HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE WELLS CATHEDRAL. Engraving, 8pp, sm 8vo, original printed top wrap, lacks lower wrap, light spotting. W. Michael, Bookseller. &c. Westbury Wilts. c.1870. £8.00
  330. Millard (Lillian) THE LIVES OF JOHN LOCKE, 1632-1704 & HANNAH MORE 1745-1838. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. no imprint. £4.00
  331. Mitchell (Vic) and Smith (Keith) BRANCH LINE TO CHEDDAR including the Wrington Vale Light Railway. Numerous illusts, maps, 96 unpaginated pages, original pictorial laminated boards, bookplate to front endpaper. First edition, Middleton Press, Midhurst: 1997. £15.00
  332. Monday (Alfred James) THE COUNTY RECORDS OF SOMERSET (Enrolled Deeds) 24pp, original wraps. Reprinted from Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries. Sherborne: c.1908. £4.00
  333. Norman (George) TRANSACTIONS OF SOMERSET MASTERS LODGE, No 3746. 1927. With 6 illusts, 209pp, original wraps. Bath: (1927) £10.00
    * Includes chapters on William Stukeley and George Oliver.

  334. Nott (Anthony) and Hasler (Joan), editor WELLS CONVOCATION ACTS BOOKS 1589-1665. Part 1: 1589-1629. 491pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 90. Taunton: 2004. £8.00
  335. Phelps (Rev. W) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SOMERSETSHIRE; being a General and Parochial Survey of that interesting County, to which is prefixed an Historical Introduction, with a Brief View of Ecclesiastical History; and an Account of the Druidical, Belgic-British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman Antiquities. Volume 1 only. With 2 maps, 13 plates, and several woodcuts in the text, vii + 599 + errata and list of plates, 4to, disbound, binding broken and text in 2 parts, title and prelims loose, spotting to a few plates. Printed for the Author. London: J.B. Nicholls, 1836. £60.00
    * Four volumes were projected but only the first two were published. This volume includes:- Hundred of Norton Ferrers (Pen-Selwood, Wincanton, Kilmington, etc); Hundred of Bruton (Brewham, Milton Clevedon, Pitcombe, Yarlington, etc.) Hundred of Horethorne (Milborne Port, Horsington, Trent, etc.); Hundred of Catsash (Castle-Cary, North and South Cadbury, Babcary, Alford, etc.); Hundred of Glastonbury (Meare, West Pennard, etc.)

  336. Plowman (Thos. F) THE ENGLISH DRAMA; The conditions under which it has flourished or decayed: A Paper read before the Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, February 4, 1887, The Mayor (Jerom Murch, Esq.) in the Chair. 28pp, original printed wraps, wraps partly faded, spine partly split. Reprinted from the "Bath Chronicle", Bath: 1887. £4.00
  337. [Plowman (T.F)] SOME COUNTRY-SIDE FOLK. By one who has known them (Otherwise T.F.P.) Illusts, roy 8vo, 47pp, original printed boards. Reprinted from "The Bath Chronicle and Argus." Bath: 1911. £10.00
  338. Ralegh Radford (C.A), Rahtz (P.A), and others A GLASTONBURY CHURCH BOOK. Adverts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. E.C. Helliker, printers, Glastonbury, 1970 £4.00
  339. Raymond (Stuart) SOMERSET A Genealogical Bibliography. 107pp, original printed card covers. Federation of Family History Societies, Birmingham: 1991 £4.00
  340. Raymond (Walter) THE BOOK OF CRAFTS AND CHARACTER 272 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, small snag to head of spine, few spots to prelims and fore-edges. First edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1907. £8.00
    * A series of essays on various Somerset characters and craftsmen.

  341. Raymond (Walter) TRYPHENA IN LOVE With 6 illustrations by I. Walter West, 176pp, 12mo, untrimmed in the original cloth. First edition, London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1895. £16.00
    * A novel set in Middleney, Somerset.

  342. Read (John) CLUSTER=o'=VIVE Stories and Studies of Old World Wessex. Somerset Folk Series No 11. Frontis, xi + 207 + (5)pp, 12mo, original cloth, signed presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper. London: Somerset Folk Press, 1923. £12.00
  343. Savage (James) HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF CARHAMPTON, in the County of Somerset. With a frontis, and a folding hand coloured geological map, xxiv + 662pp, later qtr morocco, cloth boards, frontis off-set, light spotting to frontis and title-page, couple of splits to folds of map. Bristol: William Strong, Clare Street. 1830. £135.00
  344. Sellick (Roger) THE WEST SOMERSET MINERAL RAILWAYS and the story of the Brendon Hills Iron Mines. With contributions by J.R. Hamilton and M.H. Jones. Illusts, folding map, 126pp, portion of top corner of top of dustwrapper torn away, not affecting text, dustwrapper covered in adhesive transparent plastic sheet. First edition, David & Charles, Dawlish: 1962. £12.00
  345. Sheppard (E.J) BATH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Illusts, 108pp, original pictorial card covers. Third impression, Longmans, London: 1968. £4.00
  346. Shickle (Rev. C.W) ANCIENT DEEDS BELONGING TO THE CORPORATION OF BATH XII - XVI Cent. Translated and Epitomised by The Rev. C.W. Shickle M.A., F.S.A., V.D. Master of St. John's Hospital, Bath. Honorary Chaplain of the Territorial Forces. Frontis, 2 plans, xvi + 165pp, folio, original qtr calf, buckram boards, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and a few small stamps. Published by the Bath Record Society in co-operation with the Bath City Council. 1921. £20.00
  347. Shilton (Dorothy O), and Holworthy (Richard), editors WELLS CITY CHARTERS. Folding plate, xxxii + 231pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to outer hinges. Somerset Record Society Volume 46. Printed for Subscribers Only. 1932. £18.00
  348. Simpson (Andrew) ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE BOOK AND GUIDE Covering CHARD - ILMINSTER AND DISTRICT. Illusts, maps, adverts, 114pp, plastic spiral binding. First edition, Forum Books, Chard: 1987. £8.00
  349. Siraut (Mary) INDEX TO KIRBY'S QUEST FOR SOMERSET, volume III of the Somerset Record Society publications being the texts of Kirby's Quest of 1284-5, the Nomina Villarum of 1316, the Exchequer Lay Subsidy of 1327, the county Rate for 1742 and the hundreds and parishes from the 1841 census. iii + 62pp, original printed wraps. Harry Galloway Publishing, Weston-super-mare: 1996. £8.00
  350. Sitwell (Edith) BATH. With 16 plates, 288pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth impression, London: Faber and Faber, 1947. £4.00
  351. Smith (E.H) QUANTOCK LIFE AND RAMBLES. Illusts., map e.p.'s. 145pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Third Impression (Enlarged). Taunton: 1944. £5.00
  352. Smith (R.A.L) BATH. With 84 Illustrations from Engravings, Paintings, and Photographs by Paul Fripp, and others. 118pp, lacks dustwrapper, inscription to verso of front endpaper. First edition, B.T. Batsford. 1944. £5.00
  353. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Volume 26. At its thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, held at Chard, 1882, under the Presidency of Charles I. Elton. With 7 plates, Illusts, 68pp, 4to, original qtr cloth paper boards, covers rubbed, lacking small portions of boards from edges, occasional light foxing. Printed by J.F. Hammond, Taunton: 1881. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Manor Court House; Family of Frye; Whitestaunton Manor House; Wayford Church and Manor House, etc.

  354. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 45. Proceedings for the year 1899. Illusts, viii + 218 + 8pp, original cloth. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1899. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Mudford and its Church; Brook of Somerset and Devon; Descent of the Manor of Allerton, etc.

  355. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 53. Proceedings during the year 1907. Illusts, xi + 99 + 227pp, lower wrap loose and ragged, top wrap trimmed to topand lower margins, and lacks portion from fore-edge, ex-lib, with lable to verso of top wrap, stain to fore-edge margin of first few leaves, binding shaken with stitching to one section partly broken. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1908. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Huish; Glastonbury Lake Village; Keynsham Abbey; Shepton Mallet, etc.

  356. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 55. Proceedings during the year 1909. Illusts, x + 113 + 218pp, original wraps, top wrap loose and ragged, few short tears to lower wrap. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1910. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Gold Tore found at Yeovil; Court Leet of Taunton, Glastonbury Abbey, Excavations at Charterhouse-on-Mendip; Wells, etc.

  357. Somersetshire Archaeological Society SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Volume 105. Proceedings for 1960-61. Illusts, 169pp, original card covers, spine faded, note in ink and few spots to top wrap. Taunton: 1961. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Wraxall Villa; Barrow Mead, Bath; Livery Badges and Personal Badges in Early Tudor Work at Cheddon Fitzpaine and Staple Fitzpaine; Bath Politics in the Eighteenth Century, etc.

  358. Somersetshire Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Volume 141. Proceedings for 1997. Illusts, 239pp, original wraps. Taunton Castle: 1998. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- French Emigres at Bath; Somerset County M.P.'s 1832-1885; Leigh Court, Thomas Hopper and Pythouse; Bishop's Palace at Wookey; Ilchester Archaeology; Two Lions at Milborne Port, etc.

  359. Somerset Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore, H.W. Seager and E.H. Bates. SOMERSET PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 10. 158pp, original cloth, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Limited to 150 copies. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 1907. £30.00
    * Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Taunton, St. Mary's (concluded), Bishop's Hull, and Halse.

  360. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan. SOMERSET YEAR BOOK 1925. No XXIV (24). Illusts, adverts, 151pp, original printed wraps, couple of small stains from staples to wraps. Society of Somerset Folk, 1925. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Old Stones of Bruton; Glastonbury Museum; Mendip Brass Band; Chilton Cantelo Skull; Tom Poole of Nether Stowey; Stories after Battle of Sedgemoor, etc.

  361. Somerset Year Book, edited by Douglas Macmillan SOMERSET YEAR BOOK. 1930. No XXIX (29). Illusts, adverts, 130pp, original printed wraps, short split to top outer hinge. Folk Press Limited, London: 1930. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Bicknoller and the Quantock Hills; Frome and its Fringes; Kilmersdon; Witchery of Somerset; Monmouth Rebellion;, etc.

  362. 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 in the original cloth. LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES. Taunton: Barnicott and Son, 1890. £35.00
  363. Squibbs (Phillips J) SQUIBBS' HISTORY OF BRIDGWATER. Revised and updated by John F. Lawrence. Illusts, xii + 196pp, portion of dustwrapper torn, approx 2" x 1" from foot of spine. Phillimore, Chichester: 1982. £9.00
    * Signed inscription by the author's wife on verso of title-page.

  364. Stapledon (Richard) EXMOOR. Elegance and Rhythm. Illusts, 79pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Privately Published, Richard Stapledon, c.1967. £5.00
  365. Sweet (Jack W) SHOCKING SOMERSET MURDERS of the Nineteenth Century and Other Stories of Violent or Suspicious Death. Plates, 189pp, pictorial card covers. Somerset Books, Tiverton: 1997. £4.00
  366. Taunton Markets THE TAUNTON TOWN AND MARKET ACTS. Printed by Order of the Trustees from the Original Acts. xi + (iii) + 75pp, original qtr cloth, printed paper boards, front inner hinge weak, few spots to boards. Taunton: Edwin Goodman, Printer, 29 North Street. 1878. £35.00
    * Reprints the four Acts of Parliament relating to Taunton Markets which were originally published in 1786, 1817, 1833 and 1840.

  367. The Beacon FAMOUS BUILDINGS AND CELEBRITIES, OF BATH AND DISTRICT. A series of articles concerning Bath taken from 'The Beacon' each article covers 2 pages, illusts, 148pp, 4to, binders cloth. Harvey and Woodland, Frome: January, 1907 - August, 1913. £25.00
    * Includes articles on the Luders family; the Bowdlers; Edmund Burke; Christopher Anstey; Lord Byron; Partis College; Mrs Siddons; Mary Wollstoncraft, etc.

  368. Thomas (Margaret) A HERO OF THE WORKSHOP AND A SOMERSETSHIRE WORTHY. CHARLES SUMMERS, SCULPTOR, The Story of his Struggles & Triumph. Without the frontis, 48pp, cr. 8vo, original cloth, front inner hinge cracked though sound, lightly rubbed to edges. Hamilton Adams & Co., Weston-super-Mare c.1880. £12.00
    * Summers was a sculptor. One of his major works was the Burke and Wills Monuments in Melbourne, Australia.

  369. Thornycroft (L.B) THE STORY OF THE DOONES In Fact, Fiction and Photo. Illusts, 108pp, oblong 8vo, illusts, large folding map, original printed wraps. Third impression, Barnicotts Limited, The Wessex Press, Taunton: 1943. £5.00
  370. Trivett (Keith) PRELUDE TO WAR: the Somerset Coalfield in 1939. Illusts, 22pp, original pictorial card covers. Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum, 2009. £6.00
  371. Wadmore (Rev. J.A.W) SUPPLEMENT TO THE BARROW GURNEY HISTORY. With 2 plates, 39 + 34pp index which covers the both parts, original wraps. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1902. £10.00
    * Five leaves of the index are duplicated.

  372. Walpoole (George Augustus) SOMERSET. Engraved plate with 2 views, pages numbered 359-372, folio, disbound, folded in half. London: Alexander Hogg, 1784. £8.00
    * Extracted from Walpoole's New British Traveller.

  373. Warburton (William), Bishop of Gloucester A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ABBEY CHURCH AT BATH, for promoting the Charity and subscription towards the GENERAL HOSPITAL, or Infirmary in that City, on Sunday, October 24th, 1742. To which is added A Short account of the General Infirmary at Bath. 39pp, sm.8vo., 39pp, lacks all before the 'Dedication' to Ralph Allen, it has 2 pages setting out Benefactions and Disbursements for the hospital, the Sermon on pages 1-24, Short Account... of the General Hospital on page 28, Subscribers, giving names and sums on pages 29-39. The verso of page 39 is blank. The listing on Copac states that there are a further 5 unnumbered pages after page 39. Disbound, some stitching broken. Printed for J. Leake at Bath and sold by J. & P. Knapton, London: 1742. £25.00
  374. Warfield (D.A) A LIVELY PEOPLE The Story of a Village Methodist Society. Plates, 175pp, partly waterstained dustwrapper chipped to top edge and protected with loose plastic sleeve. London and Paulton: Purnell and Sons, 1960. £18.00
    * Paulton interest.

  375. Watkin (Dom Aelred), editor THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY Volume 2. xci-cxciii + 249-575pp, recent cloth. Somerset Record Society. Volume 63. 1952. £15.00
  376. Watson (Walter) THE LICHENS OF SOMERSET. 94pp, original wraps. Taunton: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1930. £9.00
  377. Webb (Hedley Vicars) NATURE RAMBLES IN SOMERSET. Somerset Folk Series No 10. Frontis, illusts, 98 + (3)pp, original wraps, with 2 short splits to top outer hinge of spotty dustwrapper London: Somerset Folk Press, 1925. £6.00
  378. Wedlake (W.J) EXCAVATIONS AT CAMERTON Somerset. A Record of Thirty Years' Excavation covering the Period from Neolithic to Saxon Times 1926-56. With a Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Plates, textual illusts, xvii + 284pp, numerous plates, illusts and folding plans, some short and one long tear to partly faded dustwrapper, approx. 1" portion missing from foot of spine of dustwrapper. Camerton Excavation Club. 1958. £18.00
  379. Wells REPORT ON THE CORPORATION OF WELLS, (Somersetshire.) Title and pages numbered 1364-1374, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound. House of Commons, London: (1835) £12.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.

  380. Western Division THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE WESTERN DIVISION of the County of Somerset, between the 30th of November, 1843, and the 1st of December, 1844. Approx. 350 leaves printed on rectos only, 4to, stitching loosening, top wrap loose and last leaf slightly ragged, lacks spine and rear wrap, small hole in last leaf affecting a couple of words. Contains the Names, Addresses, Nature of Qualification and Description of Qualifying Property. Printed by J. Barnicott, F. May, W. Court, Taunton: 1843. £50.00
    * Includes the Polling Districts of:- Bridgwater, Dulverton, Carhampton, Ilchester, Ilminster, Langport, Taunton, Williton, and Wiveliscombe.

  381. Wickenden (H.J) THE HISTORY OF TAUNTON. Illusts, 186pp, original cloth. E. Goodman, Taunton: 1938. £14.00
  382. Wilson and Phillips, publisher WHO'S WHO IN SOMERSET. 232pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, short splits to outer hinges, otherwise sound. Numbered Limited Edition. With the signature, to the front endpaper, of Henry T. Daniel, of The Manor House, Stockland, Bridgwater, whose details are listed in the work. Wilson & Phillips, Hereford: 1934. £20.00

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  383. Annable (F.K) and Simpson (D.D.A) GUIDE CATALOGUE OF THE NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE COLLECTIONS IN DEVIZES MUSEUM. With a foreword by Professor Stuart Piggott. Plates, textual illusts, 133pp, roy 8vo, original cloth. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Devizes: 1964. £10.00
  384. Aubrey (John) AUBREY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. A Reprint. Introduced by K.G. Ponting. (ix) + xii + 132pp, roy 8vo, couple of cellotape repairs to slightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is now protected with a transparent cover. Originally published 1847. David and Charles Reprints. 1969. £12.00
  385. Baxter (Philip) SARUM USE. The development of a medieval code of liturgy and customs. Illusts, 94pp, original pictorial card covers. Sarum Script, Salisbury: 1994. £9.00
  386. Blackmore Museum SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM. Part II only. Plan, textual illusts, pages numbered 105-238pp, original printed wraps, lacks spine, portion torn from lower corner of top wrap, rear wrap loose, creased and ragged. H.F. and E. Bull, Devizes: (1868) £4.00
  387. Bracey (H.E) SOCIAL PROVISION IN RURAL WILTSHIRE. Frontis, tables, maps, 2 of which are coloured, diagrams, 204pp, dustwrapper. Methuen and Co., London: 1952. £10.00
  388. Brown (Sarah) SUMPTUOUS AND RICHLY ADORN'D The Decoration of Salisbury Cathedral. (Royal Commission of Historical Monuments of England). Plans, coloured and black and white illusts, xii + 218pp, original pictorial card covers, corners of covers slightly bruised, name to front endpaper. The Stationery Office, London: 1999. £16.00
  389. Cave (R), and others GEOLOGY OF THE MALMESBURY DISTRICT. (Explanation of the One-inch Geological Sheet 251, New Series) Coloured folding map, folding table, plates, diagrams, viii + 343pp, dustwrapper protected in a loose transparent sleeve. First edition, London: H.M.S.O. 1977. £12.00
  390. Chandler (John), editor PRINTED MAPS OF WILTSHIRE 1787 - 1844. A Selection of Topographical Road, and Canal Maps in Facsimile. Numerous plates, xxvii + 264pp, dustwrapper. Impression of 1000 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 52. Trowbridge: 1998. £22.00
  391. Charity Commissioners FURTHER REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.... Concerning Charities. County of WILTSHIRE section. Pages numbered 301-438, folio, early half roan, cloth boards, rubbed to edges, leather label on top board, some spotting to prelims. Bound in at the rear are several blanks and 4 leaves, hand-written on rectos concerning Somerset Hospital and Revd. Charles Mayo's Trust Deed. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 13 August 1834. £30.00
    * Extracted from the blue papers. Covers:- Hundreds of Chippenham; Hundred of North Damerham; Hundred of Elstub and Everley; Hundred of Kinwardstone; Hundred of Melksham; Hundred of Potterne and Cannings; Hundred of Swanborough; Hundred of Warminster; and General Charities.

  392. Conyers (Angela), editor WILTSHIRE EXTENTS FOR DEBTS Edward I - Elizabeth I. viii + 196pp, original cloth, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown, and stamp to title-page. Impression of 400 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 28. Devizes: 1973. £4.00
  393. Dames (Michael) THE SILBURY TREASURE. The Great Goddess Rediscovered. Illusts, diagrams, maps, plans, 192pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Thames and Hudson, London: 1992. £5.00
  394. Devizes Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES.... PARISHES OF ST. JOHN AND ST. MARY, DEVIZES. Folio, 97pp, stitched as issued, few spots to outer leaves. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 11 August 1904. £18.00
  395. Edwards (Kathleen) SALISBURY CATHEDRAL An Ecclesiastical History. Illusts, small folio, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted from Victoria History of Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council, Trowbridge: 1986. £6.00
  396. Fry (George S) and (E.W) ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles the First. vii + 304pp, lacks pages 305-501pp, early cloth, marbled endpapers. London: British Record Society. 1893. £12.00
  397. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1882. Twenty-Fourth Year of Publication. 140 + (2)pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, original printed wraps, short tear to rear wrap, small portion torn from outer margin of top wrap, wraps spotty, spine darkened. G. Gillman, Devizes. 1882. £18.00
  398. Gillman's GILLMAN'S DEVIZES PUBLIC REGISTER and Business Directory, for 1897. Thirty-Ninth Year of Publication. 189pp, includes numerous adverts, 12mo, portion torn from first advert leaf, lacks wraps. G. Gillman, Devizes: 1896. £12.00
  399. Hudson (Stan) A HILL TOP TOWN. Fact and Legend. Map and 6 plates, 156pp, original cloth. Reprinted Stan Hudson, Malmesbury: 1978. £8.00
    * A history of Malmesbury.

  400. Hunnisett (R.F), editor WILTSHIRE CORONERS' BILLS 1752-1796. liv + 239pp, original cloth. Impression of 500 Copies. Volume 36, Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes: 1981. £18.00
    * Lists names of deceased, causes of death and places where found.

  401. Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1935. Lacks map, 31 (adverts) + xx + 437pp, original cloth, spine faded, rubbed to edges, short tear to front endpaper. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1935. £30.00
  402. Marlborough College REPORT OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY For the Year ending Christmas, 1909. Illusts, 56 + (52)pp, original printed wraps, portions chipped from head and foot of spine, short tear to rear wrap. Marlborough: "Times Printing Office", 1910. £6.00
  403. Ponting (Kenneth G) WILTSHIRE PORTRAITS. Biographies of Twelve Famous People of Wiltshire. 167pp, dustwrapper. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon: 1975. £4.00
    * Includes:- John Aubrey, Henry Hoare, Jane Seymour, George Crabbe, etc.

  404. Religious Tract Soc. JOSEPH ALLEINE Vignette title, 24pp, 12mo, signed 'Catherine Mary Pugh, Devizes, 1869.' on title-page. Religious Tract Society, London: c.1869. £15.00
    * Seventeenth century clergyman born in Devizes.

  405. Shortt (Hugh), editor CITY OF SALISBURY. Plates, double-page map, textual illusts, 143pp, dustwrapper protected with a loose plastic sleeve. Originally published in 1957. Republished, S.R. Publishers, Wakefield: 1970. £6.00
  406. Smith (Rev. A.C) ON THE OLD PORCH-HOUSE AT POTTERNE. 20pp, 12mo, lacks wraps, small mark to title-page. Sheppard & St. John, London: 1887. £6.00
  407. Stratford (Joseph) WILTSHIRE AND ITS WORTHIES. Notes Topographical and Biographical. Frontispiece map, xii + 176pp, sq. 8vo, original cloth, a.e.g., edges slightly rubbed, light foxing to prelims, some slight spotting to cloth. Salisbury: Brown and Co. 1882. £20.00
  408. Tunnicliff (W) TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTIES OF.... the WILTSHIRE section. With 7 engraved pages of coats of arms, double-page distance table, lacks the map, pages numbered 51-89, disbound with the text and plates in 2 separate sections. Salisbury: Printed for the Author by B.C. Collins, 1791. £18.00
    * Includes:- 'Travelling Index to the Great Roads in Wiltshire', and a list of the 'Principal Nobility and Gentry in the County of Wiltshire.'

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

  410. Ward (Thomas Rawdon) A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE PROVOST AND FELLOWS OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Relative to the Non-Renewal of Some Copyhold Lands at Ogbourne St. Andrew, Wilts. 16pp, unbound, stitched as issued. Egham: C.C. Wetton, 1844. £18.00
  411. Westbury Charities RETURN AND DIGEST OF ENDOWED CHARITIES... PARISH OF WESTBURY (including the Parish formerly the Tything of Bratton, and the Parish formerly the Chapelry of Dilton). Folio, 55pp, stitched as issued, top sheet and last leaf slightly ragged, 3 " tear to lower sheet, 1" tear to top sheet. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 28 March 1904. £10.00
  412. Wiltshire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and John Sadler. WILTSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 12. vi + [ii] + 147pp, original cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Phillimore & Co Ltd. 1912. £20.00
    * With the armorial bookplate of William Gundry. Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of Bratton, Fuggleston with Bemerton, Boyton, Sherrington, Latton, Collingbourne Ducis.

  413. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 1, March, 1854, No. 1, and Volume 6, September, 1859, No 18. Plates, 97pp, and pages numbered iv + 245-397, early half roan, marbled boards, edges rubbed, top outer hinge partly split. Devizes: Henry Bull, April 1854 and 1860. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Wiltshire Etymology; Wiltshire Church Goods Seized in1553; Barrows on Downs of North Wiltshire; Wild Darell of Littlecote; Great Bedwyn, etc.

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

  415. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 34. Nos CVI. Plates, pages numbered 345-504, original wraps. Devizes: C.H. Woodward, December 1906. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon; Discoveries near Fonthill; Tan Hill Fair; Cadnam, etc.

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

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

  418. Wiltshire Family History Society WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Nos 1, 2 and 4-12 inclusive. 11 issues in all. Original printed wraps. Spring 1981 - Winter 1983. £12.00
  419. Wood (Peter) and Whittington (Graeme) THE INVESTIGATION IN 1957 OF STRIP LYNCHETS NORTH OF THE VALE OF PEWSEY. 9pp, 5 diagrams including 3 folding, original wraps. Reprinted from Wiltshire Archae. Mag. Volume 17. £4.00

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  420. Addyman (P.V) EXCAVATIONS IN YORK, 1972-1973. First Interim Report. Plates, illusts in the text, pages numbered 200-231, complete, original paper wraps, stapled, short tear to top wrap. Reprinted from The Antiquaries Journal, London: 1975. £5.00
  421. Bettey (J.H) RURAL LIFE IN WESSEX 1500 - 1900. Plates, 151pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Bradford on Avon: Moonraker Press, 1977. £7.00
  422. Bettey (Joseph), editor ARCHIVES & LOCAL HISTORY ON BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Essays in Honour of David Smith. Maps, diagrams, illusts, xiii + 288pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2007. £8.00
  423. Bristol and West of England REPORT OF THE BRISTOL AND WEST OF ENGLAND ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY. With 3 plates, 38pp, original printed wraps are soiled, some corners of pages curled, spotting to prelims. Printed by Joseph Leech: 1849. £7.00
    * Includes an article on the Bristol High Cross. The plates are architectural details of Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym.

  424. Chattaway (Joseph) AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DANMONII; Or Ancient inhabitants of Devonshire and Cornwall. To which is appended a Short Vocabulary of the Cornish Tongue. vii + (i) + 112pp, 12mo, untrimmed in the original paper boards, spine chipped with 1" portion from foot, paper label on spine, occasional foxing. First edition, London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. £80.00
  425. Clew (K.R) THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL. An Illustrated History. With 30 plates and 20 text illustrations including maps. 206pp, dustwrapper rubbed to edges. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £16.00
  426. Collings (A.G) ALONG THE SOUTH WEST WAY. Part I. Minehead to Bude. 184pp, dustwrapper. Tabb House, Padstow: 1985. £4.00
  427. Davies (J.C) A HISTORY OF BORLASE SCHOOL. Plates, 107 + (iv)pp, original qtr cloth, paper boards, slightly soiled and slightly rubbed to edges. Aylesbury: G.T. De Fraine, 1932. £12.00
    * Contains a brief mention of Sir William Borlase's Cornish ancestry.

  428. Day (Joan) A GUIDE TO THE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF AVON. Illusts, maps, 51pp, original pictorial card covers. Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1987. £12.00
  429. Delderfield (Eric R) EXMOOR WANDERINGS. Map, plates, 139pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps. Third edition enlarged, Raleigh Press, Exmouth: (1963) £5.00
    * Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.

  430. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 7. Part 3 of 8 only. With plates, pages numbered 81-112, complete.... Bound with.... Cresswell (Beatrix F)y NOTES ON CHURCHES OF DEANERY OF KENN, DEVON. With 4 plates, pages numbered 33-64pp, original printed wraps partly faded. James G. Commin. Exeter: July, 1912. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Courtenay Arms; Mules or De Moelis Family of Kingerswell and Diptford; John Carpenter, Vicar of Branscombe; Yarde Heraldry; Posset Pans; Acland Family; Prideaux of Tavistock, etc.

  431. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 8. Part 4 of 8 only. With 3 plates, pages numbered 97-128pp, complete.... Bound with.... Appendix. Lega-Weekes (Ethel)y SOME STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE EXETER. With 5 plates, pages numbered 33-64, original printed wraps. James G. Commin. Exeter: October, 1914. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Vivians of Truro and St. Crantock; Sandford Church Figures; Totnes; John Rattenbury; Raleigh Inscriptions in St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, etc.

  432. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 31. Part 5 of 8 only. Plate, pages numbered 1-31, complete, original printed wraps. Tiverton: Autumn, 1969. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Education in Cornish Mining Areas in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; John Halse; Ship Models of Devon-built Men of War, etc.

  433. Dickens Press HOLIDAY HAUNTS IN GREAT BRITAIN 1970. the complete guide to holiday resorts and accommodation. Plates, some in colour, maps, numerous adverts, 416pp, original pictorial card covers. Dickens Press, London: c.1969. £6.00
  434. Ditchfield (P.H) THE OLD-TIME PARSON. With Seventeen Illustrations. xii + 342 + 40 pages of publishers adverts, occasional light foxing, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, name to front endpaper. First Edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1908. £10.00
  435. Dod (Charles R) ELECTORAL FACTS, from 1832 to 1852, Impartially Stated; Including The Local Position, Nature of the Constituency.... Registered Electors.... Polls for the Last Twenty Years at every Place Returning a Member of Parliament. 374 + (2)pp, small 8vo., disbound. First edition, Whittaker and Co., London: 1852. £15.00
  436. Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1969. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 10. Illusts, maps, adverts, 106pp, original pictorial covers. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1969. £4.00
    * Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- Bampfylde Mine, Combe Martin church; Exmoor Voters in the 19th century, etc.

  437. Exmoor Society THE EXMOOR REVIEW. 1976. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume 17. Illusts, folding map, adverts, 96pp, original pictorial covers, top cover slightly creased. The Exmoor Society, Dulverton: 1976. £4.00
    * Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. Includes:- Foxes on Exmoor; Lynton and Lynmouth, etc.

  438. Gastineau (Henry) NORTH WALES ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS. Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities, &c. Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions. Lacks the vignette title-page, it has 84 engraved plates and descriptive text, lacks 4 plates, the plates are 2 to each page, 4to, light off-setting, disbound. Jones and Co., London: c.1830. £40.00
  439. Gray (Irvine) ANTIQUARIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND BRISTOL. Plates, 210pp, original cloth partly faded. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1981. £8.00
    * With chapters on 52 Antiquaries, illustrated with plates showing examples of their handwriting. Includes most of the noted writers such as Atkyns, Rudge, Rudder, Fosbroke, etc.

  440. Grinsell (Leslie) PREHISTORIC SITES IN THE MENDIP, SOUTH COTSWOLD, AND BRISTOL REGION. Field Guide No 12. 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Bristol Archaeological Research Group, Bristol: 1970. £4.00
  441. Hammond (J.L. & Barbara) THE SKILLED LABOURER 1760-1832. viii + 403pp, pages tanned to the edges, original pictorial card covers. Longmans, London: 1919. £4.00
  442. Harrison (Wilmot) MEMORABLE EDINBURGH HOUSES. With 38 original illustrations from Drawings by J.W. Parsons. viii + 132 + (4)pp, 12mo, original cloth partly faded with a few minor marks. Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh and London: 1893. £10.00
  443. Havinden (M.A.), Thornton (D.S) and Wood (P.D) ESTATE VILLAGES. A study of the Berkshire villages of Ardington and Lockinge. Plates, maps, 214pp, few short nicks to dustwrapper, with a record office stamp to the title-page. Lund Humphries for the University of Reading, 1966. £10.00
  444. Hawkins (Desmond) CRANBORNE CHASE. Map endpapers, plates, 192pp, original pictorial card covers. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London: 1983. £4.00
    * Cranborne Chase spreads over 3 counties, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.

  445. Hissey (James John) THROUGH TEN ENGLISH COUNTIES. Plates, folding map, xiv + (ii)+ 406pp, early half calf, later recase with the original tooled calf spine laid down, marbled endpapers, edges of boards slightly rubbed, few spots to front and rear. Signed presentation inscription by the author on front endpaper. Richard Bentley, London: 1894. £20.00
  446. 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. £50.00
  447. Murray (Stephen) YEOVIL, SHERBORNE and The West Country. With a Journey along the Fosse Way to the North. Coloured and black and white photographic plates, textual illusts, 225pp, original decorative card covers, name in ink on top cover. Stephen Murray, Yeovil: 1941. £6.00
  448. 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
  449. Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN LANCASTER IN 1873. Lancashire section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental. Folio, 80pp, disbound, spots to a few top margins. First edition, London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode for H.M.S.O. 1875. £12.00
  450. Pearson (A) ROBERT HUNT., F.R.S. (1807 - 1887) With 6 plates, 133pp, original pictorial card covers. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1976. £12.00
    * Hunt was born in Devonport and spent his early life there and in Penzance.

  451. Ponting (K.G) THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. With 55 illustrations, x + 214pp, spine of dustwrapper faded, some pencil underscoring to one page, small ownership label to front endpaper. First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. £8.00
  452. Pudney (John) BRUNEL AND HIS WORLD. With 140 illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper Reprinted Thames and Hudson, London: 1975. £6.00
  453. Richardson (A.E) and Gill (C. Lovett) REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Numerous illustrations, xx + 188pp, 4to, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. £50.00
  454. Rickards ((Maurice) THE PUBLIC NOTICE An illustrated history. Numerous illusts, 126 + (2)pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £15.00
    * 'features examples from all over the English speaking world.'

  455. Rogers (W.H. Hamilton) ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE COUNTIES OF SOMERSET, WILTS., HANTS., AND DEVON. Plates, textual illusts., 4to, contemporary half vellum, cloth boards, spine gilt tooled, t.e.g., few small marks to covers. Reprinted for the Author. 1902. £125.00
    * Containing 20 papers, separately paginated, all but one with title-pages. Reprinted from various journals and with 3 papers never before published. Includes: Brook family of Somerset and Devon; Huyshe family of Somerset and Devon; Courtenay and Clyveden families of Somerset; Molyns and Hungerford families of Farleigh Hungerford; Stafford family of Suthwyke in North Bradley, Wilts., and Hoke, Dorset; Tudor Merchants of Tiverton and Cullompton, etc.

  456. Rogers (W.H.H) THE STRIFE OF THE ROSES AND DAYS OF THE TUDORS IN THE WEST. Illustrated by Roscoe Gibbs. Plates, (x) + 212 + (ii)pp, original cloth, 1" split to head of top outer hinge, small hole to rear outer hinge, cloth has few spots and is dull and lightly rubbed. First edition, J.G. Commin, Exeter: 1890. £18.00
  457. Smith (Reginald A) ON LATE-CELTIC ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT WELWYN, HERTS. Reprinted from Archaeologia vol. LXIII Illusts, 30pp, title and last leaf slightly dusty, original paper wraps loose, and with a few tears to edges, narrow strip torn from top wrap. Oxford: Printed by Horace Hart for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1912. £4.00
  458. Smith (Stuart) A VIEW FROM THE IRON BRIDGE. Numerous illusts, 72 +(1)pp, original pictorial card covers. Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford: 1979. £4.00
  459. Snell (F.J) THE CELTIC BORDERLAND A Rediscovery of the Marches from Wye to Dee. Full page and text illusts, 416pp, original cloth, corners slightly bruised, private library label to front pastedown, signs where small label removed from rear cover, corners slightly bruised. Robert Scott, London: (1928) £5.00
  460. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 5. Illusts, vii + 376pp, including index, early cloth. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1897. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Worth Matravers Registers; Wimborne Grammar School; Castle Cary Court Roll; Witchcraft in Dorset, Thick family; Cerne Abbas; Norton-sub-Hamdon Accounts; Clarke family; Fire at Weymouth, etc.

  461. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 32. Part 327. Centenary Issue. Pages numbered:- 641-688, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1988. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- William Barnes and his wood-engravings; Russell of Weymouth; Wool-Bovington Railway, etc.

  462. Tarbat (Alan) SHIREWAYS Stories and beauties of the little towns and villages of the West Country. Illusts, 108pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, one corner slightly creased. Rankin Bros, Ltd., Bristol: c.1948. £5.00
  463. Verner (Coolie) MAP COLLECTORS' SERIES MAPS BY JOHN ARROWSMITH IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 35pp, original card covers. Map Collectors' Circle, London: 1971. £4.00
  464. Watson (J.N.P) CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND REBEL CHIEF The Life of James, Duke of Monmouth. Foreword by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.T. Plates, maps and diagrams, xxiii + 311pp, dustwrapper. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1979. £18.00
    * Signed by the author on the title-page and presentation inscription from him on front endpaper.

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